Divine Spark – A blog by Saurabh Goenka

When I wonder, I reflect that the human race is extremely fortunate to have with them the constant and unconditional love and support from the Angelic Realm. All we need to do is to call upon them, and there they are each time without failure! The Angels gain happiness from our spiritual progress, and they are very excited at the prospect of helping us through that.

On September 2, 2010, I was given this prayer by Archangel Haniel and the other Archangels to share with as many as possible. This is a very powerful prayer that calls upon all the Archangels to help you in your field of expertise. Saying this prayer twice a day, once on waking up and second before going to sleep should be most effective and will protect you during the night, and make the days much more fulfilling.

Please share this with as many people as you can, as by doing that you shall spread the word of the Angels and they shall sing for you!

This prayer can be copied or redistributed without permission.

-Saurabh Goenka, September 03, 2010

THE ARCHANGELS  PRAYER

In the blessed Hour of Thine, Oh Lord!

I thank thee for this light of mine

Which is one with thine eternal source

Of love, protection and blessings.

Thank you Archangel Ariel, for

The Blessings you bring through me

To any plant or animal I see.

Thank You Archangel Azrael

For guiding the dead and the deceased in body

To the eternal shining light of love.

In my gratuitous ways, I pray to thee

Oh Archangel Chamiel, to give me love boundless,

To help me find anything dear lost and mend my relationships.

I thank you in full faith.

And with Archangel Gabriel’s influence,

I can clearly communicate and I free fear

From it’s grip on me, and in the Angelic light I see,

My glorious Angels always guiding me.

In the glory of God, Archangel Haniel, I praise thee

For the Divine Grace with which you inspire me;

And in all actions and paths I take,

Making me an embodiment of grace.

Thank you Archangel Jeremiel, for  your mystical ways

Of inspiring Divine Wisdom to work through me,

For helping me heal myself and forgive all who hurt me.

In the beauty and light of Archangel Jophiel,

I am overjoyed with the positive vibrations so jovial,

In my home, and my workspace and everywhere else I go;

And Thank You for taking pollution away from us,

And miles and miles of health and vitality.

Thank You Archangel Metatron for walking with me

And seeing as far as I can see,

For awakening the spiritual awareness within me

And helping me cope with the World with glee.

I am thankful for Archangel Michael’s Divine Protection

Who protects me, my loved ones and my home

From all things evil, and continuously guides us

On the Beautiful Path of my Life Purpose with Courage and Ease.

Thank You Archangel Raguel for making all things fair,

As I am fair and just to all, the same justice is done unto me.

Thank You for my Harmonized Relationships!

With a million thanks, Oh! Archangel Raphael, I invoke thee!

For helping me heal myself and for others working as a channel

Of Divine Healing in my spiritual path of practice

Thank You for watching over me and my loved ones,

When a journey we make to explore this World.

Thank You Archangel Raziel for channeling through me,

An understanding of spiritual teachings easily;

And assisting me in successful thought manifestation and positive alchemy.

With your music, Oh! Beloved Archangel Sandalphon,

You take away all fear and worries so gracefully!

Thank You for your priceless work, and healing music played through me!

Thank you for your shining light, Archangel Uriel!

Your illuminations liberates me intellectually

Thank you for clear thoughts and prompt actions

When such needs to be done through me.

Thank You Archangel Zadkiel, for keeping me on the path,

And never letting me stray from my Divine Nature!

For Helping me retain good memory and sharp recall

Of all things, including my own Divinity!

Oh Archangels! God Almightly blesses thee for your tireless works

And efforts to keep us true to ourselves and others.

A Million Thanks to the Archangels for always helping,

Protecting, Guiding, Loving and Embracing Me and the entire Human Race.

I am full of love, joy and Divinity.

So be It! So Be It! So Be It!

“Such things have been revealed to me that now all I have written appears to my eyes as of no greater value than straw”. So spoke St. Thomas Aquinas, the “Prince of Scholastics” in answer to his secretary’s anxious urgings that the Summa Theologiae be completed.

- pg 189 of Autobiography of a Yogi – Yogananda Paramahansa

And the Summa Theologiae was never completed, for greater insights and greater wisdom, as compared to knowledge had unfolded before St. Thomas Aquinas in a revelation during a Mass in a Naples Church in the year 1273, and he had left the masterpiece incomplete. St. Thomas Aquinas had rejoiced in the greater wisdom which had broadened his perspective in life.

