Busy, busy here at Mount Soma these days and especially this Labor Day weekend.
Many thanks to the pundits and priests who came from neighboring cities to help.
It would have been most challenging without them.
Life’s secret: build a healthy momentum
Food service today. Wonderful cooks. Tomorrow the I-77 group is coming to prepare the meals as has been their annual Mt Soma tradition. A big ‘thank you’ to them as well.
We have a great team here now. Several people have joined the Seva program. The people here now and many of the guests are pitching in to help. It feels great: a wonderful team spirit. Watching and hearing the children and families laughing and playing in the yards and going for walks is most heartwarming. The temple is wonderful and the Shakti is transformative.
When things slow down, I look forward to doing more Knowledge podcasts.
“The best climber in the world is the one who’s having the most fun.”
Alex Lowe
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
MAYA ANGELOU
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Please enjoy visiting the following two links. The first gives you free access to many of my articles. The second offers the audio versions of a number of my podcasts. Some of my personal favorites are about the Upanishads, Brahma Sutras, Shiva Sutras, Vedic Literature, and Sanskrit structure of the veda.
Many exciting developments are happening at Mount Soma so I need to remain focused on those things this week. I will keep you posted and thank you for visiting! Enjoy!
“That’s the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along.”MADELEINE L’ENGLE
“God does not play dice with the universe”
A. Einstein
“He who is brave is free.”
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
“Worst wheel on the wagon makes the most noise.” ____
RONALD REAGAN
“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
WILLIAM JAMES
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”ALVIN TOFFLER
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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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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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