Spiritual practice and Lord Sree Hanuman (Maruti)   

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Spiritual practice of a seeker* and its connection with Lord Sree Hanuman (Maruti)

2.1 Chanting (Naamjap) 

2.2 The Company of Truth (Satsang)

2.3 Service to the Truth (Satsevaa)

2.4 Spiritual Love (Preetee)

2.5 Following righteousness (Dharmaacharan)

2.6 Establishment of the divine kingdom

3. Qualities of Lord Sree Hanuman (Maruti)

3.1 Intense faith in the chant

3.2 Not getting attached to the manifest form

3.3 Strict follower of abstinence

3.4 Making prayers without any worldly expectations

3.5 Free from attachment

3.6 Performing fight while chanting

3.7 Not having any doubts 

3.8 Having a servant-like attitude 

3.9 Performing activities which are beyond knowledge 

3.10 Performing devotion which is beyond knowledge

3.11 Usage of brahma tej and kshaatra tej as per necessity 

4. Incidents from Lord Sree Hanuman's life and their purpose 

5. Rangoli (colour and shape) emitting Lord Sree Hanuman's (Maruti) principle

1. Introduction 

Lord Sree Hanuman (Maruti) has intense desire to attain Sree Rama. This means attaining His grace. The same desire is present in every human's heart in the form of God-Realisation in a manifest or unmanifest form. The manifest intense desire is similar to Lord Sree Hanuman's (Maruti's) form. Thus Maruti is subtly present in every person's heart. Let us see how the spiritual practice of a seeker is analogous to Lord Sree Hanuman, qualities of Lord Sree Hanuman and incidents from Lord Sree Hanuman's life and their purpose.

2. Spiritual practice of a seeker and its connection with Lord Sree Hanuman (Maruti)

2.1 Chanting (Naamjap)

Maruti, who is present in the subconscious mind, gives thoughts to the embodied soul's mind regarding chanting Sree Rama's chant and about spiritual practice.

2.2. The Company of Truth (Satsang)

Maruti has an intense desire to meet God. Maruti, who is very eager to meet Sree Rama, loses awareness of the body when the Ramayan is being recited or in the search for devotees of Sree Rama. Similarly when Maruti, who is present in the subconscious mind, develops an intense desire to meet God then such an embodied soul also develops an intense desire for meeting God or Guru. Such an embodied soul may not have a vision of Guru or God but starts feeling the need to attend satsangs and then starts attending them.

2.3  Service to the Truth (Satsevaa)

Maruti, who is present in the subconscious mind, feels intense love for God and thus He is constantly engrossed in the service (sevaa) of God. In such an embodied soul, the service attitude (sevaa-bhaav) is manifested at every moment. When any embodied soul has an intense desire for God's love then Maruti graces him. 

2.4 Spiritual Love (Preetee)

Maruti sees God in everything, that is, He gets a vision of Sree Rama in everyone, due to His intense love for God. He performs sevaa with an attitude that everyone is a form of Sree Rama. As a result, by serving everyone He is serving Sree Rama's expansive form, with devotion. When the embodied soul develops an intense desire to meet God, a desire which is more than the desire to survive, then he becomes like the Chaatak bird (who only drinks the purest rain water or goes thirsty). Like Maruti, he also starts seeing God in everything and starts feeling preetee for everyone.

2.5 Following Righteousness (Dharmaacharan)

Maruti performs every action, at every moment, with devotion and follows righteousness. Thus Sree Ram's energy gets activated automatically when necessary. As a result of the energy of Dharma, evildoers experience distress in the presence of Maruti. The reason behind worshipping Maruti (who has attained energy through following righteousness) is to attain the energy of Dharma by being devoted like Him. The embodied soul that starts worshipping and being devoted at every moment, like Maruti, also gets the energy of Dharma and devotion. As a result of this energy, the embodied soul can face all kinds of attacks in the gross and the subtle. In the presence of Maruti, destroyer energy and chaitanya are emitted from Him. They have an effect on all kinds of distressing energies in paataal and bhuvalok, and their energy reduces.

