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Good commie and Bad commie 2

Basically, a good commie is simply someone who wishes that all people will attain peace. But he does not try to control others in order to attain that goal, as that is against the idea of giving peace to all people. For the same reason, it is one who meditates on: 🕉️ Asatoma Satgamaya, Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya, Mrityoma Amritamgamaya. 🕉️ Shanti, Shanti, Shanti Hi: A bad commie chastises others, and in the process, he destroys the very foundation on which he built the notion of communism. It is said that the idea that the nature of man is egoism is to say that the nature of a factory worker is to cough, and that it is only a problem of capitalism. However, they forget the fact that it is the nature of nature of man to be capitalist, and not the nature of something else. To explain this paradox, the bad commie simply dehumanizes the capitalist by saying he is not a man, but is a demon. So they bring in superstitions to make these claims. (I guess communism is not about peace for all, but ...

On finding the Self everywhere

# 1. The simple principle All things that appear are created by imposing a Nama Roopa on to Brahman. Jiva (Nama Roopa) > Lakshana: Brahman Eeshvara (Naama Roopa) > Lakshana: Brahman For all that appears, their true Lakshana is Brahman. That is, even for inert matter. A Jiva is simply Brahman reflected on the mind, which is inert, yet reflective enough to be life. On the contrary, the material world does not reflect life. And Eeshvara is Brahman viewed from within Maaya by a Jiva, when in a state of Ajnaana. # 2. Extending it to multiple levels e.g. Robert (Nama Roopa) > Lakshana: Pet (Nama Roopa) > Lakshana: Jiva (Nama Roopa) > Lakshana: Brahman e.g. Bad Word (Nama Roopa) > Lakshana: Sound (Nama Roopa) > Lakshana: Inert Material (Nama Roopa) > Lakshana: Brahman In this way, the we see that words can refer to chains of meanings. But you can always jump to the deepest meaning, and the ultimate deepest meaning is always Brahman. Now, when we are within the influenc...

The Atheist's misreading

The thing is, every sage will tell you that the Purana stories are not literal, but simplified tales to help you understand reality. And the atheists immediately equate them to the Panchatantra Tales or Aesop's Fables, because they think to say otherwise would simply be saying that they're literal, and therefore they are lies. But the thing is, the first principle of all the traditions is that the basis of all reality is a consciousness, or Brahman, and not material. In short, if one doesn't believe in an imperishable self or Atma in all beings, then they are not speaking in the same terms. The reason is that if you get everything on top, but miss the foundation, you'll be making a big mistake. For example, I found a 16 year old coder in Twitter in 2022 saying that he knows React.js, but did not know about deeper concepts like HTML. If you don't know what HTML is, you'll think that all websites are made of JS and CSS, and miss that it's HTML with styling and...

On Eeshvara and Deities 2

Eeshvara Swaroopa Moorthi is one way of saying "the Spirit of God". So it's the same thing. That is, "the conception of the light of God." And about Panchayatana Pooja, it's only necessary to worship 5 deities to make it analogous to the 5 people who you spend most time with. But then if you just consider numbers as an abstraction and don't cling to the discreteness, then focusing on the Self alone is enough. But instead, I can worship the presence of the light in each person too. But well, each person is tainted by their own minds anyways. But here's where the another analogy comes in: if you're the light source, you do not have.to do anything to dispel darkness, except be present. Also, take care to ensure you don't have conflicting thoughts. The rest, I'll conginue only in my private meditation notes. I just mentioned this because I used the word deities, and it's a slur in the modern world, but I don't care about it.

Worshipping Eeshvara vs deities

In Advaita Vedanta, though Eeshvara (Brahman) is the creator of Maya, he doesn't do anything else within it. The only understanding one gains from knowing Eeshvara is that he is all-knowing, and is your true self, and is the one who created the Maya you're experiencing - and therefore you have a guarantee that everything is going to turn out right eventually. However, as the fate unfolds, the ones who help you are the deities. That is, within Maya, you are bound to cause and effect by your own choice, and your goal is to navigate the maze and attain liberation. But in that process, when you're overcome by darkness, you need the help of deities to be the light that dispels it. Now Bhagavad Geeta points out the metaphysics, guides you to understanding it, and then also advises you to have Bhakti to your own Swaroopa as Eeshvara as part of Bhakti Yoga. And it doesn't directly recommend worshipping multiple deities. But the Swaroopa of any entity at all is Eeshvara. Therefo...

