Aj Patana – Questions and Answers from followers and visitors.
Questions:
Is it right to say that it is evil to practice black magic? And isn’t it against the natural law of karma? If so, why were we introduced to this dark magic?
Aj Patana’s Answer: Dark magic or occultism were never regarded as evil if it is used with good intention. It is the intention and how it is used that makes a practice or an object good or evil. I can give you a knife, and how you use the knife and for what purpose will determine if your action is good or evil. It is the intention and it is the same with dark magic practices. It is just a form of practice that is described as dark or black magic because it is often working or harnessing spiritual energies from sources other than gods, the western countries or the internet today has made this look all bad or evil because it was widely used in a bad way or negative ways by many practitioners. Such magic is simply a practice of harnessing different sources and forms of energy. We are all energies, we emit and receive energies too. Black or dark arts magic were also often performed after sunset or in total darkness, and maybe that is why people call it black magic, and the reason why it is performed in darkness is that we humans become more receptive to external spiritual energies when it is total darkness. And the fact is the planet positioning causes a change of energy at a certain time of the day that will affect human and energies occur in different forms at a different time of the day. It is only the natural part of the human body mechanism that works with these naturally occurring energies at a different time of the day. Certain forms of stronger energies are happening after sunset for certain ritual purpose too. It is all due to the planets and stars positioning during these hours, and it is also the time when spirits become more receptive to certain forms of energies at these hours. That is the reason why people often feel a stronger presence of spirits at night. And it is also never against the law of karma if a black magic practice is used in accordance with it. So, please do not simply associate black magic as evil.
Question:
Is sex wrong or a sin? Why religions are saying that sex is sinful?
Aj Patana’s Answer:
Sex is not wrong or sinful if, it is only wrong if one thinks of it with moral perversion. Sex itself has great energies that can be harnessed from. It is sex that makes all living things possible. I existed again on earth because of sex. Any saints are birthed from sex. It is not wrong. It is not sinful by itself. One has to know that in many religious teachings which was started many hundreds or thousands of years ago were trying to educate millions or even billions of illiterate people, in those days there are no laws like today that punishes wrongdoings. Hinduism, Buddhism which originated from India was spread to inspire good deeds and an attempt to reduce any potential crime to a huge population of people with unsettled minds. Sex is just human instinct, it is our unconscious mind, it is an energy. It should not be repressed. Repressing sex or any energy is not good. The teachings have good intentions, but it does not work. The more you repress something, the more it works against you. Sex is human’s instinct, it is not a knowledge, it is nature. One should not feel guilty about it if it is done with love and awareness. One should completely enjoy it and satisfy that desire. Never to repress it. Usually, it is the intention that sets what is morally right or wrong and it is the intention that creates good or bad karma. Sex is something sacred, the process should be done with your partner with love and with complete enjoyment. Only that, there will be positive energies built. Positive sexual energies can also be harnessed for healing purpose if one knows how to practice it. Sexual energies can be both positively powerful or totally destructive and can cripple one. It is a form of love energy. However, a man’s semen is important to retain, because semen is life-force of a man, it has great energy which supports one’s brain and central nervous system. There is some biology science in this. By retaining one’s semen, one will have more energy and better health, your brain will work better. To retain semens does not mean that one should avoid sex. Orgasm still can be achieved with practice without losing semen with certain practices. It is just that people are not fully aware of it, they are indulged unconsciously in the process. If one has sexual needs, you can either convert these energy to compassion, and such energies will subside. Or simply satisfy the needs so that you have no more desire for it. If one realizes that his sexual desires are gone or disappearing, do not seek it again. Because without sexual desires, the door to higher consciousness is opened for you. Keeping a good healthy balance is always good.
Question:
Is sexual attraction spells a morally wrong thing to do?
Aj Patana answer:
Sexual attraction spell is harnessing of a form of energy that creates a strong attracting aura. The person who is drawn to such energies will still have the will to accept or reject it. The process of harnessing such energies is not morally wrong. It is the people’s intention of how they use it and how they will handle such situations will determine their karma. Even a mind-influencing ritual through harnessing certain forms of spiritual energies is not wrong, it is how the person uses it and for what purpose will determine the karma later. The person who is targeted to get influenced will still have their willpower to reject the temptations of such influencing energies. It will not be wrong if such magic is to enhance or improve a couple’s relationship and intimacy if one ever needs it. As long as it is used in positive ways, it will not be morally wrong.
