Kalki - Emergence from Shamballa

When all is one and one is all, there must be a force binding everything together. From this perspective, the Universe is structured on a fundamental blueprint. Let’s begin with the building blocks, like the atom: a neutron (two down quarks and one up quark), a proton (two up quarks and one down quark), and an electron. Here, three elements unite to create a building block that interacts with others to form complex matter. This pattern resonates with the syllables of OM—Aa, Uh, and Mm coming together. The closer to the source, the smaller the variation, as seen in neutrons and protons, where only the quark spin changes. The farther from the source, the differences may seem imperceptible but still operate as a foundational principle.

The Ardhanarishvara form, symbolizing Shiva and Parvati in unison, exemplifies this trinity within the Universe. Similarly, quantum entangled particles reflect this underlying blueprint. This principle extends beyond matter into the very workings of energy and consciousness:

• Energy, Frequency, Vibration
• Electromagnetism, Magnetism, Electricity
• Root cause, Omen, Event
• Soul, Mind, Body
• Hour, Minute, Second
• Gas, Liquid, Solid

Applying this to avatars, we observe a similar pattern where three distinct consciousnesses converge. For instance, in the Ramayana, the trinity comprises Rishi Vishwamitra in the background, with Sita and Rama in the foreground. Rama represents potential energy, while Sita embodies kinetic energy. The Ramayana also integrates the 24 Bija Aksharas of the Gayatri Mantra (from Vishwamitra), with the first syllable of every 1000 slokas forming the mantra across the 24000 verses. 

In the Mahabharata, the trinity is hinted at through shared names: Vyasa (Krishna Dwaipayana), Lord Krishna, and Draupadi (Krishna). The epic contains numerous such secrets waiting to be unraveled. 

Every individual is a fragment of the same source consciousness, each playing a vital role in the larger design. Many others contribute significantly to the avatar’s mission, supporting its completion.

The Kalki avatar is the final incarnation in this dimension, heralding a transition to the next (ascension). Merges or splits between dimensions often bring turbulence. Despite being only 5000+ years into Kali Yuga, Kalki is said to emerge closer to its end. This underscores the rigidity of time and space in these three dimensions. As we ascend to higher dimensions, time and space become fluid—evident in phenomena like dreams, where time can compress or stretch as needed. This flexibility reflects in lower dimensions, adhering to the principle: "As above, so below."

An increasing number of individuals are channeling angelic beings, signaling the convergence of dimensions. This merging is also seen in the blending of science and spirituality, with spiritual concepts now being examined through scientific inquiry. The future lies in this synthesis.

The Kalki avatar is prophesied to arrive on a white horse wielding a sword, emerging from Shamballa.

Given this understanding, the Kalki avatar emerges as a trinity:

Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya

Sri Sri Sri Guru Vishwaspoorthi

Sri Marella Sri Rama Krishna (Master RK)

Master RK's guru is Shriram Sharma Acharya, and they have worked together to make Heaven on Earth a possibility. Sri Sri Sri Guru Vishwaspoorthi has given a discourse on scientific spirituality, and we can clearly see from the experiences the disciples have had over many years. He is always dressed in white and has worked from his ashram mostly in solitude. He has created the process of medium wherein he uses someone's body and speaks through them (simultaneously through many). Questioning many of the existing understandings of the Universe, we can correlate it to the sword cutting the ignorance and the horse seen as the medium. He is considered a scientific saint and has helped in the descent of the scientific spiritual formula along with Sri Marella Sri Rama Krishna. Master RK has worked extensively with different spiritual organizations and integrated them by traveling to various places and setting up ashrams. His disciples are actively taking his word forward and spreading scientific spirituality drawn by his magnetic aura.

Together we have the Kalki avatar, whose work is ongoing until the dimensions merge fully. With Shriram Sharma Acharya in the background and Sri Sri Sri Guru Vishwaspoorthi as the potential energy and Sri Marella Sri Rama Krishna [Master RK] the kinetic energy from Mount Shamballa, we have the Kalki avatar working in full force in 2025. Master RK has predicted a few things to happen in 2025 back in the year 2000, and Guru Vishwaspoorthi has warned us about the turbulences coming in 2020 and 2025.

Prepare for some turbulent times with the trinity of 2000, 2020, and 2025 nearing completion and the dawn of Heaven on Earth.

The happening (Mahabharata) 2.0

You may read the earlier post, which has some explanation of this scenario. This post is a much better scientific and spiritual explanation of the same.

The four states of Atma - Jagruta (wakeful), Swapna (dream), Sushipti (deep sleep), and Turiya states are discussed in the Mandukya Upanishad. Every human being is aware of the first 3 states. In the Jagruta state, all humans have full control. They have no control over the other states. Avadhutas have control of these states. Gods reside in the second state (Swapna) that is why we hear of things like God came in a dream and gave some instructions. Now let's see how this is related to the Mahabharata. To understand this first, we need to see the below event.

Sivarama Sastri, brother of Kavyakanta Ganapathi muni, was hungry. Meanwhile, Ganapathi began enquiring at various houses whether his brother could be fed that night. But it was Ekadasi and no food had been cooked in many houses. Moreover, it was already nine in the night and people in many houses had already retired. Though Sivarama Sastri had by then consumed eight plantains, his hunger was not appeased. Ganapathi was afraid that indiscriminate eating might lead to ill-health. And Sivarama Sastri was already restless due to hunger. Ganapathi then stood before a house, reciting a sloka which described his misery then. Though the door of the house was closed, there was a man lying on the outer pial. He got up and asked Ganapathi what the matter was. When Ganapathi described his situation, the man, stating that his wife had just finished a Vrata (a religious observance), wanted to feed two Brahmins, but that being the day of Ekadasi, Brahmins were not available, requested both of them to be his guests that night. Though Ganapathi was not hungry, he yielded to the entreaties of the man. On entering the house, they found a Tulasi plant surrounded by lights and other decorations—the interior of the house was simple, neat, and attractive. The housewife persuaded them affectionately to eat well. After the meal, the brothers were given taamboolam (betel leaves and nuts) and dakshina (a small monetary present). They came out and slept in the corridor of the choultry. To convey gratitude to their hosts, they searched for the house the next day, but there was no house like that in that locality at all. It was really a mystery.

