The arrow:Symbolically, the Arrow represents Thought. Symbols associated
with Sacred Teachings are very ancient. Therefore, we must first understand the nature of those times before we can understand the meanings of the symbols that were used during those times. In ancient times, nothing travelled faster than an Arrow.
An Arrow could bring down the swiftest bird or the most powerful beast. An Arrow could also travel great distances very quickly. An Arrow gets to the "heart of the matter" by first piercing the protective outer layer of its target.
When an Archer has spent his old Arrow he reaches into his quiver
and selects a new one.Thoughts, like Arrows, are powerful and swift. Nothing travels faster than Thought. With Thought we can instantly travel great distances of time, space and dimension. Our Thoughts can revisit old relationships, walk on the moon or travel to the farthest reaches of outer space.The arrows supports the constitution of life that of Bheeshma;the arrows seats life.The arrows can multiply ;our thoughts can.Arrows pierce a fish eyes.n ancient Eastern Indian mythology, the fish is a symbol of transformation and creation. This is observed in the ancient flood myth in which Vishnu transformed himself into a fish (Matsya) to save the world from a great flood. This means thought can strike transformation and advent creation.
The Sword:In the physical realm The Sword is a Symbol of Authority.It is an instrument used by a king or queen to confer Knighthood. Knighthood elevates a person to a higher "station" in society by recognizing that persons achievements and qualities as being far above normal and thereby worthy of a higher status.
The Sword:Symbolically, The Sword represents The Mind.Just as The Sword can cut in both directions, so can The Mind dissect both sides of an issue until the basic fact (Truth) is revealed. We use the term "double-edged sword" as a metaphor when referring to the pros and cons involved in our decision making processes. The Sword, as a symbol of The Mind, is alluded to in both myth and legend. A sword represents a plane.A plane has duality as one side cuts and pierces.Clashing of swords which represents collision of two planes.
Mahabaharata gives Yudhisthira a spear and bheema and duryodhana a "gada" or a mace.This is highly symbolic of the characters of war.
A spear is the ultimate baton of power.A spear is also an arrowhead but needs guidance continuously to shoot.A spear always needs to be held in hand.A spear needs to be retrieved after it has done the work,During war the king throws the first spear,the long handle authorizing his kingsmanship.All this conclusions show that a spear needs to be handed over to a just moral and also a persistent king.Yudhisthira or dharma thus handled a spear.Again,Spears are identified with the axis mundi or world axis, especially in Japan where Izanagi and Izanami created the first island from the salt which dripped from a jewel-encrusted spear with which they had stabbed the primordial sea. As an axis mundi, the spear may be traveled as a path between the three flat worlds of heaven, earth, and hades. Additionally, spears may act as messengers since notes may be tied to their shafts before they are thrown. Dharma travels to heaven with the physical body:another strong similarity.
A mace is the symbol of free will and power.A mace is non uniform, a spherical iron ball with a wooden bottom.A mace can break rocks but cannot pierce through.A mace of massive swing generates a disturbance in the wind.a mace is to be balanced from the center of gravity.A mace was thus ideally fitted in the hands of bheema and duryodhana.Bheema represents prana while duryodhana an a blind mind.Bheema is the son of vayu; the Power of Vitality, the Air Element in the Dorsal Center, or Anahata Chakra.One practices his Pranayama controlled the center , thereby calming the breath and controlling the mind and all of its sense objects.A blind mind(Duryodhana) is also vayu.He is fleeting,destructive, collosal and collective.Duryodhana had the support of a hundred brothers.A wind or a destructive tornado does not come at once instant.It grows in numbers and then strikes.Duryodhana struck when all the brothers the warriors favored him.A tornado has the eye in the middle.A strong tropical cyclone will harbor an area of sinking air at the center of circulation. If this area is strong enough, it can develop into a large "eye".However the strength decreases if warm air passes in or the eye at the centre is stuck.
We cannot discuss the chakra in this blog which we hope to replete in some later instant..
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Ashwyathamma:mind dreams reality
Ashyathamma :Son of drona grat warrior body guard of bheeshma a person of many facets luring in the shadows a person with strong motive ; lone survivor of the kaurava camp.
One who kills the pandavas sons when sleeping.An immortal being but devoid of all the loves of life.
