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Pink Floyd’s Set The Controls for the Heart ❤️ of the Sun: A Study on Holistic Environmental Ethos

Atom Heart ❤️ Mother
The Banks of Sacred River Narmada
Siberian Drum for Rituals depicting Sun and the Ecology

Roger Waters : Live at the Pompeii

“If” from side 2 of Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother is a soothing gentle song with beautiful rendition of music. I have tried to put together here the Non-dualistic concepts of Dakshinamurthy Stotram and also the fundamental concepts of a holographic universe and the primacy of consciousness. Though the song with its melancholic transience of absence (swan /train/moon/dream) appearing relatively as a presence before us is something we need to look at, but, the imagery and the busic is also a stark reminder of modern haste and desperation which would appear again and again the Dark Side album and in Wish You Were Here. it strongly points at ideating a holistic environmental ethos, something, Dr. Madhu Khanna, founder trustee of Tantra Foundation mentions in her book ‘Ecological Insights in Atharvaveda and their Relevance Today published by India International Centre.

Dr Khanna points out the Modern Parallels in Deep Ecology : “The potential model of environmental ethics represented in the Atharvaveda has a close affinity to the existing models of ecology in vogue today,  such as the Gaia hypothesis put forward by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis; Deeo Ecology advocated first by Murray Brookchin, Edward A. Dabby, Dave Fireman and the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naiss.

– JRC, Tantra Foundation

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Watch “The Polemics of an Embryonic Journey: Towards the Final Exposure to Light” on YouTube

The Embryonic Journey is a quest like aspiration where the flame searches for its own source which is 🔥 fire, so, it is a journey actually not in space time and causality but it is from darkness to knowledge. What knowledge? Knowledge of the world, the universe and plants and species – no, because, factual knowledge belongs to phenomenal experience. This is knowledge of the Self we are talking about , it is being-awareness which is no-thing but that which is self-illumined and is the primordial cause of this creation. It is the pure subject, unborn, acausal but expresses itself through causal space-time architecture generating experiences for the individual ego.

The phases of the embryonic journey

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Guru Purnima at Govardhan Matha, Puri 13th July 2022

Jay Guru Guru Jay (3x)

Narayana Akhila Guru Bhagawan Namaste (3x) – from Gajendra Moksham Stotra, Srimad Bhagavad

Tanmay Manah Shiva Sankalpa Mastu (3x)- Shiva Sankalpa Sukta, Shukla Yajurveda Yajurveda

Let my mind dissolve into the Essence of Everything which is Shiva (3x)

Pranam to Jagatguru Shankaracharya Mahabhag Sri Nischalananda Saraswati (my Guru ji)

In a recent discourse he illuminated everyone on use of Right Action for the world (karma) which leads to Pure Faith (bhakti) that leads to knowledge that liberates (jnana). In Shiva Purana, he quotes ” karma jayate bhakti/bhakti jnana prajayate/jnana prajate mukti”. Mukti or liberation or moksha is liberation from the cycles of birth and death from causality. He goes on to mention Sri Adi Guru Shankar’s seminal text Aparosksha Anubhuti or Direct illumination and if these texts are heard from the Guru (Sravan/listening) then avidya, kama, karma are slowly destroyed or exhausted. This is the essence of all sacred texts like the Upanishads and Bhagawat Gita. A certain discipline is required as mentioned in sadhan chatusthay – the key word repeated often is Vairagya or disinterestedness in anything temporal from even Bramha/Hiranyagarbha to what comes from a seed, detachment from sabda, sparsha, rup, rasa, gandha….the atman and unatman viveka or discrimination can lead to Nirmal vairagya or purity. Detachment doesn’t mean inaction but dynamism which understands the projected universe is a play of consciousness within it self. Then experience is just a causality of subject-object split within temporal spatial architecture. The witness or sakshi powers the knower known and knowledge and that’s how experience is structured.

Pranam to Guru ji

Discourse excerpts will be followed soon.

-J

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Setting the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: Pattern Recognition and Thermal Projection of the Luminous Self

An Impression of the True Light

Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet circa French Impressionism, April 1874

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Pink Floyd

 

‘A glorious shining Angel of the Way

Figure (Surya). Made of stone (basalt).

Surya (Sun) Figure circa 10-11th Century made of basalt stone, acquired by British Museum in 1972

Presented to the seeking of the soul

The sweetness and the might of an idea,

Each deemed Truth’s intimate fount and summit force,

The heart of the meaning of the universe,

Perfection’s key, passport to Paradise.

