Speech as a source of energy and material well-being

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

And this applies not only to spiritual people, but also to those who want to succeed financially. Speaking and listening skills are taken very seriously in all business schools. Even in the criminal world, in order to rise in the gangster hierarchy, you need to be able to control the language. There they very much realized they quote the Buddha's saying that a word can kill a person.

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

And the Word was made flesh …"

~ Gospel of John 1: 1; 1:14

In Buddhist psychology, it is said that speech is the main source of energy loss. The Christian religion teaches: "It doesn't matter what goes into a person's mouth, the main thing is what comes out." Some people use this expression to justify their eating style, which in many ways resembles the pig's "eat what you want and what you see."

Many ascetics and saints went to secluded places, so that nothing would induce them to participate in empty conversations. In the Vedas, empty talk is called prajalpa. And it is she who is one of the main obstacles to spiritual and material progress. We give the first assessment to a person by the way he speaks. Speech defines a person.

Almost any person who is interested in yoga, oriental psychology and philosophy knows the name of the sage Patanjali and his monumental work on yoga - "Yoga Sutras". But few people know that, first of all, he wrote equally outstanding works on speech and medicine: "Patanjala-bhashya" and "Charaka", respectively. Patanjala Bhashya, being a commentary on Panini grammar, teaches how to speak correctly and how to structure your speech correctly.

There is a close connection between mind and speech, mind and body, mind and soul. A healthy body, healthy mind and healthy speech create a harmonious personality. Modern research has shown that speech errors are not accidental. They have a deep connection with mental development. Stuttering and stuttering in speech occurs when there is a serious emotional disturbance. Almost all diseases are psychosomatic in nature.

Every person striving for perfection should become, first, a doctor who heals his body; secondly, a grammar specialist who monitors his speech; thirdly, a philosopher who purifies his consciousness and comprehends the Absolute Truth. In the life of such a person there can be no room for physical ailments, indifference to self-knowledge and for disorderly speech. It is such a person that the sage Patanjali called a yogi. And no matter what kind of yoga, no matter what kind of spiritual practice a person does, all of the above is fully applicable to him.

Health and material well-being depend on speech

And this applies not only to spiritual people, but also to those who want to succeed financially. Speaking and listening skills are taken very seriously in all business schools. Even in the criminal world, in order to rise in the gangster hierarchy, you need to be able to control the language. There they very much realized they quote the Buddha's saying that a word can kill a person.

Three minutes of anger can destroy a ten-year friendship. Words strongly define our karma. You can engage in spiritual development, charitable activities for ten years, but by insulting a great personality, you can lose everything at all levels and degrade into lower forms of life. Where does it come from? From insults.

Vedic astrology says that the shadow planet Ketu is responsible for offenses. Ketu is a planet that responds quickly, often instantly. Ketu also gives release. But in the negative aspect, She punishes for insults and disrespectful speech, quickly depriving a person of everything that he has achieved spiritually and materially.

In the Vedic civilization, every person was taught to be very careful about their speech. Until a person speaks, it is difficult to recognize him. You can tell a fool from a sage when he speaks. Speech has a very strong energy. Specialists with subtle vision say that people who use obscenities, speak rudely and offensively, in a certain place of the subtle body immediately get a black spot, which in a year or two can develop into a cancerous tumor.

Speech is a manifestation of vitality

The most important thing for which the language is intended for us is reading prayers, mantras and discussing topics that bring us closer to the Divine. You can also, as necessary, discuss practical matters, communicate with loved ones. But, most importantly, do not overdo it. Ayurveda says that speech is a manifestation of prana. Prana is life force, universal energy. The more prana, the more healthy, successful, charismatic and harmonious a person is.

So, first of all, prana is spent when a person speaks. Especially when someone criticizes, condemns, makes claims, swears. According to statistics, 90% of all fights happen because we say bad things about someone.

The most successful people are those who speak pleasantly and are able to control their speech. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that austerity of speech consists in the ability to speak the truth in pleasant words. People who speak rudely occupy the last places in all hierarchies. This also applies to countries in general.

Please note that countries with a high culture of speech are more successful - Japan, Germany, and indeed all the states that are part of the Big Eight. Although there is now a cultural degeneration, including the degradation of the culture of speech. And this affects both the economy and spiritual life in general. In the East, a person who simply cannot control his speech is considered very primitive, although he may be a professor in the West.

