Tulsidas Jayanti

Iti wadati Tulasidasa Sancara Sesh muni manaranjanam

Mama hrdaya kanja niwasa kuru kamadi khaladala ganjanam

- Sant Tulsidas 

Chinmaya Aradana

The night was dark, stormy.  

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

Parvati jayanti

 

To renounce is to not leave everything behind, wear a loin cloth, and sit at a river bank. 

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. 

Walluwar Jayanti

When you go on a pilgrimage you reach a site, a tirth. 

It could be a building, a spot, a river bank, a temple built by kings, a mystic's tenement, . . . . 

But in your life, when your mind recedes, . . . stations, . . .  becomes still, . . . that experience is Tirth. 

- Communion with Truth,  Jan. 11,   2022

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