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.
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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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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blog:
This week’s unedited notes randomly collected, loosely or directly related to this week’s podcast:
‘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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This week’s unedited notes randomly collected, loosely or directly related to this week’s podcast:
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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Chiranjeevi: immortal , the 7 Rishis [sometimes spelled: chiranjivi]
Purusha: He who has no name. become Chiranjeevi
Mind, {separate to worship at a distance] or merge with
Brahman [Chiranjeevi] as experienced by the immortals] … like being the sun
Beyond initial ‘enlightenment’ [cosmic consciousness] it is a matter of clearing sight of what one knows ones Self to be. entering dark cave analogy as eyes adjust.
Katha Upanishad Third Valli verse 10. ‘Beyond the senses are their objects.’ senses, objects, mind, intellect, great self, unmanifest, Purusha
Katz, Vernon. The Upanishads (Tarcher Cornerstone Editions) Penguin Publishing Group.
Yama wanted Nachiketas to ask another question … can only answer it by facilitating awakening to that level of immortality. some say He did not answer the question, but he did in the only way it could really be answered.
‘the entire universe is my expression’ befriend the devata … the laws of nature
yagyas reorganize karma
Purusha size of thumb in center of body… what that really means… not speaking of emotional heart… heart cave
the Upanishads reveal level of unity within everything
It is through the light of God that the eyes see and the ears hear MMY
upanishads reveal the ‘location’ of the Absolute at the basis of all aspects of life
live the Purusha value
Upanishads : Absolute in terms of, approached step by step, from every angle of the relative. Absolute taught in terms of the relative. as if absolute speaking to relative in relatives terms.
Brahman includes experience of both fullnesses together as one fullness
Brahma Sutras gives understanding of experience of Brahman Consciousness
Agni: Aa to Ka is every object in creation, that [all wholenesses] wholeness is Indra [“King of the Gpds”]
what it means to ‘experience everything’
Ananda Mayi Ma said she understands everything {pure knowledge] and also that she is a small child and you have to explain everything to her [memorization of facts, etc.].
need relative to enter Brahman
longing for Brahman brings forth the teacher or teacher brings forth Brahman.. works both ways.
yet karma takes one to the teacher and karma takes one away. so steady hand on the rudder
sound of the versus enlivens the versus within
Pashya……see
‘It is my responsibility to protect Mt Soma…our people here… even if they do not see what i am protecting them from. Rakshasas work through people in this age of Kali Yuga. Easy to see the Divinity within individuals. Not always easy to concurrently not overlook the Rakshasa within them. My life struggle perhaps has been my lack of willingness to believe that if I show my care for them, they will not allow the Rakshasa to gain control and act out. Big mistake but one I have learned I must face wide eyed … not always so easy to do’… love
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Katha Upanishad… Immortality
two levels/meanings [and more] of attaining Brahman [Brahma Chaithanya and immortality, Chiranjeevi]…see last 2 verses of Katha Upanishad
Like all things Upanishads and Brahma Sutras can be viewed/interpreted on many levels [knowledge is structured in consciousness]
‘Entire universe is my expression of life’
Living/realizing ‘He who has no name” is you… and God is beyond, i.e. unknowable
the world is as we are.. it is your mirror
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Scientific American current issue essentially says [as we have been saying] that big bang theory is not correct. James Webb telescope confirms that.
“Wisdom is what’s left after we’ve run out of personal opinions.”
CULLEN HIGHTOWER Interesting quote follows. Do we focus on others Divinity, or the limitations through which they function?:
“I like people too much or not at all.”
SYLVIA PLATH
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Everything from Gravity to: Energy, Cognition, Chakras, etc.
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Hunter Biden, UFOs, Covid vaccine, Border, drugs, Transexual particularly school and beer blunder, running Biden for another term?
JPMorgan Chase is shutting down accounts for companies owned by prominent COVID-19 vaccine critic Dr. Joseph Mercola.
as the director of mt soma, i sometimes feel like a ram rod… just to get things done.
new kitchen staff … Varsha..spiritual, great Gujarat Indian cook
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Naming: Used and Misused: e.g. “Energy”, Bigot, etc.
The Eternal Cycle: Treasured, Familiar, Forgotten
The Yugas
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Learning how to ‘feel’: why people love their pets
when words distract
It is the ‘energy’ [what you are doing with your energy] more than who you are or your actions.:
chakras… psychophysiological centers
subconsciousmind = chit
Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous quote is as accurate and meaningful today as it was back in the 1800’s. Many of us know it in it’s more generalized form: actions speak louder than words.
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only 1000 Vedic pandits
the real endangered ‘species’
nobody would believe cell phone, computer, airplane etc would work until somebody built it. let’s finish building the enlightened city
my responsibility: steady hand on the rudder, precise science.
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yin/yang, agni/soma, male/female, sunny/shady sides of mountain, bell curves of men and women
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
WINSTON CHURCHILL
“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
PETER DRUCKER
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
THOMAS EDISON
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Bruce Lee
“Don’t fight forces, use them.” – Buckminster Fuller
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