Explore Dr. Pillai’s spiritual revelations on Hayagriva (also known as Hayagriva)—the horse-headed God of Supreme Intelligence and Consciousness. Learn how Hayagriva can awaken divine knowledge, guide you in the Golden Age, and activate brain-centered enlightenment through breath and mantra.
The Descent of Hayagriva in the Golden Age
“The one energy that is descending into this earth plane at this time is Hayagriva, ”The Horse-faced God of Intelligence.” He’s considered an Avatar of Vishnu, and he is the “God of Consciousness,” he’s the “God of Intelligence.” So it’s important at this juncture (where we are going through the transition from materialism to spiritualism onto “The Golden Age”) that we connect with Hayagriva.
The Saint Who Lived with Hayagriva
I will start with giving you an understanding of Hayagriva from the personal experiences of a great, great saint who just lived here around 400 years ago. His name is Vadiraja. Vadiraja lived in Karnataka, which is in southern India. And he lived 120 years, hale and healthy, and had a tremendous amount of power, Siddhi powers, super-normal powers. And he was a great devotee of Hayagriva.
God visits you. It’s not that you have to go to God. This God Hayagriva, “The God of Intelligence”, visited him. How did he visit him? He visited him in a very strange way. And that throws a lot of light on understanding the whole Divine Phenomena, and how one can connect with this phenomenon.
There was a sculptor who was making a statue of Ganesha, “The Elephant-headed God.” He would make the statue, and the following morning, he would look at the statue, and it would have become Hayagriva with a horse face. This happened many times, and he became intrigued by it.
And then Hayagriva appeared in both the dreams of these two people, that is, Vadiraja and the sculptor. And this statue needs to be handed over to Vadiraja. So, Vadiraja went and collected the deity from him, and this is how the deity came to him. So, it gives us some great insight into statues.
Statue Worship Is a Science
The story of Vadiraja, where the Ganesha statue, the Elephant-headed God statue, becomes a Horse-headed statue, is an example of how God reaches out to you through a statue. And this is a very important concept. Statue worship is a science. I strongly recommend that the statue of anyone – I don’t say that you have to have only the Hayagriva one. You can have a statue of Mary or of the Buddha, or whoever you want to have, and that will come alive. And that’s a science. Now, what is the statue going to give you? Hayagriva, as I said, is a ”God of Intelligence,” of “Consciousness,” who can give you a tremendous amount of power.
Healing Through Thought and Consciousness
For instance, if somebody has cancer, it’s not necessary that you only have to go to a doctor to get it taken care of. I’m not saying you shouldn’t go to a doctor. You should go to a doctor. But the olden way of doing it is the spiritual way. And then you can go to a higher level of consciousness and diffuse it through your own thought form. Because you thought the disease into manifestation, and you have to think it out, so that it de-manifests.
So everything originates in thought, even a disease. So what you need to do is understand your consciousness. And the “God of Consciousness” is Hayagriva. And his descent into this earth plane is very significant. And he is the teacher of Saraswati, who is the Goddess of Intelligence, education, arts, and so forth.
The Symbolism of the Horse
Now, let’s try to understand the image or the form of Hayagriva. He has a horse head and a human body. And I need to talk to you for about a few hours in order to understand the symbolism of horse and what horse represents. And there are so many books about the Horse and what it symbolizes. The Horse can do a lot of miracles; it has the highest consciousness.
There is a saying in Yoga: “breathe like a horse and not like a dog”. The horse will run a race and will not pant and a dog will sit in your air-conditioned room and still pant. Why? Because the horse has mastered his breath. And what is the breath? Breath is Intelligence. The horse can cure you.
Look at Martin Buber and the Horse and how he was enlightened instantaneously through the help of the horse. Now you can understand that the horse is simply not an animal. It is some being that can give you the highest intelligence. And that intelligence comes to you through the breath energy of the horse. The horse can give you “How to regulate your breath”.
Hayagriva Can Teach You to Breathe Divine Air
Because breath is consciousness, breath is life. If the breathing leaves your body, you die, so the breathing instead of just going into the lungs, it’s a very complicated technology that the Yogis and the Siddhas use, they don’t breathe at all. They can completely internalize their breathing and then send the breathing to the brain. There won’t be any lung breathing involved at all. The lung breathing will subside and go into the brain. At that time breath and the life force are one and the same.
So that’s why there is a saying among the Siddhas: “Who is God? God is the air. And what is the air? That is life. Air is life.” But not the air which is oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen or any physical air, but it is the spiritual one. The oxygen of course contains parts of these Divine airs, out of which prana is the most important one. Even within the Divine air, they are invisible. There are at least 10 different ones. “Dasa Vayu” in Sanskrit. And the Prana is the most important one.
