karma blues

Makaral, a temple about 100 miles away from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, has been identified as the vortex with the energy to remove karma very fast. Jnanasambanda, the child prodigy Saint/Siddha, who gave us the karma busting mantra ‘Thiru Neela Kantam’ proclaimed Makaral as the fastest karma-removing vortex.

Lord Shiva appeared here as a golden lizard, and the temple tower has statues showing that story. The image of the Shiva Linga is peculiar at this temple. Rather than rounded at the top, it is pointed upward like a lizard tail.

As the story goes a Chola King saw a giant golden colored lizard while hunting in the jungle. When the king hit the lizard with an arrow, blood from the wound splattered in the king’s eye and he went blind. The lizard was wounded but didn’t die. It sped away and dove into an ant-hill. All but its tail made it inside.

After some time the tail in the anthill became ‘Swayambulingam’ which means that it became a Shivalingam or representation of the Vedic Godhead. Swayambu- means that it was not carved or crafted by human hands but found in nature. It was Shiva himself.

The king prayed to have his eyesight restored. It was prescribed to him to perform a ritual anointing of the lingam with lime juice. He could feel the sacredness and power of the ritual and built a Shiva Temple around the Lingam.

Makaral is a derivative of Maha Karal which means biggest blemish. This is in reference to even the biggest of karmic misdeeds or stains, like attempting to kill Shiva, however unconsciously, can be removed here. The energy of this temple vortex has the power to eradicate your most stubborn negative karmas- financial, health and relationship.

The mantra is:
‘Makaral Sivayanama
(mah kah rel she vie yah nah mah)

It actually reverses karma. The 2 mantras together is a Super karma Busting Team:
Thiru Neela Kantam + Makaral Sivayanama… repeat at least 108 times. If you only do one practice, chose this mantra to chant. You must remove karma before you can go on to do anything else like manifesting.

Some see Adam and Eve. Others see Rahu and Ketu the Karmic Carrier Nodes of the Moon in Vedic Astrology.
What do you see?

By your own doings you have created your own Hells, and by your own doings you can create your own Heavens.

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Earl J. Hickey is a petty criminal, living in the fictional rural county of Camden, whose winning $100,000 lottery ticket is lost when he is hit by a car. Lying in a hospital bed, under the influence of morphine, he develops a belief in the concept of karmic retribution when he hears about karma during an episode of Last Call with Carson Daly.

To turn his life around, he makes a list of every bad thing he’s ever done in an attempt to correct them, as he believes that this is the only way he can gain positive karma. After doing his first good deed, he finds the $100,000 lottery ticket he had previously lost. He sees this as a sign of karma rewarding him and, with his new-found wealth, he begins doing good deeds according to his list.
As he continues to perform good deeds, Earl’s motives at first appear to be selfish – only doing good to improve his karma and by extension his own life; however, Earl begins to develop a genuine sense of morality and ethics, refusing to participate in illegal or morally wrong activities – though sometimes finding himself in very awkward situations…
Get the DVDs to watch the shows if you haven’t seen this.
My take away from all of this is that there has to be a better way to bust karma. And, there is…get it all here!

It’s not really a question of “mind over matter” because the mind IS matter!

As recent neuroscience has demonstrated, every habit lays down its own neural pathway i.e., it carves its own rut track in the brain – and the inertia around these pathways is considerable. The disruption of ANY happy pathway brings with it considerable discomfort and resistance. So you’re quite right in lumping together habits and addictions; the difference between them is more one of degree than of kind. One can be addicted to coffee, alcohol, porridge for breakfast, endorphins, heroin, meditation, exercise, sex or God! The difference is only that the classic “chemical dependency addictions” add to our already full plate of cognitive and emotional distress and at the interruption of a habit, physiological distress as well.

Most of the moral and spiritual training of Western minds over the past two millennia has been couched around instilling “good habits” – or at least replacing unhealthy behavior patterns with healthy behavior patterns. But there has been a school of spiritual training in all the great traditions that claims that real spiritual maturity is the ability to be habit-free: to be able to bushwhack through consciousness without laying down ANY of those familiar but deadly ruttracks.

My own teacher Rafe belonged to this school of thought. On his prayer desk, he kept a quotation from the British spiritual teacher Maurice Nicoll: “Faith is a continual inner effort, a continual altering of the mind, of the habitual ways of thought, of the habitual ways of taking everything, of habitual reactions.” Rafe took that saying deeply to heart. From time to time, he would spontaneously uproot his established patterns and preferences in order to keep his spiritual life (as well as his mind) supple, and to experience that pure rush of freedom that comes from being able to sit in the chaos of a disrupted habit – like an anthill that’s just been kicked in – and transform the pain into the razor’s edge of pure consciousness.

To do this, however, is an advanced spiritual skill. It requires an ability to sit in the presence of powerful emotional currents – pain, grief, yearning, fear – and experience them as pure sensation rather than as part of the story we keep telling ourselves about who we are. This is an acquired skill, whose foundations are in meditation and conscious breathing.

Both habits and addictions, in my experience, are a kind of shorthand we resort to for getting through our lives because we lack the spiritual/energetic force to stay present to the field of our own “pure awareness.” Our habits are primarily the SYMPTOMS of our low level of Being, not the CAUSE of it. So my own preference is to work a little each day on increasing my tolerance for Being (or presence or pure awareness – they’re simply different ways of speaking about the same vitalized energy field of consciousness). Once that force of Being is strong enough within us, then dealing with habits/addictions is like taking off a raincoat once the sun is shining.

Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault is an Episcopal priest, writer and retreat leader. She is founding director of the Aspen Wisdom School in Colorado and principal visiting teacher for the Contemplative Society in Victoria, BC, Canada.