Funny Dream (N+1)

#Draft Was in class. Second / third row, left side, door to the left, close to the grill window, that is, facing the central garden side. There was a snail, and I was describing about the snail to the person near me, I forgot who it was, probably Akshay BR, but may not be.. I'm not sure. But if it was him, I surely did annoy him too, despite him being interested in this stuff. Basically I decided to randomly analyze a snail, simply because I decided that I could find knowledge anywhere. (So basically this dream is me in school, but if I had a more developed prefrontal cortex!) So anyways when he got annoyed, miss made him stand up lol. So anyways, the break came. It was like, it was an evening studies class, because this was at about sunset, and the weather was kind of gloomy. So Dhanvin came to me, but in the dream, it was more like my dad if he was younger - and that would be because he was being playfully sarcastic, and in a long time, I'd only talked to my dad like that. So...

On multiple paths

#Draft (1) The analogy of directions to destinations - from East, West, South (1.1) Add the analogy of someone from East asking why can't I go North if others can choose different paths - when the goal is to reach the centre. (2) A better analogy - representing angles in degrees vs radians - the value of sin(180) is obtained at sin(6.28) in radians. For those who use different axioms, the methods have to be different. If you mix up, you get different results. (3) Why doesn't everyone use radians then? Because each path has its own benefits. Degrees are easier to measure using protractors, but radians are easier to work intuitively with.

On Muhammad - and finally finding peace with Muslims

First of all, I do not know of a person named Muhammad. So every person holds his own view of him. If any person finds goodness in his words and finds peace, I'm all for that. But it's also true that some people have found bad ideas from his words. But this is true for any good person too. Even if a person was really good, people only see how they and others see him. Now, I believe that you can find good ideas from anywhere, and I hold no restrictions on where you can find it from. It is your heart where the real you lies.  If someone finds bad ideas, wherever they're from, I do not have to put in constant effort to defend myself from them. I am protected by my deities according to my beliefs. I follow Advaita Vedanta. (More on this below). If I am harmed, it's because my deities failed to protect me. If I find peace, that too is from my deities. Whether they protect me or not is based on what's in my heart and that's due to my actions. My fate is my own making,...

Dream N

Wanted to watch Terminator 1 (which my dad showed me in when I was young). So dream character was me myself. I was watching some other movie before that, but when it got immersive, I forgot what it was. Now, I don't remember how Terminator 1 was. I didn't know if it was the one with the bar fight. So my dream still began reconstructing it. Arnold walks drives a cruiser bike into the front of a hotel, naked. And Arnold's body was censored with black bars. I wonder why all dream CDs always censor naked people. Cosmic censor board? When he gets up and walks in, of course he gets the looks. There are two hallways sections, one the public restaurant, and the inner, I believe was the private dining hall of some gangsters. I walked in. They asked - [and oh wait - as I was seeing the dream, it was as if I was Arnold himself, and at other times, it was as if I was a spirit watching around him. Let me guess, maybe it was like how you see yourself in 3rd person when you're recolle...

The difference between "sin" and "immorality"

A sin is not an immoral action. A sin is simply defiance of a stated set of rules. For example, if it was said that one must polish their shoes before wearing socks, then not doing so is simply a sin. It has nothing to do with morality. A sin a sin simlly because it is defined as such.

Dharma (what it means)

#Draft Dharma is often taken to mean morality. It isn't. It simply means duty, or more precisely, the right action (Karma) one must do for the best results. The Dharma of a solider of bad king is to serve his king, not to defect. Or is it? I'm not sure. But the point is to make the idea clear. A more clear example can be made when you take entities without agency. The Dharma of the immune system of a bad guy is to defend that guy, not to kill him, knowing he's a bad guy.

Good commie vs Bad commie

A good commie is a good guy who feels that communism can solve world problems. A bad commie is a guy who thinks that the rich should not have what they have and it should be taken from them. In effect, a good commie will always try to sell communism, while a bad commie tries to enforce it. The thing about a good guy is that he will never blame others for his conditions. But the bad guy will use the story of the good guy to fight the rich guys. The bad guy is bad here, because he doesn't have the quality of the good guy that makes him good. He cannot fight for the good guy and claim that he is good, because he is not good, as I've just shown. The act he took on because he was bad cannot redeem him. Analogy: It would be like saying that an impulsive person who shot a bad guy was good because of what he did. No, he decided to kill because he was impulsive, and even if the killed person was bad, that doesn't make his killing good. Now the situation is different if the guy who ...