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OF  WORLD PEACE

 


It is heartening to note,


That the Indian PM's name,

Hath been recommended,

For establishing World Peace !

 

"My chariots shall not be bloody,

Till the earth records my name",

Said the conscientious Buddha,

As he renounced War.

 

Milton averred " Peace hath her victories,

No less renouned than War " !

Man's essential nature is Peace,

War is only an abnormality !

 

How can a Nation which declares Peace,

Aum Shanti, Shanti, advocate War ?  

From the ethical, moral angle,

Peace gets Fame, and War notoriety !

 

Love cognised is Truth

Love in action is Non VIolence

Love as pure Being is Wisdom

Love as Feeling is Peace.

 

Yet, many believe that war is a necessity biologic,

An outlet for the human desire to compete and excel !

Conquest by force is only half victory,

True victory is conquest by Love !

 

Harmony has to be established,

And perfection worked out.

We have to effectuate the Divine,

In a conflicting and contradicting world    !

 

We have been instructed,

To rise from Non Being to Being,

Asado Ma Sad Gamaya,

And to rise from Darkness to Light.

 

In other words,

From the Negative to the Positive.

But we have a big problem here,

As we are confronted by qualities negative !

 

We have seen Death,

But not Immortality !

Mrutyor Ma Amritam Gamaya,

Appears to be difficult !

 

Death, Non Being, Ignorance,

Darkness, adversity, disease,

All these we have seen,

But never experienced the Positive !

 

Qualties Negative,

Are merely the first terms of the Formula,

Unintellible to us,

Till we work out its esoteric terms !

 

These qualities negative,

Are merely initial discords

Of the Musician's symphony,

Didnt He create a world miserable ?

 

That too deliberately flawing perfection,

Of His Own Creation ?

The discords of the world are Lord's discords,

To unfold the Godhead within us?

 

The tormenting Evil is He,

As well as the Redeeming Grace !

Oru Kai Praharikkave

Maru Kai kondu thalodum Easwaran !

 

Only when we have an integral vision,

Can we see beyond all masks,

The serene and lovely face,

Of  the All Blissful Godhead !

 

His tests test our imperfection,

True friemd is He and Heart, the Teacher !

Mind is the greatest Guru,

And world, the true Book !

 

Let us be what the Seer Poets recommended,

What Lord Krishna recommended to Arjuna,

Realised souls viewing Becoming,

Under the metaphor of Being !

 

Let us rise from Death to Self Realisation,

From the Darkness of Nescience to Light Supernal,

From the mirage of Non Being to True Being,

Thus fulfilling that eternal Prayer Asato Ma Sadgamaya !

 

Did not Bhagavan Aurobindo,

Say that Strive and thou shalt have ?

Trust and thy trust shall be justified ?

That the Divine Crown is within our reach ?

 

That we have to overcome the Negative,

And reach the Positive !

And Implement Positivity,

Then only shall the world be redeemed !

The Kingdom of Heaven,

Is both worldly and transworldly

To implement this Rama Rajya,

India, US and Russia exist !

Sunday, February 23, 2014

The Four Enemies




The main Deadly Sins
Lust, greed, anger, avarice
If renounced, give peace
Self knows Itself as Itself !

He devoid of Self Knowledge
Finds himself in Hell !

Kamam, Krodham, Lobham, Moham
Thyaktva Tranam Pasyathi Soham
Atma Jnana Viheena Mooda 
Te Pashyante Naraka Nigooda !

Sunday, April 1, 2012

May Beatific Peace dawn on us !




On this glorious day of Ram Navami
May the Divya Thathva in us
May the Atma Thathva in us
Embodied in the Rama Principle
With His army of Truth,
Righteousness, Love & Peace
Overcome the forces of the Ego
Lust, anger, jealousy, sloth
Embodied in the Ravana Principle

Let the positive elements win
In this Titanic inner War
Depicted allegoricaly
As Ramayana, Mahabharatha
May Beatific Peace dawn on us !

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Overmind Poetry of the Triad




There is a great allegorical depiction of the Vedantic Triad in Indian Philosophy.


A cow with three calves - the cow represents the Universal Mind ( Maya ), the three calves are


The Relative Universe ( Jagat )
The Relative Ego ( Jiva )
The Relative Supreme ( Para )

The Triad is a projection of the Universal Mind, whose base is Absolute Being !


O Thou with and without Thy Maya
Art known as Witness Consciousness
Thy projections Three
Are Thee in Reality !
All the forces of Nature
Dissolved in Thee at Involution
Only Thou existed then
As Supreme Consciousness Bliss !


Maya sannihito pravishta vapusha
Saksheethi geetho bhavan
Bhedestham pratibimbitho vivisivan
Jeevepi naiva para
Kalatma pratibodhita cha vigata
sanchothita cha swayam
Maya sa khalu bhuddi tatvamasruja
Dwyosau mahan uchyathe

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The 25 Principles of Sankhya

Prakrit Mahat Ahamkara Tanmatra Bhotaan
Api Hridapi Dasakhi Poorusha Pancha Vimsa



Nature
Universal Mind
Ego
The Five Subtle Essences
The Five Great Elements
Heart
The Five Sense Organs
The Five Knowledge Organs

These are the 24 principles of Sankhya. And Purusha, the Absolute Self, is the 25th !


Sanniveso Maya Proktho Ya Kala Pancha Vimsaka


Time is the All devouring Power
Of the Absolute; the foolish Ego
Who is said to be the Experiencer
Is afraid of Time Almighty !