Movement from a higher plane/state to a lower plane is possible. The house existed in the higher plane and was simply projected onto the lower plane before being taken back.This is the key to all the happenings of the Mahabharata. The two planes merged or were together during the period, and many great things from the  higher plane descended to the lower plane, like Astras (celestial weapons), longevity, voluntary death, etc. That is the reason we don't see any of the weapons, chariots, palaces, etc in any excavation except for Dwaraka in the ocean. It is just a matter of projecting it from the higher plane or merging with it. 

Two more events from the Mahabharata show it clearly. Divyastras not working post Krishna niryana discussed here and Arjuna going to heaven with body. Heaven (abode of devatas) should be in the Swapna state (second state), but Arjuna could go there with his body freely. Free movement across the two states was possible during the Mahabharata period. Now that they are separated, we don't see any of those divine things on Earth. 

To explain it simply, as Krishna's consciousness descended on the Earth plane, the divinity came along and left post his niryana, similar to the event in the life of Ganapathi muni.

The happening (Mahabharata)

Imagine a dream wherein someone is chasing and trying to hurt you, and you wake up all of a sudden. Your heartbeat is at its peak. 

In the above scenario, is the dream real, unreal or has it happened? On the physical plane (body) if we measure, only the heartbeat increase is seen. Some better measuring tools can show some brain activity. The question remains as to what has happened and has it happened.

Mahabharata is known to have all the knowledge of the Vedas (Universe). So if you take any concept it has to be there is the epic. Let us see if Quantum mechanics is there in the epic.

The dating of Mahabharata is an ongoing thing with each researcher coming up with a different date and having some points which support their observation. We see the Quantum mechanics principle of the act of observation affecting the outcome.

So has Mahabharata happened? As you keep analysing this, it will make you question "the happening" itself. What does it mean to say that something has happened. This might sound crazy but as said Mahabharata should help us in understanding all the knowledge of the universe and this is a fundamental thing being questioned here. Our understanding of happening is limited and that needs to be corrected so that the question is answered itself.

First, we have to be clear that not everything is happening in the physical plane and is visible. A celestial vision is needed to see things. Vyasa had given the vision briefly to Drupada (father of Draupadi) during the discussion if having five husbands is dharma, explaining the story behind it.

Let us see an analogy for better understanding. If someone asks Is God there. The answer would depend on their existing understanding of God. That is the reason we have varied descriptions of God and as your understanding grows things become clear. The same has to be extended to happening.

As is the case with the dream (happening inside a body) everything is happening within the entity called the Universe.

In front of every successful person

The best warrior in the whole of Mahabharata was Arjuna. Is Arjuna's success, as a warrior, only because of his skills or is there any other force driving him? We will look at two different scenarios and try to understand this.

During the Kurukshetra war, Arjuna sees something peculiar, some force right in front of his chariot holding a lance, and even before his arrows pierce the enemy, the lance seems to be doing so. Arjuna discusses this with rishi Vyasa who mentions that the person in front of the chariot is none other than Shiva himself. The other force being Lord Krishna protecting Arjuna and giving the right advice and direction. Lord Hanuman on top of the chariot and other protecting Shaktis were all there until the war ended.

After the Kurukshetra war and the destruction of the Yadava dynasty, Arjuna was to bring the women, children, and left out people, of the Vrishni race, to Hastinapura. As they proceed through the forest, robbers attack the procession and Arjuna takes out his bow to fight them. He tries to remember his celestial weapons (Astras) but could not remember any. He does not seem to have the same energy as before. In the end, hardly they got away from the robbers and reach Kurukshetra.

Arjuna asked rishi Vyasa about this and Vyasa says, you have achieved the purpose of your life. The weapons have achieved their purpose and returned to the place they came from. It's time for you to move on to achieve the highest goal (Mahaprasthan). 

When the need arises things work and divine energies help us and upon their retreat, we may not have the same vigor. At the peak of our success, we should be grateful to the visible/invisible forces helping us and be aware of the fact that some bigger cause is happening through us.

Free will (Mahabharata)

Let us analyse few instances from the epic Mahabharata and try to understand how free will works.

Arjuna -> Jayadratha vadha: After Abhimanyu was slain in Chakravyuha by Kauravas, Arjuna vowed to kill Saindhava (Jayadratha) the next day (before sunset when the war ends) or kill himself if unable to do so. Krishna asked Arjuna as to why he made such a vow without consulting him or his brothers. Arjuna said that I have you by my side and victory will be with us.

Every event that happens post this proves how Krishna helped to make the vow (made out of free will) come true. Krishna asked Daruka (the charioteer of Lord Krishna) to prepare his chariot and keep it ready if needed so that he can fight. That night Krishna took Arjuna (in a dream) to the abode of Lord Shiva to get the blessings and the Astra (Pasupata).

This message (vow) reached Kauravas and the entire army planned to protect Jayadratha. The next day almost got over by the time Arjuna could reach Jayadratha and Krishna had to create the illusion of Sunset minutes before the actual sunset so that Arjuna could use that short time to kill Jayadratha.

Karna -> Shakti Astra: The Astra given by Indra, in return of Kavacha kundala, to Karna, was to be used only once to kill any one warrior (Arjuna). But Karna did not use it on the battlefield against Arjuna. This is intriguing as to why the most important weapon wasn't used to gain victory. Not that it was missed or wasn't part of the strategy, as we see this was always discussed in the night time and Karna wanted to use it the following day. On the battlefield, Krishna avoided a direct battle between Karna and Arjuna but the even more important thing is that the thought itself was stupefied.

Gandhari -> curse: After the Kurukshetra war Pandavas come to meet Dhritarashtra and Gandhari. Gandhari afflicted with grief wanted to curse Yudhisthira, but rishi Vyasa intervenes and stops her from giving the curse and advises her to show restraint.