Well I will not exaggerate about the character of ashwyathamma.I will start of from the very battle of Kurukshetra.Drona the master fights the battle.Bheema kills an elephant and tells drona his son is dead.Drona kills self when he is told by dharma that his son is killed.
The resemblance of elephant is very important.
Elephants in dreams may represent knowledge, power, and strength. They are also associated with long memory and "thick skin." However, depending on the dream’s details, the elephant may be a symbol of a large burden. Additionally, in the dream you may be making efforts to remember something important and of great magnitude.Elephant is killed by bheema;the prana destroys dreams if they are negative.Dreams have both positive and negative impact on the subconscious self.
Drona is the master ,he is a bramhin who has taken up weapons to be the guru and his son is his dream.Hearing his death or the death of a dream;the master(drona ) looses control of self and is eventually killed.
Dreams kill the power of the senses(the five pandavas) in inactive state.So ashyathamma killed the pandava sons in sleep.
Ashwathamma is immortal.He has no death.Dreams drive us in generating the strongest affections and can also make us redundant in action.A dream cannot be killed from the mind.
Shiva blessed an elephant in immortality.Ashwyathamma represents the dream that remains consistently in mind.A dream happens in a single plane of thought.
Two dreams cannot mutually co exist in the same mindset with similar time and space reality.
One who kills the pandavas sons when sleeping.An immortal being but devoid of all the loves of life.
Well I will not exaggerate about the character of ashwyathamma.I will start of from the very battle of Kurukshetra.Drona the master fights the battle.Bheema kills an elephant and tells drona his son is dead.Drona kills self when he is told by dharma that his son is killed.
The resemblance of elephant is very important.
Elephants in dreams may represent knowledge, power, and strength. They are also associated with long memory and "thick skin." However, depending on the dream’s details, the elephant may be a symbol of a large burden. Additionally, in the dream you may be making efforts to remember something important and of great magnitude.Elephant is killed by bheema;the prana destroys dreams if they are negative.Dreams have both positive and negative impact on the subconscious self.
Drona is the master ,he is a bramhin who has taken up weapons to be the guru and his son is his dream.Hearing his death or the death of a dream;the master(drona ) looses control of self and is eventually killed.
Dreams kill the power of the senses(the five pandavas) in inactive state.So ashyathamma killed the pandava sons in sleep.
Ashwathamma is immortal.He has no death.Dreams drive us in generating the strongest affections and can also make us redundant in action.A dream cannot be killed from the mind.
Shiva blessed an elephant in immortality.Ashwyathamma represents the dream that remains consistently in mind.A dream happens in a single plane of thought.
Two dreams cannot mutually co exist in the same mindset with similar time and space reality.
Wilderness and venture capital:ghatotkach
The Wilderness is a Metaphor which describes an Inner Journey.Ancient Teachings from all civilizations speak of Great Masters who travelled into the Wilderness seeking a place of Solitude where they could Meditate and Pray.
These Teachings go on to say that, while in the Wilderness, these Great Masters would grapple with Demons that resided there. We are also taught that this Journey of Solitude, and the conquering of Demons, was a task (a trial) that the Master needed to face and overcome alone. Once the Master completed His time in the
Wilderness, and conquered His Demons, He left the Wilderness having achieved a Higher Level of Consciousness. But what is this Wilderness, and why do all the Great Masters Journey into it?
The Wilderness Symbolizes a Time and a Place in the Master's life where his Journey "pauses" so that He can confront andconquer an Inner-Conflict that is blocking His Spiritual Path.The Physical Wilderness is a real place to where the Master travels in order to be alone. Once He is in the Physical Wilderness, he is able to relax, meditate and explore the Secret Realm of His Spiritual Wilderness. His Spiritual Wilderness is where His innermost Thoughts, Feelings and Conflicts reside.
The Demons that the Master "grapples with" are His deepest and darkest fears and doubts. They are the Specters of his subconscious: the Beasts that only He can Confront, Conquer and Banish. Once these Demons are defeated, and exorcised,the Master leaves the physical wilderness Spiritually Cleansed.This Spiritual Cleansing is His Rite of Passage. It is the process by which the Master Initiates Himself into a Higher Realm of Consciousness.
