Surfing with Wind

[chocolate]

Tulsidas

Lightning flashed in my eye, O friend,
And brightly did shine the light of the moon.
I got a glimpse of the Invisible within,
And thirst and longing for the Lord were aroused.
My ears received the boon of Unstruck Music,
And Knowledge came like the explosion of light, O Friend.
Dark clouds began to scatter and the sight
Of the Divine Mansion was revealed unto me.
Beyond the sun, the moon and the tunnel,
Tulsi beheld the abode of the Lord Almighty.

[Tulsidas - "Glimpse of the Invisible" - Translation by S. L. Sondhi]

Tulsidas was one of the best poets ever to have graced Bharat. His verses were written in Hindi and accessible to everyone. He is well known for the work, which was referred to as the greatest book ever written by Gandhiji, ‘Ramacharita manasa’

Tulasidas was born in the year 1532 to a brahmin family in the town of Rajapur. He suffered separation from his parents at a very young age and was not taken care of by his relatives. He came into contact with some saints who advised him to surrender to Lord Rama. Thus, he got associated with a Hanuman temple and ate whatever was given to him. Not much is known about Tulasi’s guru, but he met him in Sukarkheta. Since tulasidas was not mentally equipped at that time for complex philosophies, his guru advised him to take up the path of devotion to Rama. As time grew on, Tulasi’s love for Rama grew deeper and deeper.

However, in his youth, he got married to a woman named Ratnavali. Once his wife went to stay with her parents for a while. Tulasi, not being able to bear the separation, went to meet her. Ratnavali is said to admonished Tulasi by saying ‘I am just a bag of flesh and bones. Why are you so attracted to it? Why don’t you love Lord Rama with the same fervor?’ This type of retort is not typical of Indian wives (at least during that time). One wonders whether Ratnavali was itself spiritually inclined or whether God determined it was the appropriate time for Tulasi to leave the family life. Anyway, Tulasi contemplated on this remark and left all connections with the family life.

After bidding goodbye to family life, he lived in Chitrakuta for some time before 1564. He used to go around houses for alms. One day, he came to the house where his wife and father-in-law lived, but he did not recognize them. Though the wife recognized him, she just gave him alms and food. When she insisted that he partake spices like pepper, salt etc, he replied that he had his own supply of spices in his possession. Early next morning, when Tulasidas was preparing to leave the house, his wife requested him to take her with him. But, he refused saying that he has renounced family life. Ratnavali was angered and remarked, ‘You have spices in your possession, but not wife. What kind of renunciate are you ?.’ Tulasidas recognized the folliness of being attached to food, and thanked his wife for the lesson and threw away all his remaining possessions. He, then, migrated to Kashi. Scholars have rightly pointed out that Rama charita manasa would never have been written if not for Ratnavali’s remarks. Though he made several pilgrimages throughout the country, his permanent residence was in Kashi. He commenced writing rama charita manasa in Ayodhya but came back to Kashi.

Nabhaji, the author of Bhaktamala (1600), writes that Tulasidas was an incarnation of Valmiki itself born again to explain Ramayana in the vernacular langauge. This raise in his fame naturally created many enemies, who attacked his caste, his asceticism etc, but Tulasi does not seem to have been bothered by this.

Tulasi was a personification of humility. He declares in the Manasa that he is no poet and he is imperfect and only sings the excellence of Rama according to his poor wit and understanding. This is the case in his other works Gitavali (1571), Kavitavali (1612), Barvairamayana (1612) and one of the best works, Vinaya Patrika (request to Rama). Tulasi, should not, however, be considered partial to Rama in exclusion to others. He appreciated the diverse tenets of Saiva, advaita and samkhya philosophies. He authored 22 different works. He never became attracted to miracles or money. Once the powerful king Jahangir offered him money in return for the performance of some miracles. Tulasi retorted ‘Who needs money when one has the love of (and for) Rama ? What use is miracles before his glory ?’

In Kashi, he became the head of the monastery in lolarka kunda and was designated ‘Gosain.’ Around 1612, he started to suffer from acute arm pain, boils causing uprooting of his hair and also seems to have suffered from the epidemic in the local area. Having dedicated his life to Lord Rama, these were considered to mere trifles and Tulasi passed away on the third day of the dark fortnight in the month of Shravana in 1623.

(source: PoetSeers.org)
and Ram Dass

[chocolate]

I am not sure if a flawed ideology ... can kill a visually well done film ...
here is a trailer for Interstellar:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0vxOhd4qlnA

Or, may be the ideology is just about right in this one?

[chocolate]

now that's me, with a hand in the cookie jar-plate-whatever






and more

[william r sanford72]

.....very nice.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=36KOs2cQhWk

truth and balance.

[Wind]

Posted by chocolate (here)
Professor Wind, you question up there (in the blue) sounds funny.
I am not telling you my tree.

Why not? Are you counting on professor Wind's infallible psychic abilities again? Oh well.

I've been interested in Interstellar, no doubt it will be visually amazing movie. I will just have to decipher the true message behind the movie once I have seen it, because there always is one with that particular director.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VyJXfaXYjTI

Love that tune, William. Very harmonic.

How come I haven't posted these to this thread before? Agape introduced me to them.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bbgHZWwyhcQ

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8DDc1UJqMWM

[chocolate]

William, I really like MUNA and Marketa Irglova, I am listening to more songs from the album.
Beautiful voice, and the whole composition is just about perfect. <3


Keiko Tanabe Watercolor Paintings

Who dares doubting Wind's abilities...me? No.

[Wind]

I too started to listen more of Marketa's songs, sounds really good.

More things to think about here!

