The Prosperity "Rules,"  

(of the Universe)

Money is a metaphor. It represents units of energy. The transition from the Piscean Age to the Aquarian Age means we will have more success when we place our trust in the ways in which the Universe works rather than ways in which the world works. We've all heard these types of things a thousand times, but in concert with a committed Kundalini Yoga practice, they can become living principles. 

Rule 1. Action at a Distance 

Rule 2. Change is Inevitable  

The Universe is based on movement and change. Get on that dance floor and show us what you got! Patience is important, but if the way we've been doing things has not yielded the results we've been seeking then doing things differently is in order. 

Rule 3. The Reality We Experience is an Extension of Our Minds

Rule 4. What Goes Around Comes Around

Karma is an equal opportunity employer! Even if you were to live in a luxury high rise and have everything you needed delivered to you, karma would find a way past even the most zealous doorman! We have no recourse to be stay accountable. Karmically speaking, we can't receive what we haven't given.  

Rule 5. Everything Contains Its Opposite

Rule 6. Everything Is Energy

Rule 7. Love Saves the Day! 

Rule 8. Give it Time 

Rule 9. Count Your Blessings 

Rule 10. All Things Come from God and All Things Go to God 

A Parable

A Prosperity Story

In 1969, Yogi Bhajan was just starting to teach in Los Angeles. One of his very first students, set up a lecture at the Asian Cultural Society. It was very successful and they walked away with a paper bag containing $1200 ($7,500 in today's money!) in donations. While stopped at a red light a homeless man came up to the car and asked for a donation of his own. Yogi Bhajan handed him the bag of money. The woman who had set up the lecture was beside herself. "Do you know how much money was in that bag?" she exclaimed. Yogi Bhajan said, 'I didn't give that money to that one individual, I gave it to the Universe. From this day on there will always be ample resources to fulfill every facet of my mission.' What he was saying was that when you put your faith in Infinity, Infinity will always provide. One of the most powerful Spiritual methods for prosperity is tithing. That's means to give a portion of one's income to a good cause. It's one of the most powerful ways of creating a relationship with the Universe, and to liberate yourself from a one-dimensional mindset around money.   

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Getting Out of Your Head and Into Your Summer! 

Dear Ravi and Ana! I just wanted to tell you a bit about my story and ask for some advice for my yoga practice. Firstly, thank you so much for your dvds! I have most of them and I thank you for making them so accessible and for 'all levels'!

I wanted to ask you for some advice for a new yoga routine to begin

this summer! My main challenge seems to be that I am very much in my head and find it difficult to listen to my feelings and understand

them, and I'm not very confident around other people. I do a dvd nearly every morning, and now, maybe once a fortnight, I can even do all of cardio stretch and strengthen! I walk maybe 3 hours a week, but KY is my main form of exercise. I want to transform from being what to me is 'OK' to who I know I really am.

Please can you advise me on a routine? And what to do if some morningsI feel tired (I find it hard to tell if it's resistance because I'm

scared of feelings coming up or if it's my body)? And how to cope with

feelings?! Sending you lots of love!

Thanks for writing and congratulations on your many life breakthroughs! We suggest that you practice try our Solar Power and Kundalini Yoga Transformer DVD's two times per week each (opening the Solar Plexus helps get us out of thinking mode and into living and feeling mode). The Kundalini Yoga Transformer will help to resolve the internal issues which block that. On the other days, alternate among our other DVD's. We also suggest that you do a meditation for 1000 days (not a typo!) for at least 31 min. per day (62 is even better). We suggest the So Darshan Chakra Kriya Mediation which you can read about under "S," on the A-Z Health Archive on www.raviana.com.  

It is very possible that "feeling "tired," is masking resistance to "feelings." If doing So Darhan Chakra Kriya feels at times too emotionally cathartic, then we recommend doing the Sa-Ta-Na-Ma Meditation which is taught on Yoga Quick Fixes and Yoga House Call. Then go back to So Darshan when you feel so inspired. While you are doing both the Sa-Ta-Na-Ma Meditation or So Darshan, feel your feelings (both from the past, and what's coming up presently). while you are doing it. That is the quickest way to resolve unresolved emotions. Also, sometimes in the change of season, our glands can use a boost. Our Fat Free Yoga DVD is a powerful workout for the glands (and everything else!). Please keep us posted! We with you joy, health, and abundant blessings! 

                        A "Baby" State of Mind

Hello Ana, Ravi, I am an avid reader of your newsletter, always amazed at how wise and sound your advice is. I have been doing KY with your DVD's for more than 3 years, and am considering becoming a teacher. I am happily married, with a 16-month old daughter, and we are expecting another baby soon. My story is a bit particular: I am unable to carry a child because of an adenomyosis condition. I was able to produce good eggs, to the awe of my fertility doctor, thanks to KY, and most particularly, to your Yoga Beauty Body DVD (I have spread the good word about this DVD). My husband and I have been blessed to find he perfect surrogate mother for us. She carried my daughter, and is carrying my new baby as well. My daughter is a happy baby, and I strongly believe that my surrogate mother can take credit for it, because of all that love that she managed to be surrounded with while expecting. I used to have a happy mind too, without reservation and ulterior motive, always laughing, trying to be there for people, and compassionate. I am now 39, and very conscious of the fact that, slowly, a side of me have become bitter, angry, cynical. I am not always like that, but this is like a system of defense my mind has gradually built in, and which is unfortunately often taking over, as if it were a reflex. I am for that state of mind where I could start over from what I used to be, as a child. This has become a stronger urge as my daughter is growing up, and I am afraid I may carry over bad "waves" to her. I want my children to always be happy, to be warriors, and to always feel blissful. I am seeking for advice and guidance. When I see you, Ana, with that beautiful, white aura that transcends the screen, I know that I want to feel that way, and most importantly, I know that I want to give my daughters all the keys to have peaceful and prosperous lives. Is this something that you feel possible to attain? Thank you for reading me, and for any advice that you could give me :-)

