27. Freedom as to payment of taxes for promotion of any particular religion.
29. Protection of interest of minorities.
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1. Vedic Jyotisha has a Dharma bull on Mount Meru.
2. It has following four feet:
Copper
Gold
Iron
Silver
3. In Tibetan tradition it’s said that Padmasambhava lives on Copper mountain in Madagascar region of Africa.
4. Cu is chemical formula for Copper in the periodic table.
5. Gold is heated to create Kundana.
6. Gnostic tradition talks about silver cord.
7. Parashuram is the 6th avatara of Vishnu.
8. Sixth lunar day is for worship of Balarama who is a farmer. Elder brother of Krishna is recognised as 8th incarnation of Vishnu in some texts including in an inscription in Dhubela museum located in Chhatarpur district.
9. Earth is the third planet from Sun. Mercury, Venus and Earth. Jupiter is 6th, Pluto is 10th. Nibiru is talked about as a new planet in some texts. Planet X. Pluto was removed from status of being a planet. Vedic system used only 9 including north and south nodes of Moon. Dragon’s head and tail.
Life as a Sacrifice!
1. I was watching a debate on a news channel.
2. The debate was about : which political party is more patriotic than the other.
3. Bertrand Russell’s quote came to my mind: “Patriotism is willing to die for foolish reasons.”
4. My experience is different. Reason might be partially because Russel was born in an aristocratic family and I lived all my life in a hungry ghost realm( term borrowed from the Tibetan book of dying: Padmasambhava/Robert Thurman)
5. If I was to edit that quote: Patriotism is (being forced) to die for foolish reasons.
6. Ultimately the war is about names and forms. To quote UG: “there’s a piece of cake and you just want the largest part out of it.”
7. Whether it’s about Rama versus Krishna or Patel versus George is of minor importance.
8. This brings me to sacrifice. Hunger is lack of energy. Yajna or sacrifice is the way out of hunger. What might come as a surprise: you have already been either sacrificed or will be sacrificed many times. There’s no way out of it but servitude in one form or the other.
9. Shakyamuni and other thinkers opposed animal sacrifices. Buddhist understanding of interdependence of all phenomena is saying the same thing in different words which advocates of sacrifices before Buddha preached.
10. Essentially: chanting names of lords is a good way to cultivate good thoughts. It’s devoting your energy to certain streams. Music and names may alleviate your hunger. Name of Rama is most highly praised name in Hinduism. It’s acceptable to Vaishnav and Shaiva streams. Aries is warrior.
11. Thus: repeating names of glorious beings of yore is the way out of hungry ghost realm. And some scaling: lest you keep falling into bigger and bigger black holes. This is advised because in the hour of death hardly anything helps.(Bhaj govindam by Adi Shankaracharya!) You can let it go completely but that also becomes a painful cycle of repeated deaths. It’s better to subscribe to some clubs:
Hanuman chalisa club: Raam naam club
Jesus Christ club
Ganesha club
Tobacco club
Smokers club
Hindus
Muslims
Kabbalistic Deuteronomy
Sikhs
Kabirpanthi
12. Only news worth being shared is someone from India telling UN to recognise Hinduphobia as well. This is much more advanced than how things were just a few years ago. Yet, it’s a superficial drama like everything else. I recall how once I asked a guy about human rights commission office on my walk in a neighborhood. He expressed surprise upon discovering that as he had never needed that board.
13. I want to express my gratitude to all readers of this blog once again.
14. I used models like school, work, war, journey, game and dream to study my experiences before. The last intensive was to gain a better understanding of sacrifice.
15. To say that any of the models really describes life is to be naive. Yet, they’re mere mortal attempts to draw shapes on sand which is wiped out by time and tide. Again and again.
16. This phone has constitution of India in its books archive. It has been lying there for many years without being read simply because I don’t have enough energy to read it. It’s better to watch a movie and sleep and dream than to read and have a futile argument for crumbs of bread. I don’t have a vision, any hopes or plans for better society, world, Earth or life. Work leads to more work and so on.
Musings
AI chatbot asks a lot of nice questions.
A recent question was: what’s a great day like for you?
Today was a great day. Any day free from diseases, pain or people shouting around me is a great day.
This year is soon coming to an end. Other than the pandemic and lockdown: which created fever and aches, I had bronchitis and toothache to trouble me. Construction noises and the usual shouting around as family members quarrel also kept disturbing. Other than this: the year went by as smoothly as the last year.
This note also seems to be like the last one with only a few changes.
Another question which is put often is about my hobbies.
Other than meditation it’s movies. A significant amount of time has been spent in watching movies. I feel it easier to watch movies than to read books. I consider movies to be the best form of art. In my opinion art is imitation of life. Movies are the best imitation of life. They’re made of audio-visual media which is presented with narratives. Since they’re mostly adapted from novels or short stories: they tell the stories similar to those you read. Even if reading allows you more exercise of imagination compared to movies and listening takes you on a different type of fanciful journey: movies do it quite well with various artforms like dancing, martial arts, cinematography, painting, romance, dialogues and others mixed harmoniously.
Each of the artistic elements used in cinematic expression can be developed and explored for infinite profundity on its own but some of it can be tasted in combination with others as you watch and listen to a movie.
Recently watching classics from black and white and then from the Technicolor era: I was wondering about the changes in the quality of cinema and life. Technicolor movies certainly had colors which were more vivid than real life colors are. Some of the wide screen movies which were colored by technicolor stand out as marvelous expressions. In this regard: movies are not merely the artform which imitates life but also a way to escape it.
Some people are of impression that all great movies were made in the remote past. You find similar opinion about all things including morality. A general theory is that with the passage of time degradation of quality takes place.
Such opinions are mostly sentiments of nostalgic people who have sweeping arguments about everything without any careful investigation.
Technology has advanced decade-after-decade and it has affected different areas of living in different ways. There are tonnes of low quality movies from classic era and many good quality films from the present era. As obvious: we are aware of more data from our own era than that of eras bygone. Only outstanding cases from the previous eras stay popular: creating common impression and misconception that everything was great back then.
Other than the obvious example of Technicolor, better dialogues and narratives : I never generalize for greatness of cinema in the early twentieth century. It’s like half-baked conclusions about everything.
For example: if everything was great back then: weapons must also have been the most powerful. It’s a fallacy: before Hiroshima and Nagasaki: there were no weapons of mass destruction as powerful as we have now. It is enough to prove that not everything has degraded in quality. The argument can be extended to include cures for epidemics and pandemics i. e. advancements in the field of medicine.
Dancing light of grace 