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FYI

1. The Bible
• The Bible is the sacred text in Christianity and Judaism. The Bible is divided into two main sections: the Old Testament which is the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament which includes the teachings of Jesus and writings of his disciples.
   
2. The Gospels
• The Gospels are the first four books of the New Testament in the Bible : Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Gospels tell the story about the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
   
3. The Upanishads
• The Upanishads are considered to be the final part of the Vedas, which are the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. Upanishad essentially means to sit near referring to the fact that a student would sit near their Guru as they received spiritual knowledge.

The Bible

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

The Gospels

Man doesn't live by bread alone but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

The Upanishads

Man does not live by Breath alone, but by Him whose WORD gives power to the Breath.

 

The great primordial WORD, the Pranava sound, is known as the AUM (OM) sound, and is nothing more than pure Skakti (energy) in its auditory sense. The scientists know today that each atom has an intelligence. Is it any wonder that we speak of the WORD as Universal Mind?

This vast Infinite Universal Mind is the very intelligence of God that we tap into. By the coupling of the Universal Mind with Prakriti (matter), and the Power of Maya (illusion), the possibility for all manifestated forms has been allowed to take take shape.

These three aspects of God — Shakti, Praktiti and Maya — in the mystic sense and in the non–mystic sense have the same trinity manifestation as Jesus the Son or Christ Consciousness; God the Father or Cosmic Consciousness; and the Holy Ghost or the sound of OM or AMEN.

The Laws which have been set into motion through the intelligence behind creation, we have all manifested form and all the various various seasons. By these same seasons, or cycles, it is given to man to discover exactly what Universal Mind allows him to receive. This is achieved by Grace, the highest of all the subtle Laws. It is a Law that can't be understood through our finite minds. All we can understand, is that which we lay claim to. The old expression, there is nothing new under the sun seems to be more clear in light of the above, as it is all a feeding–in process.

The Word spoken of here is AUM. It is what gives the Life and Soul, to what energy and matter have created. It impregnated man's brain in order to give it the expression of language. In its crudest form language was given birth, until over countless centuries of sojourn on this earth, we have developed it to the degree where we can use this language to measure the infinity of the Cosmos. As consciousness expands through, we tune in to a greater and greater degree of Universal Mind, and by so doing bring ourselves to the point where, we can appreciate the deficiencies of the finite mind, and grasp the vision of uniting with the essence of the WORD.

On so doing, one is then able to transcend time, space and matter and unite with Pure Consciousness itself. That is consciousness without attributes. This state is called the Fourth State — Turiya.

Language has power, position, soul and expression, and it was the great Samkhya Yogis who studied the power of language to such a degree they found a mathematical science in its composition. They discovered also, because of the season of events, man's birth time was also a season with certain attributes, which should be fulfilled accordingly. Because these attributes were stemming from one's innermost nature, and which try desperately to pass through to his mind–brain, the Seers discovered that it was the mathematical imbalance between the birth time and the mathematical formula of his name which caused imbalance. It also thwarted his ability for Spiritual Union or Fulfillment. In other words, his Atman (true SELF) guides him in one direction, while his Ego, (the first personal pronoun) takes him in another. Thus conflict.

As language has a power factor, the Seers discovered this power could be reduced to a mathematical principle in much the same way as Einsteins' Theory of Relativity had been given a mathematical formula. The numbers, or mathematics have no real power in themselves, but are only used for the Symbols of that Power. The ancient Sages also discovered that language has a mathematical position, that is, A preceeds B and C follows B etc. They further discovered that it was the vowels of a language that gave the language Soul and the consonants gave it Expression. They discovered from this that a man's way of thinking and expressing was directly correlated to the name which he accepts as being Himself. If this name was not in harmony with the mathematical symbols of his birthdate, there arose conflict and confusion. Discord was the ultimate result. From this discord the veil of Maya (illusion) blinded the vision of man's real and perfect nature, where he could fulfill his Karma by allowing the harmonizing effects of a balanced name to lead him to his Dharmic (role) life pattern. This science was adopted by the Jewish people in their secret book — the Qabala. It has also been used and misused by the present day numerologists. The science of balancing names to a birthdate has been lost, as has also the reason and motive for changing the name. It is now being used for financial gain rather than for Spiritual Fulfillment.

