I thought this would be a great way for us to stay connected. This is my first blog so be gentle with me. I was inspired by Baba's lecture yesterday and felt moved by the Seed Sound of Shreem and how it can change my life. I certainly need a change that is for sure.
I'm a little tight on time with limited internet access for the next few days so I'm not sure how much I will be able to 'blog' but rest assured that when I can sneak away to a local cafe I will be blogging with you.
I look forwared to 'Shreem'ing with you and taking on this challenge with you.
Love,
Dhana
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Greetings,
ReplyDeleteI have started on Sunday and plan to allocate 1 hr/day...I keep daily journal and will share significant events...
Namaste,
ReplyDeleteAlthough I have not been as disciplined (as of yet) with this challenge; I do have to admit that over the last couple of days when I do sit down quietly and chant the mantra "shreem"; it is an instant download of the energy. Baba truly took the the time and energy to empower us on Saturday with all the tools that we will need and provided the ability to drop out quickly and tap into this energy of shreem...to connect with this energy and more importantly to BE THIS ENERGY.
I know that as the days go by and more individuals participate in this challenge that we will all find the ease in chanting this mantra and we will all see the results and experience the miracles first-hand.
Dhana, thank you for creating this sacred abode that we all may share all of our experiences along with sharing the ability to support one another during this journey.
I look forward to hearing from each of you on the experiences and miracles!!!
Hi, I'm so happy more people are joining in this project. It's percolating in the Shreem Consciousness. I've always recited mantras, but this effort is different. 1) We are doing it as a 41 day initiative, which fuels us with momentum. 2) Baba really zapped us with His Grace!
ReplyDeleteI am tired, energized, expanded & vulnerable at the same time. I sat down at Starbucks to have a quick coffee amidst morning chores just now. I felt like a stranger on a new planet. Part of re-configuring to Shreem consciousness, I'm sure!
Glad to be part of this group and thank you Dhana for setting this up. Also thank you Kristy for providing the Shreem mantra. Listening to Baba's voice chanting Shreem opens another level within me.
ReplyDeleteDAY 5: This morning I disappeared in the golden vibration of 'shreem'. Even as the time goes by since taking a break from the morning chanting session, I can feel the energy of this sound...resonating within me. Today has already become such a powerful and productive day - opening gateways that I never thought was imaginable.
ReplyDeleteContinue to put your mind aside, the miracles are waiting to be embraced.
Thanks Anandhi for beautiful post!
ReplyDeleteI have been experiencing miracles. 1 week ago, my girlfriend had dinner with me. She had on new ruby earrings & a pendant. They were delicious & high-energy stones. I expressed my appreciation of them. Then I said to myself, "If I want them bad enough, the Goddess will give them to me."
Just now my girlfriend called me. She said, "I bought 2 stones for you. Come and choose your own setting for the earrings."
The reason why I desired the rubies in the first place was that they are red, the color of Lakshmi!
Other miracles are happening...will share later.
The only thing I have to do is get out of my own way. Relinquish all worry regarding finances/career (this is a deadly virus propagated by the ego who is only interested in its own survival). Shreem is a new filter to reframe my consciousness.
If I can completely give up the ego-control, I would be gifting the world. That would be true generosity, because the Goddess can emerge! Namaste everyone.
Thank you all for sharing your inspirational experiences. It is my 5th day, and started to chant shreem with Baba's voice today. It has been very, very powerful. I chant shreem every opportunity now, in my car, at home, and also walking sadhanas.
ReplyDeleteI believe the reason for our blissful experiences is that we do this as a group, and we do this with our loving hearts.
Shreem..Shreem..Shreem
Hello Everyone! It's very exciting to see a few more people join the blog each time I log on. Thank you Dhana for setting this up for us. I feel like each of us are like pebbles being tossed into a pool of water. We each cause a ripple that begins to spread outwards!
ReplyDeleteI'm managing to continue 30 minutes in the a.m. and 30 minutes in the p.m. Last night after Grace Light, we chanted together (wih Baba's voice) for 30 minutes and that was truly divine! Chanting in a group raises the vibrations so quickly and with so much power.