We all know that Bheema defeats hidimbi demon and marries Hidimba to give birth to Ghatotkatch who later comes at krishnas persuassion to fight the holy war and dies in the hands of karna but destroys the lance karna had reserved for arjuna.
This is somethin that many have not discovered the relation with self.The demon is the darkness of mind which prana destroys(Bheema).The mind remains in wilderness but on destroyin the darkness the prana get the sudden lease of life.It is similar to a scientist who ventures into many experiments not finding answers but a mistake or an unintended change of words on his part suddenly brings in a whole new array to his research or science.his sudden venture yields a lot more dividends than his entire years work.But this is in direct conflict of the sixth sense.The sixth sense brings pre monitions.The scientist may bring in those changes but still at the end may be unhappy with the progress of his report...
I feel this is a genuine instance to bring in the character of ghatotkacha from the wilderness but he is dead just like a venture capital or a sudden stimulus to the market is put in the market to test the market or save the business (self)..
It is a new idea people plz comment....
These Teachings go on to say that, while in the Wilderness, these Great Masters would grapple with Demons that resided there. We are also taught that this Journey of Solitude, and the conquering of Demons, was a task (a trial) that the Master needed to face and overcome alone. Once the Master completed His time in the
Wilderness, and conquered His Demons, He left the Wilderness having achieved a Higher Level of Consciousness. But what is this Wilderness, and why do all the Great Masters Journey into it?
The Wilderness Symbolizes a Time and a Place in the Master's life where his Journey "pauses" so that He can confront andconquer an Inner-Conflict that is blocking His Spiritual Path.The Physical Wilderness is a real place to where the Master travels in order to be alone. Once He is in the Physical Wilderness, he is able to relax, meditate and explore the Secret Realm of His Spiritual Wilderness. His Spiritual Wilderness is where His innermost Thoughts, Feelings and Conflicts reside.
The Demons that the Master "grapples with" are His deepest and darkest fears and doubts. They are the Specters of his subconscious: the Beasts that only He can Confront, Conquer and Banish. Once these Demons are defeated, and exorcised,the Master leaves the physical wilderness Spiritually Cleansed.This Spiritual Cleansing is His Rite of Passage. It is the process by which the Master Initiates Himself into a Higher Realm of Consciousness.
We all know that Bheema defeats hidimbi demon and marries Hidimba to give birth to Ghatotkatch who later comes at krishnas persuassion to fight the holy war and dies in the hands of karna but destroys the lance karna had reserved for arjuna.
This is somethin that many have not discovered the relation with self.The demon is the darkness of mind which prana destroys(Bheema).The mind remains in wilderness but on destroyin the darkness the prana get the sudden lease of life.It is similar to a scientist who ventures into many experiments not finding answers but a mistake or an unintended change of words on his part suddenly brings in a whole new array to his research or science.his sudden venture yields a lot more dividends than his entire years work.But this is in direct conflict of the sixth sense.The sixth sense brings pre monitions.The scientist may bring in those changes but still at the end may be unhappy with the progress of his report...
I feel this is a genuine instance to bring in the character of ghatotkacha from the wilderness but he is dead just like a venture capital or a sudden stimulus to the market is put in the market to test the market or save the business (self)..
It is a new idea people plz comment....
The women characters :Mother
well I am not qualified enough to talk of the women characters of Mahabharata not just of the characters of Mahabharata but women in general.Their mindset follow a set of more complex rules that the entire mahabharata.Its not possible for us to tell how draupadi inspired the five pandavas at war.
What i can talk of on mothers day today and every day about the mother is a separate reflection altogether.
My mind suggest that the love of a mother and her her different affliction and affections to her child was treated with great care by the narrator of mahabharata.
Satyavati: a mother who fights with keen ness for her childs rights.
Gandhari :a mother who is blind to her childs follies and small mistakes.
Kunti: a mother who brings up her child all by herself.
Yasodha: a mother who dispenses a lot of love for a child she adopts( a mdern world dictum)
Devaki: a mother who confines her dreams and asspirations concentrating her total energies for her child.
The narrator of mahabharata has written the characters with aplomb deliberately separates all the attributes and names them as separate characters.
