My favourite Natarajarar stotram, it’s a special interesting sanskrit stotram composition. Thanks 
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Btw @Maoshan_Wanderer, that Shivoham hymn you sent was sung by Bhanumathi Narasimhan who is the sister of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar if you know who that is.
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I know him personally, as well as some of his family, but not his sister though 
That said, I don’t practice Art of Living techniques, nor have learned any of them.
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Woah! My dad has met him on many occasions (he used to be a part time Art of Living teacher). Art of Living kinda played a significant role in my childhood ngl with all the yoga sessions that I was forced to attend lol
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Thanks for your explanation friend.
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Is this information available to us on the forum or does it come under super secret occult stuff that requires decades of learning and practice?
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If you ask me is there a user guide on how to accomplish that, I don’t think there is
A lot of Daoist traditions teach life extension techniques to their "indoor’ disciples. The famous Babaji of Kriya Yoga lineage is one popular figure (so the advanced stage of Kriya Yoga can transmute one into a light body). Traditionally, physical immortality was not taught to everyone - it was often to prolong life till one attained a spiritual goal, or it was a side effect of advanced Enlightenment that encompassed not just spiritual reality but also the material part (like the Daoist Golden Dragon Body or Rainbow Body).
And then we have our own Dream! We have the Eternity tag, Plasma Protocol, Ojas and The Crucible, and he is just starting Lot more to come…
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Yup that was what I was thinking about. There are some people I know who appear to be very close to attaining spiritual enlightenment and it would be a shame to see them die before they achieve that.
Any other ways to avoid untimely death if you’re someone who’s not in touch with a goddess like Kali? Or would simply chanting a Kali mantra help with this?
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Very exciting indeed!
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Yes, Divine Grace can certainly help - in whichever form, call it Kali, Shiva, Christ, Angelic, etc. Mantra is one of the many ways to connect to the Divine, an effective way, not the only way.
While we can recite mantras, do spiritual practice, etc. Grace is not guaranteed. Abhinavagupta, a great Tantric master says - the nature of Grace is mysterious. If the whole thing was - I chant x amount of mantras and I get grace, there is no difference between the Divine and a shopkeeper, as this is not merely transactional.
That said, the Universe has been empirically known to reward sincerity and hard work, so the probability of Grace is certainly higher for those that actively seek it - through prayer, meditation, service, mantras, etc.
I had two students, one who recited a certain mantra of Krishna for decades and never felt any grace. Another one, a simple all-American housewife who was not even spiritual, but wanted a mantra as her arthritis was unbearable. A month later, she was smelling fragrances, hearing flute music, and her arthritis was gone! The other guy with decades of practice was flabbergasted. Why did this lady attain grace so damn fast - was it effort from previous lifetimes, was it the quality of her efforts, or intensity of her practice, hard to say! Grace indeed is mysterious
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Can you chant mantras while asking these deities to help other people? Say I wanted Hanuman or Krishna to help with my mother’s bursitis and inflammatory pain for example.
It’s the same with audios isn’t it? Some people receive instant results. Others have to persist for a little longer to get those same results. I suppose it’s all to do with blockages.
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Absolutely! I do this every single day. Not that different from sending healing intentions.
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well… consider this, to qualify for Shivoham the base must be strong to support it and maintain it, which can be built with om namah shivaya or even the gayatri mantra.
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I was planning on tapping into the Satori state and then listening to Shivoham from that state of having no thoughts so I get the full energy of it.
But like you said, the base must be strong and I might not be able to handle that amount of energy at my level, so in case it becomes overwhelming, I’ll try om namah shivaya.
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Just a suggestion.
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Haha! There is so much information in just these 3 words and wink than meets the eye!
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असित गिरि समं स्यात् कज्जलम् सिन्धु पात्रे
सुरतरुवर शाखा लेखनी पत्रम् उर्वी ।
लिखति यदि गृहित्वा शारदा सर्वकालं
तदपि तव गुणानां ईश पारं न याति ॥
Shloka as Romanized text
asita giri samaM syAt kajjalam sindhu pAtre
surataruvara shAkhA lekhanI patram urvI |
likhati yadi gRuhitvA shAradA sarvakAlaM
tadapi tava guNAnAM Isha pAraM na yAti ||
Meaning of the Prayer Song:
Perhaps taking the mountain of ink, dark ocean as the pot,
branch of the heavenly tree as the pen and earth as the leaf (paper)
even if shArada (divine of knowledge) write forever,
even then, Oh Ishvara, the boundaries of Your glory
cannot be found!!
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