After this Gandhari and others head to the battlefield where Krishna was cursed by Gandhari saying the Yadava dynasty would come to an end.

We see three scenarios of freewill here, one being aided for completion, one stopped at the thought level, and the third at the action following a thought. So what is the difference between them? Killing Saindhava might not be important but since Arjuna made the vow it had to be accomplished or it would hinder the bigger scheme of things. Similarly, Karna killing Arjuna would weaken the Pandavas and would lead to Dharma not being established. Finally, if Gandhari cursed Yudhisthira it would be a bad example for anyone trying to establish dharma and ending up cursed. Yadava dynasty coming to an end was part of the bigger plan so a curse related to that will make it easier.

So the bottom line would be if free will is completely going against the bigger scheme of things it would end up being hindered. Being on the side of Dharma and closer to God should aid it.

The relative time

You cannot understand something unless you experience it.

Rishi Vishwamitra, who was a king before becoming a brahmarsi, has meditated for thousands of years as described in Ramayana. The immediate question which would come to anyones mind is how can a human meditate for such a long time, and the question of food follows. The food thing is clear like surviving on fruits initially and then on air and then on nothing (not even the breath). Lets address the time part of it here. 

Einstein's general theory of relativity which states how time is different based on space is accepted and proved experimentally. "When spending few minutes in a very strong gravitational field (planet close to black hole) is equivalent to years in a weak gravitational field (Earth in relative scale) the same can be extended to the deep state of meditation." 

Let's come to the actual experience part. Meditation during a solar eclipse is considered powerful. You can get more information here (link). The last Solar eclipse which happened in June was a time wherein I desired to get more spiritual knowledge. Whenever I have meditated I was never able to go beyond 25 minutes. On the day of eclipse, I started with mantra chanting an hour before the core eclipse time and reserved meditation for the specific time window. I meditated during that time window and by the time it ended I felt like the usual 20-25 minutes have gone by, but the time elapsed was 45 minutes.

The connected Universe

Sleeping during the daytime has always been a fulfilling experience. During moonrise on March 6’th, I could feel this surge of energy coming from the top of my head into my body. I felt this should be the healer for my body. As I woke up these thoughts came up in my mind.

The Universe is a singularity as per the Vedas. Duality starts with the idea of myself and the rest of the Universe. If both were connected well enough then whatever happens in the other half should have it’s reflection in the first half. Let's try to understand this through my recent experience of illness.

My last visit to a doctor before 2020 was some 11 years back. I never had any illness except for mild cold and cough at times. December of 2019 during the Solar eclipse time I had the urge to chant health mantras. Any chant during eclipse is considered to multiply its effect. I chanted health mantras as I wanted to get the perfect health, which as I look back does not seem normal as I was always healthy throughout. Around the same time, I had a mild cough which looked different from the earlier ones I had. 

The year ended and 2020 started normally. January 5’th was the date I had a fever with cold and cough. Just took a pill and expected it to go in a day. Fever and cough persisted for two more days. I visited a doctor and got an X-ray and it seemed to show some fluid accumulation in one of my lungs. Got advice to get admitted which I ignored and took the medication as prescribed, later in the day. The fever subsided in a few days but the cough persisted. Whole of January ended with multiple tests and doctor visits only to find nothing pointing to the root cause. The covid thing was catching up and getting noticed meanwhile. Towards the end of January my lungs ached and it continued to February. 

The second bout of fever happened the same day a covid case was detected in the city I live in. It lasted 2 days. The healing was slow and continued through March and April. The whole timeline seems to match with the macro covid pandemic. As I feel fully healed I see the virus is not as strong now and the world is opening. 

Let's come back to the two halves. Let one half be the Earth and the other half the rest of the Universe. What was happening to the rest of the Universe (let’s consider the immediate solar system) starting December 2019. We had a Solar eclipse and all the planets between Rahu and Ketu. Eclipse is an important event in Astrology. For naysayers who do not believe in Astrology the pandemic was predicted in August 2019 itself. The whole point is, within the one universal entity where you draw the boundary. Is it me and everything else, is it the Earth and the rest of the Universe and so on.

The Observer

In this blog we will try to understand two very important concepts, which can be seen as a mix of science and spirituality. Science tells us that the observer has an effect on the observed. We will go further and improve upon this. This brings us to the concepts below.

1. Without the Observer there is nothing observed.
2. Observers decide the reality.

A simple example to understand the observer effect. Lets assume a classroom with students and a video camera inside it. Whoever has put the camera is the observer and the students are the observed. Lets take 3 scenarios. Case 1: The camera was placed by one of the students. In this case the affect it has on the students would be minimal. Case 2: Teacher has placed the camera. The affect it has on students would be higher now. Case 3: College principal has placed it. The affect would be even more. So the observer is clearly affecting the observed. We will use this [example] to clearly understand things. Now let's understand the same from a spiritual perspective.

One of the stories from Mahabharata, about Sati Savitri explains how humans have the power to  rewrite their destiny. Savitri marries Satyavan who is destined to die in a year. When the time comes Yama the god of death shows up to take Satyavan. Savitri pleads Yama all the way until she gets her husband's life back.

One of the things about the stories in our Puranas is that every story has a takeaway. As the stories in our school books have a moral attached to them the stories from scriptures have a universal truth embedded in them. You can change your destiny the way Savitri changed it in the story. Let's analyze the story further from the observer perspective. Who are the observers involved here. Savitri herself and Yama, the god of death. If Yama were not to be there there would be no concept of death(concept 1). Yama comes to take Satyavan whereas Savitri doesn't want that to happen. The discussion goes on until the reality is decided(concept 2).

Why do we not see such things happening in our lives. Someone about to die and we see Yama and try to stop him. One important concept that we missed out here is the level of observation. The observers are at various levels of consciousness [Teacher, Principal, College founder etc]. Savitri was at a level of consciousness wherein she could see Yama who is at a higher level of consciousness compared to humans [like the best student getting a chance to meet the college founder].