But to all the characters he puts the essence of sustainance of mother earth who hold their own and also stand as a protective cover for their child as and when they need the mothers support..
What i can talk of on mothers day today and every day about the mother is a separate reflection altogether.
My mind suggest that the love of a mother and her her different affliction and affections to her child was treated with great care by the narrator of mahabharata.
Satyavati: a mother who fights with keen ness for her childs rights.
Gandhari :a mother who is blind to her childs follies and small mistakes.
Kunti: a mother who brings up her child all by herself.
Yasodha: a mother who dispenses a lot of love for a child she adopts( a mdern world dictum)
Devaki: a mother who confines her dreams and asspirations concentrating her total energies for her child.
The narrator of mahabharata has written the characters with aplomb deliberately separates all the attributes and names them as separate characters.
But to all the characters he puts the essence of sustainance of mother earth who hold their own and also stand as a protective cover for their child as and when they need the mothers support..
Ladder of dharma:Yudhishtira going up
At the end of their journey Yudhishthira survives the cold as sees a ladder wrung from the sky looking for the living to go with his physical body into the land of abode.He hear stories how angels come down the ladder in search of man.Symbolically, The Ladder is a connection between the world of matter below with the domain of Spirit above. It symbolizes the spiritual stairway which enables a Seeker or Initiate to ascend to higher realms of consciousness in the Quest for Spiritual
Perfection.The Ladder, which is rich in Symbolism and Metaphor, consists
of Horizontal Rungs and two Vertical Uprights. The Horizontal rungs represent progressively higher levels of consciousness and the two Vertical Uprights, (I I), represent the symbol for duality.
The horizontal rungs which we put step on remind us that our spiritual journey is upward, and the vertical uprights which we cling to and seek higher remind us that our upward journey occurs within the realm of duality i.e either going up or down.
As The Ladder has no moving parts, it symbolizes ascension by way of personal Desire and Effort. The Ladder also reminds us that reaching the highest realms of consciousness is not a short, swift journey. Each rung represents a gradual ascent whereby Wisdom, knowledge, enlightenment and perfection are earned
by us one step at a time. However, we must also keep in mind that no journey is without its rests and pauses. Therefore, whenever we require a respite during our spiritual ascent, the rungs of The Ladder provide us with the support and strength we
need until we are ready to take our next step upward. In addition, The Symbol of the Ladder also reminds us that our upward ascent, from the bottom-most rung to the upper-most rung, is a journey through the realm of duality. Before we can step up
to the next higher rung on The Ladder we must first experience and master the lessons of duality which exist at our current level of elevation.
As we steadfastly ascend the rungs of The Ladder we slowly elevate ourselves, higher and higher, above the lower plane of the superficial and mundane. Upon reaching the higher rungs of The Ladder, we begin to breathe in the rarefied air of Higher Consciousness. It is at these higher levels of consciousness that the mysteries of Eternity slowly begin to un-veil their secrets to us. When we reach the top-most rung of The Ladder we enter the realm of highest consciousness. Through our personal Desire and Effort we have Transcended Duality and achieved entrance into the Infinite
Domain of Enlightenment and Unity.
The ladder is controlled by the fact that only one can go up the ladder at one instant of time.This specifies the road bellow is a far more difficult one and we need to find the the exact co ordinates where the ladder is hung and then start climbing.The path or the no of steps in the ladder is also different for different spiritual seekers.
Perfection.The Ladder, which is rich in Symbolism and Metaphor, consists
of Horizontal Rungs and two Vertical Uprights. The Horizontal rungs represent progressively higher levels of consciousness and the two Vertical Uprights, (I I), represent the symbol for duality.
The horizontal rungs which we put step on remind us that our spiritual journey is upward, and the vertical uprights which we cling to and seek higher remind us that our upward journey occurs within the realm of duality i.e either going up or down.
As The Ladder has no moving parts, it symbolizes ascension by way of personal Desire and Effort. The Ladder also reminds us that reaching the highest realms of consciousness is not a short, swift journey. Each rung represents a gradual ascent whereby Wisdom, knowledge, enlightenment and perfection are earned
by us one step at a time. However, we must also keep in mind that no journey is without its rests and pauses. Therefore, whenever we require a respite during our spiritual ascent, the rungs of The Ladder provide us with the support and strength we
need until we are ready to take our next step upward. In addition, The Symbol of the Ladder also reminds us that our upward ascent, from the bottom-most rung to the upper-most rung, is a journey through the realm of duality. Before we can step up
to the next higher rung on The Ladder we must first experience and master the lessons of duality which exist at our current level of elevation.
