Food and Associated Memory

Wanted to blog today about certain thoughts behind food, thats been lingering in my head for awhile.

Being a vegetarian fundamentally due to my religious background, it never entered my mind to question the way I was raised. In fact I enjoyed the way I was raised and acknowledge its in accordance with my higher self.

Raising kids in a foreign land where they are now surrounded by multi cultural people, my children witness a lot more diversity than I did for that age. So the natural questions and curiosity in their head "why don't we eat meat? OMG they eat meat, thats disgusting !" are their innocent reaction to what they see.

I took this opportunity to explain the rationals behind our choice which I wanted to blog as well.

I think the usual reasoning behind is the fact that animals are living beings on their own path to soul evolution, and that we as humans should be loving, kind and nurturing towards them.

Another general argument would be the fact that they react and are aware of getting slaughtered and accounts to causing enormous grievance and pain. We are stealing their fundamental rights to live.

When we look at nature, we understand and accept the  natural order of things. We understand that a carnivore is meant to hunt a herbivore, and the herbivore is meant for eating  the plants around it.
So perhaps man is meant to be an omnivore. There is no doubt about this statement as more the free will, more choices come to your plate.

This is the fundamental fact: Humans have the maximum free will on this planet as of any other specie, mainly due to two factors
a. Biological capability and
b. Cognitive capability

Said this powerful statement, we should also be aware and responsible for the reaction within us when we make a particular choice.

So what is the fundamental reasoning behind avoiding meat altogether? Why does the Hindu religion try to mandate this?

Simple answer : Cellular Memory.
Memory is a term which is an integration of our past, our present and what we think is our future.
Animals have more cellular memory than plant, simply because they are more aware and own a more complex biological system.

Memory is directly proportional to your Biological and Cognitive capability.

I think we all agree that the food that we eat becomes a part of us, and makes us.
We are noting but a bunch of memories walking around. If there is no memory then there is no you.

Now if your fundamental life goal is to be like a lotus on water, follow the principles of least effort (wuwei) then you really have to reduce your memory. The more memory you have the bigger the backpack your carrying. So it now makes a lot of sense that the food that becomes you should also contain least memory to help in your path.
This is the primary reason why one needs to be really aware of what they eat. Fasting is also encouraged as it helps us lower our memory by reducing food intake, as plants too have a lot of memory.

One classification that needs to be understood is that plants have whats called evolutionary memory and not much active memory. Evolutionary memory is not a burden, its part and parcel to the biological capability.

Plant life, is already based on the principle of least effort! it does not even actively reproduce,  it depends on external factors such as bees and other insects to cross pollinate. If it happens it happens, otherwise it just continues  to live in the moment.
Animals wander, they have higher free will. They act and react, they are not living on the principles of least effort. Animals know their past, plants do not.Again when compared between the two, plants are safer to eat for a ascetic than meat.

Given we all cannot renounce our daily life and become ascetics, perhaps practicing vegetarianism may help us lead better life, and the rational behind the religious principles of Hinduism.

Hope this sheds a better perspective to your thinking and helps you understand the life choices you make and how to arrange your platter to aid that.

Structure of the universe - layered approach

A continuation to where I had left in my previous blog, where matter is represented as a function of consciousness.

This diagram is not as clear as I want it to be, but was the closest to what I see in my mind as a potential model of our universe, inspired by researching on quantum/string theories, various metaphysics texts that partly describe this universe.

The idea behind this and been a postulate for sometime is the hour-glass theory of our universe.

The theory of  BigBang has opened up more questions rather than answers. The following are some of the paradoxes of the proposed Big Bang

1. If all the mass of this universe is contained within a singularity, a point where all laws of physics is broken , there is an implicit assumption that the total integration of all mass of this universe + its associated energy is compressed to a single point. How is that even possible? How could such a compression even happen. It takes energy to compress? So where is its source? Who is doing this work? Assuming there was no compression, then what is the trigger for a point of infinite mass to give birth to all that is today. Even more bizarre, that if the point if of infinite mass, how could it be a point?

2. The Singularity should be held somewhere. Where is this Singularity contained? So is there another universe wrapping up the singularity of our universe at the time before BigBang?

