How Remedies Work?

The role of the remedial measures

The remedies suggested by the Maharishi in your palm leaf reading will help you in one or more key areas:

1) Your career
2) Financial issues
3) Relationship problems or progeny
4) Mental or physical health
6) Education
7) Spiritual goals

The remedies suggested in your reading are divine tools. No one is quite sure how they actually work, but its possible that by performing the remedies with a pure heart, our karmic ‘baggage’ is lessened and we begin to attract the blessings of divine entities who are but facets of the omnipotent and omnipresent one.

The Great Saints of Ancient India had the ability to know how and and why a seeker would be suffering at a given point in his or her life. He could therefore look at the seeker’s birth chart and suggest some actions which would either strengthen ‘good planets’ to strengthen their effect on your life or weaken the ‘malefic planets’ to reduce the any negativity. No one is above the law of karma; what we sow we must reap. However, by seriously following the remedies with a pure heart and with devotion, one can create favourable changes in life. As mentioned before, the Maharishi is not really interested in giving you worldly and sensual pleasures. These things bind us to the circle of life and death. His role is to help us evolve spiritually so we can live in the world, but not be attached to it. The Ancient Saints were wise enough to know that it was only when man was given what he wanted, that he would actually begin to want what the Saints had come to give us! What have the saints come to give us? Atma Jnana or Self realisation! This is only possible when our karma from the past is wiped clean and we are sensitive to the effects of selfless thoughts and actions in the present and future.

Types of remedies

The remedies suggested can be in any one or more of the following forms:

Mantra – This is the recitation of a particular sound repeatedly. Each mantra has the ability to generate a vibration that either synchronises with the vibration of a deity or resonates with a particular region of the body. In any case, mantras have the ability to affect us from the subtle and physical levels. The mantra can be chanted by you or by a priest who will do it on your behalf in the prescribed way.

Tantra – is the ritualistic aspect of worship. It may involve something as simple as lighting a lamp daily or it can be as complex as donating a cow to a poor farmer in India. As stated before, some rituals are strange such as donating razor blades or baby clothes to the reader. In most cases there will be a suggestion for a certain type of ritual by a priest to be done for a certain number of days. However, there can be no logic to some of the suggestions, so little time should be spent in analysing these.

Yantra – is a special type of talisman. It can be in the form of a sheet of metal with some mystical symbols etched on it. It is often kept for a certain number of days (minimum 44 days) in a special place with offerings of various kinds made to it along with mantras to energize it and evoke positive energies. Yantras can be worn on the body, kept in a purse or wallet or on a special alter in the home. As they are ‘linked’ to the recipient, they will work for him or her only and play their part in removal of obstacles and  obtaining blessings.

Temple Visits – are another why to gain blessings from the divine and to remove blockages to our suffering.

The statues within the temple are pran-pratishtha or energized with the vibration of the deities they represent. You may be asked to to a special archana or prayers in which you can approach the priest to help you. Electricity exists everywhere but its presence is only known due to the lightbulb. In the same way, God is omnipresent and all knowing. However, His presence to our conditioned and immature minds can only be felt in the temple environment.

You may instructed to do a puja in a temple in India. Ideally, its best if you do this yourself. However, the benevolent Lord understands personal circumstances and an offering can be made by a representative on your behalf (we can also arrange for this for you).