Prepare To Receive Supreme Energy By: Yogi Ashwini

Our body is a poorna ansh or integral part of creation that is run by various shaktis or energies. Each day of the 365 days in a year is governed by a specific shakti; hence the yogsutras stress the importance of niyam. If you skip your practices for even a single day, then the shakti or energy of that day is left behind and the sadhna or practice of the entire year becomes compromised because if even a single thing is removed from Creation, it will impact everything around. So the niyam of your practices must not be broken.

The days leading to Diwali are especially powerful and a sadhak should keep his mind focused for it is said the sadhna of this time is equivalent to the sadhna of many months put together. On the night of Diwali, there is a congregation of powerful energies and their access becomes much simpler than on normal days. While most are busy lighting lamps, eating sweets and playing cards, as the night of amavasya approaches, it is time for shakti sadhna.

Most people spend the day decorating the house in the hope that all of that will attract Goddess Lakshmi who will then bless them with wealth and prosperity. Wealth, power, status, relationships are all physical and hence temporary. All physical things have a limited life and give intense pain when they are going... and go they will. The more you have, the more the pain. This is maya, illusion, and there is no escape. One has to go beyond it and the night of Diwali is perfect for it. The night is an energy-filled one; make the best use of it.

So understand the importance of each day and its shakti. There is no shakti in creation which you cannot access.  Each one of you is a divine being going through a human experience each has the capacity to create all things physical. The choice is yours whether you want to chase maya or whether you wish to distance yourself from maya and who knows, maya begins to chase you! The physical world being temporary, it is important to be aware of the fact. Therefore, detachment is the key to success.

The lights and diyas of Diwali relate to 'tamso ma jyotirgamaya' (take me from darkness to light). Just like light is misunderstood as lighting lamps and not internal gyan, Diwali is misunderstood for 'getting wealth and more wealth' rather than 'get wealth and detach me from it as it is physical and so temporary.’

Physical pleasures and wealth are a direct consequence of your karma...so is pain and poverty. To achieve wealth one must improve his karmas by doing service and charity and chanting specific mantras. Therefore, instead of waiting for Goddess Lakshmi to come to your house and shower wealth upon you, this Diwali try something different. Ask, but also give. Have fun, but also be prepared by asking for detachment from the physical. 

Remember that what happens inside a being is what is reality; external manifestations are only its reflection. Don’t attempt to change the reflection but try to change the real thing. May you all realise the full potential of the Supreme energy on this beautiful festival of lights, Diwali.