What is Dowsing ?

Dowsing is a process of energy reading. Science believes that objects and non objects are energy signatures of an underlying interacting processes . Simply put, everything visible or invisible around us is energy and this energy represents a continuous transformation that, the entity is undergoing. Everything in the universe is a reflection of the ceaseless flow of primal energy, creating subtle patterns that flow and interconnect with others forming a web we call creation.


Vedantic philosophy also gives a similar explanation, giving a dynamic property and an inherent quality of change and influence to even stationary objects.

I use a pendulum to detect the energy behind an event, a person or an object. The reading gives an indication of the energy influence, that person, object or event has and the likely interconnections it would form.

How does this reading help?

My earlier post “Esoteric Guides” has been well received with 400+ views. The post tried to convey the idea that all forms of external help fall short in solving our problems. People resort to Astrology, Vastu, Feng Shui, Crystal therapy etc. to find a way that brings to them towards success, wealth, health and other forms of happiness. Swami Vivekananda says that “ I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came. All the help that has come was from within yourselves. You only had the fruits of what you yourselves worked for, and yet you were strangely hoping all the time for help.”

Dowsing helps in connecting us to our environment harmoniously which is composed of other people or objects by giving us a electromagnetic reading of our self. Since everything is energy and energy flows ( just like water) from a higher consciousness , the readings in dowsing (only if the questions are carefully solicited) tell us three things about the energy in play at that time , the point of origin ,the direction in which the flow is and its area of influence. This information interprets the lessons our experience conveys and allows us to go ahead by bringing a closure.

I shall explain through an example. A few years back, a young girl came to me, as she wanted a solution to her father’s physical and monetary health, both of which had suffered a drastic and sudden downfall. Her father had a paralytic stroke and the factory that he had started was inactive since the past 18 months. Since a dowser is a vastu, fengshui and geomancy expert, she thought that either the house or the factory had some defects. A lot of women staffers were detected with breast cancer in the ABC newsroom in Brisbane in December 2006 , when they were forced to relocate their premises. Here is the link to that story.

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s1977342.htm and

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/12/22 /2003341466

A dowser judges if there are any energy lines crossing under the building that could bring obnoxious energies in to the house or factory. In Germany these lines are thought to be cancer producing and they are called “ Read more about it herehttp://www.dowsing4geopathicstress.co.uk/index.php/geopathic -stress/geopathic-stress-and-cancer

Coming back to the story, I dowsed on her fathers photograph, her factory and house photographs which gave a reading, “all clear” with respect to energy lines. Then proceeding further on her fathers photograph I made a dowsing chart which could indicate the origin of the energy, the flow and the area of influence. Since I knew the area of influence, it was the health and business, finding the other two variables was easy. To cut a long story short, the point of origin was in the “dues” which the father had managed not to pay. As a dowser, I keep insisting that people should pay extra attention towards “debt “and “dues”. Most of my posts revolve around these two neglected duties of man. In fact one of the reasons of our birth is due to the debt from past lives and the unpaid dues that we carry forward in this life. I asked her if there were any unpaid dues? The girl was now teary eyed and said that banks were ready to reposes the house and some debt was taken to meet the medical bills and household expenses through the difficult times. I explained her that the dues were prior to the fall of fortune and she should look back and find out if some due was unpaid, since the consequence her family was going through was a result of a deliberate choice made in this lifetime. , I did have fair intuition “what that debt was”, but I refused to trouble her more and without taking any charges gave her a small booklet of Swami Vivekanandas “ His call to the Nation”. At the door I casually remarked that these “debt” energies gain momentum over time and inflict greater pain even to the extent of taking all comforts away.

This story only shows how a dowser works which is not by suggesting remedies externally like space clearing, gems and stones but by going directly to the point of origin or the cause. This story does not end here since that girl came back to me after 3 years with a box of chocolates. Her face told me that she had come to give good news. She informed me that her father had died after 7 months of her visit to meet me, her house at tardeo was disposed by the bank last year and she and her mother were now staying at Kandivali a far flung suburb from tardeo which was up market . Her only solace was the discussion she had with her father about what I had told her that day. I waited patiently to know the reason why her face radiated peace, since up to know whatever she had said was not very pleasant.

She said her father had confessed that the dues I was talking about were the “taxes “he had saved on importing the machinery by under declaring the value. The amount He had managed to save was 11 odd lacs. She said that her father told her that had he realised this money would make him and his family suffer he would have gladly paid since at the time of importing the machines he had a huge cash surplus. Nature never forgets and always comes back with a vengeance to balance things, I told her. She did not believe that it was her father’s unpaid dues that had borne this harsh consequence but it was pre-ordained, since many of her father’s friends were still enjoying wealth and had resorted to such similar dubious activities some,even on a much higher scale.

