Yasmin Boland is famous for coining the term Moonology.  Yasmin showers her Sun, Moon, and Stars community subscribers with worksheets, live chanting sessions, reminders to watch her do a live radio show on Monday mornings (which is recorded on Facebook if you live, like I do, in a different timezone), astrology lessons, and more all designed to help you live a rich and full life and to manifest what you want in life.  Subscribers to her newsletter also receive a lot of goodies but if you can afford the subscription, it is well worth it.  

The New Moon in Aries took place at 7:30 p.m., Pacific Daylight Savings Time in Spring Creek, Nevada on Sunday, April 12, 2021.  Prior to the New Moon Yasmin hosted a Dark Moon ceremony and then a New Moon ceremony and for just shy of $30 US, she offered a workshop for those, like myself, whose Rising Sign/Ascendant is in Gemini.  It was AMAZING.  Thankfully, it, too, was recorded because she did the workshop live at 4 a.m. my time.  I’m glad I wasn’t awake because I could stop the recording and take lots of notes before resuming play.

Joshua P. Warren is famous for being the “Wizard of Weird”, owner of the Ashville Museum (now shuttered because the building it was in couldn’t be brought up to code.), host of ghost tours, paranormal experiments, and now host of Strange Things on IHEART Radio.  Josh also showers his newsletter subscribers with invitations to events, instructions on how to conduct experiments, links to free charms, and private offerings. I discovered Josh when he appeared in myriad of news headlines and on the Las Vegas FoxNews channel back in July 2018.

I immediately had to write to him.  I learned he had a website and a now retired podcast series called “Joshua P. Warren Daily”.  It was in one of his emails alerts, and, I believe, in a Facebook post that I learned about a limited time offer to purchase a wand.  Yup, a wand.  That’s what I said and immediately clicked to see his promotional video.  SOLD. (And it is now listed as SOLD OUT FOREVER). You can watch Joshua’s psionic pal, Tom Vrilock’s YouTube video by clicking on the image.

His Curiosity Shop on his website has videos about the Miraculous Prayer Board, the Wishing Machine, the Bad Buster, and a lot of books.  It took a long time to save up to afford a few of them.  His friend, Dr. Brad Mulder (²), programmed my Field X Wishing Machine. When it arrived I waited until the next NEW MOON at precisely 13 minutes 15 second Sidereal Time(¹) for my exact longitude and flipped the switch. It paid for itself within a matter of 16 days from when I placed an image of them moving into the machine to the day the realtor drove a stake a for sale sign into the front lawn of my neighbors from the pit of hell’s house. I’ll write more about that wish in detail in another post because it was truly a miracle they moved.

It paid for itself a second time, when I asked for a great new neighbor to buy it. Well, the person who did buy the house turned out to be one of the nicest people I’ve ever met and a hermit of sorts – disabled air force medic who just wanted a place to live that was quiet.  And now that the previous fiends are gone, my cul de sac is about as quiet as it gets except for the snorting of horses and cattle and peacocks squawking on the ranch down below.

The emerald wand and its accompanying sigil engraved on a pendant were working as advertised the few time I got to use it in the local casinos before the governor ordered everything closed.  I haven’t been back now that they are open.  I’ll wait until COVID 19 fades out like most pandemics do on their own.

I will confess that I didn’t use the Miraculous Prayer Board as much as I should have.  I placed it on a table covered with crystals in a room that I did not go in much because the energy felt off.  I did a lot of decluttering, bought a shamrock plant, hung a bamboo windchime on the door, and burnt a lot of incense. A LOT.  I re-watched Josh’s video for inspiration.  And added a MUST USE DAILY into Yasmin’s Action Plan for the New Moon and the coming 12 months. Vrilock, by the way, invented it.

But you must be wondering WHAT is this woman yammering on about.  Yes, Geminis are long winded and they will talk you to death so imagine what’s it’s like having Gemini as your Sun Sign and Gemini as one’s Rising sign.  At least I always have myself to talk to, right?

