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> Vasana Daha Tantra - Shivaratri 2004

>

> Every year during the weeks leading up to

> Shivaratri, the Night of

> Infinite Compassion (this year, February 18), yogis

> and yoginis practice

> a unique sadhana called vasana daha tantra. The

> purpose of vasana daha

> tantra is to eradicate unwanted vasanas, or habitual

> patterns, from

> one's consciousness. Unhealthy vasanas lie within

> the subconscious. We

> usually become aware of them only after they have

> manifested in our

> lives as hurry, worry, fear, and self-doubt.

>

> To clarify one's subconscious and to resolve deeply

> rooted anger, past

> grievances, and unhealed relationships, one may

> practice vasana daha

> tantra once every day for a chosen number of days,

> completing the

> practice on Shivaratri. The practice of vasana daha

> tantra itself is

> very simple. Write on a piece of paper any prayers

> or hopes, fears or

> anxieties, or any issues you feel need attending to

> in your life. Use

> your own words. Also offer a statement of gratitude

> that your prayers

> are being heard and a prayer that your vasanas be

> healed. Then take the

> paper and burn it. The power of fire is very

> important here.

>

> I hope you will find vasana daha tantra an effective

> practice in

> healing, helping you become more receptive to the

> four great gifts of

> life: health, prosperity, harmonious relationships,

> and spiritual

> enlightenment.

>

> From

>

http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:O4ylPYphh20J:www.gmsy.org/vasana.ht

> ml+%22vasana+daha+tantra%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 (cached

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>

>

>

>

> Article in Hinduism today:

>

http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/2000/11-12/2000-11-23.shtml

>

>

> November/December 2000

>

>

> PSYCHOLOGY

>

>

> Freedom? Write On!

>

>

> A Simple and private way to resolve your past

> emotional conflicts and

> interpersonal expierences

>

>

> American President Abraham Lincoln was known for his

> wisdom. One day his

> Secretary of War, Edwin Santol, sought the

> president's advice on a

> heated conflict with an army general. Santol

> complained to Lincoln, who

> advised, "Tell him in a letter how you feel." Santol

> wrote a

> strongly-worded letter and showed it to Lincoln.

> Lincoln acknowledged

> his ability for the powerful language used, then

> asked, "Edwin, what are

> you going to do with it?" Santol was surprised at

> the question, but said

> calmly, "I will send it to the general." Lincoln

> shook his head with

> disapproval and advised, "Do not send this letter.

> It is better if you

> burn it in the stove. That is what I do when I write

> letters when I am

> angry. It is definitely a good letter, and you had a

> nice time writing

> it. You feel better. Now burn it and write another

> letter."

>

> Lincoln understood how writing down a stressful

> event releases pent up

> emotions from the subconscious mind. Modern

> psychologists have

> discovered this, too. They call it "journaling," and

> there have been

> dozens of studies demonstrating that it is an

> excellent way to release

> the burdens of difficult memories. It is also often

> followed by

> significant improvements in the patient's health.

>

> The studies revealed that people, ranging from

> grade-schoolers to

> nursing-home residents, and from medical students to

> prisoners, feel

> happier and healthier after writing about deeply

> traumatic memories,

> according to researcher James Pennebaker, a

> psychology professor at the

> University of Texas.

>

> Pennebaker became interested in the potential of

> writing therapy when he

> learned that a criminal's heart rate and breathing

> measured during a lie

> detector test becomes much slower immediately after

> a confession. He

> theorized and then proved the same dramatic and

> beneficial effect could

> be caused by writing down past stressful misdeeds

> and unhappy memories.

>

> The effect isn't only an emotional release,

> Pennebaker says. One of his

> studies, published in 1988, found that college

> students have more active

> T-lymphocyte cells, an indication of immune system

> stimulation, six

> weeks after writing about stressful events. Other

> studies have found

> that people tend to take fewer trips to the doctor,

> function better in

> day-to-day tasks and score higher on tests of

> psychological well-being

> after such writing exercises, he asserts.

