Tantra Kundalini Experiences

THE KATHA UPANISHAD Today, I’d like to take up the Katha Upanishad for study. As you know, the Upanishads are independently written treatises or parables, which were penned by various unnamed sages, widely scattered in time. The Katha Upanishad, like all the others, is undated; however, scholars guess its date of origin to be somewhere around the first few centuries before the Christian Era, though we don’t have any idea who might have written it. Nonetheless, it has stood the test of time due to the fact that its author was clearly a knower of the Self, a seer of extraordinary depth and clarity. The Upanishad begins as a tale about a young boy named Nachiketas. It seems that Nachiketas’ father, in his desire to attain heaven, performed a large scale ritual sacrifice (yajna) in which he ostensibly offered the most highly valued of his possessions, including a few head of cattle. Nachiketas, observing that the cattle offered were actually quite old and thin, wondered if h...

Sri Raghavendra Theertha - the patron Saint at Mantr alayam is verily the wishing tree (Kalpavruksha), the divine cow (Kamadhenu) and the divine jewel (Chintamani) all in one, fulfilling the righteous desires of all that visit Mantralayam and pray for his bening benevolence. No one has returned disappointed as the sage who is verily present to this date, in the holy Brindavan answers all prayers, grants all desires and makes the devotes happy here in this mundane world and the upper world, recommending to him "Moksha" (beatitude). Lord Sriman Narayana is the sole Moksha Data (giver of beatitude) and Lord Vayu Deva also functions as Moksha -Data with the permision of Lord Sriman Narayana. Raghavendra Theertha is an ardent devotee of Sri Vayu-Deva and his indwelling Lord Sri Ramachandra who is no other than Sriman Narayana Himself. Sri Raghavendra Theertha has access to this Moksha data and is instrumental in getting the Grace ofVayu deva and Lord Sri Hari to the...