How to Identify Your Ishta Devata: 5 Minutes with Dr. Robert
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ค. 2024
- In this episode, Dr. Robert details how to identify your Ishta Devata.
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Dr. Robert Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training he was tutored in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. He is the author of over a dozen books and has served as Adjunct Faculty at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, NM, and at Bastyr University in Kenmore, WA.
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My ishta devta is krishna. My mom concieved me when my parents were staying in Krishna Nagar, I was born in GirdhariLal hospital, first house we bought was in Dwarka..etc etc. this life too he made sure that I do not forget him, thats why so many signs. Krishna is everywhere for me. I think from many of my past lives he is with me, always and always. JAI SHRI KRISHNA🙏
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😊 me too born at GL Hospital. Jai Sri Krishna.
Jai shree krishna
Hare Krishna ❤
@@user-zj1bn6mu9j My ishta devta is Shri Shani dev. May the Ravens protect all.
Sometimes you just get drawn to the deity. It’s like a magnetic pull. You read upon the deity and you automatically feel a soul connection. It can be very powerful. And it’s a life long journey with him or her.
The same happened with me as well. Felt connected to Vishnu
My ishta is Goddess Lalita. Her Sahasranama evokes within me a loving feeling towards her. I keep calling to her, saying “Mother.”
Same 👍👍, Shree matre namaha!
Do you need initiation before chanting her name? I started chanting sahasranam since then my health is faliing down also a lot of stress going on
@@bhavyapandey4053 chanting the name does not require diksha
My Ista devi is Ma Maha Kali 🌺🌺🌺🙏🙏.. Ma has saved me, granted my wish and protected me in so many ways!! Whenever I see her murti, tear rolls down from my eyes without any reason... Ma ka koi comparison nahi hain.. 🌺🌺🌺🙏🙏..
I feel exactly the same 🕉
Same here 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Jai Maa Kaali 🙏🏻
Friend I know how you feel. My Ishta devata is also Ma Kali.
Jai Maa Kali!
How does one worship maa kali. I also feel attraction towards maa but dont know how to worship maa
My ishta devata is Lord Hanuman.❤❤ I feel to first bow to him whenever i go to any temple. I keep searching for his idol in every temple i go to..he has helped me so much in my life. I do not ask for anything from him but he knows i am sad he always always makes path for me. I feel like he also likes me. ❤❤ I love hanuman ji very very much ❤
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I self identified Skanda (Maruga) as my Ishta Devata. I just felt close to him and events just conspired to have him enter my life through courses and presentation through Pillai Center. I started to do daily puja to Skanda, and it seems that my relationship with him has really blossomed. I just intuitively knew that Skanda was my deity. Of course, everyone must find their own path - via their birth chart, their guru, or whatever way appeals to them. My life has been immeasurably enhanced by daily communing with Skanda.
You are very fortunate and you accomplished something very unusual today.
@@Dhruv_Dogra Thank you. I am indeed grateful to have Skanda as an Ishta Devata, but more importantly, to have him as my personal friend and confidant. Skanda has relayed to me that he does not want to be treated like a God, but as a peer and a friend.
Good are you American 😊
@@TheKing-qu8cm Yes - I am an American of European ancestry. But I have always been attracted to eastern mysticism and eastern practices - meditation, hatha yoga, pranayama, and of course, the various archetypes - Shiva, Ganesha, Skanda, the devi, etc. So much wonderful depth!
Skanda, also known as Murugan in Tamil Nadu has extensive literature in Tamil language. Thirupugazh (Thiru - eternal, Pugazh - praise) is an excellent anthology of poems written by Saint Arunagiri Nathar with Rhyme and Rhythm, filled with tongue twisters, yet simple. Lord Murugan is known for bestowing Gnana or Wisdom. That is why the most Siddhars prayed to Lord Murugan. I wish People understood Tamil, because ThiruPugazh is mesmerizing with the rhymes, rhythms and meaning.
