Dedication

This book is dedicated to all the great ancestors and Rishis of Hinduism (Sanathana Dharma) who explained in rational and scientific terms the nature of life, creation, absolute love and absolute consciousness, and the methods to access these ultimate experiences. - Narendra PLEASE NOTE: The text and graphics marked in RED are updates since the printed version.

Please send your comments to : [email protected] Being God!... Introduction: (1-5): This booklet and the presentation: “Being-God! - A Dharmic path to Human potential”, are designed for Hindu youth. This is a quick, scientific, practical, graphic guide to the path of Inner strength and ‘GOD’, as prescribed in Hindu dharma. Here, “GOD” is the miraculous, multi-dimensional consciousness, accessed though the path of universal love. It is an evolutionary path from non-awareness to relative awareness, to universal awareness. This booklet is a companion guide to the videos on the website: optimizinglife.org.

Anyone can be ‘momentarily happy’ even with drugs and crime. However, in order to attain long-lasting, stable happiness with awareness, we need a macro perspective of unselfishness, courage and love to include all of our environment as a part of our own life. The spontaneous effect of this transition from relative to absolute love is: reduction of brain- mind noise, which leads to stability and clarity of thought, courage, self-confidence, love, health, etc, that originate from our ‘Inner Strength in deeper consciousness’. This is the Dharmic path through Artha and Kama to Moksha (‘Being God’), as discussed in Hindu Scriptures.

This booklet is a record of my search for my ‘Inner God’ in my own consciousness. The research started in 1990, with robotics/artificial intelligence, followed by psychology, philosophy, religion and spirituality. I have tried to present the traditional spiritual concepts in the Universal philosophy of Advita Vedanta, in the language of science, to explain the limitless, universal nature of love and our own multi-dimensional field of consciousness, as it relates to all of creation and I also discuss the threat of selfish, narrow perspective that materialism and exclusive, disrespectful, violent religions and institutions impose on us, as they disrupt peace on earth and the very survival of our environment and mother nature. In this discussion, it is assumed that ALL humans are in transition, looking for love, peace and happiness in (or as) God and ALL have equal potential to be ‘GOD’. The violence in this world is because of ignorance and intolerance of individual egos and egos of leaders of exclusive religions. Therefore, an attempt has been made here, to be truthful and not necessarily, politically correct.

There are different definitions of God: Angry God, Vengeful God, Fearful God, etc. In Hindu Dharma-tradition, God is the bliss of our own multi-dimensional consciousness, experienced as all-inclusive, absolute love and Inner strength. The path to this God includes all the good, tolerant human qualities. The path of dharma is to manage the pleasures of the body and the excitement of the ego, to reach the blissful happiness of the self/soul or God. In this presentation, we investigate these and other sources of happiness such as: contentment, pride, power, wealth, health, success, sex, fame etc to rationally determine a simple practical formula to access all these sources of happiness. For a presentation on this subject, followed by a discussion, please send an email to: [email protected]

I hope the booklets and the videos in the website : Optimizinglife.org will help us open our minds in Love for all of creation, to live a harmonious, happy, peaceful and creative life. It is also my hope that ALL will unite in defending this 12000 year old, unique, all-inclusive, Advita philosophy and culture of universal love in Hinduism, for the brotherhood and survival of our precious world CONTENTS:

Inner Strength and the science of Being God ! (6-18): To experience life completely, confidently and successfully in all its diverse creativity, we need an inner strength to participate in life with a macro vision, instead of micro ego-centered view. Anything less than this macro objectivity, makes us unduly dependent on uncontrollable variables and, unhappy in life. To develop a macro view of life is to understand Nature intellectually and experience it intuitively. Rationality and science can help us understand our multi-dimensional creation from our physical dimension as a reasonable probability based on pattern recognition, instead of just an emotional personal opinion of an experience. Absolute love and courage gives us the presence of mind and an awareness to experience our higher consciousness as a multi-dimensional universe.

Dharma as an application of Science of consciousness (19-25): The goal of Dharma is to understand our own life and consciousness as an integral part of our environment. Once we understand layers of our own consciousness as it relates to our environment, we optimize our dharmic life through presence of mind and through both intuitive and conscious pattern recognition. This practice starts with a dharma mantra, since dharma mantra and not just rationality, is the firewall of conscious mind for random thoughts. Collective and individual rituals are the anti-virus of the subconscious and the collective consciousness. A Moksha mantra can connect us to a higher, common- consciousness through absolute love. Karma-yoga is a way of life that re-programs our body-brain-mind to implement dharma-mantra as an unselfish philosophy of life, that includes personal, local, national, global and universal responsibilities.

Dharma and the Modern world (26-33). The modern world culture is in evolution. At present the focus is on short term selfish material happiness at the expense of peaceful coexistence and the environment. Men are trying to come out of caves but they are still fighting ! Environment and Dharma are under the threat of violent narrow minded religions and cultures, that compete for natural resources, wealth and power, in self-interest. Dharma is based on the concept of life as creative and collective expression of universal consciousness as love, compassion and cooperation. This has been practiced as a culture for several thousands of years successfully in India. Most non-dharmic religions fail to understand the concept of life as a network of collective consciousness. This idea is now accepted by western science with theories and experiments. However, the religions of the west are far behind their science as they are bound in blind faith to intolerant rules out of ‘fear of god’ as a cult, instead of love of god to accommodate diversity in nature. Unfortunately, their fear of god is expressed as devil, anger and intolerance. A label that is freely used for all diversity. In a short span of 500 years, this anger has resulted in world wide unrest, colonialism, destruction of environment and peace. They look at love and peaceful-ness as a weakness and even mediocrity and they have historically destroyed peaceful cultures, religions and superior civilizations, as ‘a commandment’ from their violent, intolerant ‘god’. They continue to do so even today (ref: joshuaproject.net)

Defending Dharma (34-40): In Dharma tradition, there is no Devil or fear of god. Love is god and the cause of evil is ignorance that is cured through love and knowledge. The Dharmic path is an evolution in all aspects of nature, from limited awareness (tamas) to, selfish awareness (rajas) and then on to, unselfish awareness (satva). This is an observable fact of nature. History also tells us that some intolerant religions cannot live in harmony with the diversity in nature. As the oldest and the most peaceful surviving culture in the world, Hinduism is under attack by these aggressive religions. Educating the world regarding peaceful coexistence with diversity in creation, has been the tradition of Hinduism for millennia. This is now the responsibility of youth as Intellectual Kshatriyas, for the survival of Hinduism and the world. This presentation reintroduces the vision and energy/force or Shakti behind this multi-layered message of Swami Vivekananda and Vedanta in the creation, just as relative love is the force of creativity modern context. When Swami Vivekananda stated in this physical dimension. This is the binding force that we need to wakeup Hinduism/Bharat in order to of love of creation and sustenance in the physical wakeup the world, he spoke from the point of view dimension as experienced by animate life. This love of Dharma. A concept that is absent in the modern is also the origin of systemic and integral unity in world except for the Dharmic traditions such as creation. Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism and a few Since the foundation of individual identity is other nature oriented religions. Dharma is the relative consciousness, it can be a path to non- nature of both animate and in animate things from relative or absolute or universal consciousness or the macro view of the Universe. For example the ‘God’. Through this personal experience of love in dharma of inanimate things is the science of physics. life, we understand creation, nature and ourselves The dharma of life includes dynamic consciousness, from a macro perspective. This is the ultimate sense perception and thought processes. These source of Inner strength or Being ‘God’. In this ‘nature of things’ appear to be different at the presentation we discuss inner strength or the surface but they have common patterns and they process of ‘man-making’ as Swami Vivekananda are made of a common bond of multi-layered called it. Swami Vivekananda was a rare sanyasi consciousness. This is explained from the elemental who promoted spirituality through love and selfless perspective by both quantum mechanics and string service for sanyasis instead of the usual complete theory. From dharmic perspective, all things, renunciation of the ‘miserable world’. This is a much including matter, dark-matter, energy, dark-energy, needed awareness in India today because of many space-time, thoughts and emotions are made of destructive forces we see around us in the form of consciousness only, and therefore they can be 1. Lack of Hindu education, 2 Anti-Hindu Dharma created by thoughts, if we can access other media, 3.Corrupt Politicians 4. Predatory/ Exclusive dimensions of consciousness. These are natural religions and 5. Breaking India / The Joshua project. processes that look like miracles from other dimensions just as many of our modern technology Inner Strength as spirituality or science of would look like miracles only a 100 years ago. consciousness, has been the subject of research in Hinduism for thousands of years with recorded The medium of these layers of consciousness history in scriptures. We have been the experts in has been discovered by Hindu yogis to be ‘absolute’ this field of spirituality for