Brahma Sutras: The Experience 1.1.1-1.2.1

blog:   1.1.1-1.1.13 Knowledge enlivens experience; experience redefines knowledge.

Some say the Brahma Sutra should only be studied, can only be understood by a person in Unity Consciousness as it blossoms to Brahman Consciousness, a very high level of evolution.  However, the Sutras can be understood to some degree from the perspective of whatever level of consciousness an individual has.  In fact, commentaries are just that and when those commentaries are studied or translated, that is done so from the level of consciousness of the reader/translater.  

In this podcast, I will attempt to convey an understanding of the deepest meaning of the Brahma Sutra.  Before making this podcast I ran my perspective by fully trained [highly qualified] Vedic Pandits. To be completely transparent, I felt almost embarrassed after doing so.  “Who am I”, I thought, “To have been so presumptuous to do so”.  I was humbled when told they were enthusiastic about what I said and delighted that I was willing to share it with the world via this podcast.  I reverently do so. 

This week we discuss the first sutras of the Brahma Sutra.  It is more a discussion than a list of points so this weeks notes will not include a summary of what is discussed.  Please enjoy the podcast!

At first, the experience is overwhelming, almost unbearable.  “What happened to me?”

taste of strawberry, culminating in Brahman

the vision

at first, overwhelming… like waking up to 3 arms

not about personality [your nature] but do cultivate an evolutionary lifestyle… not mood making

the relative: its presence is inferred by the effect it produces.  Maya

under the influence of maya, brahm appears as ishwara-personal god

maya; clear water    avidya; muddy water

under influence of avidya, atma appears as jiva or individual soul

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”
RUDYARD KIPLING
“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.”
HERMANN HESSE
“Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.”
RALPH BUNCHE
“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
JOHN RUSKIN
“It is infinitely better to have a few good Men, than many indifferent ones.”
GEORGE WASHINGTON
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

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Brahma Sutras: The Experience 2

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blog: 1.1.1-1.1.5  The Vision: Knowledge enlivens experience; experience redefines knowledge.

This week we discuss the first five sutras of the Brahma Sutra.  It is more a discussion than a list of points so this weeks notes will not include a summary of what is discussed.  Please enjoy the podcast!

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

taste of strawberry, culminating in Brahman

the vision

at first, overwhelming… like waking up to 3 arms

not about personality [your nature] but do cultivate an evolutionary lifestyle… not mood making

the relative: its presence is inferred by the effect it produces.  Maya

under the influence of maya, brahm appears as ishwara-personal god

maya; clear water    avidya; muddy water

under influence of avidya, atma appears as jiva or individual soul

“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.”
HERMANN HESSE
“Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.”
RALPH BUNCHE
“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
JOHN RUSKIN

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Brahma Sutra:  Essential Knowledge “Now, the desire to know Brahman”

Notes:

Dedicated to all sincere and humble seekers

athato brahmajijnasa…”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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Eternal Cycle; Ultimate Endangered “Species”

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The Universal Invisible Elephant: “Naming”

When words distract

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

subconscious mind = 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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Ancient Secret “cell phone” to the Gods

this weeks unedited notes:

The “physics” of Is-ness: Transforming the “Dark Ages”

first day of waxing moon is called “no moon” day.  not a day to start new projects but good to worship ancestors, etc.    then the next two days are “new moon” days.  the second “new moon” day is auspicious and good day to start new things: Shiva Moon

political motivations are often very different than that of the voters

Is-ness = Consciousness…the only thing that is… isn’t a ‘thing’

Agama Shastra “cell phone to Heaven”…  entry… invite Gods to enter..  there is an Agama Shastra for each deity,  

yantra: all actions of havan create a ‘machine’, a yantra, 

mantra: emergence of deity between yantra and tantra of havan 

tantra [2 meanings one for humans e.g. meditation, one for gods receiving influence of the havan]

fish bowl effect:  kali yuga:  we are all swimming around in the same fishbowl.  who is not affected?

“The greatest chapters in history always begin with risk, and the same is true with the chapters of your life.”
MARK BATTERSON

risking nothing is a great risk.  everything is a risk.  nothing ventured, nothing gained. we are always traversing the unknowable. risk is the nature of the unknown.   the only true knowing is knowing you know nothing

futility of debate:  to talk another out of their feelings is to impose denial… better to help them explore what they are feeling,  The light of awareness is the true healer.

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