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Mayapur Visit

Tasting is beliveing

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Alan Žeko/ Advaita ad
Mar 25, 2024

It was a rather short visit this time, however ten days is more than eight.


One drowns not by falling into river but by staying submerged in it ...And while I am drowning all you are doing is describing the water


Internal weather always improves at the holy place, where we hope for miracle and in turn expiriance exactly what we need in order to grow.
At times that would mean going thru storm, kind that would clear and freshen up our path.
Nobody likes storms but they do benefit and if you are like bison, charging facing the storm, that's living a miracle.
There is no point of running away from it, it's demented.

Spiritual inclusion, not religious bigotry is what keeps intact this increasingly devided and by war torn up world.
The threat of (corporate) greed today is visible even at holy places of India but is checked by the holy man or spiritual warriors.
A warrior that fights against any form of fundamentalism that weaponizes theology and is destroying the very fabric of universal brotherhood.
A warrior that understands underlying grief and tears of a clown (when no one is around).
That warrior is a Holy man that has the capacity to fulfill worlds need for belonging, leading with love and sweeping away intolerance...Rooting hard for people.

Without sufficient spirituality, this world is incredibly unforgiving environment and religion can be most dangerous, divisive, harmful waste of time. Overstepping! with unsolicited advice.
Today's world is weaponizing fear more than ever, especially religions and various new breeds of religious fundamentalists.
Unifier or Vilifier.
Which one are you?

An uneducated public is freedom's most dangerous adversary.
Worst possible combo is religiously inspired corporatism and idiocracy...Not so benign ineptitude.
There's tough and then there's not so smart, like those braggadocious patchouli freaks of India/ world, chasing that American dream at any cost ...those that hit nails half way and stop for cheap thrills.
Thank you Bollywood, but no thanks.

Mayapur is no exception.
However, i feel saved by the dawn of Golden Avatar and His worldwide movement for dialated worldview and sense of belonging.
No, you are not a burden.

And while we masticate on the move, thinking we are all young till the day we die, there is a real danger of humans being reduced to hackable animals with biometric implants connected to AI system and crypto currency for new era of transhumanism.

Too much booing going on, while we daytrade attention. Amidst the uncertainties of the world, individuals often ask themselves "Quo vadis?" to reassess their values, priorities, and aspirations.
Zoo animals can't do no reps and failing to stop disembling there is a real danger in turning into emotional dumpster fire.

Tons of pilgrims daily swarms Mayapur campus in much greater magnitude than six years ago.
India is waking up with increasing national pride and type of confidence that expects rest to yield to transcendence, even by force if necessary.

Generally people think that one should act very piously in order to be relieved from misery, but this is not a fact.

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