millennia. If we ignore this or ‘still’ consciousness (Nirguna brahman) and it can opportunity to teach this dharma of love, we will be experienced as absolute love (universal god). In have nothing unique to offer to this world in Dhramic philosophy, ‘absolute love’ is the exchange for what we receive. -1- This is a partial reference list of books and and para-psychology are in the process of slow authors I have referred to, during my research. The evolution and discovery. This limitation is primarily List includes Hindu spiritualists and western due to our in ability to explain the multi-layered scientists. While the modern scientific perspective nature of consciousness and love in life, which is gives an analytical and mechanistic overview, the mostly beyond the physical dimension of time- Hindu perspective is based on analytical, systemic, space. In some experiments, Quantum mechanics direct, and repeatable experience of a multi layered, has been an ‘eye-opener’ to other non-local quantum reality which is beyond the current dimensions in physics and meta physics. evolutionary state of our “acceptable science”. Many of these analytical skills in physics and meta physics The above reference list can be used for further have been lost because of foreign invasions. In research. A web search will take us to other similar recent years, the western scientists have done a sources of information for verification. The authors detailed, rational analysis of some metaphysical referred to in parenthesis in this presentation are experiences. However they lack an universal specially relevant to our discussion and they can be philosophical foundation such as Vedanta to a starting point for further research. Books by Dr: integrate these experiences into universal truth. Amit Goswami and Mr. Michael Talbot discuss the Such integration is the purpose of this presentation quantum aspect of meta-physical dimension, as an and hopefully, the future task of all Hindu students integration of science and consciousness. They of Vedanta, in the tradition of Hinduism. agree with the advita vedantic definition of the universe as a multi-dimensional holographic The criteria for my research is science and rationality. Since science has succeeded in system. Books by Mr . Rajiv Malhotra Dr: Subhash minimizing emotional distortions in data analysis, it Kak discuss Hinduism from a Historical and modern has been more successful in explaining, perspective. Books like “Zen in the art of Archery” by generalizing and even formulating much of the Eugen Herrigel, are a discussion of accessing super experiences in life in this physical dimension better human “inner strength” through self-effort. There than most religions have been able to do. Because are also rare but repeatable, paranormal, personal of this, science has become the most trusted global, experiences recorded on the “youtube” that shed and in some aspects, an universal philosophy of the light on the nature of consciousness. Particularly, physical world. When we come to animate life and when viewed from the perspective of quantum consciousness, science as medicine, psychology mechanics. -2- In my personal life, I encountered many of the questions listed here have been answered expected and unexpected challenges, as I traveled from the point of view of universal advaita around the world and lived in several cultural philosophy of Hinduism. systems. Some of my challenges required inner In the absence of a universal philosophy, belief strength and qualities unknown to me. They systems are personal. When organized as a blind required a detailed search in external and internal faith based religion, usually with a history centric sources. I have listed above some of the basic, personality cult, they become an emotional weapon general questions I encountered that required to create wars, as in the last 2000 years. These immediate answers for my survival and happiness. religions have killed or maimed their own scientist Most of these appear to be common questions. and saints for being truthful. Religions have used These can be our questions for discussion to test the fear, anger and hatred to create local exclusive validity of this presentation. If the answers to these rules. These exclusive rules, with no universal question come from one and the same source then, philosophy of brotherhood have made some local they will have universal truth and no contradictions. cults wealthy and powerful religions, as they This source of one truth is the also the source of our destroyed other peaceful cultures and religions. inner strength. However, they fail to be an evolving philosophy of Having rejected Hinduism as an out-dated life that includes all of nature or creation. Unlike the philosophy in my youthful ignorance, I searched for 12000 year old Hinduism, they lack the support of answers to these questions from a rational and nature and universal laws since they are local, universal perspective in other religions and history centric and inflexible. Historically, they even philosophies. I finally settled for experimental thrive for a short time by force and violence but fail science as the most reliable, repeatable and non- to survive for a long time because of misplaced, or local philosophy and a standard for comparison. unnatural values they impose on nature and After, 25 years of research, I found that as science themselves. In the long-run, their exclusivity brings evolved in the last 100 years, it agreed with the unhappiness to themselves, their followers and their Hindu advita philosophy more and more unlike environment because of their selfishness and other religions, thereby giving credibility to disconnection from the natural, universal force of Hinduism as the most rational, scientific, practical love and their disrespect for the diversity in creation, and universal philosophy of creation and life. Most that sustains this universe. -3- The above list summarizes my evolution during for inner strength are documented as presentations my search for inner strength. Based on my spiritual and booklets on: optimizinglife.org. The Booklet practices and a crash course in Hindu scriptures and ‘Inner Strength’ shown above is a pictorial universal philosophy, I was able to understand explanation of the science of Dharma or the dharma concepts by experience and re-evaluate the universal truth from multiple points of view Such as: west and India from a Hindu perspective, which is 1. Optimizing Life 2. Biology of Brain, Body and Mind inevitable for most migrated Hindus. This developed 3. The Inner Strength 4. Accessing your Inner a healthy respect for western technology and for Genius 5. Modern Science and Consciousness 6. Hindu wisdom, and their respective cultural history. Evolution of Creation and Consciousness 7. The modern global culture is rooted in the Evolution of God, Religion and Spirituality 8. The competitive and colonial spirit of the west. However, Science of Love, Life and Spirit . There is a more with modern changes in the world such as detailed discussion of my spiritual journey in my interdependence, communication and new book ‘Rationalizing spirituality’. The book demands on our environment, a new cooperative “Rationalizing spirituality” starts with questions like, wisdom is necessary for global survival. who am I? why am I here?, Where am I going? and How to get there?. The book discusses various This presentation is meant to inspire further aspects of intelligence, emotions and intuition from research and active participation in setting new a holistic and scientific point of view and from the standards for civilized, cooperative behavior in our point of view of common personal experiences and new world, based on Dharma concepts. The focus common sense. These experiences and conclusions groups for this effort are Hindu: students, scientist can be verified by the reader through his own and social activists who can take an unselfish, active research, experiences and experiments since some leadership in shifting the current competitive stress of these cutting edge research have not yet been of materialism in the world to a co-operative accepted by the main-stream western scientists. harmony through universal spirituality and Youtube.com can be a good resource to verify some brotherhood. of the rare, but repeatable physical and My research and experiences during my search metaphysical phenomena. -4- This presentation is a small step in bridging the is a macro view of the multi-dimensional world that physical and metaphysical gap in accessing our includes emotions, love and intuition. Humans are a ‘Inner Strength’. The intention here is to answer combination of both Intelligence and Emotion. We some questions and inspire more question and are mostly emotional/spiritual or love based, and we answers, to make the bride between physics and use intelligence and rationality for communication, meta physics stronger. Much has been written in emotional stability and survival. Whereas the west Hindu scriptures about inner strength, freedom, has a history of power and materialism, based on love, courage and democracy in thought and action, 2000 years of colonialism and wars, Hinduism has a as dharma. This process of open discussion or recorded history of Wisdom of dharma, material purvapaksha has been an unique and proud wealth and spirituality for over 12000 years (ref: tradition of Hindu culture. With our multiple Hindu Graham Hancock). This ‘ Hindu wisdom’ is based on gods as paths to one divinity and panchayat its, truth, flexibility to adapt to nature peacefully and system, we are the true origin of democracy and harmoniously and it has been successful and alive freedom in thought and action. This diversity was longer than any other culture on earth. History held together through spiritual pilgrimage. No shows that, over time, many wealthy and powerful Hindu has been burnt for either philosophical or ego-centered, disharmonious cultures have been scientific research and difference in opinion, as for destroyed by nature. Therefore, it is worth example in the west. discussing dharma with an open mind. Open mind in dharma, is not acceptance of randomness. It is In analyzing Human consciousness to find inner based on ethics and wisdom of Dharma. strength, a comparative study of western culture and the Hindu culture has been extra-ordinarily Dharma in India, has been in a state of confusion beneficial, since culturally and historically they and decline because of our violent colonial history appear to be at the opposite ends of a spectrum, followed by, a lack of Hindu education, corrupt with a common goal of happiness. One has media and politics. Modern India is copying the west specialized in the material sciences and the other in indiscriminately and unintelligently. We need to spiritual sciences. The material or physical sciences understand and strengthen our dharmic roots, to are based on ego-centered, analytical intelligence stabilize and motivate our inner