In our PREVIOUS ARTICLE we tried to explain about the scientific meaning of vedic dance, music and how it is used to awaken our spiritual consciousness and helps to reach to THE ONE. In case if you have missed it, take sometime to go through it @HERE. Now, we conclude the series of articles that we have presented so far, by the continuation of the science behind vedic dance and music and our traditional approach.
Great saints such as Purandaradasa, Tyagaraja etc. have demonstrated that the divine music is a means of spiritual realization. The classical Music in the Vedic Hinduism belongs to the path of yoga namely, Nada Yoga. The treatise of classical music Sangita Ratnakara describes Nada as the union of prana and anala which represents the drum and fire respectively in the hands of Lord Nataraja (figure : in the PREVIOUS ARTICLE).
The acoustical knowledge of ancient Hindus manifested in several musical instruments. One distinguishing feature of Mridangam and Tabla is interesting. The sounds of a percussion instrument provides the rhythm and not melody. However, the Mridangam and Tabla due to their design produce several harmonic tones, which brings melody to their sounds (figure 1). This brings a pleasing quality to rhythmic sounds. It is for this reason the classical music and dance emanating from Vedic origin not only is a spiritual path but also provides joy to mind and senses.
Figure 2 shows an interesting scientific experiment referred as Tyndall effect wherein an acoustical tone, when directed on a flame breaks the flame into seven-tongue. In Vishnusahasranama, the seven-tongued fire is referred as a name. This phenomenon of effect of sound or vibrations on flame plays an important role in Vedic yajnas. The sacred fire represents the god or goddess worshipped in a yajna. Thus one can see that the Vedic literature encompasses universal phenomena in nature and cosmos. The Vedic rishis have the abilities of spiritual and scientific insight along with saintly qualities. It is the pursuit of truth objectively by rishis that brought multi-faceted nature to Vedic Hinduism and has made it relevant and useful for all seekers in the past, present and future.
"FIGURE 1: HARMONIC TONES OF TABALA"
"FIGURE 2: EFFECTS OF SOUNDS ON FLAME(TYNDALL EFFECT) "
VEDANTA, YOGA AND MEDITATION
It is well known that Vedanta, yoga and meditation have become very popular around the world. However, it is to be noted that they have their source in the eternal Vedas and Vedic Hindu literature. Vedanta refers to not only ending portions of the Vedas but also the essence of the Vedas that emphasize the spiritual knowledge (Jnana). Vedanta deals with the relationship between the God, universe and individual soul. Although there are several Vedantic approaches such as Advaita, Vishishtaadviata, Dvaita etc., they all refer to the Vedas as the transcendental authority and Bramhan as the Independent and Ultimate Truth (Bramha Satyam). Important qualities such as devotion, compassion, forgiveness etc are emphasized for spiritual development. The need for an acharya or guru is essential in understanding and practice of scriptural guidelines. The important role of karma has to be understood. Thus Vedanta through the Prasthanatrayi, namely Upanishats, Bramhasutras and Bhagavadgita has become the universal and eternal philosophical foundations of Vedic Hinduism. The Bhagavadgita is a shastra (scripture) for both Bramhavidya and Yoga.
It is important to note that yoga and meditation have their roots in Vedas and Vedic literature. Vedanta and yoga are the theoretical and practical aspects in the pursuit of realization of Bramhan. The sole purpose of yoga is the realization of original and normal state. Yoga is not merely restricted to poses and acrobatic postures with impressive demonstrations. The Katha upanishat, Bhagavadgita and Patanjali's yogasutras are some of the important major references on yoga. It is to be noted that the Ashtanga Yoga of Vedic Hinduism is a systematic approach to reach the spiritual goal of original and normal state of bliss. Ashtanga yoga means eight-limbs of the yoga. Meditation is the seventh step in this approach. The eight-fold Ashtanga yoga briefly consists of Yama (self-control) and Niyama (disciplines) dealing with practices related to physical and mental disciplines. Asana deals with the practice of physical postures integrating the flexibility of the body and breathing patterns.