Well, I’m getting to the point now.  Joshua P. Warren talked about the NEW MOON and why there might be a scientific basis for thinking there is magick in the air that day, in his I Heart radio podcast (Ep 25) that aired on Friday, April 9, 2021.

This is what he had to say (No transcript, sorry, I had to transcribe this myself).

Josh starts out by talking about his friend, the late Jim Marrs.  Jim Marrs, if you don’t know, was a journalist (as was Yasmin Boland) and one of Linda Moulton Howe’s friends.  Linda, an investigative journalist, who went on to write a series of books about UFOs, animal mutilations, and crop circles, uploaded a series of interviews with Marrs if you’re interested.  They’re not in a Playlist so start with this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_iJK3vNxBg. 

The 6 degrees of separation theory has been debunked but I often wonder as I seem to keep constantly circling around the same people.

Josh points out that a lot of the things that Marrs wrote in his 2000 book about aliens has now been documented to be true..  Next Josh moves on to talk about how he worked as a student assistant for Charles A. Yost. Yost was one of the engineers who helped designed the early Apollo spacecraft. Yost firmly believed in UFOs. He showed Josh an official NASA video of what looked like a puff of smoke coming from the surface of the moon.

Moonologists! Josh next talks about the moon having a tail. I had seen mention of this in the news. Then I heard Josh talk about it so I shared it on Facebook, logged into the temporary university library account I was given in order to do research for a renowned professor who is translating a series of wood cuts on remedies used by “doctors” in China circa 1800, and downloaded the article from JGR Planets.

If you’re not into reading scientific journal articles, and the vast majority of people are not, then by all means use a search engine with the words “the moon has a tail”.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-moon-has-a-tail-and-earth-wears-it-like-a-scarf-once-a-month/ar-BB1ewUSw?ocid=BingNewsSearch&fullscreen=true#image=1

This article WATERS it down quite well. Sorry for the pun. It will drive home a point later.

“Like a comet soaring through the cosmos, the moon is followed by a slender tail of irradiated matter — and Earth passes directly through it once a month.

According to a study published March 3 in the journal JGR Planets, the lunar tail is made of millions of sodium atoms blasted out of the lunar soil and into space by meteor strikes and then pushed hundreds of thousands of miles downstream by solar radiation. For a few days a month, when the new moon sits between Earth and the sun, our planet’s gravity drags that sodium tail into a long beam that wraps around Earth’s atmosphere before blasting into space on the opposite side.

The lunar tail is harmless and invisible to the naked eye. During those few new-moon days each month, however, the beam becomes visible to high-powered telescopes that can detect the faint orange glow of sodium in the sky. According to the study’s authors, the beam then appears as a fuzzy, glowing spot in the sky opposite the sun, about five times the diameter of the full moon and 50 times dimmer than human eyes can perceive“.

Joshua P. Warren points out that “sodium is a component of salt and when you add salt to water it becomes more electrically conductive”. He then points out that our atmosphere is made up of primarily water in various stages. So that means when a beam of sodium is shooting towards earth that maybe the Earth’s atmosphere is more conductive during the time of the new moon. And remember SALT is a crystal and if we are being bombarded with sodium which is a metal, are our ceremonies more powerful on the new moon?

So if that is the case, does that mean there is more paranormal activity around the time of the new moon because you always hear about electricity and electromagnetism being connected to paranormal activity?

Josh then goes on to talk about how many paranormal events in his life happened on the new moon. So when Yasmin Boland talks about NEW MOON CEREMONIES, we now know that there is a scientific basis for WHY it is really, REALLY, important to pay attention to the phase of the moon! My neighbors are gone and life on my isolated cul de sac is just shy of bliss. It used to be hell and I mean HELL!

