Frequently Asked Questions

From Whispers from Eternity by Paramahansa Yogananda page 236. He wrote Even as thus He thought, lo, He became two: Spirit and nature, positive and negative, man and woman, the peacock and the peahen, stamen and pistil of the flowers, the male gem and the female gem. Can you elaborate on what he meant from "the male and female gem?

This is a very profound question and exactly related to astrological gems. When a person is not in balance with their male and female qualities it is better to balance the navaratna with the counter balancing planetary gems. For instance if a lady is not bold in her decision making, it could be that her Sun and Mars are not well placed in the chart and she is a little timid about changing her life or situations. Hence when I select the gems in the bangle those two gems will tend to be on the larger side. If a man is not sensitive enough and not deeply appreciative of beauty, it could be showing with a not well placed Moon and Venus. Hence when composing the nine gem bangle the representative planetary gems will be selected that are larger.
Everyone's karmic matrix is different and it is important to aim for a strengthening balance. The same higher astral intelligence in your electrically driven body that knows how to utilise the nutrients in food also knows how to capitalise the benign subtle sattvic radiations of astrological gemstones. Every wave form or frequency has a consciousness, and it is the emanating frequencies of the gems when interacting with your electrical body that have an uplifting influence and ability to prevent resonation with weaker or debilitating planetary radiations. Here is the full page 236 -7

DREAMS OF GOD. (AN INSPIRATIONAL REVELATION OF WHAT GOD IS)

The Spirit was invisible, existing alone in the home of all space. He piped to Himself the ever-new, ever-entertaining song of perfect beatific bliss. As He sang through His voice of eternity to Himself, He wondered if aught but Himself were listening and enjoying His song. To His astonishment, He felt that He was also the cosmic song and He was the singing. Even as thus He thought, lo, He became two: Spirit and nature, positive and negative, man and woman, the peacock and the peahen, stamen and pistil of the flowers, the male gem and the female gem.

All these He became in thought only, as yet. All these dualities He only dreamt within Himself, as yet. Then He loved His dream of dualities, and He thought: My dream is Reality! My imagination is Truth?

So this vast cosmic dream became the cosmic soul of nature!

Then the Creator began to clothe His subtle dream with grosser dream-decorations and to con dense His beautiful dream; and He asked the cosmic dream to awake into consciousness, to come to life and shine like a piercing star of cosmic vitality in the dark skies of consciousness. He said: “My shadows of imagination and My dreams must have life; being a part of Me, they must be living, even as I am living.”

So the dream-thoughts began to take luminous forms, until all things were created as light Star, man, herb, flower and bee – all shone as living stars in the limitless firmament of His dream. Being endowed with motion, they danced and dazzled. Behold, the Spirit had become God – the Father Protector of creation.

Now, although so many dazzling things were suddenly within Him and about Him, He saw that they suffered from sameness; so He dimmed the light of His power and focused all His rays in space and began to condense His astral cosmos. Lo! All things began to change their vibrations, becoming different in color and form and density. His astral cosmos became frozen, and the earth took a brown, solid form, and the lunar men became fleshly forms of definite, condensed dreams, and the nightingale dreamed its feathery plumes, and the trees wore flowers. He caused all things to dream with intensity, to dream definitely and continuously; He caused them to dream astral and gross dreams, even as He dreamt them into being. Thus the gross cosmos came.