As we steadfastly ascend the rungs of The Ladder we slowly elevate ourselves, higher and higher, above the lower plane of the superficial and mundane. Upon reaching the higher rungs of The Ladder, we begin to breathe in the rarefied air of Higher Consciousness. It is at these higher levels of consciousness that the mysteries of Eternity slowly begin to un-veil their secrets to us. When we reach the top-most rung of The Ladder we enter the realm of highest consciousness. Through our personal Desire and Effort we have Transcended Duality and achieved entrance into the Infinite
Domain of Enlightenment and Unity.
The ladder is controlled by the fact that only one can go up the ladder at one instant of time.This specifies the road bellow is a far more difficult one and we need to find the the exact co ordinates where the ladder is hung and then start climbing.The path or the no of steps in the ladder is also different for different spiritual seekers.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Basket:Krishna, Moses ,Karna,Jesus
It is more than distinct evidence that the super powers super warriors have a single common factor that drives their birth or life after that birth.All of them were put in a basket and then transferred into a basket of reed and carried either by the river or carried by hands.
It is also to be mantained that unlike moses and karna who had divine powers as they were messengers of God;Krishna was rather supreme god so he was carried by hand over the top of head and seshnaga is a representation of the protective cover that stands over consciousness as protective cover.The hands that carry the basket over are the hands of man but force of nature that sustains conscious thoughts over the material mind.
The symbols in the story of baby Moses in the reed boat interface with the symbols in several other legends. Note that the basket is a symbolic representation of the womb, and the story is one about birth or incarnation. The grail doesn't hold liquid, it is suspended in liquid. Remember that Moses had a brother and sister, Aaron and Miriam. In Hebrew 'aron' means chest, ark or box, and Miriam can be easily seen as connected to Maria, Mary and the notion of waters.We remember that Moses was put in the Nile in a sealed reed boat, and rescued by the pharaoh's daughter. After rescuing Osiris, Isis takes him to a reed swamp to hide him. In Gilgamesh, the Lord suggests that people tear down their reed house, and build a cubic sanctuary from the flood. Our main concern in these stories is water and a container, not for the water, but to traverse the water in as a vehicle. All the containers in these stories represent the womb, the tomb, and the body; also the cosmos by extension.
Jesus born in a manger: kept in a reed basket:-
Most people don't know that a manger is a feed trough for animals, and while you mainly see them depicted as wooden with straw in them, in actuality many are made of stone and look not unlike the sarcohpagus from the Great Pyramid.The manger is not a place for animals to rest, but a thing that they eat from. The notion of birth, incarnation, is being tied to the notion of eating and the idea of the joining of a spiritual and an animal nature into one being. The cobra and vulture are the symbols or these upper and lower kingdoms, the body and the spirit, and can be seen on the pharaoh's headdress. Symbolically Egypt represents the body and Israel the spirit. Remember that there were two Hebrew Kingdoms as well.
Karna was carried in a basket too.Karna represents sixth sense of mind.Something part of our Perception ;a part of creationism not evolution.So Karna comes as a gift from nature not as something we acquire.
Thus each of this warriors of history have resembled in birth and actions.They fought their battle for dharma.
Now lets view what can be the meaning of basket as an entity.
I have three propositions.
1)The basket resembles a cosmic seed: a protective cover for the gyaan or supreme.
2)The flow of the basket downstream may be a rerpresentation of the minds of the people who new that the alluvial silt that comes down the river is responsible for farming.
3)The basket represents the sky.a part of geometry many may contradict why but i feel this can be explained as a continuation of this blog at a later instant.The layers of the reed basket represents the horizon.When one lies in a basket and flows one can only see the sky above.This may be symbolic as when we look up the horizon we can c the sky or the entire universe.
This brings us to the interesting dimension of river.Let me tell river does not necessary mean flow of water it is symbolic of the flow of time.
