Papa Purusha is an archetypal visualisation made use of in the practice of Tattwa Shuddhi, or the Inner Purification of the Elements. The practice evolved from writings in the Srimad Devi Bhagavatam and the Mahanirvana Tantra. This practice is es
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Read more…Right at the time of his birth Kali carried an Upaasthi (a small bone) and his entire body complexion was sooty and dark. This huge-being, with a terrible tongue and an obnoxious smell about his entire physique, chose gambling, liquor, woman (prost
Carl Jung gave a series of lectures in 1932 where he explored the
symbolism of the Chakra system of Kundalini Yoga, and compared it to
stages of psychological/spiritual development. I think the parallels are
very compelling, and consistent with advai
In divine union of the deities!
In other places, briefly, I have mentioned this concept, and it is something that returns to me fairly regularly. I have not ''worked out'' any theory on it, and perhaps do not even fully understand what it means. Nevertheless there is sometimes a
Read more…''This means that you take full responsibility for your life and never forfeit it over to someone else. There is no such thing as riding the coattails of an enlightened being to enlightenment itself. A failure to understand this can lead to cultish f
Read more…From the Rig Veda (approx 3000 years old)
"The long-haired one endures fire,
the long-haired one endures poison,
the long-haired one endures both worlds.
The long-haired one is said to gaze full on heaven,
the long-haired one is said to be that li
Read more…An acquaintance recently pointed out that not all Vedic scholars agree that we are in the Kali Yuga, and that perhaps reference to the Kali Yuga is used too often by any of us folk to disguise plain old misanthropy, or on a wider scale as a recruitin
Read more…Liberation means to live freely in the beauty of your absence.~ Jean Klein
In your daily life you may experience moments of absolute silence in which there is nothing to do, nothing to avoid, nothing to achieve. In these moments, you're completely
Read more…Edited Extracts from longer article available here.
So, how can an individual realize that they are the universal self? In what way can a person who is under the impression that they are a separate individual enclosed in a bag of skin effectively r
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6 minute film on the fire keepers at the burning ghats in Varanasi.
Read more…Swara Yoga ~ Tantric Science of Brain Breathing.
Swara Yoga is the study of the breath in great detail and of the pranic rhythms in the body. It is related to the Tattwas (elements within body and space), Nadis (channels carrying energy withi
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The quotes on the home page over the past few days were written more than 1500 years apart. The first is ascribed to the anonymous author(s) of the Chandogya Upanishad in the 8th century BC -
''We should consider that in the inner world Brahman (G
Read more…"If the inner mind is tamed. The outer enemy cannot harm me."
~ Atisha
(As ever, these are just passing thoughts and sharing my experiences, and I make no claim for their being anything more than that.)
Read more…Anger, like any other thought or feeling, ha
12th Century Poet.
Married to a King when young, Akka Mahadevi rejected life in the palace and left to become a naked wandering mendicant. Her life was devoted to Shiva.
Read more…I have fallen in love, O mother with the
Beautiful One, who knows no death,
....sorta.
I'm posting this interesting article from the blog of an interesting person; our paths crossed for a while many moons ago. I agree with what he says here. Chakras are not what they are described to be (in spite of my posts about them...).
Read more…Dattatreya was a mythological deity or sage. He was said to be an avadhoot, or complete renunciate, wandering naked in the world. He is usually represented with 3 heads as he is also said to be an incarnation of the combined forms of Brahma, Vishnu a
Read more…Short extracts from an article available to read HERE.
One of the most well-known cultural imports from India that has exerted an influence on Western thought is that of the Kali Yuga.
The reason for the popularity of this subject in the West is tw
Read more…These are short edited extracts from a text by Daniel Odier available here.
The extracts describe one view of emanation from Pure Consciousness (Shiva) to all we see around us. I use the word Emanation, meaning to ''flow out from''.
Unlike some oth
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One of the first things I saw this morning was the black cat hurling herself at a flock of swallows who were swooping over the back yard. The cat looked delighted and did not mind that she caught nothing. The swallows danced upwards, making their c
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