Sarvadharmaan Parityajya...

Svadharma and Sarvadharama.

In the Bhagavad Gita Lord gives two cryptic sayings. Very thought provoking they are.

1. Svadharme Nidhanam Sreyah Para Dharamo Bhayavahah

It is better to leave the body performing once one Dharma(path of Liberation) than to seek non-self dharama, for the non-self Dharma is dreadful.

From the above it appears there is one way for each of the creations to follow that will lead to the goal. If that being so there shall be myriads of Dharma.

Is it really so ?

Again you find one more saying from the Lord :

Saravadharman Parityajya Mama ekam Saranam vraja.

Leave aside all the Dharama and Surrender unto Me.

This is one step ahead.

Seek Him who needs to be sought.

Not just that-but leaving aside all Dharma(of the self).

Not just that-but that seeking through surrendering unto Him.

So when we seek Him through His path there are no svadharama or paradharama but one and the only one-that is His way !!

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What is the Journey Within ?

An ardent disciple of a Master having read many philosophical books, having heard so many master’s speeches, having gone through much of spiritual literature got bewildered and was in search of ‘one statement’ from the Master that he can follow instead of so many myriads of ideas, concepts, ways and means.

So in search of this one statement he devoutly reaches the feet of the master and asks him:
‘Sir, I have read many. I have heard aplenty. Please teach me one thing that I should do so that remains with me for ever and that I can abide by that I am in the right path of the journey’.
The Master in His mercy gives in the subtlest way three examples of Journey Within.

The Master says:

My child I give you three examples.

Observe the seed. It is from the tree. It’s thrown on the land. As long it is on the Land it does not sprout. It goes beneath the Land. It goes into journey within. Then it sprouts. It germinates. It starts as sapling. It grows. It grows into a tree. It again starts giving seeds. So where is the original seed now? Where it has gone into to germinate again?

Observe the Egg. The Egg goes into journey within under the hatching of its mother. For 21 days or so it takes its journey within. Then the egg breaks. The life appears. The Life has started. What did the egg do to become life? Where it went in? What journey does it take with in that Life came out of that? Where is that Egg now?

Consider sperm and Egg. It takes 9 months and 10 days for that sperm and egg to take a shape of the child in the womb of the mother. The child is in journey with in the mother. It takes the child of the time to come out into existence. Where was that child? What journey that underwent to come out into existence? Where is that sperm and egg now?

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Atlantis The Mystery of Lost Civilization

The Atlantean legend fires human imagination with the tales of a lost Civilization.

They were expected with great capacities and expected to have survived till around 1200 BC ie., about 3200 years back.

Frank Joseph of 'Destruction of Atlantis' famed research book, with his 20 years of research points to the time 1198 BC when the destruction (cataclysm) of the great Atlantis is possible to have happened.

Is it legend ? Is it true ? Did Atlantis really exist ?

The first mention of Atlantis occurs in two of Plato's Dialogues: Timaeus and Critias(Kritias)- written somewhere between 370 and 350 BC.

According to Plato, the story of Atlantis came to him from certain 200-year-old records of the Greek ruler Solon.

Solon it appears heard of Atlantis from an Egyptian Priest. According to Plato Atlantis lies some where near the Straits of Gibraltar.

Also it appears to have destroyed around 10,000 years before his time( What is the calculation of years according to Plato ? Is the year what we consider the same as what he considered ?)
The Sleeping Prophet of Virginia Beach, gave many readings on the lost continent of Atlantis.
In 1880s Ignatius T. T. Donnelly (1831-1901), a US congressman from Minnesota, wrote 'Atlantis: The Antediluvian World'.

In 1920s Lewis Spence's wrote 'The Problem of Atlantis'.

Frank Joseph's Book 'Destruction of Atlantis' is this millennium's greatly researched book.

Many traditions across world point deluge by great comets/volcanic eruptions/natural cataclysms.

Who knows when the mysteries of Atlantis get revealed ?

Need to wait and Watch ?

Hope the New Year 2007 throws more light on this mysterious Atlantis for this is the year which sums to 9 as its the first year that sums to 9 and by all prophecies number 9 is a magical number. Hope this magical 9 reveals more mysteries of this Millennium !

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