Question:
I am doing some illegal business, like gambling business. Is it a bad karma?
Answer:
Some business is illegal because of how your country sets the law. Gambling business itself is not a bad karma or wrong. Although it is not a good habit to gamble, but does not fall into as a bad karma. Even as a gambler is not bad karma, it just has to be with more mindfulness. Must know when to stop, and never get too greedy at expense of others, or creating more sufferings to family. Else that will lead to and become a bad karma. You should consider making merits with your earnings as that can neutralize some negative effects of it. The only 2 forms of income that I will not support is earnings from selling drugs or earnings as a pimp. These 2 forms will suffer many years or lifetimes of negative karma. Such karma will also pass down to 3 generations of downfalls. I would not want to speak too much to these people.
Question:
Why do some religions like Hinduism, Buddhism forbid eating beef?
Answer:
Thousands of years ago, during the time of Gautama Buddha, he has told people and all his followers not to consume beef specifically as compared to other meats. And has promoted vastly on being vegetarian. There are a few reasons behind this. First of all, eating meat is never a better choice than eating vegetarian. There will be less health problem and avoidance of killing of animals. Vegetables were also easily and widely available to the huge population of India too. By simply teaching this to the people and his followers, Gautama Buddha had saved almost an entire population in India. Being vegetarian is good for one’s energy, such energy is purer too. This helps the huge population to survive easier. But why was there a mention of specifically beef you asked? First, cows are more spiritual in a sense, they are emotional animals and if we have other choices, so let’s not eat them. Beef meats are also harder to digest than other food that will lead to many ailments. Another bigger reason is because many farmers and families will depend on cows for their milk, fertilizers and to plough the farms for rice and wheat that may feed a family for years. Cows have great contributions to human existence, maybe even for our forefathers they helped to plough the lands. Shouldn’t we have compassion and gratitude to such wonderful animal? It will be important to reduce or cut the cravings for beef especially. It will also reduce crimes because there would be less stealing and killing of another family’s cows. Keeping a cow alive would mean so much for an entire population. So, in many Hindu temples, you will also see statues of holy cows to remind followers that they are holy and not to eat them or you may seed bad karma. As the killing of one cow in that era may mean lesser rice and wheat for the nation which may lead to some people not having food to survive. The population was huge then. You are not just simply killing a cow, you may have taken lives of people indirectly too. Although cows today are farmed commercially, it is still not a good choice because of their spirituality. During the slaughter of a cow, their emotions state are deep, strong, sad, and probably angry, such energies can be transferred to a human who ingested it. It is also recommended to avoid eating beef for people who felt that they are down on luck. There is truth in this, and someday science may be able to prove what I say about such energies can be transferred onto a human.
Question:
What are merits? What does it do? Why are they important?
Answer:
Merits come in different forms, there are at least 12 important forms one has to build. Merits are different forms of energies created through physical actions, words, and thoughts. It is energies that vibrate at different frequencies too. Just like fuel to a car, a car needs fuel to bring one to desired destinations. The car is your physical body and the fuel are your merits. Humans work the same, we need merits to get to different desired destinations. Merits can be used in various ways to help one to achieve their conscious desires. Just like fuel, merits can be used up in one’s life or it can be accumulated to another lifetime, or be accumulated for the next generations, like your children and grandchildren. Karma which means actions, words or thoughts will determine the increment or decrement of one’s merit. You can imagine every merit built is like a unit of fuel or energy. Let us say 1 unit of energy = 1 merit. In order to advance one’s luck to win a first prize lottery may need 1000 units of merits, and to help cure an illness may use 10000 units of merits. If one does not have merits, there would be nothing that one can advance. There are 12 different forms of merits that govern different experiences in our lives too. Just like a car, you need different types of maintenance to keep the car going. Just like our physical body, we need different nutrition to keep the cells healthy. Different merits are the different forms of maintenance of one’s soul, it is the most important part that determines one’s karmic experiences, their wealth, their health and all their life experiences. If one can keep all 12 dimensions of merits in harmony, one will have the power to create any forms of experiences they desire even if it seems illogical. And keep in mind that no spirits can help one to change their destiny if one does not have merits built. No gods can ever do that too.
