Krishnamurti Jayanti

No armies, weapons, nations, no religions are needed.

All that is needed is a little meditativeness, silence, love, a little more humanity.

And existence will become fragrant, with something so totally unique and new . . .

-  Osho
Times Of  India . August 26, 2016. Chennai.

Nr-Simha Jayanti

Why do you not call? O reveller
O pleasant Lord

moon emits embers that singe
buzz of bees, a panic siege

flutter of wind teases to a tremble
storm seized body, a shivering wane

Cupid darts find their mark
O man-lion of Namagiri
what holds you back?
why do you not call?

-  Mathada Baradheno  -  Javali  - Bangalore Nagarathnammal

Sun arrives at Aries - Songkran

That all people were under the same umbrella, is clear from the fact that, we all share the same sense of year, month and week, since ancient times.

The Gregorian calendar based on  Roman calendar, is similar to our present day Indian almanac - the Panchanga.

The Indian lunar year begins in the new moon of March - Ugadi.

Initially, the Roman calendar also marked the new year in March.
And they named the seventh month as September -Saptha-, the eighth as Ashta or October, the ninth as Nawa or November and the tenth as Dasha or December.

As a contrapposto, in India, there is evidence of January being marked as the first month of a year. Month of Mrgasirsha, or mid- December to mid-January, is referred to as Agrahayanam. 

We can infer that in each land, people reckoned a month, as the transit of Sun in a zodiac sign.

- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi

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