Several times during my chanting/meditation I've slipped away. Where I've slipped to I'm not exactly sure, and was I still chanting? Not sure of that either. I seemed to have been having a conversation with someone though for the life of me, I couldn't tell you who!
I burned a cd from the Mp3 download, and when I'm not chanting, the cd is playing in the background. It's very powerful and the entire house is flooded with the vibration of the Goddess.
Fellow Light Seeker, Dinesh, is the person who made it possible for all of us to have the Mp3 download. My part was small, I sent him the video, he worked his magic and turned it into an Mp3 download.
Blessings to All of You! Shreem.....
Hello Everyone! One of the most wonderful things I'm discovering about the Shreem Mantra, is that each time I chant it, the longer I want to continue chanting!
ReplyDeleteI love following along with Baba and listening to the way He draws the EEEEEEE's out when He says Shreeeeeeeeem. The mantra seems to be gaining in power each time I use it. And if this is all just my imagination, then so be it. It's all good! Happy Shreeming Everyone!
Morning Shreem'ers! It WAS day 3 of the challenge when I tried to post this, feel free to read on: I will do my best to post on a daily bases so that we have a consistent count of the days we've been inviting Divine Lakshmi into our hearts.
ReplyDeleteQuickly this is how it's been going for me:
Day 1 - meditated Shreem on Amtrak & a bus while on my way to Lake Tahoe for a week long vacation.
Day 2 - While at the beautiful cabin in Lake Tahoe with my partner and two dogs. I woke up before dawn stumbled to the bathroom before beginning my chanting session and ran smack into a wooden beam...OUCH!!! The sound of my head/face hitting the beam woke my partner up, just to give you an idea of how hard I hit it. Not to worry though I'm okay, so is the beam.
The reason I'm sharing the experience is because I'm learning/embracing the notion that our true desires require true dedication and commitment regardless of the obstacles...even a wooden beam.
Keep Shreem'ing!
Till next time love & happiness - Dhana
It's now the 9th day of the 41 day challenge that is if you started on October 11th, 2009.
ReplyDeleteFirst off THANK YOU everyone for you wonderful posts they have been amazing to read. It would be wonderful to have more people join and feel the inspiration & vibration of our chanting. I’m going to send out another invitation to everyone I know see if we can’t get a few more (1008) people added to the group.
I apologize that I have been posting on a more regular basis however, I was on vacation with my partner in Lake Tahoe (it was divinely needed) with limited internet access. BUT I do have a miracle to share with you: On the 9th day of the challenge I got a new job!!!
Why is this a miracle because I have been out of work since August 2008 doing some part time work to help pay bills.
How did it happen? 3 days prior to seeing Baba at the event I had a phone interview where I found out the second series of interviews would be done while I was on vacation in Lake Tahoe. As badly as I wanted to share this with everyone especially Baba I kept silent and tried to remained surrendered to the possibility of miracles. At the event when Baba lead us in meditation he asked us to focus on what we wanted and to embrace our manifestation. I saw myself embracing the person I interviewed with as she offered me the job. In that moment I felt the miracle happening. On Saturday after the event I opened my email found out that I was being asked to come in for a second interview.
On Tuesday night I left my partner & two dogs and I drove four hours from Lake Tahoe to Berkeley in the pouring rain to make the interview on Wednesday. I’m not joking when I share with you during the drive I was scared for my life the weather conditions were really bad in the mountains. I chanted Baba’s name all the way home and there were moments that I felt I was driving above my car…but that’s a different story.
The day of the interview I was so nervous that I called on Baba for help. I felt him saying don’t worry I will take care of everything. I interviewed with three people and then drove back to Lake Tahoe to continue my vacation.
This is what I am learning: You have to do everything on your part to manifest your desires/dreams and then surrender it all to the divine. Miracles do happen and expecting them every day is a fun & exciting way to live life! I’ll be honest with you I had forgotten this due to everything that I was facing in my life but I was reminded of one thing – My purpose in life is to be of serves to God/Baba.
Thank you all again for sharing your stories, they are very inspirational. I love the mantra Shreem and during the day I combine it with the following mantras – Om Guru Namasivaya Dattatreya Siva Baba Shreem it’s a great combination.