So during Monday, April 12, 2021 after completing Yasmin’s 7 Day Challenge leading up to the full moon, and attending her Dark Moon Ceremony and New Moon Ceremony, I printed out all of the worksheets I had filled in, downloaded Joshua P. Warren’s 30 minute Good Luck Tone onto my IPAD, saged my meditation room, lit some palo santo, turned on the IPAD so the tone would play for 30 minutes, faced Mata Laxmi’s yantras and Shri Ganesha and Shri Hanuman’s paintings, and read the affirmations one by one using a stop watch so I’d read for at least 68 seconds.

Then I reloaded Joshua’s BAD BUSTER, reloaded and reset the Field X Wishing Machine, read a prayer using Joshua’s explicit instructions with my thumbs on the Miraculous Prayer board, then hung a Bulgarian bill from 1951 (³) on the wall, chanted OM NAMO NARAYANI, all while wearing Joshua’s Ho’oponopono dog tag, his Golden Ratio pendant its gold chain (SOLD OUT) that I added Shri Ganesha’s yantra, and my raw moldavite pendant, while wearing a gold pixu on a Feng Shui Black Obsidian Wealth Bracelet and two pixus on the Natural Gold Obsidian Double Pi Yao Wealth Bracelet – both on my left wrist after being charged in a $10 vintage sterling silver bowl facing down onto gold.

I went to bed feeling like I had spent the day at the beach or having had a 90 minute massage. You don’t have to be as obsessive about it all as I am but I’ve seen it all work a miracle and I have no doubt it will again.

(¹) In one of Josh’s Daily Podcasts he talked about how you can use an app to calculate sidereal time. WHY? Because “There is a 400% increase in spiritual/psychic/energy healing at 13:30 Sidereal time; 200-300% increase in abilities between 13:15 and 13:45 Sidereal time, and 200% increase in abilities between 12:45 and 14:15 sidereal time.”

First type your house address into the boxes here:

Next copy the longitude and ENTER times until you get 13.5

I do NOT recommend accepting an invitation to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom on the night of the new moon in May 2021. Especially if you plan on turning the lights off at 10:02 p.m.!

(2) April 15, 2021 Forgot to add a hyperlink and found this gem!

(3) Joann’s had these really cute tiny clothespins. When I got home I found ideas on how to use them on Pinterest. I hung picture hooks and strung a colored string and am now using my hallway as a manifesting tool.

I was watching the story arc detailed in Vighnaharta Ganesh where Bandasura is battling Parashakti and all of the goddesses. In Episode 576, Bandasur evokes the asura (demon) named Rogastrasur who spews all manner of diseases upon the army of goddesses.

The make up and special effects artists took pains to make the young vibrant actresses appear to age and to succumb to fearsomely gruesome diseases. Just when you think all is lost, Mata appears superimposed over the arms of each goddess like a tattoo. Then Sri Ganesh narrates all creatures have the Goddess residing within them. Then he says, that those who invoke the name of the Goddess (alas this part wasn’t properly translated) and chant

ACHYUT ANAND GOVIND SLOKA

will be cured of their diseases. THAT caught my attention and sent me on a search for several hours. The first thing I had to do was figure out if a sloka was the same as a mantra only sung. This article explains that it is.

Difference Between Mantra and Sloka

The next step was to find out if anyone had recorded it and luckily, I found an OUTSTANDING, renowned singer named Jayateerth Mevundi. Better yet I found Mr. Mevundi performing the sloka. However, I could not make out what he was singing except for the words “Achyuth Anantha Govinda”. I did a few more searches and found all of the words but with a “meaning” that did not make sense. I wanted what I think of as a real translation.

For example, this post was very interesting but it did not translate the words.

I literally prayed and switched search engines and found this incredible blogger who used this mantra in one of his lessons on how to learn Sanskrit through slokas. I kid you not! It was his second lesson.

And the words used in the lesson matched up with what I was hearing being sung on the first track of an entire album called Healing Mantras for Arthritis. Since I have osteoarthritis, I couldn’t believe my good luck.