spirit, with an open and the spiritual science is based on emotions, mind, and adapt constructive values as we have love, life and wisdom. Intelligence is rational micro done before. In this presentation we will discuss view of the world in the physical dimension. Wisdom Dharma, as a rational path to inner strength. -5- Relative ‘Truths’ are a set of ‘rights and wrongs’. There is no God besides our inner strength or the They are cultural, local and transient. Absolute, Self. The path to inner strength or spirit is an eternal truth or ‘God’, is an experience of multi adventurous journey in to the unknown depths of dimensional consciousness as absolute love or Bliss. our own consciousness. As we travel this spiritual It transcends physical dimension. Relative love is path, we discover unexpected sources of peace, the origin of all emotions and thought patterns in clarity of thought and intuitive knowledge. A creation. Therefore, when we transcend relative spiritual path should be an enjoyable effort at every thoughts and emotions, all aspects of nature must step. If it is not, it is not a spiritual path. Our lead to one absolute love or truth. This is shown in intended goal in this discussion is to find a rational the graph by the symbol ‘om’ and a blue heart bridge between the physical and the meta physical, representing absolute love. This is similar in science to experience our inner strength as we understand to all equations and theories lead to one unified who we really are, what life is, and finally what field theory. Our sensory perception of the physical Nature or the universe is made of. world creates a layer of thoughts and emotions Hinduism is based on open, tolerant, logical which makes the access to inner truth difficult. evaluation of facts and experiences, to find a path to However if we analyze our experiences in life ‘Inner Strength’ as Dharma. This process is rationally without prejudice of our conscious and the purvapaksha. Purvapaksha is a discussion of a subconscious, we will experience the truth in its subject from a universal perspective. It requires an absolute form as bliss. This is similar to tracing understanding of the dualistic (both positive and millions of leaves, flower, fruits, twigs and branches negative) nature of subject matter, so that we can of a tree, which all look different at the surface, to its find the origin of differences and go beyond. This is common root. Therefore, our inner strength or a unique, civilized perspective in life which has Absolute Truth or God, can be traced to our own historically created a cooperative, harmony in pure consciousness. The deeper we go in our own nature and it is unlike the disharmonious consciousness, fewer conflicting thoughts we have competitive nature of our modern world which is and the stronger we become, for the simple reason: ego-centered and not very civilized. In this process, we find a second, inner source of stability, love, the rituals in Hinduism help us cleanse our clarity and self-confidence. This search for inner subconscious, collectively and individually. strength is also the search for our inner spirit or spirituality. -6- The path to being God or ‘Inner Strength’ starts common consciousness is a multi-dimensional with a study of our own consciousness and our world of quantum consciousness, with different ability to witness the multiple layers of natural properties at different layers that appear consciousness, thoughts and emotions we super-natural from other layers, as claimed by experience. The brain is an interface to the external scientists and yogis. This is intuitive, non-local, sensory reality and also our multi-layered inner quantum perception. We access some of these consciousness as in dreams. Our brain-mind is layers involuntarily based on our needs, instincts stabilized because of our slower sense perception. and intuition. We find identity, security, stability and From this conscious layer, we can watch or witness comfort at the conscious level, most of the time and other layers of consciousness when we minimize the ignore all other experiences. This dependency on noise generated by the body-brain-mind system. verbal communication and sense perception has Many of these noise thoughts are created by the increased with our modern speed of organic consciousness system with 3 layer of brain- communication, which has limited our emotional mind, discussed in Page 9. The three Brain-mind perception and the silent, subtle perception of systems compete to gain control at all times, as intuition, which can still be found in many animals, three gunas. They can generate thoughts that are savants and as rare ESP. In the depths of our mind, inconsistent with our conscious desires and we are a timeless, limitless field of consciousness intentions. During waking hours, we have a better with infinite inner strength. We are everywhere, all control over the thoughts, because of sense the time, as everything. Because everything is made perception and concentration (a SW, selective noise of consciousness. Our self imposed limitation is due filter). to our identity with the limited body and its associated limited sense perceptions, memory As shown above, we have both information and residues and the noise created by body-brain-mind noise in our thoughts, generated by our system. If we overcome these limitations, by ego/conscious-mind, by our body- brain and our clearing our conscious and subconscious minds, we emotional subconscious /soul, All these signals can intuitively perceive ‘everything’ and be an active create a turbulent and multi layered consciousness part of a powerful multi-dimensional universal and thoughts. In addition to this we have intuitive consciousness. This is close to being ‘god’. access to a field of common consciousness. Beyond -7- The nature of brain-mind interface and the stability and inner strength to meet challenges in connection between several layers of life, from a macro, rational and intuitive consciousness can be understood by comparing it perspective. The biggest hurdle in accessing our to a computer system. This is because, man has deeper consciousness is millions of years old created the computer in his own Image. It cannot b o d y- g e n e t i c p ro g ra m m i n g a n d o u r be otherwise. As shown here, our conscious mind subconscious obsessions and emotional scars (the Laptop) has limited control over the body f r o m p a s t l i v e s , a s k a r m a i n o u r (robot) through the senses (keyboard and soul/subconscious. Even though the genetic monitor). The body (robot) itself has a smaller programming reduces as the body becomes old mind (computer) which controls the details of with age, the memory of pleasure lingers in our body (robotic) function and ‘talks’ to the human subconscious, which limits our evolution and mind (Laptop), only when it requires help as body even forces us to reincarnate in search of familiar needs. The Human mind is connected to (LAN) field of consciousness. This is similar to an common consciousness and ‘infinite wisdom’ on alcoholic who habitually goes back to the same web of universal consciousness (WAN) similar to shop for a drink or a ‘sprit’ that ‘haunts’ its familiar an internet. grounds. If we develop better interface ability as Human body-brain evolved for the local, time- intuition, by reducing noise and distraction, space constrained physical world as a part of through meditation and witnessing, we can body instinct. It did not evolve to access higher access higher consciousness and wisdom, with consciousness. The left brain supports this just our intention as a pointer to common system by dominating our attention through consciousness. Our access to ‘infinite wisdom’ on talking-left-brain, (Broca’s region). However, the the web of common consciousness is limited by access to the infinite wisdom of intuition and our own obsession with the sensory excitement universal consciousness (the ‘internet of Akashik and the noise/distractions created by our body- records), appears to be through the right brain. brain-mind system, and by our subconscious We can improve our 'non-ego awareness’ mind/soul. Our conscious and the subconscious through meditation on the right hemisphere of minds limit our life to the sensory, material world the brain (ref: Jill Bolte Taylor) and shift our of unstable happiness and insecurity. Accessing attitude from relative love to non-relative higher consciousness gives us peace, emotional absolute love, compassion and tolerance. -8- The Brain-mind evolved as an Organic to control the emotional Limbic system and the Computer. The mind is what a brain does. The Brain reptilian brain. Constant repeated effort or training is the Hardware that runs the Mind software. From (tapas) is required to re-train each module of brain DNA studies and embryonic similarities it is evident objectively, as if they belong to a different life form that all life forms had one source of evolution as or a pet. This is the process of meditation, shown here, from aquatic life in the sea. Because of witnessing and Bhaktiyoga - to go beyond the limits this common origin, there are similarities in brain- of body genetics of the reptilian brain and the mind functioning among species. The brain evolved subconscious emotional residues (soul/karma) of in to three separate functional layers and not as one the limbic system to reach higher consciousness. unit, suggesting three layers of mind, as gunas. Similar reprogramming methods are used in These are shown in the graph above. 