गौतम ऋषि तथा अहल्या / gautama ṛṣi and ahalyā

गौतम ऋषि अहल्या इन्द्र भगवान् तथा श्रीराम 
gautama ṛṣi ahalyā indra and bhagavān śrī-rāma.

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Who was / is गौतम ऋषि / ? 
Who was / is अहल्या / ? 
Who was / is इन्द्र / indra ? 
Who is / was राम / rāma ? 
गौतम ऋषि  / gautama ṛṣi means purest essence of senses ( पुरुष / puruṣa / जीव / jīva ).
-The higher Consciousness in man. (Self)
अहल्या / ahalyā means the earth (physical body of man) 
not plowed / not-cultivated, pure.
-The lower Consciousness in man.(physical body)
Thus these 2 constitute the man.
इन्द्र / indra is but the Lord of heaven, the fulfilment and pinnacle of all worldly desires, that defiles and seduces the Lower Consciousness of man (अहल्या / ahalyā) and man is cursed by the Higher Consciousness (गौतम ऋषि  / gautama ṛṣi ) in himself, to become 'stone', - insensitive. But in His Kindness The Higher Consciousness also blesses  the Lower Consciousness of man, that she will be freed from this fall and be emancipated by the Divine Consciousness, liberated from this curse and attain Her inherent pristine purity when she is touched by the Holy Feet of Lord भगवान् श्री राम / bhagavān śrī rāma.
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संस्कृत / saṃskṛta : कावेरी / kāverī

संस्कृत / saṃskṛta 
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दर्शनाद् मोचयति रेवा स्पर्शाद् जाह्नवी तथा ।

स्मरणात् अपि गोदावरी कावेरी श्रवणादपि ॥
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अर्थ :
नर्मदा दर्शनमात्र से मनुष्य को मोक्ष प्रदान करती है, गङ्गा स्पर्श (स्नान) से, गोदावरी स्मरण मात्र से, जबकि कावेरी श्रवणमात्र से ।
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darśanād mocayati revā sparśād jāhnavī tathā  
smaraṇāt api godāvarī kāverī śravaṇādapi ||
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Meaning :
The river narmadā liberates one by merely having been seen, gaṅgā by having touched / bathed in,  godāvarī by mere remembrance, while kāverī liberates even by hearing about Her. 
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The virtual 'Cat-cult'.

The virtual 'Cat-cult'.
(Just a guess...)

सतो हि कलितः सतो हि कुलितः
बभूव सत् तत् अलं सतोलिक: 
कलितः च कुलितः तदेव सत्तत्
इतिलीयाः रोमनगरे च प्रथितः ॥
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अर्थ :
वही ’सत्’ जो सनातन-धर्म है, विकार और  कुल-परंपरा को प्राप्त होकर ’सतोलिक’ हुआ । इस प्रकार मूल धर्म विलुप्त होकर इटली के रोम नगर में  ’कॅथोलिक’ परंपरा का जन्म हुआ ।
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सत्-जात > सज्जात > सज्जाद > सज़दा > मस्जिद > साज़िद 
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sat-jāta > sajjāta > sajjāda > sazadā > masjida > sāzid 
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sato hi kalitaḥ sato hi kulitaḥ
babhūva sat tat alaṃ satolika: 
kalitaḥ ca kulitaḥ tadeva sattat
itilīyāḥ romanagare ca prathitaḥ ||
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Meaning : The sat which is the essence and substance of 
sanātana-dharma / 'dharma', after degeneration and fall got the name and form of 'Catholic Tradition',The virtual 'Cat-cult'.
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Delhi-Book-Fair / दिल्ली पुस्तक मेला

Delhi-Book-Fair.
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Happy to see that my Hindi translations :
ईश्वर क्या है?’ 
’शिक्षा क्या है?’ 
of the works of 
J.Krishnamurti 
are available here.
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दिल्ली पुस्तक मेला 

यह देखकर खुशी हुई कि मेरे द्वारा अनूदित दो टाइटल्स 
’ईश्वर क्या है?’ 
तथा 
’शिक्षा क्या है?’ 
यहाँ उपलब्ध हैं !
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Just a minute!

just a minute!
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√मा > माति (परस्मैपदी) > to measure / measures, evaluates,
√मा > मिमीते (आत्मनेपदी) > to enclose in, to scale, to cover,
√मिह् > मेहति > to make humid > मेघ > megh > मेघं > megham > Cloud > Maugham > Somerset Maugham 
मा > mā (to measure),
> माति (लट्) > māti (laṭ) > measures (verb),
> माता (लुट्) > mātā (luṭ) > one who measures, is the content of,
मा > mā > to measure, to estimate, to calculate, to be equal,  
> मिमीते > mimīte > measures (verb), to envelop, to mummify, 
 > माता (लुट्) > mātā (luṭ), one who measures, is the content of, Mother,
मान् > mān > to enquire, to question, (desire) to know, to aspire, to ask,
> मीमांसते > mīmāṃsate > enquires about, asks about, 
 मान् > mān > मानयति, मानयते > mānayati, mānayate > to respect, to regard, to honor,  
म्ना > mnā > > आ+मनति > ā+manati > to assume, to consider, to utter, to pronounce, 
> आम्नाय > āmnāya > that which is revealed in the consciousness, inspiration, insight, intution, intelligence. 
 > समाम्नाय > samāmnāya > (that which is revealed in the consciousness, inspiration, insight, intuition, intelligence, such, indubitable, irrefutable, beyond doubt, evident, explicit Reality.)
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What a vast minute!!

