{"id":18509,"date":"2022-10-16T06:33:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T01:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/?p=18509"},"modified":"2022-10-22T05:55:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T00:25:39","slug":"dr-pillai-shares-significance-of-muruga-and-skanda-shasti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/dr-pillai-shares-significance-of-muruga-and-skanda-shasti","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Pillai Shares Significance of Muruga and Skanda Shasti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3rd-Eye-Vel-Blog-Image.jpg\" alt=\"Muruga third eye vel \" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3rd-Eye-Vel-Blog-Image.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3rd-Eye-Vel-Blog-Image-980x515.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3rd-Eye-Vel-Blog-Image-480x252.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1200px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><b>Dr. Pillai<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">On October 25th, 2022, we have a celebration coming up, which marks the descent of Muruga, Subramanya, Skanda, Kartikeya\u2014these are his names.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Muruga is a special God. His descent means an opportunity for all of us to receive his power and gift. What is the gift he gives to human beings? The gift of getting, learning, acquiring, and receiving the skill or secret of performing miracles. He gives you that technology of how to do miracles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Rational mind is the problem. It will not allow you to understand and perform miracles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><b>Muruga removes the rational mind through his Vel, the lance that he carries<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">That is a symbol of the third eye; that is also the symbol of the Goddess.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">He is coming down into this Earth plane. It means a lot, not simply the opening of the third eye, but also victory over negativity, our inner and outer negative characters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">It is a cyclical happening comparable to the Jewish calendar of celebration corresponding to the phases of the moon. The six days of celebration of Muruga\u2019s descent corresponds to the six phases of the moon beginning from the first moon to the sixth moon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">On the sixth moon day is his victory over demonic forces, and he kills the demon Surapadma.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><b>The mastery that you will get during this time is very valuable for human existence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">You will get power over your body, mind, and ultimately defeat Maya. Maya is a goofy life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">By nature, we are not conscious people. For instance, we are thinking so many<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">thoughts in a minute, maybe 35 or 40 thoughts, I have always talked about that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Most of them are goofy thoughts, and our activities are also like that, and what is enjoyable is just wasting time in entertainment. I am not against entertainment. I want to give you bliss, never-ending bliss, second-by-second.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">How do you get it? You have to just move into your third eye.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Once your third eye is open, the whole world will look very differently<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">There will not be any doubt of your divinity and intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The intelligence that you will get on this day is the intelligence that allows you to experience miracles through the opening of higher consciousness that is within the pineal gland, which is called the &#8220;third eye.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">That can happen only at a certain time period every year, and that is the sixth moon on the 30th.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">It is a great opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">You will have the opportunity to open the third eye through the victory of Muruga, Skanda\u2014Skanda is also another name for Muruga\u2014over illusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Our poverty is an illusion. Our prosperity is also an illusion. What about your real life or real nature? You are unlimited, full, and blissful. You should experience this at every second while still you are involved in the mind-based body and senses-based experiences. Beyond that, we do not know.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Beyond the sensory and mind experiences, we do not know what we are capable of. On the sixth day, I am going to do a program, an initiation, to help you experience this bliss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">This bliss also goes along with the highest intelligence possible, leading you to look at your physical body, mind as simply light, as spiritual photon light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">The purpose of life is not simply to go through this process of birth and death, with so many challenges in between.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Growing up is a challenge, diseases are a challenge, relationships are a challenge,, and then we die. We never even ask the question, \u2018What is the purpose of life? Are we here to be born again and die?\u2019 No, that is not it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><b>The real reason why we are here is to completely understand our real nature, our real bliss, our nature as God<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Heaven is not something that you will get after you die. Heaven is right now. It has to be experienced. These six days of Muruga give you an opportunity. I have made a lot of videos on Muruga and his teachings, available both in Tamil and in English, over a period of ten years. You can listen to that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">But on the 30th, which is the last day, I will give you an initiation to erase your karma, and then to open the third eye in order to experience the descent of the Amrita, which occupies the body and gives you super consciousness, and that is the sixth day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I invite you to take advantage of this important timing and special day of Muruga. If you lose it, you have to wait for the next Skanda Shasti. It is better to do it now. It is my personal invitation for all of you to participate in this program. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are very thankful to Muruga for doing this every year.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">God bless!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><b>Skanda Shasti 2022 Free Community Gatherings<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Experience the most powerful time of the year to clear karma &amp; awaken the Third Eye with a free 3-Day Series + 6-Day Immersion Series Oct. 21 &#8211; 23 | Oct. 25 &#8211; 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Skanda Shasti is a six-day powertime that occurs only once per year. According to the Siddhas, it is the most influential powertime to awaken your third eye. Each of the six days focuses on clearing karma in one of the six chakras, culminating in the awakening of the sixth chakra, which is the third eye.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Skanda Shasti is an auspicious time to access Muruga: the Divine energy of Supreme Warrior Archetype &amp; Destroyer of Negativity. By connecting with him, you can invoke his mighty blessings to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Destroy Debts, Legal Issues, Enemies, and Bad Karma<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Gain Supreme Wisdom to Overcome Challenges<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Boost Your Intelligence to Succeed in All Endeavors<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><b>Pillai Center\u2019s Community Gatherings Are Designed to:<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Help prepare you for Skanda Shasti through Dr. Pillai\u2019s enriching education, wisdom, and techniques for connecting with Lord Muruga<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Guide you through the 6 days of Skanda Shasti with immersive, interactive daily events to help you achieve a fruitful and valuable experience<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><b>Live Teaching with Dr. Pillai | Defeat Negativity during Skanda Shasti<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">October 23: What Is Skanda Shasti, Who Is Muruga, and What Blessings Can He Bring?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/events\/skanda-shasti-2022-community-events#LB-WXhktghZRRJPh2FrnavVnH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Receive Reminders<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WmPCz6ZQcsU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch Here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><b>Lord Muruga Preparatory Series | October 21 &#8211; 23 (PT)<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Immerse yourself in rich teachings from Dr. Pillai, guided by an experienced Pillai Center Teacher<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Day 1 | Who is Lord Muruga?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Oct. 21 at 6 pm PT | Oct. 22 at 1 am UTC; 6:30 am IST<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Day 2 | How to Relate to Lord Muruga<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Oct. 22 at 6 pm PT | Oct. 23 at 1 am UTC; 6:30 am IST<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Day 3 | How to Bond with Lord Muruga<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Oct. 23 at 6 pm PT | Oct. 24 at 1 am UTC; 6:30 am IST<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/events\/skanda-shasti-2022-community-events#LB-WXhktghZRRJPh2FrnavVnH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Receive Reminders<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLOXdfmL8SrolFEooX0QesF9UDe-mUBmjw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch Here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><b>Immersion Series | Community Meditation and Mantra-Chanting<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Engage in a variety of immersive meditations and mantras from Dr. Pillai, as well as interactive tips to try at home to help you best experience the karma-clearing rewards of Skanda Shasti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">These experiences can help you achieve a conducive state to invoke Muruga, connect with your higher self, activate your third eye, and experience a deep focus on karma-clearing throughout your chakras.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Day 1 | How to Evolve with Lord Muruga<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Oct. 25 at 6 pm PT | Oct. 26 at 1 am UTC; 6:30 am IST<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Day 2 | How to Clear Anxiety, Depression, Fear or Anger with Lord Muruga&#8217;s Vel<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Oct. 26 at 6 pm PT | Oct. 27 at 1 am UTC; 6:30 am IST<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Day 3 | How to Erase Bad Karma with Lord Muruga&#8217;s Vel<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 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