nurture people for what they have as opposed to judging them for what they don’t have. do your best to understand them and speak to them accordingly. not as easy as it sounds
the teacher can only suggest or point in a direction. the rest is up to the student.
yet it takes pressure to make a diamond. push but only so much.
at the same time:
someone said my podcasts are too deep and people have a hard time understanding them. my interest is not in popularity via superficiality but rather is for people who do want and need a deeper level of understanding. It is best to take not understanding as an invitation to pursue not a discouragement or criticism. My heart goes out to those who need and long for a deeper knowledge when it is not available. Relying on the knowledge I have been given integrated with my own experience, I offer to the best of my ability, whatever insights I have. There are great scholars out there and I rely upon their insights, but discernment as Adi Shandara said, is the path. We must discern the level of the people they are addressing at any given time. Even the greatest master can target the average level of consciousness. My goal is twofold: 1] build the enlightened city and 2] provide the deepest understanding I can… direct and undiluted.
He who has no name. Beyond perspective.
It’s not just about new thoughts, but rather a new way of thinking.
Two human needs: communion and privacy
It’s not about over thinking but perhaps just sitting with it. To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.”
ANDREW WYETH
someone sent this to me at just the right time:
“The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.”
RONALD REAGAN
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secrets of the fish bowl; also, rudraksha and why herbs work
short term vision…
fish bowl on all levels… tsunami, etc., when a fish bowl is not attended to, fish do poorly, algae grows, gravel dirty, plants do poorly, etc. same thing with global ‘consciousness’… it affects everything from politics, to relationships to weather.
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.”
JOHN BURROUGHS
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Oops – didn’t get to rudraksha beads and herbs! We can do it next week.
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The year of Anger and how it plays out; also, Ancient Secret to Hatha Yoga flexibility and a few Vedic verses explored
Upcoming year predictions are self-evident from watching the news and taking a step back. [as well as jyotish]. 2024: Our planet’s year of Anger, chaos, and conflict in all areas of life will continue throughout the year and well into 2025 BUT it is a clearing out process for good times to follow. The world will then wake up to natural law, wisdom, and in-sight. It is amazing to witness the degree to which mass mentality is so easily manipulated. Yet the grassroots of humanity are always closer the Mother Nature. Wisdom will emerge. Just hang in there for now! Think if it as a tint in the color of the water of the ‘fish bowl’ that will clear. So, watch your anger!
Global events will be evaluated based upon one’s bias. Think about it. What happens in Ukraine, Israel, elections, climate change, borders, etc. etc.
Whatever happens, half the world will see it as great, the other half will see it as disaster. But the big picture is that we are in the phase transition. That is a time when things bubble up in chaos as we have been seeing. But after the chaos of 2024/2025, we will be on the right course. Time and Mother Nature will let us know what that right course is.
Hatha yoga secret to flexibility revealed.
Tight muscles are about the nervous system, not the muscles!
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Panditji and Lakshmi will be attending a world peace havan in Varanasi, India in January. I was invited to attend but my Mount Soma duties require me to stay at home. ‘Would have loved to be able to attend.
the hidden chitta. i.e. “the shadow”, vritti: modulations of the mind
We are all like fine violins. Must be cared for properly… carefully. But maybe just don’t really know how to do that. And even if we do know how, it is not so easy to do it. We’ve been finely tuned from time to time, but like a fine instrument, we must care over our minds. The more evolved, the more refined, the stronger, the more delicate, the more nurturing required to maintain the balanced perfection. That is why it is considered improper to even make loud noises around the enlightened. Infinitely dynamic, flexible, powerful, yet delicate…
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
NELSON MANDELA
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This week’s unedited notes randomly collected, loosely or directly related to this week’s podcast:
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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