Let's make things simpler. You cannot smell what a dog can or hear how a bat can or see what a eagle can. Extending it, as humans we do not understand what beings(you may refer to them as gods)  at higher levels of consciousness are doing to us because our senses are so limited. Only when we grow in consciousness can we see/know/affect things directly.

Let's take a situation to understand this clearly. You were healthy all your life leading a healthy lifestyle until now and suddenly things start changing, your health is down all at once. How do you explain this. Use concept 1. Someone is bringing about these changes in your life. Of course it could be yourselves if you weren't leading a healthy lifestyle. If it were someone visible to you it would be great but as explained earlier our senses cannot see everything. So what if you cannot see the bacteria with your naked eye, use a microscope(tool) to do that. What could be the tool here - Astrology.

The planets [teachers] are at a higher level of consciousness compared to humans [students] and the observation made by them to our lives affect us. So what to do now. Use Astrology to know which planet [teacher] is doing the observation and affecting us and then do what Savitri did - please the observer [teacher]. Planetary rituals come in here. This could be a temporary solution for this problem. But what is the permanent one, it's growing in consciousness [discipline].

This could be applied anywhere. You could be making lots of money and there could be a planet behind helping you achieve that. Once that planet stops the observation and another takes over(planetary dasa) things could change dramatically and you could not be doing that good anymore. Everyone sees ups and downs in their lives. It could be a change of observer. So know the observers to know the reality.

Mantras are one way of adding an observer. You are having relationship problems and do not know what to do. There could be some observer doing that. Do the mantra which has the power to fix relationships. The energy will come in as an observer to change the reality.

One more example could drive home the point. Shirdi Sai baba as an observer was at a higher level of consciousness and whenever devotees came to him with their problems he could simply solve them. It's like the reality getting changed with a new observation made.

Consciousness

In this blog I will try to explain how consciousness is the basis for the Universe. Lets start with examples.
you see a beautiful painting, and ask 'who has painted this'. You hear a beautiful voice and ask 'whose voice is this'. You see a beautiful nest and ask 'which bird has built this'. To simplify the point, you look for reasons for everything and assume there has to be someone behind every creation. Now extend the same. You see the Universe around you. Ask the question 'who has created this?'. What is the answer that we have from science 'It formed on its own, with lots of forces like gravity etc involved.' Now take back this answer and apply it to the examples we took earlier. The artist moved the brush and gravity made him move his hand in a certain way and the painting was done. Similarly the bird just put wood sticks together and some electric brain signals made it do that way, leading to that nest. You do not agree to this because you see some order in that nest/building/painting and you understand order does not come from randomness.

Now we are assuming that there is no order in this universe. Just take an example. When will the next Solar eclipse be seen in India. You might need telescopes and lots of complex calculations to come to the answer. But you can find the answer using just the astrological chart. Take any panchang and you would find the list of eclipses for the next few years. So the motion of planets is not random, but precise. Similarly you would find randomness across galaxies but there is some order in that. Lets remove the randomness of creation with few examples. Kali yug spans 4,32,000 years and Dwapar yug is twice that. There are 84 lac kinds of living species. You can know more from the Vedas.

Now lets get into the crux of this. You are at a painting competition, observing various artists carrying out their work. They start with a white sheet and paint something initially. As they continue we might find randomness in the painting at times. We assume he is painting something but he might be painting something else altogether. What do we understand from this. The painting is already there in the mind of the artist and its just the execution which is happening in front of us. Now extend this. "The Universe is already there in the mind of the creator and its just the execution which we are experiencing."

So you might find a chimpanzee turning into a human, but the human was the one planned.

You might find all the above things theoretical but the rishis have proved this beyond doubt. They could get to the consciousness of the creator, using just their mind, and have known the secrets of the Universe. We need not do that as we have their work gifted to us as scriptures. So we just need to understand and use their knowledge for our benefit, without any questions asked. Lets take an example. Its said in the scriptures that if a person is able to open his third eye, he would know the past, present and future. Now you might understand what opening of third eye could mean. Its equivalent to reading the artist's mind. The artist might be another person but the creator is there within you.

Space & Time - Now we will use the painting example to understand space and time. The artist has something in his mind and what we see on paper is just a reflection of it. The sheet of paper can be assumed to be space and time being the time taken by him during the process of painting. So space and time have come into picture for us as a viewer but for the artist it was always there. We would be caught in this space and time if we keep looking at the sheet of paper. Going further Space & Time come into picture only at the material level. For example you cannot measure time using carbon dating when there is no carbon.

 

Lets understand levels of consciousness next with an example. If you wish to go on a tour to some country you might have to arrange all by yourself, getting tickets, planning the journey, accommodation, food etc. Now if the president of India wishes to go on a tour what is required. Its just the thought of visiting the place. Extend this, at the level of divine consciousness, you need not worry about the execution. The thought manifests itself. Patanjali's yoga sutras talk about how you can gain super normal powers with Yoga. The definition of yoga, would make things clear. Yoga : Union, of the human 'mind' with the divine.

 

I hope you have got some understanding about this. We will see later about growing in consciousness and understanding divine consciousness.

Soul dynamics

OM. In this blog I will try to explain the soul and why it goes through birth/re-birth. The soul [atma] is the purest or unmanifest form of the Universe. Whatever we see/feel around [matter] is its manifestation. So God [param atma] is the complete soul.

The purest form has no specific characteristics or to simplify it has everything but highlights nothing. So any manifestation of it has to be in polarities. We can take examples like male/female, good/bad etc. When needed the purest form can manifest to any form. And when everything is taken back we are just left with the complete soul.

Lets simplify life as we see, into 2 forms. One is the matter and the other the soul. The body we possess is the matter and the soul brings it to life. If there is no soul the body would have no importance. So the soul is the one that brings us to life and it has a purpose in doing so. The purpose is to get back to its purest form. So where did the soul attach with the impurity. It did so in the previous birth to be clear. When some living creature dies, the soul leaves the body taking all the memories of the life it had. So the memories stay with the soul and when it incarnates again [re-birth] we can get to those memories using Past life regression. The soul chooses the reincarnation [re-birth]such that it can pay off karma, fulfill any desires attached to it from past life etc. So if the karmas attached to the soul were good it would lead to a good birth or viceversa.Whatever is happening to you is due to your own deeds.