Karma is determined by our speech

It is important to remember that if we criticize someone, then we take on negative karma and bad qualities of this person's character. This is how the law of karma works. And we also take the qualities of the person we are praising. Therefore, the Vedas urge to always talk about God and the saints and praise them. This is the easiest way to attain divine qualities. That is, if you want to acquire some qualities, you just need to read about some saint who possesses them, or discuss his qualities with someone. It has long been noticed that we acquire the qualities of the person we think about and, therefore, talk about.

Therefore, even Western psychologists advise thinking and talking about successful and harmonious people. But the more selfishness and envy we have, the harder it is for us to speak well of someone. We must learn not to criticize anyone. I had one patient who, according to the horoscope, from a certain year should have had a serious illness, but everything was fine with him. I asked him what he started doing this year. He told me that he had made a vow that he would not criticize anyone. And he said that he really noticed that his life had improved, his spiritual practice had reached a new level.

The one who criticizes us gives us his positive karma and takes away our bad. Therefore, in the Vedas it has always been considered that it is good when we are criticized. How does speech work with our karma? The Mahabharata says that if you have planned something, want to do something, do not tell anyone about it. Once you've said it, it's 80% less likely that it will happen, especially if you've shared it with an envious, greedy person. Why do people who speak little and thoughtfully achieve more? They don't waste energy. Another simple rule related to speech is that if we have done something good to someone and boasted of it to others, then at that moment we lose positive karma and all our fruits of piety that we earned by this act. Bouncers accomplish little. Therefore, we should never brag about our achievements, since at this moment we lose all the fruits that we have earned before.

"… Let your left hand not know what your right hand is doing" (Gospel of Matthew 6: 3).

Thoughts define speech

True story: A student approaches the master and asks:

- You advise to live with an open mind. But then the whole mind can fly away, right?

- You just shut your mouth tight. And all will be well.

Thoughts determine speech, so it's important not to think badly of anyone.

The more chaotic thoughts we have in our heads, the more they appear in the language and the more chaotic speech will be. The one who thinks clearly speaks clearly.

There is one more level - to learn to accept criticism. One of the qualities of the mind is that it is capable of justifying itself in any position. The lower the level of the person, the more excuses you hear from him. Even having committed the most heinous crime, such a person justifies himself without blushing. I conducted seminars in prisons, including for especially dangerous criminals, I was very surprised that almost no one considered themselves guilty.

One of the main indicators of a person who is at a high level of development is determined by the fact that he calmly listens to criticism addressed to him.

The rules of intelligent speech

Three Yogis are meditating in the cave. Suddenly they hear some kind of sound made by an animal. One yogi says

- It was a goat.

A year passes. Another yogi replies:

- No, it was a cow.

Another year passes. The third yogi says:

“If you don’t end the argument, I’ll leave you.”

The first rule of reasonable speech is to count to 10 before you say something harsh. This may sound silly. At first, we can hardly count to 3. But on the other hand, if you answer after a short pause, then your answer will be much more reasonable, because the first thing that comes to mind when we are criticized, scolded, is the desire to justify ourselves and respond sharply in response. Therefore, learn to think for 5-10 seconds before answering. Among other things, it will bring down the unnecessary heat of emotions. A person who is engaged in self-realization speaks very little and thoughtfully. I have read in the biographies of some great people that they never responded immediately to accusations and generally tried not to say anything in anger. They postponed the conversation until another day, or in general, until the moment until the passions calmed down. For they knew that as long as anger and irritation affect their speech, the consequences will be sad, and sometimes just destructive..

The second rule of reasonable speech is not to go to extremes. God manifests in little things, and Satan in extremes. One should not make a vow - "I will be dumb like a fish." Especially if by your nature you are a bright extrovert, then this can only harm you. If your psychophysical nature is that you have to talk a lot, so speak so that you and those around you will benefit from it. Therefore, be open and benevolent, and most importantly, live consciously.

It is important to remember that our level is determined by small, insignificant actions - how we reacted to rudeness in the store, what emotions start to overwhelm us when we are "undeservedly" criticized, etc.

