All of us are blessed with the most auspicious soul and this soul is referred to as ‘Shri’ by our rishis.
Other than our soul, we are nobody. Due to ignorance and delusion, we associate ourselves with our body, money and fame. The Gods too revealed to the rishis in the human body. So, Gods also look human-like. The only differentiating factor between Gods and human beings is that Gods are highly focused whereas we human beings are periodically focused.
That is why Gods and Gurus are addressed as Shri Shri (1008) whereas we are only addressed as Shri. The moment we lose ignorance, we are instilled with awareness.
Further, we get activated with chaitanya or consciousness. Then, we too transform to Shri Shri (1008) like Gods and enlightened beings. Our own soul starts vibrating in the frequency of Shri. We tap the rhythmic energy of God. When God moves, our consciousness also moves in sync with Him.
This is when we are operating in the GST—God’s Standard Time. GST is our dedicated sadhana time during which our internal clock gets synchronised with the GST.
With this, we experience the profound truth that God’s energy is present in every being.
Wherever we go, whatever we do, we are in touch with that supreme energy not just in places of worship. So we realise that the entire creation is a part of the spiritual soul and all of us are born auspicious known as ‘Shri’.
The more we operate in GST through sadhana, beings from other higher divine worlds also start vibrating with us. We create the energy of divine vibration. This is symbolically represented through bells in temples. When we strike a bell in the temple, every devotees’ soul vibrates in that uniformity.
Both ignorance and inertia are cast off. Just like each vessel in a kitchen vibrates in a particular frequency and has a distinct sound when it touches or strikes another object, likewise each of us vibrate in a cacophony in different levels at different situations with different people.
Cacophony attracts negative energy through doshas and problems thereby inviting more and more troubles in our lives. Instead, when we synch with God’s energy through sadhana, automatically we tune to divine frequency. We bring in uniformity and melody in our lives.
Good luck and fortune will come in search of us because we become ‘Shri’ and we attract only the auspiciousness—Shubh. There are different levels in which we can operate in GST—through our body, mind and heart. All the three paths take us to ‘Shri’.
However, the Rishis followed the path of the heart, as it is a path of complete consonance. In this, our heart comes in consonance with our feelings, our feelings with the mind, mind with the body and body with the soul. To be established in the state of Shri means to be in Complete Consonance with the soul leading to the exalted state of self- realisation.
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