The Yoga of curiosity

The responsibility of being human, of being a spark of divine existence.

Pitha Pirai Soodi Song | Thevaram Song in Tamil | பித்தாபிறை  Sundamoorthy Nayanar whose songs feature in the Thevaram is praised by all for his beautiful devotion and his divine compositions. One day he wonders if there isn't a trace of ego hiding somewhere within him, but how will he find out? His mind might be too cleverly hiding it. Therefore one day he gathers all his disciples and says he will eat the dhatura plant and induce madness into his being, and they must each record all he says and does. As a mad person surely he will not be able to fake his devotion. If in his madness he isn't lost in devotion, his disciples will surely record it too, and he eats the plant. Then he proceeds to sing in divine verse for several hours seemingly unaffected, if anything even more fervently devotional. It elevated him into posterity as one of the Nayanars.  For a strong devotee whether it is sat, asat, sattva, rajas, tamas - all pathways lead to the divine. Yet, this isn't an invitation for all to eat Dhatura. Whether it is ideas, or food only ingest what you can digest, feel free to spit out the rest. Remember the story of the blind men who touch the elephant. Act according to your level of awareness and perception.

This is a discussion of the Sri Vidya or Sri Chakra as the story of creation

Everything is illusory or real depending on where you stand.

A casual talk on how the Self gives you a variety of experiences to know it

A beautifully useless thing called enlightenment and the knots we tie ourselves in. Simply enjoy life forgetting the dualities of enlightenment and non-enlightenment

Let the waves of the universe rise and fall as they will. You have nothing to gain or lose. You are the ocean. -Ashtavakra Gita ••• King Janaka has a dream, and in the dream he is vanquished and is hiding in a neighboring land, cold and very hungry - when he wakes up he finds himself in his palace surrounded by luxury. He goes crazy, and keeps repeating, is this true, or was that true? Thus begins the introduction to one of the greatest texts on Yoga, the Ashtavakra Gita where Sage Ashtavakra guides the mad King to realize the true nature of reality. The King now well integrated into the extended reality is functional again and rules his lands for a long time.

On the nature of Brahman, or the Self, or God, spiritual materialism and the nature of yogas