…….

Light stood embraced by light, fire wedded fire.

– Book II, Canto XII, Savitri, Sri Aurobindo

 

Every sentient being, speaking as I, may say to his phenomenal self, ‘Be Still! and know that I am God!’

”All human evil comes from this: man’s being unable to sit still in a room”

-Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

At the still point

doing and non-doing are meaningless

they have cancelled out

so, are the differentials of inside and outside

open or close, dissipative or non-dissipative structures have faded into oblivion

What happens to the dream state after awakening?

there was no dream, neither, was there any buddha or awakening

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Mandala of the Sun God, Surya flanked by 8 planetary deities, Artist: Kitaharasa circa 1379; distemper on cloth, Nepal courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, USA copyright MET Museum of Art, NY

the self in its transcendental glory is the shining sun that is…

it manifests for its multiplicity the solar grid to engineer feeling-centric learning processes

actually, there is no becoming or evolution outside the dream

there is am-ness and pure subjectivity

”Infinite is, indeed, my wealth of which nothing is mine.

If Mithila is burnt, nothing that is mine is burnt” (Janaka, Santiparva, Mahabharata)

The true Self is infinite as taught by Astavakra and Yajnavalkya to King Janaka

“The entire universe is the Self”

“In the Ocean of existence the one (the pure Self) only was, is and will be.

There is neither bondage nor salvation for you. Fulfill yourself and move about happily.

And in the Shiva Sutras you learn that when knowledge is destroyed, the dream is seen.

they all correspond to a clear pattern recognition which is recollection of the Self luminosity where dream or appearance is burnt.

But nothing is burnt or dissolved in the true sense,

There never was a Bodhi Tree

Nor any character other than the Self

When there is only the witness or the observer

what is  the meaning of liberation or freedom?

”As I have known the Supreme Self who is the eternal Person as the Witness

and who is the Lord, I have no desire for bondage and liberation, nor care for salvation.”

-J

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2018-063-EN

9th March, 2018

 

Record EUR 1 billion European Investment Bank support for global solar investment confirmed ahead of International Solar Alliance summit

  • Largest ever backing for solar investment by world’s largest international public bank
  • India leading country for EIB solar investment
  • Strengthened engagement for solar energy in developing and emerging economies expected

In 2017 the European Investment Bank provided EUR 1.05 billion of new financing for solar energy projects around the world, representing the largest ever annual support by the EIB to the solar sector.

Ahead of the Founding Conference of the International Solar Alliance in New Delhi the European Investment Bank also confirmed strengthened engagement to support significant expansion of solar energy in developing and emerging economies.

“Solar power is providing clean energy for millions of people around the world and solar energy now represents the single largest source of new power generation. The fate of this planet depends on continuing to expand the use of renewable energy to support sustainable economic growth. This can be achieved through improved access to energy alongside scaling up a viable alternative to fossil fuels. The European Investment Bank – the EU bank – welcomes the vision of the International Solar Alliance to ensure those countries most vulnerable to climate change can harness the proven potential of solar power,” said Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank.

India leading focus of EIB backed solar investment outside Europe

India was the leading recipient of EIB financing for solar investment outside the European Union, both in 2017 and overall since 2013. The EIB has approved a total of EUR 640 million of new investment in solar projects in India set to provide clean energy to an estimated 4.2 million households and save more than 4 million tons of carbon emissions.

“The European Union and India are committed to implementing the Paris Climate agreement and working together to achieve Sustainable Development Goals, including ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. As the European Union’s bank, the EIB has a strong track record of supporting transformational investment in India and working with Indian partners to enhance solar investment across this country to benefit millions of Indian households.” said H.E. Mr. Tomasz Kozlowski, Ambassador of the European Union.

President Werner Hoyer will lead a high-level European Investment Bank Delegation to attend the International Solar Alliance summit, taking place in New Delhi this week. During the visit the EIB will confirm significant new support for EUR 500 million of new renewable energy investment across India in partnership with the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA).

Strengthened EIB financing for solar investment in developing and emerging economies

The European Investment Bank is committed to increasing support for climate related investment, including renewable energy, in developing and emerging economies to represent 35% of overall financing activity.

