Discusión

November 25, 2001 Sunday - In Knowledge phase Baba continues to give her Sanskrit words to learn their meaning and to use intellect in understanding the context in which

they were spoken. Baba gets her to read his books, Shiv Purana, Atharva Veda etc. and as we would discuss Baba would steer our understanding the right way. What a blessing!

In the meditation she heard five Sanskrit words one after another. Those were Pashyanti, Dharma, Kala, Swasthi, and Nidhi. We did not know the meaning of these words except two. Later we looked up in the Sanskrit dictionary and they meant as follows. Pashyanti – Speech to be felt by mind alone; Dharma – established religion/ custom/ practice/ duty/

order/ law/ justice/ merit ; Kala – A small part/ portion/ division, art, skill, ingenuity;

Swasthi – blessing, welfare, prosperity, joy, bliss, benediction; Nidhi – Treasure, Wealth.

We understood that Pashyanti (speech to be felt by mind alone) is a part of merit/ law and is a skill, a blessing and a treasure.

She asked Baba “How should I conduct myself? I know that you will speak, think and act through me. I don‟t have to worry about anything. What needs to happen will happen at the right time, right way. But I just want general understanding of what is that needs to happen or will happen.” In response Baba lead her to selected pages in one of his books.

As we were writing the above Baba said “Are you not going to write about what I told you yesterday?” Shivangini said “I don‟t have the guts”. Baba said “Why? You don‟t trust me.” She said “It is not that. I just don‟t have the courage.” Baba said “OK don‟t. I will”. So we decided to go ahead and write it. The question she had asked yesterday was

“Where have I come from? Where am I going? What is going to happen?” Within

minutes she was led to specific pages of a book where King Yudhishtir was asking Sages a similar question about the future of the baby Parikshit (Arjuna‟s grandson). (This is a part of the epic Mahabharat). A group of Pundit astrologers after examining the

horoscope and preparing plans based on the zodiacs and constellations were saying “We have never yet come across a more auspicious grouping than is indicated in this

horoscope. Here, all the signs of good augury have assembled in the moment of this child‟s birth. The moment indicates the state of Vishnu Himself! All the virtues will gather in this child. Why describe each glory separately. The great Manu (progenitor of human race, mind born child of Lord Brahma) has again come into your dynasty. He will revere the gods and the Brahmins. He will perform many Yajnas and Yagas (sacrifices, fire ceremonies) prescribed in the ancient text. He will spread the fame of your ancestors‟

line all over the Lord. He will win all things that gods or men covet.” Further Yudhishtir asked them “During the regime of this prince will there be any great war? If war is inevitable will he achieve victory? „No‟, said the Pundits, he will not be pestered by any foe. He knows no failure of defeat in any undertaking of his. This is absolutely true and unshakeable truth”.

When she reached reading up to this point in the book, it was at the end of the page and she was about to turn the page when Baba said “Have not you read enough” which she understood was in response to her earlier questions. At this point Baba drew her attention to the page number of the book which was 14. Since Oct 2000 Baba has been calling her number 14. At several occasions Baba had been calling her number 14 but so far she has not fully understood why she is being called this number.

During the afternoon we were using the hot tub and that time Shivangini started talking to me about the Shiva Purana (scriptures about Lord Shiva) she has been reading. Kalpa is

divided into 1000 Maha Yugas and each Maha Yuga is divided into four Yugas. The Yugas and Maha Yugas are longer in duration in the beginning and then get shorter and shorter in duration based on certain sequence given in the Purana. There are mini Pralayas (destructive calamities) between each Maha Yuga. End of the Kalpa is Maha Pralaya when the whole creation dissolves and all Jivi‟s (individualized souls) go into a dormant state. We were also talking about the Sages who are born in every Maha Yuga and how they have generic names like Vyasa, Vishwamitra etc. Baba said that these sages are not born in Kali Yuga but in the beginning Yugas. Then they keep coming in other Yugas to do God‟s work (they keep taking name and form as necessary).

Earlier during the day Baba asked her to take the Atharva Veda along in the car to read when we had to go out to do chores. Baba also said that there is a test coming up soon.

She read about the various plants and what medicinal effects they had in the Atharva Veda.

As I got out of the shower she asked a question about Citron plant. This is the name of the plant in the Atharva Veda which states that it is used to cure various illnesses along with the property of reducing aches and pains. I never heard about the plant‟s name except citrus trees. I said to her “At this rate you will be an Ayurvedic doctor”. She replied “We will make Shobun one”. Baba said “I will make Shobun what he is already destined for. I will give him a much exalted position”. Both of us were thankful to Baba at this revelation and what He has planned for Shobun.

Annapurna

November 28, 2001 Wednesday - During night and in meditation Shivangini had an interesting dialog with Goddess Bhavani and she asks for lot of food offering. It was food galore!

This morning when she woke up she realized that during the night she has been

repeatedly hearing the word Bhavani (fierce form of Divine Mother) and was asked by the goddess to offer Jalebi, Gulab Jamun, and lots of foods.

After washing up she sat down for meditation and in the meditation she again heard the goddess asking her to offer Jalebi and it should have saffron in it. Goddess also said

“Offer any amount of food you can. It won‟t be too much”. She said to herself „prepare food again!‟ because only few days back we had celebrated Baba‟s birthday in our home and she had prepared a wide variety of foods. She asked “If I make more food who would eat?” To this Baba replied “You can distribute it to people”.

After concluding the meditation, as she was getting up, she unmindfully picked up a book from the middle of a book pile and arbitrarily opened it. On that page there was a Stotram (hymn) about goddess Annapurna. Literal meaning of Annapurna is one overflowing with food. Interestingly in one of the verses in the hymn there was a mention of saffron just the way she heard in her meditation. This convinced her that she should truly make and offer the foods that goddess had asked for. She did not know how to make Jalebi, so that day she called her cousin in Detroit and asked for the recipe. The recipe her cousin gave was for a large batch and Shivangini, not realizing, made a big batch of the mix. Next day she prepared Jalebi and she was still left with excess mix. As strange as it may sound but

indeed Baba guided her step-by-step into creating three extremely delicious food preparations out of the same Jalebi mix. As a result she ended up preparing lots of food items for the offering. While she was making the foods goddess said “I will reward you as much spiritually as the number of ingredients you offer in the foods.” She found this statement amusing; nonetheless she made sure to add as many varieties of spices to the items as she could. Interestingly all the food items turned out exceptionally good in taste, although some of them were made for the first time by her.