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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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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