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Deep dive into the Shiva Sutras here. Then some practical reflections. How much things would change if people first understood life, then lived accordingly.
karma + prana = mind
there was no beginning
without relative, there is no Brahman
why our worlds intersect…
Brahman is known from the Upanishads alone!!!!
can also see Brahma Sutras 3.3.3 [extricating of nectar] and 2.1.10 [form, taste, etc. not to be found in Pradhana]
devata value defines the process
Shiva Parvati
the fabulous knowledge in the Shiva Sutra and Brahma Sutra
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Reflection on Current Events:
When we think of the world situations, let’s think of the children first. Maybe that would help us see things most clearly. Perhaps then, we would think, as number one, to end violence wherever we see it. I don’t know, but maybe economic sanctions make more sense than bombing raids. Doesn’t it? Funding violence doesn’t make all that much sense, does it? I imagine weapons as self-defense is necessary at times. But wasn’t it even Napoleon that said that money is the essential ingredient to war.. something like that. Should we not think first of funding wars but rather think of defunding aggression?
When I think of the world, my heart goes out to the innocent children. Yet it seems so many think first of hate, judgement, retaliation, and money. What about the innocent children? Things would change so much if we first thought of the innocent children. That certainly should transcend greed, power, politics, racism, hatred, judgement, retaliation, and so many vile masters that seem to take precedence in global decision making.
Perhaps we could take some well informed time to reflect deeply and thoughtfully upon the following topics in the context of what is best for our children:
Ukraine/Russia
Israel/Hamas
Iran
North Korea
the world is not as we have been lead to believe
cost of essentials up 18% since Biden took office
wind mills and climate change
electric cars: the reality, pragmatics, and the dream
oil production currently way up in USA
auto insurance double and tripling
hunter biden
AI. artificial intelligence pros and cons
climate change, what is the reality?
Nicola Tesla—unlimited positive energies in our planet.. the earth
What are our priorities?
Simple!: Just clean the fish bowl of global consciousness
Mount Soma and the Vedic technology offered by the Rishis
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The Soul, the Key to Healthy Relationships; The Mind and Immortality
The knowledge is infinite. I know only a thin sliver. We can spend a lifetime of study and will not know it all. Even Vedic pandits know only one of the four Vedas. Focus on what evolves you, thereby know the one thing by which all else is known.
Someone asked me what I experience from reading Sanskrit Vedic Literature. Sanskrit letters are the seeds of foundation of relative existence. Reading it, one can feel it. Attune to most fundamental level of existence… those are the manifestations of the finest level of existence… the fundamental building block of existence… pure knowledge, truth within source of ones being, the Self.
Vedic sounds are more important than the meaning
Maharishi Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras: I like the following verse as a guideline to relationships:
1.33 In relationships, the mind becomes purified by cultivating feelings of friendliness towards those who are happy, compassion for those who are suffering, goodwill towards those who are virtuous, and indifference or neutrality [equanimity] towards those we perceive as wicked or evil [negative… Rakshasa value]
This can also be read to include relationship with your own self.
Brahma Chaitanya is a supreme attainment, yet the house can still be made of mud. The mind is like a monkey jumping from tree to tree. Its purification is leads to the next step: jivanmukti leads in the direction Chiranjivi (Sanskrit: चिरञ्जीवि) the immortals
the power of speech… your rate of evolution comes to a significant degree from your speech.
‘controlling’ the mind… effortlessly verses with effort… two distinctly different interpretations of scripture, e.g. Yoga Sutras.
speaks to reality continuum existence .. levels of existence, of understanding of sanskrit and sutras.
I read Yoga Sutras in Sanskrit, listen to the recitation, read different translations and compare translations…. each from its own level of understanding/interpretation.
A significant example is the interpretation of the word ‘control’ … for example, controlling the mind.
Some say effortless by resting into transcendent, like in Brahma Sutra verse about Dharma coming from Brahman
Yet more often traditionally control comes from effort on surface of life.
Both are true. As is said, Effortless control comes from the depth of being; but surface control is of value as well: don’t do what you know is wrong, and if you even think it might be wrong, don’t do it. But practically speaking, just do your best. “Do not look for perfection in the relative, it is not there..”
Before enlightenment people reincarnate to work out karma. After enlightenment they reincarnate to fulfill a purpose. Yet after enlightenment, the body still can have karma. That becomes obvious if you study the lives of the enlightened.
