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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This week’s unedited notes randomly collected, loosely or directly related to this week’s podcast:
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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blog: The Razors Edge: Beyond what is sure one knows
announcements:
temple updates tab coming soon
remodeling kitchen so no food service at Mt Soma for a while.
have outgrown previous accommodations so will upgrade/remodel
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Mt Soma and purity of knowledge… rooted in rational, heart full
what is ‘this’ vs what is ‘that’? the misunderstood enlightened.. universal love focused
swara. swą=consciousness, ra=reverberation
cultural traditions and understandings vs. pure Knowledge. the razors edge
like water rush down the mountains streams, it finds its ways, flowing with what is receptive am moving around that which is not. the resistances are sidestepped and nourished in time but not directly
like all of life, spirituality without wisdom [understanding] is like a ship without a rudder
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athato brahma–jijnasa…”now the desire to know Brahman”
everything gravitates to the Absolute.. i,e. evolution either drifting or Knowledge inspired
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“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we
should walk.”
CICERO
I was recently approached at the temple by a very kind and respectful young Brahmin gentleman. He spoke of his longing for true Knowledge. This touched my heart and compelled me to reflect deeply. I have been a teacher my entire adult life. I have learned a great deal about people and how they receive or reject Knowledge. The road of the teacher of deep knowledge is long and often leads to heartbreak. How can a student remain steadfast along the path? Where to begin such a limitless journey? What are the pitfalls along the way? Where and why along the way do so many spin out on tangents? The simple answer it that a persons karma brings them to the Knowledge, and their karma takes them away. This podcast is one more attempt to help. It is humbly dedicated to all sincere seekers. Perhaps it will be the first of an unending series. Or perhaps it is yet another in the lifelong unending series.
meditation.. experience vs knowledge
TM or youtube channel how to meditate
Veda traditionally not chanted for meaning but rather for repetition… meaning changes at various level of consciousness. experience/knowledge
7 heads 7 levels of intellectual understanding
“practical” application
“You must train your intuition—you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.”
INGRID BERGMAN
However “Intuition” rooted in Chit [Conditioned subconscious, programming, personal childhood ‘issues’, stress, etc.] is not true Intuition
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Inside the Guru Purnima Rainbow: the FEELING was amazing. felt like standing inside a giant magnifying glass. much more than just the visual…. like Alice in Wonderland
Mt Soma… a mountain of soma
Truth is stranger than fiction
The World is not as we have been lead to believe.
Ancient and Modern Legends
Practical Approaches:
maca, exercise, cardiologist light sweat, bodybuilding, diet, exercise, organic, exercise u like and let it evolve, yoga props, muscles and motion, finding root of physical tension, soma plant of the west?
Life’s deepest meaning palpable, lively and exquisite at our Mount Soma home.
Hanuman Jayanthi and Kumbabishekam
How fitting that today, May 14 is both Hanumans birthday and Mothers day followed by Mount Soma Kumbabishekam May 15-17. Though physics is King of the universe, the personified value, the heart, is His Queen who gives life its meaning. Like all things, even the wind is a complex mechanic of physics. Yet be it a turbulent storm or a gentle breeze upon ones face, the winds deepest meaning is how its movement touches our hearts. That is the Queen of the universe, the personified value… that is what gives it all meaning, just as when we think of another person, it is not the physics of their presence that gives them meaning but rather the personified feeling of their soul. When we think of another, that is what we think of. The Mother, is the heartfelt soul of the universe and all within it. Vedic Knowledge encompasses Knowledge of both the King and His Queen who gives Him meaning.
These past days in preparation for this weeks events has been a busy busy whirlwind for us all here at Mount Soma. As I moved from station to station, touching base with our numerous teams, what was even more lively than the turbulent winds of our hustle and bustle was the heart that carried us: Devotion, the Hanuman value so full. The Root of Devotion is Love carried by the winds of existence, Vayu. Hanuman, pure devotion, the son of the wind, the Kshethra palaka (official guardian) of Mount Soma, caring us all, is so palpable these days at Mount Soma.
Jai Hanumanji!
Sri Shivaya Namaha
Sri Matre Namaha
Happy Mothers Day!
Current Events and Reflections:
Inner and Outer Spheres of Influence
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
RUDYARD KIPLING
I would say of all the liars in the world, the worst are our programmings, particularly the ones we wrongly believe we no longer serve.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
“People think what they think and do what they do and there is nothing you can do about it.” Sally Jessy Rafael
so many love spirituality and think they totally believe in it, but when the rubber meets the road, they revert back to old programming. So who or what is really their “God”?
“I am out of here” when things get tough is a common path of the habitual failure.
We favor what is familiar over what is better.
it is a well known fact that the lives of many collapse after winning the lotto. spheres of influence
understand how your own head works.. not so easy to do..
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”
MOTHER TERESA
Addiction to drugs, and screen time
Dopamine highs from too much screen time
How physics went astray. Einstein loved Vedic literature and based ideas upon that not realizing that much was in the Absolute, not the relative.
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.”
AUDREY HEPBURN
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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Small minds talk about people. Mediocre minds talk about events. Great minds talk about ideas
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do,
B. F. SKINNER
We are already feeling things amping up here from the upcoming Kumbabishekam. Brian mentioned it … Panditji feels it too. Until Brian brought it up, I said nothing because I felt people would think I was just mood making.
Solar Flares now high: some say world stress corresponds. True or not, choppy month ahead IMHO
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The Good(?) and Bad of it. Huge decline in patriotism and religion, and also in importance of having children.