Most of us, I dare say, are slaves of our own lives and we live  to survive till the inevitable death.  How many of us really question the things that we do in life? Why do we do what we do? Why does each person have to dress up for the rat race and end up being the hamster rolling the wheels?
An average infant is grown up by her parents with more emphasis on “killing the competition” than exploring the love and equality in all. And later they rejoice when a few thousand other children all over the world cry because their daughter has been admitted into  the most prestigious academic institution of the country!
The child spends years drilling through books that stab creativity, teach of competition, promotes separatism and is all about being “better than the other” and “earning more than the other”. Ok Cool! But where does it go and when does it stop?
Now the grown up infant is the bitch in the corporate world with a million dollars to a private bank account, a thousand cigarettes ashed away into innocent lung-air sacs and a private jet to burn fuel.  Ok Cool! But where does it go and when does it stop?
It stops with death. And now!! [drumrolls]
The soul leaves the body and goes through a life review, and the question is “what did I learn in this lifetime?”
The answer is a sad one. Nothing substantial. The soul was too busy being a slave of the world, doing what was considered best for pleasure, but there was no real love, no real enlightenment. The soul is asked to go back down and try to evolve! The hole idea is to evolve as a soul till you merge with the original divinity that created everything.

And I hear some of you saying  ”Here’s SG with his soul bullshit again! I don’t believe in reincarnation crap man! It’s all here, and it’s now and I gotta live it dude, I gotta make it high man!”

Well, for all the young souls my solution to you is simple. You question this because you have not questioned yourself enough. If you are really interested in knowing the truth, you have to know it for YOURSELF and validate it for YOURSELF. Believing in anything if someone else told you to simply shows lack of integrity and self-esteem. Think about it. It kinda makes sense, doesn’t it?

This is THE most important question in life. If it is true that you are a soul and that you are reincarnated, then is it not the biggest truth in life? Does it not change everything?

For if you are a soul and are reincarnated, then wouldn’t you want to know what is the purpose of it all? And if you dig through theosophy, spiritual texts, symbologies, ancient mystery schools, etc. you would come to know the cosmic reality of things. You would know that we are all beings born out of the same material, which created life to experience itself. You would come to know that nothing in this universe is different from the other. Your cellphone, your emotions, the ant and the head on your hair, and you yourself, all of it is nothing but electrons!! A rock has a lower vibrational frequency of the electrons as compared to you, and you have a lower vibrational frequency as compared to Higher Beings. With an increase in vibrational frequency takes place evolution (Yes.. Crystals–>Plants–>Animals–>Humans–>Higher Beings–>Original infinite vibrational frequency of the First Creator) of the one undergoing evolution.

So, please think about this question. Think about what you are, and why you are what you are..

Yet, we are busy preparing for exams! Going to offices!

“Why does X get a promotion and I don’t”
“I will do 4 courses at a time, I will have greater market value!”
It is too depressing to even think about those things again.

Don’t get me wrong. It is important to go through all that you go through in life including the times when you faced the world and rose above your base emotions, when you proved yourself to yourself, when you showed how strong you were and that you could be better and better and better than before. That is because you have to climb a pyramid from the bottom of the pyramids and noone puts you there at the top.

You have to win against all odds, till you look through the victories, till you realise that this cannot be it! There has to be something more! Something more! One who is able to realise this, doesn’t become the weasel in the wheel and moves on to seek Higher wisdom and ends up asking oneself the questions of life and reincarnation, etc.

But isn’t asking those questions a matter of choice? Shouldn’t you ask them today? Even if I am bullshitting you, is it not even worth a thought? That you might be more than your body and this world might be more than trying to be better than someone else, and your mission might just be more than laughing and rejoicing while millions cry?
Ask yourself! What after death?

Ah! I remember those wonderful lines by the poet Thomas Gray:

“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,

And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike th’ inevitable hour:-
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”

So I guess more important than spending 10000 man hours in front of text books or monitoring the movement of share prices on celluloid screens, would be to stop and ask. Wait! Why am I doing this? What does it lead to? Is this it? Is it really what I want? Is this really what this world is all about?

Science has acknowledged the presence of clairvoyants in the world. Clairvoyants are people who can see energy, can read your thoughts, see the real world, spirits, angels, etc. To them, the world is very different from how the 99%+ people see it. And anyone can become a clairvoyant through purposeful practice. And if such feats are possible, would you not achieve to get to that rather than wasting a life on trying to earn money, competing?