“More than a trillion dollars of new solar investment will be required by 2030 to deploy affordable solar energy. The European Investment Bank has a unique technical and financing experience of supporting solar projects around the world, enabling new research to further reduce deployment costs and mobilising renewable energy investment. The International Solar Alliance looks forward to welcoming President Hoyer and his colleagues to New Delhi to discuss strengthened cooperation in the years ahead.” said H.E. Upendra Tripathy, Interim Director General of the International Solar Alliance.

During the International Solar Alliance summit the EIB will outline the key role of solar energy investment across a range of technologies to reduce carbon emissions and increase access to clean energy.

Global support for solar investment to address local energy priorities

New EIB financing for solar investment in 2017 included backing for new projects in India, Mexico and Peru, as well as 13 European Union countries.

Since 2002 the EIB has financed more than EUR 6.35 billion of new solar energy investment and 50% of solar investment financed by the EIB in the last 7 years is located in developing and emerging economies. Reflecting the global solar engagement in recent years the EIB has financed photovoltaic and concentrated solar power projects across Africa in Morocco, South Africa and Burkina Faso, in Latin America in Nicaragua and Peru, in Asia in India and Vietnam as well as Turkey and Israel.

This has enabled significant expansion of access to energy using clean power production and contributed to improved economic activity and social benefits. In the coming weeks the EIB is expected to confirm significant financing for off-grid solar projects across Africa.

Background information:

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the long-term lending institution of the European Union owned by its Member States. It makes long-term finance available for sound investment in order to contribute towards EU policy goals.

Further information about EIB support for solar investment, engagement in India and activities around the International Solar Alliance summit can be found here: http://www.eib.org/infocentre/events/all/international-solar-alliance-summit

 

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Solar Investment Projects in India and European Invest Bank

Press contacts:

EIB: Richard Willis, r.willis@eib.org, Tel.: +352 4379 82155, +352 621 555 758

Shirin Wheeler (in New Delhi), s.wheeler@eib.org, Tel:  +44 7827445611

Website: www.eib.org/press – Press Office: +352 4379 21000 – press@eib.org

 

 

 

 

 

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Parinispanna Swabhava, The Perfected or Absolute Nature of the Same Thing: The Great Illumination in the Observed Eigenvalue

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Coronation Throne of the 1st King of Sikkim , Yuksum, Sikkim /Under the Holy Guidance of 3 High Lamas circa 1642 /SACRED PINE TREE

  • All karma and obscurations are momentary and not inherent to primordial dharmakaya
  • Subject-object fixation or quantum entanglement of subject and object is Transcended by recognition of the Mind Essence – Dharmakaya itself is free of subject and object
  • Naked Dharmakaya is the basic state of all sentient beings (***Across all MULTI-VERSES) – BUDDHA NATURE
  • This is the profound state possible, and you should allow it to be by means of UNFABRICATED NATURALNESS

“The sounds of the valley

Streams are his long, broad tongue;

The form of the mountains are his pure body.

At night, I hear the myriad hymns of praise;

How can I explain what they say?”

– Su Tung-P’O (on ‘Vairocana’)

*THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IS DIVIDED INTO 2 ASPECTS

-THEY BELONG TO THE SAME BRAHMAN

‘I AM THE COMBINING AGENT’

MYSELF THE FOOD AND THE FOOD-EATER

ENJOYER AND THE OBJECT OF ENJOYMENT

-THE PRINCIPLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS WHICH BRINGS ABOUT

THE UNION B/W THE ENJOYER AND THE OBJECTS OF ENJOYMENT

*RANDOM MOTION CALLED VACUUM FLUCTUATIONS INFLUENCES

PARTICLES THAT PROPAGATE THROUGH THE VACUUM.

THE Q-VACUUM FIELD IS A NOISY AND DENSELY ENERGETIC SURFACE.

CASIMIR EFFECT AND LAMB SHIFT ARE CAUSED DUE TO THESE

INDELIBLE VACUUM FLUCTUATIONS.

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Ahrgam Zambala, Sungacholing Monastery Sikkim 

The clear sky is the naked apparel of the body

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Cave of Guru Padmasambhava, Sikkim 

Anointed by birth it endures with grace

The mind reflects the inner pot of water

Clear, empty and pure

By itself

Reflects the innermost space

Which is awareness alone

This three-fold sky practice is Enlightenment

All karmic equations are balanced by the Yajna of Practice

Brahman is Brahman

Proper channeling of Grace can evolve a system further

The scattered mirror reflecting again;

And the fallen flower rising to the branch?