>

> Another study, published in the April 1999 issue of

> the Journal of the

> American Medical Association, presented evidence

> that journaling can

> even ease the symptoms of asthma and rheumatoid

> arthritis, both

> stress-related diseases. Joshua Smyth, psychology

> professor at North

> Dakota State University, did a study in which 70

> people with either

> asthma or rheumatoid arthritis were asked to write

> about the most

> stressful event in their lives. The participants

> wrote for 20 minutes on

> three consecutive days. A control group of 37

> patients wrote about their

> plans for the day. Four months later, 47 percent of

> the group that wrote

> about past traumas showed significant

> improvement--less pain and a

> greater range of motions for arthritis patients, and

> increased lung

> capacity for asthmatics. Only 24 percent of the

> group that wrote about

> their daily activities showed such progress.

>

> Journaling in the Hindu perspective is a form of

> confession, sometimes

> called anahatha yoga, or the yoga of understanding.

> It is one aspect of

> scriptural requirements for penance, in which one

> seeks to resolve past

> karmas. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, publisher

> of Hinduism Today,

> has discovered in ministering to his devotees that

> journaling is an

> effective way to deal with deep-seated emotional

> experiences which, if

> not resolved, would later manifest in unwanted

> karmic experiences,

> including disease. He named his particular method

> "Vasana Daha Tantra."

> Daha means "burning," tantra means "method" and

> vasana is a deep-seated

> subconscious trait or tendency that shapes one's

> attitudes and

> motivations.

>

> "This is one of the best methods for resolving

> difficulties in life, of

> dissolving troublesome vasanas," says Gurudeva.

> "It's a practice of

> burning confessions, or even long letters to loved

> ones or

> acquaintances, describing pains, expressing

> confusions and registering

> long-felt hurts and grievances. Writing these

> problems down, and burning

> them in an ordinary fire, brings the problems from

> the subconscious into

> the external mind, releasing the suppressed emotion

> as the fire consumes

> the paper. It's a magical healing process."

>

> Just as Lincoln advised Santol to write a strong

> letter, so does the

> Vasana Daha Tantra advise going into the

> subconscious and bringing up

> and re-experiencing all the emotions of a particular

> experience or

> relationship. Burning the journaling pages serves

> two purposes. First,

> there is guaranteed privacy. As no one will ever

> read them, one can be

> totally free in expressing oneself. Second,

> destroying the pages in a

> fire conveys a message to the subconscious mind that

> no matter how

> painful or difficult an experience is, once it is

> written on paper, it

> easily burns away and disappears. If the tantra is

> done right, the

> remembered emotion goes up in smoke, never to come

> back. The memory is

> not erased, by the emotion attached to it is

> dissipated. Just throwing

> the paper away doesn't work as well, say those who

> have tried it, nor

> does typing it on a computer and then trashing the

> file. It seems the

> physical action of destroying the paper is most

> effective.

>

> For those really intent about overhauling their

> subconscious mind, there

> is the "Maha ['great'] Vasana Daha Tantra." It's a

> once-in-a-lifetime,

> global search-and-destroy mission for serious

> spiritual aspirants. They

> write down and burn everything of significance since

> the day they were

> born--ten pages for every year of their life. That

> is 350 pages for

> someone 35 years old. They write about good times,

> bad times,

> relationships with others, everything that comes to

> mind about a

> particular year. Events which occurred decades ago

> are seen to have had

> far more impact than previously realized. Incidents

> and relationships

> they believed they had "gotten over," they hadn't.

> They discovered

> things for which they felt great shame and remorse,

> and which they

> resolved never to repeat. Those who have completed

> this discipline

> report feeling like "new people."

>

> Overall, journaling is a simple, do-it-yourself

> process. Prove it to

> yourself by writing down and burning a couple of big

> emotional issues.

> And save the money for that visit to the shrink for

> your next

> pilgrimage.

>

>

>

http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/1996/7/1996-7-07.shtml

>

>

> How to Stop Tolerating Turmoil

>

>

> By Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

>

> My satguru, Sage Yogaswami, used to say, "It takes a

> lot of courage to

> be happy all the time." Most people, it seems, would

> rather be

> miserable. Think about it. They go through life

> getting their feelings

> hurt, resenting this or that and hurting the

> feelings of others in an

> endless cycle of unresolved emotion, asking a

> torrent of unanswerable

> rhetorical questions. Take today's average family:

> it's a composite of

> troubled individuals.

