Krttika, the splitter

 The hideous howler sprang out from Brahma's frustrated brow.

Brahma asked the androgynous life-form, to split itself. 

Split forms became the 11 Rudras and Rudranis.

 - Hindu Encyclopedia 

third quarter @ Brahmi

Gods sought Brahma's guidance, for their salvation. 

He uttered the syllable - Da.

Dewas recognized their shortcomings - and understood the cryptic, as Damyata.

Humans sought guidance from their Creator, for salvation.

And he uttered the same cryptic - Da

It was understood as Datta - to give, to let go.

Demons too sought Brahma's counsel, for salvation. Same cryptic was uttered.

Demons understood it, as Daya -  mercy, compassion.

This narrative features in the Great Jungle Upanishad.

- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi

Shata Bishak - 100 Surgeons

The Javanese temple is in 3 tiers.
A pyramidal base with 5 concentric square terraces; a truncated cone, with 3 circular platforms, and at the top - a monumental stupa.

Vertical progression of the Buddha Ur temple from base, body and superstructure is in sync with a concept of the Universe.

The concept of Kama dhatu, Rupa dhatu and Arupa dhatu.
The realm of desires, realm of forms and realm of formlessness.

- UNESCO,  Borobudur Temple Compounds

first quarter @ Anusha arch

Source of life has no face of it's own, no hands of it's own, no eyes of it's own.

But if you are silent, peaceful, loving, then suddenly your hand starts quivering, with a new source of energy.

Godliness is simply a way of life, a lifestyle, simply a certain way of falling in tune with all that surrounds you.

To accept this simple fact - that your daily life is your temple and your religion, is going to be a great transformation.

True religion is not in places of worship - Osho
 Speaking tree                       November 03, 2018

Third quarter @ Bharani

Thought is food.
Mind is food - in subtle form.
Down the ages, there has been a search for food that strengthens the no-mind.

Because, beyond the body, mind and soul there is something that is not food. It is utter emptiness, woid, shoonya, content-less consciousness.

If you talk less, listen less, slowly there arises in you, a cleanliness, a  purity - as if you have just taken a bath. The soil, for meditation to take root.

- What you consume forms, your body, mind and soul. - Osho
 Speaking Tree August 8, 2020  

2nd quarter, Jupiter @ Ashada

The detail of the pattern is movement,

As in the figure of the ten stairs.

Desire itself is movement

Not in itself desirable;

- T S Eliot,     Four Quartets 

Kamaadi sarpa wraja Gaarudabhyam

Wiveka wairagya nidhi pradhabyam

Bodha pradabhyam drta moksha dabhyam

Namo Namaha Shri Guru Paadukabhyam

-  Guru Paaduka Stotram     

9 summer nights '20

Transactions with the world leave impressions of many hues - in your mind. But, in deep sleep, mind does not transact.

Your own mind is the wide, expansive world.

This very mind, if for only a moment, connects with the beginning-less, endless, imperishable, truth, consciousness, bliss, eternal, pure and the free principle of Brahman - then it gets liberated from all impressions.

Amrit warsha   June 15, 2020