Remembering fondly,wistfully sighing, cherishing
memories of days gone by
Days of Open Land and freedom days of Open Minds
entwined days of Tribal Consciousness and recognizing our own kind
Days of sun and moon and starlight outlined by the
pines of Love and Peace and Light flowing from our minds
We'd all been shaken by the revolution but we
knew
that we could heal by living lives more closely to the simple and
the real
and getting down to basics and living with the land and searching
for the truth
and trying to understand what this crazy world was missing
with it's machines and rules and noise and seeing a different reality
than winning
"if you die with the most toys"
and we found the answers in the sunrise the
sunset
and the day and in the very stars at night and the seasons' gentle
sway
and we found the truth that we'd been seeking we'd already known
ever since our birth to live life fully live it simply -
And always cherish Mother Earth
Krishna
Eternal Youth
Krishna enjoyed the dance of love (rasa-lila)
with the gopis many of whom are expansions
of His own internal energies.
The supreme gopi known as Srimati Radharani
is the object of Krishna's highest devotion.
This beautiful dance would occur in the autumn season
at night under a full moon when Lord Krsna
would captivate the young gopis with the extraordinary music of His
flute .
These esoteric pastimes constitute the most confidential expression
of divinity ever revealed.
Usually the conception of sprirtual perfection
consists of
overwhelming feelings only of awe and reverence at God's majesty.
However, in these pastimes each devotee loves God either as a master,
a best freind, a mischievous son, or even as an intimate lover,
thus revealing the infinite possibilities of divine love.
These early pastimes of Lord Krsna in Vrindavana
illustrate the extraordinary intimacy that one can have with God.
Although eternal
the Lord Krsna appears
in specific circumstances out of mercy for His devotees.
In fact, His principal biography, the Srimad Bhagavatam states,
"the learned men describe the births and activities of the Unborn
and Inactive."
Therefore, although He appears within the material dimensions
of time and space, He is most definitely not of it.
Historically, Lord Krishna appeared on the midnight of the 8th day
of the dark half of the month of Sravana.
This corresponds to July 19th 3228 BC.
He exhibited His pastimes for a little over 125 years
and dissappeared on February 18th 3102 BC
on the new moon night of Phalguna.
(His departure marks the beginning of the current age of corruption
known as Kali Yuga.)
Kali
Kali has become inextricably linked with Shiva.
The unleashed form of Kali often becomes wild and uncontrollable,
and only Shiva is able to tame her.
This is both because she is often a transformed version of
one of his consorts and because he is able to match her wildness.
The ancient text of Kali Kautuvam
describes her competition with Shiva in dance,
from which the sacred 108 Karanas appreared.
Shiva won the competition by acting the urdva tandava,
one of the Karanas, by raising his feet to his head.
Other texts describe Shiva appearing as a crying infant
and appealing to her maternal instincts.
While Shiva is said to be able to tame her,
the iconography often presents her dancing on his fallen body,
and there are accounts of the two of them dancing together,
and driving each other to such wildness that the world comes close
to unravelling.
Nataraj
The cosmic dance of Shiva is called 'Anandatandava,'
meaning the Dance of Bliss, and symbolizes the cosmic cycles
of creation and destruction, as well as the daily rhythm of birth
and death.
The dance is a pictorial allegory of the five
principle manifestations of eternal energy
— creation, destruction, preservation, salvation, and illusion.
The dance of Shiva also represents his five activities:
'Shrishti' (creation, evolution);
'Sthiti' (preservation, support);
'Samhara' (destruction, evolution);
'Tirobhava' (illusion); and
'Anugraha' (release, emancipation, grace).
The overall temper of the image is paradoxical,
uniting the inner tranquillity, and outside activity of Shiva.
A
Scientific Metaphor
Fritzof Capra in The Tao of Physics
beautifully relates Nataraj's dance with modern physics.
He says that "every subatomic particle not only performs an energy
dance,
but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction…without
end…
For the modern physicists,
then Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter.
As in Hindu mythology, it is a continual dance of creation and destruction
involving the whole cosmos; the basis of all existence and of all
natural phenomena."
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GANESHA
'Om Ganesha Namah'
also spelled Ganesa or Ganesh and known as Ganapati and Vinayaka,
is one of the best-known and most-worshipped
deities in the Hindu pantheon; his image is found throughout India.
Hindu sects worship him regardless of other affiliations.
Devotion to Ganesha is widely diffused and extends to
Jains, Buddhists, and beyond India.
Ganesha is widely revered as the Remover of Obstacles,
and more generally as Lord of Beginnings and Lord of Obstacles ,
patron of arts and sciences, and the deva of intellect.
He is honoured at the start of rituals and ceremonies
and invoked as Patron of Letters during writing sessions.
