Meditations on Transcendence

 Instagram is worse that serial or a movie This is due to very frequent context switching Better stick on Its called wandering from one to another, to another, to another One who is attached to this jumping cannot qualify for liberation Frequent and fast context switching causes depression Mind wants to continuously jump World is a never ending tree of illusion; one can keep jumping from one to another Life is nothing but a wandering from one branch to another without tasting essence Life on the tree of illusion is tough;  Elevation liberation and entanglement The world of illusion has quality of stickiness Hence we are perpetually bound to illusion The jumping is due to concept of boredom on a branch Leading to variety is mother of enjoyment - a routine packed with variety creates bliss In Gita it is called - variety in [ahara, vihara, cesta] - these 3 destroy depression Vihara is relaxing walk with friends etc..... Cesta is some service for benefit of the world Ahara is whol...

 Wheel of time, Kala Chakra A circle means coming back repeatedly to the same point But one can choose to evolve in the circle of time Hearing to the winds, the pancabhutas can give omens The flow pattern of water; the blowing of wind etc..... Ofcourse one needs wisdom to read the fundamental elements, be the wisdom sri-bhagavan uvaca kalo 'smi loka-ksaya-krt pravrddho lokan samahartum iha pravrttah rte 'pi tvam na bhavisyanti sarve ye 'vasthitah pratyanikesu yodhah Loka ksaya - the deterioration of world of matter begins at creation Create something with a timer to decay and destruct - thats the nature of this world There a decay timer and destruction embeded, which is ticking right from birth Some astrologers can get power to read the settings on this span timer Its a growth towards decay...... Pratyanikesu - one should not be on the opposite side of the Lord Competing and opposing the Lord 'pratyanikesu yodhah' Lets not become a opposing warrior What to do in hum...

An improved perfect self already exists Purification is needed to manifest the improved self Uncovering layers is our focus When there is a mixture only one needs purification Where there is required and not required substance, entity, to separate one needs purification Identification, separation and elimination are various steps in purification Knowledge and awareness is needed to identify unwanted things in heart Otherwise there is no regulation of unwanted things Wanton kingdom of unwanted things in the heart Unwanted is well integrated with wanted making the process difficult The wanted in dormant and unwanted is active Daman is complete supression of the unwanted with help of Lord Damodara One can catch, group and tie the unwanted - desires and ahankara Destroy and eliminate them Meditation is the culmination of the entire curriculum of the Gita which aims at removing the three main defects of our personality: mala, vikshepa and aavarana. tatrekaagram manaha kritvaa yatachittendri...

Sanatana dharma festivals have impact in all living dimensions We live in - physical, mental, intellectual, emotional, imaginative, spiritual dimensions Some dimension will be more prevalent active at different time of the day All will be operating but one dimension will dominate, hope you all agree Festivals uplift all dimensions of life There is a primary object which is central core to any festival For example til sesame in Sankranti, Lamp in Diwali One has to become extremely inquisitive on this specific food substances or worship substances recommended during festivals. Analyse the energy emission from these and on specific days of festivals and how it will benefit our overall wellbeing by absorbing the same All subsidiary energies push one towards getting drenched in the rain of satchitananda

The word Taxi is  coined from Medieval Latin  taxa  "tax, charge." Like a paid service. Service that is paid is not true service True service uplifts the self What is root word for service? *stā- , Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to stand, set down, make or be firm," with derivatives meaning "place or thing that is standing." As seen above it is 'Sta' which means that which is standing firm Dharma also means that which sustains a thing or make a thing stand So if we dont want to be washed away by the waves of time (kaalera saagare dhaaya), then we have to serve the satya or truth Service means that which makes one stand for ever, that which sustains one for ever and that is devotional service to Absolute truth Sri Krishna By offering ones swadharma in service to absolute, one enters eternity and finds a permanent position there The concept of tax in vedas is called rna (debt) Unpaid tax becomes a debt as time elapses. We become indebted to paybac...

 Verse 6 नमो देव दामोदरानन्त विष्णो प्रभो दुःख-जालाब्धि-मग्नम् कृपा-दृष्टि-वृष्ट्याति-दीनं बतानु गृहाणेष मामज्ञमेध्यक्षिदृश्यः ॥ ६॥ namo deva dāmodarānanta viṣṇo prasīda prabho duḥkha-jālābdhi-magnam kṛpā-dṛṣṭi-vṛṣṭyāti-dīnam batānu gṛhāṇeṣa mām ajñam edhy akṣi-dṛśyaḥ The above verse has -> Humility, prayer, Nama sankirtana, prayojana Seeing from the perspective of Sambandha, Abhideya and Prayojana: Sambandha Jnana - we are all part of ananta, since meaning of ananta means everything is included and nothing in the cosmos can be outside All inclusiveness with perfect awareness is Vishnu. To this when we add Prabhu and isa, it becomes a perfect definition of God and belonging to him Abhideya - Namah, dinam, ajna Prayojana - akshi drsyah Humility is manifested when one declares complete lack of knowledge before the Lord (mam ajnam) and also complete helplessness(dinam bata) being struck in the ocean of miseries (dukha jalabdhi) The request for mercy krpa should always be backed up ...

Srila Prabhupada tirobhava tithi maha mahotsava ki jaya His divine grace name in his earlier asrama was 'Abhaya caran' which means fearless lotus feet. Whose lotus feet? this is addressed in the kirtan 'Bhaja hure mana, Sri Nanda Nandana, abhaya caranaravinda re'. The fearlessness is found at the lotus feet of son of Nanda Maharaja. Srila Prabhupada's mission is to help living beings of the world experience true fearlessness by developing bhakti at the lotus feet of Nandanandana Sri Krishna. All the higher attainments of spirituality like Prem, bliss, happiness, eternity are built on the foundation of 'Abhaya' or fearlessness. Fear is always due to the unknown. As finite entities when we see the vast world, there remains so much unknown and this causes fear. Fear is the primary destroyer of wellbeing. It corrodes at the most fundamental level and shakes up the whole foundation of existence. Fear also eats up our life span (ayur vyaya). In response to the Que...