A Bond that Saves from Bondage

Rakshabandhan, as we know is the festival of brother and sisters a day for maintaining the bond of affection between a brother and his sister through a fond exchange of commitments. This day is meant of restraining our passions by conquering them over; while for sisters in particular this day sisters an opportunity to gin protection fro m their brothers. But in a broader sense this day is for making auspicious resolves, experiencing the blissful vicinity of the Lord and paying obeisance to the rishis.Borthers can only protect our material possessions while the saints and the Gurus not only protect our spiral treasure and sadhana, but also safeguard us against creating by way of teaching us right skill i.e. remaining unattached and unanimous in action. The excellent sadhakas believes in their Guru on the ground of their experience of peace and bliss. Lest the hard earned treasure of spiritual conception should get dissipated or looted by the robbers of lust anger greed, etc the sadhaka seeks protection from the Gurus. The pious festival of Raksha Bandhan also provides us with a chance to remind us of that protection.

This festival is a king of vow to be observed by the young girls and boys of a locality. Once a girls was file with passion at the sight of a neighborhood boy. But being wise she promptly took a thread and tried it on his hand to accept him as her avowed brother. The boy was grateful too, fro he didn’t like the indecent thoughts arising in his mind upon seeing g that unrelated gilts. So he thanked the girls and said,’O sister you have brought me great relief.’

This pious bond of brother ands sister is very much capable of saving g the youth form falling into the dirty abyss of lower passions. The innocent love between a brother and his sister effetely pacifies the passions of just anger while also giving raise to thoughts of equanimity.

This festival also serves as a golden uproar unity to reunite the estranged hearts of society. With the coming of theist festival family discords are saves heart to hart distance is diminished; and the power of enough to bring positives results. Rajahs Bondman teaches us to gives solace and affection to those who need it. Gives protection to your sister if she meds it, and don’t forget to let your mind be absorbed in the Consciousness personified Lord.

The sister should tie the rakhi on her brother’s hand with poi resolves like, May my brother be brilliant ands observe self restraint and rectitude even while leading a householder’s life. May he be equipped with all divine virtues? Through such positive resolves the sister should wish that the divine virtues of he brother may remain ever protected. Then a telepathic resolve of good wishes must also be dispatched for the brothers staying far away.Dunti had arch on the hand of her grandson Abhimanyu then even a whole gang of unscrupulous warriors who went out of third flay to violate all the laid down out of their wad to Villarreal the laid down ethic of war could not kill him until that impregnable shield in the form of that pious thread protected him. However, Abhimanyu was finally killed but not before that sacred thread was cut food. Lewis for us to let out good wishes sheep our near and dear to conquer their passions this festival is the occasion.

While fainting the rakhi make it a point to pray like this “O supreme Lord Pleases grant that my brother friends relatives neighbors and compatriots may have their minds fixed on you. The Brahmins cage their sacred threes ion this day and also resolve to renew their devotion knowledge and detachment. May your life be imbued with an ever new confluence of devotion, knowledge and dispassion. May you cultivate the divine virtues of velour magnanimity faith devotion knowledge and dispassion? May you cultivate the divine virtues of velour magnanimity purity act. In your life.

Then on this day there is a ritual of binding on the right hand of a pregnant woman a cloth bag that is full of rice rains colored in red. The science of physiology holds that on overcome by anxiety and fear develops palpitation. The rice bag fastened on the right hand plays a great role minimizing such problems according to the acupressure therapy. This measure cries the combined powers of both good wishes and acupressure. Make up your mind to serve those who deserve to be protected. On the other whom expect to protect us, while praying: I am going to be engaged in protecting those in mined but O Lord O Guru Deva! Please always protect my spiritual life through your benevolent resolves. In case I happen to sustain a downfallen samovar please make it a point to appear in my dreams and given appropriate instructions thought Your sassing.’ This protective thread enhances your longevity keeps you healthy helps you recover rapidly from some disease or so a driver rapidly form some disease or so and also helps you build character in greater way. When you make a soave after becoming perfectly calm such a resolve happens to originate form the very source of your I and hence is sure to fructify. The gross rakhi is essential in the external world but went it come to ht internal world the relations get naturally established between heart to heart.

When on world with the sense of doer ship on becomes entangled in bondage. A good deed binds on with a gold chain while a bad deed binds on with a chain is after all a chain. Unless and until one gets right understudying, bondage in not eliminated. As and when one comes by the right understanding and becomes firmly established in tore wisdom buy virtue of keeping gin the king company of the sat Guru and true sinus; his accumulated Karmas are destroyed and the new Karmas do not crate any bondage for him.

Those actions which are taken with iteration to belittle someone nurture the ego or satisfy some desire is bound to create bondages. However, if driven by a benevolent resolve one gets engaged in selfless actions and especially during pious festivals divine love and bliss within, attaining Real happiness getting the self effulgence and with the feeling of nourishing on another such acts actually release on form the bondages of past ejections an thus are diving.