My Ishta Devta is Bajrang Bali 🙏🙏
Jay SriRam 🙏🏽🌺🌹☝🏾
this is one of the most beautiful comment section i have seen. thanks for guiding
Dr. Robert Namaskar. I had a dream in the early morning for three consecutive days of Tirupati Balaji. I worship HIM but I didn't go to any temple. After HE appeared in my dream I visited three temples very next day near my home. I get called to visit HIM as I say saranagati pasuram every day
Greetings Dr Robert. I’m a big fan, we met at Sivananda Centre, in Richmond. Please keep sharing your wisdom and insights. 🙏💛
Our famliy kuldaivata is Mahalakshmi of Kolhapur. She directed me to the proper Isht daiv ...SHIVA. I'm not much into prashadam or naivedyamm..my nature is to perform fasting. I love giving up food for Lord. So it's SHIVA
Perfect explanation.
Hariḥ Oṁ Śrī Gurubhyo namaḥ Hariḥ Oṁ
Im impressed by your knowledge of this concept. My dad being an astrologer ive seen him describe or try to describe kula devas of ppl who come to him and usually getting it right. A place to start would be the upasana deva of the father/mother, however a person may have a different ishta deva. Next comes kula deva, then comes any temple nearest were the person used to regularly visit in childhood or even now, or any temple were the person/parents/grand parents worked at in any capacity, be it priest or be it staff. We have seen all these temples come up as important for that person as indicated by horoscope. Basically charity begins at home. Start from home and work outward.. Good video.
Thank you doctor.
You made things very simple.
Thank you again sir.
My Ishta Devata is Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. ❤
Wonderful.
Please tell us about internal worship .
Thank you so much for all the wisdom and knowledge 🙏🙌
my kuldevta / kuldevi is Devi MahaKaali .and ista devta is bhagwaan Shri Krishna .
Thanks for this!
My Ishtar decays is shiva🙏
Thank you so much 🙏
Very helpful video.
Thanks a lot ,Sir. Your idea of Dream is some how more appropriate to me, I knew who is my ISHTA DEV, in my point of view ISHTA DEV is that LORD even if u don't like or worship that particular LORD before, but he is the one who helps us without any prayer, who comes in our dream in the worst phase of our life & in the most helpless situations. The other Lord whom we love, respect,worship don't care about our situations its called blind devotion due to MAYA, only bcz ur fortune don't want U to live a higher level of spiritual life by which u become Enlightened & get Salvation so it humilates & manipulates u by misguiding U by other Lords who treat u like slaves. It is very much practical when U get the patronage of ur ISHTA DEV, U become Fearless, Contented, Enlightened & everything happens in a right way for U by his GRACE only. AUM NAMAH SHIVAY.🕉️🙏🙏🙏🔱
Thank you so much
I have self identified and got an indication that lord shiva is my calling as my ishta devta
Thank you sir!
This is great 😂 love your delivery
I just subscribed and look forward to your videos 🙏 A lot of this is new to me; big learning curve. I’ve done Yogananda’s SRF lessons this year and recently started reading his Second Coming of Christ. In years past, Jesus has come to me in significant dreams, but not Guruji or any other Kriya master. I feel a little lost, but Master’s writings are such a help to me. I will carry on.
I wish you well on your path
very nice..
Thank you very much 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank u 🙏🏽
Thank you sir
Thank you Sir......
Hery helpful.
Thanks giving me some guidance 🙏🙏🙏
Much thanks, this video came to me at an opportune time.
Muruga
Dr. Svoboda
I have asc in Virgo Mangalik Dosha and I believe my AtmaKaraka highest degree planet is Shani. Om Hai Namaste
Right from my early childhood I have been drawn towards Lord Ayyappan of Sabarimala, the Dharmasastha. Whenever I think of Lord Ayyappa my eyes wells in tears, throat gets choked, I feel drawn towards him without any desire. Now Iam 60 and still continues to go to Sabarimala, everytime I go the attachment has only increased, my ishta devata is Lord Ayyappan, that is what I think, though Iam not a wise man. Can you comment Shri Robert Slovida ji?
Acc to my birth chart, lord ayyappan is my ishtha devta but I never knew about him because I am from UP. I am personally very attracted to God Shiva and prays him. I don't know if it's important to worship ishtha devta only acc to birth chart?