1)The military, sports etc. reptilian, survival instinct based layer is the Brain It is almost impossible to control all three brains Stem. 2)The Limbic system is the emotional, old to clear our mind of all thoughts, since they are mammalian brain and 3) the more recent neo- genetically programmed to be functional when they cortex. Since the neo-cortex is also the sensory are awake. Other than medication, natural sleep interface to the external world it gives stability to the and persistent practice of meditation, there is no human body-mind system by prioritizing thought way of slowing them from producing thought and emotional patterns. patterns as noise. However, better results are Even though these three layers specialize in obtained when love is used as basis of meditation different functions, they are organic and therefore, (bhakti-yoga), since the survival instinct of all adaptive and overlap functionality. They also organisms, including the collective human produce some continuous random thoughts related organism, is based on the love of life or survival. to their functionality, as noise patterns. The noise The path of dharma through the three Gunas from these layers is strong enough to keep us from (qualities) in nature discussed here, is a common accessing higher consciousness. Most humans and pattern in all of life, nature and creation, including cultures operate from the lower two levels of the our brain-mind, our body and the world around us. brain most of the time in auto-reactive mode - Therefore, the path to access our Inner strength as reptilian for pleasure (tamas) and limbic system for clear consciousness is limited by the dynamic, emotion (rajas). This is because, ‘the brain-mind’ evolutionary aspects of our own Brain- mind- body- evolved as a survival mechanism for animal life and sensory system. Most of the thoughts and emotions not for accessing higher consciousness. Therefore, that occupy our brain-mind system are habitually conscious decision of the neo-cortex is not enough created in all life-forms as patterns in evolution. -9- On the path to inner strength, deep in our own Similarly, repeated thoughts, needs and consciousness, we need to understand the brain- deeds, become patterns of thoughts and mind system from the evolutionary point of view. behavior in the short- term and heredity and This rational, self-analysis of our brain-mind is genetics in the long term. Experiments on essential in understanding the common pattern laboratory rats show transfer of learned behavior of thoughts and emotions in us and our into genetics with in a few generations. It is environment, This gives us a macro view of therefore, conceivable that human destructive ourselves and our environment. In the absence of attitude practiced over centuries can become a which, we are prisoners of our reptilian and limbic genetic characteristic of a culture, just as systems of pleasure, pain and emotional peaceful civilized behavior does in nature. instability, which is a micro view of life. There are Further, if we force changes against new evolutionary changes in Nature, that occur nature/environment, it will fight back and destroy all the time. The changes that support nature and the change, or destroy itself along with the life are sustained and the ones that do not, are change. This world may look unique to us but for eliminated. This includes humans, based on their nature, we are an insignificant, disposable, attitude. This process of evolution by reiteration, mutation of creation. Whether we survive or not is gradual. It may take several hundreds or as humans, depends on our collective dharmic thousands of years for these adaptive changes to attitude as humans toward our environment. become stable states in our evolutionary DNA. There is no one else to protect us. Not even ‘God’. Creativity in nature is expressed as mutation in Therefore, respect for the environment DNA. This is similar to new ideas in computer expressed as worship with rituals to go beyond evolution and adaptation. As computer software ego-mind, is a primary responsibility in (thoughts) become more useful, they are first Hinduism. This requires, openness, love, converted in to firmware (re-programmable unselfishness and respect for our environment hardware) and later in to hardware. As hardware and nature. Because of this, nature has sustained their evolution slows down, just as skeletal Hinduism for more than twelve thousand years, similarities between mammals and amphibians in spite of barbaric invasions, when most of the shown here have not changed for millions of other ancient cultures and religions allover the years. world have been destroyed. -10- All life forms are related in a spectrum of other, not easily accessible, quantum dimensions. consciousness and Gunas as shown above. The This is evident in animal behavior, psychic events, graph shows evolution of creation as an adaptive savant syndrome, autism or mutations in duplication of : 1). The DNA-gene pattern 2). The consciousness. As discussed before, no matter how Spectrum of consciousness in creation and 3). The complex the end result of creation appears to be, all mathematical equation that relates life energy (E) aspects of nature are based on the same basic to consciousness(c) and the subconscious(s) to fundamental principles which are adaptive- predict different states of consciousness. 4). evolutionary in nature. For example, the patterns in Einstein’s equation. DNA, embryos, atoms, solar system, etc, are all duplicated frequently. Even consciousness, life and In nature: reproduction, survival, emotions, behavior of life forms are duplicated. Therefore, instinct and intuition are similar (not same) in all creation can be represented mathematically as species, indicating a pattern in life forms. Thought predictions in fractals, holograms and the “Om- and emotional patterns induced by nature/ equation” shown here. This relatedness suggests, environment make individual and collective changes that there is a “ fundamental experience of in the species, as adaptive evolution, over time. In consciousness” which enables us to know “all” this section we discuss the multidimensional things through intuitive pattern recognition, when consciousness as the foundation of creation. The we remove our prejudiced and limiting layers of theory of, a field of consciousness being the consciousness, since they are all related. foundation of creation is based on : 1). What we see as “real nature” is genetic programming and not a The study of this pattern starts with our own true reality 2) The sub atomic particles which all thoughts and emotions, as witnessing. This process things are made of, do not have a material of self-study is a combination of both meditation existence. They exist only as a probability. When and witnessing. The intention here is to clear our they do exist, they occupy a space less than mind of all preconceived individual and collective 0.001%. 3). Existence of Time-space-creation is a ideas to recognize, both consciously and intuitively, limited quantum reality, since time-space is a the pattern duplication that exists in ourselves, our variable. These factors suggest that the foundation species, our nature and our universe. This multiple of creation is multi dimensional consciousness and path to a single experience of truth in “Miracles” such as clairvoyance and mysticism are consciousness is shown here as ‘OM’. not tricks, but are a rare natural phenomenon in -11- The graph shows the existence of collective phenomenon to ‘see’ distant object as ‘images’ and consciousness/instinct (LAN: Local Area Network) in as 'knowingness'. There is evidence to show that nature. The flock of birds and school of fish move in humans have lost much of this natural, intuitive ESP synchronicity without a leader. They move at high ability recently, because of heavy dependence on speeds without running in to each other, even though conscious rational mind. There is also evidence to they do not have an individual consciousness that we show that with modern high speed communication humans identify with. This instantaneous and over burden of information, we are finding it communication is possible only as non-local, difficult to have room for even emotion and love, in quantum or ‘other dimension’ communication. The our struggle for survival. same synchronic movement is impossible for humans The common consciousness or akasha (ref : as evident from parades, where only right angle turns Edger Cacey) is available, in some species, as instinct are possible after extensive training !. The ability of beyond sensory perception. This is also accessible to birds, farm animals and pets to intuitively find their all as intuition, if we can overcome the noise in way back to their homes or owners or off-springs is conscious and subconscious. It gives us ‘the ability to common all over the world. As instinct this is not be right always’ and the self- confidence to deal with obvious in humans. ‘unexpected’ challenges in life. In the case of In humans this collective instinct appears to be ‘Genius’, sometimes this access appears to come with recently lost, unused talent. However, its residues are a compromise in other faculties of the mind. Some of still observed as ‘mob-mentality’. In relation to this, the ‘genius’ show extraordinary ‘love’ for their talent, there is new research being done to determine the which is the access path to higher consciousness. effect of spectators on games. Other indicators of Meditation and witnessing on love gives us the clarity this common consciousness are ESP, Savant and of mind and the intuitive ability to access the autistic syndrome, and genius. Where unusual, common consciousness as our inner strength. In instantaneous access to information is observed, Hindu tradition, rituals in professional community which bypasses the normal search-access to memory (Jathi) has helped in the development of specialized, and the process of computation. ESP or intuition can intuitive awareness related to their particular be developed through the practice of unconditional profession. This can be compared to modern love, as described in Pathanjali yoga sutras, since collective training concepts in instincts(Lan) and love is the original emotion as discussed next. In training in much deeper and wider layer of intuitive psychics and savants this is an accidental common consciousness.(Ref: Pg-8). -12- The study of genetic patterns and, patterns of physical dimension with one equation. This thoughts and emotions in all life forms is a new pattern duplication exists in both physical and field of science. According to modern science metaphysical systems in Nature and they lead us and vedanta the essential nature of universe is to a single universal perspective on creation, duplication of patterns or it is holographic and which is the Limit of human potential. The path of fractal by nature, as shown in (a). Here fractal dharma gives such an integral perspective at means that the basic structure of the universe is each step of the path through karmayoga and repetitive with adaptive and creative changes in bhaktiyoga. details. For example the DNA of life forms, as According to the physicist Dr: Bohm, even the discussed before can be a good example of the structure of the Brain-mind- consciousness is a process of duplication with mutation, in nature. holographic system. Modern science says: the Another example is the study of green-house three dimensional world is a holographic effect by studying the leaves of a tree as shown in projection of a two dimensional sphere that ( b). In (c) , the holographic nature of creation encloses it, and that the information sphere is a (Indira's net) is shown. Where each segment of two dimensional record of past, present and the image carries a coarse image of the original future, in space-time. Similar to the image in (c). as pattern duplication, in a different dimension. In Hindu Vedanta this is termed Akashik records. We know from physical sciences, most Past and future are accessible in the present repeatable phenomenon can be reduced to a through a clear consciousness as in the case of pattern represented by an equation. Several such ESP. Further, according to Vedanta, this equations can be combined to define a collective holographic and fractal system is accessed phenomenon that have minor differences. For through intuitive pattern recognition. This