Gita

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Dearest Mary Ann,

Thank you very much for your kind and encouraging message.

I believe I have found a very nice forum with sincere people, where we can all

learn from each other.

The thing that I like the most in it, is the integration of East and West,

ancient and modern, without the hidden agenda of getting members for a

particular institution or school that characterizes many Internet groups.

 

However, I must say I had felt disturbed by the expression of that very negative

perception regarding Bhagavad Gita.

Here in Puri we are developing an ashram called Gita Marga Ashram, and for us

Bhagavad Gita is the most important and basic text, that can change the

consciousness of the entire global society. It is our own Mother. Adi Shankara

compared Gita to the Surabhi Cow, Arjuna to Her calf, and Gopala Krishna as the

expert milkman: the result is thick nutritious nectar. Some people may have milk

allergy/intolerance because they have consumed it in a bad form or way in their

early childhood, some people may mistreat the cow and pollute the milk with

blood and pus as in the factory farms (inspiring vegans to give up milk

consumption altogether), some people may present the milk in a commercial,

adulterated and poor form to make undue profit out of it, but that does not

diminish the value of the milk itself as the “liquid form of religion” described

in the Vedas.

I think you can understand the milk metaphor.

Study and worship of Gita is also strongly recommended by Adi Shankara and the

teachings of the Gita are highly respected by all Hindu scholars and many

non-Hindu scholars as well, all along history.

I believe it is always good to express one’s feelings. I don’t blame anyone for

expressing theirs, but I think that bad feelings need to be healed through

knowledge, not only for the benefit of those who have them in their “gardens”

but also for the benefit of the world at large.

 

Regarding the pillow fights, yes, I had seen the connection with the children

playing, but even children playing can get ugly and destructive. We cannot judge

violence simply based on the amount of blood or amputations we see. Otherwise we

would become offensive even to Mother Kali’s pictures. Mother Kali kills the

asuras and wears skirts and garlands of their chopped body parts, yet nobody can

say that Mother Kali HATES (i.e. HIMSA) anybody.

Children teasing, harassing, tormenting and picking on an “easy target” at

school (a victim from a group they have learned to HATE from their cultural

background) can be far more violent, destructive and cruel than a warrior

fighting on the battlefield to defend his land, home and family from aggressive

invasors. I wanted to make sure that this point was taken. You can have funny

pillow fights with your good friends and family members – not with Ku Klux Klan.

However, I understand that it is difficult to understand Vedic kshatriya dharma

for people who have been brought up in societies where army service is

obligatory for everyone and the military ethics are on the level of the Abu

Grahib (Irak) example.

 

Regarding the move from Shiva/Shakti to Vishnu worship in the history of the

planet, you may take it as you like, but I have come to remember several of my

past lifetimes and my personal memories include this passage. The process of my

integrating past life memories and knowledge started in 1984 and since then I

have also helped other people to recover their own past lifetimes memories and

find their own karmic path.

The first lifetime I can remember is as a worshiper of the Mother Goddess in

Europe apparently around 8,000 years ago, and my personal karmic journey has

taken me through strong oscillations between the two poles, in the effort of

integrating them in a positive way.

In this meantime I have been inspired by my memories and feelings to research

about history and archeology, and particularly about the history of religions

and “lost civilizations”. Many people are going through this awareness process,

and many good books have been written and published, including the Chalice and

the Blade.

I am still researching, but I have already found many very interesting things –

if our friends want, I can share some of them. Especially with the help of

pictures: one picture is often worth one hundred words.

I think you may have heard about the Age of Aquarius and the Great Year of the

planet Earth (with months of 2160 ordinary years each). About 5,000 years ago we

(as the inhabitants of this planet) moved from the matristic Taurus age to the

heavily patristic Aries age. From my research, this coincided with an invasion

of Rakshasas in the region now called Saharasia (see DeMeo’s book) from Caucasus

to north Africa. It may not have been just a “coincidence”.

The particular historical situation originated the Semitic cultures in the

Middle East (an aberration in the history of mankind), but the revolution was

widespread and I believe that it gradually affected India, too. In India it was

called Kali yuga. In the ancient European civilizations it was called the “iron

age” coming after the “golden age” – a concept that is totally contrary to the

mainstream academic belief that mankind “evolved” from a primitive uncivilized

level to a “more civilized” level precisely about 5,000 years ago.

 

Regarding the ideas about dominator and partnership mentalities, I completely

agree with you and Riane Eisler on the fact that each one of us carries these

tendencies in ourselves through collective unconscious and consciousness.

In fact, to my knowledge, the entire teaching of the pre-Christian civilization

and Gnostic Ebionite Christians (i.e. the original teachings of the historical

Jesus), as well as the alchemic Kabbala and the tantric tradition, is aimed at

the “Divine Wedding” between the female and the male part in each and every one

of us.

I was also talking about mentalities, not about single individuals who have a

male or female body. There can be (and there are) souls in female bodies who

deny their female energy, and souls in male bodies who embrace the divine union

of both energies. There are also souls in male or female bodies who seek such

union only externally, and get stuck in external, limited and dualistic bodily

identification.

 

For this reason, I appreciated very much that posting about the “chastity” of

the “inner shakti” of each individual to the purpose of spiritual growth and

alchemic transformation.

Thank you again for your kindness and encouragement, and I will be honored to

post again.

 

PK Devi