Chinmaya Aradhana 2018

Krishna breaks into verse on paying attention to incoming and outgoing breaths.

All that we take into our system can be held as incoming - what we listen, what we see, touch, smell, taste. All inputs to our mind through what we hear, see, read and understand can be held as incoming breaths.

And how we respond or reach out to the world, can be held as our outgoing  breaths.

- Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati

Vishnu's conscious slumber

When one can transcend even in sleep mode, cannot one transcend  in wakeful states?

- Osho :  Alertness, awareness, mindfulness



That which is night to all beings, in that the conscious man wakes; 

That into which all beings wake, is night to one who transcends.

- Battlefield counsel   Ch. 2 - V 69

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.