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Dubyanskiy Art. Calligraphy and Yantras

Author: Mrs. Svetlana Dubyanskaya

Giving instructions on the practice of meditation and mantra, Yogi Ramah said that in order to more deeply reveal the power of the divine vibration of mantras, it is necessary to practice calligraphy and draw yantras, mystical symbols. Before coming to the ashram of Yogi Ramaiah, S.Dubyanskiy studied the professional education of the artist. That is why the teacher's instructions corresponded not only to S.Dubyanskiy's desire to learn the science of meditation and mantra, but also to his professional skills. This is how the unique style of his esoteric painting and graphics gradually took shape. Yantras (mystical symbols) are used in various esoteric directions as visual tools that serve to work with subtle energies and to develop concentration. In Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and Buddhism, during meditations and rituals, visual signs - yantras - are used as an addition to the pronunciation of mantras and prayers. All kinds of yantras symbolically depict deities, the energy structures of various deities. The creators of yantras are the highest teachers such as Mahavatar Babaji and Gorakhnath. Yantras were seen in meditation by their creators, yantras are a kind of keepers of the energy of deities.

LAW OF KARMA

Birth Karma

Why do some personal lives develop easily, while others do not? Why does someone successfully develop their business, while someone has serious obstacles?

Luck or failure has nothing to do with it. Everything in the universe is the result of a precise relationship of cause and effect, even if that relationship is not always obvious. Among the factors that significantly influences your destiny is Karma. 

Karma is information that is on the subtlest level, it is information about all your thoughts, words and actions that you have performed over the past seven lives. The Law of Karma is simple, it is that everything that you have done in the past comes back to you as your present destiny.

The circumstances of your family life, material well-being and health are a direct result of Karma. In order to really and deeply influence the circumstances of your life, you should be able to work with Karma. Karma is information, you can and should be able to work with it, it can be corrected, changed and transformed. Nobody says that it is easy and elementary, of course not.

In order to do this, it is important to deeply understand the spiritual laws of being and learn how to practice meditation. It is impossible to change Karma instantly and completely, but it can be worked with through the practice of meditation. It is much easier not to plunge into the complex and obscure worlds of esotericism, but in this case you will inevitably encounter obstacles whose meaning you will not be able to understand. Understanding the principles of working with subtle plans and depths of the inner world will allow you to reach a new level of work with your destiny.

Mindfulness Meditation

Answers of Svyatoslav Dubyansky to questions from viewers and readers

Question:
Dear Master, please clarify this issue: when I meditate and concentrate on the chakras, I feel only Sahasrara and nothing else.

Answer:
It is very important to feel all seven chakras. Mindfulness in life and meditation also correlates with the sensation of the chakras. Most practitioners cannot feel all the chakras, most often everyone starts by feeling at least one or two chakras. If you only feel the Sahasrara chakra, it means that you have strong spiritual tendencies, which is wonderful. However, it is important to work out other chakras, otherwise you will not be able to reveal many important qualities and aspects in your life, such as family life, work with the energy of money, creative self-realization. It is important to learn and regularly practice the authentic techniques of Kriya Yoga, which will help you to develop all the chekras harmoniously. Any deep result takes time and diligence, without which it is impossible to really work with the chakras.

FAMILY KARMA

Karma is only personal, when we talk about the karma of a clan or family, we mean “ancestral programs” or “birth canals”. Karma is the consequences that our heirs face. The causes of the consequences are the wrong actions committed by a person during his earthly life. The family program is active throughout the life of representatives of seven generations. Therefore, your great-grandfather or grandfather, with his deeds, emotions and thoughts, creates a program for your life.

In fact, the generic program is the information that your ancestors have accumulated over the course of seven generations. Information about their actions, thoughts and emotions is stored on the subtle plane: the sacral, sexual chakra of Svadhisthana, being an important factor that directly affects who you are now and the circumstances of your life. Information about the relationship between husband and wife is also located in the Svadhisthana chakra. Family relationships are built on three levels: physical, psychological and spiritual. Harmonious family relationships arise when there is physical satisfaction, psychological understanding and spiritual unity.

Learn to Meditate

Answers of Svyatoslav Dubyansky to questions from Youtube viewers

Question:
I was initiated into Kriya yoga, and have been practicing with your videos for many years now. You speak? that the lower Dantian is the same as the lower bindu. According to you, the lower bindu is located in the prostate-womb. But how is it that the lower Dantian is located under the navel 2-5 cm, inside the body, all Qigong sources talk about this. The prostate is anatomically located under the bladder, it is approximately the level of the pubic bone, not even close to the lower Dantian. The uterus in women, ideally, according to anatomy, is a level approximately between the navel and the pubic bone, but in reality, in all 99% of women, the uterus is lowered, in old age there is even a prolapse of the uterus through the vagina. How can there be bindu or lower Dantian? It seems to me that the lower bindu is not in the prostate, but 2-5 cm below the navel, as all Qigong sources interpret. But this is Kriya yoga, not Qigong, and Yogi Ramaiah taught you, you know better. Please clarify this extremely important issue for everyone!
Answer:
How to learn to meditate for beginners, how to understand where the chakras and bindu are? First of all, it is important to remember that there are many schools and directions of Qigui and Yoga. Therefore, we must be prepared that in different directions there may be different systems and a different understanding of the location of both the chakras and the bindus. Alas, it often happens that Chinese Qigong teachers deliberately hide the true information from students if they are not immediate relatives. Such is the tradition. This means that the Chinese Qigong masters are well aware of the true location of the lower Dantian, but do not reveal this information. All energy points in the human structure are always manifested quite physically. This is the reason why God created the physical body. The nervous system, internal organs, all this is part of the energy-information system. If the lower bindu (lower Dantian) were just a couple of centimeters below the navel, how would that relate to the body? It is important that this is connected with the manifested system of internal organs.

