Devotion is the zenith of Love

To some extent, this karma can be changed. If you can’tchange karma at all, than there is no use in doing Sadhana. Do your Sadhana andmeditation.

Teenage feverishness is only for few years. Not onlyphysical but mental and emotional turbulence is so high in them. After the ageof three, children begin to experience all these emotions like jealousy,possessiveness and these continue till teenage. Some people don’t come out ofteenage at all. Mental turbulence is huge for them.

Teenage is a tough time. It needs great patience to dealwith teenage children. So with greatpatience, like a friend and philosopher, give them some space and at the sametime put your foot down and say ‘No’. Don’t be too loose at that time.

Sage Narad says, ‘Yogachitta vritti nirodha’ meaning ‘Yoga means silencing the tendencies of yourmind.’ ‘Tadha drustu swarupe avastanam’which means ‘Yoga is the skill of being established in the Seer from the scene’- To go within and be established in the seer. With this notion, meditationstarts to happen. Then Samadhi follows. Your mind is totally calm. For a momentyou experience that complete nothingness, emptiness.

There are three layers when you go inside a temple accordingto the temple architecture. The first layer is herbal gardens, full of treesand plants. The direction in which the tree is to be planted comes under templearchitecture. All plantations are done according to the directions and windflow. There are medicinal herbs, flowers and trees in this outer layer and whenyou pass through this layer, you breathe in those herbal fragrances that cure emotionaland physical problems, and body imbalances. It used to be around one kilometer longand while passing through it, your whole body circulation is improved. Essentialfragrances and oils needed by the body are absorbed especially those of the Ashvat (peepal) tree. It is the onlytree which emits oxygen all the 24 hours. All other trees emit oxygen half thetime and carbon dioxide rest of the time. The tree helps a person to overcomemany problems, especially infertility.

‘Pradakshina’ is not done for the sake of the divine or some otherpurpose but for health benefits.

Then there is a second circle in which statues of many menand women are kept. One was asked, in earlier days, to sit and meditate therefor a while.

This way first circle makes you physically fit, vatta-pitta-kapha balances happens by inhalingthe air. The second circle frees your mind from all fantasies. Then finally youmove on to central part - ‘sanctum sanctorum’ - where you sit with your eyesclosed and experience the nothingness.