[vallalargroups:3760] Vaikunta Ekathasi - the 11th day/level - Real meaning

From: <venkatesh-co@precot.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:47 AM
Subject: vaikunta ekathasi
To: vallalargroups@gmail.com

Dear Karthikeyan

sending recently written article on vaikunta ekathasi

 

pl upload this article on vallalarspace as the function is due on 17.12.2010

 

hope the unveiled real meaning is ok

 

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Vaikunta Ekathasi - the 11th day/level

 

The above festival is celebrated amongst  the vaishnavites very pompously

 

During this day, we are asked not to sleep the whole night ( ekathasi ) , play dice with pictures of ladders and snakes , next day ,early morning ( thuvathasi ) go to temple to offer worship to God

 

But, do you know why all these rituals ?? what is the importance attached to these ??

 

There is a great meaning attached which is been hidden

 

Ekathasi means - 11th day from new moon/full moon or pournami/amavasya  ( thasi -10 , eka - one , so 11 )

 

Thuvathasi - 12th day ( thuva - two )

 

Real meaning :

There is a golden door at 12th level of consciousness separating our lower worlds pertaining to mind , life and matter and upper golden worlds of knowledge

 

Money, power , property, prestige, love , lust are the order of lower worlds where as peace and emptiness in the upper worlds of consciousness

 

By constant practice of penance , when we raise our consciousness level  ( not  being awake and eyes opened ) to 11th level, and with the persistent consciousness , we cross over to the 12th level and enter into the golden worlds of consciousness ( deified as Vaikunatam -  abode of God etc )

 

that is why, our ancestors had asked not to sleep meaning that we should be in highest consciousness

 

and meaning for playing dice with ladders and snakes is caught in the web of karma ?representing good and bad respectively and the order of lower worlds of mind, life and matter and crossing over them to the end point of the game  is crossing over  the 11th level to upper most echelons of consciousness

 

As a mark of remembrance of this great internal activity, this festival is celebrated externally

 

Do you know why we chant god's name when we sneeze??

 

the 12th level door gets opened for a while when we sneeze, hence our forefathers had asked us to chant god's name , hailing the Almighty

 

The Holy Bible also says, utter god's name when you sneeze

 

See, what a unity in thought, research and action ??

 

It can be infered that beyond mind , all religions are ONE and they are Universal

 

 

BG Venkatesh 

 

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BG Venkatesh

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don't dwell in the past
don't  contemplate about your future
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