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miércoles, 22 de mayo de 2013

INDIA´S GANGES: A RIVER IN A DROP OF WATER

By Hugo M. G. von Österreich und von Toskana
May 22, 2013


Source: Stay Woo


Life is a mysterious force that pervades planet Earth. Each speck of life contains a bit of this force since it originated. All together these portions make up an entire current of life that has given rise to the Biosphere, the self-sustaining thin layer that keeps out the harshness of outer space at bay.

Likewise, a single drop of water contains a whole ocean. The mightiest river always start out as one drop... two drops... three drops... a hundred drops... a thousand drops... and then millions upon millions of drops of water until all of them combined give rise to a river.  

A river which is a source of life. Water is the substance behind the force of life. Life depends on water on planet Earth. Thus, here lies water´s sacredness.

Nowhere on Earth is this best understood than in India, the mystic land where Gods and Goddesses still find a refuge and the natural elements are still revered.

In a highly homogenised and fast moving modern world, a lot of travelers search for fields where flowers of authenticity still bloom, to recapture the connection with the beauty and blissfulness of the lost paradise.

Let us take a journey to India and explore the sacred Ganges River, from the temple of Gangotri, the place where Hindus believe that Ganges first appeared on Earth, to the Bay of Bengal, where the drops of water from the Himalayas reconnect once again with the ocean. 

One drop of water from the mountains coming together with its source after wandering for thousands of years along mysterious pathways on its homeward bound trip.

So are our lives. We are drops of water that one day will reconnect with the ocean of life. It does not matter how many twists and turns we describe in our lives, we are always homeward bound. 

We are an atom of water observing itself along the mysterious path of life. And we should feel blessed we have been given such a gift. A gift to ponder about life. 

A gift to ponder about a drop of water. We are water captured in a single pack to observe the path of life before our eyes, just for an instant before we join the vastness of the ocean once again. Let us rejoice for that!

This is well understood in India, the land that has not yet given up its sacred vein despite the assault of the barrenness of the engine of modernity. 

And indeed we do hope that India never loses this insight towards life. Now more than ever we need India´s wisdom, its knowledge and reverence for life, for we are in mortal danger of becoming mere pieces of a cold, dead machine.





Documentary in Spanish/Documetal en español:

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GANGES: UN RIO EN UNA GOTA DE AGUA



La vida es una fuerza misteriosa que impregna el planeta Tierra. Cada partícula de vida contiene un poco de esa fuerza, desde que se originó. En conjunto estas partes constituyen toda una corriente de vida que ha dado lugar a la biosfera, la capa delgada autosustentable que mantiene la dureza del espacio exterior al margen.
 

Del mismo modo, una sola gota de agua contiene todo un océano. El río más caudaloso siempre comienza como una gota ... dos gotas ... tres gotas ... un centenar de gotas ... un millar de gotas ... y millones y millones de gotas de agua hasta que todas ellas combinadas dan lugar a un río.


Un río que es una fuente de la vida. El agua es la sustancia detrás de la fuerza de la vida. La vida depende del agua en el planeta Tierra. Por lo tanto, aquí está lo sagrado del agua.



En ningún lugar de la Tierra entienden esto mejor que en la India, tierra mística donde los dioses y diosas todavía encuentran un refugio y los elementos naturales son aún venerados.


En un mundo moderno rápido y muy homogenizado, muchos viajeros buscan campos donde las flores de autenticidad todavía florecen, para recuperar la conexión con la belleza y bienaventuranza del paraíso perdido.



Tomemos un viaje a la India y exploremos el río sagrado Ganges, desde el templo de Gangotri, el lugar donde los hindúes creen que el Ganges apareció por primera vez en la Tierra, hasta la Bahía de Bengala, donde las gotas de agua de la cordillera del Himalaya se reconectan de nuevo con el océano.


Una gota de agua de las montañas se une con su origen después de vagar durante miles de años a lo largo de rutas misteriosas en su viaje de vuelta a casa.



Así son nuestras vidas. Somos gotas de agua que un día volverán a conectarse con el océano de la vida. No importa la cantidad de giros y vueltas que describimos en nuestras vidas, estamos siempre de vuelta a casa.