Thanks for writing and for your very thoughtful question. You're correct in your sense that a "baby," state of mind, or what is called "Beginners," mind and is a positive thing to emulate. What you are going through is an important passage of life which actually leads to an expanded self-concept. Everything contains its opposite and in the process of coming down to earth, you are also expanding in new and exciting ways. The fact that you are aware of this process and want to stay on top of it is very commendable. We feel that you will get back to your happy, baby state of mind and feel more joyful than ever because now this state is "embodied." We suggest that  you practice a meditation for 1000 days (not a typo), for 31 min. per day. A 1000 day practice is called a "Master Meditation," and is considered a very powerful attainment and is the perfect thing when one is transitioning to the next plateau in their one's Spiritual growth.We recommend Ganpati Kriya. You can read about it under "G," on the A-Z Health Archive: http://raviana.com/faq_164.html 

We have titled that: Meditation to Make the Impossible Possible (We're not inferring that your situation is an impossible one!)  That meditation has many varied and wonderful applications.

At about age 36, according to yoga, our pituitary glands start secreting in new ways. The pituitary and its associate chakra, the Third Eye, represent life radar. What occurs at age 36 is that it (the pituitary, seat of Awareness) starts apprising us of our mortality. What is meant to happen is that we are on schediule to start getting serious about our inner lives. Many people react in the exact opposite and have a mid-life crisis right on cue. What it is meant for us to do is to go forward into Spirit with no regrets.  

There is an important archetype called the Puer Aeternus. It means the eternal child. Most people in our culture defer the responsibilities of adulthood as long as possible and to varying degrees set up their lives in a way which allows them to float above life, resisting true emodiment. Living in that space in truly magical, but the longer we stay up there, the harder the subsequent crash will be when we come to earth, and everyone has to come to earth eventually (or earth will come to us!). When that happens it is common to feel that we've lost our joie de vivre and a certain cynicism creeps into our being, much as you describe. The antidote is to A) understand the process and have compassion for ourselves B) really commit to the things we love the most. C) embrace a Spiritual practice. 

Sometimes the emotions you described can be the result of a sublimated emotion which in the context of our lives are inconvenient to express. Practicing So Darshan Chakra Kriya can be very helpful in this regard. Those kinds of feelings can also be the result of a liver imbalance. We also recommend our Yoga Cleanse DVD which helps to detox the liver. Overall, we recommend the Kundalini Yoga Transformer DVD which has a powerful "rebirthing," component.

Overall, it is definitely possible to have a peaceful, prosperous life. What the yogis have been saying for thousands of years is that is what is meant for us. More often than not, what gets in the way is our own minds. Kundalini Yoga is designed to help us be healthy, happy, and fulfilled. The more we do it, the more it does that for us. Things can't be on the upswing all of the time, but through a committed Spiritual practice real happiness will become a definite trend! We wish you joy, health, and abundant blessings! 

                           High End or Low End?  

I'm trying to make a decision at work regarding transferring to another dept. I'm not sure if it would be the right or smart thing for me to do. I am confused and need guidance. I was wonder- ing if a certain practice would help me see the proper way to go. I work in cosmetic sales and right now I'm at a Counter that is relatively inexpensive....therefore, we are very busy with peeps watching their money during this time of economical stress. I seem to butt heads with my boss at this current job. I might have the opportunity to move into a couple luxury lines (that are a lot more expensive - and currently not doing as well as the Counter I'm at).

I generally wouldn't have this much trouble deciding, but since my job is very stressful in that I have to sell so much per hour to keep my job, I need to make the correct decision, whether it be staying where I'm at and learning to deal with the difficult boss (because the business is there) or moving in to another line that is not doing as well financially in hopes of being able to build it..etc.

                Kundalini Power Prosperity Mantra 

Har Har Har Har Gobinday
Har Har Har Har Mukunday
Har Har Har Har Udaray
Har Har Har Har Uparay
Har Har Har Har Hariang
Har Har Har Har Kariang
Har Har Har Har Nirnamay
Har Har Har Har Akamay

When you chant "Har," your mouth is open as if in a 3/4 yawn. Don't move your lips, just your tongue. Also, pull you navel in towards the spine on each Har. Feel Har resonate at the Navel and the additional sounds at the sternum. Your eyes are 1/10 open, looking down and in towards the tip of the nose. Try chanting this mantra for 11-31 min.   

This mantra prompts our mental, emotional, and Spiritual aspects to unify and expand. It makes us one with Everything. It expresses the eight facets of Infinity. Gobinday: Sustainer. Mukunday: LIberator. Udharay: Enlightener. Aparay: Infinite. Hariang: Destroyer. Kariang:Creator. Nirnamay: Beyond Name. Akamay: Desireless. Har is a Shakti Yoga (power) mantra,  the creative energy of Infinity. The four repetitions of Har empower us through all dimensions and give us the means to dissolve the barriers of the past. Yogi Bhajan cited this as the ultimate prosperity mantra. We feel that it is important to point out that chanting a mantra is not a magic pill for prosperity. What mantras can do is to plant seeds in the Universe which our subsequent actions cause to blossom. Mantras also clear the mental barriers we've constructed and generate new internal paradigms for success.