Three levels of speech

1. A person at a high spiritual level, in goodness, to whom something bad is said about someone, or he saw or heard something desecrating, may even physically become ill. He may have the feeling that he has been physically doused with mud. Such a person always speaks the truth in pleasant words.

Consciously speaks every word, and every word brings harmony to this world.

There is a lot of harmless humor in speech, often over oneself.

Such people are almost always healthy and happy. Only at first it may be difficult to restrain yourself from stupid statements or because of being drawn into a stupid conversation.

2. People in passion are very sensitive to criticism, they with great pleasure can talk for hours about topics related to sex, money, economic prosperity, politics, discussion of shopping, tell good things about themselves, sarcastically discuss someone, etc. They usually speak quickly.

Humor is usually vulgar, associated with sex.

Usually at the beginning of a conversation, they feel great satisfaction and enthusiasm, but after such conversations, devastation and disgust. And the higher the level of consciousness, the stronger this feeling. This style of speech leads to degradation at all levels.

3. Those who are in ignorance are distinguished by the fact that their speech is full of insults, claims, condemnations, threats, obscene words, etc. All words are saturated with anger and hatred. When such a person opens his mouth, it feels like the room is filled with an unpleasant odor. Therefore, if such a person is told something good about someone, he can get sick. Such people, as a rule, themselves consciously or not consciously provoke others, trying to evoke in them the energy of anger, irritation, resentment, envy, since they are tuned in to this wave and feed on these lower destructive emotions.

Their humor is "black", full of mockery and joy of someone else's grief.

They are in illusion from start to finish. The Universe heals such people with heavy blows of fate and illnesses. They quickly develop mental illness. You can't even be close to them, let alone communicate.

It is usually rare to find a person who is constantly on only one level. Mixed types are more common, or the type of person can change quite quickly.

It depends very much on:

the society that we choose - at work, rest. For example, starting to communicate with a passionate person, in a few minutes we may find that we are actively involved in the discussion of politicians. Although 10 minutes ago we did not care about them.

places. For example, in a casino, nightclubs, near beer stalls, a den of drug addicts. discussing spiritual topics is difficult to imagine. If the place is saturated with passion and ignorance, then the speech sounding there will be appropriate.

time. For example, from 21-00 to 02-00 o'clock is the time of ignorance, therefore it is at this time that you want to go to an ignorant place, watch an ignorant film, talk about ignorant, at best, passionate topics. The morning is wiser than the evening - this is folk wisdom. It has long been noticed that what you talked about in the evening, and especially if you made any decisions, you regret it in the morning or at least see it in a different light. Therefore, following a simple rule - never make decisions in the evening and generally speak as little as possible at this time - will make our life much happier and save us from many problems and misfortunes. It is no coincidence that everything in nature is asleep at this time. Have you ever heard the birds singing during this time?

At the end of the week, you can conduct a test - which speech dominated during the week. If in goodness, then it will be easy to see how harmony and happiness enters our life. If passions and especially ignorance, then the natural result will be illness, depression and unhappiness.

Gratitude is the first step to harmony and love.

What can you tell me about life?

Which turned out to be long.

Only with grief do I feel solidarity.

But until my mouth was filled with clay, Only gratitude will be distributed from it.

~ I. Brodsky

An important rule is to get rid of claims. The first step to love is gratitude. In this world, few people are grateful to anyone. Basically, everyone expresses their claims - either in a hidden or explicit form. But it is important to remember that if we do not thank someone, then we begin to criticize, make claims, not always even realizing it. Service is not only some kind of physical help, first of all, it means helping a person to develop the consciousness of God, to give his love, to bring a person closer to the Divine. Everything that we do without love brings only misery and destruction, no matter how noble it looks outwardly.

Teachers teach that every second we either draw close to God or move away from Him. Every situation is a lesson. And we need to thank God for every situation sent to us. The Almighty is all-good and every second He wishes us only good. Every second is dedicated to our learning. As soon as we have complaints, our heart center is blocked. The most frequent complaints are about fate, others, dissatisfaction with oneself and the world. Claims are manifested not only in words, but, first of all, in thoughts, tone, communication style and attitude towards life.

Each situation is given to us so that we work on ourselves. The less harmonious we are, the more tense, the more severe lessons we will learn. But as soon as we have an acceptance of the situation, relaxation occurs and, therefore, this situation will be quickly resolved.