3. How long was this singularity in existence? If time was truly zero before the BigBang, one could never ascertain the age of this singularity.

Actually if point #2 is true, then this layering would be tending to infinity. For sake of argument lets reference our current universe as the innermost.

{(Wrapped universe)∞......[(wrapped universe)n.....(universe)]}

Perhaps we should now integrate all these layers and consider them as one, where in there are parallel universes wrapped within each other making our single universe.

The diagram now attempts to answer these questions by bringing in the function of consciousness as the parent/governing energy of this universe.

1. Every layer of the universe is represented as an hourglass, continuous as in a wave form. 
2. The X axis -> representing Time which is not truly linear, but tends to reference zero when Consciousness reaches its max threshold within its layer.
3. The Y axis -> representing Consciousness, with a max threshold for each parallel universe.
1.  Consciousness (N) was defined as a function of Energy    N =  f(E), ~ N = f(MC2)
2.  This would mean all energy and matter contained within a parallel universe is directly proportional to the max threshold of allowed conscious energy.
4. In the expansion phase of the universe, as Conscious energy grows (due to the layer below it being compressed) more matter and energy is drawn into the universe and we see creation of galaxies, stars, planets etc
5. During the contraction phase the source of work is coming in from the expansion of parallel universe on top and below thereby conscious energy declining, which results in the slow destruction of stars/planets (super nova, dwarf, death) thereby resulting in lower matter/energy.
6. These parallel universes overlap and eventually one hour-glass joins onto another hour glass  like a string of beads
7. This expansion and contraction is so slow a process when compared to the average life of a human, that its impossible to measure or predict the current state of the universe. 
1. Red shift/Blue shift only measures the relative movement of starts but not the direction of movement of this parallel universe as a whole.
2. At any given time its hard to understand the point on the Y axis.
3. At C = Cmaxthreshold,  Time (T) -> Zero, (a reset mode)
4. There would be multiple Time reset modes, but truly no negative time as now Time itself becomes a function of Consciousness.

Whats now interesting to me is the fact that in Hinduism, time has always been divided into 4 major cycles. Each Time cycle is actually represented by the level of consciousness being available to mankind.  I would imagine the following

1. Satya Yuga  -> C = CmaxThreshold 
2. Treta Yuga -> C = CmaxThreshold/2
3. Dwapara yuga -> C = CmaxThreshold/4
4. Kali Yuga C= CmaxThreshold/8

Each Cycle's Consciousness energy when it exactly halves. Given timelines its indicative we just finished a time reset and starting towards an expansion cycle which sortof aligns with scientific evidence.

Lets think beyond physics and understand the power of metaphysics.

I realized that I have not really been blogging anything around metaphysics. Most of my focus has been around Vedic astrology and sacred geometry.
Wanted to start the new year with something interesting that I stumbled upon while in an intermediate sleep/wakeup state, probably around 3am. When we are in a state that we are neither asleep nor awake, where your subconscious knows your dreaming and is aware of your sleep, is when a lot of knowledge can be tapped.

A famous example that comes to mind as I write this, is the scientist August Kekule who discovered the structure of Benzene's ring.  Benzene was a paradox at that time to chemists  as it was one electron short to make it atomically stable, hence no structure really worked out. The famous resonance bond was coined by Kekule, who dreamt of a snake biting its own tail, thus forming the structure of Benzene. This story has always been an inspiration.

So back to the topic of today's blog, I am going to attempt applying concepts of metaphysics to physics.

Lets go!

E = MC Squared! the famous equation from Albert Einstein. Links the Energy with Matter.

Physics starts at material level, Metaphysics starts at Consciousness level.
Physics needs that which is tangible, concrete and rational. Metaphysics deals with the abstract, irrational and intangible.

So we start with Matter and we convert it to infinite energy by applying the said equation.
Lets try to do the reverse (which many schools are working on), take a ton of energy and convert it to matter. If we ever figure this out, we have figured out creation.

