Ram Integrity. Lakshman Service. Bharat Tolerance. Shatrughna Humility

Intesify the Intention x. Success

In the world but not of the world

Sorrows. Adidaivik. Adhibhoutik. Adhyatmik.

Unchanging witness self of all that is changing around you

Madhurashtakam : Adharam Madhuram

 Your Life Is Your Story. Write Well. Edit Often."

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flamingoes over inde migration 

 Devotee: Why should there be suffering?

Bhagavān: Who suffers? What is suffering?

(From 'Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi': Talk 107)

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Devotee: Why does God permit suffering in the world? Should He not with His omnipotence do away with it at one stroke and ordain the universal realisation of God?

Bhagavān: Suffering is the way for Realisation of God.

(From 'Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi': Talk 107)

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"Easy to spot a yellow car when you are always thinking of a yellow car. Easy to spot opportunity when you are always thinking of opportunity. Easy to spot reasons to be mad when you are always thinking of being mad. You become what you constantly think about. Watch yourself."

-- Author Unknown

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SD PHILOSOPHY

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OF NEUTRINOS

The probability of being struck by lighting is 1 in a million. But have we ever observed a scientific event happening with an even lower probability?

To be sure.

First, I don’t know if the probability of being struck by lightning is exactly 1 in 1 million, but let’s say it is. Fine: that’s the probability of you being struck by lightning. When you consider that there are 8 billion (and growing) people on Earth, the worldwide probability that somebody will be struck by lightning is much, much higher.

Given enough chances to occur, even improbable events become commonplace.

But you wanted to know if we have observed scientific events with an even lower probability. Yes we have.

Neutrinos are subatomic particles that interact with matter so weakly that they could pass through a meter-thick wall of lead without breaking a sweat. In any given second, about 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body, and you are completely unaware of it because the vast majority of them never interact with your atoms.

In fact, if you even want to detect a neutrino, it’s fiendishly difficult.

Behold the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector, located about 1000 meters (3300 feet) underground near the city of Hida, Japan.

This dedicated neutrino detector was completed in 1996 and filled with 50,000 tons of pure water. The 13,000 photodetectors along the wall are meant to capture the fleeting evidence of neutrinos passing through the tank.

Remember when I said that about 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body every second? How many neutrinos do you think pass through the Super-Kamiokande? I’ll give you a hint… it’s a lot more than 100 trillion.

And yet, the detector measures only about 30 neutrinos per day. Neutrinos are so difficult to detect that out of the untold zillions that pass through the detector in a 24-hour period, it only manages to snag a few dozen.

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

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As we can see, he says that he does not share the view that Consciousness is the fundamental reality of Universe i.e in other worlds soul exists post death. His view is that Consciousness cannot be explained using prevailing science. 

I think some of the views held by some prominent scientists like Sir Roger Penrose, Fritjof Capra, Erwin Scrondinger, etc come close to what is expressed by Vedanta.

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्रह्म सत्य जगत मिथ्या (self is true ,world is illusion appearence in our "self")

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Ma Sarada watching SRK photo is equivalent to meditation

Asanga. No Attachment to one. Ekatman. One with All

Mother of infant happily goes into Sushupti

Thus dissolve into the infinite. Ashtavakra Samhita/Gita

First Person Experience. Brain sees not eyes

BSDA WALK SMH 0700

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Devala Rees

Hindu practitioner and scholar of Pagan religionsAuthor has 5.8K answers and 32.1M answer views8mo

In my understanding, not necessarily, no. What does add to your bad karma, in most cases, is buying non-vegetarian food. From a karmic perspective, buying it is far worse than eating it.

The bad karma is a matter of suffering caused. Killing animals almost always involves causing them suffering, and also it deprives them of all the joy they would otherwise have experienced in the rest of their life, and may also cause suffering to other animals who loved them and will miss them (or who may have depended on them for their own food, etc.). So in most cases (I do think exceptions exist), killing animals adds to one’s bad karma. So does causing someone else to kill them - for example, by paying them to do so, which is what you are doing any time you buy meat. When you purchase meat, the karma is not linked to the animal you are eating, so much as the next animal to be killed because you just supported the industry by increasing demand.

If you encounter an opportunity to eat meat that you did not buy, and that no one bought (or killed) for you, but now it’s dead and you happen to have it, I don’t see why eating it would add significantly (or perhaps at all) to your bad karma. This is essentially the teaching followed by traditional Theravada Buddhist monks, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

However, as a pure vegetarian myself, I still would not eat meat even under such circumstances. But it’s not because of karma (in a straightforward way at least); it’s because of subtle purity reasons, which is a different matter.

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Jai Siddhatma!

 

Acharya Shree Yogeesh recently shared a powerful message with the attendees at our most recent Satsang at Siddhayatan. 

 

His words and teaching will resonate with you; we want to share them with truth seekers worldwide. 

 

Acharya Shree's Teaching from January 22nd Satsang at Siddhayatan.

