Maha-laya Amavasya / New moon of great harmony, is when Maatri moon and Pitri sun are conjunct, at the zenithal constellation of Virgo; when blue Earth transits it's orbital nadir at the funeral cot legs - Bhadra-pada -, or Pegasus.
The darkening fortnight that precedes this new moon day, is Pitri Paksha, the ancestors' fortnight.
- as held in tradition.
The river was in spate.
A corpse was floating by. Rambola rafted across, reached Ratna's home.
Climbed up a vine, swung himself into Ratna's quarters.
"Propelled by my passion for you, I can cross oceans," he announced to her.
"With all this passion, if you had only turned around, by now you would have reached your core", she observed.
He became silent, turned inward, reached his core.
- Traditional narrative of Tulsidas
It means, we are not tethered by ropes of likes & dislikes, to objects or subjects.
It means, we do not hoard, create stockpiles. There is this woman in her 80's, who indulges in sweets - only twice a year.
Once, on Ram Navami. And six months later, during the festival of Debilitated Luminaires.
- Communion with Truth, January 24, 2022.
But in your life, when your mind recedes, . . . stations, . . . becomes still, . . . that experience is Tirth.
- Communion with Truth, Jan. 11, 2022
Vessels of sacred texts, sacred spaces, sacred gurus do not ferry you to transcendence.
The choiceless, transcend.
Empty vessels transcend.
- Communion with Truth, November 10, 2021
Allow but a little consciousness
To be conscious is not to be in time
But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden,
Be remembered; involved with past and future.
Only through time time is conquered.
- T S Eliot Four Quartets
Katha samapath hoth hai
Suno Bir Hanuman
Aagey peechey rada karo
Tho pao Brahmm Gyan
- Communion with Truth, May 6, 2021