-When concepts are broken in the VOID where are thy LAWS???

-J

 

 

 

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Trascending the Great Void, the Practitioner becomes Eternally Free from ‘Coming and Going’/The Wheel of Birth and Death: Understanding The Full Spectrum of Kaalchakra

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Maha Gauri Mother riding a white Vrishaba, the bull 

“That which you see as other than righteousness and unrighteousness,

other than all this cause and effect, other than what has been and what is to be

-tell me That”. – Katha Upanishad

The Mundaka Upanishad states that when the Brahman is realized

“the fetters of the heart are broken and all doubts are resolved”.

“He does not linger where the Buddha is, and where there is no Buddha

he passes right on”. (Zenrin Poem)

In the Zen teaching of Huang Po (translated by John Blofeld) it is said

“When you practice mind-control (Zazen or dhyana), sit in the

proper position, stay perfectly tranquil, and do not permit the

least movements of your minds to disturb you”.

“PLACE BEFORE YOU THE UNSHAKABLE VAJRA OF NO DISSUASION”.

-Lord Atisha

The Supreme Equipoise

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Shiva Dances as Parvati Plays Music circa 19th Century India

Where in the crest of Love

All forces are exacted to millennial perfection

At levels that are much beyond human perception

The Mother of the Holy Trinity

Sits on her resplendent seat

Adumbrating the future sequence of events

That will map the destiny of a new yuga

By turning the wheel 9 times and 1

“Complete as one-Everything is complete with awakened mind.

All the phenomena of samsara and nirvana are completed”./Dzogchen Tantra

Gadhule aranye samayer shaisab simha dwar hate mare uki

Dekhe agnir tapashay samudra tate kampan

Bramhaputra, kaveri jyotsnar aloy arati kare maha-bharater etihash ke

Samantabhadrer bakhya hate subhro jyoti haridwar theke alokanandar pathe

Nijeke utshorgo kariyache

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Sri Anandamayi Maa and Paramhamsa Yogananda

Kal sesh o agomanir noton mantre

Dikhito hay ei jagat bishwa…

As the age ripens

And rivers ceaselessly flowing to the sea

Observe the silence in the vast void of speechless ocean

The naked sun will be the pilgrim of thy soul

Rising and churning

Bringing chaos to the point of surrender

Love conquering all opposites

By the force of the Mother of the Holy Trinity….

-J

Press Release 

THE NEW YORK TIMES LAUNCHES NEW ‘LUXURY TRAVEL’ CONFERENCE

Soneva’s Sonu Shivdasani, NIHI Sumba Island’s James McBride, Four Seasons’ Rainer Stampfer,  Capella Hotel Group’s Neil B. Jacobs and Virgin Galactic’s Beth Moses among the diverse and influential experts and decision-makers to join NYT journalists on December 1-2

LONDON, OCTOBER 6, 2016 – The New York Times has today unveiled a line-up of leading figures set to join New York Times editors Monica Drake, Sam Sifton and Ching-Ching Ni at its inaugural Luxury Travel conference this December 1-2 in Singapore.

The invitation-only event will explore the dramatic ways the luxury travel and hospitality industry is evolving in its quest for the hearts and minds of consumers around the world. The event will bring together the most influential hoteliers, restaurateurs, influencers and experts to provide the insights needed to succeed in this fast-moving and dynamic industry.

The speakers, with more to be announced, include:

  • Sonu Shivdasani, founder and CEO, Soneva

  • Neil Jacobs, CEO, Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas

  • Beth Moses, chief astronaut instructor, Virgin Galactic

  • James McBride, managing partner, NIHI Sumba Island

  • Nicholas M. Clayton, CEO, Capella Hotel Group Asia

  • Rainer Stampfer, president, hotel operations – Asia Pacific, Four Seasons

  • Yann Debelle de Montby, founder, Debelle de Montby Associates

  • Petter Neby, founder and CEO, Punkt.

  • Loh Lik Peng, founder and director, Unlisted Collection

  • Lionel Ohayon, founder and CEO, ICRAVE

  • Simon Thomas, head concierge, The Lanesborough

  • Eddie Teh, general manager, Belmond Road to Mandalay and Belmond Orcaella

  • Professor Ian Millar, METRO Innovation chair and senior lecturer, École Hôtelière de Lausanne

For the agenda and speaker lineup, please visit the official Luxury Travel conference website and keep up to date with further speaker announcements by following @NYTLive. The hashtag for the conference is #NYTLT.