Rivers also Symbolize borders, boundaries, transcendence, mirrors,the subconscious, and persistence.The alluring belief that river represents "baitarani" a river crossing whom man enters the heavenly abode cannot be ruled out.The border between realism and sur realism.
River also signifies mind.The mind has a normal flow but at times goes through stagnation.The river that links into the ocean has more than mere existence.A river like a mind goes through temporary turbulence.A basket in the river of mind suggest the seated consciousness within.The basket flows with the mind.Its how we let the basket reach the proper bank on either side of the stream.
On brain mind and computer a hypothesis
That human beings are rational is a truism; the ability to reason formally and in an abstract manner seems to be completely lacking in all other living beings. There are certainly many other human capabilities, but the ability which most marks an individual out as truly human is this ability to think, deliberate upon, analyse and categorize facts, formulate ideas, and decide on a course of action. These are truly the results of a developed mind.
Before the advent of modern science there was a clear demarcation between the mind and the brain. This distinction has become blurred with the passage of time. But the study of the brain as a neural machine and the development of computers as automata have enabled us to make equally bold statements about both - about what could possibly be done by them and what limits are impossible for them to overstep.
Vedantic thinkers classify mental functions into four basic categories: samkalpa-vikalpa (cogitation, in the mode of manas), niscaya (ascertainment or determination, in the buddhi mode), ahamkara (ego), and smrti (memory as chitta). Thus, apart from the faculty of thought, the mind is supposed to have a sense of identity, an ego or I-sense. Furthermore, it has the capacity for introspection, which computers are said not to have. In the case of the brain it is difficult to say whether it is able to introspect or not.artificial-intelligence community finds the ability of one part of the brain to observe the thought processes of the rest can be termed introspection. Moreover, at most times, this ability manifests itself not as true self-observation from a detached (or outsider's)standpoint but as a sort of recollection of the past or as planning for the future.
Brain, in contrast to mind, is easier to explain. It is aliving mass of neurons, interconnected by its many dendrites, passing signals from one nerve to the other all the time. Of course, believers in holistic science argue that the brain when taken as a "whole" becomes something else, that it is more than the sum total of its neurons.
Brain vs computer:Whereas the human brain has got billions of neurons, each neuron has only a very basic processing power. Thus a brain can be thought of as a multiprocessor parallel computer where each processor is only capable of only few rudimentary operations, like checking if some signal is received or not. An average computer, on the other hand, consists of a single but powerful processing unit capacle of doing hundreds of thousands of arithmetic computations in a fraction of a second.
So will brain be replaced by an intelligent computer only time explains when..........
Before the advent of modern science there was a clear demarcation between the mind and the brain. This distinction has become blurred with the passage of time. But the study of the brain as a neural machine and the development of computers as automata have enabled us to make equally bold statements about both - about what could possibly be done by them and what limits are impossible for them to overstep.
Vedantic thinkers classify mental functions into four basic categories: samkalpa-vikalpa (cogitation, in the mode of manas), niscaya (ascertainment or determination, in the buddhi mode), ahamkara (ego), and smrti (memory as chitta). Thus, apart from the faculty of thought, the mind is supposed to have a sense of identity, an ego or I-sense. Furthermore, it has the capacity for introspection, which computers are said not to have. In the case of the brain it is difficult to say whether it is able to introspect or not.artificial-intelligence community finds the ability of one part of the brain to observe the thought processes of the rest can be termed introspection. Moreover, at most times, this ability manifests itself not as true self-observation from a detached (or outsider's)standpoint but as a sort of recollection of the past or as planning for the future.
Brain, in contrast to mind, is easier to explain. It is aliving mass of neurons, interconnected by its many dendrites, passing signals from one nerve to the other all the time. Of course, believers in holistic science argue that the brain when taken as a "whole" becomes something else, that it is more than the sum total of its neurons.
Brain vs computer:Whereas the human brain has got billions of neurons, each neuron has only a very basic processing power. Thus a brain can be thought of as a multiprocessor parallel computer where each processor is only capable of only few rudimentary operations, like checking if some signal is received or not. An average computer, on the other hand, consists of a single but powerful processing unit capacle of doing hundreds of thousands of arithmetic computations in a fraction of a second.
So will brain be replaced by an intelligent computer only time explains when..........
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