Keep Shreem’ing!
Love,
Dhana
Dear Dhana,
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for sharing it. Congratulations. It is AMAZING. I wish you success, and happiness with your new role.
Om Drum Dattatreya Siva Baba Namaha!!!
Today, I had a dentist appointment. I was on the dentist chair for two hours. Two people (the dentist and the assistant) were working on my tooth, drilling and etc. I thought such a great opportunity for shreeming - silently of course. All of a sudden, all that uncomfortable situation was lifted immediately, and I was in a different world, different dimension. Feeling the golden light, traveling with it.
ReplyDeleteHello Everyone! So here's what I'm learning about the 41-Day Challenge. It's not just about challenging myself in making the commitment to chant twice daily. For me, the challenge is also about this whole blog thing! I've never "blogged" before, nor have I kept a diary or a journal. Actually, the challenge began when it took me two days to even figure out how to post a blog. Yep, unfortunately I'm serious.
ReplyDeleteI had 2 older sisters and 2 younger brothers, and we were raised in a small house. In that house privacy was a word not a commodity. So growing up I never wrote anything down and seldom expressed my own personal experiences. That practice has pretty much continued into adulthood. Then it dawned on me the other day that it was really just my ego that's holding me back from posting now.
I've been having the most incredible experiences when I meditate. However, instead of posting those experiences I convinced myself that everyone would just think I was a bit loopy or a lot loopy!
So my ego and my fear of what everyone would think won out. How wonderful that this "challenge" has turned out to be more challenging than I had anticipated but in a totally unexpected way!
I guess this is fair warning everyone. I may decide I really enjoy this blogging thing!
Love, Blessings & Shreem....
Kristy
Hi, it's not easy to get on this blog. Haven't been posting for the past few days because this Shreeming is really taking me to the cleaners! All previous notions about what abundance is have been challenged, wringed out, filtered, reconfigured!
ReplyDeleteIf abundance is not just material wealth & security, then what is it???
So this is what I am chewing on these few days.
But I do know that I AM Abundant because I have friends on this blog, souls of like mind and purpose, yet each on our wild, fantastic magical journey.
Hi, here I am again. The unravelling is still going on--big time. I feel like putty/clay placed into the flames of a large burning crucible. I have to trust the Hand that's putting me into the Fire. Meanwhile, I shreem throughout the day.
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Hi, today is 16th day.I can describe my current state with 2 metaphors. 1)I'm in the final spin cycle of a washing machine; 2) I feel like a newly-shaped earthen vessel placed in a firing kiln, and I am sweating profusely from this inner heat.
ReplyDeleteI thought I knew a thing or two about Shreem, but apparently not. And this is occuring to me as very funny---ha ha ha ha!
If you didn't have some humor going through this, you might go crazy.
Hey will someone else share? How come you are all so quiet?
Hi everyone, oops I mean SHREEM'ers!
ReplyDeleteHow are you all doing? I apologize if it seems that I fell off the face of the earth. I didn't, just a little technical difficulty along the way but I have kept to the practice of Shreem'ing except for a 2 day lapse. It wasn’t that I didn’t continue to Shreem those two days just didn’t get around to formally sitting on my meditation cushion in front of my altar and doing the practice.
Can you believe we are on day 25 of the challenge? Wow! Our official end date will be November 20th.
Savitri Vidya thank you for all you wonderful posts. I wanted to you respond to your post on Oct 22nd when you stated: “If abundance is not just material wealth & security, then what is it???”
When I read your question it reminded me of something Baba has said on several occasion that true wealth is not measured by the money in your bank account but by the love in your heart (God consciousness). I will make this confession when I first met Baba in 2000 I never prayed for money or material things. I always prayed to be surrendered and at his feet. I’m not a saint by any means it’s just I have never saw the need to pray for money.
However, when Baba changed my name from Raki, the goddess of fire to Dhana, the goddess of wealth (a change he made I did not ask for) he said it was because I was suffering from poverty consciousness...I was dumbfounded by his statement so I said to him, “Baba it’s not that I don’ t like staying at the Four Seasons Hotel it’s just that given a choice I would rather be surrendered at your feet.” He said, “that’s your problem you can’t see that my feet are the Four Seasons, you think they are different” and then he asked me “ why can’t you have both?”