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if thousands of years of history has proven one thing, it is that current approaches to world peace do not work: clean the fish bowl is the only answer: Mt Soma is dedicated to that; residents gain liberation in the process
Kamila Valieva Russian skater
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‘bounded’ works here in place of ‘small’:
scripture, cognition, teaching, movement,
both eternal and changing
Maharishi: ‘These are Brahma Sūtras (sūtras about Brahman), not Jagat sūtras (sūtras about the world).’
you are Brahma
“I am Brahma[n]”
The World Reveals Brahman
pashya: ’see’ and early Brahma Chaitanya [Brahman Consciousness]
K + A = KA, manifest [consonates] are rooted in unbounded [unmanifest]
without the observer, there is no pillow
Ramayana in the Physiology:
Ravana: specificity [space, time, etc.] ultimately a misunderstanding about reality, Rama restores Absolute in awareness… why Lanka is so beautiful
projection/perception: our sensory functions project a ‘reality’ onto the Absolute; Brahman is all of this together: a level of consciousness, not a ‘thing’. point of view creates ones ‘reality’ [e.g. science, religion, business, music, etc.]; is physiological as well determined by karma as education, heritage, etc. [dynamics of structure of physiology], can view from any perspective and is fine if it ultimately meets all other perspectives
Bhagavad Gita 9.8: curving back on myself I create over and over again
Trimutri and Prakritis: structure, function, purpose:
what defines silence [Shiva] is sound [Parvati], everything is creation is Parvati [Prakriti], She is every structure that defines every space. Parvati is Prakriti of Shiva
Vishnu dynamism, function is Lakshmi… Prakriti of Vishnu:dynamism is Lakshmi:function
Brahma Knowledge Prakriti is Saraswati Organizing Power [Plan] … House has a function but how to use it is a plan. Brahma holds the 4 Veda… logic, plan
Purusha is all of them together: they are all the same thing seen from different perspectives/realities
Ram is Brahm… Totality… The embodiment of Chaitanya [the Absolute]… the 50% of Vishnu: the embodiment of the other parts, the other 50%…. takes all values and puts them together in their full value in wholeness
This is full; that is full. from Fullness comes Fullness Upanishad from Shukla Yajur Veda
My universe is my self
Atma is subjective, personal, individual: yet in a wholistic or collective manner/way.
experience atma as the field of sensory perception
Silence, or space, is found as Shiva.
He Who Has No Name observes without bias the illusion
Consciousness is Brahman (Prajnanam Brahma).
Upanishad 3.1.3
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Hiranyagarbha anatomy, yoga sutra, Who is Rama
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
C.G. JUNG
announcements:
clean the fish bowl is the only solution
if thousands of years of history has proven one thing, it is that current approaches to world peace do not work: clean the fish bowl is the only answer: Mt Soma is dedicated to that; residents gain liberation in the process
remodeling kitchen so no food service at Mt Soma for a while.
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pashya: ’see’ and early Brahma Chaitanya [Brahman Consciousness]
K + A = KA, manifest [consonates] are rooted in unbounded [unmanifest]
without the observer, there is no pillow
Ramayana in the Physiology:
Ravana: specificity [space, time, etc.] ultimately a misunderstanding about reality, Rama restores Absolute in awareness… why Lanka is so beautiful
projection/perception: our sensory functions project a ‘reality’ onto the Absolute; Brahman is all of this together: a level of consciousness, not a ‘thing’. point of view create ones ‘reality’ [e.g. science, religion, business, music, etc.]; is physiological as well determined by karma as education, heritage, etc. [dynamics of structure of physiology], can view from any perspective and is fine if it ultimately meets all other perspectives
dark matter? chaos? ,,, not our concern,,, vastness of the universe… logical coherence of manifest is like ‘windows’ in a crystal… e.g. in a herkimer diamond
you are eternal
Bhagavad Gita 9.8: curving back on myself I create over and over again
Trimutri and Prakritis: structure, function, purpose:
what defines silence [Shiva] is sound [Parvati], everything is creation is Parvati [Prakriti], She is every structure that defines every space Parvati is Prakriti of Shiva
Vishnu dynamism, function is Lakshmi… Prakriti of Vishnu:dynamism is Lakshmi:function
Brahma Knowledge Prakriti is Saraswati Organizing Power [Plan] … House has a function but how to use it is a plan. Brahma holds the 4 Veda… logic, plan
Purusha is all of them together: they are alll the same thing seen from different perspectives/realities
Ram is Brahm… Totality… The embodiment of Chaitanya [the Absolute] … the 50% of Vishnu: the embodiment of the other parts, the other 50%…. takes all values and puts them together in their full value in wholeness
This is full; that is full. From Fullness comes Fullness Brahm Upanishad from Shukla Yajur Veda
Ram takes all values of specificity, perspectives, and puts them all together in terms of unified whole… Brahm
Vastu is study of space defined by walls, etc.
dissolution and creation of universe
My universe is my self
Atma is subjective, personal, individual: yet in a wholistic or collective manner/way.
experience atma as the field of sensory perception
Silence, or space, is found as Shiva.