The sloka being sung is:

achyuthaanantha govinda
naamochchaarana beshajaath
nasyanthi sakalaa rogaa
sathyam sathyam vadaamyaham

Here are the screen shots from this wonderful blog entry by Rangarajan Parthasarathy because he has formatted this so well, I do not think I should even try to quote it. All of a sudden the strange “meaning” I found on other sites, made sense! The sloka really does state that this is the truth or I speak the truth. The comments on this sloka on various sites were interesting in that there were first hand accounts of how reciting this properly “cured” or at least greatly alleviated ailments.

I highly recommend you check out Rangarajan Parthasarathy‘s blog. He writes that with Thedal, he becomes one with the universe and he is hoping that his search will help him discover the eternal truth.  Please join him as he traverses through the universe across temples, philosophies and science!

Apparently, I’m not the only one with the same vision, mission, goals, and objectives for blogging about these topics!

My late mother (1917-2001) loved pixies. She absolutely LOVED telling me stories about pixies painting autumn leaves. We had a fantastic issue of Ideal magazine with a perfect painting of pixies doing just that – painting leaves but in one of the moves, I felt I would never have anyone to share the issue with so I gave it away. Don’t you hate that? Usually a week to a month after throwing something out, you find you really need it back.

But there are so many wonderful websites and Facebook pages about the Fae now that I hope I’ll find that issue online again. No, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a faerie, but I have definitely sensed a presence in flower gardens and forests. My whole life I’ve LOVED LOVED LOVED creeks (streams, brooks) – any body of water with stones so you can skip across and not get too wet.

Tinkerbell fascinated me when I first saw it. No! I’m not THAT old to have seen it when it was first released in 1953! But my great love was Peter Pan himself – and there’s the question – WHAT was Peter Pan? Certainly not a human child. If you want to ruin your mood, you can search the literary criticism section in a library but I suggest you avoid that and think of Pan as an elf or nature spirit of some sort. He is, afterall, a literary creation and NOT a REAL faerie!

Which brings me to the AMAZING body of work by Elysia who lives in India. I suppose I should not be surprised that I am typing right now during the Third Quarter Moon in Capricorn when Chandra-dev (if you’re in India) or Luna’s face is illuminated on the left side in the Northern Hemisphere while in shadow in the Southern hemisphere. The MIRROR image of the face in shadow on the right and on the left Down Under might REFLECT the very nature of faeries. Illusive, sometimes seen in broad daylight and sometimes only in shadow!

And who better to describe the many faeries and their worlds (realms) than Elysia who believes whole heartedly that she is a faerie who has incarnated or reincarnated or taken a rebirth as a human. She even has a SCHOOL where she teaches about everything faerie and an online shop. She speaks with the most charming voice and uses background music and illustrations that just lull you into her world. Her most recent video, I am a Fairy, living in a City (India) could, I think, win a short film award for cinematography.

I started my blog and had already announced to the world my intention to write about faeries when lo’ and behold Joshua P. Warren spent an entire hour on his March 23, 2021 I Heart Radio weekly podcast Strange Things to encounters with “Little People” . Josh doesn’t mess around with tales from books. Oh, NO, he reads emails he has received or relates first hand accounts he has been told in person. If you don’t have the time to listen any other podcasts Joshua has done, this one, is a MUST!

12 inch high to two foot high perfectly proportioned humans wearing brown or tan clothing and old fashioned hats! Or the account (notice I am deliberately avoiding the English word “story” as that is often fiction) by a lady who for years was haunted by seeing a little man. Then long after the Harry Potter movies had gone to VHS, she finally decided to watch Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and freaked out during this scene in Gringotts Bank for the goblins created by the team at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop! For there on the screen in front of her was a creature that looked exactly like the one she had seen years and years before IN PERSON in the flesh or at least what we believe is flesh in 3D. But these “creatures” can fade out or blink out or just vanish into thin air as we say. So are they from another realm or dimension or parallel universe or another time?

