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To elaborate on what Shri Visu has mentioned..... the rationale would cover
the following aspects :

a. Under normal circumstances, ordinary mortals like all of us function
with the 5 senses (touch, smell, sight, hearing and taste). However, the
scope and range of our senses is very limited. For example we cannot see
like x-rays. X-ray can see thru your skin and look at your bones, but with
ordinary eyes you and me cannot even think of such a feat. Similarly below
and above certain range of decibels/cycles/frequency the normal human ear
cannot hear things. Bats use ultrasonic sound and are blind but we humans
cannot achieve this.

b. what follows from (a) is there are frequencies, wavelengths, levels
higher and lower than those ordinarily percieved by the 5 senses. These can
be termed as super normal, sub-normal, abnormal levels. At these levels
there are beings, activity, creation/dissolution and interactions. It is an
entirely different world.

This email can be read by you because what is written millions of miles
away is converted into invisible electrnoic symbols and travels by air
(which again cannot be percieved by our ordinary senses) and somehow gets
into your computer and finally gets converted into words back. The entire
operation is invisible, but it happens nevertheless.

c. Whenever we pray, meditate and involve in all spiritual (look at the
word spiritual, it means connected with the spirit, which automatically
means and implies that the subject cannot be percieved and felt by the
ordinary 5 senses and is beyond these) activity, then we are attempting to
connect, communicate with such sub-normal, abnormal, super normal levels.

d. What happens to an astronaut after he returns to earth from his sojourn
to the planets/stars ? He is quarantined for sometime/days. Why? Because
the scientists (mortals etc.) despite so much technical advances, so much
knowledge still nurse a 0.000001% doubt whether the astronaut might be
carrying some alien particle harmful once it is released on earth. This is
a western form of "Acharam / Mati", though they call it in polished fashion
as "Quarantine".

Visitors to Australia and New Zealand might be familiar with the treatment
at airport/points of entry in these countries. They are very strict. Dust
/mud caked in your shoe bottom is enough to warrant "deportation or
quarantine or even penalised....recently our cricket stars were fined in
Wellington for having this dirt on their shoe!!!!

e. By the same reasoning, what do you do when you go for an job interview,
or an important conference or occasion like an marriage? For all such
occasiions be it marriage, interview, party, conference, meeting your first
unconscious act is to be clean at least physically. You wear the best
clothes, put the best perfume, after shave, powder and oil. Shoes are
polished/Washed ? Why ? because the occasion demands it. It is something
away from the normal routine. There is a speciality treatment which our
minds are trained automatically to address and act.

f. Similarly when you try to visit temple /God, pray etc. is it not a
special occasion? Will you dare to meet the Chief Executive of your
company or the Principal of your college in unkempt hair, unshaved and
wearing crumpled clothes? And the DIVYA DAMPATHIS are the Chief Executives
for the entire mankind!!!!.

The Greatest of the Greatest Maha Vishnu is referred also as "ALANKARA
PRIYAR" (ONE WHO LIKES TO BE ADORNED WHO LIKES GOOD DRESS, CLEANLINESS,
ORDERLINESS, DECORATION,)

And since this involves matter of the special occasion + dealing with
spirit (that which cannot be ordinarily percieved by the sense organs),
this requires special conditions conducive for such an engagement.

g. Now what are these conditions? The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali written over
2000 years back valid even today amplifies the oft repeated Vedic stricture
namely, Souchya i.e. cleanliness. It is a simple one word but loaded with
deeper meaning/interpretations. Cleanliness covers physical, external,
internal and mental. If there is noise you cannot concentrate and noise
therefore even if pleasant, even if it is a holy song is a disturbance; bad
smelling surroundings will affect the concentration; an unpleasant feeling
will disturb and persist when teeth /mouth is washed or if bath is not
taken; an unclean, disorganised physical things will disturb the eyes;

In fact all these disturbing factors will first be percieved by the senses
and then conveyed to the mind which will accordingly react and ultimately
the 'pure' clear', silent, empty state will not be obtained and this in
turn will be an hinderence to our attempt to establish contact with the
spiritual plane.

h) For a image to be clear, both the sending TV station and the receiving
TV set has to be fine tuned to a mathematical precision. Both should be
without impurity, dust. In between as the signals are travelling there
should not be great natural disturbances like storm, wind, thunder etc.
Many times we must have experienced during a TV show sudden waves on the
screen. What is this? Nothing but external disturbance which impacts the
signals and finally the quality of picture we see.