Question:
Can anyone get blessed with a windfall of wealth or winning the lottery?
Answer:
Wealth is built upon merits, and different levels or amounts of wealth are also built upon a combination of different merits. Wealth is also built upon the merits of gratitude and love towards another soul or people. Such merits are the energy of compassion. Compassion is an energy, it is the highest form of love. And love is the energy that keeps anyone alive. It is an important energy for any forms of manifestations, even miracle healings. Without love, there will be no living beings. Yes, wealth can be advanced based on one’s merits through spiritual intervention. Wealth in terms of money is brought to one from another person, isn’t it so? If one gets wealth, that also means someone else is losing wealth. Right? By winning a first prize lottery, it also means that probably hundreds or even thousands of people are losing their wealth to you. That takes a lot of merit. It is many units of the merits energies! A small windfall of wealth is often easy for many people through rituals, but it still requires merits. A big prized lottery will have to exhaust away a huge amount of merits. And many would also see that people who won big prize lottery may later encounter some unexpected calamity, or may lose all the wealth again in a short time to illnesses or to some bad investments. It is very common. Because when wealth is given, it is a presentation of a karmic lesson too. If one does not use this wealth to help others or inspire others towards good deeds, the wealth will be taken away. Losing wealth to health is also common karmic experience. These dimensions are interconnected in many ways. Sometimes, when there is sudden big wealth coming to you, it can also mean that many people are paying their karma back to you. Maybe such wealth is to help pay for a medical bill, to save your life. Huge wealth is often imagined to be a great thing to happen in one’s life, but it is not always the case. The best thing to practice is to always share wealth towards charity with compassion and generosity because the generosity and compassion are energies, they are merits that formed on the basis of wealth, and wealth is on the basis of the energy of kindness and all are still inter-related to the experience of karma. If it is not because of karma, one will not get wealth, and if it is not because of karma, one will not lose their wealth too. These again are interconnected at the basis of merit. Only merits can deter one from losing wealth, and only merits can build wealth.
Question:
Why am I losing wealth and cannot keep them? I always find it difficult to save money. How to keep the wealth growing in my life? Can wealth really be advanced through rituals?
Answer:
Wealth that comes to one’s life is because of past karma. It is built upon the amount of merits that determines the karmic experience of wealth. Wealth is also an energy that is built upon the merits of compassion, love, generosity, and kindness. It is because of these merits (energies) that one will receive wealth. Always remember that wealth is always given by another person, money does not just appear out of nowhere without another person losing their wealth to you. Wealth is brought to you because of inter-related merits and karma of yours and others. Some people greatly exhaust wealth merits because they did not appreciate the people who have given them the money. They disrespected these positive energies, they curse their customers who gave them money, they curse their bosses who paid them, and negative karma was built upon it. The law of karma would stop the process if one does not learn to respect and show gratitude for the money. Growth of one’s wealth is built upon merits energies. It is the level of generosity, compassion, love, and kindness that determines the number of units of the merits energies built. A very poor man who donates just a dollar could have built more units of good wealth merits than a billionaire who donates $100. Both of these people will build their merits no matter what. But the number of units built would be way different. It is all determined from the heart’s generosity, compassion, love, and kindness. Such thoughts are the true spiritual energy that works at higher spiritual dimensions. If you are always losing money and cannot keep the money, learn to be humble and appreciate with a true heart towards the people who have given you the wealth, and if no ones give you wealth at all, it is time you start to build your merits, because you have exhausted them all. Wealth merits works at many different dimensions too, it is a combination of different merits energies too. If you had done something that indirectly cause someone to lose their wealth, you will soon experience a loss of wealth too. Arrogance and egoism is also a killer of wealth. Never ever think that you were smart to earn that money, it was all because of merits you got the wealth. Merits can be exhausted and used up, that will be the time you lose your wealth. Ever realized that there are very intelligent people who are great at finance calculations, working in a bank but never had much wealth in their pockets? These people were never a believer of merits. Energies of merits works at the spiritual realm, it is where miracles happens, all that magical things are in the spiritual realm. If this realm is empty without the energies of merits, nothing can be advanced. Look at the really rich people who made it to the list of top earners in the world, you will realize most of them had their wealth donated out to charity. Whether or not such charity is to evade their country’s taxes, their money was used to help another person. Merits were built. Also, my answer is yes that wealth merits can be advanced. It can be 2 ways, it can be the advancement of existing merits one has accumulated, or it can be sharing of one’s merits to another person. Yes, ritual can advance one’s wealth merits as all energies are interconnected. I can simply give you a blessing, and you may receive some form of wealth into your life tomorrow. But I will also access if you are worth it for me to help.
