Third quarter @ Rohini '19

Of 12 sacred names of Wishnu, 3 are associated with Krishna awatar  - Kesawa, Gowinda and Damodara.

Dama - restraint; Udara - belly. He of restrained belly - Damodara.

As punitive measure for stealing the consciousness of stakeholders in dairy business - Yashoda tethered her son to a roller.

Many alwars have chosen this event to compose devotional verse.

-  Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati,  Kanchi

moon of Srawishta

Diwya-dunee makarandey
Parimala paribhoga sat-chit-anandey
Shri pati hi Pada arawindey
Bhawa bhaya kedachhide wandey

Pollen of milky way
Fragrant revel of Sat-chit-ananda
Lily sepal toes of divine wealth's Lord
Fragments vicious loop of  life and death 

Shat padi,  Sancara 


Here, Diwya-dunee refers to the event when a dwarf, scaled up his form to become Tri-wi-krama ( breaker of 3 laws ). The mutant measured milky way with his foot. 

For one to revel in fragrant sat-chit-ananda, vicious loop of samsara must be fragmented.

- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati,  Kanchi

Naga Panchami '19

Your senses always travel into the objective world.
And wherever your senses go, your mind follows.

This dynamics causes loss of discrimination, cognition, consciousness.
And energy to travel towards oneself, is lost.

When mind is a follower of  senses, where is the space for it to be quiet, to be still?

 - When mind is slave of sensory faculties

Occultation @ Ashada

Udrita Naga    Naga-pith Anuja    Danuja-kula Amitra    Mitra Shashi Drishtey

Drishtey Bhawati Prabhawati 
Na bhawati Kim ?   Bhawa Tiriskara ha?
- Six feet Verses - Sancara

Lifter of  hill     Sibling of Indra   Slayer of orcs   Gazer of world through sun and moon

Does not world vanish? for one who glimpses the Supreme?

Here, the poet uses Yamaka - to repeat a word to convey different meanings.

- Shri Chandrashekarendra  Saraswati, kanchi

9 summer nights

Philosophy moves farther and farther into the desert. It cannot reach the ocean.

Religion differs here. Religiousness is to gaze at the root of all problems.

Once you see you are not the mind, great transcendence has happened.

Miracle of religion or miracle of meditation is, it solves all problems in a single stroke.

It is a leap, a quantum leap.

Get going beyond the mind - Osho
Speaking Tree   June 30  Chennai  Sunday

moon of Mula

Raging thirst of a human mind, at it's roots, is generally ignored.

This thirst is quenched, when mind returns to it's source and abides.

If it does not rest at it's roots, mind continues in unease.

 Grief, anxiety, depression are merely symptoms of a wailing mind.

And we want to numb it with drugs, pills, alcohol. That is the story of every mind.

- Depression: a spiritual perspective.

Chitta shuddi - Orion crescent

Only truth we know is our puny mind, and the world around us - and both are in flux.

But when our involvement in day to day activities becomes choiceless, that very flow of activity, cleanses our consciousness. Sway of mind is dampened.

Because, in choicelessness we ignore our mind to some extent - as there is little room, for our own  likes and dislikes.

- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi.