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Chapter 4 - Who Is God  Day 30 Bhrantidarshan is hallucination. You imagine that you are somebody special. Suddenly you think that you are a superstar. This is a problem with many people. Many seekers practice something and they get some visions.  They get caught up in that vision because that vision is neither completely false, not completely true. It is a mixture of some truth, and some falsehood. So people try to hold on to it. Many cults have been formed because of this.  They have never really understood the obstacles that can come up in the path of Yoga. This is called Yoga Maya. Yoga Maya is a vision that brings a message, an intuitive message. You may be meditating and you will get an intuition to open the door because somebody is waiting for you. And when you do that, you really find that person waiting outside.  And you will get very excited. You will think that God had told you about it. And this will happen again and again. This is because you...

Rosary pea (Abrus precatorius) is a slender, herbaceous, perennial climber in the bean family Fabaceae. The plant is native to Asia and Australia.  🌿The vine usually twines around trees, shrubs and hedges. It has no special organs of attachment. 🌿The leaves are long, pinnate compound leaves with opposite leaflets . 🌿Pinkish-white flowers are produced in tightly clustered racemes, that are much shorter than the leaves 🌿The fruit is a flat, oblong pod with sharp deflexed beak and has a silky-texture. The seedpod curls back when it opens to reveal the seeds. 🌿The plant is best known for its seeds, which are used as beads and in percussion instruments, and which are toxic because of the presence of abrin. Ingestion of a single seed, well chewed, can be fatal to both adults and children. 🌿There are two varieties, one with white seeds and the other with red seeds. The white variety is used to prepare oil that i...

Bracteate Flemingia (Flemingia strobilifera) also commonly known as Wild Hops / Luck Plant is a perennial shrub from the family (Fabaceae), native to India and Malaysia. The plant grows up to 2 m high. It has simple ovate leaves, with wavy margins.  The flowers small, white coloured with purplish streaks and are like typical pea flowers but produced in dangling racemes within overlapping leaf-like bracts. The bracts are persistent and turn brown as the flowers mature.  The fruit is an edible bean. The beans explosively dehisce on maturity to release seeds. Seeds are brown-black with red spots. The plant has medicinal uses in traditional medicine. Its root is used for treatment of epilepsy, hysteria and inducing sleep. The pounded root is also used to reduce fever. The leaves are used as a vermifuge for children. The plant requires full sun and moderate water for growth. Source: http://www.flowersofindia.net/cat.../slides/Wild%20H...

DAY - 24 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Vipaaka is fruit of the action; consequences of the action. Enjoying or suffering the fruit of an action is not applicable here. This does not touch that core of your being and existence, which is the Lord of creation; that consciousness which is free from this. And Aashaya. Aashaya means latent desires or impressions, opinions, seeds, etc.  So when a consciousness or a being is free from klesha, misery, karma, vipaaka - the fruit of action, and aashaya, the impressions of actions, then that being or consciousness is Eshwara or Lord. And the Lord is not somewhere in the sky but in your heart. It is in every being's heart. Your actions and the events taking place around you do not touch the central point of your life. The central core remains a virgin. Jesus was born to a virgin. This means that Jesus, the Lord was born to this virgin area deep inside you which is untouched by any events or happening in life. पुषवशेष - that special being is the Lord ...

 🌿Sea Bean (Entada spiralis) is a vulnerable species of woody climber from the family Fabaceae, native to Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra.  🌿The woody liana grows up to 25 m long, climbing with support from neighboring trees. 🌿Its leaves are bipinnately compound, with up to 4 pairs of stalked secondary leaflets (pinnules) per primary leaflet (pinna). Its oppositely arranged pinnules have papery leaf blades that are elliptic to drop-shaped, with a notched tip. 🌿Its solitary flowering spikes are 15–20 cm long and arise from the leaf axils. Its white flowers are 5-merous, and either male or bisexual. The flowers are pollinated by insects. 🌿The legumes (fruits) are large, spirally coiled, irregularly segmented, woody pods. The plant can be propagated by seeds. 🌿Its bark and seeds contain saponin which can be used as a substitute for soap and also used in making shampoos, or skin wash to treat a range of disorders including itchi...