Ashirwad is a Sanskrit word meaning “to bless” and it is got from elders. If the same emotion is received from a younger it is “Manokamana” (Wish). In ancient times in our culture whenever an elder and younger met they greeted each other with the younger bowing his head in respect or touching the feet and the elder responding with the words “Deerghayushman Bhava” (May you live long). Best to remember that our elders wish us well always so that we be respectful to them always in thought, word and deed.
There are instances when someone gives Ashirwad to unknown person, the outburst will be spontaneous. The elderly person pours out the emotion by blessing from heart so that the receiving persons work or desires is fulfilled. Not always a person feels like blessing and if he does, the blessing stands as a armour to fight against negativity and aid to take the person towards success. Blessing has the way to express wishes from one heart to another.
The is nothing to be gained by blessing. But in a few cases blessing is proffered for monetary gains. At the time of marriage or baby shower a group of eunuch barge in at the function and express their wish to bless the couple or the expecting mother. They demand money for the blessing they have “offered”. Even some of the Mathadipathis are ready to bless if they are monetarily taken care. But not all are so, the centenarian Saalumarada Thimmakka, who has earned the sobriquet of “Vriksha Mathe” for planting thousands of trees in Karnataka while receiving Padmashri award from President Ram Nath Kovind extended her hand to place it on the head of the president to bless him. While looking at this I was overjoyed, this act of hers was so spontaneous and she felt that all the virtues she had earned by planting so many trees had to be channelized to the head of the country.
It is a providence to receive blessings, not all are eligible. It can be Gods favour or a persons sanction for which one is grateful. To receive such blessing is also a Sukruta (Fortune). There is belief that the existence of an energy we call God keeps releasing positive vibration in this universe. My mother always referred to “Astu Devata” (which later I came to know were the Ashwini Twins) who keep saying “Tathastu” (Let it happen). It was a wonderful was to keep negative thoughts away. It was to say think positive always. The thoughts in our mind hanker for the blessings. The conceptualisation of Astu Devata is such a motivator to have only positive kind of thoughts in our mind.
Praying is to surrender and make assured of a blessing. So eventually we pray for blessing means we believe in the fact that we are constantly getting positive vibes from somewhere called God who is both the inspiration as well as benefactor. When we say “Stay blessed” it means that you recieve getting that positive vibes and everything around is positive. That definitely cracks how our brain works. When we practice thinking positive, things turn out to be easy to handle. Its only possible through constant practice of positive thinking and one motivation for that could be a desire to be a very good human being from the very within. Constantly commanding the mind to think positive and that is how it starts to take things positive and easy. And for those kind of souls there is blessing coming from all corners.
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