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Dear Hansmukh Kaur,

 

Sat Nam!

 

> Right now I am doing the mantra for wealth and prosperity (the pinky

> and index fingers hitting while chanting har) and the chant for

> mircales which has har, har, har, har before each syllable (gobinday,

> etc), and I found a simple meditation for depression which I had to

> modify due to an old whiplash injury. (...) I'm also thinking wouldn't it

> be wonderful if these mantras and meditations had specific names

> so that the list moderators knew what I was talking about!!

 

Well in fact they do have names. The second one you mentioned is usually

referred to as Har Har Gobinday. If you described the third one we could

probably find its name too. However, sometimes the names, being in Gurmukhi,

are even more complicated than describing the meditations themselves!

 

> Things are getting WORSE not

> better. So I was wondering if this is a cleraing out effect because of

> the junk that accumulated in my life? Or is this just the forces that

> be or perhaps my own subconscious trying to get me to give up on what

> I'm doing?

 

I am with you here, having gone through this myself. The 18 months after I

seriously started yoga and meditation were the very worst of my life!

Everything went very wrong. I have come to understand since that all the

"junk" has to be gotten out of the way before you can go further. The

quicker this happens the more intense it is, but it is only a temporary

stage. It is part of what is called tapasya in yoga - tapasya means

austerities, but in its literal sense it means "burning".

 

There is a story about a man who worshipped Lakshmi (the goddess of

abundance and wealth) with the hope to get wealthy. He kept worshipping

Lakshmi every day, but instead of getting richer things went worse and

worse! He ended up losing everything he had in a few years, and then he

decided to become a sannyasin (a renunciate). Right after this, while

meditating one day, Lakshmi herself came and stood before him. The man was

overjoyed, but he said "Oh Lakshmi, I have worshipped you all these years,

and things kept getting worse. And now that I am a renunciate I have no use

for wordly riches, but now you chose to appear before me!" Lakshmi then told

him that he had had too much bad karma to pay for, and she couldn't have

answered him before because of that. But now his karma was over and she had

come to offer him anything he wanted. Because he had taken formal

renunciation vows, the man then asked her for spiritual wealth, which she

happily bestowed on him, and he became liberated.

 

Both my and other people's experiences tell me that there can be bad things

we have to work through before the good things can finally happen, the right

way. Because if the bad things don't happen now, they will happen later, and

anything good in between will be just temporary. Some things can be quite

painful to go through, still it is good to go through them, and past them.

God lives just on the other side of fear, it is said. And on the other side

of bad karma too!

 

This reminds me how Yogi Bhajan used to be a high ranking official in India,

but when he came to the US he had just 35 dollars, no warm clothes in

winter, no shoes and nowhere to sleep. His life wasn't anywhere near easy

for some years. But he went through it with the knowledge that God will come

through for him in the end. Seems he was right too.

 

If you feel depressed, think of Yogi Bhajan. And know that God and life will

come through for you as well. He made it. So can you. There is no reason why

you can't. One other thing you can do is do little things that will make

you feel wealthy - such as giving a piece of bread to a homeless person,

help a neighbor, greet your family with a royal smile in the morning.

Difficulties are just a part of life. They are not all of it. There are

happy beggars and unhappy millionaires... Pray for happiness in the first

place. An interesting thing about happiness is that the more you give it to

others the more you get for yourself. And it turn, the happier you are the

more self-confident you are, and the more self-confident you are the more

likely you are to attract positive factors into your life. So try to create

a virtuous circle. Give what you can (smiles are free) and life will give

back to you. It might take a while... but know it will happen.

 

Many blessings,

Satsang Kaur