Month: June 2010

Pride, arrogance and Vanity
Anger, roughness all these
Are negative qualities; Ignorance
And vaingloriousness too !

The negative qualities are called
Asuri Sampath, they bind the soul
To the sublunar world

In Mythology they are depicted
As Asuras, demons, fiends
Who bind Man to Hell
To Peacelessness and Misery.

Truth, righteousess, peace, Love
And the intellect discriminative
These are the major qualities five
Known as Daivi Sampat
They are the Five Pandavas !

Positive qualities liberate
Negative qualities do bind

Pride , strength, vanity
Lust, anger and Ego
The Renunciant has to renounce these
In order to be eligible
For Self Actualisation, the Goal !

The aspirant, established in the Self,
Never is sorrowful nor elated
Seeing the Absolute Self in all
He gets the unalloyed Universal Love

Only via Universal Love canst thou know Me
Knowing this the wise ones transcend !

Seated in the hearts of all am I
Ethics, Cognition all flow from Me !
I am He whom the fourfold Veds seek to know
I am the revealer of the Vedanta !

All these pleasures sensory
Contain with them seed of Sorrow !
They have a beginning and an end
The wise indulge not in them !

This plane of Sorrow can be overcome
By Equanimity of Mind !
The sinless Absolute dwells in Unity
And the Seers also in the Absolute

Know that Veda is triune
Be without the triune attributes !
Without dualities, without attributes three
Without thoughts of welfare material !

Nature is composed of three
Attributes; satwas, rajas, thamas
Divinity, humanity, bestiality
Know Nature to be threefold !
In Freud Id, Ego, Superego,
In Ayur, Vata, Pitta and Kapha
In Christianity Father, Son, Holy Ghost,
In Hinduism, Om, Tat, Sat
The Threefold Deity of Godhead !
In Wisdom, Life, Mind and Matter
The Lower Trilogy of Truth
Existence, Consciousness, Beatitude
The Higher Trilogy of Truth !
All represented by the Hexagram
With its two great triangles
The upward pointing triangle
The Higher Trilogy of Truth
The downward pointing triangle
The Lower Trilogy of Truth
The Lower Trilogy being
Instrument of Being-Knowledge-Bliss!

Donating is the ornament of the Hand
Truth is the ornament of Speech
The scientia intuitiva is the ornament of Hearing
All these should combine in the Initiate !

Hastasya bhooshanam danam
Kandasya bhooshanam satyam
Srothasya bhooshanam sastram
Bhooshanai kim karothi !

Even though the world knows that Charles Darwin was the founder of the Law of Evolution, it was his grandfather Dr Erasmus Darwin, who first promulgated the concept in his book, Zoonomia.

He was the founder of the Lunar Society in 1764. The members met monthly at the time of the Full Moon and hence the name. The group consisted of intellectuals like Ben Franklin, Mathew Boulton, James Watt etc.

Dr Erasmus wrote Zoonomia in which he expounded the doctrine of evolution. Another scientist John Locke propounded the Law of Evolution, deriving it from the Hindu doctrine of Reincarnation or Metempsychosis.

This doctrine of Metempsychosis or Reincarnation was taken to England by the East India Company. The British Royal Society endorsed it. John Locke studied Metempsychosis and developed his evolutionary ideas.

Indian Mythology has it that the First Incarnation of the Lord was as a Fish, symbolising the evolutionary principle that Life came from the sea and that our primordial ancestors were aquatic.

The Law of Evolution is related to the Law of Becoming. The Human Man evolves into the Divine Man, by the process of evolution. There is an evolution of Consciousness behind the evolution of the species.

Wisdom is the teacher of teachers & the only bestower of
immortal fame.

Veiled wealth is Wisdom, the only true wealth

The sole conferror of Fame absolute, the Guru of Gurus !

The only relative one can rely, the greatest Celestial
Deity,

All bow before Her Majesty, Saint, Savage & Sage !

Eugenics was founded by Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of Darwin. Eu means good and gene born, meaning that good human beings can be produced.

Shaw said man is a failure as a political animal and that there is necessity of starting a new race.

Eugenics is a system of Social Philosophy which advocates the betterment of human heredity. Eugenics has been regarded by many as an altruistic stance of society, to create healthier and more intelligent people and a saver of resources.