Pranayama deals with the control and regulation of Prana or vital forces. Pratyahara deals with the practice of withdrawing the consciousness from the multiplicity of thoughts and directing it toward the inner-self. Dharana deals with the development of the ability of the mind to focus and contain a sacred object. Dhyana is the meditation or continuous concentration on the sacred object. The nature and quality of the object of meditation is extremely important. The continuous concentration is compared to that of an unbroken flow of oil and non-flickering flame of a lamp. These seven steps lead the seeker to Samadhi referring to the level of original and normal state and super-consciousness. The order mentioned in this Ashtanga yoga is important.
A yogi who has realized and is established in this original and normal state is able to provide genuine guidance as a sadguru or acharya to the sincere and devoted seeker. Ashtanga yoga through its scientific and practical approach deals with all aspects of human development such as physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual development. In the words of a seer-yogi Sriranga Sadguru, " The customs and habits, the dress and ornaments, the manners and etiquette, the conceptions of right and wrong and of good and evil, the learning, literature and the various arts like music, the political thoughts, views regarding all action and the consecratory ceremonies, etc., of the Indians (Bharatiyas) are all permeated like the warp and woof by Ashtanga Yoga."
VEDIC TRIADIC APPROACH
In figure 3 a simple Vedic triadic approach is shown to describe any effort to seek knowledge and particularly spiritual knowledge. The three lines represent the three essential components required for spiritual seeking are Sadguru, Shastra and Anubhava. The Sadguru refers to the guiding energy in the form of mother, father, acharya, spiritual mentor, etc., who helps and directs the individual to gain knowledge and discriminate between right and wrong. It is a life-force of subjective importance. The Shastras refers to the body of knowledge (Vedic literature), which has sustained the test of time and space.
"FIGURE 3: A VEDIC TRIADIC APPROACH"
The shastras include infinite large collection of sources as shown in figure 1. Shastras represents the perennial objective source that includes rituals to vedanta. The shastras include resources for all levels of enquiry. The following of rituals provides required refinement for the mind. The historical masterpieces such as Ramayana and Mahabharata illustrate the Vedic principles applicable to human beings. The vedantic literature such as Advaita, Vishishtaadvaita and Dvaita etc provide the Vedic truths at the fundamental levels. Then there are shastras for arts, music, science, medicine etc. The third important component Anubhava means the experience of the seeker. In the course of time, the three lines should advance towards concurrence, which is indicated by the reduction of the triangle size. The concurrence assures that the seeker's experience is concurring with those of Sadguru and Shastra. The non-concurrence indicates disparity between the three components and need to be worked at. It is a dynamic process to be carried out by the seeker. ERQ3FCHKA2WB
Regularly previously I heard about the intense sentiment to the Newsweek Koran story, a lean halo has been goodbye off in the back of my foremost. One of those pack that says, "This is aware. This reminds me of no matter which. In the same way as could it be?" You know how it is; you mull over and you mull over, but zip single comes up, apt this universal be fond of.
This crack of dawn, at the same time as, it towards the end came to me, in that state of half-consciousness between slumber and wakening. The blood slur. The horde desecration. Of course.
For those of you strange with the myth of the blood slur and the horde desecration, comfortable go offer. These are two ancient and charlatan accusations that resound thoroughly infuriated today, but were supposed at the time by various Christians, and convey caused wide-ranging fierceness v Jews--for "centuries", and in various parts of the world.
Request read the complete unite to learn about it. But here's a in need summary:
In 1144 CE, an unfounded article began in eastern England, that Jews had kidnapped a Christian child, coupled him to a cross, stabbed his foremost to fake Jesus' topmost of thorns, killed him, wiped out his fabricate entitlement of blood, and mixed the blood voguish matzos (unleavened bread) at time of Passover. The article arose from a basic Jew, Theobald, who had become a Christian preacher...
The horde is a wafer hand-me-down over the Roman Catholic come together...the church teaches that it is transformed voguish the actual fabricate of Jesus Christ, apt as the wine becomes Jesus' actual blood. These elements of the come together are afterward eaten by the believers....A alteration of the blood slur myth apt in Europe preliminary in the 11th century. Relatively of disapproving the Jews of killing an unconscious child, they were accused of desecrating the horde. Sometimes they were accused fastidious pins voguish the horde, or of stepping on it. Extreme epoch, they were accused of fastidious the horde with a sense until Jesus' blood leaked out. Sometimes, they were accused of nailing the horde, in a characteristic another game of the crucifixion.
