Mokshada ekadashi - Gita jayanti

 

Nis chintha      Nir ahamkara       Nir mohaa      Moha naashini

She, who is bereft of thought

Who is not concerned about herself

She, who is bereft of Moha, and is, the terminator of Moha

- A thousand names of Lalitha 

Issa Jayanti

"Gods and demons in the story of thunder, are not different, from us humans," comments Sancara Bhagawat Pada.

"Humans who are addicted to party and pleasure, are Gods.

Humans who are miserly and do not give freely, are Humans.

And humans who are into violence, are Demons.

All three sayings of thunder, are applicable to all of us", comments Sancara. 

What he says is true.

Still when it comes to humans as a species, we seem to be wanting, when it comes to giving. Holding back and not giving, seems to be our tag, our label. 

Even if they evolve into higher dimensions, some people still cling to material possessions.

 And the Upanishad - Upanishads are beyond Vedas -  counsels people, to give away, to let go.

- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi  

Kamalatmika Jayanti

 

Mei tirupadam mewu endra podinum

ithiru turandu egu endra podinum

Chithirathin alarnda senthamarai 

Othu irukkum mugathinai unnuwaal

       -  Sundara kaandam - Kamban - kaatchi padalam - 20

Captive Sita rued the memory of his face

Which glowed in stillness - as a resplendent, painted lotus

When he was asked to prepare for coronation, at daybreak

And was banished from kingdom, at nightfall

Pitru paksha - ancestral fortnight

 

Sprinkle of sesame and water flowing down the thumb -  satiate spirits with animal-like Wasanas.

Offerings of cooked rice dumplings - satiate spirits of middling tendencies.

Sandal, as paste is offered - to satiate spirits with divine tendencies. 

- as held, in tradition

Dew Shayani Eleven

Seek - and you will miss it.
Seeking becomes a barrier. More you seek, more the ego is strengthened.

Do not seek, and you find it.

Nobody ever reaches God.
It is always the reverse. God comes to you. Whenever you are ready, he knocks at your door.

He seeks you - whenever you are ready.

Tantra - The Supreme Understanding
Ch. I - the ultimate experience

Narada jayanti

I did not know who my father was.
I was a small boy - raised by a single mother.
She worked as house help, and took me to workplace.

It was chaatur-maas -  4 months of rainy weather.
A group of monks had come to stay at the inn.
They would jest and play with me.
Days passed with fun, frolic, wet weather.
As winds waned, the monks prepared to leave.

And their fragrance lingered - even after they left.
I never felt sad or alone. They seemed to have given me, a cloak of immunity, against sorrows of the world.

Some days later, my mother died; and I had none to call, my own.
Strangely, I never felt alone - something lingered.
I grew up, wandered about.
And stumbled into my core - for no apparent reason.
When I came to, much time had elapsed.

"Abide in the memory of your core," advised a voice.
I lived out my life, and in due course, died.
And am reborn as Narada.

- Narada to Wyasa,  Bhagawat Purana. 

Moha - Kshaya: erosion of Moha

One who yearns for Moksha is a Mumukshu.

And Moksha, is kshaya of moha -  erosion of moha.

Moksha is not about freedom from being born.

It is about breaking bonds that tether and enslave.

Tethers of dis-empowerment, desires and the like.

When these are eroded, by flames of discontent, it is moha-kshaya, or  freedom. 

Wedanta simplified - What is moksha?

transiting Jupiter at ascendant

" Being directed by the king, who is my father, I can give everything to brother Bharata. 

Why is the king gazing at the floor and shedding tears? Console him.

Let messengers on horses, bring Bharata back, from his maternal uncle - as the king's order.

And immediately shall I leave, to live in the punishing woods, for a fourteen years." 

- Rama to stepmother Kaikeyi,    Ayodhya Canto,     Waalmeeki Ramayan