I never knew I suffered from poverty consciousness till that moment I guess because I’ve always like expensive things, nice cars, nice clothes etc, etc. BUT these things are not really wealth consciousness are they? After that conversation with Baba I began reading and doing the practices from a book called The Energy of Money a Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment by Maria Nemeth, PH.D. I shared this with Baba and he approved and said that he use to recommend this book to his students and blessed me to continue along this study. It may be of interest to some of you. Check it out.
A meditation that I practice when I sit with Lakshmi and chant her seed sound, Shreem, is to ask her for her blessings. To bless me with both material and spiritual wealth/abundance and to show me in a very obvious way the true meaning of wealth & abundance in everything that I see, do, touch, feel, love…
Keep Shreem’ing and by all means keep posting….let’s not lose the momentum
Love,
Dhana
Blessings everybody; I just wanted to say that I am thankful that Baba blessed me with the power to wake up in the early mornings and sit to meditate/chant. I am still trying to get used to saying the Shreem mantra because many of other mantras from Baba seem to rush into me head most of the day!! Some days I am full of energy and others I can't wait to retire in my bed! But I am keeping an open positive attitude all the time! Thank you and good chanting to all of you!
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ReplyDeleteThanks Dhana for tying in Kala Bhairava energy with Shreem, which makes it a double punch.I have been working the Shreem in with each day's version of Kala Bhairava, and find that it provides a leverage to move through my own mountain of sludge and debris.
Today is 5th Night, Unmatta Bhairava, which controls negative ego & harmful self-talk. Connecting w/all Shreemers and let's remain focused and committed!
Tomorrow is the last day of 41 days Shreem Challenge for those who started a day after the seminar on Sunday. I am planning to double my time with chanting shreems with full intensity. Thinking, powerful endings are as important as powerful beginnings.
ReplyDeleteHappy shreems :)
Hello Shreemers! The Shreem Challenge has turned out to be an interesting journey for me!
ReplyDeleteEven before beginning this challenge I was finding it difficult to deal with the amount of energy we are all being bombarded with right now. Sometimes just trying put a sentence together and one foot in front of another seemed like a monumental task! Then I began the Challenge and the intensity really kicked in. "Oh, great I thought, just what I need." Actually, it was exactly what was needed. It was a great lesson in surrendering! I had no idea when I began this challenge that it would lead me in so many different directions and reward me in such an unexpected fashion.
I had a very specific goal in mind when I began the challenge. Twice a day, I focused on that goal and silently chanted along with Baba. Many nights following my meditation, I would continue to listen to Baba chant the Shreem mantra and fall asleep to His voice. Sometimes during my chanting Baba's voice would fade out and it was as if an entire symphony orchestra was playing. I could hear and feel the beautiful vibrations coming from inside myself and surrounding me. It was truly an awesome experience!
About two weeks into the challenge I felt myself changing. It wasn't that I was becoming less focused on what I was asking of Lakshmi, but I felt my focus began to widen. In praying to Lakshmi and feeling Her presence, I began to want a much deeper relationship with the Divine. It was as if Lakshmi opened another door for me and said, "Sure, manifest this, but don't you really want this?" It was like She was telling me to see the bigger picture.
This challenge has been a blessing for me for several reasons. Yes, I did indeed receive the miracle I originally began asking for. However, even better than that, Lakshmi led me to see that what I really wanted was a greater, more fulfilling relationship with the One True Source.
So I received two miracles thanks to the Shreem Mantra. I am now going to Egypt to be with Baba on his birthday, something that wasn't possible before I began this challenge. Secondly, I have gone through yet another "fire" and came out the other side much stronger and with a much better relationship with myself and the Divine!
Thanks Dhana for getting us started on this Challenge. What a journey this has been!
Many Blessings to You All!
Kristy
ok, i know its a big gap on time jere lol, like almost 1p years, but, did anyone notice the youthhing effect, my skin toning & glowing on my face very cool, when reciting and listening to om shreem
ReplyDeleteAwesome blog on Shreem
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