is the example, a differential equation can represent basis for intuitive “ALL knowledge” gained many physical events in transition, with minor through the process of (samyama), when our differences that represent, adaptive and creative consciousness merges in the object of duplication in nature. This reduction of observation and we gain intuitive knowledge of complexity to simplicity is also the theme of the object. Samyama is acquired when we unified field theory, which represents seemingly transcend conscious and the subconscious mind unrelated multiple physical phenomena in our through meditation and witnessing. -13- The concept “as is the micro system so is the interested or capable of achieving these ‘heights’ macro system” stated in the Vedas, is used here in consciousness. It is hard to perceive these to explain the quantum nature of the universe. dimensions due to limits of our mind and The pattern duplication principle discussed genetics. However, if we meditate and bypass before, applies to both macro and micro systems these limitation in a trance, we can perceive other in nature. Our human reality of vision is shown realities and dimensions of consciousness, as above as a limited/quantum spectrum of light in shown in (c) . This collection of “realities” is our physical dimension (a). This physical reality similar to a digital frequency spectrum, with each is one of the many quantum realities of different quanta defined by a center frequency. The species in the physical world as shown in (b), experience of these quantum realities of where human perception is shown in green as consciousness are defined by our access and the one small segment. The quantum reality of each level of our comfort at that quantum level of species is defined by its genetics as shown by a awareness. The world of “Ghosts” is a field of separate band. The same applies to other modern research in several universities. It is sensory perceptions. Therefore the world we live shown above in red as a transition state for most in is a partial reality and the Universal reality is not souls. (in Hindu tradition, about 14 days). Ghosts a gray scale of continuous reality. It is made of exist when the soul (subconscious) identifies with clusters of quantum realities with ‘barriers’ the physical body, ego and a space-time location between them, that require extra-ordinary effort and it persists as a ‘conscious- energy-field’, (Tapas) to overcome. This has been the rare, but capable of moving objects as energy, even in the repeatable, human experience. Most of the world absence of a visible physical body. These has this model for spiritual dimension. apparitions have no barrier of matter similar x-ray energy field. Since they can move through walls Just as there are quantum realities in the and other objects. They appear to be held physical world, one for each species, there are together as an energy field or a “ghost” by the will quantum realities in the universe as different of their own sub-consciousness or soul. When layers of consciousness. It takes extra ordinary this ‘sankalpa’ or ‘will to live’ or attachment/desire effort to gain mastery over our own to material objects/life fades, the energy field consciousness, to access these layers. Similar to disappears. climbing mount Everest, not every one is -14- The graph shows the multiple, overlapping as compression of time. Some yogi’s appear to dimensions or layers of consciousness in the ‘create’ or transport matter in these dimensions. universe with their own time-space domain. Some This is quite different from “Black magicians” who laser experiments display this otherworldly ‘non- can communicate with spirits/ghost (Pg-14) to do local dimension’, where events happen similar “miracles" or just ‘tricks’. instantaneously and the ‘cause-effect’ sequence Dharma-kshetra refers a path of evolution of appear to be reversed. (ref: Dr: Amit Goswami) The consciousness in this physical dimension, through physical, the spirit-soul world and other worlds can turbulent ocean of dualities and gunas to an be represented similarly. As discussed earlier, experience of a multi-dimensional consciousness. psychics and savants can access these layers of In life, this is an evolution from dullness to anxious- consciousness. This can be considered an instability of a micro, selfish vision of life, to accidental ‘tunnel vision’ or a ‘worm-hole in peaceful-stability of a macro, unselfish vision of life. consciousness’ into other dimensions or layers. Beyond this stage of evolution is transcendence of Paranormal research in some universities have time-space and creation of mater and energy, shown the existence of a spirit world where ‘souls’ or generally termed as miracles, super-human feat, ‘ghosts’ or “human-energy fields” exist. mysticism etc. The repeatable ‘trance state’ in In Hindu scriptures. the field of consciousness is consciousness is not just personal experience or an divided in to several quantum realities similar to our imagination. This is a space of collective own reality, such as, the field of souls, spirits, consciousness where repeatable non-local or Siddhas, Devas, Akasha and the Light of quantum communication is possible between two consciousness etc. In these layers, intuitive, non- entities, as in ESP or ‘intuition’ discussed before. local communication is possible. As our perception This phenomenon is explained in the graph as non- of consciousness and awareness changes, Past , linear, overlapping, multi-layered, time-space- present and future compress to now and ESP consciousness domain. The concept of non-linearity becomes a reality as “psychic powers” and we see of time-space is explained in detail by relativity past and future in the “present”. This is shown above theory and quantum mechanics. -15- Similar to Einstein’s equation that relates witnessing state. This is similar to being matter, energy and time-space (velocity), the simultaneously aware of the blank screen when process of motivation (prana or life-energy) and watching a movie. It helps us retain control over the evolution of consciousness can be emotions and provides a non judgmental, represented by a non-linear equation, that can witnessing platform for the play of consciousness graphically represent different states of as emotions and rationality. The absolute, clear, consciousness and the process of meditation. consciousness (Turia), allows us to experience all Just as periodic tables can predict several states of consciousness objectively. Some of the elements based on mathematics, we can also states appear super natural from other predict some of the states of consciousness dimensions. shown in the graph. All of these states are According to scriptures, through the process natural. Some are common and the others can be of witnessing and meditation, it is possible to experienced through self-effort or yoga. In the reduce noise in brain-mind and experience these graph, E=motivation or life-energy, C= Conscious higher states of consciousness. These states can mind, S= Subconscious mind and the “symbol be experienced as ‘light’ of consciousness, which OM” = the static field of consciousness, or ‘void’. can leave permanent, positive residues in our By definition and experience, this field has no consciousness as inner strength. This is qualities or has all the opposite qualities of commonly experienced all over the world, and creation. However, when we get close to it, it is described in some scriptures and research experienced as bliss, symbolized by “OM”, as papers. The physical universe is said to be one of discussed before. the more stable realities where lasting changes to In the graph above, the different states of deeper consciousness can be made with consciousness are: (a) Absolute awareness, (b) conscious, repeated self-effort. Therefore, this Clairvoyant Consciousness (c) Meditation process physical plane is termed ‘Karma-bhumi’ or a plane (d) Jivanmukta / Turia (e) Samadhi / Turia (f) of effort and it makes this world a unique platform Deep sleep state (g) Random dream state (h) to access the permanent state of self-awareness. Wakeful state. Turia or the state of still Compared to this, heaven and hell are considered consciousness can be compared to a conscious transitory emotional dream states. -16- Dr: Richard Bucke M.D, in his book “Cosmic detailed procedures in Hindu scriptures to access consciousness” has documented several hundreds such higher consciousness. These procedures focus of cases of access to ‘common or cosmic on collective consciousness to reduce noise in the consciousness’. His account agrees with the body-mind and the subconscious. Here the experience of “clairvoyant consciousness” by experience of love becomes more important than the spiritual seekers, psychics, mystics and as NDE object of love as we approach absolute love. For a (Near death Experience) by patients in emergency true bhaktiyogi, who has surrendered his mind to his rooms. This light of consciousness is represented heart; gnanyoga, rationality and perfection are graphically above as “light at the end of the tunnel”. irrelevant. This is one possible experience of ‘OM’ Drugs have played an important role in the history consciousness. The experience of “cosmic conscious- of psychic experiences and spirituality. Traditionally, ness” is “sudden” or “quantum” (shown here in dark tribes all over the world have accessed an ‘altered’ blue). It is “unexplainable”, more intense and lasts state of consciousness with drugs, music, rhythm, longer than other mood or awareness changes. The and rituals. The discussion of ‘Soma’ juice in the Rig residues of “Cosmic” experiences appears to be Veda indicates this origin followed by later research in individualistic and unpredictable because of the higher consciousness with rituals and analysis for unknown individual soul or subconscious peak ‘one true God as consciousness’. This explains the experiences. This explains the varying experience of neutrality of creation and ‘God’. However, the ‘Satvic’ the same “God” by mystics around the world, This is or ethical values we attach to god is necessary to similar to looking at a mountain from a varying avoid body-mind distraction and focus on the distances. You know the mountain exists but you are integrating force of consciousness as love as not familiar with the details. discussed before. Psychic experiences due to drugs Devotional music and ritualistic chanting in and alcohol last for a short time with side effects. groups create a collective force in consciousness that Meditation and witnessing from the heart, has a can bypass the conscious and the sub conscious gradual but more profound and permanent effect on mind, to access the clairvoyant, trance state in consciousness as shown above. Even these changes consciousness. This is the foundation for collective tend to lose their effect if not sustained by self effort . and individual, idol worship and rituals all over the Resistance to meditation and