How to Meditate

Answers by Svyatoslav Dubyansky to the questions of Youtub viewers

Question:
Tell me, what is the best hand position for practicing Kriya Yoga meditation? I read that Lahiri Mahasaya crossed his fingers as shown in the photo. Perhaps this is the best option?
Answer:
There are many possible hand positions, in yoga they are called mudras. There is no fixed position for the practice of Kriya Yoga meditation. Frankly, it is difficult to say what position of hands Lahiri Mahasa held during meditation. It is possible that it is exactly the same as in the famous photo, but perhaps not. Sri Yukreshwar preferred to keep his hands on his knees during mediation. My yoga teacher Ramaiah sometimes crossed his arms. The best hand position is the one you like best. The position that allows you to better concentrate on the process of meditation, to feel complete relaxation, is the one that is most correct for you personally.

Gayatri Mantra

There are thousands of mantras in the various streams of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. However, it is the Gayatri Mantra that takes the most central place. The Gayatri Mantra has a special place in Vedic culture. Sathya Sai Baba claimed that the Gayatri Mantra has the power, wisdom, and energy of all the ancient Vedic texts. One who practices the Gayatri Mantra daily gains the realization of all right desires, as well as the destruction of negative aspirations.

The Gayatri Mantra helps to unleash the potentials that are dormant within you. This amazing mantra develops super powers, develops intelligence. A practitioner of the Gayatri Mantra establishes a spiritual connection with Sathya Sai Baba, receives his blessings. One can practice Gayatri always while sitting in a meditative posture, walking, even while taking a shower. Any mantra turns on and begins to reveal its power gradually, sometimes it takes several years of intensive practice.

Sathya Sai Ashram - Puttaparthi

Already as a child, Sathya Sai performed miracles and showed superpower. He materialized candies and sweets for the children of his village, healed diseases, there were cases when he levitated. It was difficult for parents and relatives to understand what was happening to their child. The relatives decided that a spirit had infiltrated the child, and they tried to heal the boy Sathya Sai Baba.

Gradually, it became clear to all relatives that the child was a special creature, and they began to treat him in a special way. One of the earliest famous miracles that Sathya Sai Baba performed as a child was saving the village of Puttaparthi, where he was born. In their area in a neighboring village there was a dangerous epidemic, the inhabitants of the village where Sathya Sai lived, feared that the epidemic could penetrate into their village.

Little Satya Sai blessed the people living in the village and the epidemic passed by. In the village of Puttaparthi no one was hurt or got sick, but in the neighboring villages a lot of people got sick. People will remember this amazing incident for a long time. The teenager Sathya Sai Baba told his parents that he was a special incarnation. He stated that he should leave home and start giving instructions to disciples and devotees. He created his first ashram at the end of the 40s, in the ancient temple of Krishna, in his village. This very ancient temple of Krishna has survived to this day in Puttaparthi.

ESOTERICISM - THE PATH OF SELF-DEVELOPMENT

Esotericism is the path of personal self-development. Sometimes people strive to lead everyone around, to teach and guide, while it is important to strive to be the master of their lives, and not someone else's. It is extremely difficult and deeply wrong to penetrate into the life of another person and explain to him how to live. Each person is a secret, a whole universe, which should be respected and accepted as he is. If communication with someone becomes unbearable for you, just step aside.

Esoterics and self-knowledge

The past cannot be changed, it can only be reevaluated. All the events of the past were a series of lessons that sometimes you did right, and sometimes you made mistakes. It is important to remember that at the moment of making a decision, you are always right. You started a family, and then there was a divorce. You created a company that started producing a non-competitive product and you went broke. You sent a message from a representative of a religious community, and then it turned out that they were scammers. You went to study at the university, and then you realized that you were not interested in this profession.

MANTRAS AND MANTRA YOGA

One of the main directions of yoga and meditation is Mantra Yoga. Nowadays, many people like to listen to beautiful Mantras performed by both Eastern and Western musicians. Among Western musicians who perfectly perform mantras are Devi Primal, Boris Grebenshchikov, George Harrison, Sati Kazanova. In addition to famous musicians, there are many wonderful recordings by the Russian meditation and yoga teacher Vladimir Muranov. The most energetically strong part of the Mantra Yoga tradition is the Bija Mantras. It is about this unique direction that we will talk about in more detail. It is very useful to listen to Mantras, they can sound like background music, which creates a pleasant atmosphere, harmonizes internal states, and has a healing effect. The much stronger effect of the Mantra is manifested during independent practice. The only correct way to study Mantra Yoga, and especially Bija Mantras, is through direct training from an experienced teacher. Bija Mantra is the strongest source of vital energy. When practicing Mantras, it is important to work competently with a positive intention. 

While practicing Mantras, it is important to keep positive and bright thoughts. Your goals and aspirations, at least, should not harm other people, it is better if by practicing Mantras you will be tuned into the well-wishes of all living beings. Your thoughts and emotions are extremely important at the time of the Mantra practice, so you should be attentive and conscious. Mantras are practiced in Sanskrit, the ancient language of the Aryans. The word Bija means "seed sound." At the beginning of time, the universe was manifested through these sounds. It is very important to pronounce these sounds correctly, otherwise the meaning and vibration will be distorted.