We are continuing to have a fantastic time at Mount Soma.
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We now have two new residents: Surabhi and her heifer calf Gowri.
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They can be seen grazing on one lot or another or on the Learning Center front lawn.
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We are enjoying them, I think more than anyone imagined.
This website is designed especially for you.
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Distance and finance are no barrier to our relationship. The transcendent lies beyond space, time and the material.
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Within the transcendent, you and I are eternally one.
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I will do all I can to assist you in your journey through life.
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If there are any questions or comments you have that may help this site serve to you better, please click comments below and let me know.
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I am here for you.
This blog was written as a collaborative effort of Michael and the women of Mount Soma.
Vedic knowledge is easily lost. The question is, “Why?” If the knowledge is so valuable, why would it ever go away? Wouldn’t it be held, cherished, and protected no matter what?
There are many reasons why, however an issue has come up that illustrates one way the knowledge is lost that actually touches our own lives in a very personal way.
I understand that the following is a delicate topic and may, at first glance, be difficult for some to receive. I ask that those individuals take time to ponder the matter.
What if you were to learn that women should not attend pujas, homams, or yagyas, during menstruation? Certainly, there would be an understandable disappointment. But would it go further than disappointment?
Would you be inclined to disregard, reject, or rebel against the notion? Would you take offense? Would you choose to believe this is an invalid, sexist, cultural distortion? Would you cast it aside or rationalize it away?
How many examples of knowledge are lost in this way?
This knowledge is not an arbitrary or cultural matter. There is a physiological basis to it. Like gravity, it is simply a law of nature. It just is…
Women, during menstruation, are open channels to energy. They become more susceptible to the energies of the environment. Negative energies can enter and positive energies are easily dissipated through them at this time. They are particularly sensitive to all energies, but especially spiritual energies. They receive, hold, and radiate spiritual energy in a very powerful manner.
This time naturally affords women the opportunity to go inward and rest deeply. It is a window to advance spiritually if your relationship with it is healthy and wise.
Women’s energies are so fine during this time that those energies need to be nurtured and allowed to radiate out to the environment. They are sacred temples in and of themselves. The physical energy of groups is simply too crude for them to be immersed in. Similarly, they best support the group by remaining inward and restful.
During this time, women may find it difficult to be active. Their body’s inclination is to rest and relax. At Mount Soma we intend to accommodate and support that natural inclination during classes and retreats.
The physiology is so fine that it is best to not even listen to mantras. They are simply too imposing on the physiology. During classes and retreats when we meditate as a group, these women are encouraged to leave the room while Sama Veda and Rig Veda are being played to let their physiology rest in a manner that is best suited for them at this time. Women are encouraged to take full advantage of this opportunity.
We bring this aspect of the Knowledge forth at this time because the group consciousness has come to the level where it can hold it with the respect and dignity it deserves.
I have witnessed communities where this is honored. Women have a most profound aura about them during this time. Their energetic quality is similar to that of a reclusive saint. It is a time for them to honor themselves and to be honored by the group.
We encourage women to attune with their individual needs during menstruation by trying these suggested alterations to their daily routine:
A number of questions have come in lately that will be addressed here.
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Some people have been attending classes for years and others are new to the school and only know of it by the website. That is all great. I would like to provide as much information as I can on the website so that even people without the time, money, or inclination to travel to classes can still receive the knowledge.
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The challenge is to write in a manner that is understood by those who are new to the school, while still saying things that are engaging to the long-term students.
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I welcome the challenge and appreciate your emails asking for clarification if concepts and terms are used that you are not familiar with. This will help make the website user friendly for everyone. Some of the concepts are as subtle as they are important so please bear with me as the information is provided over time.
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Several such questions will be addressed below. However, understand that each is a lecture or series of lectures in itself. More thorough explanations help insure that the words are not misunderstood. Let’s move forward together in that spirit, understanding that each answer may well create a number of additional questions. I will address all these things in more depth in future articles, blogs, and videos on the website.
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One question asked why Mount Soma is safer than other places during these times of earth change.
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It is important to understand the interconnection of all things. The environment affects your consciousness and your consciousness affects the environment.
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The transcendent is a field of pure conscious (is-ness, being, the unified field, God…these and other terms are used for the transcendent) underlying and radiating harmony and coherence into your awareness and through you, to the environment. As you do a meditation through which you transcend, this becomes stronger.
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As you do this in a location where others are also doing this mediation, the effect becomes exponentially stronger.
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At Mount Soma, additional technologies are employed to enhance this even more such as vastu, Sri Somesvara (see SriSomesvara.org), etc. This harmony, radiating out to the environment, has a stabilizing and healing effect on the environment. It becomes a solid ground that supports life.
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Research has shown this sort of phenomenon to be true. At Mount Soma, we take great care to implement this with precision and purity. Cultural and personal biases make that a very rare thing on the planet. The knowledge is profoundly subtle and therefore quite elusive.
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A second question refers to a previous blog where I stated that to perceive something is to heal it, asking how that is so.