>

> Today, more than ever, parents everywhere are

> concerned about keeping

> the family together. I have found that the key is to

> keep the pranas

> flowing harmoniously. A true family is a clan of

> individuals who love

> each other, which means they are bound together by

> positive pranic

> magnetism. When sons-in-law and daughters-in-law

> join the family, their

> pranic magnetism intermingles and the family extends

> itself harmoniously

> if the jyotisha compatibilities are good, especially

> between the husband

> and the bride and her mother-in-law.

>

> Last month we discussed how this magnetism is

> maintained--through the

> principle of "zero tolerance for disharmonious

> conditions"--and urged

> seekers to keep the pranas flowing within their

> homes in a positive,

> loving way. This means that if there is a disruption

> of the pranas,

> caused by interpersonal conflict--argument, angry

> words or worse--the

> matter must be settled among the individuals before

> they go to sleep,

> even if it means staying up all night.

>

> What is prana? Prana is vital energy. There are

> three phases of the

> mind: instinctive, intellectual and superconscious.

> They comprise three

> different kinds of prana in every human being:

> instinctive prana,

> intellectual prana and refined, superconscious

> prana, also known as

> actinic energy.

>

> Instinctive pranas digest our food and maintain the

> functions of the

> physical body. They also give rise to the emotions

> of fear, anger,

> jealousy and other base instincts. The instinctive

> energies affect the

> mind, emotions and behavior. Without well-developed

> intellectual pranas,

> the mind is ruled by the lower nature and easily

> influenced by others,

> often in a negative way. This is why children must

> be closely watched

> and guided during their formative years until their

> intellectual pranas

> develop in the form of good memory, discernment and

> willpower. The

> superconscious pranas bring through creativity,

> inspiration and

> intuition. These are the energies to be sought after

> and nurtured

> through various kinds of religious devotion and

> sadhana.

>

> In nearly every home, all three kinds of prana are

> at work. Little

> children are functioning mainly in the instinctive

> pranas. Students are

> in the intellectual pranas. Parents, hopefully, are

> functioning in the

> spiritual pranas, at least part of the time, drawing

> into the home the

> cosmic actinic rays of the soul, while balancing all

> three forms of

> prana within themselves.

>

> It is the duty of the head of the house and his wife

> to take charge of

> all the three pranas within the home and cause them

> to work properly day

> after day after day after day. How do they do that?

> By prayer and

> regular, early-morning daily sadhana, bringing

> wisdom and other refined

> actinic pranas through from the superconscious mind.

> And when everyone

> is bound together with love, everything goes along

> fairly smoothly.

>

> The older children and young adults in the family

> must be taught that

> it's their responsibility, too, to see that the

> pranas are all flowing

> nicely in the home, so the little children and

> babies are protected.

> Young adults, having just come out of the

> instinctive mind themselves,

> are breaking the barriers into the intellect,

> experiencing these new

> pranas and beginning to think for themselves. This

> is the time when

> elders can guide them into the

> zero-tolerance-for-disharmonious-conditions

> philosophical outlook.

> Youths who have have accepted the concept, tried it

> out and found for

> themselves that, "Yes, we do have control over the

> instinctive mind,"

> and "No, it cannot run wild within our home, among

> our friends or in our

> associations with the community," are most

> respectful of loving

> relationships. They will be the ones to keep the

> flow of pranas

> harmonious.

>

> Then the next step unfolds from within most

> naturally: zero tolerance

> for disharmonious conditions within our own self.

> This brings us back to

> my guru's wisdom: claim the strength to stop being

> miserable, to stop

> tolerating turmoil inside yourself.

>

> How is this accomplished? We have to boldly affirm,

> "I will not allow

> the instinctive mind that I experienced as a child

> to control me in any

> way. I will not allow anger to come up. I will not

> allow jealousy to

> dominate my thinking and make me feel inferior or

> superior to someone

> else. I will not allow fear to permeate my aura."