And Hayagriva can teach you all of that instantaneously. And this can happen even when you go near a horse, and then you are very alert. You’ll be able to get a lot from the horse. And the horse can change your breathing pattern. And the nostril breathing will stop, and then the breath will get into the brain, the midbrain particularly, and then eventually into the pineal gland. That’s where you can have a great experience, and Hayagriva changes you, evolves you through this process.
The Restorer of the Vedas
Mythologically speaking, he’s the God who just incarnated in order to retrieve the Vedas. The Vedas are the textbooks of Vishnu of the ancient Indians. And the book contains all the Siddhi powers that you can attain just by mastering your Consciousness. It is not just by material sciences or modern sciences. It is a Spiritual Science. And these Vedas were on the earth plane. And then, according to mythology, it was stolen by demons. And then Hayagriva incarnated to retrieve this wisdom from the demons. And he killed the demons, and then he brought the Vedas back into this earth plane.
Now, you are familiar with Joseph Campbell’s interpretation of the myths. The myths are eternally true. They have different layers of meaning. The narrative, which is the story aspect, is true too. It’s not just symbolism. It is true.
Hayagriva Is Real
It’s true that Hayagriva, as God, exists in another plane. And then he can be accessed through a statue or your mind, imagining his form. And that is going to be tremendously crucial for lifting your consciousness. And that‘s the reason why I had to speak about the horse’s head, and the horse itself is a Divine animal of a higher intelligence. That can give you instantaneous enlightenment. So nothing here is a superstition. So they are beyond our rationalistic understanding.
The problem with science and technology is that we have to reduce everything to human reasoning. That’s where the problem starts, but if you go into a different realm, then reality changes.
The God of Miracles and Devotion
So Hayagriva does exist, and today is his descent into the earth plane. And if you connect with him, then there will be the Highest Intelligence. And why do we have to have the Highest Intelligence is because everything is based on your intelligence.
So intelligence is fundamentally what you need to have. And if you have it, not only you can manipulate matter, but you can also evolve more, and disappear into Light. It’s not only that intelligence helps you to make more money. Please don’t misunderstand that. But it is important to make money. The mind is really a tricky one.
The White Horse and the Miracle of Protection
Hayagriva performed a lot of Miracles for Vadiraja – a number of Miracles. He will come and tell him in the dream what is going to happen, because even 400 years ago, when Vadiraja was living, he had enemies, and the enemies were trying to kill him, poison him.
And it’s very interesting how he is related to Hayagriva. Hayagriva used to come to him in the form of a white horse. And he will hold a big pot, a vessel, and then there will be a cooked horse gram. Horse gram is a special lentil that you feed a horse with. He will cook the food, and then he will hold the vessel on top of his head, and the white horse will come. This is a real horse. This is not meditation. This is not a hallucination, or anything of the kind. Really, a little horse, a white horse, comes, and then he sits on or he puts the front legs on the shoulders of Vadiraja, and he will eat the horse gram. And he will leave some horse gram for Vadiraja to eat. And Vadiraja will eat the rest, the leftover from Hayagriva, because for him the Horse was Hayagriva.
One day, his enemies wanted to kill him, and they poisoned the horse gram. And what they wanted was: they wanted to kill the horse, and also they wanted to kill Vadiraja. The horse came, and he ate every bit of the food. And usually the horse will leave him some, for Vadiraja to eat. Because the horse, the Hayagriva, knew that it was mixed with poison, he did not want Vadiraja to eat and die, so he ate everything. And because Hayagriva was God, it did not harm him. There are many, many Miracles that Hayagriva performed for Vadiraja.
Hayagriva’s Mantra for Ending Suffering
So, he’s the “God of Life”, “God of Consciousness”, ”God of Intelligence”. So I am now going to now declare that he is the God who is going to give us the Highest Intelligence.
So it’s a great device. So that’s why I have commissioned 1-inch small statues of Hayagriva that will be made available to you.
Now I want to introduce you to 1 chant given by Vadiraja himself. Because you have to go to the Saint who had direct contact with a particular deity to know about the deity. In this case, Vadiraja is the best because he lived Hayagriva, and Hayagriva himself came to him, not that he reached out to him. And that’s the best scenario, that the God, whoever that is, reaches out to you because of your particular connection with that God from a previous lifetime. And so I’m going to give you a sound, a chant that he used, that will put an end to all of your suffering. This is what he said: “If you do this, your sufferings—physical, mental, financial—all this will end.”
Hayagriva Meditation for Relief from Mental & Emotional Struggles
– Close your eyes.
– Watch your breath.
– Put your attention in the 2 nostrils, and the 3rd eye, which is the pineal gland.
– Put your attention on your spinal column.
– Chant: “NA HAYAGREEVAT PRANIPATYA SEEDATI” (3 times)
– I’m going to chant this 32 times.
– Visualize the spinal column going into the brain while you listen to this chant.
– Your attention should only be on the spinal column when you listen.
– “NA HAYAGREEVAT PRANIPATYA SEEDATI” (32 times)
– Now keep your eyes closed.
– Relax.”
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