Mokshada Ekadashi

 Kabir asserts, "Niraadhaar bhai paar"

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 

Dev - uttana: gods awaken

Gautam Buddha's message to people is, that they are asleep.  People are born asleep. He talks about a deep unconsciousness within humans. 

Desire is a natural phenomenon when one is asleep. And desire is, dreaming. When you wake up, dreams disappear.

Desire cannot be dropped - unless you wake up.

Many have tried to drop desire  - without waking up. 

- Desires grow, like leaves on a tree - Osho

Speaking Tree, 

Earth cruises through hell zone

Waitarini flows between Earth and Naraka, the realm of Yama. It is believed to purify dead spirits. 

Virtuous see it as nectar like water.  

Padma Purana speaks of it as Wai -Tarini - sure ferry.

It is equivalent to the Styx river in Greek mythology. 

- Wikipedia 

Kaali Jayanti

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

Chinmaya Aradana

 Sama, Dama and Chitta-shuddi are necessary prerequisites, to study Vedantic literature.

Vedanta will work it's transcendental ways, only when one is subdued.

Unsubdued may read Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita and more; but will be unable to transcend. Like barren rock under pouring rain. 

- as held in Vedic traditions

Ganga Saptami

Pilgrimage of all religions is to turn around, arrive within.

And Yogis coined the name Radha, as anagram of Dhara, or outward flow.

Original documentation of the Bhagawat Purana does not mention Radha.

Only a Pramukh Gopika, or a Prime Cowherdess, is mentioned. 

The cowherd maidens turned inward, playfully - through their love and devotion to Krishna.

Ways to turn inward are different, for different people.

And there is this narrative of a man, who was given an assignment, by a Buddhist monk.  

To listen to the sound, made by striking, with a single palm. 

- Communion with Truth,   March 23 - 25,  2021

Hanuman jayanti

Ram gave Hanuman a quizzical look and asked,

"What are you? A monkey or a man?"

Hanuman bowed his head reverently, folded his hands and said,

"When I do not know who I am, I serve you.

When I do know who I am, You and I are one" 

- Tulsidas,   Ram-charit-manas

Sacred Space,   Times Of India,  April 27, 2021

Lalita Jayanti

Hara Netra Agni Sandagdha Kaama Sanjiwana Oushadihi 

the elixir that restores Kaama, back to life, after he was incinerated by Hara's fiery eye.

- A thousand names of Lalita