Time not only rules human life but the life of planets and countries as well. Time is a mysterious phenomenon. It is very much involved with growth. A baby is born and it grows into a boy/girl and man/woman. Plants and animals grow as well. What is time? It is difficult to precisely define it, although it is definitely movement. Consider chronological time. It is currently near the end of 2007 and after December the year 2008 starts. What makes calendar time move is the rotation of planets. If the planets don’t rotate, time does not exist.

J.Krishnanmoorthy, the celebrated mystic and philosopher of our century, introduced the concept of psychological time and also defined it as movement. Thoughts move and create time. If thoughts don’t move there won’t be any time. In his classic interview with the famous British Quantum Physicist David Bohm, Krishnamurthy discussed the ending of time at some length and how one can stop the thought process and experience timelessness.

The Tamil Siddhas had a greater understanding of time than Krishnamurthy and other material scientists who studied the phenomena of time. According to the Siddhas, there is what is known as the Kala Bhairava universe. A divine being called Kala Bhairava rules the universe. His function is to develop concepts of time for different galaxies. For instance, time moves very slowly on Planet Earth. Whereas on other planets that vibrate faster, the movement of time is much faster. It is Kala Bhairava who controls this.

The Siddhas are not simply philosophers. They are pragmatists and they designed a number of methods to achieve benefits through an association with Kala Bhairava. In their astral travel the Siddhas made visits to the Kala Bhairava universe and gave a description of what the God (Kala Bhairava) looked like. He is dark in complexion, fierce looking, and has a dog as his vehicle. A person can pray to him to alter his/her bad time or pray to enhance his/her good time, according to personal experiences and astrological circumstances.

Kala Bhairava organizes every individual’s personal time. For example, one person works for a minimum wage of $7 an hour. Someone else makes $700 an hour. Still someone else makes nothing in an hour. The person who makes nothing in an hour is absolutely insulting time. If time is unfavorable to you, and you realize that your time is not spent properly, then you can go and pray to Kala Bhairava. Present a request to Kala Bhairava to help you to better organize how you spend your time.

There is an optimal time for presenting requests to Kala Bhairava. This optimal time is the 8th moon that falls on December 1.

Generally speaking, the 8th day of the waning moon within every month is an auspicious time to get in touch with Kala Bhairava. But this coming 8th moon on December 1st is an especially good one for him. Special rituals are done for Kala Bhairava on 8th waning moon days.

Kala Bhairava Rituals at the Sivapuram Temple:

Bhairava is the most important aspect of Siva representing time and timelessness. If one receives instant enlightenment or prosperity or recovery from debt or illness it is the work of Bhairava. He created the planets and time to organize reality. Bhairava’s blessings are abundantly available during the 8th dark moon cycle (i.e., the waning moon). On September 6th I visited a very powerful Bhairava temple called Sivapuram where I had performed extended rituals and also helped to build a metal base shield (kavacha) for the Kala Bhairava statue. Kavacha are metal images of parts of the statue such as the crown, feet, arms, etc., that are super imposed on the granite statues of deities. Bhairava was so happy with the first kavacha I gave him, so now I am getting him a silver crown and constructing a small covered walkway and fire pit. These are very powerful rituals and ornaments to seek Bhairava’s presence, protection, and blessings to aid you in gaining favorable use of time and for achieving more in less time.

How can you enhance your luck? How can you counteract your ill luck?

It is important to understand the concept of luck and ill luck in human life. If a person is lucky, then he or she was born with a silver spoon in their mouth. That person doesn’t have to struggle to make a living. Children of wealthy business people, political leaders, celebrities in entertainment and sports all belong to this category. But such extremely lucky people are also extremely rare. How many people become celebrities in any given area of life? Very few. Most people have to work very, very hard to get even the most basic requirements needed. The situation is worse in 3rd world countries where resources are minimal thereby putting most of its people in eternal want and deficit.

Philanthropists, politicians and lawmakers across the world have been battling with minimal success to address the problem of poverty and lack of resources. It is true that the terms luck and ill luck are not respectable terms among intellectuals because of their metaphysical and religious connotations. I have often talked about poverty being a disease of the soul. If one’s soul espouses poverty thinking at the level of the body and mind, then that particular soul will actualize it in real life. Just as there is congenital illness there is also congenital poverty or prosperity. Congenital prosperity or poverty can only be explained in relation to one’s karma.

Karma need not be understood as a purely metaphysical term. Karma is the law of causality. You think something over and over again, and you then manifest it either in this lifetime or in another lifetime. Generally speaking, if you think about something seriously, the manifestation of it takes place in the next lifetime. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Ambani, Carlos Slim, and others became prosperous in this lifetime because of their work from a previous lifetime, or from many previous lifetimes.

As early as the 6th century, the Buddha did not believe in God or the Soul, but rather he believed in thought processes continuing through multiple lifetimes. He called this continuation of thought karma. Prosperity or poverty, high self-esteem or low self-esteem, health or sickness, they are all the solidified thinking process of a particular individual.

My ambition in this lifetime is to help humanity overcome poverty and sickness by diffusing the individual’s karma responsible for these conditions. Whenever there is a disease or problem you should go to the cause of the problem and address it at that level. Finding a superficial, external solution is just like treating the symptom of a disease instead of the cause. The seers of India are scientists of life. They have discovered solutions for all problems – poverty, prosperity, sickness, health, success and failure – through the planets.

If a planet governing money/relationship/health, etc., is weak in a person’s chart, then that area of his/her life will invariably become defective. Most problems are fixable through appropriate remedies as suggested by the yogic seers. Contemporary modern scholars designate astrology as superstition. However, Nadi leaves (as used in Nadi Astrology) that verify personal data of any given individual is the scientific proof for the viability of astrology.