Befriend water to raise consciousness & strike a balance

Over a few articles in this column, we have been having a discussion on how we can approach our lives and health through the understanding of the human being and the universe as per Ayurveda and Vedic culture. We have spoken at some length on why it is important to balance the elements within us and indeed, what steps and measures we can take towards that balance. 

Along with our discussions, we have also encountered the idea of how to communicate through the principle elements of the universe. The water element, in particular, has been considered equal to life and also has the ability to recognise and accept vibrations from consciousness. It stores precise impressions from the environment around it and spreads these into the water cycle of the entire planet. Water is accepted as tirtha, with the ability to understand and help actualise the working of consciousness. 

How do we prove that water is conscious of vibrations in its surroundings and also stores these impressions and information? The following is a method devised by scientists to do just that. A tiny drop of water is photographed with a very powerful digital camera. But it is not a simple process. The droplet should be still and not in flow. Neither should it lose its impressions during the photographing process. Therefore, the droplet is frozen to a temperature of minus 20-22 degrees. A photo of the crystal structure of the droplet taken in this state shows, to a large extent, the message or impressions that the water has acquired from its surroundings or from offered culture. 

A Japanese scientist, Dr Masaru Emoto, had conducted experiments and collected a lot of photographic data. My understanding of the subject had developed independently of his work while studying ancient Indian culture. We have been using tirtha in India since forever. In tirtha, we culture water with mantras or other procedures and objects. It can be programmed to communicate positive desires and also has the potential to deliver negative desires e.g. curses or ‘shraap’. So when we poison or pollute it, we are spreading negativity in our own atmosphere and life too. Even though this understanding was clear to me, I wanted photographic evidence through this modern method.

I acquired and sent many samples of water collected from several sources with various kinds of environmental sanskaar done by us on those samples. The results I received as photographs of the structures in the water confirmed my experience. In all these experiments we find that when simply distilled water is photographed it does not show the ‘agni’ of structure or shape. In distilled water, the content of the photo appears like an amorphous and dark blob. In the cultured water, we can see a variety of shapes that appear connected to the culturing offered (mantras, photographs, objects), like beautiful mandalas, and it is clear that the water has taken impressions of the culturing information. 

I had been conducting these experiments at a personal level for my satisfaction. It needs further experimentation and while I was in the attempt to create a lab for the same, the University of Stuttgart in Germany had begun these experiments too and have succeeded in proving similar concepts again. One of the experiments they conducted was to place a beautiful purple coloured flower in a glass of water for a while and then extract a drop for photographs. They found that the drop displayed a mandala-like structure that was a close replica of a petal of that flower. 

All this indicates that the subject deserves more work. If every one of us accepts the importance of water and that water can be cultured like this, we could really find easier ways to deal with all kinds of diseases. It can all go a very long way to bring happiness and balance in our lives. If there are rare or endangered plants required for a cure, we could use them in small amounts for sanskaar or culturing. This would not only fight disease but also preserve and propagate those herbs, which a benefit on all sides.

Everything that is available on or in the earth — minerals, gems etc — can be used to culture water for various functions and benefits. This deep and interesting subject is also very topical in these weeks since we just finished celebrating Ganeshotsav. We can now see why it is recommended by ancient scriptures to surrender his idol into water. The point of this discussion was to understand why we immerse him into the water as part of the scientific and well-planned rituals in Bharatiya culture. 

The Vedas say, 

Aapo vai sarva devataha 

Water itself is the God.

Ayurveda’s extensive guidelines for using water for enhanced health can all be accepted properly once we have this understanding. All this is not only for healing purposes but also to increase our trust in water. We should not insult our water resources. This will help us balance many of our environmental problems as a community and a planet.

The author is founder of Atmasantulana Village, a world-renowned holistic healing centre. ayurveda@dnaindia.net