Also Brahma dev is also my ishtha devta. The website showed both bhramha dev and Ayyappa as my ishtha dev.
Robert ji thank you so much lovely hearing your voice ! Accept my Naman 🙏🏻! May I ask you is it okay to say aloud who our isht devata is ? If yes May I ask who is yours? If we are not allowed to say it I respect that wish you well & I will be listening to more of you so I can learn more about spirituality and try my best to get closer to God
_One and only Rama........_ 💞🚩
Jay SriRam ☝🏾🙏🏽🌺🌹
Jay SriRam
Jay Bajrangbali 🙏🏽☝🏾🌺🌹🚩🔥💥🕉
Jai Bhairavi Devi gurubyo namah sri
This dark and fiery divine wench
You have no need she cannot quench
Give yourself to the Three-Eyed one
In the world of maya you have won
Beautiful ❤
For those who want to practice to the minute details......
Study your horoscope and find which deity you were praying in your previous birth and continue it, this way you will achieve higher success.
How can it be found out by horo..which aspect of it?
@@KPKomal Consult a good astrologer, who does not take money, try mostly from kerala, He should be ethically and morally a good astro.
@@KPKomalby reading lagna chart
The first time I went to a Siddha Yoga Meditation we chanted the Maha Mantra and had a vision of a short dark being with epaulets with an inverted triangle on his chest with an upward spiral inside in meditation. I had no idea who it was. Twenty years later I saw a painting with Vamana and recognized the Deity as who I had seen in my meditation. I still have no idea how to worship Vamana and I have never been able to find another image that had that same apearance.
Thanks you for sharing your experience. Indeed u r blessed to have the divine darshan (vision). Appreciate sharing your experience. Hope you find your way back to Lord Vamana (Lord Vishnu’s avatar)
Are you still interested to worship vamana avatara?
He is avatar of Vishnu. I suggest you start simple with reading Vishnu sahasranama daily with the image of vamana in your mind.
You can offer Water, Tulsi (Basil) and food to him in your mind or in actual. Depending on what is possible. All Vishnu avatar are more of bhakti.
If you still want some rituals, may I suggest you to visit any madhwaacharya mutt in Karnataka and meet the seer there who may tell you vedic way. Or you can visit vrindavan or mathura. I'm sure Krishna's followers also have way to worship vamana avatara in bhakti path
Thank you so much Dr.
I am doing exactly the same from quite few weeks May be months but I still don't know who is my Istha? What else I can do Dr. Robert! Pls help.
thanku :).
Jai Shri Ram.
Thanks for making this video.
Thank you sir. Namaskarams
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🕉 Namo Rudra YAH
Please provide methods/steps to identify using astrology for the benefit of all
thank you guru ji.
Hara hara Mahadev.... Shambho shankara pahimam, pahimam 🙏🙏🙏
Sometimes you just know. A song, chating of the name, or even a picture of the deity. When you experience any of this, you feel a connection to that deity. It can't be explained in words, you just know instinctively. For me, it is Vishnu/Rama/Krishna.
In what way, may Ganapathi Or any deity indicate us, of who our istadevatha is?
#JaiSanatanaDharma ❤
Please explain Gotra system
It strange but.. I was wondering about this very question....and the video popped up...
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What about the mind and heart naturally absorbed in a deity. I have tried chanting other mantras. I can't do. My mind naturally flows towards my Deity. I can only chant my Deity's mantra effortlessly.
You can have a good jyothishi look at your birth chart. The ishta is easily located this way.
My ishta devi is Mahakaali maa❤❤ she protects me take care of me . Connection to her fill my eyes with tears pure bliss and a pain to merge with her in energy form.
I m on my way to find my ishta devta😊
My guru is Shri neeb karori maharaj. My isht dev is Sita Ram ji & Hanuman ji .. as emphasised by maharaj ji
My isht devta is hanuman ji and shiv ji.. Jai shree ram
I didn’t know about Kali or the other deities for the longest time, still feel like I’m learning about them. However, I took an online test to see which deity I connect with and it was Kali. The more I read about her, the more I was like wait a minute. When I type fan fictions my character sounds a lot like this. I think she also gave me Vishnu’s name and I sometimes get an odd feeling that Kali disagrees with Shiva when it comes to me. So I’m not 100% sure if it’s just Kali or Kali and Vishnu or not.
