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The Chains of Raactivity: Reaction

1/21/2020

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The Chain of Reactivity:

How to break the chain of reactivity with those around us? 

By Ram Dass
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It is up to the most conscious person in the situation to break the chain of reactivity.""
Posted July 28, 2017

As one cultivates more and more of the levels of the strudel, then one sees the whole level of interpersonal relationships as just one level. When I first started to awaken, I would come home to visit my family and my father would say to me, “Do you have a job?”

He didn’t ask me if I was the Buddha, or if I was enlightened. I would get very angry at him because he had caught me in a place where he made the plane real, and I said, “I cannot stay around my family, they bring me down.” Later when I would come home more strong in my faith and inner connections. My father would ask me the same questions, and I would, in the quietness of my being, appreciate his concern and the worldview that he held without becoming reactive, and so my response would not be reactive, and it responded instead to the deeper connection that we had, and it would open the dialogue in a new way.

It is up to the most conscious person in the situation to break the chain of reactivity.

Difficult Not To Be Reactive!

This is our work in the world. We are all living in incredibly reactive webs. If you push against it, it still has you. The art is to be in them, but not reactive to them. You can stay in a marriage in which your partner is not interested in what you value. And begin to work with that vehicle for your own awakening by shifting your awareness from that of judging mind to that of an appreciating one. You will see that certain relationships have so much symbolic power for you, it’s very difficult for you not to be reactive.

Somebody that is very sexually attractive to you, or somebody that is very powerful, or somebody that has a lot of money. Or if you are afraid of aging, somebody that is very old. Or if you are afraid of dying, someone who is dying. If you are strongly identified with your body, somebody who has a deformity.

I want you to be able to look at the people around you as the teachings that you need.
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Karma Yoga as a Way to Work With Reactivity

Helping my father through the final years of his life became an incredible teaching for me. I went from being very righteous about what a good person I was to be helping my father. To realizing what an incredible gift I was receiving from him. He had changed my diapers, and now I was changing his. He had fed me and now I fed him. And because I had no feeling of the unnaturalness of it, we both went through this process with joy.

It is extraordinary to be with a human being and go through changing relationships of power; to meet the person behind that and then just watch these changes in the relationship. The work of cultivating these many planes of consciousness means that you are always available to another human being, behind their storyline.
You don’t demand they give up their storyline, but you are present if they wish to.

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Makra Sankranti - The Vaishnava Tantric Bauls of Birbhum Bengal

1/13/2020

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The Mysteries of Makra Sankranti, When Sun Kala, enters Capricorn. To India people there is no controversy on this time because it holds a deeper meaning, You can not compare apples to oranges, this is India and an Indian celebration.

There are 12 main Sanskriti's (change, to change constellations) in the Hindu Calendar. Makra Sanskranti is the day that the Sun's yearly tranist crosses from line between Sagittarius and enters Makra (Capricorn). 

Culturally it means many things and is never simple for the western mind who only wants one word for each Sanskrit word, however, it does not work that way. Makra Sankranti also means, when the Ganga River meets the ocean of the Bay of Bengal, when the river changes to the ocean and this is celebrated in Bengal as Ganga Sagar, Ganga becomes the ocean at Makra Sankranti.
Thus Babu Kishan is the first to record and compose the music to h Ganga Sargar.

It has nothing to do with Western Astrology or the Western mind, it is an ancient day and practice in the Indian calendar. "According to Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna manifests himself in his full magnificence during this time.” 

This is the time of love play between Krishna and Radha.

Contemplate the qualities of the Gopi Chand (Ektara the one stringed instrument of the Vaishnava Bauls of Birbhum) and be blessed by the Divine Love of Radha and Krishna's Dance.
Contemplate the Gita Govinda as the Vaishnava Bauls do in song and dance of the love of Radha and Krishna. There is a reason the Vaishnava Bauls celebrate at the the famous temple of Radhavinod (another name for Lord Krishna) is situated in the village of Kenduli Birbhum on the banks of Ajoy river. 

It was the home-village of famous poet JOYDEV or where he traveled to because Odisha now claims him as born there? Joy Dev was the Poet Royal at the court of the King of Bengal Lakshman Sen of the SEN dynasty (11th-12th century AD). He wrote of the love of Radha and Krishna. It is here that Joydev wrote his famous book “Geeta Govinda”. It is at Makra Sanskriti that the Vaishnava Bauls celebrated here in a Mela called the Joy Dev Mela.

Makara Sankranti is the movement of the sun from Sagitarius to Capricorn it is based on Sun Kala (Time). It is a celebration of Radha and Krishna's love from 5000 years ago and with that as Indian's celebrate in regional ways.

For the Vaishnava Tantric Bauls of Birbhum Bengal The Joy Dev Mela takes place in Kenduli about 35 Kms south of Suri where KD Babukishan was born and his ancestors and Lineage have always since the beginning of time gone there to celebrate except in recent times and this will be written about in the new book Historical Baul.