 

It's essential to release the emotional and mental knots within you. 

 

Whenever you are tense, stressed, and negative, you create more and more knots within yourself. The soul is meant to be free. 

 

Being on the path means opening and untying each knot, one at a time, and releasing it. 

 

The way to open your knots quickly is through silence, meditation and relaxation. In deep silence, true silence (not just silence from words), you begin to see your real self, how many knots you have, and what you need to work on. If your mind and emotions are constantly busy, you collect more knots and suffocate the soul.

 

A sudden shock can help you release yourself from the grips of karma (knots) and begin your journey of awakening. Awakening doesn't necessarily mean enlightenment -- it's the process of unfolding and blossoming. It takes time, and it can't be rushed. What helps a person to get on and continue to be on the path is their continued thirst for truth and knowledge. 

 

When you're satisfied and content, you stop searching, but if you remain thirsty on the path, you always seek more.

 

 

You can grow steadily on the path with the right guidance from a real spiritual teacher

Pragya Chetan. Sambit. Sakshi bhava

Turbulent mind difficult to see Pure Consciousness. Needs a Satwik mind EB

 

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Science as a method and science as an institution are two very different things.

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The "I'm being watched" feeling was vital for the survival of the hominid line. People like to think of humans as the mighty hunter and apex predator, and perhaps for H Sapiens that's true. However for most of our evolution we were lunch for something else. It's even been suggested that the reason we stand upright is so that we could see over the grass and see predators approaching. We are the descendants of the ones who could stand erect and tell when they were being watched. The others died out.

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But over the years I've begun to notice that most of the scientific world subscribes uncompromisingly to the materialistic view, almost to the point of it being a religion in its own right. Many scientists have become rigid and dogmatic, anything that might go against their materialistic views is not bothered with, and anyone who does study these things are not given much credence. I would think that as a scientist, you would want to find the truth, and to do so, study all possible avenues.

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"The problem with science is science follows the money." ~Russell Brand

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Superbly explains my own reactions to scientific rigidity! The ‘constants’ have always been a problem for me too, because they are like man’s deep psychological desire to impose intellectual order on what is perceived as chaos, or disorder. It’s like science has ignored a basic human, psychological understanding, and this is that we have this urge to impose intellectual order, and allowed this to unduly influence the study of science. It’s an emotional need too, we human beings have a fundamental, strong, driving desire for order, we find it uncomfortable and upsetting not to have order. Not recognising this when we do scientific research, leads to conclusions which become ‘dogmas’, a rigid way of thinking — the very opposite of what science should be! Gravity is a big one too, if one dares to suggest, as I have sometimes done, that gravity is more than the warping of the fabric of space and time, and that it can sometimes actually be described as a ‘force’, as I did when talking about the intense, crushing power of gravity within a black hole, then you will be treated with intellectual disdain. We have so much more to discover and learn about everything, and it’s high time that science acknowledges that rigid ways of thinking will in the end, hamper and restrict our understanding

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Isn't this the case for every age: people get stuck and certain in their perspectives? It seems to be part of human nature and history. Paradigms get established, then others in the future begin to challenge it, which comes with resistance at first, until finally, a new paradigm emerges. And the process begins over again.

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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Jung

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"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts" - Dr. Richard P. Feynman, father of Quantum Electrodynamics

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One of the most ludicrous beliefs I've heard of is that consciousness is the result of neurons firing because of a chemical reaction.

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The biggest problem with not being interested in the factor of consciousness when we want to understand reality is that we will be blind no matter how deep we try to look into the matters that interests us. It is a bit like being a fish swimming around in a little pond thinking that this is the entire world. In fact, the matter of consciousness and awareness is an absolute necessity for any scientific endeavor to take place at all. It is our most valuable instrument but also that which give rise to the wish to know more and have the capacity to evaluate the results from our inquiries. No scientist can be without it! It is the constant companion in all their work. For this reason it is absolutely incomprehensible why consciousness and awareness have not become the best known and studied field of knowledge within the scientific community. Instead, it has become the fattest elephant in the room that everybody is tip-toeing around. When science is forced to give any sort of answer it tries to compartmentalize it into a function of a physical brain activity and seems content with that belief. All aspects of consciousness that cannot easily be explained by materialistic methods and views, but is regularly experienced by us humans, are dismissed as misinformed religious delusions rather than taken as a very interesting aspect to look deeper into. I believe the reasons for this defensive attitude is that it threatens the “fish-in-the-pond-worldview” within the science community. Just as a fish in a small pond is forced to a leap of faith in order to jump out of the small-pond-mentality and into the endless vastness of the ocean, likewise we need hearts of bravery if we are to expand our vision of knowledge and insights, beyond our habitual home waters. To begin an investigation into the vast field of consciousness and awareness we must abandon our fixation with the material world. As long as we put the cart of material fixation in front of the horse our journey towards knowledge and insight will be in reverse mode

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Everything seems like magic until you understand it.... Arthur C Clark

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Science can no longer ignore consciousness

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"Your body is an altar to your ancestors."
— Sophie Strand

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“There is a dimension of life, of awareness, that you can discover, tune into, rest in, that is silent, deep, embracing of all, and in perfect balance with it—a kind of wisdom that says, 'Yes, these are the inevitable changes on the surface, and here’s the stillness of awareness underneath it all.'”