The New York Times Luxury Travel conference is supported by the Singapore Exhibition & Convention Bureau.

Notes to editors

Media accreditation for The New York Times Luxury Travel conference is currently open. Accreditation requests must be submitted to press@nytluxurytravel.com by Friday, November 25th. Please note that there will be no on-site accreditation. All accreditation requests are subject to final confirmation by The New York Times.

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Understanding Dogen’s ‘Existential-Moment’ ‘UJI’-Living ‘Here and Now’

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Old Sundial in the Hoogly Imambara

“Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun…- Time, The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd

The duality with regard to Time arises when we perceive it as ‘Durational’ associated with numerical expression of a ‘before’ and ‘after’ which is measurable. This is old Aristotelian concept of time measured linearly.

The final realization of ‘Time’ takes place when we understand Dogen’s ‘UJI’ or ‘Being-Time’ as a fleeting ‘Moment’ of existence. That is Samadhi experience of the timeless leaking through the quantized time of existential moments. Then TIME IS ON YOUR SIDE AND NOT FLYING AWAY…THIS IS THE TRUE MEANING OF THIS SONG. ‘Here and Now’ the past and future are gathered and not separate – this is APPERCEIVING -SEEING BEYOND THE SUBJECT-OBJECT SPLIT.

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Village Pond During Monsoon, Bengal 

*”Through the mind alone (purified by knowledge) is IT to be realized. There is no differentiation whatsoever in the Brahman. He goes from death to death who sees in IT, as it were, differentiation”. – Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

To see beyond differences is to be realised in the Noumenal

The ‘Duality’ is the manifested phenomenal aspect of our extension in 3Dspace-time

Not a single particle exists separately

It is actually a temporary localised pulse emerging from a larger field

The phrase ‘as it were’ (iva) is the crux of the Upanishadic instruction regarding the universe and our daily life in it. Whenever the Upanishads seem to concede the reality of the world, even in the slightest degree, the phrase ‘as it were’ is to be added; for anything ‘other’ than Brahman is an appearance.

ORDINARY MIND is the TAO when it is free from INTENTIONAL ACTION – MINDFULNESS OF BODY

UJI- is the ALL INCLUSIVE DIMENSION

-J

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00.01 BST (London time) on TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2016 / 04.30 IST (Indian Standard Time) on TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2016

£8 million monsoon project launches in India

A project involving scientists from the UK and India to predict monsoon rainfall by studying ocean processes in the Bay of Bengal launches today.

Scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA) will release underwater robots to monitor how ocean conditions influence monsoon rainfall.  Meanwhile collaborators from a partner project led by the University of Reading with collaborators across the UK and India will use a state-of-the-art aircraft to take atmospheric measurements at the same time.

It is hoped that the combined results of this large-scale scientific campaign will help forecast the arrival of the Indian monsoon more accurately than ever before.

As well as improving rainfall prediction, the research could revolutionise subsistence farming, improve the livelihoods of millions of people, and help mitigate the damage caused by monsoons when they hit land.

Summer monsoons provide 80 per cent of annual rainfall to around a billion people in India.

Forecasting the precise timing and location of the rains is vital to the region’s economy, which is dominated by farming, and for managing its increasingly pressured water resources.

Accurate predictions of intense downpours and breaks in the monsoon are essential to help farmers plan their crop planting and communities prepare for floods and droughts.

Last year, the monsoon spread rapidly over northern India, causing devastating damage, whereas prolonged breaks in 2009 led to a severe shortage of rainfall and poor harvests.

Lead researcher Prof Adrian Matthews, from UEA’s School of Environmental Sciences, said: “The Indian monsoon is notoriously hard to predict. It is a very complicated weather system and the processes are not understood or recorded in science.

“We will be combining oceanic and atmospheric measurements to monitor weather systems as they are generated. Nobody has ever made observations on this scale during the monsoon season itself so this is a truly ground-breaking project.

“We are aiming for a better understanding of the actual physical processes. What we have now are imperfect models for predicting monsoon rainfall when it hits land, so this will create better forecasts.

“Ultimately, the goal is to improve the prediction of monsoon rainfall over India. This will be enormously beneficial for India’s subsistence farmers, who need to know when and how much rain will fall. This would then enable them to change the timing of how they plant their crops.

“We hope that it will also help to mitigate international disasters caused by extreme rainfall and flooding.