In the same manner, the human receiver with normal senses should move (fold
away- mati) him/herself away from disturbances so that the senses can
receive super normal,abnormal,sub normal signals from the spiritual plane.

This is what meditation is all about. What is the end result after the
contact is done and finished? A sense of calmness, peaceful, restful,
relaxed mental, body and breathing conditions. One feels refreshed and
capable of doing things creatively, effectively.

i. "Acharam/Mati" are therefore, as Shri Visu has rightly pointed out
"fold/retreat, moving away" i.e.a condition fit for spiritual pursuits to
be established. Otherwise the pursuit will be unsuccessful and may land us
in trouble.

j. Now let us have a closer look at some of the common "Mati/Acharam"
features. All these strictures are conditions where impurities are either
created, discharged or made to remain static.

Created Static
discharged/destroyed

leftover food yeast/bacteria freshness
fungus growth, foul
smell; fermentation


Haircut possible infectious
condition as we are
body parts /cells dead cells
in touch with the public
saloon/implements/
barber


Menstruation Mental inconvenience dead cells
possible unhygenic
conditions

Child birth labour pains dead cells
possible unhygenic
conditions


Pungent /aromatic enhanced salivation; Satvic
tendencies
food like onions Desire, enhanced calmness
garlic etc. activity


In all these cases, you will see there is constant creation and
destruction. The static mode is generally not present. And Satva is the
sign of static being. Satva incidentally is symbolised by "Maha Vishnu"
i.e. sustainer and maintainer. When there is destruction and creation
taking place then there is no room for receiptivity or perfectness of Satva
tendency which is why the receiver becomes incapable of receiving the
sender(spirit's) impressions (refer h above)

And what is our purpose for engaging ourselves in the Puja, prayer etc. ?
If we are mentally, physically, psychologically, emotionally not fit, then
how can we receive the blessings or convey our prayers. There is
disturbence all of which cannot be seen but which exist and which cannot be
disproved also.

Hope one has managed to give some insight into this controversial topic




Visu9@xxxx 
To: s.ramachandran@xxxx, 
12/31/02 06:42 SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, japa78@xxxx 
PM cc: 
Subject: Re: [SriRangaSri] from mukund 





/namastE Shri Mukund.

I think we can get a better understanding of /acAram and /maTi if we try to
capture the basic ideas behind it. One way to do this is to look at the
meaning of these words. What do these words mean? Are there English
equivalents or are these ideas unique to us?

Let me attempt by beginning with the word /maTi.

A relevant meaning for /maTi is "retreat" or "withdrawal". The word comes
from /maTittal --- to fold. We fold a paper; that is /maTittal. What
happens? The full-size has become half-size. The paper has been withdrawn
from its full use.

Retreat is a religious idea seeking withdrawal from the world to be in
unuion with God for a few minutes or a few days. Catholics practice /maTi,
when they enter into retreat every year --- even children. No talk for most
of the day. Only reading.

The word /maTi has negative use too! You must withdraw of course routinely,
not for ever! When you do that you are a /maTayan, one who has separated
himself or hesrelf from reality of the world. He or she has built an
isoalted world good only for hin or her. That is /maTayan. A very god
example is given by /maHA/kavi subramanya bhAratiyAr. /mAtar tammai iZivu
ceyyun maTamaiyaik koZuttuvOm. That is a stupid isolation of women from
public life until Gandhiji came.

There is a pleasnat use of the word /maTi. Women are iften bashful. Let a
boy of 16 0r 16 tell a little girl of 14 how pretty she is. She is going to
fold. She is a /maTantai. A /maTantai is a woman slim enough to be able to
fold! (Sorry, not putting down others; I cannot change the meaning of
words!).

I hope it is clear to you that /maTi in the sense of "retreat" is good for
all of us. What we need to do is to get expand the current concept of /maTi
to one where people reamin in "retreat camps" For example, /gItai maTi will
be an occasion for people to fold into the /gItA.

/vantanam.

Visu








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