I told her that her father cleared his account in this life; many of us like to carry them forward in our next life and make it difficult for the dowser to know the cause of the consequence. Every choice that we make carries within it the seed of the consequence. It is our duty to choose wisely.

Dowsing is also useful in making a choice based on the energy of the options.

Another way of making a wise choice is to choose the option, which is the most unselfish.



The miseries of the world cannot be cured by physical help only. Until man's nature changes, these physical needs will always arise, and miseries will always be felt, and no amount of physical help will cure them completely. The only solution of this problem is to make mankind pure. Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world, not before. We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes... 

Swami Vivekananda

Body as Vehicle

Since the past 19 months I have been sending messages in the morning to my friends. This post combines 3 message posts sent last week. After reading my article " A Dowsers Tale " a girl sent me some questions. This post is an answer to those questions. Since it follows " A Dowsers Tale" immidiately on speaking tree , it may answer many unasked questions too.

Intuition is a guidiance tool just like reasoning. We rely too much on logic leaving the part of intuition unused. Both logic and intuition can be understood as two wheels of a motorbike. You can drive on one wheel but not for long and you are likely to encounter situations where riding on one wheel does not work. Both senses are to be used at the same time. Hence intuition that defies logic is only instinct which is in abundance in animals who use this faculty to hunt and feed and eat. Intuition may be considered as one of the wheels of a two wheeler or a wheel of the four wheeler where besides logic and intuition character and knowledge are the other two wheels. This vehicle is our ride out of misery and sorrow. People who find themselves stuck on the road with no "way" ahead have one of the 4 missing wheels. Tommorow I shall write why character and knowledge play an equally important part in our progress.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.Gautama Buddha


In continuation of my yesterdays post we shall explore the meaning of knowledge which is the third wheel after logic and intuition. Suppose there are a thousand products all made up of clay is it nessecary to see and understand them individually ? No say the sages since if you know about Clay you know about all the 1000 products since their properties will be same. In the Mundaka Upanishads (1.1) Saunaka asked Angira: What is it, knowing which everything is known?

The art of knowing one chief constituent from where everything else emanates or springs out from is knowledge. Everything in the universe from the mighty planets to the lowly stones on the road including God ,human beings ,birds ,animals oceans, microscopic organisms, mountains non things like dreams, feelings like joy sorrow are composed of " atman". or simply said "spirit". Everything has a spirit behind the visible. Just like we need a lab and reagents to learn about a chemical we have been given a life and people and objects to learn about this spirit. By accepting this " Subtle Sense "( also the name of my facebook page ) and accepting this fact we all become " Atmajnani". When we realise its implication we are " Vijnani " or realised individuals. All religious books in all cultures running into crores of pages have been condensed into the above paragraph. Today you have all become Jnanis since this is the only knowledge in the whole world worth knowing . There is a spirit behind everything we see we touch we feel or what we hear. This knowledge that you have recieved today comes to people after many sorrowful births.


The last wheel of the vehicle which is our body is the character. Misunderstood as exemplary social behaviour that adheres to all social norms only a few roadside vagrants have got it correct when the use a term " Character deela hai ". A strong character can be defined as a perfect unity between the Thoughts and the words to the action. Lets see an example many boys on seeing a girl use the word " item " or " maal" with thoughts that edge on the derogatory. These same boys use words that are pleasing to their girlfriend sister mother and aunt. When they act their behaviour shows that they are chivalorous and courteous. The fear that their thoughts are unacceptable to society pulls their 3 idealogies viz. Actions Words and Thoughts in 3 different directions making the joints between them loose or deela. Many boys and girls secretly entertain thoughts which are socially unacceptable. So the transformation is in the thoughts not in our words and actions. A person smoking drinking eating non vegeterian food and visiting brothels if truly shows to everyone his actions and doesnt hide them has more character than a lady or a man getting up early in the morning and going to the temple harboring thoughts about a neighbour or thinking about how to hide his true intentions by showing a good cause. We are a spirit ( remember last post about knowlwdge) which is the closest to our thoughts and is influenced by our thinking. Thoughts are subtle and subtle sense is my facebook page. A strong character which is the result of the integration of our thoughts actions and words sends very subtle messages to our spirit which is present in everything ( see last post). Such messages from character can change the course of destiny. A dowser goes beyond the obvious actions and words in to the realm of thought ascertaining real character and changing the process of thoughts.

Ghanchakkar.... Not the Movie

Means crazy , insane or a lunatic in hindi slang.