Religious texts simplify all of this with the concept of heaven/hell and ask us to be pious and perform good deeds. If we go deeper we would just come to know that Heaven/Hell are just conceptual and all of this is being taken care of by the soul and the memories attached to it. In this process of paying off karma in a birth, we do some new karmas and attach to them. So the birth-rebirth cycle continues. The cycle would end when you do not attach to the karmas you do and realize that soul is the truth and all of life is maya. Unless we get the atma gyan we would be caught in this cycle.

Lets take 3 examples.
1. Assume you aren't beautiful in this life and you have attached to it so much that the memory is the strongest of all of yours. The soul has to get rid of that
after your death. Lets assume the soul comes to life as a peacock in the next incarnation, it would address that memory. So the soul chooses births accordingly.
2. We have heard of sages in our scriptures who had the power to curse. How did that work. You do something unbearable to someone. First of all, the karma registers itself in your mind and that needs to be addressed. Lets assume the curse from the sage was, you end up in your next birth as a crow. So that birth is needed for remorse and purification of the soul.
3. Astrology says that the 9 planets are controlling us, but if we see truly all these planets are under the control of the Sun which isn't moving anywhere. To extend from it, the memories are taking us for a ride whereas the soul is stationary. So attaining moksha is just giving control to the soul and not let the memories control it.

The souls were the purest in their initial incarnations [krita yug, treta yug] and as time passed and the birth/rebirth cycle has gone a long way, the souls attached to so much that, we just see the attachments instead of the pure soul.To complete the picture the memories are taking us through the birth/rebirth cycles. This is at the individual level. Similarly at the cosmic level God's memories are taking the Universe through cycles. So when the materialistic end comes the souls retreat and bring an end to all the matter. And when the polarities join there is only perfection, the complete soul. OM.

The Truth

In this blog I? will try to explain life & universe as a whole from the vedantic perspective. I have taken 3 analogies for the same.

a. River: Lets take a flowing river. It goes through mountains, plains and forests before mixing with the ocean. Rivers have their own names but once they join the ocean they are inseparable. Now lets look at the identification before. We have named them according to our wish. Given water from a river, we cannot name the river from which it was taken. That is the crux we need to understand. Lets take a flowing river, it looks beautiful as it flows across the plains and mountains. Now take a glass of water from the river, put it into a packet and leave it at the same place. It would take the same path as the water. Now the packet is the body we are into and the water is the soul [atma]. The river is following the same path as it used to before. It looks different for us now due to the packet that was put in there. The flow looks beautiful if we just look at the water, but once we start looking at the packets the beauty reduces, as the packet tumbles and floats irregularly with the flow. The packet reaches the ocean at the end of its journey. This is a single packet, now take n packets and tie them to one another randomly, few tightly and a few loosely. As we see more packets around we just see chaos in an otherwise orderly flow. The packets are the relationships we are into. If one of them moves slowly it reduces the other packets speed. Imagine someone in your family falling sick.

The ocean gets many packets from various rivers. Now the cleaning starts. The packets are taken back and put back into the rivers at an appropriate place [karma]. You can think of this whole process as the birth/re-birth cycle. How can this end. You have to understand the truth from within the packet. The flow will continue but you only see water around, instead of the imaginary packets.


b. Astrology: I was reading a book recently [http://old.garudabd.org/books/] and the topic of discussion was Astrology and how it evolves from the unity. The polarization starts with unity and it separates to two. We can take an example. Suppose you find a snake somewhere, you might just think about the venom it carries. But venom is required to make its anti venom. Venom with some transformations gives the anti venom. So if we see "venom/anti venom" is a polarity and if we mix them there is unity [perfection]. Lets see polarity in astrology and how opposites attract to reach perfection. Lets take the well known Sun Signs. Assuming you know nothing about them, lets assign each month a sign for ease. We get 12 signs as the 12 months. Lets take January and look for its opposite. You might assume December, but it isn't as they are next to each other. Make a circle with the 12 months and you would find that July is the opposite of January. Similarly November opposites May. Scorpio and Taurus are the 2 sun signs and their symbols Scorpion and Bull. If you watch Disocvery or Animal planet you would never see a bull roaming around on its own. You would find it always in a herd. Similary a scorpion is never seen in a group. So the polarity is here. One wants to be without company and the other with loads of company and they attract eachother to gain perfection. It's like you are only seeing one side of the coin and you need the other to complete it. If you take the venom to be the Scorpio Sun sign then the anti-venom will be the Taurus Ascendant[astrological term]. 2 becomes 3[cardinal,fixed,mutable signs] and so on it continues.

So if we meet someone who balances the imperfection within us we find compatiblity and if not we feel the incompatibility. If we can come over the imperfections within us, we find the World to be perfect, having just the oneness[Advaita].


c. 1 0 and infinity: Most of Vedanta revolves around getting us to The Truth which is the oneness of the Universe. We don't see/feel the oneness around us. We see ourselves and the materialistic world around us. So the link is missing somewhere. We will try to understand the same here. Lets represent the oneness by 1. We ourselves are represented by 0 and the world around us as Infinity[inf]. 0 and inf, both are part of 1 as said in the scriptures. To understand the truth we can proceed by analyzing one of these three [1 0 inf]. Vedanta gives more importance to 0 and its connection to 1 whereas Science revolves around understanding inf. Suppose you have a cold and you have to cure it. There are 2 ways - do nothing [0] or keep taking all kinds of medicine [inf], the end result would be the same. It cures itself in 7 days [1]. Going the inf way would give relief to an extent. So whatever you do or do not the end result would be the same here. Lets take anything and we would have to go to infinity to find the answer. Something like what is the best exercise regime for anyone. There is 2 ways. You exercise and feel the changes within you [0] or read books and get info about various exercises [inf]. I find people eating all sorts of food without any health problems and people exercising regularly but facing health issues, so there is something else going on altogether[1]. So the result cannot be as expected, always. So, we either look at the bigger picture [1] or get stuck with 0 or inf. So either change yourself or
try changing the world you would come across the truth, which doesn't change, in the process.