The temple is situated on the north bank of River Ajoy. The great Sanskrit poet Joydev who flourished in 12th Century and composed the well known Gita Govinda, a Sanskrit Lyrical poem which the Bauls have always worshiped. 

The Joy Dev Mela (Festival) always takes place during Makar Sankranti. 
According to Puranas, on the day of Makara Sankranti, God Sun pays visit to the house of his son Shani (Saturn) who is the swami of Makar Rashi (Capricorn Zodiac sign).
Capricorn is also known as Markara the crocodile. 

Makar Sankranti is four days festivity period which is dedicated to Lord Sun. 
All rituals during Makar Sankranti are gestures of thanksgiving to natural resources which make life possible on the Earth.

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he Sun God is worshipped for bestowing good harvest and nurturing livestock. The cattle especially bulls and oxen are worshipped for their significance in traditionally ploughing fields.
Joy Dev's soul mates or Monar Manush name was Padmavati Devi. There are 100's of Baul songs based on their life story. The Joy Deva Kenduli Baul Mela takes place here, it is the Bauls who have kept Joy Dev's poetry alive.

Nabani Das Kheppa Baul, Manohar Kheppa a Vaishnava Poet, Bhava Pagla, Sati Ma, Chintamuni Dasi (grandfathers) auntie, Triguna Dasi (grandfathers Mum), Purna Das Baul, Babukishan, George Harrison, Allen Ginsberg, Amartya Sen, Rabindranath Tagore, TaraShankar Banerjee, Indira Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Bidhan Chandra Ray, Satyajit Ray, all have kept this temple alive it is located on the bank of the Ajoy River. Today the festival is not the same, it has completely changed by outsiders who never understood the culture.

There is or was a bridge that you have to cross to get to the temple this bridge is called The NABANI SETU it is named after Nabani Das Khyappa Baul.

Intellectuals from around the world have been visiting the Joy Deva Mela for decades to take part in this Baul Mela, (festival) although in recent years it has changed as the Bauls become extinct.
"Makara Sankranti, apart from a harvest festival is also regarded as the beginning of an auspicious phase in Indian culture.

It is said as the 'holy phase of transition'. It marks the end of an inauspicious phase which according to the Hindu calendar begins around mid-December.

It is believed that any auspicious and sacred ritual can be sanctified in any Hindu family, this day onwards. Scientifically, this day marks the beginning of warmer and longer days compared to the nights. In other words, Sankranti marks the termination of winter season and beginning of a new harvest or spring season."

Also, thousands of people take Holy Dip during Makar Sankranti, usually falls on 14 or 15th January every year. Gangasagar pilgrimage and fair is the second largest congregation of mankind after the holy Kumbha Mela. 

The latter is observed once in four years at alternate locations in north, central and central-west parts of the country, Gangasagar fair and pilgrimage is held annually on the Sagar Island’s southern tip in the Ganges delta atop the Bay of Bengal.

"Radhavinod temple is a brick-built NAVA RATNA temple with nine pinnacles (called Ratna-s in Bengali), the nine pinnacles are Rekh –Shikhar type. The façade of the temple is decorated with terracotta bricks with beautiful engravings .

The temple is two storied. The cornices of the first roof is curved . There are four Ratna-s or pinnacles on the four corners of this roof. On top of this there is the second smaller floor with curved roof. There are four smaller Ratna-s at the four corners of this roof too, with a central big Ratna, thus making the number of Ratna-s 4+5 =9 in total.

The upper floor was badly damaged & is repaired recently, but with plain cement work, which looks rather ugly on this grand old beauty with exquisite terracotta works in front.

The terracotta decorations include :

a) the traditional 10 avatars of Lord Vishnu ;

b) scenes from the Hindu epic RAMAYANA depicting scenes of battle between the soldiers of the demon King of Sri Lanka RAVANA & the monkey soldiers of Lord RAMA . A depiction of the demon king Ravana is eye catching, with ten heads & twenty arms & a fierce look on the face ;

c) many social scenes, amongst which there is a unique art work of two village ladies performing the morning ritual of rural Bengal called BASIPAAT ( Sweeping the household area after sprinkling cow-dung mixed water which is considered very holy & auspicious still today).
The fineness of the intricate terracotta works is truly mind boggling.

The temple was constructed in 1683 AD by the King of Bardhaman Maharaj Kirti Chand Bahadur"


Please excuse my typo's and mis-spelling of Sanskrit words, I am not from Sanskrit, I do all of the writing in English for Babu Kishan, he is the Sanskrit expert, born into the Oral (Sanskrit) tradition of the Vaishnava Bauls of Birbhum, 12 years at Ramakrishna Mission, Master level and way above PhD at Calcutta University, he knows the difference between Oral and book learning.

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Lunar Eclipse Tomorrow in Gemini - January 10, 2020

1/9/2020

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Trishula Musings:

​Lunar Eclipse Tomorrow in Gemini (Ardra)Rahu in Ardra Photos:

​by Trishula Das of Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Vancouver, BC 

https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20200110_09_100

This eclipse cycle started December 24th (Fri, 10 Jan 2020 09:08 PST to 13:12 PST). The energy of this eclipse has been building and it is a very intense (heavy) Eclipse cycle as there 6 planets in Sagittarius. Planets called (Graha in Vedic Astrology) that which grabs us and delivers our karmas. It is not your imagination. Sagitarius gives a full aspect to MOON and RAHU in Gemini where the eclipse takes place.