Ayurveda says that you cannot get rid of a disease if you do not accept it. This is the first step to healing and solving any problem - full acceptance within, as the grace of God, this disease and misfortune, and on the external plane you need to exert every effort to resolve it. If we do not accept the situation, then more than 90% of our energy will go to “chewing” it. Our body can cope with any disease. We can also cope with any situation and emerge victorious from it. If we are given some kind of test, then we can endure it. God cannot afford trials. Instead of complaining, we should get used to thanking everyone.

Complaining is the first step to sickness and unhappiness.

You have to track how much gratitude you have and how many claims you have towards others. You will find that we often have more complaints than gratitude. Claims come from the mind and false ego. Any of our claims are destructive in nature, they take our energy and close our heart. True humility is expressed in accepting any situation. Many people understand humility as something ostentatious: if you hit one cheek, turn the other. This concerns the inner state. We accept any gift of fate, whatever it may be. It is advisable to repeat in your mind as often as possible, or even better aloud: "For everything - the love of God." I noticed for a long time that people who repeated this phrase changed their facial expressions, they became softer, the clamps in the body disappeared and in general they became happier and healthier. Try it, it works! If our subconscious mind is attuned to perception, seeing in everything the Higher Will - this will quickly lead us to perfection.

In May 2006, I was invited to a festival in New Vrindavan (USA) to conduct a seminar on astrology. Radhanath Swami, a great teacher from Bombay, told there a story of his disciple's departure. This is a long story, but its meaning is that at the age of 20 this student seriously devoted himself to the spiritual life, until about 40 years old he was celibate. He was very actively involved in the promotion of spiritual knowledge, participation in various charitable projects.

At some point, he decided to get married. He had a beautiful young wife and they had a child. But at that moment, the student fell ill with a severe form of cancer. His spiritual friends arranged the best treatment for him, but nothing helped. Every day his body was more and more destroyed, causing severe physical suffering. But gratitude always came from him. Nobody ever heard from him: “God! Why did you punish me so? I have served You for 20 years with faith and truth, I gave You the best years!"

Nobody heard any complaints from him, only thanks. He thanked the Almighty and the spiritual teachers for the fact that every day the devotees of God came to him and chanted the Holy Names, talked about God and about the saints. He praised God for always taking care of him in the best way. One day Radhanath Swami called him to give him final instructions and to support him. And he was simply shocked that the spiritual master remembered him and gave him the last instructions before leaving.

He told others: "How great is the Teacher, he has so many wonderful students, but he remembers even such insignificant ones as me." Surprisingly, he did not ask for health, although he did everything that the doctors say. He believed that God knows best what he needs. All he asked for was blessings so that in this and the next life he would be given the opportunity to serve unselfishly to the world. And on one of his very last days, Saint Babaji came to Bombay, whom everyone saw only in Vrindavan (one of the holiest places in India).

Everyone knew that he never left Vrindavan and no one knows how he knew that this great soul was going to leave the body. He came to be with him in the last days. Until the last second, this devotee of God did nothing but express his gratitude to everyone. And despite the fact that his body was giving him more and more pain, so much love, calmness and light came from him that many came not only to support him, but simply to be in his aura.

But if you go to an ordinary hospital, you will hardly hear words of gratitude, mostly only complaints and reproaches: “Why did God send me this? Why is He so unfair, because I am so good! And if a person observed at least some laws of piety and the rules of the local church, then there will be no end to indignation … And it is not necessary to go to the hospital, look around, and you will hear mainly complaints and reproaches: to the government, to the environment, to relatives and friends, to service workers, etc.

Almost everyone in our time believes that everyone, everyone owes them. And if someone does at least something good to another, then the conviction is born inside that this person owes him the grave, well, at least, he must repay the same.

And we, as always, have a choice: either to join the general mass of people and dive into the hellish life of reproaches and claims and live with a closed heart, or get used to seeing the grace of God in everything and instead of the question "For what?" ask the question "Why do I need this?" Get used to opening your mouth only for THANKS, realizing that we can feel bliss only by selflessly and secretly giving. Love can only be felt by giving. And we have been given such vast opportunities in this world, in our time … Already only for this one can constantly thank the Almighty. Therefore, let us make a vow to ourselves from today that we will monitor our speech, make Love for God our goal and strive for perfection at all levels.