The paradox, how do we contain energy and how do we convert that to matter? So lets look at physics definition of "energy", which states "Energy is the power to do work".
To me its sad that we need to bring in the word "Power" to describe "Energy".  The moment word Power comes into use, we are translating energy with the ability to do something. We are immediately negating the fact that energy can exist without its ability to do anything, The potential state of just being present as energy just like matter existing without any rhyme or reason.
This is the problem for science. It refuses to consider the driving force of energy, which is consciousness. It fails to even acknowledge its presence.
The very fact that I am alive and writing this blog is my consciousness driving my material body. Consciousness is also energy is a different form, having the ability to do work, so simply remain dormant, but governs intension for action.

Universe is governed by three principles

Laws of randomness | Laws of reflection | Laws of Attraction.

Laws of randomness

This leads to the next step, something I have always been interested in, the famous "brownian movement" of intramolecular particles in all matter. In liquid state there is more brownian movement versus solid state. So lets reflect on what this theory is. It simply states that molecules randomly move within a delta based on its degree of freedom.  Pay very close attention to the word "random".
Randomness in something science has come up with to define uncertainty.  Science cannot predict the pattern behind this brownian moment, its very difficult.

Now lets change the angle to metaphysics.
Lets define Consciousness (N) as a function of Energy    N =  f(E), ~ N = f(MC2)

We can now define that all matter has consciousness. Its not something exclusive to things that are alive. Even a stone has consciousness, and has intension. The molecules are actually not moving at random, but moving based on their intension to move a certain way, exercising their own free will.
All that is around us, all have a degree of consciousness, free will and intension.  This is where religion steps in to define these laws as its beyond the scope of Science.

Whats really interesting now is that in the field of Cryptography whose security mainly relies on degree of randomness fed to certain inputs, relies on HSMs and mechanically generated data, which are mathematical functions, and truly not random at all, simply piggybacking on difficulty in guessing the input, if replaced by a source that is driven by consciousness (say the movement of a dog, thought process of a child) then it would truly be random, as the factor of free will comes into play. Ofcourse its impossible to design such a system, where instead of AI, we need to think of Conscious computing.

The question is how to map Matter to Energy to Consciousness, and work towards that path. May be one day we will have a break through and evolve towards conscious computing :) where f(E) can be scientifically deduced.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/531146/what-it-will-take-for-computers-to-be-conscious/

Laws of reflection | Laws of Attraction. -- to follow in next blogs.

Ascendant Sign, Ascendant Lord, Your Name - Holds your life focus point

Interestingly seem to be getting a lot of revelation, at-least on the personal front. The more open the mind and heart is, the universe does reveal its secrets. Feel really blessed to write this information today.

In one of my recent blogs I had harped about the fact that the D1 chart is practically useless in determining anything about the native, as its common across myriad latitude and longitudinal angles falling within roughly a two hour window. Given this fact there would be countless souls having same D1 chart having totally uncorrelated lives. What is rather interesting is that such souls have a common master blue print, and can be said to belong to one collective consciousness.

Furthermore the D1 chart is not that useless after all. Getting these revelations slowly and the more I think about this arrangement, it does have some master keying material that we need to use for the subsequent divisional charts.

The most important key of them all is the Ascendant sign, its lord, where its placed, and how powerful that is. Depending upon this, the native's name is pre-determined at the time of Birth. This is no secret that one's name is not a random determination. The name is transmitted by the soul incarnating to any one within the family that its taking birth, who is intuitive enough to suggest it.
Many a times its the Mother, and in some cases the Mother is overridden by immediate relatives.
The Mother is the easiest target for the incarnating soul as the mental connection was already established as part of the pregnancy.

Your name holds the key to your life focus. At least true with respect to Hindu/Sanskrit names. I am not aware of the origins of western/christian names, so perhaps that would operate at the same level, and this theory is universal and governs all.

Once we understand the properties of our Ascendant sign, its lord we should channel our energy in that direction for optimal performance of our physical in this dimension. Remember that the word Ascendant means first, and represents our material body, without which our identity in this world cannot exist.

In my case, and in quite a few cases, I have noticed that if your ascendant happens to be Leo, who's lord is the SUN, and if SUN is well placed in D1 (seemingly right) the name of the Native happens to be directly related to the SUN god. Channeling your life focus on the SUN will trigger positive results. The SUN represents the EGO, and as such SUN ascendants (the most famous of them all is KARNA, the oldest of the PANDAVAS, and the most powerful of them all) feel rather self centered and egoistic. This is where SATURN plays a very important role in keeping them at check. Without this SUN ascendants could become highly egoistic and go to any extent to get what they want. SATURN's relationship with SUN here plays a vital role in chiseling them and showing them ground-0.