Saturn, Mercury, Sun Jupiter, Ketu and (Pluto) in Sagittarius.


The Lunar (Moon- emotional mind) Full Moon Eclipse tomorrow Jan 10th 2020 will be in Gemini, and will effect everybody differently, however, to get the general mood, all you have to do is look at what is going on in the world right now in world events.

The Moon is the mind will be in Puravasu, Rahu will be in the Nakshatra of (Ardra) ruled by the fierce form of Shiva Rudra the howler. The Moon will be with Rahu aspected by Saturn, Mercury, Sun, Jupiter, Ketu and (Pluto) in Sagittarius. On man the reason I say intense is because it is heavy in Sagittarius. Rahu and Ketu give eclipses, they are the shadow planets who do not own any land, this makes it hard to get grounded in these time periods.

Slow down, if you can stay inside and meditate, pray because all of your thoughts, even the unconscious thought multiple a thousand fold. The more shakti (power/energy) you have the more effect you will cause, Karma is (the results of your cause and effect) it depends how much Shakti or power you already have accumulated, The more power the more the power of magnifying a thought., that is why karma and actions of a Guru can be heavy.

The moon represents you mind, watch your thought, focus on what you want because you will manifest what you focus on. Stay silent, do not argue.


Most do not even know why they give this advice but I will tell you, when there is a eclipse the  energy channels that run up either side of your spine divert up the central channel and into kundaline. The solar (sun) and Lunar (moon) channels are eclipsed becoming kundalini that runs up the central channel, intense.

Kundalini Shakti Ma is the Saraswati River channel that has gone underneath, this is where you access your power, and a unsuspecting fool is not prepared and that is why full moons and eclipses creates mental imbalanced minds in many people.
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Shhh as hard as that is :) Just Shhh !

Take it easy and be as postive as you can or at least be alert as to why people are acting strange, it is an intense time.

This is a short brief post as I have a heavy cold and just want to sleep :) perhaps that is my Ishta Devata's (my Goddess's) way of slowing me down and telling me to take it easy.

Om Shanti and Love to all, Jai Ma!!
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    Trishula  Sandra Das
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    Trishula Musings:

    Jyotish also called Vedic Astrology, Indian Astrology,  is an ancient science and art of Light.

    Jyotish is the astrology of  Yoga, Tantra, Ayurveda, Sanskrit, Indian Culture and Indian Philosophy!

    If you cut the roots off the tree , the tree of Jyotish will die. This then is a Cultural Genocide.

    Jyotisha is the eyes of the Veda's, Upanishads, Puranas and Tantra's and Indian Culture.

    If one is a sincere student of  Yoga, and Tantra it is a must to practice Jyotisha.

    Yoga is not just about physical exercise, it is a deep study that takes many years of intellectual study before one teaches.

     From Various Authors
    and many by Yogi Ananda Saraswathi 

    You can read more at  https://www.facebook.com/yogi.anandasaraswathi

    Jyotisha is a holistic sacred healing system, it must be helpful to others.

    Jyotisha is a Tantra, the deep many lifetime study of karma, time and reincarnation.

    It is a  practical mystical tool and practice.

    Remedies are used to remove obstacles, to understand who we are in the universe.

    What will be our dharma, how we will make money, and enjoy this life which hopefully will lead to moksha or freedom, Vedic Astrology deals with all aspects of life including Health & Relationships.

    Jyotish was revealed to the Rishi's in order to set the  prisoners free not to hold them hostage to their karma's or enslave the individual to what is seen as malific in a chart.

    It was never meant to be fatalistic.  Yes we have fate and free will and there is a remedy for every problem, Grace of God or Goddess is the biggest remedy.

    There is always hope we always need to try and fight our way. 

    A Jyotishi is a guide a seer and points the way, a Jyotishi never traps anybody by giving a fatalistic negative reading making people feel hopeless and in despair.

    The earth is the place of suffering a Jyotishi's gift is to find a solution to bring light to the situation.

    Thus Jyotish is the science and art of Light.

    Jyotish is about understanding the bigger questions a Yogi or Yogini asks,?

    Why am I here??

    What is going on and what is next??

     How do I proceed?

    Jyotish is about understanding Purusha (consciousness) and Prakriti (phenomenal realm of matter) how it is all woven together?

    ​Jyotish is a Tantra a technique. 

    Jyotish is a sadhana it keeps the mind awake and aware and with the help of Lord Ganesha it helps us categorize life into a workable deeper understanding.

    Thus Ganesh is the Lord of Jyotish, Saraswati helps us understand and gives Wisdom. Dakshinamurti helps us put it all together. Then one would have an istata devata (favorite God or Goddess). Then worship of the 9 planets.

    ​Jyotish is a Path.

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