The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 14 : The Devas - 3

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 14 🌹

🌴 The Devas - 3 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

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🌻. The Human Body 🌻

We didn’t contribute anything for the Devas to be with us. It is their act of impersonal love and compassion. 

The intelligences working in us suffer immeasurable pain when we abuse them and act irresponsibly with our body and the senses. The Devas in us function in a rhythmical way and, consequently, our body remains healthy. 

If, however, our way of life cuts across their rhythm, they slowly recede; then they feel that the body is no more a safe place for them. When, for example, they recede from the digestive system, we feel it as indigestion. 

When the Devas in the liver abandon their work, we say, “My liver doesn’t function well any longer.” The Devas stay away until we correct our behaviour. If they don’t return anymore, we have to think of a transplantation. 

When we behave well, they continue functioning. They regard the light in us as their saviour and find, “We feel the Light and hence we can remain.”

Our body is the result of a very long work of the Devas, who have created a beautiful abode for the indwelling soul, so it must not be misused. 

In the eastern scriptures it says that with the human body prepared by the Devas creation has reached its highest point, for with this body we can experience all the 7 planes of existence. 

Hence man is considered the image of God. He is greater than the Devas; they need a human body to come down to earth. The angels need the cooperation with the human beings to be able to carry out the divine plan upon earth. 

The beings of the lower kingdoms cannot create a conscious contact with the Devas and ascend to them. We have this possibility through the facility of our human body. But when we don’t know how we have to behave with the body, we imprison ourselves and suffer from problems.

The work of the Devas in us can be increased if we consciously link up to them and act from this consciousness. This way the food we eat can be taken as a gift for the Devas, so that the fire of digestion burns well and they can support us this way.

🌻 Cooperation with the Devas 🌻

Devas are pleased by rituals; therefore healing rituals or invocation hymns have come about to ask for healing with incurable diseases or to ward off the spell of ill-health. 

We invite Devas by keeping the space and nature around us free from impurities, decorate them with pure and fine things and sanctify the atmosphere with candles and incense. The various herbal gifts used in the fire ritual are energetically related to different cosmic intelligences. 

The Devas are pleased when we offer through fire food which is energetically agreeable to them and they are invoked through the right sounds. So mantrams are chanted and prayers are offered, and then the Devas help us with acts of good will. 

In Sanskrit it says, “To invite the Devas and expel the devils invoke OM.” Particularly on the days of full moon and new moon we can deepen the relation with the Devas. If we always do the rituals at the same time, they are even more effective.

The Devas like to cooperate with those who perform acts of charity; we receive their blessings when we help other people or at least give water to a plant or some grains to the birds. In India clothes are distributed to seek the protection and blessings of the Devas for a person.

With daily worship and charity there will be two angels who protect us the whole time. They assign themselves to guide, protect and also enlighten us. 

They make visible our personal follies and instruct us how to rectify. The work of the Devas is to help us in the direction we should progress. For this we can ask their cooperation and support.

Sources: K.P. Kumar: Sri Suktam / notes from seminars. E. Krishnamacharya: Vishnu Purana.

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