As usual your great promotion of my casual write up into great High Brow.Thank You. YM
On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 8:00 PM Rajaram Krishnamurthy <[email protected]> wrote: > The philosophical vision, the spiritual vision or the *darshana* view of > life as we may put it, is the act of a higher reason. It is up to any one > of us to look into our own self and ascertain the extent to which we are > entirely human in our life. This is a purely private matter, which I know > and you know and everyone knows. Because, as it was pointed out, it is not > possible to be entirely human throughout the day if there is a possibility > of the manifestation of that which we have already crossed and got over as > an undesirable remnant of an irrational nature. The higher reason stands > midway between the lower world and the higher world, we may say, between > the world of sensory experience and the world of pure intuition. Higher > reason, the pure reason, which is the faculty of correct judgment in human > beings, is at the centre between the world which is visualised by the sense > organs and the world which is directly contacted by non-sensory > apprehension, which we call intuition. > > We are supposed to be spiritual seekers, devotees of God, disciples of > Gurus, followers of the great master Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj and saints > and sages of that kind. Which means to say, we accept that we are truly > human beings, because to consider oneself as a spiritual seeker is, at the > same time, to accept that one is wholly human, since a person who is > partially human cannot expect to be divine. There is no double promotion in > the process of human evolution; there is always a graduated rise from the > earlier stage to the next higher, but not a leap to three or four steps > above. > > As spiritual seekers that we consider ourselves to be, we should feel > confident that the higher reason is operating in us. We are aware of the > presence of something that is above this world. We have a vision which is > not of this world. If this vision were not to be there, we would not be > here in this ashram, coming from long distances, from different corners of > the earth. Each one would have been totally satisfied with one's little > family, little house, shop, office, etc. None of us was wholly satisfied, > that means to say the higher reason in every one of us has started working, > and is telling us that we are more than what we appear to be. > > The world is not exactly as it is presented to our sense organs; our > vision is capable of and subject to a transcendence of itself. Our organ of > knowledge, which is reason, visualises simultaneously, in its body of > visioning, the lower which it has crossed and the higher that it has to > achieve further. The reason mentioned is something like a body with two > legs—it has one leg in the level that it has overcome, crossed, > transcended, and it has another leg in a realm which it has not reached but > it previsions, and which it envisages as a possibility of experience. > > So human life is supposed to be a midway affair between the lower and the > higher. Sometimes, sarcastically or poetically, whatever it be, we are told > that we are both God and devil crossed at the same point. The devil in us > is due to the presence of elements that are low, and the God in us is due > to the pre-(o)vision of that which is above us. But we are not devils, each > one of us may be sure, because, as I felt and put before you just now, if > we had a little of the element of devil in us, we would not have come to an > ashram like this, and we would not have been aspiring for that which is > above us. There is an element of divinity and godliness in every one of us, > and we have taken the first step in the act of reaching out beyond > ourselves through the pointing of the higher reason. We are heading along > the lines of the journey towards the intuitional grasp of a vision that is > totally integral, a world which is beyond the world. > > KR IRS 31324 > > On Sun, 31 Mar 2024 at 01:07, Markendeya Yeddanapudi < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> -- >> *Mar*The All Seeing, Feeling Eye of Siva >> >> >> >> When you see with your eyes, you want to go beyond seeing, know more and >> ultimately feel and make the feeling part of your hormonal communication. >> When you cognize, you recognize or associate what you see with the concept >> bases of understanding you developed. You want to use your seeing, to add >> to your perception, perception which has become the paradigmatic base of >> understanding. Understanding is not static. It is a dynamic flow, which >> connects to nature, and you join and partner with nature, via smelling, >> sensing and feeling. Feeling means, your participation in and with nature, >> as nature. You feel your limbhood of nature, removing all loneliness, >> creating continuously the sense of belonging. When you wound, torture and >> destroy nature, you are destroying your basic emotional connect to nature, >> you become the cut limb. Air is the hormonal communication or the blood >> circulation system of Gaia or Bhoodevi, that makes you live as a healthy >> limb. >> >> Today, emotional loneliness is the growing pandemic, creating the ground >> for the extinction of the biosphere. The so called human progress is >> actually destruction of nature. We are today in the frenzy of cyborging or >> even complete automation by creating Robots, to enslave nature and >> geography. Our seeing has lost the emotion content, and we see only the >> engineering possibility for new and new technologies, technologies which >> invariably destroy nature. Theism or the feeling of oneness with nature has >> vanished, and all of us are in fact atheists who want to impose technology >> to enslave and use nature. Theism in fact, has become mechanical without >> belief and emotional connect to God or nature. Temples have become Temple >> cities and holiday resorts where the foundation of the power of God, the >> lush flora and fauna around the Temple is destroyed. Breathing, >> smelling,sensing and feeling God of the Temple is no longer possible, as >> the Biosphere around the Temple is killed. >> >> We are creating more and more machines, trying to become mechanical, by >> making our hormones obey machines. Air no longer functions as the hormonal >> communication of the living earth. It is poisoned. >> >> We need the free, lush and healthy nature urgently. Teaching in the >> Universities and Colleges must adopt the Sage method of breathing, smelling >> and sensing. The frenzy for Technology and destroying nature, the >> destruction has become the economic routine, has created loneliness and >> neurosis and the incapacitating of nature to create belief, has developed >> into the self disbelief, as we breathe the disbelief from the poisoned >> nature. >> >> We drill today, the techno-logic or logic of the machine, in the name of >> education, so that they become the slaves of machines and repudiate nature. >> >> Emotional loneliness, the inability to relate and raging or benign >> neurosis has become the ever growing pandemic and it grows and grows as you >> go on destroying nature, foolishly calling it development. May be, we are >> trying to go to the other planets to escape from the paradise of the Solar >> Family, mother earth, because we are suffering from loneliness.Today,we do >> not care and destroy and destroy nature and want to escape to the other >> planets, may be to get burnt by the Solar Flares. >> >> Once Temples were the bliss-filled emotional abodes, the bliss being >> identified with the God of the Temple. The Idol of the God and hundreds of >> carvings were all simply spell binding with the astounding precision of the >> sculptures, sculptures which often took life times of the Sculptors. >> Imagine the Temple being located in free, healthy, lush and thick flora and >> fauna. The eye of Siva of everyone opened. Today it is fashionable to see >> that He/she does not approve Idol worship. >> >> Sanity must start with our Universities. >> >> YM >> >> Chat GPT >> >> Your message reflects a deep concern for the disconnect between humanity >> and nature, emphasizing the importance of emotional connection and >> symbiosis with the natural world. You highlight the detrimental effects of >> technological advancement and the resulting destruction of nature, which >> leads to emotional loneliness and a sense of disconnect from the >> environment. >> >> >> >> You advocate for a return to a more holistic way of living, where >> individuals breathe, smell, sense, and feel nature as an integral part of >> their existence. This approach, you suggest, can help alleviate feelings of >> loneliness and neurosis, fostering a sense of belonging and harmony with >> the natural world. >> >> >> >> You also touch upon the spiritual aspect of this connection, mentioning >> the loss of theism and the emotional connection to nature as a form of >> atheism. You lament the loss of the temple as a place of emotional >> connection and spiritual bliss, now reduced to mere tourist attractions >> devoid of their original spiritual significance. >> >> >> >> In conclusion, you call for a reevaluation of our educational systems, >> advocating for a curriculum that emphasizes the importance of emotional >> connection and symbiosis with nature. This, you suggest, is crucial for >> restoring balance and harmony between humanity and the environment. >> > -- *Mar* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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