I first discovered John Curtis Crawford and Bridget Wolfe while searching for something to watch on Amazon Prime. I think this was a suggestion and it was, no pun intended, MAGICAL! Gateways To Faerie – Discover A Hidden Realm of Mystery, Magic and Wonder is beautifully filmed in a forest in Oregon where you walk alongside Curtis as he talks about how he searches for stones and twigs and forest objects to use to build Fairy Houses. Not those cheap ones you can buy at a box store or even the pricey ones online that I bought for my garden and then couldn’t put them outside because I discovered fine print “not for outdoor use” once I got them home. NO NO! These cost hundreds of dollars but are masterpieces of craftmanship. Alas, by the time I found the film, Curtis had retired and was no longer hosting make a house workshops.

BUT you can browse their website and maybe create something like this!

The point is, this couple firmly believe they have seen faeries, live with faeries, and so do many, if not all, of the people who have attended their workshops. These fae are much loved. But what about the ones that have been vilified? Which brings me to an exchange I had during the Moonology Challenge with a lady I met through the comments. Somehow the word Siddhe came up. And a flood of memories came back about the film and the book Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

I watched it on Amazon, I believe, with my two best friends. We were captivated and scared poopless. I sent for the book through Interlibrary loan the following week. The book took forever to get here and then I had to renew it twice. The hardcover is 782 pages and is quite heavy. It is 1,000 times darker than the film version and a lot gorier. In fact, it was a difficult slog at times because Susanna Clarke has a REALLY sadistic streak. The book still haunts me.

But it did not frighten everyone. E.C. Hibbs loved it and delves deep into the tale in the Gentleman and Fairy Folklore!

The Sidhe are portrayed as frightening but are they? This page takes a different view.

And then there is Edmund (Eddie) Lenihan who appears in a fascinating documentary called The Fairy Faith, a John Walker Production. I found a copy of it here if you cannot watch it on Amazon. The most interesting interview was with Eddie whose book, Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland, I do not own YET. However, a preview of the book yielded this list.

Over the years I used to have to hunt for films or even novels that featured the Fae. Now you can literally get lost on YouTube alone! When in one of our lessons, Anheke (Anni) Greystone instructed us to get a tarot deck so we could learn how to use it, I fixated on an out of print deck which I managed to buy brand new on Ebay far above the original price but it is GORGEOUS. You can still find listings like this one. I, luckily, did not pay $200 but it was still pretty expensive.

The deck is, not always, but at times it can provide a scary spot on reading – as in OMG run out of the room scary spot on reading if I ask THEM and not just the usual type of spread.

In Part Two I will leave Ireland behind and jump over to Iceland. See you there!

 Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary in her March 2021 new book, Sound Medicine, has a list of mantras in Chapter 10. They are:

The Mantra she learned from Amma

Om Gam Ganapatye Namah

Sri Ganesha has many avatars. In the TV series, Vighnaharta Ganesh, the producers appear to belong to what some call the “sect” of Ganapatya. I read an English translation of the Upanishads in college so I think I must have “imprinted” on Sri Ganapatya back in 1973!

His Holiness “H.H. Swami Chinmayananda is a world renowned authority of the scriptures of India, especially Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads. He was born in 1916 and attained mahasamadhi in 1993. He worked relentlessly for about 40 years to bring about spiritual revival in India and abroad. His unique style and logical approach is appealing to all young and old”. (Vedic Books.Net) Swami Chinamayananda wrote Glory of Ganesh.

Librarians hate to cite secondary sources, especially Wikipedia, but this article about  Ganapati Atharvashirsa is very well researched and the footnotes appear to also be properly done. The anonymous writer cites page 125 in Chinmayananda ‘s (1985) Glory of Ganesh

(O Lord Ganapati!)
You alone are the visible manifestation of the Essence of the words
“That thou art”.
You alone are the Doer.
You alone are the Creator and the Sustainer (of the universe).
You alone are the Destroyer.
Verily You alone are all this – “idam sarvam” – in the creation, because
You are Brahman.
You are the Eternal Atman in bodily form.”