Money is not bad. But money comes to you! There is abundance of everything in the universe and there is a way to tap into it. There are documented saints of India who could materialize things out of thin air. There has been scores of documented psychics, healers who heal the gravest diseases with their thoughts, etc. Is it not more worthwhile to reach out to be one of those than spend sleepless nights worrying about what people have been thinking about you and if the new dress makes you look “sexy” enough?

And the entire blame is not on each individual. We have been cheated to, lied to and decieved by people in the world who have since ever wanted to take control. To prove this beyond contradiction please watch Zeitgeist the movie, or read the Secret History of the World by Jonathan Black. Is it more worthwhile to work to earn a charter which certifies you to be a Finance Professional or to first learn what is the REAL PURPOSE of a whole financial system in the world?

Roll the wheels!! Don’t live to die. Live to live.

Life can be exciting and rewarding if you want it to. IT almost always is. The question is what fits your definition of exciting or rewarding.

For one who knows the cosmic truth, things change. IF they don’t then stop running away. Live an enjoyable life with the small and big joys of life. Be with family, friends, enjoy that nice dinner, and play some loud music! Yet, do know what life is. Get your priorities straight!! Life is more than waiting to die.

‘Twas a time when the sun did shine,
And it filled:
The wide blue yonder with many a bird song;
The bosoms with green desires-
To vie with and soar like the white waves;
And to be the beloved ballad of bravery,
Which the rufous lips of the marooned mariner
Would never cease to sing

‘Tis a time when the amateur poet
Writes of dead men, and of politics, and of threnodies;
For he hath the power to articulate his world.
Oft when he descries the drowning sun,
He wishes to be the omnipotent octopus;
And as he wishes, he writes-
On wishes, and horses, and beggars.
And seldom in fortunate siestas,
Sees the golden past, and writes a new poem:
“‘Twas a time when….”

The complex life we lead today, has taken its present form by accepting a gift. A gift that was given to it by us! Life becomes, whatever we think that life can become. We are always controlling what our life becomes, which path our life takes and where does it stop.

The potency of the gift of Free Will bestowed upon us is often undermined. Not only is free will the single most powerful tool in the hands of a creationist for purposes of creation, but it is also a tool that can be used for protection of the self from all things and entities unwanted.

It is a powerful tool in the hands of a creationist because using this, the creationist is empowered to create a replica of his thought forms in the physical and other dimension planes. And this is achieved without any interference from other cosmic/human factors. Can you cite me an example when the free will of a soul is infiltrated and if the victim falls prey, it is not due to an acceptance of the deformation of the will upholding oneself? Yes, there are Karmic factors at play often at times, which might interfere with the manner of manifestation of a thought through the action of the creator. Yet, these factors are irrelevant for our discussion here.
In case you might say of uncontrollable actions of nature, the economy, and other such parameters of the macrocosmic origins, the true initiate knows that even the larger events are nothing but manifestations of a collective consciousness, which is pregnable by an individual to suit individual needs in the personal universe framework. And the soul concerned is as much a part of the collective consciousness, as there are others.

Hence, from this it can be deduced that free will operates on two levels in a fundamental explanation of things. The first level being personal free will, which acts exclusively as per one’s own conscious choices and thought forms, and the manifestation depends on the strength of those thought forms (which can be enhanced with conviction). And the second level is more inclusive of the macrocosmic influences in determining and shaping world events. This is merely a collection of individual free wills that come together to create larger than life thought forms which subsequently cause events on the world scale to affect many or all.