2.6 Establishment of the divine kingdom

When an embodied soul's devotion increases, a divine kingdom is established in his heart. Such an embodied soul can then establish a divine kingdom externally also. We have to activate the Maruti within us by intensifying our spiritual practice. Only then can we establish a divine kingdom, internally and externally.

3. Qualities of Lord Sree Hanuman (Maruti)

3.1 Intense faith in the chant

Sree Hanuman had intense faith that the chant does everything. To obey Sage Vishwamitra's order, Sree Ram had to conduct a battle with Sree Hanuman. He targeted Sree Hanuman and sent many arrows towards Him. Sree Hanuman kept chanting Sree Ram's name continuously during this. Due to His devotion towards Sree Ram's chant, Sree Hanuman was not hurt even when Sree Rams arrows sped towards Him. Also He crossed the sea and reached Sri Lanka just due to His intense faith in the chant.

3.2 Not getting attached to the manifest form

Sree Hanuman has more unmanifest (nirgun) principle then manifest (sagun) principle. He is loyal to the principle and not to the person. Thus He performed sevaa given by Sree Krushna with complete faith.

3.3 Strict follower of abstinence

Sree Hanuman is a strict follower of abstinence from sexual commerce with women, for the whole term of His life.

3.4 Making prayers without any worldly expectations

Sree Ram gifted Angad with prince-hood and gave kingdoms to Sugriv and Vibhishan. He also gave valuable presents to many other people but did not give anything to Sree Hanuman. When Sree Ram offered a boon to Sree Hanuman, He prayed to Sree Ram, 'O Lord, please give me a place at Your feet. Let Your presence be in my heart at every moment. Let me constantly get opportunities to serve You.' This shows us that Sree Hanuman does not have any worldly expectations.

3.5 Free from attachment

Sree Hanuman sacrificed wealth, respect, physical comforts, women, a kingdom, etc. He wants only God. When the Goddess Sita gifted Him with a golden necklace, He broke that necklace saying, 'these beads do not contain Sree Ram.' He wants only Sree Ram.

3.6 Performing fight while chanting

3.7 Not having any doubts

3.8 Having a servant-like attitude

3.9 Performing activities which are  beyond knowledge

3.10 Performing devotion which is beyond knowledge

3.11 Usage of braahma tej and kshaatra tej as per necessity

Sree Hanuman wears janve (a sacred thread which is worn by priests), which is a symbol of braahma tej. Sree Hanuman has the ability to destroy as He is an incarnation of Lord Shiva. As He worships Lord Sree Vishnu He has Vishnu (saviour) principle as well. Thus He has both destroyer and saviour principles. So during a battle, as per necessity, He utilises braahma tej and kshaatra tej. At the time of the battle between Kauravs and Pandavs, Sree Krushna asked Sree Hanuman to sit on top of Arjun's chariot. Thus when there were any attacks of arrows or other weapons on Arjun's chariot or on Arjun himself, Sree Hanuman destroyed those arrows and weapons in the air, before they reached their target.

4. Incidents from Lord Hanuman's life and their purpose

5. Rangoli (colour and shape) emitting Lord Hanuman's (Maruti) principle

Maruti's colour is a specific shade of orange (shendari). The figure below attracts the Maruti principle. While drawing the rangoli if the symbol below is utilised more, then one gets more benefit of Sree Maruti's principle. Coloured rangoli can attract 20% of the divine principle out of 30% (which is the maximum capacity to attract the divine principle in a rangoli) if a specific colour (which attracts the maximum divine principle) is used to fill the shape. If the rangoli is drawn by an embodied soul having spiritual emotion (bhaav) then it can attract up to the full 30%. So an embodied soul who does not have bhaav can also get the benefit of drawing a rangoli by just filling in the colour. When the rangoli is not filled with colours but the spiritual emotion (bhaav) of the doer is more than 60%* then the divine principle gets attracted to the shape, even in the absence of  colour. In this case the divine principle is attracted based on the shape of the outline. Whereas in the case of an embodied soul whose bhaav is more than 80%, any divine principle gets attracted towards the shape of any rangoli based on the bhaav of the doer.

* Based on the divine knowledge received by some seekers doing saadhanaa as per Gurukrupaayoga.
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**Ref: Spiritual Science Research Foundation - Levels of spiritual evolvement

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