Anti Patriotism and a given Religion is not about that particular nation or religion. It is actually about the human condition. All nations, and groups are permeated with Rakshasa consciousness, But people do not consider themselves to be the Rakshasas. They consider themselves to be right, In fact, their sense of self worth demands it.
1/3 of Americans under age 30 get their news from TicTok
TicTok under the terms of service tracks every key stroke on the phone
Choosing tonot have children is being convinced by the movement to degrade society.
Divide and concur:
Former KGB operative states that 85% of KGB activity was to undermine America, and only 15% was a spy
All are created equal: what that really means
making sense of reparations: nobody or everybody so what is the difference? Destruction of culture is something money will not buy back.
One in three Americans are lonely. 60% of young Americans are lonely
Christians are now demonized?
Kerry Lake is now the radical?
trans 7th victim, trans encouraged too arm
Gender dysphoria definition
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Rakshasas dwell inside of people in kali yuga and these days in particular are having a field day.
i.e. Sick society of Kali Yuga but keep eye on big picture.. Golden Age of Sat Yuga just around the corner. Just a couple more years. I can not believe CCP [Chinese communist party will usher in Sat Yuga in spite of strides with Brazil, Panama canal, Africa, Russia, etc.
‘drain the swamp’ results in indictment
skeletons in most political closets Rep and Dem alike
fund in congress to pay hush money
why zombies and demonic spirits are so popular on tv and in movies: sci fi window into the human psyche.
Grand jury month-long previously planned hiatus Trump case. Then suddenly indicted him,
Newsmax versus DIRECTV suddenly framed their claim completely differently after they got back on Directv. Were they lying then or are they lying now ….disappointing
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and under thinking the sublime. Intuition: the Vedic understanding, Puranas
Tid Bits:
Every 12 years or so, Kumbabishekam, re-inauguration of temple. 10 pandits, etc. will be huge 3 days… fabulous.. looking for date around May…. we are all very much looking forward to it.
Craftsmanship is steeped in tradition.
Far too many people lack the courage of their deeper inner convictions. Too many hearts and minds are blown in the winds of karma.
Simply say what you know is true I would’ve never thought that would require courage. Do your best to say it kindly, sweetly, thoughtfully; but do your best to say it.
Hatred carries the inability to speak out feelings without losing one’s balance.
‘Jesus saves’ and ‘confession’. What they really mean and how that really work explained in the podcast.
‘Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
JACOB M. BRAUDE
The Counter Intuitive Culture:
Current thinking seems to be if it’s right it has to be counter intuitive. Yet God knows it’s a joy to be simple.
e..g. anti-inflation bill, lockdown to prevent spread of virus, trans parties for children, cartel run boarders, CDC suppression of vaccine data, etc.
Counter intuitive can be valid, but only rarely when it is main stream. You know things are way off.
Your life is the result of the decisions you make, and the simple truth of the matter is the drugs and alcohol, are a death trap. Take a triple backflip with a half gainer off the high knuckle board and who knows where you will land?
Intuition, The Vedic Understanding: Puranas, Relative viewing the Gap… remembering with Absolute beyond limitations of space and time.
Current Events
Fentanyl and heroin has made its way into Mexican pharmacies, as well as online pharmacies with labels that are hard to distinguish from a genuine pharmaceutical companies
some estimate $2 trillion per year in dark money… i.e. unaccounted for in US feed gov. That makes no sense to me. is it possible? Hidden gov behind the scenes with own military , navy, airfare, etc. A full level deeper than what we have even thought of as the ‘deep state’.
I am told that the federal government spent $6.27 trillion in FY 2022. This means federal spending was equal to 25% of the total gross domestic product (GDP), or economic activity, of the United States that year.
Rumor is that the plane that hit the pentagon hit where they were auditing the oversight of the money—tough for me to believe that one but who knows?
Iran is one week away from having a nuke
I heard that the physicist, Micio Kaku admitted that he will have to rewrite all of his physics books post the Web telescope discoveries. Then sadly, he added that those pictures were not of galaxies but of black holes. If true, I forgive him. I’ve said stupid things myself in life. We all have. Those were obviously galaxies not black holes.
Finally in the news: Lab really did leak the virus… no kidding, and what next? 2+2 really does = 4?
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Are we losing the forests for the trees? Context is everything. Just look out the window and see for yourself.
Opening tidbits:
it is said that ‘the people are smart’ but history has shown that they are also gullible
With internet, etc., it is a whole new world: governments and media struggling to adjust. More difficult to deceive those who are willing to at least look.
we could make a whole podcast commenting on this quote: “Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”
ISAAC ASIMOV
Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness and states rights: issues from abortion to slavery
Population of Ukraine has gone down from 37,000,000 to 22,000,000 since the war started… Nation demolished
It is now been revealed that as we said sometime ago, the United States could’ve prevented the war, but wanted to prolong it, just to go after Russia and Putin
Just look out your window: If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. But is this the over thinking generation? One thing for sure: It has proven you can justify anything with the intellect
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Play of consciousness, is-ness, unified field of physics, God… Veda is nature.
the Relative (vs. the Absolute):
It is all in how you frame it.
increasing evidence of major cycles over 10s of thousands of years…as per Veda
maya… Losing the forest for the trees
religion is not immune.
A.T.R.I.;
Mount Soma Ancient Technology Research Institute
The way the world works is really so simple. Yet it’s so elusive.
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