SUN ascendants are born with immense potential but will not be given that much opportunity to show case it, and the best way to deal with this is to know that your aware of your abilities and not to work hard to prove anything to anyone else. The secret for success for SUN ascendants, is to let go of the EGO!! and understand that there is absolutely noting left to prove.

KARNA had immense potential, he wanted to show the world his greatness, SATURN checked him from day-1, took him away from his biological mother, made him believe he is not a born Kshatriya, SUN countered SATURN and gave him the best education from ParasuRama, he was greater than Arjuna, but again SATURN checked him by not giving the means to prove this. Eventually his ego and individuality was so great that he had to find a wrong path to prove his greatness which was the reason for his fall. Today the world does not name their child KARNA, but you find countless ARJUNAS.  

Coming back to your Name, an interesting story from my own life.  Leo ascendant, SUN exalted in ARIES which happens to be L9, I  was given a different name at birth. The strange aspect was that I was given 6 different names by a host of people. Eventually my Mom had a name for me starting in N, as it was the same as my older sisters. All my siblings had name starting in N, and trust me that name had noting to do with SUN god. My uncle had suggested Gayathri and that became the name by which people called me at home, but was never meant to be official.

Eventually I turned 3 and my school admission process started. My mom started filling up the admission form and in the Name field put in "Gayathri" by "accident", as by that time everyone had got so used to calling me that way. She did not feel like erasing it out as it was the first ever form she had filled for me and from a sentimental perspective, that my education should not start with an second attempt left it that way. Gayathri became official name and the name starting with N  naturally disappeared.

Gayathri represents savitr the sun god in rig veda. This matches my Ascendant perfectly. Another funny thing I recently noticed is the word "SUN" in my name when written in English. "SUNdar" (my dad's first name) which is my last name.
Another interesting fact is that my personal email has always be "SURAJ" which literally means SUN in HINDI. I had coined that by combining my mom's first and dad's first name.  "SUndar RAJi"
This email has been an integral part of my life. Looks like I am directly governed by SUN and its vital I focus my prayers towards him.

Once we understand our name, our ascendant we will definitely find many such interesting facts out ourselves. Things towards which we do not pay attention to, they are the keys that seem to be governing us.

Another way to know yourself better.

(One correction, from one's D1, we can determine the controlling sign of the native, like SUN for me, and it need not always be L1. For some a non L1 lord would be shaping that native, so you do need a very knowledgeable person to help figure it out for you) 

Metatron cube

I recently stumbled upon this image, when investigating on the flower of life. I am generally not that much into sacred geometry, but this Metatron cube caught my immediate attention, and my brain was like, blog this, record this right away.

The fundamental purpose of my blog, is to record whatever I think I know and pass it onto my daughters when they are old enough to pick up from where I left, if at all they are interested in Metaphysics. This is really not meant to be broadcasted, but I do share it for whoever accidentally finds this blog as in this day and age everything is getting "Open".

Initial analysis of my second one's natal chart, with Moon in L8 having 9th aspect of L12 Jupiter, I feel excited that she may become psychic as she grows up. I am trying to set up that foundation early on in life. Perhaps Saturn representing the mother for her would aid in this endeavor? Time will tell, whether its a position indicating becoming a "psychic" or a "psycho" as the difference is a very thin line on the mental plane. (Actually L8 moon for Cancer ascendant sort of indicates a "psycho" mom, fitting this aptly for me)..ha ha the more I think this arrangement seems perfect.

Coming back to Metatron, why it caught my attention? I have been pretty obsessed with only 2 sacred geometric patterns all my life so far, one is the "Star of David", and the other "Flower of life". The reason being the fact that a complex arrangement of mankind has been so easily and finely depicted by these two mathematical models.

Now Metatron, if you look closely at this picture, its so evident right away that its Star of David, superimposed on the flower of life!! Whoa, what was that, I was mind blown. It never occurred for me to actually integrate these two patterns, and it just got better. Imagine the information contained in integrating these two patterns.

