Mahavir jayanti

Jains were great scholars.

They carved their own niches in the landscape of literature.

 Five great Kavyas of the Tamils are linked with Jainism.

Walayapati and Chintamani are in fact Jain works.

- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi.

Vaasanas - flavors from the past

We have lived on what we have been told.

We have lived either guided by our tendencies, our inclinations; and we have lived compelled by circumstances and environment.

We are the results of all kinds of influences. There is nothing new in us.

- J Krishnamurti,    T O I, Saturday November 4, 2017.

Rahu gobbles super moon

Rinzai: "What is the white cow of the dewy ground?"
Anzan: "Moo! Moo!"

Rinzan:  "You are dumb!"
Anzan: "How about you?"

Rinzai: "You animal!"

In Zen, mind is an animal heritage.
Unless you go beyond the mind, you are not an authentic human being.
Your mind is a very long process of 4 million years of animals.
You are not newcomers. You are old.
As old, as the time life has existed on this earth.
And you have passed through all phases of animals.
Your consciousness carries a tremendous past.

Zen - Master of the irrational and practical,    Osho

Gregorian beginnings

For most people, their ninth house is not activated - they are like unlit lanterns.

Even when struck, there is little result - they keep their matches damp.

They cruise with comfort between life and death; between their first house and eighth - a journey of mere survival.

But as one becomes sensitive to transience of life, the ninth house - house of dharma- becomes active.

And people who had sailed dark waters of their samsara - in a vicious cycle of bondage and repetition - are propelled towards their twelfth house of freedom.

 -Twelve  Houses of astrology 

Tulsi Aradana

After cursing him to become black and be separated from his wife, she killed herself.

The gods transferred her soul to a plant, and it became basil.

- Tulsi Vivah, Wikipedia.

awakening from slumber

A touch, a kiss! the charm was snapt,

There rose a noise of striking clocks,

And feet that ran, and doors that clapt,

And barking dogs and crowing cocks;

A fuller light illumined all

A breeze through all the garden swept,

A sudden hubub shook the hall,

And sixty feet the fountain leapt.

- The Sleeping Beauty 

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

emergence of Lakshmi

Lakshmi is always portrayed as personification of beauty.

She is Shri -  joy in a thing of beauty.

Taken in the context of the mind,
is love beautiful, or hate?
is compassion beautiful or violence?

To bring home lakshmi is to bring in fresh flowers.

When love, devotion stirs in you, know that in the home of your heart, Lakshmi has arrived.

 - Amrit Varsha    September 23,  2017