Prabhavan Pourusham Prahoo
Kalameke yatho bhayam
Ahankara Vimoodatma
Karthu prakriti peeyusha


Outside as the all consuming Time
Within as the individual Self
He moves all beings with his Magic
And is the Lord Supreme of the Universe !


Antha Purusha Roopena
Kala Roopena yo Bahi
Samanvethveva sathwanam
Bhagavan Athma Mayaya



The Knower of these 25 princilples is freed from Bondage !

Ithi vividha vibhago muchyathe sow prakritya
Kapila thanu rithithvam Deva hootyanyagadi


So Thou revealed to Thy mother, Devahoothi, in Thy incarnation as Kapila !

Sunday, August 1, 2010

The Nine Forms of the Mother Divine !







All Indian festivals are based on the position of the Heavens.

When the Moon is within 12 degrees of the Sun it is called the First Lunation, Prathama. The second is ( 12-24 degrees ) is called Dwitheeya. Then Thritheeya ( Third ), Chathurthi ( fourth ), Panchami ( Fifth ), Shashti ( Sixth), Sapthami (Seventh ), Ashtami ( Eighth ),Navami ( NInth ) and so on.

Navaratri is the festival of Nine days, when the Nine forms of the Mother Divine are worshipped. The Universal Mother is worshipped in her Nine Aspects, which are as follows.

1) Shailaputri - Mythologically, She is the daughter of the Himalyas. She is worshipped during Prathama, the first lunation, when the Moon is within 12 degrees of the Sun.

2) Brahmacharini - She is the celibate and celibacy is observed by all spiritual aspirants for Self Actualisation. She is worshipped during Dwitheeya, the second lunation.

3) Chandra Ghanti - She holds a half-circular Moon on her forehead and is worshipped during Thritheeya, the third lunation. . The Moon is the exoteric symbol of the Divine Mother. The Sun is the exoteric symbol of the Self. In Vedanta, the Moon represents the Universal Mind or Cosmic Mind.

4) Khooshmanda - She creates the Universe, the Brahmanda, by mere laughing. She is the power behind the solar systems. She holds the Rosary, indicating that Mantra Yoga is powerful and is conducive to Enlightenment. She is worshipped during Chathurthi, the fourth lunation

5) Skanda Matha - She is the mother of Skanda, the Military General of the celestials. She observed penance to get the hand of Lord Shiva and gave birth to Skanda, the Military Chief. She is worshipped during Panchami, the fifth lunation.

6) Katyayani- She was born as the daughter of Katyavan. Katyavan was a seer who perfomed penance to get the Universal Mother as his daughter. She is worshipped during Shashti, the sixth lunation.

7) Kalaratri - Kala means Dark and Ratri means Night. This is the symbolism of the Dark Night of the Soul and the Dark Night of the Spirit. She is worshipped during Sapthami, the seventh lunation.

8) Maha Gauri - Gauri means White. She is as pure and white, sinless. She is worshipped during Ashtami, the eighth lunation.

9) Siddhi dhathri - Siddhi means psychic or occult powers. She is the bestower of psychic powers. There are eight Siddhis. They are Anima, Laghima, Prapti, Prakamya, Iishitva & Vashitva, Garima and Mahima. She is worshipped during Navami, which is the ninth lunation.

These nine deities are Her nine aspects. Now man is a composite creature and only by overcoming our negative aspect, can we aspire for Self Realisation. Overcoming our negative aspect is not easy. Lust, greed, anger, jealousy, sloth, covetousness, gluttony, the Seven Deadly Sins, have their home in us.

Man houses dangerous forces in his house
The Titan, the Fury and Djinn
Lay in the Subconscient’s cavern pit
And the beast moved in his antre den !

The Mother Divine destroys them one by one, to give us immortal Bliss. For this purpose, She is propitiated on Nine Days, during the Nine Lunations, during the Nine Thidhis, in Her Nine Aspects !.

If you want, you can listen to this Sacred Music and may you achieve Enlightenment !

The secret of the Ninefold Deity !




The Ninefold Deity is the Mother Divine in her nine aspects.

She is the Sacred Feminine of Gnosticism, the Maya of Vedanta, the Prakriti of Sankhya and the Shakti of Tantra. She is the beginingless Ignorance or Nescience ( Avidya ), which binds man to the sublunar world. She is the manifest power of the Unmanifest !

The power of the Unmanifest Lord
Triune, Tri-featured and Eternal
The generatrix of the Universe is She
Universal Mind, which sprung from the Lord !

Avyaktha namnee paramesha shakti
Anadya Vidya trigunatmika para
Kayanumeya Sudhiyaiva Maya
Yada jagat sarvamidham prasooyathe



This Nava Durga Mantra protects the seeker, whether he be amidst enemies or in the battlefield, or enveloped by worries and difficulties. He who takes refuge in the Mother Divine will be protected by the Creatrix of the Universe.

Agnina dahya manasthu sathru madhye gatho rane
Vishame Durgameschaiva bhayartha saranam gatha



She is begininngless, because of her structural inherence in the phenomenal worlds. All the universes and multiverses are in transitional flux, in exact antithesis to the Immutability of the Divine !

She is worth worshipping, as She can destroy all the triune afflictions - physical, mental and emotional suffering, the thapa trayas.

We shalt exalt thee with devotion
O Destroyer of suffering triune
Physical, mental, emotional
Give us health physical
Give us Victory
Give us fame immortal
And destroy our enemies !

Sthuvath bhyo bhakthi poorvam thvam
Chandike Vyadhi Nasini
Roopam Dehi Jayam Dehi
Yaso Dehi Dwisho Jahee