Today’s Oracle takes us back to the Aries monthly of May 1, 2005
To keep your momentum you’ll need to move in the direction that seems the most difficult or challenging. Certain factors may seem to slow you down but they’re the ones that you’re using to summon your deeper strength and your unquestionable sense of purpose. You may have noticed that the prevailing meaningless quality of life on Earth is starting to wear a little thin and it’s being replaced by a deep sense of longing and searching. By all indications this is reaching you with a particularly strong pull that is in truth a kind of homing signal. Please don’t make the mistake of not listening to it because it seems too good to be true too difficult to be feasible or an occasion for which you would need to do a little rising up above your everyday routine. That is the whole point.
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Mystes,
Thanks.
I have read Gita many many times and it definition is very accurate and matches the content that goes with it.
But the point I am trying to make is that one can blindly follow something as a religion or tradition just because they have inherited it from families they are born into like a ritual or a routine Or they are drawn to it by their own quest for knowledge and let it speak to them as they understand it.
One can follow Krishna as God, or one can see Krishna as his Consciousness or higher self who always has our best interest for us just like Krishna had for Arjuna. You can replace Arjuna with any common man who is struggling psychologically and emotionally to fight the dark forces (100 Kauravs) to save his 5 highest Core values (Pandavas).
It is just like Astrology. You can take Jupiter nothing more than a giant ball of Gas or you can consider Jupiter to be divine energy of expansion and love.
I believe the original intent of every religion has been to demonstrate the presence of divine force that guides us and protects us but most people have followed all the scriptures and books literally and have completely lost the real meaning.
To me Gita is a great book on philosophy and psychology and everything I read in it I can easily relate to my day to day life. I love it.
In fact I have an article in my mind to explain Gita in the context of Astrology.
With warm regards,
Asha
Hmm… from Wikipedia:
“The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit भगवद्गीता, Bhagavad Gītā, “Song of God”), also more simply known as Gita, is a sacred Hindu scripture,[1][2] considered by some to be among the most important texts in the history of literature and philosophy.[3] The Bhagavad Gita comprises roughly 700 verses, and is a part of the Mahabharata. The teacher of the Bhagavad Gita is Krishna, who is revered by Hindus as a manifestation of God himself,[3] and is referred to within as Bhagavan, the Divine One.[4]”
But I understand your position. I read the Song of Songs as pure erotica, a discourse between the Lover and the Beloved. It is, nevertheless, an intermissive beauty between God’s Law, Divine Law and more God’s Law.
Mais fait de mieux.
Mystes,
Gita has nothing to do with religion, not for me at least. It provides me food for thought. It is an execllent philosophy. Arjuna’s dilemma can be seen as an analogy for pyschological struggle that we all face in life.
It is just like I read stuff on PlanetWaves and get inspired, I get inspired by Gita or Bible or anything that speaks to me. Idea is to be open with mind and heart and Listen.
Thx
Asha
Hey Asha,
While I understand that we Cancerians look to tradition to affirm our direction, I am not really talking about the Gita’s or Arjuna’s dilemma. Karma yoga is one thing; action as liberated is something else entirely.
For one thing, I am a woman – and as such, born awake. There are a gigantic number of ‘problems’ worked out in the Religions of the Book (written by and for men) that simply do not apply to femme experience. As I go along this lifetime, the difference in women’s bodies, inclinations, subtle formation and what constitutes *Awakening* for us is becoming clearer and clearer.
Deciding whether to kill my relatives (and who isn’t my relative?) for “Justice”? Guffah. This “dilemma” is not even possible for people who make other people.
So anyway, my dharma is to keep moving the techniques that have devolved into various forms of rictus (such as a Samadhi misconceived as a form of extinction) into the field of realization.
Dharma-yoga as it were…
Alley-oop…
M
Yeah, “Karma Yoga” is another name for it.
Now we are talking Bhagwad Gita.
Thanks
Asha
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Thank you, Asha, for qualifying ‘karma’ as action! That’s the stuff!! Karma bhumi, the ground of activity, is *exactly* where my attention is trending these days. When the weltenschmerz/tedium of working that ground overwhelms us, that very *tedium* can sour into the philosophical notion that karma/action is “bad” or a punishment.
A Karma is an action that is induced by another (previous or future) action, and is therefore regulated by the part of us caught in time (Kali, queen of the countdown). But that does not put karma beyond the reach of awakened action (dharma). Hence the idea of a “karmamudra” in Tantra, the action seal that allows the buddhajuice to build up and transform the field of action.
I often sit and look at the devanagari letter “K” and the letter “DH.” I listen in to their orthographic distinctions, and what they have in common. The Matrikas (little mothers) that express those two sounds are on very good terms. We should be too.
Lovelove,
M
Thank you, Asha, for qualifying ‘karma’ as action! That’s the stuff!! Karma bhumi, the ground of activity, is *exactly* where my attention is trending these days. When the weltenschmerz/tedium of working that ground overwhelms us, that very *tedium* can sour into the philosophical notion that karma/action is “bad” or a punishment.
A Karma is an action that is induced by another (previous or future) action, and is therefore regulated by the part of us caught in time (Kali, queen of the countdown). But that does not put karma beyond the reach of awakened action (dharma). Hence the idea of a “karmamudra” in Tantra, the action seal that allows the buddhajuice to build up and transform the field of action.
I often sit and look at the devanagari letter “K” and the letter “DH.” I listen in to their orthographic distinctions and what they have in common. The matrikas (little mothers) that regulate those two sounds are very good terms. We should be too.
Lovelove,
M
Mystes, I agree.
Englightenment cannot be attained by running away from Life. I did not mean that.
It is through challenges in daily life, I have realized what is that is really important to me, and it is to find my authentic self and that is the Purpose at least for current phase of my life. You can say it is initiation or preparation phase.
Whatever area or aspect of life that stirs the inner quest in us is what we call in Hinduism as Karma Bhoomi (field of action) and there is no running away from action.
Would appreciate your comment.
Hi Asha… I have been thinking about our discussion about Ascendants and purpose, and here is the general topic again, in a different form.
I agree that ‘eliminating layers of separation’ is a journey in itself. But in the West, where desire & purpose are *honored* (not denigrated as “delusion”), the process of Awakening is deeply woven into our life goals as well as our spiritual practices.
It’s kind of like having a pilot (the spiritual North star of Awakening) and a navigator (a sense of one’s own virtue and its purpose here). Or you can think of your lifework as a vector that triangulates your power into the fractal of time/space.
The desire to become enlightened is something of a 2-D energy. If that was all I was concerned with, I’d go to Christ in the Desert (Benedictine) or Tara Mandala (Buddhist), tuck in for retreat and have done with it. But after having taken birth as a Westerner (or near the West) waking up becomes an ecological project, one that has to be worked out *through* the environment and its vicissitudes/beauties.
Frankly, it’s more fun this way. More of a pain in the ass, but also way more interesting.
Wishing you fair winds,
M
Eric, Thank You.
Seems like this is mine to keep. This has become my theme, my mantra and my meditation.
I think I had some pre-concieved notions about purpose and that was to achieve something in this world, not once I thought that desire and determination to eliminate the layers that separate me from my higher self is a Purpose itself.
Thanks a million.