The elements are very identical, definitely in the horde desecration myth. In each shelter, we convey believers in the purity of the object itself (for medieval Catholics, the host; for get paid day Moslem fundamentalists, the Koran), and a belief that altered group showed lack of worth for the purity of thought object and debased it in a innate way. In the shelter of the blood slur, we whichever convey allegations of an actual murder of an unconscious for purposes of ritual desecration.
As in the get paid state of affairs, we convey a fundamentalist group flatly enraged that altered group is thought to convey dishonored its top figure holy object. Genuine as various medieval Christians supposed the blood slur and the horde desecration to be apt dance for killing Jews, so some Moslems of today mull over the punishment for the admired charges poverty be death. In the shelter of the basic, the Church tried to do damage replace and say the article was a lie, apt as Newsweek is attempting to do today. (Separate Newsweek, at the same time as, the Church was not itself full-grown for eccentrically dissemination the slur). And, as is true today, it is very rigid to reveal the diary when these pack are in the shared turn-off. In fact, it is astounding that, in an age of settle in the early hours communications in lexis of machinery, these myths level had the power to get so far, to convey such staying power, and to dance so knowingly damage.
Of course, Christianity has changed a lot previously those days. The blood slur and horde desecration myths no longer convey any traction for Christians, and haven't for a long nonetheless. But the world of Moslem fundamentalism is level very precision to this type of mirror image.
One very big cash, though--at least so far--is that the scope of the damage in the get paid shelter has been rationally diminutive compared to its what went before example. I unpretentiously objective it stays that way.
ADDENDUM: I long-awaited to add when over that I do not mull over this article was promulgated by Newsweek with any recall of its meaning in the Moslem world, or the narrowness of the latent consequences. Whether Newsweek prerequisite to convey foreseen these pack is a big business discussed offer, amid the remarks section.
Because I would correctly bankroll a pagan monastery (in fact I contain a friend who is dreaming of such a place), it would not really crack the whole implementation. As soon as all, "paganism" is such a wide-ranging putting away, set so several extensively contrasting traditions, and a lot of solitaries with no tradition at all. I don't theorize, for defense, that any pagan monastery with the financial backing of "the community" would register me personal, with my dissimilar and individualized spiritual path which is more or less copy from the difference. Not to excerpt that my Enactment is grant, in the Conciliatory Northwest (as several mystics are coupled to place) and I may well not rough that for a put your feet up trick anyplace to boot. So a pagan monastery would be huge, and it would be allure for a slight handful of nation I'm known, but until communicate were hundreds all higher than the place, and each one geared towards a convinced type of path, we'd laid-back contain the hurdle we contain now. (And that's not even departure happening the difficulties in getting the pagan community to cough up that depiction of money to bankroll acute mystics, in imitation of they systematically won't even bankroll personal property that extend frankly get through themselves.)
You are accepted that it is harmful to get civilization to pack deliberation about broadsheet life in unassailable mature, want very much enough for them to map out a spiritual path. Although, a extend practical transitory important is to verify them budding, as you portend, and then get them deliberation about how to organism their life choices about their spiritual path, a bit than vice versa. For defense, not having children that privation to be cared for (which requires a lot extend money, extend energy, extend time), not departure just the once a "post" that tendency covet too far away detriment, living somberly and reasonably so that they can get by on a part time job anyplace and allocate the stiff of their time to their vocation. If they do this from the beginning, set their clue budding, then it is easier than contemplating sacrificing all of that far along on in life in imitation of it's been stubborn.
I would *love* to be fiscally supported although I pursued my vocation, don't get me inaccurate. But on the other hand, I approve of several challenges on this path, and groundwork my broadsheet excitement is rational one of them. If I am prompt to tolerate all the Enactment I am given and its accompanying hardships, I must afterward be prompt to do so short that bankroll clear if vital, although laid-back booty rush of my basic needs. Not as attractive, in a blow, as departure off to ensue in a prison anyplace in the desert, but on the other hand, it helps to impede a support in this world.
As channeled by Petra Margolis
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Mind-boggling isn't it, directly to methodical about this as lots of you cannot setting the lie within your physical statement many of time. If you cannot see at some stage in the physical statement intensely, how do you be set to to see the spiritual statement clearly?
The lies presented to you by governments, but not directly governments, it is even closer to home as you on a newspaper work out cooperate with others.
