Once there lived a great devotee of the Sun whose name was ‘Satrajit’ and as he sat there meditating, the god of the Sun who was pleased with his devotion, appeared before him. Unable to see his master clearly he requested him to remove his glaring effulgence and so to please his devotee … Read more
Six hundred years or so ago in the fabled land of Rajasthan, home of Kings, princess Mira blossomed under the benevolent guidance of her grandfather. Many versions of her amazing life in 14th century India abound, this particular retelling is not to please the historian or the scholar, for I am neither, but … Read more
‘V’ has been seen to express the concepts of ‘separation’ ‘distinction’ ‘division’ ‘diffusion’ ‘detachment’ as can be seen within the root ‘Vi’ whose meaning is to ‘separate’ the root ‘Va’ whose meaning is ‘diffusion’ the root ‘Vr’ whose meaning is to ‘choose’ the root ‘Ve’ whose meaning is to ‘intertwine’ to ‘weave’ all … Read more
Jun 16, 2016 — MULBERRY, TENNESSEE, USA (SUN) We’ve made friends with politicians, but politicians are just politicians until they wear tilak and neckbeads in public… and proclaim their devotion to the Golden Lord of madhurya rasa… then they can truly be called friends and real well wishers. Just to have … Read more
I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, “Where is that?” If I offer a clue by referring to “Bikini”, they say, “You mean the swimsuit.” Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 – the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for twelve years. Bikini is silent today, mutated and contaminated. Palm trees grow in a strange grid formation. Nothing moves. There are no birds. The headstones in the old cemetery are alive with radiation. My shoes registered “unsafe” on a Geiger counter. Standing on the beach, I watched the emerald green of the Pacific fall away into a vast black hole. This was the crater left by the hydrogen bomb they called “Bravo”. The explosion poisoned people and their environment for hundreds of miles, perhaps forever.
On my return journey, I stopped at Honolulu airport and noticed an American magazine called Women’s Health. On the cover was a smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit, and the headline: “You, too, can have a bikini body.” A few days earlier, in the Marshall Islands, I had interviewed women who had very different “bikini bodies”, each had suffered thyroid cancer and other life-threatening cancers. Unlike the smiling woman in the magazine, all of them were impoverished, the victims and guinea pigs of a rapacious superpower that is today more dangerous than ever.
I relate this experience as a warning and to interrupt a distraction that has consumed so many of us. The founder of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays, described this phenomenon as “the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the habits and opinions” of democratic societies. He called it an “invisible government”. How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missile.
In 2009, President Obama stood before an adoring crowd in the centre of Prague, in the heart of Europe. He pledged himself to make “the world free from nuclear weapons”. People cheered and some cried. A torrent of platitudes flowed from the media. Obama was subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It was all fake. He was lying. The Obama administration has built more nuclear weapons, more nuclear warheads, more nuclear delivery systems, more nuclear factories. Nuclear warhead spending alone rose higher under Obama than under any American president. The cost over thirty years is more than $1 trillion.
An artists drawing of the ancient Martand temple built over a thousand years ago as an offering to ‘Surya’ god of the Sun and a name formed from ‘marta’ meaning ‘death’ and ‘anda’ meaning ‘egg’ as in the dead ( marta ) egg ( anda ) a name expressing how Aditi cast him … Read more
‘Vi’ is a root from the language of Sanskrit whose meaning is to ‘separate’ and this combines with ‘D’ whose meaning is ‘light’ and produces ‘Dvi’ a word from the language of Sanskrit whose primordial meanings are that which separates ( vi ) from the light ( d ) and whose secondary meanings … Read more
Within the year of 1786 Sir William Jones who was a Welsh philologist and also the judge of the supreme court of Bengal, sent shock waves throughout the lands of Europe as he presented the following speech in his address to the Asiatic society of Bengal. “The Sanskrit language, whatever be its … Read more
We are all in Transit Please visit our Blog to read more on the humanitarian crisis of immigration and the actual background of it from the spiritual point of view. Here is a short video from Budapest’s International Train Station highlighting the refugee crisis which no one seems to be able … Read more
As a great preacher of the ancient culture of the Vedas, the great Indradyumna Marharaj continued his festivals throughout Russia where he came across Professor Medvedev, the chairman of the religious affairs committee. The irony of the professors name was not lost upon Marharaj who knew it was formed from two words whose … Read more
