{"id":18854,"date":"2023-02-22T00:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/?p=18854"},"modified":"2023-02-23T00:49:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T19:19:27","slug":"ash-wednesday-personal-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/ash-wednesday-personal-transformation","title":{"rendered":"Ash Wednesday &#038; Personal Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Pillai-Center-Blog-Template-11.png\" alt=\"Ash Wednesday\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Pillai-Center-Blog-Template-11.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Pillai-Center-Blog-Template-11-980x515.png 980w, https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Pillai-Center-Blog-Template-11-480x252.png 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; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>Dr. Pillai<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI have a personal transformation message for you, which I actually <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deliver on Ash Wednesday. It is just simply not a personal transformation, but <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">also the entire world because of what is going on in the world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Everybody has been unhappy since COVID-19 and it continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">What is the solution?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><b>I will deliver the whole solution on Ash Wednesday<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Ash Wednesday is on February 22nd. Why is Ash Wednesday so important? Because it is a period of penance starting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the lent season, the first day of lent, where Jesus <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">secluded himself for 40 days until the trial, and culminating in Easter, when he was resurrected.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">This importance of penance, and gaining superhuman powers is what is implied in the period of lent, of fasting and penance, which is repentance. Repentance simply means repenting of our sin, the sin is our ignorance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is not a metaphysical concept. We do not know what is going to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">happen. We do not know how to make money, it is all lack of knowledge, which is a sin.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">That is connected to Ash Wednesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>On Ash Wednesday, there is a special transformational message I am going to give which involves the ash<\/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;\">The ash is very important in Hinduism. You have seen people putting ash on their foreheads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">On Ash Wednesday, people put ash on their forehead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><b>This is the place of the Third Eye on going beyond human suffering and ignorance and then bringing you to superhuman powers<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That culminates in the triumphant entry of Jesus back with all the powers. That is also <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what I am going to talk about on Palm Sunday which is April 2nd, Jesus and the Siddhi <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">powers. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will talk about that on that day\u00a0 and then the resurrection on April 9th, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Ascension Day of Jesus on May 18th. These are all some of the things that I am <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">planning to do for my students who mostly come from Christian families <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and have Christian friends.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What I am going to do now on Ash Wednesday is talk about the Ash on the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">forehead and Palm Sunday, which is April 2nd. These are palm leaves, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you burn the leaves. These are my own power objects that I am carrying. These are scriptures by the Siddhas written in Tamil and there are also some leaves where nothing is written, but the leaves and the letters will appear <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but only for the reader.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><b>The palm leaf itself is divine and the ash of the palm leaves is even more divine<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">These are important for me as a person whose specialties are comparative religion, mysticism, and supernormal powers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I look forward to seeing you on February 22nd which is Ash Wednesday and then <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">following that on April 2nd which is Palm Sunday, that triumphant writing of Jesus <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christ with great Siddhi powers to rescue humanity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><b>I invite you to attend these programs and then become superhuman people<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">That is what is going to happen during this special time with Hindus, I expect at least part of them to think that this is the beginning of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/living-with-gods-goddesses-in-the-golden-age\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golden Age<\/a>.\u00a0<\/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>Prepare for Jesus\u2019 Supernormal Powers on Ash Wednesday\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rnwhE30Gfms\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><b>Watch Replay of Dr. Pillai Talking About Ash Wednesday\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SMXZkhLurVc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Pillai: \u201cI have a personal transformation message for you, which I actually deliver on Ash Wednesday. 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