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Hi Sir, Like Ganapati, how will batuk bhairava god worship?
Knowledge information what each icon stands for which human value or need might help.Knowing that icon fully helps.Conflicting icon as istta devta bhakti might hurt?
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What if you are naturally drawn to a particular God? You have no hint, no clarity but you just feel a divine connection and unexplainable desire to worship that deity. My heart would break if i learn that he is not my ishta 😞
Also : accept my naman on your lotus feet. 🙏
The Sanskrit word "ishta" means desired, cherished, beloved. If you are naturally drawn to a particular deity, feel a connection, and enjoy a causeless desire to worship that deity, and if your heart would break if you were to discover that that deity is not your ishta - then that deity is most certainly your ishta Emoji
Thanks a lot sir. My emoji : 🔱
My Ishta devata is Lord Vishnu
What should I do if astrologer told me about my ishta ..but I don't feel connection with this God?According to the words of astrologer ..my ishta devata is Vishnu(I have saturn as ishta ).However ,I don't really feel that he is my ishta devata.
Goddess Lakshmi ❤
I am always pull towards goddess but still its hard to figure out which form is my Ista, I have been attactred to buddhist avalokiteshvara which is considered as goddess of compassion but I also attracted to the furious form of tantrik goddess too, I am so confused, I just find them they are beautiful of thier own way and feeling sense of mother in in compassion and also the furious form. Can someone guess who is my Ishta?
QUESTION: Robert, if you find a God or a Goddess whose shlokas inspire you awe, serenity and a sort of blooming love(not yet the highest form of Bhakti or Divine Mad love as Si Ramakrishna describes) but starts developing a gradual feeling of love inside you towards He or She and also grants you miracles, is that your Ishta Devata? Even though the only moment you connect with each other is through the Shloka??
Yes. The mind, the eyes, the ears: any of our 5 senses can enable us to reach out and find the connect.
Well, those shlokas must actually be mantras. Mantras are in reality the embodiment of the devi devatas themselves. So when you chant the mantras, you are actually connecting with the Devi/Devatas.
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Dr . Sir , I wish to meet you, How to meet you? Where do you live in India? I have read books written by you.
How do you know All this???
Once in my dreams I started calling.Yog yogeshwar ...and I woke up from my dream...I searched...but could not confirmed figure out whether it isLord vishnu or Lord Shiv.....
Is it possible to connect with you sir?
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My Kula Deva and Ishta Devata is Mother Durga
Dr Robertji Hari om... You always say ganesh was vighna karta before he became vighna harta.. Is there a story?
Yes there is a story, Supposedly there used to be Four Vinayakas they used to cause troubles then one day SHIVA decided to fix that and Merge these Four Vinayakas into One Who Is Now Known As Ganesh. Although this story is believed by only a few people
My Ishta Devta is LORD of LORDS, LORD SHIVA
Om oh gurudev please grant me my trueself Om
Please guide me be my mentor
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i wonder what will be my Kula devta if i come from Differennt Dharmic religion...
The best way to know your Ishta Devata is to directly perceive Him or Her via ritambhara prajna (clairvoyance, Cf. Patanjali's Yoga Sutras). The accuracy will depend on the degree of your development of ritambhara prajna. Selection by a guru is accurate only to the extent that the guru has ritambhara prajna. A very common way to know one's Ishtadevata is your feeling, which Devata feels most familiar to you, whom you like the most, feel most drawn to (not intellectual, but emotional). Prayer or sincere request is a good point made in the video, including starting with Ganapati (Ganesh) and also Devi, or any Devata (one of the 5 Devatas (Panchadevata, the other 2 being Surya and Vishnu). Re: astrologers. a) astrologers vary quite widely in their abilities, and b) there are more than one astrological method of determining Ishtadevata. So astrology is reliable to the extent that a) the astrologer is skilled, and b) the method used is accurate. Thanks for the video and knowledge points.