It is the position of the vowels and consonants of names and not of the sound of them that is important. In the beginning of one's life one is endowed with Instinctive Consciousness; thus the infant suckles by instinctive reflex. This same child has been given a name, but as yet cannot be influenced by it because he has no association with it due to his Instinctive State of Consciousness. Shortly, the baby attains Objective Consciousness where his present and objective association is related to the instinctive and he begins to know his mother as apart from himself, yet still associated with his need for suckling.

By this time, he has been called his name repeatedly, yet he still doesn't associate with it. It is only in that moment, when on hearing his name, he thinks to himself, That's me! that Self–Consciousness or Subjective Consciousness is born, and here the vibration built into the name that he now associates himself with, begins to color and form his personality.

Vibration has always been an influence on us, but it is only in recent times that we have used vibration as a form of torture. Prisoners of war have been tortured with vibrations of sound so low that not only did they not hear them, but they hardly felt them, yet slowly they were driven quite mad — or at least to the brink of such disease that well held secrets were willingly divulged.

Think then what a great role the vibration of your name has to play in forming your personality. You associate yourself with it. You call yourself that name. If asked Who are you? You reply your given the name. When called by your name, you turn your head. You are irrevocably attached to and affected by that name vibration. YOU ARE THE NAME.

It is your name in association with the time you were born, that gives rise to your whole and present personality. It also goes further than that and will indicate whether you are in harmony with yourself and the environment, or in total discord. The art of balancing the name has been lost except to a few. At one time, it was a most guarded secret. Now of course it is becoming more open. The Jewish people always give a new name to their young sons when they come of age. They have lost the art of balance. Various Orders of Monks change their name when they take the monastic vow. Still they know nothing of balancing. Even though the tradition is being carried on, the science of balancing has been lost, and even in this, The Biblical saying, The sins of the Father shall be handed down to each succeeding generation seems to become more clear.

Of all the aids, or Sadhanas, that can be performed by an individual to help him on his way to Spiritual Unfoldment, a harmonized name is the most beneficial.

The most important aspect of this science — after that of balancing the name — is to be able to follow the Cyclic Laws that are occurring all the time. It would be foolish for a gardener to sow his seed out of season, or worse still to reap it before it was time. It's equally as foolish for some people to undertake new ventures when they do, as it is nearly always out of season. Because of an unbalanced name, unrest, disillusionment, and sometimes disaster seem to follow a person throughout his entire lifetime.

The Purusha is trying desperately to have its fulfillment, yet its thwarted by discordant thoughts and actions brought about by the inability of the original thought to bubble up to the surface of Consciousness, only to be misinterpreted by a confused and disoriented mind–brain.

A healthy balanced expansion of your consciousness is what is wanted and NOT some methods, ways, or beliefs that are really beyond your fulfilling them. Too much guilt is incurred this way.

With a harmonized (balanced) name your fulfillment is achieved at the right speed and time FOR YOU. Life is balanced. It is You, the Ego, who will see with the brain's higher intellect that the Purusha must have its necessary experiences so that this Ego stick can churn up the fires of attachment, finally coming to the realization that in fact the very stick that churned the fire, has in the process destroyed itself. The REAL you, the Atman, is then sighted.

Any means, or all means to accomplish this is beneficial, but the most logical way to start is to re–arrange the brain cells through harmonizing (balancing) your name, so that you are able to think and act and express that inner most part of You as you have been destined to do in life.

Yoga then, is a 9 point system of attaining Self–Realization. It is up to You to be guided into one of the nine, so that your inner nature will be fulfilled.

I have used the word God in these articles but I will leave it up to the individual to ascertain the meaning of it, as each person's perception of God can either be unique unto himself or it can be one of conditioning by a Religion or some Spiritual ideal.

The Yogi cares little for these perceptions as he is directly experiencing through Sat–Chit–Ananda, the all pervading Oneness of Param Purusha.

If you want to learn the science of Yantra Yoga so you know how to correctly balance your name with your date of birth, send us an email and we can provide you with Free Lessons.

If you don't want to learn Yantra Yoga but would like to know which names are best for you, go to the Names section to see which names are best for you.

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