Edo and Jo recorded the mantra

My favorite is Ganesh Bhajan:
Om Gan Ganpataye Namo Namah 108 times Album: Ganesh Mantra Singer: Anuradha Paudwal Composer: NANDU HONAP Album: Ganesh Mantra Author: Traditional Music Label: T-Series

The next mantra Dr. Chaudhary describes is the Saraswati Mantra

OM AIM NAMAHA

The JoyWithin.org website has a nice description with instructions on how to chant the mantra. You can listen to it being chanted 108 times by clicking on Mata Saraswati’s picture.

The next mantra on page 208 is the mantra to Mata Laxmi

OM SRIM NAMAHA

Although I could find Deepak Chopra recommending chanting the mantra with just the three words as in Dr. Chaundhary’s book, most versions are longer. This one is the closest.

Dr. Chaundhary writes that this mantra is believed to increase vigor and vitallity. The Geby Mantra Sounds suggests you “Chant this Devi Laxmi money mantra, use Sphatik mala to chant Laxmi mantra. Use red roses and lotuses while chanting this Devi Laxmi mantra. You can chant the mantra 108 times in the evening and 108 times in the morning. When you are suffering from extreme poverty and want to overcome the situation urgently, chant 5 malas of this Mantra every day. Do this continuously, even after you get your wealth back. BY doing this Devi Laxmi Vedic Mantra, Lakshmi (Money) will be stable in your Life”.

I should also point out that in Vighnaharta Ganesh Lady Laxmi HATES and cannot be around dirt or filth. In a house with a lot of pets, that’s not easy but I believe that she hates dirt and filth in one’s soul but she does serve as a constant reminder to clean the house!

The next mantra (pages 208-209) is the Durga Mantra. Durga is the goddess that defeated Mahishasura. Netflix aired An excellent TV series Maharakshak Devi but,, unforunately, it has expired. It takes place in modern day India. A baby girl is thrown off a bridge into a river by the father as her mother pleads to keep the baby. The babu floats in the river for a short distance and is rescued by the Sage (Guru) Brihaspati (who rules Planet Jupiter). Gauri is raised as a martial artist for the day when she would have to battle all the resurrected asuras (demons). It’s very clever. Gauri is enrolled in a high school where one of the boys takes an unusual interest in her – none other than Mahishasura! I tried to capture a screen shot from Episode 106 of Vighnaharta Ganesh at the moment when Durga kills Mahishasur but the director chose a long distance shot. This “painting” from a Facebook post has all of the motifs from iconography except that Durga usually pierces through the body with a trident.

The mantra on page 209 is OM KRIM NAMAHA

The closest I can find is

Om Kreem Kalikayai Namah

The Narayani Mantra is explained by Qing Zhou who says she received the mantra directly from the Divine Mother. I assume she received it from Amma. Dr. Chaudhary writes that chanting this mantra helps you to surrender to the divine. It includes all the benefits of chanting the Saraswati, Lakshmi (Laxmi), and Durga mantras combined!

OM NAMO NARAYANI

My favorite Gayatri Mantra bijan is sung by Dr.Suresh Wadkar. A compilation of Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s teachings on the mantra can be found by clicking on the mantra.

Om Bhur Bhuvaḥ Swaḥ
Tat-savitur Vareñyaṃ
Bhargo Devasya Dheemahi
Dhiyo Yonaḥ Prachodayāt

Vishnu Mantra is described by Haindava TV in their YouTube states that Vishnu known as Narayana is the Supreme God. (including his different avatars. Vishnu is venerated as the Supreme Being in Vaishnavism. He is also known as Vishnu and Hari and is venerated as Purushottama or Supreme Purusha. In Hindu sacred texts such as the Bhagavad Gita the Vedas and the Puranas Narayana is the name of God in his infinite all pervading form. He is the Supreme Purusha of Purusha Sukta.

