[FairfieldLife] Churning the Ocean of Milk
IMO, this is a parable about meditation which tells of its many benefits, the greatest of which is Amrit, the elixir of life. Along the way, the asuras got disturbed in the churning when the apsaras appeared. As such, the gods obtained more benefits such as the appearances of Dhanvantari and Shri, the beautiful Goddess. Eventually, Vishnu awarded the amrit to the gods. http://www.saivism.net/articles/churning.asp http://www.saivism.net/articles/churning.asp
Re: [FairfieldLife] Churning the Ocean of Milk
On 2/13/2014 1:57 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: this is a parable about meditation which tells of its many benefits, the greatest of which is Amrit, the elixir of life. Along the way, the asuras got disturbed in the churning when the apsaras appeared. As such, the gods obtained more benefits such as the appearances of Dhanvantari and Shri, the beautiful Goddess. Eventually, Vishnu awarded the amrit to the gods. The most popular version this myth, The Churning of the Milk Ocean, is found in the Eighth Canto of the Bhagavata Purana. In Buddhist mythology, amrita is the Nectar of the Gods, which grants them immortality. The Ninth Mandala of the Rigveda is known as the Soma Mandala. In this epoch Dhanvantari, the physician to the gods, first appeared during the great churning of the cosmic milk ocean to deliver amrta (nectar) for the nourishment of the demigods. The churning of the milk ocean is one of the most famous episodes in Puranic history and is celebrated in a major way every twelve years in the festival known as Kumbha Mela. The story is related in the Srimad Bhagavatam, a major work that describes the avataras in great detail. Soma and Haoma was a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the later Vedic and Iranian cultures. It is frequently mentioned in the Rigveda, which contains many hymns praising its energizing or intoxicating qualities. It is described as a decoction prepared by pressing juice from the stalks of a certain mountain plant, which has been variously hypothesized to be a psychedelic mushroom, cannabis, or ephedra. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephedra
Re: [FairfieldLife] Churning the Ocean of Milk
Richard, I believe MMY believed soma actually exist as a chemical in the stomach of advanced meditators. This chemical is the source of bliss that meditators experience as part of the meditation practice. As such, the meditators are favored by the demigods since they too are seeking for this soma or amrita, the food of the gods. He invited researchers to work on this to discover the chemical involved. But I don't know if this research was actually undertaken. David Frawley wrote about this aspect of soma in relation with meditation in a book he published a few years ago.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Churning the Ocean of Milk
Like much of what Marshy said, its made up bullshit - that means that one can't have higher states of consciousness unless one has the magic juice produced in the belly - what you experience in awareness it not dependent on what you have in your stomach. It was one of Marshy's bullshit attempts to keep his pet scientists chasing red herrings so he could keep them doing bogus research to prove TM exists and works as advertised. I have had conversations with some of the men and women who grew up in the Movement - what many of them experienced was beyond the pale - I guess none of their parents had too much soma or they would have known their kids needed them at home instead of zoning out in the Domes. On Thu, 2/13/14, jr_...@yahoo.com jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Churning the Ocean of Milk To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, February 13, 2014, 10:21 PM Richard, I believe MMY believed soma actually exist as a chemical in the stomach of advanced meditators. This chemical is the source of bliss that meditators experience as part of the meditation practice. As such, the meditators are favored by the demigods since they too are seeking for this soma or amrita, the food of the gods. He invited researchers to work on this to discover the chemical involved. But I don't know if this research was actually undertaken. David Frawley wrote about this aspect of soma in relation with meditation in a book he published a few years ago.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Churning the Ocean of Milk
On 2/13/2014 6:49 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: one can't have higher states of consciousness unless one has the magic juice produced in the belly The primary ingredient in TM's bio-chemical labratory is serotonin: A chemical, 5-hydroxytryptamine, produced during the practice of TM. The substance seratonin has been shown, in scientific studies, to be connected with alterations of mood in the human brain. For example, seratonin factors in the condition called 'migrain syndrome', that is, acute or chronic headache. Since seratonin occurs naturaly it has been difficult to regulate. With TM the practioner is able to alter, at will, physiological functions in the human body, specificaly the chemical seratonin uptake. Work cited: 'Victory Before War' By Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D., and Jay Marcus MUM Press, 2005 p. 125
[FairfieldLife] Churning the Ocean of Milk
This vedic myth describes the process of creation at the planck time after the Big Bang. At that point in time, matter and antimatter were created only to annihilate each other in a tremendous ball of fire. In the end, only a tiny fraction of matter remained (the amrita) which became the source of who we are today. Watch these series of clips and find out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1v=EtyCP8hEruM