Relative truths change, like I am a human now[time based - in this birth]. I have named this blog 'The Truth' because the absolute truth is the one that never changes no matter what. There is no concept of I?, there is only 'The Truth'

This is most likely the last post for this blog.

Distant Relatives

In the earlier post I have said that Planets can affect on our brains. I will try to explain the same here.

We all have heard of family trees spanning many generations. Starting from your great great ... n times grand parents. Just visualize the tree. You are one of its leaf/node and your parents one of the branch etc. Let us assume you come across a distant relative of yours in some city. You probably wouldn't even know that he/she is your relative because nothing is visible from the outside. You both have many things in common[skin texture, eyes etc] but to prove the relationship you have to dig down to the level of DNA may be. Now I will extend the argument and say that you and the planet Saturn are related. How deep do we have to dig, to prove this relationship?

We all have heard of the big bang theory. What does it say about the universe. The Universe was a singularity at the time of its birth and there was a big bang and matter started to form.The universe was of the size of a ball after a short time. So what can we make of it. Whatever matter we see around today has come from that ball. So whether its you, your friends, relatives,enemies or the big planets, the Sun etc all come from the same basic particles. So all are your relatives to say in one word. Scientists are already in search of those basic particles using particle
colliders [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider]

Everyday we hear of many people dying or suffering in news but we don't feel so bad about that. Now if you hear that one of your close relatives has met with an accident or if your friend has been detected with cancer how would you feel. The news would bring sorrow to you. Similarly at the cosmic level the Universe is very big but only the 9 planets and the Sun are affecting you.The planets are going round the Sun in cycles and things happen in your life accordingly.

One question remains unanswered, who is sending the message here. You might get the good news like the birth of your sisters daughter over phone from US. But the position of some planet like Uranus must reach us[because its apparent position is affecting our life]. We could define something [invisible] like Gravity to explain the effects. But the fact remains that Planets can
affect our brains.

I am trying to build up on things step by step. As said that the Universe started with a singularity, there must be something which should summarize anything and everything.
I too am trying to understand that one truth. Some name it God, some call it the universal energy or any other name. But the essence of life is to get to that truth, whether you do it in this life or the next. Don't deny its existence. If no one has read this blog that doesn't mean that it never existed.

Made in Heaven

These days astrology has started to fascinate me. It started with a friend of mine saying that the Sun signs match a persons qualities to a great extent. I started reading my sun sign description and found that, quiet matching my personality. Then I went on to an other sign as I wanted to know that person. Even that matched. You could get the sun sign descriptions at this link [http://www.cyberspacei.com/englishwiz/library/names/zodiac/contents.htm]. Please read them and I hope they match your personality to quite some extent.

In this blog I will try to explain this "Marriages are made in heaven" concept using astrology. Might be difficult but lets see how it goes. Now assuming you know nothing about astrology. Take any given year. That year has got 12 months. If I ask how the weather was in the month of May in 1975, what would you answer. Simple answer is "Must have been hot". You probably weren't even born then, as myself, but you know that May is summer and it will be hot whatever the year may be. Now extend it- how about someone born in may 1975. Can we say anything about that person. The answer is yes. Now why is May always hot. Because Sun is closer to the earth. Now how about someone born in may. The "Sun sign" has a role to play there. So here comes the Sun sign. April and May might have somewhat similar weather but same is not the case with Sun signs. They are quite different. Now how about Moon doesn't it have a role to play. Yes, it too has a role to play. The Moon sign comes in. Why leave out the planets and stars, they too do something to our brains.

Looks weird but its a fact. The only force we know of celestial bodies is gravity and how could it shape our personality. No answer at least for the time being. One of the dialogues from the movie Matrix says "You have already made the choice, you just have to execute it". Similarly Astrology says that "Your personality is already shaped, you just have to live it".

Sun sign is very basic in astrology and astrologers do not give it a very high priority but it has its significance and is easy to find out as you just have to know the persons birthday. The link given above has the signs and the dates, please check that to know your sun sign. Moving on to our weather example. If I ask how would the weather, tomorrow be exactly. You would have to wait until tomorrow morning atleast to see the rising Sun and say that today would be a sunny day if the sun is bright and cloudy if the Sun is behind the clouds etc. To say simply if you look east at the time of sunrise you get a feel of how the day would be. Now if you have to know how someones personality would be, you have to look east at the time of his/her birth. That[Zodiac Constellation] gives you something called Ascendant[Lagna] which is very important in astrology. I am giving all the confusing terms. Let me try to make it simpler.

Einstein said that Space & Time is like a smooth fabric and celestial bodies create dents in it. Similarly your brain is like a raw piece of tissue and the planets and stars print something onto it as and when you take your first breath. Now you might ask how about the 9 months in the womb, do these celestial bodies sit idle all these 9 months. As said in the matrix example, they too have already made a choice and they are just executing it. Like as and when you are born your future is decided and so does the no. of children you have etc. Palmistry would prove that I guess. To go further, in ancient days we had a muhurat for first night too. Recently I was watching a spiritual channel and in one of the programs the discussion was on this. The person said that the muhurat for first night is very important and you shouldn't just simply jump into making love.

Coming back to our made in heaven concept. There are 12 zodiac signs like the 12 months. The stars are fixed i.e these zodiac signs are fixed in space and only we [Earth] are moving. If you go to any astrologer or any astrology website to know what the future holds for you they would ask for your birth date, time and place. If you know these you can get the position of planets with respect to Earth at that very specific time from astronomy. Now we come to something called natal chart and is the one that is used by astrologers to say anything or everything about you. Getting the natal chart is a 2 step process to say. As and when someone is born draw a line from their birthplace to the center of earth. Draw an other line perpendicular to it [lets forget latitudes and tilt for the time being] in the east west direction. This is your co ordinate system to say, with yourself on the +Y axis and East direction on the negative -X axis. The negative X - axis points to the ascendant. and +Y axis the Mid heaven and +X axis is the descendant, -Y is the Imum coil. Draw lines at 30 degrees to divide the plane into 12 parts. Place the planets according to their positions.