Another important translation of Narayana is The One who rests on Water. The waters are called narah, [for] the waters are, indeed, produced by Nara-Narayana (the first Being) as they were his first residence [ayana], he is called Narayana. In Sanskrit, “Nara” can also refer to all human beings or living entities (Jivas). Therefore, another meaning of Narayana is Resting place for all living entities. The close association of Narayana with water explains the frequent depiction of Narayana in Hindu art as standing or sitting on an ocean.

In Vighnaharta Ganesh, the CGI effect of being under water when we see Sri Vishnu and his consort, Laxmi is very well done.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA

The Shiva Mantra connects us to all five elements and harmonizes all the chakras in the body, bringing balance to the entire body and mind. Click on the mantra to hear Sadguru chant the manta 108 times.

OM NAMAH SHIVAYA

I have followed Jaggi Vasudev (born 3 September 1957), known publicly as Sadhguru for a very long time. One because he takes those who can afford to and who can endure the rigors of the trip to Lake Manasarovar at the base of Mount Kailash – something I would love to do but simply cannot and two because he has a very easy going teaching style. Here is is chanting the mantra.

OM SHREE DHANVANTRE NAMAHA

According to Dr. Chaudhary, this mantra to Dhanvanttari is of one of the principle Sanskrit healing mantras. An excellent article about Dhanvantari is written by students of the Alandi Ayurveda Gurukula in Boulder, Colorado. Here is an excerpt:

“Bhagavata Purana states that Dhanvantari emerged from the Ocean of Milk and appeared with the pot of amrita (nectar) during the story of the Samudra (or) Sagara Mathana whilst the ocean was being churned by the Devas and Asuras, using the Mandara mountain and the serpent Vasuki. The pot of Amrita was snatched by the Asuras, and after this event another avatar, Mohini, appears and takes the nectar back from the Asuras.

It is also believed that Dhanvantari promulgated the practise of Ayurveda. According to the Charaka Samhita, the knowledge of Ayurveda is eternal and is revealed in each of the cycles of creation of the universe. When needed, Lord Vishnu himself incarnates as Lord Dhanvantari and reestablishes the tradition of Ayurveda in the world to help relieve some of humanity’s suffering”.

In August 20I6 I was able to obtain 5 yantras. This is Dhanvantari’s. It is made of pure copper and blessed using my full birth name, time of birth, month, day, and year and other information. It resides on my mandir along with the gold yantras. A small Ganesh yantra with a I wear on a chain with a drop shaped moldavite everyday.

Deva Premal chants the mantra

Haindava TV chants the mantra as well. The description on the YouTube video reads:

Dhanvantari (Sanskrit: धन्वन्तरि) is an Avatar of Vishnu from the Hindu tradition. He appears in the Vedas and Puranas as the physician of the gods (devas), and the god of Ayurvedic medicine. It is common practice in Hinduism for worshipers to pray to Dhanvantari seeking his blessings for sound health for themselves and/or others, especially on Dhanteras.

Dhanvantari is depicted as Vishnu with four hands, holding Shankh , Sudarshan Chakra, Jalouka (Leech ) and a pot containing rejuvenating nectar called amrita in another. He is often shown with a leech in his hand rather than the scriptures. Bhagavapurana states that Dhanavantari emerged from the Ocean of Milk and appeared with the pot of nectar during the story of the Samudra or Sagar manthan whilst the ocean was being churned by the devas and asuras, using theMandara mountain and the serpent Vasuki.
The pot of Amrita was snatched by the Asuras or Demons, and after this event another avatar, Mohini, appears and takes the nectar back from the Asuras. It is also believed that Dhanvantari promulgated the medical science of Ayurveda.
His birthday is celebrated by the practitioners of Ayurveda every year, on Dhanteras, two days before Diwali, the Hindu festival of Lights. In the Samudra manthan, Dhanvantari appears with Amrita, Shankha, Chakra and Jalauka(leech), in each of his four hands.

I created a Playlist on YouTube so you do not have to click on each link unless you wish to.

Namaste!