I always looked at Star Of David as representing an individual and Flower Of Life as representing the collective, but when we superimpose one on the other, we now see Star of David operating at the collective level. Again mind blown. How our ancestors knew so much and we know so little. Everything sacred is getting lost, and we are as humans going down in our level of understanding of our fundamental nature, and channeling all our energy on material nonsense in the name of Science. Physics has taken man away from the fundamental aspect of MetaPhysics.

We are in the world of RAHU, and its the order of the universe, that the natural flow of the tide of time. RAHU will move innovation, his job is to take you away from your source, and intoxicate you in what he thinks is right for you. America as a nation is governed by RAHU is making it focus only on the material aspects of life.

World does not want the torah or the vedas, we destroyed that which was of value. A time will come when mankind will try to resurrect the lost art, like the way we are going out of our way to extinguish major species and then spend time and effort rehabilitating them to a bigger population, another classic that comes to mind is when the Spanish burnt the Maya civilization and now, so called scientists are resurrecting that which was lost and burnt!!

Do not waste time with D1 Chart (RASI)

RASI is where your Moon is placed in your Birth chart. When we feed in our birth time and place, all systems by default generates only your  RASI and D9 chart. What I understand is that the RASI(D1) chart is equivalent to looking at your self image from a very long distance, how accurate is that going to be. Actually knowing this has got me a big sigh of relief.

Interestingly no two souls on this planet will have the same soul blueprint, nor do they choose the exact same life path/experience. Even twins born within minutes have really different life experiences. Take a look at their birth RASI chart. They would exactly be the same.

I personally know so many twins, where one is brilliant, got into elite educational institutions, while the latter suffers through just passing the tests. Why is this the case if their RASI chart shows the exact same planetary position?

Conclusion: RASI is very weak, and too basic. It does not change for a minimal of 2 hours, remains the same within the same country. A child born in Chennai, India, when compared to a child born 1hr later in New Delhi would end up having the exact same RASI chart.
They have no correlation, they need not even come from the same oversoul, but enter this world with the same master decryption key. We need to look at the finer charts to derive the individual's unique interpretation key.

All astrologers spend countless hours pouring over RASI chart, and try to predict or interpret things that are too generalized over a period of 2 hours. Planets are slow moving, Jupiter/Saturn are going to in the same location relative to Earth for a year, yes at-least 365 days, Jupiter is going to spend in one zodiac, Saturn 2 and half years, thats right almost 1000 days my friend, its going to spend in the same zodiac. Its like the gravitational bend to space/time that shows the apparent position of a star whereas its actual position is somewhere else, we are definitely mis-led.

I am done wasting time on RASI charts!! This is indeed a big revelation to me today.
The art to look at divisional charts is lost. I hardly find any material, including Parashara.
Definitely going to spend the next few months only on D2-D30. Each divisional chart is for specfic aspects of one's life.

More in one of my older blogs
https://thehalfcup.blogspot.com/2012/11/introduction-to-vedic-divisional-charts.html

D2-D30 react faster to time/location change, the more deeper you divide, the difference is more, for eg D2 changes faster than D1, D3 faster than D2, and so the propagation (mathematically)

D1 < D2 <D3 < ..... D30 (in terms of speed of planetary transitions)

Proof that Jews offshoot from Vedic Brahmins (Sanskrit to Hebrew conversion)

Excerpt From Below website

http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/connections/Hebrews-and-Vedic-Brahmins.php