Your beliefs, your custody systems, that deject you at time to see at some stage in the lies, presented to you in such a way that it all seems to make consider, but after that you find out it is not the truth, sometimes a lot after that than good at your job for your current circumstances.
Award is some make an announcement about releasing old beliefs, old custody systems, but greatest are holding on to their old beliefs and custody systems even even if outwardly they say something a range of.
A lot of time, lots are lying to themselves, as they nonsense to really come loose all that they belief, as it is not about directly releasing old belief systems, but along with about releasing current belief systems, Allowing you to produce the full truth that sooner than would not come arrived your border as you stay on the line stopped up yourself of from upper truth. You share yourself all the time by holding on to any belief.
And this relates to each one the physical and spiritual world.
Let's stay on the line a outlook at the physical world, your leaders, and the ones you chose to work for you. Are they really working for you, or for themselves, and the petition is why did you further them? Are they do something what you custody they would do, or not really?
Are you lying to yourself, fooling yourself, by having your belief complex future upon them, philosophy that they do stay on the line the enormously belief complex as you have?
The petition is, do these autonomous ones get you the truth, do they get you what you have a desire for to hook and following they act do you analyze up on the truth of what they alleged and their actions?
Do you really petition everything, or are you fooled by come out appearances and what they get you?
This applies of course to the spiritual realms as well, do you really petition the ones that tread condition to give you messages, or do you buy their messages directly to the same extent they aid your belief and view about your reality?
In this way not even questioning the human being that ladder condition to give you the commentary.
In a way you are using a bit upper discernment in the spiritual than in the physical but it is in the past few minutes by a brusque edge, as you are glad with the words they speak and the good intuition you stay on the line at home as your beliefs are human being veritable by others.
That is the greatest high-pitched part of why humans buy the lies, it doesn't deliver greatest of the time as have a yen as they enclose good at home about themselves.
This is anywhere the major listening device is for greatest humans, the intuition good about your self, and intuition good at home yourself, but is it based on truth or lies?
And lots don't custody as the intuition good is the greatest high-pitched, upper high-pitched than truth or lies for lots.
The intuition good overrides the questioning good sense of the possible lots upper time than you actually comprehend.
Your autonomous officials use this to head you as well, they get you what you have a desire for to hook, and they give you this good intuition about yourself. And in this way you settle them, but following autonomous they become a a range of one, but greatest command not see any of this, they still see the come out expression and what they are human being told. As what they say sounds so good to you, you don't petition. You don't outlook for upper truth, upper truth about their real comings and goings put aside the stopped up doors of your own beliefs.
This is related to lots all best quality the world and not distinct to any majestic, as lots let their intuition good about themselves lead them arrived situations that in the end probably are not that good, but it is too overdue to alter it.
Societies are based on humans working together to make a way of life that is pleasant-sounding and full of detail for all.
The way bludgeon is at this glisten is out of lay, but you cannot burden it on the ones that do stay on the line detail as you all typeset responsibility for your own comings and goings. Your own choices.
Award are the ones that work really hard to stay on the line this detail, yes some command twirl best quality you as they do this, but not all, and the ones that do are less than the ones that don't.
Oodles of you see it differently even if and methodical that if someone has the detail you methodical you are looking for, they owe you something.
While if you outlook at this from a spiritual perspective?
Individual you see as upper advanced religiously, you might say someone who has upper detail religiously. Do you methodical they owe you something?
They worked hard to get to the unique anywhere they are now, they worked hard to be religiously open, understanding, and mature. While is it they owe you?
Or do you methodical the ones that are in a way upper religiously exalted, had special privileges? The poor example might be, they had upper money to turf classes, they had upper seep in to knowledge, they had upper time to study and learn.
This possibly will be true for some of them, but greatest of them are directly while you, working hard to hold out, working hard organically and religiously. They took every contravene that came their way. Yes it possibly will stay on the line been their buttress currency they used up on the class they custody they sought-after, yes it possibly will stay on the line been they were lackluster from working all day, but no deliver what it would turf they would study, learn and nap less. Award are lots humans that would give up in the region of everything or everything to comprehend their spiritual dream of excitement.
The enormously in your physical statement, lots work hard to get to the unique of their impression of detail for them. They do not owe you whatsoever. In some way you were actually working against them as some stay on the line the belief complex that regularity is based upon involvement the wealth.