Question:
If you are really such a great and powerful master, why won’t you help me get rich overnight and I can help your charity?
Answer:
Son, know this first. Wealth to one person will mean a loss for another person. It may take away so much of merits from other people to make another person rich. Or maybe I turn you into a millionaire, letting you win the top prize lottery. But with that, thousands of other people lost their money to you. Right? So it is a great deal of merits transference to you for the top prize lottery. Well, if I could simply do that why would I need you in the first place? I would take someone else’s merits and just transfers them to the charity. I don’t have to waste time sitting here talking to everyone and telling people to build merits. Wealth comes from merits. A person’s wealth status would reflect their past karma, you have no money now? It is time to look into your thoughts and start building merits instead. Yes, some good masters can transfer their own merits to you, but you still have to pay something to them first. Else such ritual will not materialize, because that master who does the ritual for you will have to build up the merits first, without this energy, he cannot manifest anything for anyone. And also provided that the master has enough merits to transfer to you. I am doing the same thing too, the only difference here is I help you donate your money so that your money and your wealth merits get amplified to a bigger magnitude, and I even hand you a system to make wealth flow to you non-stop. Secrets and all truth of wealth merits were taught to everyone and even spiritual intervention was given to you, practice it and you will get it for sure. It is a guarantee.
Question:
I am suffering from poverty, I have a lot of debt why won’t you donate money to me as you donate to charity?
Answer:
If you are part of that charity, the donation will come to you. Call them up and be part of the charity, and the charity will help you with our followers’ donations. But keep in mind, these charities are usually towards the terminally sick, people who are seriously suffering at their most intense karma. We donate to different temples, to the orphanage, to monks’ education too. If you are part of these charities or monk. The donation will surely come to you. Your debt is created by your own egoism, your greed, your wrongdoings. A person with good karma won’t come to such a stage. It is time for you to think back and change. You can change, and you will be experiencing non stop flow of wealth and love. I am here to teach you, you just have to learn it, and you teach it to your future generations. You wouldn’t want your future generations to only learn how to receive from charities do you?
Question:
In Buddhism, we are often told to let go of everything. We should not be pursuing the materials, money or fame. If so, why are there rituals and teachings to help followers achieve their lust and desires? Isn’t this the opposite of Buddhist teachings?