Mummified

Mummified !!
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Question : I know how to preserve a dead body by means of some herbs, secret incantations / magical ointments and rituals. Could you please tell me something about those incantations?

Answer : You may perhaps know the secret thing, but the success depends mainly upon the trust (upon me) of the one who is going to be mummified. Probably I could then suggest him / her if I am there with him / her during his / her last moments. But I have no  proof. Because the whole thing is so ambiguous, uncertain. And I don't want to experiment.What purpose is served by making a mummy? When a ज्ञानी  / jnaani dies, and his / her dead body is buried with due वैदिक  / vedik rituals, the place becomes a temple / समाधि ; where शिव  /shiva abides for ever and is available to those who worship the grave. Sanskrit ग्रावा  / grava = stone, स्तंभ  / stambh, लिंग  / ling. When an अज्ञानी  / ajnaanee dies and is made a mummy or put into a grave, his / her soul keeps returning to that place till total decay of the body. A mummy is supposed to attract the soul and the dead may come to see the same in his / her next life. A dead who is burnt, go to heaven and hell and after exhausting the destiny is born again  in a human body.
And lastly but no less important fact is if you can trust me, why don't you trust शिव  / Shiva directly?    
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अहं ब्रह्मास्मि / I AM THAT (Brahman).

Question : In 'अहं ब्रह्मास्मि‘ 'Aham’ means ego or body ?
Answer :In Sanskrit, aham means 'I' (pronoun). Aham means Self or self , God as the common entity in man and the existence, the intelligence supreme. When we say 'my body' we sure know we are not the body, though it is 'mine'. The faculty / consciousness that 'knows' body as a perceived object is 'I'. The 'body' and 'world' is perceived in 'consciousness' through 'senses'. Again in the same 'consciousness' thought, feelings emotions, memory are perceived as 'objects' Thus there is 'I' who / which knows them as 'objective things perceived in 'consciousness'. Thus 'consciousness' is the common support for anything to be perceived. But this 'consciousness' has a stable support where-from it emerges into body and returns to the same source. As in the case when one is asleep and nothing is perceived by one. We know inherently by instinct : 'I am one'. This oneness is again 'Aham' The ever-unchanging Reality, deathless, birth-less. This Aham is brahma in  'अहं ब्रह्मास्मि' .
In comparison, BrihadAraNyaka upaniShad explains ‘aham’ / अहं as ‘noun’ is the name of The Supreme Reality ‘brahman’ 
> ‘aham nAma abhavat’
> He (Supreme Self) acquired this name. 
According to ‘Skanda-purANa’ the ‘aham’ -pratyAhAra is the short form of all the letters in the ‘matrix’ of Sanskrit alphabet. from ‘a’, ‘A’,  ‘i’,  ‘I’,  ‘u’, ‘U’ ‘Ru’ ‘RU’, onwards ‘k’, ‘kh’...’y’, ‘r’ , ‘l’, ‘v’, ‘sh’, ‘Sh’, ‘s’ and last ‘h’ attached with the suffix ‘m’. So ‘aham’ denotes all the spoken letters. As Supreme Reality is expressed through all and any of them, ‘aham’ became His name.  
In Rgveda, Mandala 10, this Single name is denoted as ‘yahvaH’ that became ‘YHVH’ in Hebrew. This is the name that is not to be pronounced . This word also means ‘One who permeates and pervades all and everything.
Aham brahma asmi in Sanskrit means : I AM THAT (Brahman) . I am not what is perceived, but much more, because the perceived does not exist in the absence of 'I'. So 'Totality' (Brahman) is perceived + one who perceives. This Totality is Self.
And ego is but the 'I'-thought. We as consciousness exist even without saying 'I am'. But when we identify this existence with something perceived - like memory, experience, body, feeling, or name, sex, race, nationality, we are 'ego'. We don't have a 'ego' We are ego in that case. But in common parlance we have accepted the notion : I have no ego, small / big ego, ... 
'consciousness' is not 'ego', because 'ego' keeps decreasing, increasing, getting hurt or swollen. 'consciousness' stays unaffected. 'I' is even prior to this 'consciousness'.
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