Somos un átomo de agua observándose sí mismo a lo largo del camino misterioso de la vida. Y debemos sentirnos bendecidos que nos ha dado tal regalo. Un regalo para reflexionar sobre la vida.



Un regalo para reflexionar acerca de una gota de agua. Somos agua captada en un solo paquete para observar el transcurso de la vida fluyendo ante nuestros ojos, sólo por un instante antes de que nos unamos a la inmensidad del océano, una vez más. Alegrémonos por eso!


Esto es bien comprendido en la India, la tierra que aún no ha renunciado a su vena sagrada a pesar del asalto de la esterilidad de la máquina de la modernidad.



Y de hecho nosotros esperamos que la India nunca pierda su percepción hacia la vida. Ahora más que nunca necesitamos la sabiduría de la India, su conocimiento y respeto por la vida, porque estamos en peligro mortal de ser meras piezas de una máquina fría y muerta.
 


References

Klostermaier K. K. (1998). A Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Oneworld Publications, Oxford, UK. 243 p.

viernes, 3 de agosto de 2012

MAYA: HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE

By Salvatore Scimino
August 3, 2012

"The loose string stretches but does not shrink without anyone touching it."
("La cuerda suelta se estira pero no se encoge sin que nadie la toque!")
         Erzherzog Salvator Joachim von Österreich und von Toskana



Source: Wired Science


There is not such a thing as reality. What we call reality is a construct of our brains. What appears to be outside is really inside our brains, the result of the neurons´computing millions of bits of information picked by our five senses. 

The sight of a beautiful landscape, the fragance of a rose, the gentle breeze touching our faces, the charming song of a nightingale, the flavour of sweet apple... everything is fabricated by our brains.

We live in a holographic universe. This is what science has discovered. Nevertheless this is absolutely nothing new.

Hindues have been saying this for thousands of years all along. That this world is Maya. That reality is an illusion.

We are here standing before two different ways of analysing the universe around us. The conclusion appears the same but the knowledge of the Indians is still ahead. Perhaps the proud Western science will require another 200 years to really catch up with the East. 

One used the intuition, the empirical observation of this world to reach the profound conclusion that the universe is an illusion

The other followed an experimental method invented by the jesuits, the scientific method. This method needed the accumulation of hundreds of observations gathered over long periods of time by hundreds of scientists around the world using their five senses or with the help of mechanical extensions of these, by this I mean the use of laboratory paraphernalia, apparatuses that are designed to mimick the very same senses that man has. 

The scientific method implies the need of vast amounts of economic resources to pay the wages of all of these experts. No money no science. Few scientists are willing to work for nothing. After all the idea of going to school is to get into the room of the so called "comforts of life" even though comforts are a thing of the mind.

It is obvious that the intuition method is more economically efficient and at the same time is able to penetrate into the matrix of life and that of the universe and still come to the same conclusion that science so painstakingly grasps and which still fails when trying to see the whole picture. 

The implications of the conclusion that the universe is an illusion are profound, particularly for the West. For one thing Westerners will never see things with the same eyes. And perhaps they learn to be humble, and best above all not to take for granted the "uncivilised cultures".

With this in our hands it becomes very utterly ridiculous for the human species (Homo "sapiens") to relate to one another with points of reference so minute like power, money, borders, nationalities, races, countries... 

How can you put anyone´s holographic brain in a bottle? Bottles like colour, religious creeds, languages, etc. A country for instance is too small to contain the vast universe of a brain. This is futile! We are all beyond borders indeed! 

One is all or all is one. This is quite beautiful!! What else can I say!

Now the big question is: Can we put it into practice with intuition, without thought patterns? Without the drunkenness of the fucking logic!

But who is sending the information that our brains constantly are gathering? Some people call the sender God, others a Computer Master. Nobody knows. Perhaps we might come to know who the Creator is with an open heart but certainly not with our fucking cold "hawkingian" logic! 

The following videos discuss this holographic universe. They fall short in many aspects but are interesting nevertheless:

ENGLISH (with Spanish subtitles)/INGLES (con subtítulos en español)