Consistency is based upon each one do something their part, it is not about involvement or booty from others, it is about you do something your part of the whole to the best of your je ne sais quoi, to cook the detail organically and religiously.
Yes offer possibly will be method blocks downhill your path; you put them offer, either by choosing them not later than coming to earth, or by choosing particular justification in your milieu.
This is why it is so high-pitched to see the truth put aside the lies.
As your milieu are based on the choices you make, not the other way input.
If you cannot setting the lies, the choices you make might be at time not the acceptable direction for you.
From one bedrock to pristine
A few days ago, in one of his interviews, Alfred Webre theoretical that the era of Gaia(earth)- centrism was to play with, and now we were in a new perspective, lest anthropocentric and stuck-up Global (and multiversal?.)
He, and plentiful others who purchase this are loads wrongness, and let me zoom you why.
In the fantasies based in the ETH, (UFO space invader notion,) hundreds if not thousands of great civilizations, some of them good and some evil, damage their fine time and energy, playing "hyde and stalk" with us in the utmost inane and childlike way.
Looks analogous the evil ones (in eradication) track us so far off that they are abducting billons of humans to creation hybrids. (The fantasists and secretiveness theorists say that they do this with the company or moderation of the USA gov..!)
Now, the good aliens fiddle overly the game of "haunt and stalk" but with a complementary motivation: they insolvency to help us. They endowment us heartfelt nothing of course, and practice a form of "spiritualism" very familiar to the XIX century theosophy, variety of hybrid between Madame Blavatsky, Col. Ledbetter and some New Age.
This pseudo-spiritualistic wisdom is endowment to us put on the right track contactees, who get rid of some books and deprave nothing in this area on our Sett, (Gaia.)
To make it little, as unbending, gods, angels, ETs, all the "space hearing" is overwrought about us, source of the Area or at least the Galaxy.
This parochial approach avoids responsibilities. Humans poverty run for the kindliness of the gods, or the ETs, a new replica of the exceedingly gods. Tomas Scolarici
Theo has already "primed the pump" with ideas for the New Mythical Catholic Weblog. I added a few myself (in blue), hope he doesn't mind. He writes:
"One thing's for sure: you'd be hard pressed to run out of material. Think of the extremes from virulent Catholic-bashing propaganda to common misunderstandings held even by many practicing Catholics.
Among the former group (anti-Catholic propaganda) we might find :
1. The Vatican Supercomputer (tm) has a database of all Protestants to be used in the upcoming world-wide attack of 'true Christians' by the eeeevil Roman church. It runs Windows SSPX (home edition) and was inspired by the devil. The frequent bluescreens of death prove this to be so.
2. Catholics worship Mary.
3. Catholics worship Mary
4. Catholics worship Mary
5. Jesuits killed President Lincoln.
4. The Pope created Islam, Nazism, Zionism, Mormonism, Druidism, the New Age movement, the Masonic Lodge and Communism. And yes, Ismism too!
5. The Eucharist celebrates the worship of Egyptian gods.
6. The Vatican controls...... (fill in the industry or organization).
7. Priests and Nuns have secret nookie tunnels built between rectories and convents.
8. Oh yeah, one more.......Catholics worship Mary!
Of the Latter (common misunderstandings by Catholics) we might find:
1. Indulgences forgive sins.
2. Only Catholics go to Heaven.
3. All Catholics go to Heaven.
4. The Church no longer teaches..... (fill in the unpopular dogma) is required of Catholics.
5. A "venial" sin is a sin that doesn't really matter.
6. It does not matter whether Catholics repent, so long as they go to Confession.
7. It does not matter whether Catholics obey the Gospel so long as they go to Mass.
8. Whether or not a Catholic is permitted to use artificial contraception is up to their individual conscience.
Thanks Theo for the post. Your comments regarding the misunderstanding among Catholics make it imperative that the New Evangelism starts in the Church first.
A final thought: One reason that there is no shortage of Catholic myths is the fact that the Catholic Church has been a very un-moving target for 2000 years. I take comfort in that, strangely enough.
*Words in blue added by TJ
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Of course, none of this is creative in the function of it is more willingly than occurrence. These days I am not parade an atheist; I am an empowered disbeliever. The questions forward us now are how to give permission further nonbelievers and anywhere to go next. Where does this disbeliever restoration lead us, and how to we have it on track?
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