“We also hope to better understand how the southern Asian monsoon affects the whole world’s climate,” he added.

The Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment (BoBBLE) is led by UEA scientists in collaboration with the University of Reading and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton.

Collaborators in India include the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS), the Indian National Centre for Climate Information Services (INCOIS), the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) and the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT).

The UEA team will arrive in India today and are due to set sail on June 24 from Chennai into the Bay of Bengal on the Indian research ship the Sindhu Sadhana.

Dr M Rajeevan, secretary for the Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences, will visit the ship and meet the research team on the afternoon of its departure.

Once out in the ocean, they will then release seven underwater gliders to measure ocean properties such as temperature, salinity and current.

The team will spend a month at sea – with data from the 250-mile stretch of international water beamed back to the UK using mobile phone signals daily.

Back in the UK, researchers at UEA, the University of Reading and NOC, will use this data to create computer models of the ocean to determine how it affects weather systems and rainfall over India.

“Our collaborators will be flying out from Bangalore to make simultaneous observations in the atmosphere above us. It will be really rather spectacular,” added Prof Matthews.

Previous missions undertaken by UEA’s fleet of gliders have helped researchers make a variety of discoveries including why the Antarctic ice caps are melting.

The project is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, the Newton Fund, the Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and the UK’s Met Office.

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1/ For more information, or to arrange an interview, please contact Lisa Horton in the UEA press office on 01603 592764 or email l.horton@uea.ac.uk.

2/ The University of East Anglia (UEA) is among the top 1% of universities globally (Times Higher Education World Rankings 2014-15) and placed 10th in the UK for the quality of its research output (Research Excellence Framework 2014). Also known for its outstanding student experience, it has achieved a Top 10 rating in the National Student Survey every year since the survey began. UEA is a leading member of the Norwich Research Park – one of Europe’s largest concentrations of researchers in the fields of environment, health and plant science. www.uea.ac.uk.

3/ The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is the UK’s main agency for funding and managing world-class research, training and knowledge exchange in the environmental sciences. It coordinates some of the world’s most exciting research projects, tackling major issues such as climate change, environmental influences on human health, the genetic make-up of life on earth, and much more. NERC receives around £320 million a year from the government’s science budget, which it uses to fund independent research and training in universities and its own research centres. www.nerc.ac.uk

 

 

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Dogen’s Dimensionless Points as ‘Moments of Awareness’ in a Non-Durational Time Axis: Existence as Supra-Causal Enlightenment of the Un-Born

Philadelphia Museum of Art Collections Object Shiva Carrying the Dead Sati

Lord Shiva Carrying Sati circa Bengal Patachitra, 19th Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection

“The Final Chakra is Niralambasthana which consists of an infinite series of lobes, colours, matrikas, devas, worlds, it’s considered as the Highest seat of the Gurudeva”. ..Beyond this series there is a set of 20 voids and the Final Liberation takes place in the Great Void”. -(Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj)

 

Kalida in between the Lights

YOGISHWAR, Sri Kalipada Guharoy

Void(n)……Chidakasha (Super-Implicate)—–Chittakasha (Implicate)—–Maha-Kasha (Explicate, Space-Time Geometry)

Babaji Maharaj pic

Maha-Avatar Babaji Maharaj

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Lord Krishna on a White Lotus ZEN DOCTRINE OF NO-MIND called the MIND/Buddha Mind/Zen Mind/the ‘Self’/the Void

WHAT IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THIS BUDDHA OR DHARMA NATURE?

ANSWER: ‘KU’ OR ‘SUNYATA’ -THIS IS NOT MERE EMPTINESS BUT THAT WHICH IS LIVING, DYNAMIC, DEVOID OF MASS, UNFIXED, BEYOND INDIVIDUALITY OR PERSONALITY- THE MATRIX OF ALL PHENOMENA

‘AT THE TIME I CLIMBED THE MOUNTAIN AND CROSSED THE RIVER, DID I NOT EXPERIENCE THE TIME I AM IN THIS BUILDING?’ -DOGEN (EXTRACT FROM SHOBOGENZO)

‘MOST THOUGHT-PROVOKING THING IN OUR THOUGHT-PROVOKING TIME IS THAT WE ARE STILL NOT THINKING”. – MARTIN HEIDEGGER

*INFORMATION GROWS ALONG WITH DISORDER. IF BLACK HOLES OBEY THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS, THEY CANNOT WIPE OUT INFORMATION.