Yet, still it is an outcome of the free wills of persons. There could not have been a holocaust had strong will not been used by the Nazis. Mathematically, manifestation of thoughts is directly proportional to the mass of the thoughts. The mass of the thoughts is a product of the number of people creating that thought with the intensity of thoughts.
It is through the example of holocaust, that I wish to draw more light upon what free will really is and how simple it is, yet it is one of those universal truths that we do not grab easily because of our preconceptions and deep-lying contempt of the self and all things Divine, which is a result of years of negative programming by fundamentalists, objectivists and chauvinists who believe in the paradigm of “personal propaganda paramount”
The Nazis were chauvinists and fundamentalists who created the strong thought form that they were a superior race to the Jews. And! This was accepted by the majority of Jews. The thought forms created by the Nazis were strong enough to create fear in the hearts of the Jewish of their own identity. (This cut off the Divine connection with the self and they fell into the trap of negative programming. This world has had a history where the knowledgeable dominated the ones from whom this knowledge would often be suppressed.) Hence, the thought forms of suppression of the Jewish by the Nazis were much more stronger than the thought forms of liberation and rebellion by the Jewish. Again, note that the strength of thought forms is not determined by the number of people working behind those thoughts, but the collective strength of those thoughts in particular. The Nazi officials would strongly believe in their superiority and the inferiority of the Jewish, and the Jewish would feel timid, helpless and damned. Hence, by laws of Free Will and laws of energy, the stronger thought would manifest. There is no paradox anywhere for one who understand the laws of energy and thought manifestations.

So Free Will, is the application of the faculty of decision making and selecting from alternatives, by the force of choice. Nothing can penetrate your Free Will. The laws of Free Will are absolute and universal. Noone is ever a victim to anyone else. If one is considering oneself a victim of fate, world systems and other factors, it simply means that there is a strong information asymmetry and they do not know something which they need to know. All things are simple to comprehend, once you know the laws of the energy world. The physical world is nothing but a manifestation of the energy world.

Where do all things come from?
They come from thoughts.
What are thoughts?
Thoughts are energy.

Now that I have explained what Free Will is and how reality is a result of the manifestation of the stronger thought form (in case of contradicting thought forms) and all thought forms in case of non-contradictory thought forms, it is time to include more in this essay and reach out towards my purpose of creating this in the first place.

Using Free Will, and Free Will alone you can bend situations in your favour; you can be protected from all psychic/non-psychic attacks (psychic attacks are attacks on your emotions, mental state, etc. This is the definition relevant here. There are higher levels of truth, though); you can create the life of your choice.

Life presents you with a giant catalogue. All you have to do is pick and choose all that you want, and believe in it with enough conviction to manifest that thought. And this is nothing but an act of the free will. I have just disclosed some inner workings behind the “laws of attraction” and how they work.

Attraction works because of the law of Free Will! There is no God that is more powerful than you are. There is however a God, that is more self-realised than you are, and due to this that God is Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient, and Omnieverything. This, is also the true nature of each person, which we don’t readily realise or accept. Yet, that is a result of lack of contemplative thought. The initiate who dares to think beyond the boundaries of the petty material worldly thoughts and is able to break away from the chains of ego needs, reputation needs, etc. can see all of this very clearly.

If there is an all -knowing God, why would that God have preferences and judgments? Light and Dark are merely two sides of the same thing. One cannot exist without the other. And the whole purpose of life is to experience through creation, and to merge with the First Creator in the end.

And all can be achieved by Free Will, because that is how it works. As an independent soul, you are the creator of your own reality. You can choose to experience all that you want to have. Will to have it. Have a strong will. An underlying conviction, an unshakeable faith and strong determination is all that it needs to take to make thoughts manifest.

Remember, the stronger thought form feeds on the weaker ones. It is the survival of the fittest! Darwin was not entirely wrong you see.

So if you feel a lack of happiness, Will to be happy! If you want a hot girlfriend, Will it to happen! If you want more wealth, again the formula is the same.

May the light guide you to further knowledge as and when you are ready.

Saurabh Goenka
Sunday July 11

She lay held up in her own arms on that saturday evening once more. The rain was mercilessly hitting her face, falling down like heavy pearls strung out of God’s necklace. The cars honking by weren’t helping either. Alone – the beach behind – noise ahead – rain above – and dry ground below.

Karen felt life was a way of God to mock on his pupils calling out : “Look jackass, there youare! Ha! And I’m God, and you’re not! Ha!”. Neither a reason, nor a reasoner would ever be able to prove otherwise to her. She had her reasons.

Life had betrayed her. When she thought she had control, she had lost it all and had instead become the one wearing the leash. When she had loved without conditions or reasons, she was laughed back at, scorned, thorned, juiced. Life was wrong and she was wronged.

Yet, for Karen, when she wanted to end it all, it would never be that easy. The difficulty would not be a fear of ending one life and beginning another. The difficulty would be caused by an inner voice that would disallow the act and call it ignoble. Karen would carry on.

