"Lakshmi dwells in oils; Ganga in waters" - is the saying for Deepawali festivities.
It is mandatory even for monks, nuns and renunciates to anoint themselves with oils, and have a bath at dawn.
Shaastras or guidelines also say, that a simple array of lamps - an avali of deepas - be lit, at nightfall.
When objective of lust is unrealized, it ushers in hate, sorrow, a sense of loss; and we destroy ourselves.
To break free of this vicious cycle of birth and death, it helps if lust & hate are kept at bay.
Taffeta fabric is water-proof. Is there a fabric that is lust-proof, hate-proof?
Grace of Dewi, is.
One is untouched by lust, hate, fear, sorrow, when one earns Dewi's grace.
Once lust has lost it's power over us, we are free beings - living in joy, of Moksha.
The dumb poet says, "You stirred lust in the hermit's heart; you subdue lust in your devotees' hearts."
- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi
Your body-mind matrix, is different from you.
You are eternal, pure and free; an embodiment of Brahman. All the wedas sing about you, your-Self.
But ignorance of mind, veils your cognition.
Consciousness embedded in your core, is a fathomless flame that needs no wick, no fuel.
Mind is in suffering when it is unaware of its basis, it's core.
When mind flows outward, through five ports of senses, it arrives at unpleasantness, suffers.
When mind's outward flow - Dhara - becomes an inward flow, then Dhara becomes Radha.
- Communion with Truth, Jan. 24, 2023
In some traditions, it is held that Dewi manifested as Solar dynast, Rama; and Shiwa manifested as, Sita.
Rama is described as being dark, like an emerald.
Kalidasa describes Dewi as, a dark emerald - marakada shyama.
Muthuswami Dikshitar also documents Minakshi's complexion as being in a shade of emerald - marakada chhaye.
When she is in her element, by herself, Paraa-shakti is seen, as a being, in the ruby red zone.
When juxtaposed with gunas, as sibling of Wishnu, her lusture is like an emerald.
- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi
To hold oneself as an earthen urn, is ignorance; to know that one is mere earth, is Gnana.
To hold oneself as a piece of jewelry, is ignorance; to know, that one is gold, one is a jewel, is Gnana.
To hold oneself as a bubble, is ignorance; to know, that one is water, is Gnana.
When a bubble, ripple, wave knows, it is water, it is Gnana, or loss of ignorance.
To hold oneself as body, senses, mind, intellect is ignorance.
To not hold oneself as body, mind, senses or intellect, is Gnana- prasuna, or blooming of knowing.
To hold oneself as a Jiva, is ignorance; Because you are Brahman, the Supreme Self.
- Difficulty in meeting, the Supreme Self
When one is attached to mind, one identifies with all it's attributes.
When mind is in stress, body is in stress; thoughts in mind, can make body fall ill.
Yogic slumber is an ancient, tantric, yogic technique to experience, separateness from the body-mind matrix.
- Communion with Truth, December 23, 2022
Bandhaya Wishaya-asaktam
Muktam Nir-wishayam Smrtam
- Amrita Bindu Upanishad
Mind alone is cause, for bondage and freedom, of human kind
Bondages are tethers of sensory stimuli, sensory perception
A mind empty of content, is freedom
