Dr. Pillai:>> My teachings always have been eclectic, and I pick up elements from different
traditions, different methods and incorporate them all.
And I don’t care about whether people are going to ridicule me for being so off-the-wall
sometimes when I talk about rituals, or talk about some mythological characters who look
very funny and weird.
But they all have a great deal of profound meaning and impact on human consciousness.
One thing that I have been doing consistently is the help from the Gods and Goddesses from
different traditions, whether they are from the Egyptian Tradition, or Greek Tradition,
or the Hindu Tradition.
They are all very powerful.
The other day I saw, aa, I heard from someone whom I have introduced to the worship of Sekhmet.
Sekhmet is Kali in the Egyptian Tradition.
And she was able to establish a connection with Sekhmet herself, by just doing, or giving
her a ritual bath, an Abishekam which is sprinkling of milk and orange juice, etc., on the statue
of Sekhmet.
And She came alive and it transformed this life.
So the mythology is that we find in different traditions are not just superstitions, but
have great value and practical use.
The Monkey God is a good example.
You find the Monkey God not only in India, although it is a predominant tradition in
India.
You find the tradition, the Monkey God tradition in China, in Japan, and I was in Egypt, and
in Egypt I found a statue of the Monkey God too.
I was in Memphis, and then I picked up a very rare piece of the Monkey God.
So do these Monkey Gods are alive?
Or are the monkeys themselves are Monkey Gods?
I want you to look at something, some pictures that somebody sent to me.
It’s about a monkey that appeared while a religious discourse was going on by a Swami.
He was talking about Rama and how he was helped by this Monkey God.
And while he was doing that, a monkey jumped, and did things, unbelievable things.
And he went near him and then Blessed him, and picked up his microphone and then went
near a picture of Rama, and was doing funny things.
And I want everybody to reflect on the monkey, and is the monkey Hanuman then, the Monkey
God?
That particular monkey, of course, has been Hanuman.
So one thing that you have to understand is that not all of the monkeys are Hanuman.
But in this case it happened, and you can access his energy through the monkey, definitely.
He belongs to this monkey race and he has a tremendous amount of power.
And I know a person who talks to Hanuman and ahh, his experience, when he told me, was:
“The monkey appears to him in person, but it is not a real monkey, but then an image
of monkey who is alive and who talks to him.
He talks a language that you could not understand, but knows only the meaning, but you cannot
go and grab it; it is like a vision.
His eyes are open, but he cannot go and touch the monkey.
The Gods are the same way too.
They don’t have flesh and blood.
They are kind of like a smoke, or a smokey figure, and you will be able to talk to them,
and particularly this Hanuman which is the Monkey God is tremendously powerful.
And it’s important that a proper knowledge of the Monkey God is necessary in order to
establish a connection with him.
So I have given instructions to the Pillai Center Priests in India, that this is the
Mantra that you should use, and this is how we can bring maximum presence of Hanuman for
those who are sponsoring rituals through AstroVed or through Pillai Center.
So we are including the pictures of Hanuman appearing before this Saint, ummm, and they
are amazing.
I want you to take advantage of the power of Hanuman to do impossible things.
He is often called a “Asathya Sada Swami” which means: “one who can do the impossible”.
So we have created a ritual to Hanuman, especially for those who are facing a very difficult
situation and unable to resolve the problem on a human level, but at that point, Hanuman
is very powerful.
That’s why I teach the worship of the archetypes, the Gods and Goddesses, and the rituals that
go along with them.
That is more powerful than simply sitting and meditating, and having a deep spiritual
experience, but then, if you want to have things to get done, then you have to go to
these Archetypes.