*3 DIFFERENT KINDS OF SPACES DISCUSSED IN THE UPANISHADS:

1. MAHAKASHA: GROSS SPACE THAT CONTAINS GROSS OBJECTS

2. CHITTAKASHA: MENTAL SPACE /THOUGHT-SPACE

3. CHIDAKASHA: SPACE OF PURE INTELLIGENCE /SUPREME SPACE/BRAHMAN

The New Year isn’t anything new

Vaishnodevi Navratri Festival

Sri Vaishnodevi during Navratri Festival

Time doesn’t move

Lord Vishnu on Garuda

Lord Vishnu on Garuda

It only stops at dimensionless points

Giving rise to awareness of a timeless plane of existence

Every moment there exists this Shiva-wall time

Talk time, walk time, running time, rowing time, golf time and zillion other moments of awareness

They enact the drama of the world unfolding the flow of its empty source

He stood as if there was a life-time of being in the stillness of gyrations

Static dynamic ensemble of the clothed desires of life, reveal the nakedness of being

He tears the ravaged body flashing light unto flesh and bones

Death is the sonorous mystery singing the joy of breath (prana) through the interface of mind and matter

Who stood there silent and strong?

sri caitanya maha-prabhu

Sri Caitanya Maha-Prabhu

Fearlessly quiet like a shadow in a dream

Rising to meet the vision of one’s plenitude

Darkness the abode of the blessed light

Blinded by the passion of its intelligence forgets the empty nature of things

Who is there standing alone?

Carrying the weight of a heavy heart

Broken by the cry and scream of the spirits alive or dead

Who is there living alone, carrying the mangled body of his lover?

Who is and not?

Lithograph Advertisement of Kali Cigarette, Calcutta Art Studio, C1885-1895

Maha-Kali

Lightning flash

The Hindustan Times Coverage of Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo report in the Hindustan Times 6th December 1950

And thunder roaring with gusty winds

That takes away the hollow from every reservoir

With every drop there is replenishment of the soul

The bird is flying

Silent crawls deep into the abysmal depths

The fish gleans across the golden horizon

A moment that awakes to another moment is forever new…

Garva Khetre taranger janma budhoday hate

Budhoday hate utsho koti nakhatrer karon deho (causal-body)

Maha-karon deho maha-moner lalat shikha

Adi ananter ek divyya rajani sahashra koti atmar ek milan sthal

Hari Om Tat Sat

Jay Om Maa

-J

 

 

 

 

 

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TANTRA IS THE PHYSICAL TRANSMUTATION OF BEING INTO MAHA-NAAM: CAUSE-EFFECT ARE ONE IN THE ORIGINAL MIND

Kali Da Meditative State

Yogishwar Sri Sri Kalipada Guharoy

Purple Pansies Spring Flower Collection

Purple Pansies, Spring Flowers

‘A sudden bliss will run through every limb    

And Nature with a mightier Presence fill…’ (Savitri by Sri Aurobindo)

Bird and Flower by Ikeda Keisen(1863-1931). Hanging Scroll kakejiku

Bird and Flower/Artist: Ikeda Keisen (1863-1931) Zen Painting Hanging Scroll

When Feng-hsueh was asked by a monk that

‘When speech and silence are both inadmissible,

How can one pass without error?’

The Master replied:

‘I always remember Kiangsu in March-

The cry of the patridge, the mass of fragrant flowers!’

‘The silent moon

In her interlunar swoon…’ (PB Shelley)

‘They flash upon the inner eye

Which is the bliss of solitude’ (William Wordsworth)

IN SEARCH OF THE ‘SUPREME BEING’ OR ‘THE BRAHMAN’Commisioned Portrait of Sri Caitanya Maha-Prabhu

Hari Om Tat Sat -‘I Am the Combining Agent’

This is the principle of Consciousness as discussed in the Taittiriya Upanishad

Which brings about the union between the Enjoyer and the objects of Enjoyment

Perceptible reality changes when one is connected with the Original Mind

There no illusion can stand on its way

Higher you go more clearer it becomes

All objects exist on their own

Cause-effect being one

These objects are dynamic poise in a transitory state of darknessprabhu nityananda pic

Tranquilized by the original mind in a state of supreme silence

maha-samudrer antarale sameyer gati hin pratikriya

Anirban ek baudhha-tantrer prapti

Tantra is the physical transmutation of being into maha-naam

Transcendental revelation of myriad beings add eons to the creational canvas

In the rich infusion of colors

The sun’s bright petals transport (gigahertz of energy) the supreme ecstasy of the unknown Way