The whole of this universe is mad -- some for wealth, some for pleasure, some for fame, some for a hundred other things. They are mad for gold, or husbands, or wives, for little trifles, mad to tyrannise over somebody, mad to become rich, mad for every foolish thing except God. And they can understand only their own madness. When another man is mad after gold, they have fellow - feeling and sympathy for him, and they say he is the right man, as lunatics think that lunatics alone are sane. Swami Vivekananda in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Vol 4. Pages 171-172


They are all mad. Children are [mad] after their games, the young after the young, the old [are] chewing the cud of their past years; some are mad after gold. Why not some after God? Swami Vivekananda in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Vol 6. Page 73

In my earlier post titled “ Sickness” dated 1st June, I had written how mental disorders have become very common these days.

Insanity refers to to the defective function of mental processes such as reasoning.

What impairs our function of reasoning ?

In my post on Investing for gains -2, my point no. 3 of being rational I have pointed out that we rely more than necessary on media and others to think for us. This makes us loose our capacity to discriminate and rationalise. The situation is similar to the blind following the blind.

In the quote above, Swami Vivekananda says that “ lunatics think that lunatics alone are sane” , the corollary being that lunatics take the sane to be insane. Insanity, then may be the only sanest thing.


By thinking that we are sane are we not really approving our insanity or may be we are acting maniacally
We have no memory of who we are since we confuse ourselves with the body
We have no clear idea of what we want, only an inkling perhaps
We have unaware of what is really happening around us
We have no clue where to look for our lost divinity, trying hard to find it everywhere but within our hearts.
We behave as deluded people by forgetting our “ real self” and loose the power of discrimination ultimately becoming spiritually “dead”




What Causes this insanity ?

Swami Nikhilananda in his book “ Man in search of Immortality” (page 49) says that the tendency of the mind to dwell on objects other than the self breeds attachment, which stimulates desires to posses “ those objects”. The frustration of desire is follow by anger, which produces delusions.




PS Though the title of the blog says that it is not about the movie, I find a compulsion to mention that after watching the theatrical trailers, I was attracted to its title, and was inspired to come up with a blog. On a related note I must mention here that I do not idolise any film star, but looking aurically ( purely from an energy point of view), Emraan Hashmi is a much better person than the many whom I see on TV. I am not a hindi movie buff and don’t remember the seeing a hindi movie in the last 13 years, but I may make an exception after reading a review.

Monk and Monad - Swami Vivekananda

31st May 1893. Swami Vivekananda leaves the Bombay Harbour to attend the parliament of religions in Chicago.


120 years ago, on this day, Swami Vivekananda did not go alone. He was carrying within Him a culture that had given birth to the mother of all religions. He was also carrying within Him an heart that bled for His countrymen. It was His love for India that made him travel over the Seven Seas, considered to be a sin if undertaken by a monk. But He was no ordinary monk.


He was a Monad. Monad (from Greek μονάς monas, "unit" from μόνος monos, "alone"), according to the Pythagoreans, was a term for Divinity or the first being, or the totality of all beings,Monad being the source or the One meaning without division.


This was the earlier defination of a Monad, Quantum Physics think of Monads The true simple substance is not atoms, but rather monads. Monads are unextended (shapeless and sizeless) force or energy that constitutes everything in nature. It's similar with atom in a number of ways, the difference being, atom is lifeless and material, whereas monads are dynamic and nonmaterial. Whereas the atomis lifeless and static by itself, the monads are capable of action on its own


One is a defination for a divine Human, the other for the particles or the processes that subatomic particles undertake.


Both the meanings are relevant to the towering personality of Swami Vivekananda. Swami Vivekananda was the collective soul of the people of India. He was not going alone. It was the anguish of the Indians wanting to be heard. On this day Swami Vivekananda was carrying a baggage of millions and millions of souls within Him. He was not alone.


PS. In the 9048 pages of The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, the word " India" is repeated 2329 times. Those were not just words. May be His heart used to beat 2329 in a minute for His Country, His Countrymen and their pitiable state. If you think it is an exaggeration, please read His life, His Saying, His writings. Your love for your country will expand thousandfold for your country.


“Swami Vivekananda saved Hinduism and saved India. But for him, we would have lost our religion and would not have gained our freedom. We therefore owe everything to Swami Vivekananda.”
- Sri Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (Dec 10, 1878 - Dec 25, 1972). He was popularly known as Rajaji or C.R. He was the first governor general of Independent India and was an Indian lawyer, writer, statesman and a devout Hindu.


Gandhi once said, “My love for India has become a thousandfold after thorough reading of Swami Vivekananda.”






Swami Vivekananda will not stop inspiring , because His heart still beats in the billions of Indians today whether they know about Him or not.