>

> Then, each day before bedtime, settle all unresolved

> matters within

> yourself by performing the vasana daha tantra:

> "subconscious

> purification by fire." Vasanas are subconscious

> traits, impressions or

> tendencies. Daha means to burn, and a tantra is a

> method, and The method

> is to write out clearly all problems that are

> vibrating in the

> subconscious, instinctive-intellectual mind. When

> the eyes see the

> problem in writing in the intellectual mind, the

> emotion attached to the

> difficulty diminishes. Then crumple up the paper and

> burn it in an

> inauspicious fire, such as in a fireplace, toilet or

> garbage can, to

> release these burdens from the subconscious and

> dispel the suppressed

> emotion as the fire consumes the paper.

>

> This simple tantra removes the vasanas from the

> memory and emotional

> recesses along with the emotion, resentments, hurt

> feelings and

> misunderstandings. Soon the superconscious pranas

> will begin to flow,

> and our natural, peaceful self emerges and we may be

> left wondering,

> "Why was I ever bothered about that very small

> incident?"

>

> What happens if we don't resolve matters within

> ourself before sleep?

> Those vrittis, those waves of the mind, which were

> disturbed by the

> experiential creation of the situation, will go to

> seed to erupt at a

> later time in life, perhaps many years in the

> future, or in another

> lifetime.

>

> This daily mental maintenance, of course, requires

> discipline. It may be

> easier to simply drop off to sleep feeling angry,

> jealous, guilty,

> dejected or sorry for one's self.

>

> Yes, zero tolerance for disharmonious conditions can

> be applied within

> oneself as well as among a family or a group of

> people. This practice

> can be establish in one of two ways. Start with

> yourself and then carry

> it out to others. Or start with your relationships

> with others,

> smoothing out the pranas when they go a little

> crazy, and then finally

> apply it to yourself when you are convinced that

> this is the way life

> should be lived.

>

> Zero tolerance for disharmonious conditions is

> clearly the only way once

> one fully accepts the basic principles of the

> Sanatana Dharma:

> all-pervasive energy, cause and effect and coming

> back in a physical

> birth until all scores are settled.

>

> Remember the inspiring words of the Atharva Veda,

> "Let us have concord

> with our own people and concord with people who are

> strangers to us.

> Asvins, create between us and the strangers a unity

> of hearts. May we

> unite in our midst, unite in our purposes and not

> fight against the

> divine spirit within us."

>

>

>

>

 

 

 

 

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Can you pls. clarify as to after writing down the

problems and prayer for getting rid of the problem,

should I burn the paper on that day itself or should

accumulate and burn on the Sivaratri day.

 

 

Thanks

Jai Maata Di!!

 

--- turtle dragon <turtledragonscove wrote:

>

> > Vasana Daha Tantra - Shivaratri 2004

> >

> > Every year during the weeks leading up to

> > Shivaratri, the Night of

> > Infinite Compassion (this year, February 18),

> yogis

> > and yoginis practice

> > a unique sadhana called vasana daha tantra. The

> > purpose of vasana daha

> > tantra is to eradicate unwanted vasanas, or

> habitual

> > patterns, from

> > one's consciousness. Unhealthy vasanas lie within

> > the subconscious. We

> > usually become aware of them only after they have

> > manifested in our

> > lives as hurry, worry, fear, and self-doubt.

> >

> > To clarify one's subconscious and to resolve

> deeply

> > rooted anger, past

> > grievances, and unhealed relationships, one may

> > practice vasana daha

> > tantra once every day for a chosen number of days,

> > completing the

> > practice on Shivaratri. The practice of vasana

> daha

> > tantra itself is

> > very simple. Write on a piece of paper any prayers

> > or hopes, fears or

> > anxieties, or any issues you feel need attending

> to

> > in your life. Use

> > your own words. Also offer a statement of

> gratitude

> > that your prayers

> > are being heard and a prayer that your vasanas be

> > healed. Then take the

> > paper and burn it. The power of fire is very

> > important here.

> >

> > I hope you will find vasana daha tantra an

> effective

> > practice in

> > healing, helping you become more receptive to the

> > four great gifts of

> > life: health, prosperity, harmonious

> relationships,

> > and spiritual

> > enlightenment.