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This involves the concept I have discussed at length called “Being, Merging, Knowing, and Doing.” In a nutshell: Today when something is to be accomplished, the first question is, “What do I do? How do I DO it?” In other words, the ‘doing’ comes first. This is a superficial and I would have to say upside down approach. Doing comes last. How to do it, comes last.
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True knowledge of anything starts with Being. Become established in your being (the transcendent) or at least in the short term, settle down and rest into yourself… get ‘centered.’
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From there if you have something to deal with, Merge with it. On the level of being, you are one with everything. Find that thing within youself and merge with it. That is what true perception is all about.
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From that ‘Knowing’ naturally follows. Once you have merged with something, you come to truly know it.
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After that, the proper Doing is clear and spontaneous. You know what to do, because you have clearly perceived from the deepest level of your being. To perceive is to heal.
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Third question: “How do we tell our children about the upcoming earth changes?”
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Every person is unique. Therefore what is best said depends on the individual child. To know what to say comes from the same principle as above… being, merging knowing, and doing.
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Take the time to understand your child and then you will know what to do/say.
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To my experience, children are often satisfied with short responses that bottom line the subject. They often go deep within naturally and receive your words on that level. They are capable of filling in many details deep within their own hearts.
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With respect to earth changes, simply saying that the world is purifying and as it does so, it naturally lets off steam here and there may be enough.
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Regarding their safety, it is important for them to know that they derive a great deal of support in life quite naturally (Many adults would do well to understand that better).
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By resting in your arms, they rest in the arms of Mother Nature and thereby receive the support of nature. That is simply how life works and kids drink up the energy they receive from that quite naturally.
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The unrest in the tectonic plates is born of the fear and negativity in people’s hearts. By resting in your own being, your children will learn how to rest into there’s.
As a result, Nature will hold and support them and you.
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Living from that place within your own being will be to best way of communicating all this to your children.
I have been so swamped lately but I have three blogs swimming around in my head.
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I will do my best to get to all of them this weekend.
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For now, Happy St. Patricks Day! with a six leaf clover that my daughter just found in the yard.
I am back from San Francisco class and getting caught up with things.
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Again this time, class was a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone there for that.
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We are going to start something new on Saturdays at noon during the Surya Ram classes in San Francisco.
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It will be a FREE one-hour ‘class.’
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Each class will have a specific topic… anything from the human energy system to the manifestation of existence. If you have a particulate topic or list of topics you would like to suggest, please provide them as a comment to this blog. We will get a group consensus from the list and there we will have our topics.
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Each class will stand alone. In other words, no previous classes will be necessary in order to understand what is being discussed.
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I am really excited about this. It should be fun. Everyone is invited. It is completely free and should be interesting a great deal of fun.
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I hope to see you there.
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I am happy to announce that we accomplished the goal and raised matching funds for the $10,000 pledge! Thank you all so much.
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A number of people asked what the desperate need is all about. The Student Union is under construction. After construction began and funds were raised to cover it, the county added additional requirements such as a sprinkler system and structural additions, totaling an additional $100,000 in costs.
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At this point, we do not have the money but are proceeding with construction in hopes that we will find additional funding in time. We hope to complete the building by May, making it available for use during the temple consecration.
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Having the Student Union 90% complete, yet unable to be occupied during the Temple Consecration is a very real possibility. With that in mind, we forge ahead, doing all we can to complete the project on time.
I have been wondering if I should respond to the comments on the ‘A Helping Hand” bog that I wrote the other day. It is all rather delicate. I appreciate the passionate support. At the same time, we do need to be careful not to offend. Donations need to come from an open heart, not a guilty one.
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It is true that we desperately need support. It is also true that December 27 is the deadline for the matching funds pledge. I would only invite you to look within yourself to decide upon these matters.
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Look deeper than fear and certainly deeper than guilt and please do what you feel is right.
We are having a lovely Christmas morning here. Huge, gentle flakes of snow began tumbling down right after daybreak just as we began opening presents.
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Now there is a silencing blanket of snow covering the ground and capping the roof tops…
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a perfectly enchanting Christmas morning…softly echoing the presences of angels
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a quiet whisper that “all is well”…
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a tranquil blessing for the upcoming year.
In reflecting upon the school, I realize how big it has all become.
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The days when it was all about classes with Michael are long gone. It is becoming more and more about Mount Soma, the retreats, Somanath Temple, the Ashram Program, Mount Soma Campus, Mount Soma Vedic University, on and on. This is all necessary to make the vision a reality… to create an enlightened city, if you will.
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With all that is planned, I foresee the day when I am but one facet of all that we offer to the world. It has clearly gotten to the place that I cannot carry it alone anymore.
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As most of you know, we received a generous offer to match any donation, up to a total of ten thousand dollars, that comes in before December 27th. I understand that at this point we are only a fraction of the way there.
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If you can, Mount Soma could really use your assistance. The time now is very short. The window of opportunity will be closing soon.
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Click HERE to donate now.
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