A Guru told me Maa Dhumavati is the only deity that can help me!
Hi Sir may I ask if Linkam can be my ishta devata?
So shiva ..
Alto saxophonist Paul Desmond....my ista devta
I really hope this question doesn't sound stupid...but when we pray to or worship a Ishta Devata, are we not just praying to the true self?
That is not a stupid question. That can be a very good place to start from. How you approach the deity has a lot to do with how they respond to you. Seeing the deity and yourself everywhere, all the time, and in everyone, is significant.
@@bigwave7207 Thank you for the reply.
Is ishta devta and kula devta different
Yes. The Kyla daivat and kuldaivata are respectively masculine and feminine daivatas which agave been worshiped by your past generations after generations.
Isht means good. The one deity which is going to help you in spiritual journey is closest i can explain
How would god give me hint who my ista devata is? Will that be in dream or meditation? Plz elaborate that part too
Yes
आप स्वयं से अलग कोई महाकाली नाम की देवी नहीं है। वह देवी आप स्वयं के भीतर की विभिन्न शक्तियों के रुप में ही हम बाहर मूर्ति रुप में याद रखने को बना देते हैं। यही शक्तियां हम सभी में होती है।
याद करिए मंत्र, या देवी, सर्व भूतेषु, मात्रु रुपेण, क्षमा रुपेण, ज्ञान रुपेण, शक्ती रुपेण, शील रुपेण आदि हमारी शक्तियों के रुप में हमी में पहले से ही मौजूद हैं। हम उनको नमस्कार करते हैं।
My Ishta Devata is Holy Spirit from Christianity. I can strongly feel him inside when visiting church. I come from the Czech Republic, Europe.
@lattor,
kindly requesting you to rethink about this reply, Please analyse what is meant by devatha and does this spirit come under the definition of devatha?
To definite it as good or bad, simple question. What is the output? Euros were praying to holy pagan religion, after getting conberted into kistianity for 1000 years they became ultimate z0mbies, only output is hatred within and outside, inabded austrlia, africa,america,canada,everywhere and started chenocide program,
So, please rethink after you are going to continuously worship this spirit.
@@bharathvansh5127 Thank you for your reply. I tried to worship Shiva many times, trying to follow Hinduism, doing Yoga but nothing changed. I had even strange horror dreams of hellish cannibal reincarnation cycle. I returned to Christianity but not catholic christianity - I don't think this is true Christianity - this I would call zombie religion. My output of Holy Spirit in the church was peace and love. I was heartbroken, feeled strong anxieties but I felt the Holy Spirit even though I was practising Hinduism for over probably one year and even though I was full of hatred towards Christians (because I was born catholic)! Wow, it was so strong. All pain was gone for a while. I felt love and peace in my mind and body and I was reconciliated with my current painful experience. I can say, yes, many christians are full of hatred but I don't consider them christians. Those people are not filled with the Holy Spirit at all but they can be influenced by nature or demonic influences. Christians believe in a devil and devil wants also all christians to go to hell where he hates them and even he hates himself so I'm not surprised many Christians are full of hatred towards other religions and atheists. Interesting fact is also many so called christians and catholics haven't read the whole New Testament and Old Testament. I am currently reading Bible for the first time. People filled with the Holy Spirit are full of love and spread love. It's interesting to find on TH-cam testimonies of ex-satanists come to Jesus Christ. If there is present hatred, the person is not filled with the Holy Spirit and is not born again as we can read in the Bible in the New Tastament where Jesus speaks. This behavior filled with hatred is not christian at all! In The New Testament in the Bible we can read HATRED IS BAD - when somebody punches you into your face, show him even the next side of your face!
@@lattor-archivniyour Ishta would be christ if you are following Christianity. Ishta devta are great beings who have graced this earth with their presence.
My ista devatha is shiradi saibabs
Being a Christian, mine is Parvati Devi and Lord Krishna.
Now I need a Tinder, but spiritual, to find my own personal guru, lol.
I'm hindu, but I feel a connection towards Jesus Christ the most. What do I do