> >

> > From

> >

>

http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:O4ylPYphh20J:www.gmsy.org/vasana.ht

> > ml+%22vasana+daha+tantra%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

> (cached

> > page on Google)

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > Article in Hinduism today:

> >

>

http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/2000/11-12/2000-11-23.shtml

> >

> >

> > November/December 2000

> >

> >

> > PSYCHOLOGY

> >

> >

> > Freedom? Write On!

> >

> >

> > A Simple and private way to resolve your past

> > emotional conflicts and

> > interpersonal expierences

> >

> >

> > American President Abraham Lincoln was known for

> his

> > wisdom. One day his

> > Secretary of War, Edwin Santol, sought the

> > president's advice on a

> > heated conflict with an army general. Santol

> > complained to Lincoln, who

> > advised, "Tell him in a letter how you feel."

> Santol

> > wrote a

> > strongly-worded letter and showed it to Lincoln.

> > Lincoln acknowledged

> > his ability for the powerful language used, then

> > asked, "Edwin, what are

> > you going to do with it?" Santol was surprised at

> > the question, but said

> > calmly, "I will send it to the general." Lincoln

> > shook his head with

> > disapproval and advised, "Do not send this letter.

> > It is better if you

> > burn it in the stove. That is what I do when I

> write

> > letters when I am

> > angry. It is definitely a good letter, and you had

> a

> > nice time writing

> > it. You feel better. Now burn it and write another

> > letter."

> >

> > Lincoln understood how writing down a stressful

> > event releases pent up

> > emotions from the subconscious mind. Modern

> > psychologists have

> > discovered this, too. They call it "journaling,"

> and

> > there have been

> > dozens of studies demonstrating that it is an

> > excellent way to release

> > the burdens of difficult memories. It is also

> often

> > followed by

> > significant improvements in the patient's health.

> >

> > The studies revealed that people, ranging from

> > grade-schoolers to

> > nursing-home residents, and from medical students

> to

> > prisoners, feel

> > happier and healthier after writing about deeply

> > traumatic memories,

> > according to researcher James Pennebaker, a

> > psychology professor at the

> > University of Texas.

> >

> > Pennebaker became interested in the potential of

> > writing therapy when he

> > learned that a criminal's heart rate and breathing

> > measured during a lie

> > detector test becomes much slower immediately

> after

> > a confession. He

> > theorized and then proved the same dramatic and

> > beneficial effect could

> > be caused by writing down past stressful misdeeds

> > and unhappy memories.

> >

> > The effect isn't only an emotional release,

> > Pennebaker says. One of his

> > studies, published in 1988, found that college

> > students have more active

> > T-lymphocyte cells, an indication of immune system

> > stimulation, six

> > weeks after writing about stressful events. Other

> > studies have found

> > that people tend to take fewer trips to the

> doctor,

> > function better in

> > day-to-day tasks and score higher on tests of

> > psychological well-being

> > after such writing exercises, he asserts.

> >

> > Another study, published in the April 1999 issue

> of

> > the Journal of the

> > American Medical Association, presented evidence

> > that journaling can

> > even ease the symptoms of asthma and rheumatoid

> > arthritis, both

> > stress-related diseases. Joshua Smyth, psychology

> > professor at North

> > Dakota State University, did a study in which 70

> > people with either

> > asthma or rheumatoid arthritis were asked to write

> > about the most

> > stressful event in their lives. The participants

> > wrote for 20 minutes on

> > three consecutive days. A control group of 37

> > patients wrote about their

> > plans for the day. Four months later, 47 percent

> of

> > the group that wrote

> > about past traumas showed significant

> > improvement--less pain and a

> > greater range of motions for arthritis patients,

> and

> > increased lung

> > capacity for asthmatics. Only 24 percent of the

> > group that wrote about

> > their daily activities showed such progress.

> >

> > Journaling in the Hindu perspective is a form of

> > confession, sometimes

> > called anahatha yoga, or the yoga of

> understanding.

> > It is one aspect of

> > scriptural requirements for penance, in which one

> > seeks to resolve past

> > karmas. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, publisher

> > of Hinduism Today,

> > has discovered in ministering to his devotees that

>

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