Meditations on Transcendence

  Hosa Varsha Eve. New Year Eve. Enu hosaadu? The clock changes its hat. The calendar flips its moustache. But the stage remains the same. Ade pañca-bhūta . Ade kāla . Earth does not update its software. Fire does not download a new patch. Water flows with the same old confidence it had yesterday. So haagadare… enu hosaadu? Not the universe. Not time. Not even our problems, which are loyal enough to RSVP every year. What becomes new is something subtler. Bhāva. Dr̥ṣṭikoṇa. Vision. A year becomes hosa only when the lens through which we look becomes nava-naveena . Otherwise it is just the same old wheel doing polite rotations, like a bored bull at a village oil press. The Gītā whispers this politely in Chapter 15. The universe exists in layers , like a cosmic mille-feuille. What we see is not all that is. “tataḥ padam parimārga-tavyam” — seek that further step, the higher footing. New Year, then, is not about fireworks. It is about climbing vision , one rung higher. From surface s...

 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...