Giving the Deeksha/Oneness Blessing

Always be aware that you are merely an instrument of the Divine.

Visualize yourself as an empty vessel.  Be in a state of humility, devotion, gratitude, surrender, peace, joy, love.

Do not give blessings if you are in deep suffering, are very ill, or if you have an addiction/habitual pattern with smoking, alcohol or drugs. If you have such an addiction, the focus should be on setting an intent to heal and receiving many blessings, and getting professional help as needed. Refrain from smoking and drinking on days when you will be giving blessings. Dress modestly with shoulders and legs covered.

Before you begin with the blessing, you may ask the recipients to place their feet apart and lean slightly forward so you can stand comfortably while giving the blessing. You may also give the blessing while sitting in a chair with the recipients sitting or kneeling in front of you.

1. Give gratitude to AmmaBhagavan and the divine for the gift of this blessing and phenomenon. Ask the divine to completely fill you with the divine Presence. Feel the Presence in your body and hands. Ask to be a clear vessel for the blessing to move through.

2. Facing the recipient, lightly place your hands with thumbs slightly touching on the top of the recipient's head and ask the Divine to fill the recipient with Divine Grace, healing, and unconditional love or make a similar request from your heart.

3. Feel a connection with the recipient.  If you are aware of a specific need or intent of the recipient, visualize the fulfillment of that need or intent as though it is already done.

4. Feel and express deep gratitude to the Divine for giving the Deeksha to the recipient. At the appropriate time after a minute or two, slowly remove your hands from the recipient's head, bow to the recipient and step back slowly from this sacred space.

Notes:

Intent Deeksha:Blessings may be given to people not in your presence. Visualize them being in front of you and you putting your hands on their head. You may hold your hands out at your side or however you feel is best. If you are giving to a group by intention, imagine them as a unit in 3 dimensional form. You may give blessings to an area of the world or the whole world, even to a map as you wish.

The deeksha blessing can be given to water, plants, food, animals, buildings and inanimate objects. Drinking deeksha-blessed water may be very powerful for healing.

Outside of a blessing event, you may give healing deeksha as appropriate directly touching parts of peoples' bodies where they have discomfort or disease. Visualize the person is well as you give the blessing and make your silent intent to the divine that they are healed.

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Parvathi Padma Dhyana

Notes by Michael Milner

The feminine complement to Chakra Dhyana that grounds and integrates the kundalini energy with the body

Parvathi is the wife of Shiva, a benevolent form of the Supreme Goddess, the Divine Feminine. Padma is Sanskrit for Lotus. Dhyana is Sanskrit for Meditation. Hence we could call this the "Divine Feminine Lotus Meditation". Just as Parvati is the feminine counterpart to Shiva, Parvathi Padma Dhyana completes and provides the Divine Feminine balance to Chakra Dhyana.

This important complement to Chakra Dhyana can be found in the book "Sri Amma Bhagavan Varadeeksha Mala". It grounds the Kundalini energy down through the body, healing, energizing and transforming the body. In addition to laying in Shavasan (that is on our backs with our eyes closed, arms at our sides, palms facing upward) regular practice of Parvathi Padma Dhyana can help us keep the Kundalini and Oneness Blessing energies grounded, balanced and integrated with the physical, emotional and psychological levels of our being.

Parvathi Padma Dhyana

1. After finishing Chakra Dhyana sit with your eyes closed, spine erect but not rigid, in any position that is comfortable for you. (If it feels right, you could touch the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth).

2. Visualize a golden lotus at the Sahasrara (crown of your head), with a stem going down to the Mooladhara Chakra at the perineum (base of your body).

3. As you inhale, visualize a golden liquid flowing up the stem from the Mooladhara towards the lotus in your crown.

4. Hold your breath and visualize the golden energy filling every petal of the lotus.

5. As you exhale feel the energy coursing down through every cell in your body (Feel it flood your Heart Chakra, your lower belly, your hands & your feet).

6. Repeat the cycle at least 7 times.

Michael also recommends this variation: The energy can be exhaled all the way down down through the feet into the earth, down into the core of the planet and out to all the sentient beings living on the earth, turning the entire world golden. Then one would inhale from the earth up through the soles of the feet to the crown (and through the crown into the heavens) and exhale down from the crown through the feet into the earth. This is very powerful, uniting heaven and earth and bringing healing and transformation to the planet and to all living creatures on the earth.

Other alternative breathing for grounding and integration:

So-Ham mantra meditation taught occaisionally by the guides at Oneness University and taught by Yogananda & Muktananda and many other gurus. Inhale on "So" seeing the golden kundalini energy flowing up from root to crown, hold your breath briefly while you see the energy flowing up and out the top of your head mingling with the Cosmic Prana, then exhale on "Ham" as it pours back down over the whole body, FEEL it coursing down through every part of your body body filling it with golden energy. Eventually, So and Ham, inhale & exhale, may merge into OM, breath ceases, and one enters the breathless state of Nirvikalpa Samadhi.

Taoist breathing: Tongue curled, tip touching the center of the hard palate in the roof of the mouth. Inhale feeling the energy flow up the spine through the top of the head, exhale feeling it flow down the front of the body to the lower belly (tantien = sea of elixir).