Sacred Ash- Vibhuti

Indian culture is incredibly complex and resembles

a chaos of mind-boggling proportions. But beneath
this seeming chaos is a scientific foundation that is
thousands of years old. Often, the practices that
we label today as blind superstition have very
logical explanations behind them.
There are many aspects to the usage of Vibhuti or sacred ash. It
is a great medium to transfer or transmit energy, and it has an
ability to help direct and control the energy body. Apart from that,
there is a symbolic significance to applying Vibhuti on the body. It
is a constant reminder of the basic nature of life If vibhuti is
properly prepared, and if you know where and how to apply it, it
makes you much more receptive, and the place where you apply
Vibhuti on your body becomes more sensitive. The sensitivity gets
more subtle and goes towards the higher nature. So, before you
step out of the house in the morning, you apply vibhuti at certain
points to receive the divine around you. Depending on which
aspect of you is receptive at that moment, you can receive life in
different ways and from various dimensions of who you are. The
way you receive life makes the difference. So, you want the
higher aspects of you to be receptive.
Traditionally, vibhuti is taken between your thumb and your ring
finger you dont have to pick up a lot of it, just a little bit and
applied between the eyebrows, known as the agna chakra, at the
pit of the throat known as the vishuddhi chakra, and in the center
of the chest where the ribcage meets, known as
the anahata chakra. It used to be common knowledge in India
that you must apply vibhuti at these points. The reason why these
particular points have been specified is because vibhuti makes
them more sensitive.
Vibhuti is usually applied at the anahata so that you receive life
as love. It is applied at the vishuddhi so that you receive life as
power; power does not mean just physical or mental power, there

are so many ways in which a human being can be powerful. The

idea is to make the life energies very strong and powerful so that
your very presence has an influence on life around you you
dont have to speak or act if you simply sit, you influence the
situation around you. This kind of power can be developed within
a human being. Vibhuti is applied at the agna so that you receive
life as knowledge.
This is a very deep science, but today, without understanding the
science behind it, we simply apply vibhuti like a stripe on the
forehead. The one who has stripes one way does not agree with
the one who has the stripes another way this is stupidity. Vibhuti
is not something that Shiva gave, or this or that god gave. This is
not a question of belief. In this culture, it has been looked at
deeply as a tool for a persons growth. Properly prepared vibhuti
has a different vibrancy. There is a need to revive and make use
of the science behind this.
Please join us in blessing Nishi and Sandeep by anointing
them on the forehead with this sacred ash as a blessing of
the divine. Please take this sacred ash home with you and
use it as a blessing for yourself to come closer to the
divine within you. Thank you for attending this wedding.
Please go with peace and love in your heart. Aum Shanti
Shanti Shanti.





Om Saha Nau-Avatu |
Saha Nau Bhunaktu |
Saha Viiryam Karava-Avahai |
Tejasvi Nau-Adhii-Tam-Astu Maa Vidviss-Aavahai |
Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih ||
Meaning:
1: Om, May God Protect us Both
2: May God Nourish us Both,
3: May we Work Together with Energy and Vigour,
4: May our Study be Enlightening, not giving rise to Hostility,

5: Om, Peace, Peace, Peace.