Eugenics is highly controversial. Proponents of Eugenics include Shaw, Margaret Sanger, H W Wells, Keynes, Kellog and Emile Zola.

Eugenics proposed means of achieving these goals are selective breeding, genetic engineering, genetic counseling & in vitro fertilization.

18 sciences glorious
Constitute Indian Philosophy !
The auxiliary sciences six
Astrophysics comprising of
Astrology, Astronomy & Philosophy
( Siddhanta, Samhita and Hora )
Science of Definition, Kalpa
Phonetics, Grammar, Poetics
The great Vedas four
Rik, Sama, Yajur, Atharva
The Science of Being, Mimamsa
The Science of Logic, Nyaya
Mythology, Symbolism of Verities
Ethics, the Science of Character
Ayus, the Science of Life
Archery and all martial arts
Musicology, the science of Music
And Economics, the science of Scarcity !

This is a translation of the verse

Angani vedaschathvaro
Meemamso nyaya visthara
Puranam Dharma Sastram cha
Vidya Hetva Chaturdasa
Ayurvedam dhanurvedam
Gandharvo veda eva cha
Artha sastra chathurthascha
Vidya Ashtadasa Smruthah

The final goal of Philosophy is the unfoldment of the Ultimate Truth. Philosophy normally provides an intellectual coviction which falls short of the direct realisation of Absolute Truth.

Vedanta is not a science which deals with intellectual abstractions, even though intellectual abstractions from the basis of all philosophy.

If Vedanata is the Science of Being, then Yoga is the Art of Living. Intellectual conviction alone is not necessary for Self Actualisaton. An aspirant has to undergo rigorous Yogic sadhana to arrive at Truth, under the guidance of a bona fide Divine Master, who himself has undergone the inner war and actualised Truth within himself.

The male component of the Ultimate is Brahman
The female component is Maya.

Brahman and Maya, Purusha and Prakriti, Shiva and Shakti – these are the male and female components of the Ultimate in Indian Philosophy.

Brahman is Absolute
She is Relative
Brahman is Infiite
She is finite
Brahman is Formless
She is all forms
Brahman is One
She is Innumerable
Brahman is Being
She is Becoming

She is not the Absolute Evil of the Western conception ( Satan ). She is the prius of the phenomenal world, the Enchantress of resources infinite. She embodies Science, as Science is knowledge of the Relative. She is the fountainhead of unreason and irrationality.

Science kills Nescience (Knowledge of Brahman kills Ignorance).

Unlike Satan, She carries within Herself the secret of her death!

Brahman, the Absolute became the Lord and She became the Mother Divine. This is the symbolism behind the religions of India !

She is the Veil Divine which hides the Lord, as per His statement

Piercing the Veil Divine of phenomenality
Which hideth Me is difficult indeed.
But those who consecrate to Me
Pierce it and pass beyond !

The systematised knowledge of Nature is Science. All sciences study Being.

For instance, physics is the science of Being as Matter. Maths, the science of Being as Number. Chemistry, the science of Being as qualities etc. But the Scientia Prima, Vedanta, studies Being as Being, in its pure state.

Many have walked the Path of Self Actualisation. Many have intuited Truth. Their experiences of Absolute Truth have been recorded as the Upanishads, as the Kabalah, as Geetha etc. These experiences of Truth are called Sruthi ( Vedas ).

In order to actualise Truth, a threefold criterion of Truth has been promulgated.

The experiences of the Seers of Wisdom ( Sruthi )
Logic ( Yukti )
Self Realisation ( Atmanubhoothi )

Aurobindo actualised Absolute Truth, only to know that what he actualised was exactly as it was described in the Upanishads !

Reason is undoubtedly a helpful guide and when it is supplanted by a suprarational Intuition, Truth becomes experiential.

Reason is symbolised as male and Intuition as female. In the Divine Comedy, Dante represents the male intellect and Beatrice, female Intuition.

The great hold of Vedanta upon the intelligentia all over the world is due to a mingling of Intuition and Reason.

The Ashtavakra Geetha is a great Vedantic treatise. King Janaka, a philosopher King, is initiated into the mysteries of Vedanta by Ashtavakra, a Seer. Ashtavakra tells him that all this is a mirage of the Mind and that the Absolute Self is the only Reality.

That Consciousness Bliss Thou art
Upon whom this Universe is superimposed !
Like the blueness in the sky
Know that and be ever happy !