by Michael Mamas | Monday, March 28, 2016 | The Veda |
I love animals. My relationship with them is admittedly not typical, but my appreciation of them is deep and seems to deepen more and more over the years. Their place in creation is woven into the very fabric of transcendental existence, the depth of the Veda. Elephants, horses, tigers, lions, cows, etc… they all have a role, a component (are operators) in the mechanics of existence at that most fundamental level. Elephants are pure tamas. Horses, rajas. Cows, sattva. Tama (steady, dark, solid), rajas (active), and sattva (pure) being the three gunas or attributes that permeate all existence.
Though the logistics and legalities are evidently prohibitive, I have for some time thought it would be great to have a park with elephants here at Mount Soma. This video illustrates the notion.
My daughter is helping me create a television series about Vedic Knowledge. I am giving her an “entrance exam” in order to join the television staff. Some of the test questions:
Give 5 names for the one thing out of which all things emerged. Give at least one Western scientific name. Explain.
What is Rishi, Devata, and Chhandas? Explain.
What is the Veda? Explain.
What is the difference between Vedic and Hindu? Explain.
What does “Knowledge is structured in Consciousness” mean? Explain.
Modern physicists have attempted to describe existence as a bubbling foam, where seemingly out of nothingness, subatomic particles emerge at every point throughout space and time. That is really rather accurate. The Veda is not something that happened and then took a step back while the universe manifested from it. The Veda is eternally alive at every point in space throughout time.
Everything in its most fundamental form is just pure Consciousness. Many modern physicists are starting to understand this. Consciousness by its nature becomes conscious of itself, interacts with itself, birthing the Veda. That process goes on at every point in space throughout time.
Reach out and touch a point in space. The Veda is bubbling up at that point eternally. The Ramayana is there. The Mahabharata. The Itihasas, Puranas, Upanishads, etc. All there.
Michael, will you please compare and contrast your theories vs ideologies in relation to “the Veda,” and how it applies to scientific reasoning?
To which I respond:
“The Veda” is nature. Scientific reasoning is an approach to study nature. It is obviously a viable approach of great merit. The meaning of the word “reasoning” is the crux of the matter here. How do scientists reason? Where does reasoning come from? What is the mechanics and basis of theorization? Vedic Knowledge includes not only the process of observation to test a theory as in the western scientific approach, but also the study of the essential nature of reasoning and theorization itself. That study culminates in the understanding of cognition. We then find two means of gaining knowledge in both the western and eastern approach… outer observation and inner reasoning/cognition. To understand life and existence is to understand the nature of both approaches.
The Beej or seed mantra for Durga is “Doom.” It is sometimes spelled “Dum” in an attempt to delineate the subtlety of the pronunciation. However to the Western ear, many people would not pick up the distinction. At first glance it might seem strange that the word for the all-loving, all-protective Divine Mother is Doom. In the English language, that word is quite ominous, as if we are all doomed to some sort of disaster. After all, in the Sanskrit language the sound of the word contains the meaning, and to varying degrees, that principle applies to all languages. Why then would such an ominous word apply to the benefic Mother?
There is no greater love in the universe than a mother’s love for her children. Durga loves us all deeply. Out of that love, she spontaneously annihilates impurity. Impurity means life not in harmony with nature, with Natural Law, with one’s Dharma. When individuals are identified with such impurity, Mother Durga, purging away that impurity, can feel most threatening. So the idea of being Doom-ed is actually being blessed. All the impurities and imbalances in the psyche and physiology are doomed away. So the word “Doom” is a loving beautiful, all-pervading and profoundly benefic sound.
If you can let go of your preconceived conditioned notions around the word “Doom,” and then allow the feeling of that word to permeate your body and soul, you will realize that it is in fact a beautiful sound. It is deeply nourishing and profoundly purifying. It is Mother Divine.
Modern physicists have attempted to describe existence as a bubbling foam, where seemingly out of nothingness, subatomic particles emerge at every point throughout space and time. That is really rather accurate. The Veda is not something that happened and then took a step back while the universe manifested from it. The Veda is eternally alive at every point in space throughout time.
I was asked the following:
The Beej or seed mantra for Durga is “Doom.” It is sometimes spelled “Dum” in an attempt to delineate the subtlety of the pronunciation. However to the Western ear, many people would not pick up the distinction. At first glance it might seem strange that the word for the all-loving, all-protective Divine Mother is Doom. In the English language, that word is quite ominous, as if we are all doomed to some sort of disaster. After all, in the Sanskrit language the sound of the word contains the meaning, and to varying degrees, that principle applies to all languages. Why then would such an ominous word apply to the benefic Mother?
