{"id":10264,"date":"2024-02-01T12:07:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T12:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=10264"},"modified":"2024-02-01T12:16:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T12:16:25","slug":"the-quintessence-of-indian-philosophy-mythology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=10264","title":{"rendered":"The quintessence of Indian Philosophy & Mythology\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\nArise, awake, Seek out,\r\nThe Great Ones to know Truth ineffable,\r\nAs dangerous as the Razor\u2019s edge,\r\nSo is the path difficult to cross,\r\n\r\nI walk on the Razor\u2019s edge alone,\r\nThe path is narrow, the way Unknown.\r\nImagine not the way is easy,\r\nIt is long, ardous, dangerous, difficult!\r\n\r\nGo and seek out the Seers,\r\nWhose body is full of Bliss,\r\nWho enjoys Immortality,\r\nWhose body knows the warmth !\r\n\r\nThe subtle warmth of the Serpent Power,\r\nAs it rises from the Base Chakra\r\nTo the Crown Chakra !\r\nEnjoying Bliss Celestial !\r\n\r\nThe cows symbolise the Upanishads\r\nThey were all milked by the Lord\r\nThe milk thus obtained is Geetha,\r\nThe Great Song of Eternity !\r\n\r\nThe Upanishad sung by the Lord,\r\nThe Science of the Absolute,\r\nThe Scripture of the Yogis,\r\nAnd the Lamp lit by the Lord !\r\n\r\nAt the altar of humanity,\r\nTo save humanity from Evil,\r\nTo take man to immortality,\r\nTo Eternity & Peace Heavenly !\r\n\r\nA scripture allegorical,\r\nSymbolic of the inner war,\r\nHappening in the human bosom,\r\nBetween the conflicting Good and Evil !\r\n\r\nVerse beginning with Dharma Kshetre,\r\nDharma Kshetra is the body human,\r\nWhere the Great Battle is waged,\r\nBetween Good and Evil, Prosperity & Adversity !\r\n\r\nDuryodhana is Lust,\r\nDussasana is Anger,\r\nIntellect is Arjuna,\r\nThe Self is Krishna !\r\n\r\nKnow then the Self is the Charioteer,\r\nThe chariot is the human body,\r\nThe horses five are the organs five,\r\nAnd mind the reigns !\r\n\r\nWe are the place where,\r\nThe great battle is fought,\r\nThe great struggle for supremacy\r\nBetween Light and Darkness,\r\n\r\nBetween Prosperity and Adversity\r\nBetween the great forces of Love\r\nAnd the great forces of Lust\r\nBetwixt Love of Power & the Power of Love !\n\r\nLet the Power of Love win !\r\nOver the lust and love of Power\r\nLiberate us, O All Compassionate !\r\nOnly Thee can liberate !\n\r\nIn this great battle, depicted by the poets\r\nAs Epic Poetry, Iliad and Odyssey,\r\nRamayana and Mahabharata,\r\nThe Self is His great transparent mirror !\r\n\r\nDirecting and controlling the show throughout,\r\nThis cosmic play, this mighty show,\r\nIs willed by the Self in its totality\r\nAnd perpetually entertained!\r\n\r\nHe resides as the Self in the chariot,\r\nOf the human body, directing,\r\nThe five organs of sense, instructing\r\nThe intellect discriminative, to wage war eternal !\r\n\r\nAgainst the enemies formidable\r\nLust, greed, anger, jealousy,\r\nSloth, covetousness, gluttony,\r\nInherent in the bosom human,\r\n\r\nWith Love ineffable He makes us victorious,\r\nWith the qualities positive, aligned to Love !\r\nNegative qualities make a strategic retreat,\r\nHow can they thrive in atmosphere divine !\r\n\r\nIndian Mythology is 400,000 verses,\r\nCan you believe a man wrote that ?\r\nVyasa wrote treatises eighteen,\r\nThe adumbration of all truths philosophic !\r\n\r\nThe major treatise mythological\r\nIs Bhagavata, of 18000 verses\r\nWas condensed into verses 1008\r\nBy the genius of Melpathur\r\n\r\nOut of the eighth mythological treatise,\r\nThe Markandeya arose\r\nThe great Devi Mahatmyam\r\nExtolling the Power Divine !\r\n\r\nThe Prakriti of the Purusha !\r\nThe Power Divine which is immanent,\r\nAs Love in all created beings,\r\nPrema Roopena Samsthitha !\r\n\r\n The Power Divine which is the Universe\r\nThe Power Divine which is Life, Mind, Matter,\r\nThe Power Divine which is Being, Knowledge, Bliss,\r\nThe Power Divine which is all in all !\r\n\r\nOut of the mighty epic Ramayana,\r\nArose the Aditya Hridayam,\r\nExtolling the Solar Consciousness\r\nThe Inner Sun of all, the Absoute Self !\r\n\r\nSolar Consciousness is everywhere\r\nIs the synonym of Consciousness Cosmic\r\nIs the synonym of Witness Consciousness\r\nOr the I AM Consciousness transcedent !\r\n\r\nLakhs of verses adorn Siddhanta,\r\nLakhs of verses adorn Hora\r\nLakhs of verses adorn Samhita\r\nPhilosophy Indian is crores of slokas !\r\n\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Giving the book \"The Razors's Edge\", my Uncle's friend asked him,\n\"Do you know anything about this book ?\". My Uncle shook his head.\nHe was told \" It is the Upanishads\".<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10269,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions\/10269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}