witnessing is from world. This is termed Bhakti-yoga in Hinduism. The two sources: 1) Stiction from body instincts and goal of bhaktiyoga is to enhance the feeling of love in collective consciousness (LAN) or Tamas and 2) the heart as a path to higher consciousness by using Friction/noise from soul or Subconscious emotional an idol as an object of love and worship. There are residues and habits (karma) or Rajas. -17- This is a partial list of poets, scientists and a temporary or permanent experience as in NDE. In spiritual savants, who had a sudden “flash of most cases, the experience will gradually disappear Enlightenment”, compiled by Dr: Richard Bucke, over time without self-effort, sensitivity, awareness based on his personal interviews with contemporary and knowledge to sustain it. However, there are “enlightened” people and historical research. In similar claims by some charlatans who have been a fact, Dr: Bucke himself had such a quantum source of violent religions and cults. experience that prompted him in his research of Access to this super human awareness through “Enlightened” individuals as documented in his self-effort by Samurai in Japan, has been discussed book-"Cosmic consciousness". Many spiritual by many books including Eugen Herrigel’s “Zen in seekers are prompted by such a “flash of light” or the art of archery”. There are videos of such samurai “unexplainable experiences” or “quantum feats on the youtube. In the Samurai tradition, the experience”. barrier of survival instinct has been broken by a The book lists names, year of quantum (flash) collective tradition of courage, based on the experience and their age at the time of their principle of honor over life, to create a fearless experience. Some of them had intense desire and clarity and concentration. Like the yogis, the self-effort (Tapas) to search for the ‘unknown’ and samurai have been able to achieve super human the ‘all-powerful’. Most could only classify their abilities in martial arts, based on the principle of experience as a miracle or a vision of God or an Buddhist renunciation. This is an indication of the angel. Others, including Dr: Bucke, experienced an neutral or ‘inanimate’ nature of still-consciousness “unexpected flash of light” ( probably prompted by or the ‘True God’. This is quite different from the their subconscious karma) followed by a sudden, ‘peaceful and harmonious’ super human feats significant change in their awareness, perception achieved in other Buddhist and Hindu tradition, and thought patterns, and even personality. The when a higher awareness is achieved with lasting effect of this ‘light experience’, in most cases unconditional, universal love, with witnessing and is one of love and harmony. To a few, this change meditation, which can potentially lead to us to the has occurred through physiological defects or experience of even higher dimensions in the mutation in brain or a stroke, and to some, it cold be universal consciousness. -18- The paths of Dharma and sanyasa are different forces us to compromise our ethics for pleasure and even though they have the same goal. excitement, leading us to senility with age. In the Understanding Dharma, Sanyasa and moksha is path of Dharma, moksha is a default state of soul, essential for a focused effort in a Dharmic path to when the well disciplined body and mind deteriorate inner strength. Sanyasa is rejection of physical with age. reality of our world to access the reality of absolute consciousness as shown above. This requires In Dharma, it is a necessity and a responsibility renunciation of the physical world in isolation. of a satvic dharmi to participate actively in the Typically such sanyasis are forest dwellers. They community and work with a rajas (selfishness) and have no Dharma other than self-realization. This is a tamasic (ignorance), to practice witnessing and difficult path and it is suitable for only a few who are acquire inner strength. It is also satvic social ‘driven’ by their subconscious karma to be responsibility to bring satva to the otherwise rajasic disinterested in the excitement of the external world and tamasic, materialist world of the survival of the and body instincts. They are intuitively and intensely fittest. The Hindu scriptures ensure that the two attracted to renunciation and the philosophy of paths of Dharma and sanyasa are separated to ‘other worldliness’. avoid confusion and de-motivation by each other, for the simple reason that a true sanyasi has On the contrary, the Dharmic path discussed so renounced the world through his personal ‘death’ far, includes all of life and nature as shown above, by ceremony and therefore, a sanyasi has very little to expanding of our relative, ego-centered, narrow contribute to a Dharmic life, other than being a love into unselfish or universal love. This minimizes reminder of the possible existence of Moksha and as selfishness and converts relative love in to all an example in renunciation. Traditionally the inclusive absolute love. This is a process of shiksha-Gurus in Hinduism have been dharmis who integrating the six types of intelligence: cognitive, are experts in all four stages in life. Unfortunately, emotional, social, environmental, moral and because of the turbulent history of foreign intuitive-spiritual. A Dharmic path has the support invasions, sanyasis have been forced to become the of the nature, which is also held together by love. default gurus in Hinduism. They have emphasized Therefore, there is less struggle and confusion in ‘other worldliness’ by preaching an ‘adharmic this Dharmic path of 'tough-love' to success and miserable world’ philosophy. Many of the adharmic happiness. Dharma requires complete participation qualities such as, lack of interest in life, in life with love, courage and happiness. In the path unhappiness, timidity, irresponsibility, poor work of Dharma, as selfishness is surrendered to ethics etc can be traced to this unfortunate turn of unselfishness, life becomes a process of dedicated history, when sanyasis and renunciates, who had service in love for the fulfillment of accepted very limited life experiences or interest in social responsibilities (karmayoga). This is quite opposite values became Hindu gurus ! Fortunately for us, we to the current obsession with ‘me first’ or egoistic- have extensive cultural/scriptural heritage that philosophy of the materialists, which generally sustains Hindu Dharma. -19- For a sanyasi, meditation is a way of life to access internal thoughts. Since, resistance enforces noise higher consciousness. It is practiced most of the and thoughts. 1). Shift your awareness from mind to time, mostly in isolation in a forest. His focus is a heart. Expand your heart and fill it with a feeling of state of still consciousness and not ‘inner strength’. divine love and courage. Experience the feeling of On the other hand, meditation as practiced by love in the heart as you slowly breath and chant your dharmis, during a short period of daily morning Moksha mantra. This love is your divine, silent ritual, is to calibrate their own mind for Inner witness. To intensify this feeling of love, merge or strength and clarity, before they start their become or exist as love in your heart. 2). Close your energetic, full, daily life. As in all things in life, the eyes. Relax your eye balls. Imagine a blank space in success of meditation depends of persistence front as an “objective world” as shown. While (discipline) and consistence (quality of breathing-in, experience love in the heart and while concentration/ effort). A Moksha mantra based breathing-out witness the “objective world”. 3). exclusively on love and reverence for the source of Imagine a location for an “objective-ego” in the back the mantra is essential to ignore thoughts and of the brain as shown above. As before in (2), repeat stabilize the mind, during all 6 steps as shown above. breathing and witnessing the “Objective-ego”. 4). The mantra becomes a subconscious, default state Merge in ('become' or 'exist as') unselfish, satvic- until it is replaced by a still consciousness. It is awareness of the Brain right hemisphere (Ref: Pg-8), important that the moksha mantra has no meaning. as shown above. 5). Merge in the feeling of unselfish Its power to break through multiple layers of universal love in the heart (Witness) and ' become' consciousness to reach still consciousness rests the feeling of love and light in your heart. 6). Slowly entirely on the love and reverence for the source, expand your awareness of love and light beyond your since love is the connecting path through multiple heart and body, to fill “the Universe”. Merge in this layers of consciousness. If a moksha mantra has a 'Unlimited consciousness' as your 'true self, absolute meaning it will become a process of self hypnosis Consciousness/Love'. Stay in this state of meditation and therefore ineffective. 5 to 25 minutes. The peace and love created in meditation is sustained rest of the day as The following is an overview of the meditation 'witnessing', as explained in page-24. process. The Details of the process of meditation can be found in “Rationalizing Spirituality - Ch 3.8" which Spirituality and higher consciousness cannot and can be downloaded from “optimizinglife.org”. Each should not be imagined. Spirituality is an experience. of the following steps is practiced for about 5 Disciplined meditation and witnessing will lead to Minutes. A 108-bead string may be used to keep clarity of consciousness. The proof of this is courage, time. Sit comfortably and pay attention to breathing no worries, good sleep, concentration and intuition. to relax your body and mind. Imagine a peaceful, These improvements will be self evident and should fluorescent, divine blue-white light filling body and not be discussed. Any discussion and imagination of heart. Close your eyes during meditation and ‘accept these improvements will only lead to mental and ignore’ but do not resist any external noise or distractions and regression in meditation. -20- Dharma is a natural, harmonious path of least default emotional state in our personality. Since all resistance to access inner strength and happiness, life forms intuitively respond to survival and love, because it is based on love. Dharma does not our stable, predictable love creates an open require isolation, surrender and renunciation of the support system we need in our environment. This is world, as in sanyasa. The path of Dharma is to an unselfish, bilateral, harmonious, co-existence. understand, enjoy and use the forces and As shown above, there are three aspects to tendencies in nature to bypass the barriers to inner creation of this unselfish love as our dominant strength and spirit. In the Bhagavad Gita, ‘Dharma emotion. The first, bhaktiyoga is worship of all Kshetra-Kurukshetra’ implies that the path of objects in nature with love and equanimity in dharma is a struggle (not surrender) against forces symbolic group rituals, which