2025 and world peace

 Hari Aum.

A happy New Year to all readers-- I hope this year has started well for you. I had travelled to India to visit family in the past few weeks and had a lovely time. I returned a couple of days ago and am still quite jet-lagged so am writing a short post this evening to say only one thing (that I have said before on this blog)-- please pray and recite mantras daily for world peace this year in particular.

There are all sorts of people who are predicting less than entirely happy events for humanity in 2025 to put it mildly (these people range from psychics, to military experts and scientists). There is a sense that this year will see a culmination of events that have been building up for a while, and that wars in particular may escalate significantly.

From a Vedic astrology perspective, there are some rare clusters of planets this year which cannot really be said to be auspicious. There are some positive features about the year astrologically, but there are also some significant challenges.

The overall view in spiritual circles seems to be that this year is not an ordinary one. It can be a time for significant spiritual progress, and it can potentially be very challenging materially for humanity as a whole.

I would therefore like to say three things:

1. Please perform a daily spiritual practice (e.g. chant a mantra of your favourite form of the Divine daily for at least 5 minutes once or twice daily). Do this for your own spiritual and material welfare and for those who are dear to you.

2. In addition to the usual prayers for yourself and your loved ones, kindly pray for the overall welfare of humanity and life on this planet

3. Try to consciously live an ethical life to the best of your ability (adhere to the yogic ethics as much as possible; nobody expects perfection here, however a sincere effort would be helpful).

I hope and pray that, in accordance with the teachings of Sivananda and other Gurus, our combined prayers and mantra recitation will contribute in some measure to peace on this planet.

With regard to my spiritual practice, I am continuing with daily ashtakshara mantra japa as part of my sixth purascharana (carrying on with 7 malas daily). I have completed my Radha sadhana and have now returned to Lakshmi worship (one mini-mala of 27 recitations per day). I have started worship of Lord Skanda (for astrological reasons; will likely write another post on this later).

Om shanti shanti shantih.

Om Sri Durgayai Namah.

Om Namo Narayanaya,

P.S. Due to the recent travel, I was unable to offer the Krishna books that I previously wrote for free download from Amazon over the beginning of the New Year (as has been the habit in the past)-- apologies for this. I will therefore arrange this in the coming 1-2 weeks and update this post with further details in the coming days. In the meantime, please follow Krishna and Guru’s advice to chant and pray for world peace.

Hari Aum Tat Sat.