Wi-Shaka - branch-less

Mind is a baffling phenomenon.

You have never seen it, touched it, smelt it, tasted it, you have never heard it. It is not perceivable by the 5 senses. Yet it exists.

It exists because you don't know who you are, what the truth is.

But when you move into the zone of meditativeness, mind dies. When it is thought-less, memory-less, wasana-less, mind vanishes.

Amrit Warsha, May 18, 2020

first quarter @ Phalguna

When one becomes a deepest valley of reception, highest peaks of consciousness can be given.

If one is so receptive, that one has no mind of one's own, one is simply an emptiness. Then, words and symbols are not needed, something can be given.

Real thing follows the words - like a shadow.

- Tilopa's Song of  Mahamudra - Osho  
 Chapter 1 - The Ultimate Experience

Phalguna moon

Shiwa Shiwa
Pashyanti samam
Shri Kamakshi katakshita ha purusha ha

wipinam bhavanam   
amitram mitram
loshtam ca yuvathi bimboshtam
Pashanti samam


Shiwa, the auspicious,
Men who earn a sidelong glance, of the turtle-eyed goddess
they look the same upon

punishing woods and plush villas
foe and friend
clod of terracotta and luscious lips of a young lass
they look the same upon

- Arya's 100,    Verse  48

Maundy Thursday

Chandrayaan austerity attempts to sync it's pitch with moon phases.

One may start with a full meal, on a full moon day - and reduce intake with each passing day.

On the thirteenth day of waning, one may subsist with just liquids, water or even less. And hold a full emptiness on the 14th waning.

The tapering is reversed from the new moon, to enjoy a full meal on the full moon.
A difficult austerity to do, but some people do it for it's merit.

Vichar Chandrodaya,  Amrit Warsha

Dewi damanam '20

We know this world only through our mind.
It is mind that has taught us about the world - with inputs from five senses.

World is in flux, moment to moment.
And mind that follows the world, is in flux.

It is the nature of the mind, to be in flux.
Because it is soaked with the world.

That which moves, is the world - Samsara.

Changeless Stillness that contains all this movement, is the Supreme Self.


- Amrit Warsha    March 29 & 30, 2020

dumb's 500

He was into intense austerities.
Aspiring for divine grace, so he could compose poems on Dewi.

Poems  that would propel people who recite, to ultimate well being.

A gaping docile dumb man was also sitting, at the temple corridor.

Dewi had to respond, to the intensity of austerities.
But she knew - capacity was yet to grow, to receive her grace.
Still, she came over to him -  as a woman with, mouthful of chewed tamboola juice.
'Open your mouth', she said with brimming red lips.

He swore, called her a *****, shooed her away.

Being a deity of unreasonable compassion, - Awyaaja Karuna Murti - she walked across to the dumb man. And squirted the gift, into his gaping mouth.
Tamboola juices flowed. Tongue came alive. The dumb  broke into verse.

- Shrfi Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, kanchi

Prana Tishta - grounding of Chi

Prana Pratishta refers to installation of an image and it's consecration.

It involves reciting of hymns and chants that invite a life energy - Prana - to be the resident guest, in the idol.

It is followed by Nyasa or grounding.

Through texts such as Tantra Tattwa, esoteric tantric traditions follow elaborate rituals to infuse life to a deity.

-WikiMili