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Vasana Sanskara Habit patterns keep us in prison of Maya

No border of Knowingness Awareness

Back to Am I Aware. From all Thoughts Drama. Not get caught up in Jagat Anitya

Avoiding the Craving for Existence. That burns the negative karma

Into the Silence of the Void of Awareness. Don’t grasp onto PPO. Persons places. Objects

Htlr Drga test

Thought Word. Action. X. Raga. Dwesa. Gap out. A gap.

Shreya. Preya. Vritti. Sanskara

High EQ. Higher ability to control one self

TALU

 

Does time only exist in the human mind?

Time exists in physics, but the flow of time does not. Physicists do not understand the flow of time. In any given coordinate system, we can be at rest in space, but in that same coordinate system, we cannot be at rest in time. Time has this qualitatively different feature. It progresses.

This movement is currently ignored in physics. The relativistic transformations show that rotations in space-time wind up converting spatial coordinates into time, and time into space. But the space time diagram does not include any sense that time flows, that it is different. It has no special time location for "now" -- a moment of time that is central to our sense of reality because it divides that reality into two realms: that which we cannot influence, and that which we can.

Here is a quote from my upcoming book Now - The Physics of Time: "Brian Greene in his book The Fabric of the Cosmos suggests that relativity “declares ours an egalitarian universe in which every moment is as real as every other.” He says that we have a “persistent illusion of past, present, and future”—a perspective reminiscent of Augustine. He concludes that because relativity doesn’t discuss the flow of time, such flow must be an illusion, not part of reality. To me this logic is backward. Instead of insisting that theory explain what we observe, this approach implies that observations must be twisted to match the theory."

Einstein despaired of his inability to explain the flow of time. But Einstein, despite his despair, moved forward and showed that the rate of the flow of time depends on both velocity and gravity. That suggests strongly that the flow of time does not originate in the human mind, but has a true external physical reality.

Another quote from Now: "Space and time together provide the stage on which we live and die; it is the stage upon which classical physics makes predictions. But until the early 1900s, the stage itself wasn’t examined. We were supposed to notice the story, the characters, the plot twists, but not the platform. Then, along came Einstein. His great genius was in recognizing that the stage was within the realm of physics, that time and space had surprising properties that could be analyzed and used to make predictions. Even if he despaired of understanding now, his work is central to our understanding. Einstein gave physics the gift of time."

Your question is very deep. We need to think about the origin of time's flow. Einstein opened such questions to physicists.

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ब्रह्मा विष्णु महेशाद्या यस्य अंशा लोक साधकाः।

तं रामं सच्चिदानन्द नित्यं रास ईश्वरं भजे।।

~ I adore that Ramchandra always, Who is a form of sat-chit-Anans, Expert in Raas leela and Whose portions are Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesvara.

(Hanumat sanhita)

यस्यांशेन एव ब्रह्म विष्णु महेश्वरा अपि जाता महाविष्णुर्य्यस्य दिव्यगुणाश्च ।

स एव कार्यकारणयोः परः परमपुरुषो रामो दाशरथिर्वभुव ।।

~ Whose Portions are Brahma Visnu and Mahesvara, Whose divine Guna is Mahavisnu,The one who is the cause of all causes, The one who is higher than the highest, such is Ramachandra, the son of Dasratha.

(Vasistha samhita, chapter 26)

Shri Ram is the supreme personality of godhead.

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Self-realization is one of the major pre-requisites to attain ultimate enlightenment and liberation (moksha). Self-realization means peeling away fabricated layers of one's own personality to understand the true self and hence the true nature of reality.

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वदन्तु शास्त्राणि यजन्तु देवान्

कुर्वन्तु कर्माणि भजन्तु देवताः । 

आत्मैक्यबोधेन विनापि मुक्तिः

न सिध्यति ब्रह्मशतान्तरेऽपि ॥ ६ ॥

Let erudite scholars quote all the scripture, let gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal gods be propitiated- Yet, without the realization of one‘s identity as Self(Brahman), there shall be no liberation for the individual, not even in the life times of a hundred Brahmas put together.

~ Adi Shankaracharya 

•Vivekachudamani, Verse 6

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“Let the truth of Brahman be taught only to those who follow Dharma, who are devoted to Him, and who are pure in heart. To the impure let it never be taught.” (Mundaka Upanishad, 3.2.10)

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ACHIEVENMENT TO FULFILLMENT 

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Travel Afar, Journey Within

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