Month: July 2023

Rebirth symbolism

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The imagery of rebirth is of two main orders. The moon which dies and is resurrected is the chief symbol of this miracle of rebirth in time. The moon sheds its shadow as the serpent sheds its skin. The serpent also plays a role as the symbol of this same principle of life that is reborn from its own death. In traditional mythologies, the sacrificial bull, too, is associated with this symbolism of death and rebirth. The horns of the moon are rendered in the horns of the bull. The sacrifice of the bull is symbolic of the sacrifice of that mortal part in us which leads to the release of the eternal.

The sun is our second symbol of rebirth, evoking that idea of not coming back at all, of not being reborn here but of passing beyond the spheres of rebirth altogether to a transcendent light. The typical image for this is the sun. The moon carries darkness within it but wherever the sun goes there is no darkness. There are only the shadows of those forces that do not open themselves to its light. The image of the sun- door speaks of yet another kind of rebirth, that of the return of the lost one-that is, the one who is lost in the spheres of shadows and time, who returns to that eternal root which is his own great root.

As the bull is symbolic of the moon, so the lion, with his great radiant solar face, is the symbolic animal of the sun. As the rising sun quenches the moon and the stars, so the lion’s roar scatters the grazing animals, just as the lion’s pouncing on the bull symbolizes the sun’s extinguishing the moon. If we recall the serpent, we recognize the eagle, the solar bird, as its counterpoint. So we have these parallels: eagle against serpent, lion against bull, Sun against moon.

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Who is a Hero or Heroine?

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There are so many stories in mythology.Because that’s what’s worth writing about. Even in popular novels, the main character is a hero or heroine who has found or done something beyond the normal range of achievement and experience. A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Well, there are two types of deeds. One is the physical deed, in which the hero performs a courageous act in battle or saves a life. The other kind is the spiritual deed, in which the hero learns to experience the supernormal range of human spiritual life and then comes back with a message.eg Lord Buddha.

Every father is a hero,who earns money for his family,but unfortunately it is not being considered a heroic act.
Just because if a dog bites a man, that’s not a story,but if a man bites a dog,you have got a story there.
So the thing that happens and happens and happens,no matter how heroic it may be,is not news.
eg. Giving birth to a child is a great heroic act,but that happens and happens and happens.Motherhood has lost its novelty,you might say .
“There is no greater warrior than a mother in this world.”KGF (Indian Movie).
He, who has the courage to do more is more worthwhile than his life.

A hero is not someone who saves life but opens the door to all ordinary people to be alive.

Because death is an integral part of life.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

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“AUM” mythology and metaphors

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AUM” is a word that represents to our ears that sound of the energy of the universe of which all things are manifestations. You start in the back of the mouth “ahh,” and then “oo,” you fill the mouth, and “mm” closes the mouth. When you pronounce this properly, all vowel sounds are included in the pronunciation. AUM. Consonants are here regarded simply as interruptions of the essential vowel sound. All words are thus fragments of AUM, just as all images are fragments of the Form of forms. AUM is a symbolic sound that puts you in touch with that resounding being that is the universe. If you heard some of the recordings of Tibetan monks chanting AUM, you would know what the word means, all right. That’s the AUM of being in the world. To be in touch with that and to get the sense of that is the peak experience of all.

A-U-M. The birth, the coming into being, and the dissolution that cycles back. AUM is called the “four-element syllable.” A-U-M-and what is the fourth element? The silence out of which AUM arises, and back into which it goes, and which underlies it. My life is the A-U-M, but there is a silence underlying it, too. That is what we would call the immortal. This is the mortal and that’s the immortal, and there wouldn’t be the mortal if there weren’t the immortal. One must discriminate between the mortal aspect and the immortal aspect of one’s own existence. In the experience of my mother and father who are gone, of whom I was born, I have come to understand that there is more than what was our temporal relationship. Of course there were certain moments in that relationship when an emphatic demonstration of what the relationship was would be brought to my realization. I clearly remember some of those. They stand out as moments of epiphany, of revelation, of the radiance.

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What is poetry ??

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The ultimate, unqualified mystery is beyond human experience just like god is beyond thinking and experiences.and poetry comes from there.

Poetry is a language that has to be penetrated. Poetry involves a precise choice of words that will have implications and suggestions that go past the words themselves. Then you experience the radiance, the epiphany. The epiphany is the showing through of the essence.

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RANJ – Poetry

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वो कहने लगे,

तेरी ढ़लती शाम में आफ़ताब लेकर आऊंगा

तेरी जिंदगी में खुशियाँ,

बेहिसाब लेकर आऊंगा,

हमने कहा-

रहने दो जनाब !

की मेरी शाम भी कुछ हसीं कम नहीं

मेरी चांद की रौशनी भी इतनी भी कम नहीं

हो जाएंगी खुशियां बेहिसाब मेरी

अभी मेरे ज़िंदगी के घाव इतने भी नम नही

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