He Who Has No Name observes without bias the illusion
Why the enlightened are not easy to understand:
what is “this’? What is “that”? In enlightenment, what was ‘this’ becomes ‘that’ and what was ‘that’’ becomes ‘this’. God is closer than people think.
Veda is not easy to interpret/understand: meaning on many levels [even pandits interpret with different meanings… language of nature, not just of humans
For him who does not know being [the transcendent] what can the hymns of Veda accomplish?
what lies beyond [not born of] the mind… cosmic intelligence… foundation of natural thoughts… in harmony with nature.
knowledge/experience
Consciousness is Brahman (Prajnanam Brahma).
Upanishad 3.1.3
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
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Upanishad from different levels of reality
announcements:
clean the fish bowl is the only solution
if thousands of years of history has proven one thing, it is that current approaches to world peace do not work: clean the fish bowl is the only answer: Mt Soma is dedicated to that; residents gain liberation in the process
remodeling kitchen so no food service at Mt Soma for a while.
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dissolution and creation of universe
My universe is my self
experience atma as the field of sensory perception
Silence, or space, is found as Shiva.
He Who Has No Name observes without bias the illusion
Why the enlightened are not easy to understand:
what is “this’? What is “that”? In enlightenment, what was ‘this’ becomes ‘that’ and what was ‘that’’ becomes ‘this’. God is closer than people think.
Veda is not easy to interpret/understand: meaning on many levels [even pandits interpret with different meanings… language of nature, not just of humans
For him who does not know being [the transcendent] what can the hymns of Veda accomplish?
what lies beyond [not born of] the mind… cosmic intelligence… foundation of natural thoughts… in harmony with nature.
knowledge/experience
Consciousness is Brahman (Prajnanam Brahma).
Aitareya Upanishad 3.1.3
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
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announcements:
Gun Violence: the only solution
remodeling kitchen so no food service at Mt Soma for a while.
Gyan is foundation of success.
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Subtlety Within Words is Everything Aham Vishvam My universe is myself [Brahman Viewpoint] … vs I am the universe. [Relative Viewpoint; Taittiriya Upanishad 3.10 Brahman Consciousness [Brahmi Chetana] in a Nutshell
Pragyanam Brahma— fully awake consciousness [knowledge] is Brahman
God’s Will Manifests through you, as you. People think of the Light of God [God’s Will] as something outside in themselves. The Light of God emerges within people…. through their hearts through their determination through the light in their eye, through a commitment to the Purity underlying their ideals. God’s will emerges within you, as you, as your thoughts, as your feelings…. the clearer the vessel, the fuller the expression. God’s Will is found within you, as you. It does not lie outside yourself but rather IS your True Self.: Atma Support of Nature flows within you. We have only to clear the vessel.
The Gold is in your backyard, i.e. within you.
the physiology is the veda… shareer
Why the enlightened are not easy to understand:
what is “this’? What is “that”? In enlightenment, what was ‘this’ becomes ‘that’ and what was ‘that’’ becomes ‘this’. God is closer than people think.
For him who does not know being [the transcendent] what can the hymns of Veda accomplish?
what lies beyond [not born of] the mind… cosmic intelligence… foundation of natural thoughts… in harmony with nature.
knowledge/experience
Consciousness is Brahman (Prajnanam Brahma).
Aitareya Upanishad 3.1.3
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
RUDYARD KIPLING
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Relationships key: How to “See” the person/“pillow” in front of you
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announcements:
temple “Updates&Reflections” tab
remodeling kitchen so no food service at Mt Soma for a while.
pandit boy school
greenhouse
my role should best be: Gyan which is foundation of success.
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Shiva’s Drum Damaru
A to Ka may first feel like theory or intellectual only, but as you reflect upon it or touch into it, the reality is enlivened in your awareness, which is why I strive to relate it to the experience
a gardener nurtures the delicate sprout. it all eternally remains unfathomable for us all
veda and relative alike
external dynamics of relationship do not define the relationship
i.e. A and Ka, staying lively with the A-A-A value is key to relationships
beauty in reaching for Truth through the veil of chitta and vritti [thoughts/whirlpools source, from where one is coming from]
knowing essence of music, or math, or any field.
the difference between an enlightened person and a god. house of mud vs house of crystalline glass
pay attention to how you ‘define’ others… your thoughts and attitudes have tremendous power.
Veda is in the physiology, not the words
‘Know that one thing by which all else is known’
4 abhavas… junction point of relative and absolute. tangent to a line… smriti
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