Your natal chart is ready. Who is the perfect match for you. We have always heard that "Opposites make a good match". Astrology echoes that saying you are attracted to someone who has your descendant as their ascendant. So whatever is being missed by you would be taken care of by your soul mate. Planets bring in some asymmetry but lets ignore it for the time being. Your ascendant is on the -X axis so your matches ascendant should be on +X axis. You are on the +Y axis so your match will be on the -Y axis. As I have said earlier +Y axis is your mid heaven and -Y axis is the mid heaven for your match. So where did your match take shape. "In HEAVEN".

Relativity

Its been long since I wrote anything on my blog. But for me its just like, I haven't posted it. I get a thought, I wish to blog it and it doesn't show up on my blog for many days. Don't be surprised if it appears after 2 years. I didn't blog it, but that thought is with me and will be posted some day. As like the paragraph below of this blog which was written a year back and i am just continuing with it.

Recently I was reading a column in a Telugu newspaper wherein readers write their problems and the expert suggests something. One of the problems raised by a woman was: her husband died recently and since then she is suffering from headache. Its a bad thing right. You might think that the death of her husband is responsible for her health problem. If we go into the details, her husband used to torture her everyday and life was a hell for that woman before his death. Now she couldn't understand why she is having this headache everyday as her husband/headache left her for ever. For someone who didn't know anything about the husband this would seem like a big blow to the woman. In Vedanta there is a concept which says that there are two kinds of truth, absolute and relative. Birth and death are absolute whereas everything else like happiness, sadness, beauty etc are relative.

Now lets try to understand this. Who was the 38'th Governor of California? Seems difficult, but the answer is Arnold Schwazneger. 7 times Mr. Olympia and a popular hollywood actor. If we go to some village and try to find out who all know him, anything above 1% would be a surprising thing. Now go to California and ask about YSR. It would give the same response. Think of the most powerful alien creature. Does it exist? How does it look? The relativity is there. No one is absolutely popular or to say nothing is absolute.

I have a friend of mine, who is jobless at 26. What would the state of his mind be. Sad/Depressed/Low in confidence ? Exactly opposite to that. He is totally enjoying his life and when asked about job, he answers "kya karenge. Aaram se karenge, kya hai tension." The person asking the question is feeling sad about him to say. Not everyone is like that. I have an other friend who is going through the same phase and is low in confidence, so how we see it may not be the thing happening there.

One more example to drive home the point. In 2008 there was an acid attack in AP on an engineering student [Swapnika]. As the news came out in various TV channels everyone in the state[including me] was so agitated that each of us wanted the perpetrators to be killed as brutally as anyone could imagine. As the perpetrators were encountered normalcy returned to our minds. Few days later I came across an other acid attack, in Afghanistan. School girls were attacked this time. The reason being that they were attending school and the perpetrators were against that because, the book which they follow says[or interpreted that way] that girls shouldn't attend schools. If we just search there are many such crimes just unknown to us. We are just affected by the ones we see/shown. We could be in an illusion[Maya] thinking that whatever is seen by us is the thing happening in the world.

As in physics we have the frame of reference concept, we also have a frame of reference within us and everything we see or feel is from this frame. So given a situation 2 people react differently though they see the same thing and of course what we see around is affecting us everyday. I was watching a program recently and this was explained clearly. The frame in which we live is our Manosthithi and the happenings around us is the paristhithi we are in. We cannot control the paristhithi always but our manosththi can be under our control. Its of course very difficult to master that, but once done its like a bullet proof from the world around us. So whatever happens in the world we are under our control and the things we see are not controlling us anymore. It is not running away from the problem but embracing the problem and acting with a cool mind.

When I started the blog I chose to name it "Good vs Bad" but it changed to "Relativity" now. Without further delay I am posting it now lest the title and content change.

Rewind to the frontiers

The theory 'rewind to the frontiers' would be better understood by analyzing these three unconnected events/issues below

1. Organic Farming - If you are familiar with agricultural practices today you will see agriculture today is mainly dependent on irrigation, hybrid seeds, pesticides all of which make agriculture capital intensive. Let's go back in time and see how agriculture was being done in the olden days . There were no hybrid seeds ; there were no pesticides and there was no irrigation. The agriculture depended on rain water, natural manure and natural seeds. Now coming back to the present agriculture practices and the way they effect farmers . As agriculture has become capital intensive farmers have to take debts to do farming, and if the crop fails they end up in huge debts and finally may end up killing themselves . What has all these years of non organic farming resulted in :

The yield of crops has increased but with a higher initial investment. We end up digging deeper to get the same level of ground water . Pesticides end up (in micro levels) in the food we eat. So research is going on now on organic farming, the age old way of agriculture, to see if it gives the same yield as the present day farming and it has been found to be as good as the present way of agriculture.

2. Lan in IIT's - All IIT's have Lan(Internet) facility available to them in the hostels and in the departments .IIT Madras had it only in the departments until november 2004 . The facility was extended to the hostels after that. Most IIT's had this LAN facility in hostels long before. Now going back to 2004 when I was in the first year the number of people using internet in the departments was not many. If internet was so important then the department computers would be outnumbered by the students waiting to use them but it rarely happened because only a few were using the facility. Now comes our LAN facility extended to the hostels. Then the problem starts. The authorities feel the student interaction has come down ; they are not attending classes and not sleeping in the nights. The LAN is the culprit .. play games , watch movies and chat .. everything Now starts the reverse process. Use technology to block chatting, switch of the LAN during the nights and put a limit on the download. Now you are using more technology to fight the misuse of current technology or the ills caused by the current one. Like we have seen earlier .. use more pesticides to fight the pests and use more/better fertilizers to increase the fertility of the land which was reduced by the fertilizers used earlier.