Pick a Crystal and See What it Reveals



What Path Do you Want to Take Next in Life? Choose The Archway and See What it Reveals

[Skyhaven]

I had a bad dream last night, still a bit shaken... I feel better now coming here, thank you.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zb0x4_2xocY

[Wind]

Posted by Skyhaven (here)
I had a bad dream last night, still a bit shaken... I feel better now coming here, thank you.

Then you're not the only one friend, I saw atomic bombs..., among other things.
But music will heal everything... Hopefully.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-_C4QtPHf6A

[Skyhaven]

Posted by Wind (here)

Posted by Skyhaven (here)
I had a bad dream last night, still a bit shaken... I feel better now coming here, thank you.

Then you're not the only one friend, I saw atomic bombs..., among other things.
But music will heal everything... Hopefully.

Oh, mine wasn't that bad I guess.... It had something to do with my past. I was raised in a catholic family, and although I didn't like the whole vibe of the catholic church, things turned bad fast when I was about 13 years old. I was about to receive what is called 'confirmation', a ceremony that's supposed to admit someone fully into the church, but half an hour after the ceremony started I had suddenly had a panic attack, and I fled the scene, not to return...

So this stirred up a lot of resentment in my family and in the small community I lived in at the time. Luckily they didn't put me up on a stake , but still I sometimes have bad dreams about church people chasing me.

[Wind]

Posted by Skyhaven (here)
Oh, mine wasn't that bad I guess.... It had something to do with my past. I was raised in a catholic family, and although I didn't like the whole vibe of the catholic church, things turned bad fast when I was about 13 years old. I was about to receive what is called 'confirmation', a ceremony that's supposed to admit someone fully into the church, but half an hour after the ceremony started I had suddenly had a panic attack, and I fled the scene, not to return...

So this stirred up a lot of resentment in my family and in the small community I lived in at the time. Luckily they didn't put me up on a stake , but still I sometimes have bad dreams about church people chasing me.

I see. Here the primary Christian faith is Lutheran, I did have an confirmation as people usually do. The event was quite unnerving and it wasn't something that I liked, big crowds and all observing us. That's the last time I ever was in a church if I remember correctly, not that I had any animosity towards it, it just wasn't my thing. When I was younger, I got to see the some of the catholic churchs here and they were different than the lutherans. I mostly enjoyed the Christmas churches, though even back then I only cared about my connection to God.

When it comes to my dream, it wasn't a real nightmare, more like an action movie even though I don't often see that kind of heavy and vivid dreams. I just usually travel to unknown places of which I have no conscious memory.

Seasons change

[Skyhaven]

Posted by Wind (here)

I see. Here the primary Christian faith is Lutheran, I did have an confirmation as people usually do. The event was quite unnerving and it wasn't something that I liked, big crowds and all observing us. That's the last time I ever was in a church if I remember correctly, not that I had any animosity towards it, it just wasn't my thing. When I was younger, I got to see the some of the catholic churchs here and they were different than the lutherans. I mostly enjoyed the Christmas churches, though even back then I only cared about my connection to God.

When it comes to my dream, it wasn't a real nightmare, more like an action movie even though I don't often see that kind of heavy and vivid dreams. I just usually travel to unknown places of which I have no conscious memory.

For me the confirmation was the last time I went to church also, I kind of rebelled from that point on..., eventually after a few years my father, mother and brother also stopped attaining catholic church. In retrospect the panic attack was a blessing in disguise, but the whole process was a rough one nevertheless.

I listen to the catholic piece below sometimes, not only because I like the harmonics, but also because the only word I can make out of it is 'miserere', to be misery, or suffering, which pretty much sums up the main feeling of the memories, but like you said 'music heals', and so do these beautiful harmonics since they came to represent those memories in some way.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=36Y_ztEW1NE

PS. I have those action movie dreams too, they can be quite rough too in my experience.

[chocolate]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RsycEc4QQwk

[Wind]

Those kind of melodies & chanting are very beautiful and relaxing.

[Christine]

Joining in the surf.. Thank you all so much.. what a wondrous beautiful place to visit.. space beyond the words.. speechless in the beauty.

Moving beyond hope into the fields of Reality..

[Wind]

I am grateful for your kind words, Christine. Everyone is invited to this sanctuary and I hope that it brings joy to as many people as possible, as it has brought me.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fXTFLQI5GLY

More sand art by Kseniya Simonova here.

[transiten]

Sync sync! I just posted this in the "Will Putin save us" thread today:

In what way does personal and spiritual development tie into this debate? It's like the threads here on Avalon are split between this mundane perspective and the spiritual one (and then i mean the service to others/positive one of course) As soon as one throws oneself into the alien/NWO perspective it's like the spiritual one is as split as in the world outside this forum. Also only the negative side of spiritualty/channeling is mentioned. The positive stuff seems to end up in their own threads...correct me if i'm wrong...

...and now i found this thread! A fresh Spirit Wind...thankyou It's a sunny mild early autumn day in Gothenburg and i've been to my allotment digging the soil, talking to other "cultivators" eating fresh carrots and apples...

[Wind]

I agree, Transiten. What we focus on here and now is and will be part of our reality so that's why I try to focus on and appreciate the good and beautiful things in life... Why not? Life is too short and precious to waste it. The world is full of beauty and God, no matter all the hardships in normal life, we just need to open our eyes to see it. "The supreme being is looking from behind every eyes and this is not debatable for me."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dKWeJI6JGe8

[chocolate]

( Popularity as in names in red saying a few words, nothing better than a bit of that. )

This picture seems fitting for this forum.

[Skyhaven]

Hmm, I might have the wrong avatar according to this