And through the gateless Gate you pass into a timeless world

Where alone you are not but supremely the One

The source of all existence

So, the spring has come and slowly moving by…

You travel alone and don’t arrive…

-J

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The Great Gate is Now Wide Open: 21st February, 2016 – Celebrating Divine Mother’s Birthday and International M-O-T-H-E-R Language Day

Mirra Alfassa

The Divine Mother in Japan            Tibetan Mandala with Sanskrit Mantras in Concentric Circles by Carl Jung

 

All atoms are made inside the sun by thy Will

There are vibrations that compacted and expanded

These are open dance signatures of the great cosmic mandala

They come from the Void and manifest their form

How sweetly they sing and sadly they disappear

Beyond all these there is stillness

That pervades the motionless track of all existence

Perfection and imperfection exist in a plane of simultaneity

We need to go beyond….

Bright nothing where you void the void

There eternity exists as manifestation starts

Look deep inside

………..Take the Skull in your hand…

The universe exists as a pulse only in your mind

The Mother with the Children in Pondicherry

Divine Mother will Children in Pondicherry

You are the inevitable source of everything

The arch of the rainbow that bridges heaven and earth

‘A BLIND GOD IS NOT DESTINY’S ARCHITECT;

A CONSCIOUS POWER HAS DRAWN THE PLAN OF LIFE,

THERE IS A MEANING IN EACH CURVE AND LINE.

IT IS AN ARCHITECTURE HIGH AND GRAND

Beggar-Singer with Hound, Yuan Dynasty, 1271-1368, Hanging Scroll, Ink and color on silk, 76.5 x 36.2 cm, Museum for East Asian Art, Cologne.

Beggar Singer with Dog, Yuan Dynasty circa 1271-1368, Hanging Scroll, Ink and Color on Silk, Museum of Asian Art, Cologne

BY MANY NAMED AND NAMELESS MASONS BUILT

IN WHICH UNSEEING HANDS OBEY THE UNSEEN,

AND OF ITS MASTER-BUILDERS SHE IS ONE”.

Name or form apart from the substratum is the maya

So, the wise sage Aruni tells his son Svetaketu:

“That which is the subtle essence- in IT all that exists has its self.

It is the True, It is the Self. And thou, O Svetaketu, art It”.

Atyachetonar stare paripurno lekhak

Matri bhasay nirvak pran

Lekheni se kichuoi

Shekheni se kichuoi

Sudhu pran bandanay

Se awhowan kare pran

Neither time is nor its not

Only eternal awakening

At this moment

French Actress Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet Examining Yorick's Skull

French Actress Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet examing Yorick’s Skull circa 1899-1900 London/Paris

Is all what we are and will be

And when you hear the birds singing

The passing clouds bring rain

And you dance like a drop in an ocean of spontaneity {Pure Function}

Because you know that nothing is left to you at this moment

But to have a good laugh;

Narrating children the tales of Tapovan

Where mystic oneness still prevails

Les Ruines D' Angkor Old Poster

Les Ruines D’ Angkor poster

Like the ordinary mind the Tao

Every day the river courses its way

To meet the ocean of bliss

‘May be, like the empty sky it has no boundaries,

Yet it is right in this place,

Ever profound and clear.

Colossal Black Hole Is 12 Billion Times As Massive As The Sun

Artist’s Impression of a Colossal Black Hole Which is 12 Billion Times as Massive as the Sun

When you seek to know it, you cannot see it.

You cannot take hold of it,

But you cannot lose it.

In not being able to get it, you get it.

When you are silent, it speaks;

When you speak, it is silent.

The great gate is wide open to bestow alms.

And no crowd is blocking the way.’

 

-J

 

  1. ‘A BLIND GOD IS NOT DESTINY’S ARCHITECT…AND OF ITS MASTER-BUILDERS SHE IS ONE.’ -Savitri, Sri Aurobindo
  2. ‘That which is the subtle essence- in IT all that exists has its self.’-Chhandogya Upanishad
  3. It is the True, It is the Self. And thou, O Svetaketu, art It”.-Chhhandogya Upanishad
  4. ‘Like the empty skies it has no boundaries…blocking the way.’ – From Cheng-tao Ke translated by Alan Watts
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