I came across one blog which was written back in 2001 and it was about an inter IIT event where IIT Madras students excelled. The blogger discussed about the culture in IIT Madras. The usual evening chats in the hostels and enthusiastic participation in games and cultural activities. The reason the blogger attributed the excellent performance of IITM contingent and the bad performance of other teams was this LAN. And how .. the LAN ate into the active interaction which is very much needed for overall development of an individual. You can't do away with LAN as you can't do away with pesticides or may be you can.You had an alternative in the form of organic farming in the earlier case and here you have a similar alternative: take back LAN from the hostels.
Now you must have understood the theory of 'Rewind to the frontiers' to some extent - apply it to the next situation.

3. Virginia tech :You must be knowing about this incident of a student killing around 32 of his classmates and a professor at the university of virginia before killing himself.Though this is not for the first time that such an incident has happened in the US this one has acquired importance because of the number of people who got killed. Now some Joe who studies in the school thinks that he is insecure and he needs a gun to protect himself, so he approaches the local authority for a license to hold a gun and he is given one. Tom, Dick and Harry follow Joe and end up with licenses to hold guns. Now that everyone has guns,
looks as if everyone is secure , right. What has this granting of licenses resulted in ; more guns less security ; exactly the opposite effect of why licenses had been given. Now apply our theory of 'rewind to the frontiers' - What is our aim - To end the killings in the schools.

Reverse the process - take away all the licenses to hold guns, easier said than done, to put an end to the killings in schools and killings in general. What would the situation be in a school without guns .Some Joe is being teased daily by our very own Tom , Dick and Harry . So he decides to settle the scores with the three. He has no gun to kill them as it used to be earlier .So he learns some fighting skills and thrashes the three. Then the counseling unit of the school comes in and settles the issue. Like ' fight and make up ' rather than ' kill and then there would be nothing left to make up'

That was the 'rewind to the frontiers' ,hope you appreciated that one . Apply it before taking a step forward. That was open ended and I feel blogs should be open ended for the readers to fill in the gaps themselves. . That was my first blog.... thanks for reading it.

Fun .. on

Leopard vs. Poodle

A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in
Africa, taking her poodle(a breed of dog) along for company.

One day the poodle starts chasing butterflies and
before long, discovers that he's lost. Wandering
about, he notices a hungry-looking leopard heading
rapidly in his direction.

The poodle thinks, "Oh, oh!" Noticing some bones on
the ground close by, he immediately settles down to
chew on the bones with his back to the approaching
cat. Just as the leopard is about to leap, the poodle
exclaims loudly, "Boy, that was one delicious leopard!
I wonder if there are any more around here?"

Hearing this, the leopard halts his attack in
mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he
slinks away into the trees. "Whew!", says the leopard,
"That was close! That poodle nearly had me!"

Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole
scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this
knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from
the leopard. So off he goes, but the poodle sees him
heading after the leopard with great speed, and
figures that something must be up. The monkey soon
catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and
strikes a deal for himself with the leopard.

The leopard is furious at being made a fool of and
says, "Here, monkey, hop on my back so you can watch
me chew that poodle to bits!"

Now, the poodle sees the leopard coming with the
monkey on his back and thinks, "What am I going to do
now?", but instead of running, the dog sits down with
his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen
them yet, and waits until they get just close enough
to hear.

"Where's that damn monkey?" the poodle says, "I sent
him off an hour ago to bring me another leopard!"

fun starts - never take risk

Read carefully & slowly to enjoy it!)


Peg After Peg

I never take risk while drinking

When I come from office in the evening, wife is cooking
I can hear the noise of utensils in the kitchen
I stealthily enter the house
Take out the bottle from my black cupboard
Shivaji Maharaj is looking at me from the photo frame
But still no one is aware of it
Becoz I never take a risk

I take out the glass from the rack above the old sink
Quickly enjoy one peg
Wash the glass and again keep it on the rack
Of course I also keep the bottle inside my cupboard
Shivaji Maharaj is giving a smile

I peep into the kitchen
Wife is cutting potatoes
No one is aware of what I did
Becoz I never take a risk

I: Any news on chopra's daughter's marriage
Wife: Nope, she doesn't seem to be that lucky. Still
they are looking out for her

I again come out; there is a small noise of the black cupboard
But I don't make any sound while taking out the bottle
I take out the glass from the old rack above sink
Quickly enjoy one peg

Wash the bottle and keep it in the sink
Also keep the Black Glass in the cupboard
But still no one is aware of what I did
Becoz I never take a risk

I: But still I think chopra's daughter's age is not that much
Wife: What are you saying? She is 28 yrs old... like
an aged horse
I: (I forgot her age is 28) Oh Oh...

I again take out potatoes out from my black cupboard
But the cupboard's place has automatically changed
I take out the bottle from the rack and quickly enjoy
one peg in the sink

Shivaji Maharaj laughs loudly
I keep the rack in the potatoes & wash Shivaji
Maharaj's photo & keep
it in the black cupboard

Wife is keeping the sink on the stove
But still no one is aware of what I did
Becoz I never take a risk

I: (getting angry) you call Mr. chopra a horse? If you
say that again, I
will cut your tongue...!
Wife: Don't just blabber something, go out and sit quietly...

I take out the bottle from the potatoes
Go in the black cupboard and enjoy a peg
Wash the sink and keep it over the rack
Wife is giving a smile

Shivaji Maharaj is still cooking
But still no one is aware of what I did
Becoz I never take a risk

I: (laughing) So chopra is marrying a horse!!
Wife: Hey go and sprinkle some water on your face...

I again go to the kitchen, and quietly sit on the rack
Stove is also on the rack
There is a small noise of bottles from the room outside

I peep and see that wife is enjoying a peg in the sink
But none of the horses are aware of what I did
Becoz Shivaji Maharaj never takes a risk

chopra is still cooking
And I am looking at my wife from the photo and
laughing
Becoz I never take what???