Cosmic Body vs. Manifested Body (fight!)

Being born into a human body is quite a challenge. A life long challenge...

But does it make it easier to be a fly, that lives for 3 days? It's all perspective, because what may seem like a breezy 3 days to a human might actually be a long, arduous haul for said fly...

We're this floating consciousness, born into this body and then there's all this karma attached to our Being and bodies that we need to work through, just to crack a smile.

Then we have to consider the effects our bodies have on out minds... But, that's another thing...

I've found that it's easier to deal with the tangible body as a means of pacifying the mind... And to calm the mind, we must cultivate out Being, via a rested nervous system.

Now, I'd like to identify some of the heroes in my life, including myself. These are individual situations born in to bodies that have raised certain complications, and though we seem to tread through life carefree... Well, take another look:

Growing up, I had a best friend - Let's call him "E6". E6 is still an amazing visual creative artist. His twist in life was that he was dyslexic and had severe mood fluctuation that gave him mortal thoughts...

Next I met A1, also a visual artist. Not only was her first language not English, but she was also his by a car when she was 8 years old, that made her lose her hearing. Now she is dependent on sign language and lip reading, hearing aids and lights that tell her when the telephone is ringing of someone is at the door. Yet she is raising a gorgeous little girl & husband.

T1 is a musician and visual artist. He and his wife have a pre-teen daughter. In 2008, he had the lower part of his left leg amputated. He now has to go one bike rides with his daughter using a prosthetic.

Recently, I met a public speaker who was born deaf. Yet he's a professional public speaker.

Myself, I have an invisible accent on my persona of head injury & nerve = chronic pain and spaciness... But I practice Transcendental Meditate, and use all the Vedic technologies available to me to make my everyday a functional day. I'm a musician and creative artist... But I can't produce anything when "my body won't allow me" - like my step-father used to say...

But it's just amazing what our bodies can do, and the different shapes they take...

I consider that the challenges I've had with my body, since first becoming an adult, have been a gift. The way i navigate life in quite ninja-like, and that's only because I have been force to navigate memory loss, paralysis, post-traumatic stress...

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Pain Attack vs. Vedic Technology (fight!): An experience to remember...

I feel like I've unlocked a mystery that had been buried within. the knowledge gained came from another source outside of myself but I can also consider that "tat tvam asi" -- All this is That. All the knowledge comes from the same source -- what I like to identify as the Unified Field. From the Unified Field, there is an unlimited number of possibilities that can emerge.

I feel as though I've discovered a little secret, or that I've been given all the keys to the castle... That the world is at my command.

Sometime last week, I was sitting in my Bhagavad Gita class, when I had an attack of pain run through my body. The residuals of a traumatic brain injury: Nerve damage, which leads to chronic pain. I had just finished reading Chapter 6 verses 20-23, and I felt as though my body was responding to it...

All I could do was sit there and experience my body. All my nerves were on fire, and I felt panic grip me. The Teacher's Assistant looked at, but I had no words... Or rather, my frontal lobes couldn't quite get it together to send messages to my mouth to start moving because it was too preoccupied with keeping the screams at bay.

So, I got up and carried my out of the room.  I walked downstairs to where there was a 40"x40" model of the Maharishi Vedic Observatory in the lobby. Since I have been taking a class on how to use the instruments of the Vedic Observatory for the past month, my awareness of the connection between my physical body, the Cosmos and my causal body has grown:

a.       Relationship between Bhagavad Gita & Pyschomotor Skills

                                                   i.      The Gita is part if the Itihās, which has the Blossoming Totality quality of Chhandas in the Brāhmaṇa branch of the 40 aspects of the Vedic Literature.

                                                 ii.      The Itihās represents the Voluntary motor and sensory projections of the Human Physiology, as identified in Maharaj Adhiraj Rajaraam’s book “Human Physiology: Expression of Veda and the Vedic Literature”, displaying the laws of nature in thought and action.

                                                iii.      The Itihās stems to the Ramayana & Mahabharata.  The Bhagavad Gita is the  finale of the Mahabharata, which is represented by the neuronal fibres that activate the musculo-skeletal system blossoming of thoughts and feelings into speech and action.

b.      The Vedic Observatory

                                                   i.      The Vedic Observatory encompasses the Constitution of the Universe.

                                                 ii.      The purpose is to see the alignment that exists in the cosmos and to bring it onto the sensory level. The Observatory brings out the inner intelligence through the intellect, mind, senses, and behavior—and takes it to the level of cosmic behavior. The observer locates himself with reference to his counterparts in the heavens.

c.       My experience of reading the Gita while taking the observatory class has been beautiful.

                                                   i.       As my intellect has been raised by the knowledge of the Vedānt to the level of my Being, my senses and physical behavior has remained aligned.

In the end, thanks to my expanded awareness, 

I was able to overcome and was not overshadowed by neuronal pain. yay!!!

Transcending

Soon after a motor vehicle accident when I was 18, I returned to school at a small college... I was brain injured with my senses completely overwhelmed. Wanting to be part of society again, after many months of rehabilitation following one month in a coma; bilateral paralysis taunted me with a wheel chair.

Overwhelmed by the activity around me, I developed a technique of focusing on the sounds in my environment until I found the finest sound level. and tuned myself to that frequency. All the sounds of my environment, people laughing and talking loud, doors slamming, tables and chairs scrapping the floor, I would perceive as a blended hum. I would breathe with that hum, become one with the hum... Until that sounds that overpowered me became me.

Thirteen years later, I gave this description to a super string theorist soon after auditing his Physics class. He described my experience as  "a technique of transcending", but assured me that "transcending on the mantra is substantially more evolutionary". He was referring to Transcendental Meditation.

That was almost a year ago, and I have been meditating on my personal mantra for almost 3 years. When I learned TM in 2008, I was still experiencing the effects of nerve damage that really made my life challenging. All though I had been able to complete a bachelors degree and was even playing drums, and even today, I continue to experience chronic pain and numbness in my limbs.

What role does TM play in my life?

First thing was to realign the path I was on... Which brought me straight to Fairfield, IA, where I am now studying Vedic Science. While Studying Vedic Science, I am reading Vedic Literature in Sanskrit. My experience of reading the Vedic Literature, which has been found to exist in the human physiology, is clearer thinking and behaving, even being able to sit up straight... Reading Vedic Literature, just like the practice of Transcendental Meditation, cultures the Nervous System...

Reading the literature in Sanskrit, I am able to experience the individual frequencies -- vritti, oscillating through my physiology, reawakening what seemed to be dead or dying in my Nervous System.

This is what I feel is most important to share right now. More to come...