Answer:
Buddha teaches that one shall not be pursuing materials because materials can only satisfy the body, our physical body. Human life-span on average is probably till 80 years of age. If one spends too much time on the material world, you will not have time for your inner soul. The cravings, greed, and desires may only bring more problems to this world because if one could not get what he wants, he may get angry and violent. Having lesser or no desires in the material world is surely the best choice. That teaching is good, it is not wrong. But in my opinion, it doesn’t work in this era. We have to know that certain teachings are good but may be ineffective. It doesn’t really work, people are not more spiritual today, we are becoming more material instead than 2500 years ago. Desires and cravings are getting more today as compared to 2500 years ago! We are spoilt for choice of cars, clothes, fashions, phones, gadgets. People were being influenced by media, tv shows, phones that increases our cravings, and our desires for certain things. I can’t simply tell people to live how people used to live 2500 years ago, I can’t tell people to live in the stone age, expect people to stay in bamboo houses. And I can’t expect all others to live a life of monks and nuns. Right? That would be totally insane. We have to work towards spirituality in a different way now. We have to first understand that it is to satisfy the material cravings first before we can work on spiritual growth. You can see that most great monks had their desires or cravings satisfied first before they step into their spiritual paths . Even Buddha himself had experienced a wonderful life as a prince, traveling in his beautiful chariots, with bodyguards, enjoyed great food. He is married and had experienced sex too. He had enjoyed everything his entire nation could never enjoy, he was totally satisfied of any desires before he stepped into the spiritual path. Achieving your goals is not wrong, and people should achieve their desires, but with sanity! And I hoped everyone will be ultra-rich to get whatever they crave fast so that they will have time for spiritual growth! But one should limit their cravings too, don’t get too greedy and only towards what you can currently afford to do, or you would be totally stupid. Do everything with a balance is always good. But before one can be ultra rich, one will have to build their merits or these desires will not be fulfilled. But this is the ultimate short-cut to making your destiny change. Trust this, and you will save another 40 years or more seeking for solutions.
Question:
How can merits be materialized in this physical world that satisfies desires for one? In other words, how can merits turn into a sports car, if one has the desire to own it?
Answer:
When you want something, say a sports car? you need money right? Where does the money come from? Isn’t it from another person? The same money can be passed down through different people, throughout different countries, through different reasons, and finally gets into your hand. It has to come from someone. Any material has to come from someone. If something is coming to you from someone, it has to be because of the energy of kindness, love, compassion, generosity – it has to be from one of these energies that one receives something. These energies are created by our merits, and merit creates these energies. If you put enough energies of love, you will receive more love. It is for sure, I can guarantee. The highest form of love is compassion. This does not simply work on the physical dimension, it is not simply a psychology factor, it works in the spiritual dimension because all energies are interconnected in the world and into the universe. Just like anything in the physical dimension, there must be an input to get an output. If you want a light bulb to light up, there must be an input of energy. The spiritual dimension is the same. And such energies can even be magnified on a spiritual level, through spiritual intervention. These energies may not convert directly into money, it can be converted directly to that sports car you wanted. It could be someone’s generosity that it materialize into your life.
Question:
You said that wealth comes to one due to the merits one has built. There isn’t such a thing as money many thousands of years ago, how does it all work today?
Answer:
Wealth does not simply refer to money, it can mean anything that satisfies one’s desires, anything that makes one happy may be referred to as wealth. Good health is wealth. Right? So, wealth is happiness in the minds of many. Let us just talk about money. Money has to come or parted from one because of love, compassion, kindness or generosity. It has to be from one of these energies, these energies are built upon merits. When you project enough energy of love, compassion, kindness or generosity, these energies will have to return to you in the same form from someone else. So, thousands of years ago, if someone is generous enough to give food to another person, his kindness and generosity will return to him someday. The energy can be manifested in many ways. This is beyond science. Science is only seeking in the logical realm, seeking in the realm of intellect, but a logical and intellectual realm is limited. If you are stuck in this logic, you can never go beyond. No powers of the higher spirit will come to you.
Question:
Why are we praying to spirits and not Buddha? Does that mean that god doesn’t exist?
Answer:
God does not exist, people think of god as a human form. If god existed, this world would not be so incomplete. God is simply one’s consciousness. Your consciousness creates your karma, your consciousness creates your merits. You can become god or Buddha. But the law of karma and spiritual realm does exist. Buddha is also once a human, he has died and his soul has transcended, he is now an energy that serves a higher purpose in higher spiritual realms. He is not the god either. Transcendency must be based on one’s effort. No Buddhas can help, they can give guidance, but they cannot simply give. It is impossible. Now all he left behind are his teachings, it is his guidance to transcend our souls for a higher purpose. So, why do we pray to spirits? Simply, because spirits are energies. We are energy beings, we need to work with energies, and be harmonious with it. Any living things’ energies can be harnessed. Energies of animals, plants, and the dead. Spirits are the closest to the living beings in terms of energies, and such energies can be harnessed for positive purposes. We are working with higher realm spirits, not low realm ghost spirits. Ghost realms spirits can’t help anyone. They needed our help. We are their gods! Higher realm spirits can give spiritual guidance to people because they do not have a physical body, they can travel to higher realms and into other dimensions where higher wisdom resides. These wisdom are energy sources too, if one is receptive to such energy, you will receive the energy into your soul. Just like a radio, one can tune in to a certain frequency and receive information from those frequencies. There are uncountable forms of frequencies of the spiritual energies through so many different dimensions and realms too.
