SONDRA RAY and MARKUS RAY on Relationships, Spirituality, Healing and Liberation Breathing® : THE PURPOSE OF THE HEAD SHAVE....By Sondra Ray

Saturday, July 26, 2014

THE PURPOSE OF THE HEAD SHAVE....By Sondra Ray

"Lately I've been thinking.....

that people need to know just why we shave our heads.

Sondra and Markus with Mundun at the "Jesus Tree" in India


Maria and Ricardo from Brazil....on the Banks of the Gautama Ganga River in India

Markus and I go to India every year and the head shave is one of the spiritual purification practices we endorse. In India it is called simply Mundun. First of all it is not at all obligatory. It is, however, a very deep purification process that absolutely works. Notice your reaction and all that comes up for you just hearing and reading about it! Now imagine all that would come out if you actually did it!

Well, that is the point! If you want an extreme, rapid, surefire purification, this could be it for you.

If you are lucky enough to have Babaji to take responsibility for your entire liberation, then this is

how you get that blessing. It is between you and the Guru.

For me it was one of the highest spiritual experiences of my life, which opened me up greatly. Mostly, I felt really, really honored to be offered this "initiation." This initiation ritual has been done for thousands of years; and so obviously it is done so because of all the value one gains. Shaving your head (and this includes to the skin with razor blade, not just a buzz cut) is a very personal, deep experience between you and God. It is something you CHOOSE. Babaji certainly never made me do it. For me, it was a symbolic act whereby I was saying to God: "Look, I am gong to try to surrender as much as possible to You, and in this act I am demonstrating my willingness to join my will with Yours."

The tradition is to leave it shaved for nine entire months (which is the period of time you spent the womb) for one to get the full benefit. You process the womb memories; you get to let go of tons of karma fast; you get healed of all kinds of conditions,; you get opened up in your crown chakra; you become more intuitive; and here is the best part: You have to rise above what people will say and think, and decide that your liberation is more important than anything else. This gives you a lot of certainty and clarity. It liberates you from other peoples' opinions about you. It even liberates you from your own opinions about yourself! It is a radical method of altering one's false identification with a body and a personality.

We are so used to seeing ourselves appear one way as we look in a mirror. Mundan changes that immediately.... obviously. It gives you a chance to see that "something" in you that appears constant, regardless of any changes in the physical. It stimulates all the psychic centers in the head, opens your mind, and creates a singular unit of cosmic reception that has a clearer relationship with the universal vibratory state. It puts you in the vortex of receiving Divine Intelligence.... which is already in you by the way. Mundun opens the spigot for you to receive more energy, money, love, inspiration, joy, ease, intimacy and happiness. It gets you in touch with your true Self as God created you.

The first time I did it I was around age 33 and single. I was prepared to be celibate for nine months with no problem. But to my immense surprise I had more men interested in me than I could have imagined. They knew I was not a Hari Krishna, as I was dressed too sophisticated for that. They knew I was not a cancer patient, as they saw how healthy I was. They became fascinated with me. Probably it was also because I was in a continual altered state that they found irresistible. Anyway, It was a surprise for me. I had as many lover opportunities as I wanted.

Of course my mother cried. I was prepared for that though. I said, "Mom you are not going to deny me one of the most religious experiences I have ever had in my whole life, are you?" She accepted it later. Anyway, I felt fantastic the whole time.... and people could see that.

Mundun should not be done in a barber shop. It is most auspicious done at an ashram like Herakhan

(Babaji's home) along the river bed, along the Gutama Ganga, a tributary of the Ganges. If you come to India in our group you will have all the support you want—before, during and after. All the people on the India Quest will come to honor you at your Mundun ceremony and chant the mantra for you. You will have a buddy to sit with you and help put your fallen hair on a large banana leaf, float your hair (which holds your past) down the river, and help you immerse yourself in the river 3 X afterwards. Markus and I will anoint your head in the Duni (Divine Mother Fire Temple) when all the Munduns of our group are complete. Then imagine: going in Babaji's cave after all this for meditation!!!! This is the cave where He materialized His body. What could possibly be better for your evolution than that?

Think about it. Join us in India even if you don't chose to have Mundun, the sacred head shave. There are plenty of other remarkable spiritual and cultural benefits.