Citing his own work 'The Holy Bible - A Source book of Ancient Indian History', a paper submitted to All Indian Oriental Conference (1976) held at Dharwar, he notes that "We have already tried to equate Brahma, Sarasvati, Manu and Bali with the Biblical Abraham, Sarai, Noah and Peleg." (Shukla 1979, p.53) Not only that, but Shukla holds that the Jewish Laban and Brahmanic Lavana coincide:
"It is noteworthy to note in the above context that the sister of Lavana on the Indian side becomes the daughter of Laban in the Biblical account. It may also be mentioned in this respect that while Sarasvati is said to be the daughter of Brahma in accordance with the Indian tradition, her Biblical counterpart, Sarai, has been described as the sister of Abraham. In this context, we would like to remind our readers of a previous discussion of 'Svas', the root-word of the Sanskrit 'svasar' (sister) which becomes 'Bes' to mean 'daughter' in the Hebrew language." (Shukla 1979, p.54)
Equally striking is Shukla's derivation of 'Mary' from 'Matri': "the words 'Mary' and 'Mariam' could be derived from a Sanskrit word, matr, meaning 'mother'." (Shukla 1976, p.42)
"Similarly the word, 'Mari' or 'Mary' may also be derived from Sanskrit 'Matri'." [and Shukla notes that Mary is worshipped as a mother goddess.]... "The word Adam is derived from a Hebrew word, 'Adamah' which means 'the earth'. Similarly the Skt. 'Adityam' is derived from 'Aditi' which also means the Earth. Hence the primary meaning of both the words, 'Adam' and Adityam would be 'earthly one'. (Shukla 1979, p.47)
His papers provide detailed etymologies of the word 'Abraham':
"The word 'Adam' can also be derived from Sanskrit 'Adityam' with the help of the rule of haplology also. Haplology is the name given by Bloomfield to the phenomenon where of the two similar syllables following each other, one is dropped. The word 'Adityam' will change to 'Adam' under the influence of this rule in the following way: -
Adityam -> Adatam -> Adadam (t -> d) -> Adam (Haplology)
It would be interesting to note here that the Sanskrit 'Adityam', represented by the same rule would change to 'Aton':
Adityan -> Aditan -> Atadan (d -> t) -> Atan ->: Aten /Aton (Shukla 1979, p.48) This is interesting, for it provides an Indo-European derivation for the Egyptian God Aton.
Moreover, "the Vayu Purana mentions Manu as Bharata" (Shukla 1979, p.56)
Intriguing is Shukla's derivation of Rcam: "We may consider another Sanskrit word, 'Rcam' which may become Arcam and then 'Aleichem' (r -> l) which is a Hebrew word." (Shukla 1979, p.46)
Shukla also provides certain other etymologies, and repeatedly derives Adam from Adityam, and Mary from Matr (Shukla 1979, p.46) He also postulates a derivation of Gr. Adonis from Aton, and notes that Heb Adonay -> Lord. (ibid., p.48).
"It can be shown that the Hebrew word, 'Elohim' can be derived from the Skt. 'Brahma':
Brahma -> Ibrahim (rule of vowelization) -> Ibrahim (rule of stress) - > Ilohim (r -> l) -> Elohim
Hence the expression 'Adonay Elohim; becomes equivalent to the Skt. 'Aditya-Brahma'." (Shukla 1979, p.48)
Furthermore, he notes, "Savitr -> Savitru (r -> ru) -> Sabiru (v ->  -> Habitru (s -> h)" -> Habiru -> Habiru -> PR Egyptian, Apiru, Ibru, Ibri, Ibrin." (Shukla 1979, p.51)
Another etymology is: (Shukla 1979, p.53)
Iksvaku -> Issvahu (no k) -> Issahu (va -> a) -> Ishak, Isaac.
Further, Shukla writes, "It may also be mentioned here that Satarupa, the name of the daughter-wife of Manu, is also one of the names of the daughter-consort of Brahma" (Shukla 1979, p.53) From this we may note the case of Noah's daughters and Manu, the flood survivor.
Another interesting derivation is also supplied: "Krsna -> Christ. We know that the Bengali pronounciation of the word Kr.s.n.a is Kriste. 'Christo' or 'Christ' is only a matter of spelling." (Shukla 1976, p.42)
Moreover, "Yehasua has been derived from a Sanskrit word, Yasasva." (Shukla 1976, p.42)
It would also appear that Jehova is also related to a Sanskrit word: "This word [Jehova] could, however, be equated with the Vedic word jahvuh, which may be considered, grammatically, both as an adjective and a proper noun. In the former sense, the word, jahv.uh has been used at least four times in the R.gveda. Thus, it has been used as an {p.44} attribute of Lord Agni (RV 3.1.12), as an attribute of Lord Indra (RV 8.13.24), as an attribute of Lord Soma (RV 9.75.1) and as an attribute of Lord Agni (RV 10.110.3)."