creates a supportive of ignorance and selfishness. The three layers of common consciousness of love and helps us our brain-mind discussed earlier, relate to the three stabilize and harmonize our conscious and the aspects of nature (gunas) reflected in our body, our subconscious mind with our environment. The emotions and our rationality. These ‘gunas’ are second, Karmayoga takes this unselfish love to managed and brought under the control of our deeper consciousness when it is expressed as conscious mind by three different processes or yoga unselfish-love-in-action as discussed earlier. systems shown above. The goal is to create a macro Karmayoga opens our mind in love to our view of life by minimizing the egoistic micro view environment, stabilizes our emotions and regulates tendencies of body, emotions and intellect. our body through diet and exercise. The third, Presence of mind expressed as courage, truth, gnanayoga, is the rational, macro view or wisdom of love and unselfish effort is the essence of life. This helps us understand the interconnected karmayoga. Action brings presence of mind. The nature of our life and our environment, so that we action to thought ratio and the satvic motivation have harmonious, peaceful, coexistence in life, regulate both body and mind, as karmayoga. By instead of a competitive, unstable, ego-centered keeping the body and mind busy with work, materialistic life. This rational, macro view of life will particularly creative group effort, we bring our keep our focus on dharma in spite of all other awareness to the present. The group effort or sensory distractions in life. Of the three yoga ‘Satsangh’ is an important aspect of karmayoga, system, karmayoga is essential to manage body which stabilizes our emotions and motivates our consciousness, which is dominated by the genetic love based on the principle: ‘shared happiness is programming. The fourth: Bhati as Dhyanayoga is maximized and shared unhappiness is minimized’. practiced as meditation on love and witnessing as Secondly, as the effort is motivated by unselfish discussed next. love, love gets intensified and becomes a dominant, -21- In the process of accessing our inner strength we victims of the left brain, when the conceptual world choose to replace all conflicting emotions in our (ego) is destroyed temporarily. If the need to love conscious and subconscious mind by one emotion of others and be unselfish, dominates our life, we create love, to reduce noise and clear a path to higher or unselfishness, happiness and good emotion around deeper consciousness. Love is a perception of us. On the other hand, if our need to be loved is more consciousness all over creation. Both absolute love dominant as in ego-centered selfishness, we create and absolute consciousness are experienced as bliss. selfishness, unhappiness and associated bad There is no duality or antonym for absolute love. emotions and qualities around us. Love and Absolute hate (devil), the counter-part of absolute unselfishness are intuitively perceived by our love (god), does not exist. One is bound to self- environment, just as selfishness is perceived by our destruct in hate long before absolute hate is environment as defensive survival instinct. experienced, whereas, absolute love includes us and In course of life we tend to be extraverted when it is the very nature of creation and survival. happy and introverted when unhappy, which can Therefore, there is no confusion in the absolute create a barrier of unhappiness and even depression, nature of love as the non dual original emotion. Love in our subconscious. This barrier makes it difficult for is the only common experience that connects us to all us to access our inner strength, peace, love and life forms in this and all other worlds, in this multi happiness, we are capable of in our deeper dimensional creation. This experience can be as consciousness. However, through meditation on love simple as developing a feeling of love in the heart and through witnessing with love and courage, we through meditation. Other good habit follow by can transcend the barrier of unhappiness and access themselves because Nature or Self supports good our true potential. (ref: Inner Strength ,Pg-12 ) qualities as a path to survival, love and universal consciousness. Soon, you will attract and glow in Therefore, as discussed earlier, the only way to love. know and experience our multi- dimensional universe and creation, is to meditate on Love and to When we view the world from the body-mind make love the foundation of our life so that all perspective, this love is modified by the mind in to thoughts and emotions originate from love. This different good emotions/ unselfish qualities (Satva) integrates our consciousness, making our life moral, as shown in the graph above and their opposites: bad peaceful, stable, subtle and in-tune with nature or or selfish emotions (not shown). This is similar to god and, it creates a path to inner strength. If passing a stream of pure love in to a prism of ego that unselfish, universal, unconditional love is not God, diffracts love in to a series of diverse emotions. For then, there is no God. According to the Bhagavad Gita example in persons with paralysis of the left brain, , we are originally ‘god’ or ‘love’ and not ‘sinners’ and when the ego (left talking brain or Broca's area) is we only need to rediscover ourselves, through self- paralyzed, dualities of emotions disappear and one effort. Therefore, we do not need to be saved by any feels only the bliss of love (ref: Jill Bolte Taylor). prophet or a church. Similar experiences of bliss are recorded by accident -22- Hindu dharma is about transition from relative love in the heart . With practice, we should be love to absolute love. This happens when we fall able to generate and sustain the feeling of love in in love with the feeling of love itself. The the heart, at will, even without an object during experience of absolute love as bliss, is the same meditation and make it a continuous feeling in the as the experience of absolute consciousness. In heart. This is a process of falling in love with the the Dharmic ritual of meditation on love, our feeling of love in the heart itself. If we truly love emotions and consciousness are reset or the object of reverence more than our ego, calibrated to a known state of love everyday. As thoughts will subside and we will go to a trance discussed before, love is not only a common state as shown above, and our awareness shifts factor in all life forms in this physical universe, but from relative love with objects to absolute love it is also a common factor in all other dimensions. without objects. As we continue this process, we radiate love that is perceived intuitively by our As shown in the graph, any object of love can environment. With persistence and long practice, be a starting point for meditation. The only we can transcend the physical dimension and 'all' condition is that the object of your love must be things become “intuitively known” to us in the stable and reverential, and it should not be divine bliss of universal consciousness. This is the subject to changes by our ego and emotions. concept of ‘Bhakti-yoga’ or the yoga of love. The Object of our love can be a god, guru or some Historically, a limited trance state is reached one we know or read about. It can even be our through the common consciousness of group pet, as shown here. The focus here is the rituals and devotional singing all over the world. intensity of reverential love that the object Bhakti-yoga is most effective when practiced in creates in our heart and not the ‘reason’ for love. groups as devotional worship with an object or an Meditation as practiced by dharmis during a idol of reverence. With love based meditation and short period of daily morning ritual, is to calibrate witnessing, this process can become deeper and their own mind for Inner strength and clarity, more “rational, predictable, reliable and known”. before they start their energetic, full, daily life. Meditation is most effective when it is done first The key to developing absolute love is the thing in the morning or before going to sleep at expression of love as ego-less, unselfish service night, or both, as time permits. As in all things in in love or karma-yoga. This is surrender of our life, the success of meditation depends on selfishness to our unselfish love as our inner persistence (discipline) and consistence (quality divinity. Any other concept of surrender leads to a of effort and concentration). When we start our state of fear and confusion that can pollute the meditation with eyes closed, we imagine the very feeling of love in our heart. A guru can only object of our love in our heart and chant a be an example, guide, mentor or a pointer to our mantra. The object helps us generate a feeling of own inner guru - the absolute love in our heart. -23- Like all life forms, humans are dominated by habit we develop to be aware off and experience the sense perception. When we are happy we tend to be feeling of love and courage in our heart, at all times, extraverted and we are introverted when unhappy. no matter what the state of our mind and the According to Abraham Maslow, our unresolved peak external world is. This is a shift in our awareness experiences in life are stored in our subconscious as from our reactive, emotional mind to a loving, emotions. In Hindu scriptures, these peak responsive, heart. Witnessing can be practiced with experiences can be even from our previous life as or without a mantra. However it is more effective in karma. Most of our thoughts, emotions and actions the initial stages with a mantra. The mantra can be are triggered and managed by our subconscious. 'love', as we breath-in and 'courage', as we breath This can cause emotional instability and out. Witnessing helps our mind : 1). Slow Down and unhappiness, if there are deep scars or unhappy be under control. 2). Helps us to understand residues in our subconscious. This is more so in an ourselves better, objectively and therefore, 3). unpredictable insecure environment. Witnessing Helps us to understand others objectively. 4) As we stabilizes our mind by replacing all our emotions become less self-centered we identify more with our with love as our default emotion. This love gives us environment and recognize patterns in life time and confidence to respond peacefully instead spontaneously and intuitively. 