Question:
Why my wishes and prayers are not answered? What should I do?
Answer:
One must first understand that anything materializes through energies. You want money, it must come from someone. You want a car? It must come from someone. It would be someone’s kindness, compassion or generosity that you receive something good. These kindness, compassion and generosity are energies. We humans are nothing more than energy, everything works on the basis of energies. What you receive are all on the basis of energies too. These all work at spiritual levels. These energies are built by merits. Merits creates energies. If you are poor, if you are suffering, it simply reflects that you are lacking of these good energies.So, build it! Our karmic experience reflects what kind of person we are. If your wishes are not answered, it is time you look into yourself. No spirits can help you without your own intervention to build your own merits. I can’t help you to meditate, I can guide you but you have to do it yourself. Spirits can help you advance merits, give you guidance,and give you the wisdom. But if you do not have these merits, nothing can be advanced for you.
Question:
You said that wealth and money are built on good merits. Why do I see some bad people having all that they want in life? There are mafias or drug dealers who are very rich, they are enjoying their luxurious life. Why is that so? What kind of good merits do they have?
Answer:
The law of karma is fair and with absolutely no prejudice. So, you thought that these people have received the great things in life even though they had done all the evil things? You admire them? You saw their luxurious life, but that is only a small part that you saw. You didn’t see their sufferings, their health problems, and their ill children. Most of the time, their wealth come to them because of their generosity, there could be the merits of kindness and some compassion too, it all depends on where they use their wealth. Many rich mafias eventually donate out their wealth to charity too. But their bad doings will face the consequences too. Most of them do not have good health, they go to jail, they are struggling psychologically, and many spent their money on medical treatments of major illnesses. So, is it all that good?
Question:
I have done many good things, but I have not received anything good. Why am I still suffering?
Answer:
You said you have done many good things, if you can say so, that also means you probably have done these things without the true compassion. The quality of your merits is not good enough. You simply do it and still judging it, it is pretentious, you are expecting an exchange. Don’t you? Else you would not tell me that you have not received any good in return. You do good things as a bargain. You are waiting for someone to thank you and praise you? There is no good energy, it is no compassion. Because the energy of compassion is not to expect anything in return, then the merits of compassion will be built. A truly good person with compassion, will not judge how much good things he has done, he don’t count them. Because in the heart of the truly compassionate people, there is no bargain. When there is no bargain, there is no judgement or calculation. Take some time to reflect on this.
Question:
Is it very sinful if I have aborted a child? What should I do?
Answer:
Abortion of a child affect the woman at various levels. When the child is still developing in the womb, flesh and cells are developed and are part of the conceiving woman. By removing the child, it is no difference like cutting away an organ in the body. This can be worse than removing an organ, severity depends on the stage of development. Usually around 40-45 days of conception, the fetus has already developed as a unique self, the spirit has entered at this stage and that is why doctors can even detect brain waves at this stage. So, at this stage another person(the child) is part of the woman, the thoughts are linked, many parts are linked for food and blood supply, and the flow of energies. As long as there is conception at any stage, an abortion will greatly damage all the harmonious flow, the body goes into a state of confusion, cells and hormones may work differently due to the shock and removal. Most woman who had been through an abortion will usually experience many physical problems and psychological problems, some even developed cancers due to the stress created at many levels. An abortion with no medical reasons is an act of no compassion. This greatly exhaust away all the good merits one has built. It will be necessary to rebuild these merits again by charity work with true compassion. Truly repent towards the wrong and keep building good merits will be the only way.
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