Today she was down with liquor down in her spleen. Well, liquor – it goes down, and then it goes up and then it brings the suspect down. The suspect gives in to the temptations by either being successfully deceived with the “good times” label, or to rid oneself of the “bad times”. Doesn’t really work though. Karen was ashamed of herself, at having lost control again. Life was in tatters, days were like ocean waves on a fall.

And the fall is always greater with liquor substituting vitality.

With every touch of lacquer over the furniture the shine grows brighter, and the wood grows stronger. The same is true with people and circumstances. She was tough. She stood for herself and for her values. This fall however, had rid her of those values too. Karen had lost faith in herself and all that she stood for, by the continuous lack of control on herself.

And yet, she would not give up.

With all the strength she had left, she prayed. For mercy, for an understanding, for an explanation, for damnation, for salvation, for heaven, for hell. She just wanted it all to end. And she couldn’t do it on her own. She needed help.

And then there was a brain freeze :

Wait. Stop. She realised what she was doing. How could she be helped? There was no bigger superpower than herself. There was no proof. None at all. How would death help? Death would either induce oblivion and nothingness, or pass on to another life to suffer the same. It wouldn’t be any better, how could it be? All there was, was in the present moment of now. It was a decision to be made now. So Damn it! She said to herself that she would stand up one more time. The difference being, this time she WILL NOT fall. She would choose not to fall.

The wave had crashed, and crashed for good. It was to rise once again. And this time, if it falls So Be It! The wave has to fall in order to rise. The fall is natural and almost uncontrollable. The response to the fall, is however not. It is a conscious choice to make. This time, the choice being to be calm during the fall. Calm, quiet, understanding, waiting. Waiting to rise..Storing the experiences, gaining from them. Rising.

If she wouldn’t have lost control, she wouldn’t have known the novelty of being in control.
If she wouldn’t have been in darkness, she wouldn’t have appreciated the light.
Had the rain not fallen, there would be no warmth of drying up.

Karen went on to become a writer. A distinguished person, a unique personality. She went on to become Karen. And one day she wrote:

“The nascent bud comes out of the seed, to grow into a leafy tree with hundreds of branches. And it takes time for the tree to grow. Life is a series of events, and the course is set by our choices to those events. One, and many. We make wrong choices. We must make wrong choices to know what right choices are. Life is a horse drawn carriage. It carries us distances. Until we learn to tame the horses while we travel. Life is to tame your horses. But it takes time. Destiny is set out for us till we learn to tame our horses. And we make our destinies when we learn to tame our horses. Life is simple. It’s rising and falling waves. Until you learn to surf. And it takes time.”

Saurabh Goenka, Sunday july 4 2010 : 2315

Chalks of blocks, blocks of wood;
Puppets in line, no thoughts for food.
Solitary, unchanged, polite and quiet,
They hold guns in their hands, ready for a riot;
Of the Self with the Self, but I ask how?
Isn’t movement needy for a row?

How are we any different than them soldiers?
Our guns to defend our integrity, do we fire often?
No movement. No action. No fear. No passion
No result, no cause and no resulting effect.

The silence of the animated masses swayeth me!
Words of disquiet, to each his own,
No corroboration can I in actions see.

Of ceaseless unimportance are these words
For the thought is not yet complete.
Chalks of blocks, blocks of wood;
Puppets in line, no thoughts for food.

Be one with your own.
Be one with the all!
Speak for your own, yet speak for all!
When man manages this feat,
It will be a new dawn of hope and peace.
Chalks of blocks, and blocks of men
Firing guns, for another AMEN!

Such is the complexity of the human mind,
Like the elf, who had no grain to grind.
Be free in simplicity and live one with all
To each his own, be on your own.

One with the present.

One with the past.

One with one and one with all.

And then the firing stops,
and chalks dissolve with the blocks;
And the rainbow colors flood in
The colors of one and all.

[Please share your interpretations]

The breath of my music,
To draw up to me
An upsurge of emotions,
To set me free

The lemon-fragrance of existence
The pearl-green leafy dew,
A mixture of reflexes
The call to a chosen few

A part of existence,
Is aloof from the world;
Watching from a distance,
The moon singing songs to a dove.

Smiles that touch the emotions,
Tears that cut right through,
Words once out, never retraced,
The rhythm of a few

These are the passions,
Theses are the songs,
Many leaves dance as one,
Many others are long gone.

3:33 PM, 06/08/2010 in the British Council Library