Atma Shatakam
I am not mind, nor intellect, nor ego,
nor the reflections of inner self.
I am not the five senses, beyond that I am.
I am not the five elements: neither ether,
nor earth, wind, or fire.
I am indeed That eternal knowing and bliss,
eternal love, pure consciousness.
Neither can I be named as energy alone,
nor the five types of breath,
nor the seven material essences,
nor the five coverings.
Neither am I the five instruments of elimination,
procreation, motion, grasping, or speaking.
I am indeed That eternal knowing and bliss
unchanging love, one consciousness.
I have no hatred or dislike,
nor affiliation or liking,
nor greed,nor delusion,
nor pride or haughtiness,
nor feelings of envy or jealousy.
I have no care, nor any wealth,
nor any desire I am,
nor even liberation.
I am indeed That eternal knowing and bliss,
boundless love, pure awareness.
I have neither merit, nor demerit
I am not bound by sins or good deeds,
nor by happiness or sorrow,
not pain or pleasure.
I am free from mantras, holy places,
scriptures, rituals or sacrifices.
I am none of the triad of
observer, act of observing or the object itself.
I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, Shiva, pure love, flawless consciousness.
No fear of death I have,
I have no separation from my true self,
no doubt about my existence,
nor have I discrimination on the basis of birth.
I have no father or mother, nor did I have a birth.
I am not the relative, nor the friend,
nor the guru, nor the disciple.
I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss,
immaculate love, fully awake.
I am all embracing,
without any attributes, without any form.
I have neither attachment to the world,
nor to liberation.
I have no wishes for anything
because I am everything,
everywhere, every time,
always in equilibrium.
I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss,
That unfathomable grace.
Two fierce messengers of Death stand before the lowest and the worst sinner, with frightful looks. The sinner is bound by the noose thrown by the messengers. Stricken by terror he passes urine. He is endowed with a special thick body called ‘Yatana Sarira’ to undergo the sufferings on the path. The messengers bind him with chords and forcibly drag him along distant routes to the city of Samyamani.
There is no shade of trees on the way. There is neither food nor water. Twelve suns blaze. The sinful soul goes along, pierced sometimes by cold winds, in one place torn by thorns, in another stung by very venomous serpents and scorpions. He is burnt by fire in another place.
With a broken heart, and the threats of a cruel guide, shivering with fear, bitten by merciless hounds, conscious of his past sins, tortured by hunger and thirst, burnt by the fierce sun, marching through red hot sand and severely beaten on the back though half falling down in a swoon, he is made to rise again and carried to the abode of Lord of Death. He is condemned to prolonged sufferings and passing through gradations of grossest animal lives, in the process of evolution like pigs and dogs, he attains gradually a human body after a process of purification of such sufferings.
In one place he falls into a hidden well, in another from a lofty mountain, in another he treads on razor-edges and spear-points. In one place he stumbles in the awful blackness and falls into water, in another in mud abounding in leeches, in another in hot slime. In another place is a plane of hot sand made of smelted copper, in another a mound of embers. In some places are showers of charcoal, showers of stones and thunderbolts, showers of blood, showers of weapons, showers of boiling water.
In the midst of the way flows the terribly horrible Vaitarani river with pus, blood. It is difficult to cross this river.
The sinner is beaten with hammers by the terrible messengers of Yama. He is forcibly dragged by the nooses. He eats the monthly rice-balls given by his son. If the son makes a gift of a cow the departed soul gets a boat to cross the Vaitarani river.
He reaches the abode of Yama at the end of a year. Lord Yama asks Chitragupta about the sins. Chitragupta enquires of the Sravanas who are the sons of Brahma, who know all about the actions of the human beings. The Sravanis, wives of the Sravanas, know accurately all that is done by women. Earth, water, fire, air, ether (sky), the heart, Yama, day and night, the two twilights, justice, the sun and the moon know the actions of man.
Lord Yama, the king of justice, gives fitting punishment to the sinners. Then the cruel messengers take them to hell and torture them. Again and again the messengers beat the sinners with spears, maces and pestles.
The virtuous are wafted in heavenly cars to the gardens of Paradise which they gain by their virtuous acts in life. But the highly sinful soul meets with icebergs and caverns strewn with thorns and pointed steel pikes, and bushes and shrubs on its way, as the punishment for its sins.
Those of the mediocre class, have a clear and fine passage, with soft grassy pathways strewn with cooling arbours and supplied with spring waters on both their sides.
On its arrival there, the soul reflects within itself thus: “Here am I and yonder is Yama, the Lord of death. That other is the judge of our actions, Chitragupta, and this, his judgment given on my behalf.”
Here in Yama’s court, the judgment is pronounced for the Jiva, so that it might reap the reward of its acts, whereby it ascends either to the blissful heaven above or descends to the painful hell below.
After having enjoyed the pleasures of Svarga or suffered the pains of hell, it is doomed to return to this earth again to undergo the result of its acts in repeated births. This is the significance of the periodical ceremonies done for the deceased, for the first one year after a man’s death.
New Bihar Mandir ~ Maha MantraKrishna mantra created by Dietrich and Erik for the Hindi organization "New Bihar Mandir":
http://www.newbiharmandir.org/Ancient prophecy states that as the wheel of history moves incessantly forward further into the Kali-yuga (the Iron Age of Quarrel and Hypocrisy) that worship of the tenth and final avatara of Visnu/Krsna, Lord Kalki, will begin to manifest around the globe. Five-thousand years into the Kali-yuga, New Bihar Mandir, a worldwide movement of devotees and temples, is beginning to bring this prophecy into fruition.
Only two temples to Lord Kalki exist in India, both of which are shrouded in mystery. One exists in Jaipur, the city where Lord Kalki's mighty winged horse, Devadatta, will manifest. It is closed to the public and has been maintained by the government for the last several-hundred years since its inception. The priests, hired by the state, enter discreetly now and again for maintenance. The other exists in Sambhal, Uttar Pradhesh, which will be the birthplace of Lord Kalki 427,000 years into the future at the end of the 432,000 year-long Dark Age.
By the arrangement of Supreme Godhead Lord Sri Krsna, since the founding of New Bihar Mandir, persons have come into our purview who have assisted in making our fervent desire to worship Sri Kalki Avatara come to pass. New Bihar Mandir devotees worship Lord Kalki and the fierce Goddess Kali in tandem along with the Guardian Deities, the latter whose worship is most prevalent in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka and amongst the Tamil diaspora in Malaysia and Singapore in particular. At the end of the Kali-yuga, Lord Kalki will appear along with the Goddess Kali, Sesa Naga (the thousand-hooded serpent) and all Bhairavs and Veeran to cleanse the earth and usher in a new Golden Age.
At the arrangement of a Garhwali devotee from Uttarakhand and overcoming all obstacles, a Kalki Shaligram and sacred clay from the place of Kalki Avatara's birth were procured from the Kalki Temple in Sambhal, U.P. and relayed via courier to the flagship New Bihar Mandir in rural Lexington County, South Carolina (a state in the southeastern United States). After this devotee's discussion with the priests of the Sambhal Kalki temple these holy items were obtained, the shaligram which was worshipped at the very feet of the Kalki murti in Sambhal for many years and whom is Kalki Himself. Now in an occurrence without precedence, the very quintessence of the 'Killer Avatar' has crossed the Atlantic and has become a beacon for inaugurating the worship of Kalki Avatara around the globe. Join with us in manifesting the energies of the future in the present, burning away the darkness of nescience and lighting the lamp of eternity in all souls by the incomparable grace of the Lord. Hare Krishna!
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