5) All these have an of reacting to external events out of fear and intense, peaceful, loving effect on our personality. insecurity. In most cases, our love based first As we practice witnessing and access deeper layers response and attitude will disarm any external of consciousness with love and courage, we radiate unpleasantness, since love is the fundamental force love, peace and security, which will be perceived for survival and happiness in all of nature. intuitively by our environment. The immediate benefit of meditation and witnessing is creation of a Witnessing can be practiced to extend and personal “space” in our consciousness that enables sustain the ‘Satvic’ state of mind and unselfish love clarity of thought followed by stability and efficiency and courage in the heart, created during meditation in our actions. As this personal “space” in (Ref: Pg-20,22). It is a process of being heart consciousness purifies and expands, we can induce centered and watching our own emotional and a supportive, loving, harmonious consciousness in thought patterns , which will help us understand all our immediate environment, since love is the other dynamic consciousness or personalities from foundation of creation. As we shift our awareness an objective or macro perspective. This macro view from mind to heart, our communication, visual and gives us the stability to be responsive by ignoring intuitive perceptions, are enhanced. The process of our own and others reactive emotions. The witnessing gradually develops in to a presence of Scriptures say that an elephant ignores the barking mind or “being-here-now’. This is a result of having dogs as it walks through a village,- peacefully. As the courage to let go past and future worries, and to shown in the graph above, Love replaces all other be in love with the present, no matter what it is we emotions in the subconscious to stabilize our are doing. This is the goal of dharma-karmayoga. conscious and subconscious mind. Witnessing is a -24- The path of dharma is based on love, ethics and predictable and reliable. With practice, the mantra morality which are expressed as equanimity in becomes a subconscious reminder of the witnessing nature. In the traditional ‘Guru-kula’ system of process. Hindu education, the pupil was part of the Guru’s As discussed in the Bhagavad Gita, Dharma is family. Ethics were the foundation of civilization and primarily implemented as Karma-yoga. Karmayoga not materialism and appearances, as it is today. is love expressed as devotional, selfless service. It is With lack of ethics that has followed modern a path through the conscious, sub-conscious and education system, Hindus have to chant the dharma the common consciousness to access universal mantra to reorient their values and priorities in life. consciousness in all things we do, where the doer Just praying to god will not work. We need to focus disappears in a bliss of experience as in a hobby, on dharma, since undue focus on moksha is music or sports. This implies executing our accepted detrimental to life. The dharma mantra also helps in responsibilities with full devotion and extraordinary, the process of witnessing, as discussed before. A dedicated effort and not let results affect our dharma mantra such as “Discipline, Courage, Love, motivation negatively. This is not detachment to Truth, gratefulness, patience, hard-work, effort or results, as it is commonly misunderstood. awareness and Unselfishness”, can be chanted The intention is to optimize our life by bringing when we are doing routine, repeated physical presence of mind, complete effort, sensitivity and activity or when we are not in an important thought unselfish commitment to everything we do in life. process, as shown above. This mantra is our reliable This is ‘heaven on earth’. Courage gives us ‘dharma guru’. We can change the dharma mantra detachment from past and future and love gives us to suit our needs. For example, if are in a the focus on the present. The dharma mantra or challenging situation we may choose to focus on the repetition of our principles in life, is an important courage or patience. In all cases, it is important to tool in karma-yoga. 1). It develops presence of mind include Discipline, Courage, Love, Truth and 2). It keeps useless, energy-consuming, emotional Gratitude as a starting words. Gratitude is an thoughts away, giving us energy to focus on what is important aspect of witnessing, since it motivates us important. 3). It creates positive attitude to face to be helpful to others. In the absence of this, ego challenges. 4). It counters the random or negative and selfishness will creep in and pollute our talking brain. 5). It fights the commercial fundamental principles because of stress, emotions distractions that we face in the modern world. 6). It and competition in life. Over a period of time, the defines who we are and gives us emotional stability mantra becomes a background task and a and peace of mind. 7). This is a form of positive self- philosophy of life. It will come to foreground hypnosis to over come our negative sub-conscious spontaneously, when needed, because of the and environmental programming. 8) With practice stability and peace of mind it provides and, as a and application, it develops in to a philosophy of life. source of positive energy. This process also 9) It defines and represents the “perfect guru / improves group communication by making us trainer” we hope to meet. -25- Many of our unresolved experiences during merge in the unselfish or 'Satvic' right-brain hem- childhood or even in the past life, end up as sphere as we go to sleep at night (Ref: Pg-8, 20). subconscious scars or peak experiences (Ref: The “Talking Brain” is a cluster of neurons the size Abraham Maslow). We need to resolve these of a peanut, in the analytical left half of the brain, emotions to integrate a fragmented sub-conscious. that continuously talks to us in terms of body needs, Without this, the mind can be unstable and the identity, survival, security and our subconscious access to inner strength and self-confidence is desires and fears. This is a non-stop organic difficult. Therefore, our biggest barrier in accessing computer that produces thoughts like kidney our Inner strength can be our own subconscious produces urine until it is tired as in deep sleep or mind. The “talking left brain”, shown above, sustains dysfunctional. The goal of meditation is to gain the fragmented subconscious mind and its control over the talking brain by ignoring it. The Left- associated negative thought patterns. These can be brain limits our thoughts to sensory and body identity deep rooted and may not be easily reasoned and by filtering the global information processed by the eliminated with rationality or dharma mantra. This is right brain. This Process is our ego. As a part of more obvious in people with low self-confidence, evolution, ego is based on security and sensory when many of their good intentions are defeated by happiness motivated by the survival instinct of their own subconscious, over time. However, it is body/nature, through the body-brain system. The possible to overcome this barrier to change by body-brain system has no concept of higher reprogramming our deeper subconscious during consciousness. Because of this, our ego-centric mind sleep, when it is more receptive to suggestions and is an inefficient interface to our higher self-hypnosis. In self-hypnosis we embed the basic consciousness. It is possible to defuse the “talking principles in life that are supported by unselfish love Brain” and shift our awareness from the talking left and courage, deep in our own subconscious. As brain to right brain just as we shift our awareness shown in 'Step 1', above, a series of general principle from one arm to another when necessary. With this similar to dharma mantra that address our specific shift we de-energize the talking ego and be more thought and attitude patterns that we intend to present in unselfish, universal or 'satvic' awareness. change are recorded in appropriate, familiar sentences and phrases, in our “own voice” (to over The process of talking left-brain and the concept come 'our own subconscious inner voice' or the of ego and individuality starts at about the age of 5 'talking brain'), in an mp3 recorder. In 'step2', it is and matures over several years. The talking brain will played back, at a low volume, repeatedly during not stop talking until death. It even talks during sleep at night, until the negative “talking left brain” is senility, when we loose individuality. Ego is the origin reprogrammed with positive talking patterns. With of individuality, rationality and intelligence. It causes this, many of the subconscious negative the illusion of separation from nature and our programming can be replaced with a positive environment. (ref Dr: Jill B. Taylor). If the talking ego feedback and inspiration. This is a process of self- identity is dominant we tend to be selfish and harmful hypnosis. (Ref: Self-hypnosis by Mr: Harry Aaron). to the environment. When this intelligence is used unselfishly to identify with our environment and Another effective way of defusing the ego-centric become part of it, intelligence becomes wisdom. sub-conscious and make it global or universal is to -25-A- Truth or God, is eternal and universal. It is a enforced by many history centric, local religions, as divine experience of our universal, multi- universal values, through organized violence, force dimensional consciousness and our absolute, and fear, which is contradictory to Absolute truth as universal love. It is bliss in a trance. It is universal, all inclusive, Absolute and unconditional independent of space and time and therefore, it is love...Dharma is a an unselfish multi layered path of related to our eternal spirit or soul. The application love and happiness. It is a practical application of an of Truth is unconditional love for all of nature or idealistic philosophy of absolute love to our world of creation. This absolute quality is hard to apply in a relative love and contradictions. The goal of relative world of rules, rights and wrongs. Truth dharma is to apply the ethical principles to life in a includes all aspects of creation. Anything based on gradual, flexible and tolerant path to all of creation, truth has the support of creation in all its dimensions which is dominated by ignorane and selfishness, and it is therefore stable, clear and everlasting. instead of by force and fear of god. The ethics of Truth can be eclipsed but not destroyed. Truth can dharma are intuitive, such as: Unselfishness, Love, be experienced but cannot be explained or created Freedom, Equanimity, Mutual Respect, courage by man, who is confined to one physical dimension. etc….. Like Ashoka, Mahatama Gandhi was Truth can be experienced in a diluted form, in this unsuccessful in his heroic effort to apply absolute physical dimension by all life forms as relative love, non-violence as dharma in a world dominated by sex and happiness….Ethics/morals are an rajas (selfishness) and tamas (ignorance). Swami application of truth in life. They are based on love, Vivekananda was a rare sanyasi who promoted peace, equanimity etc which are held sacred and dharma as love and karmayoga for sanyasis instead unchangeable. Unfortunately, in most of the world, of the usual ‘complete renunciation of effort in this ethics are largely limited to humans and do not miserable world’. This is a much needed awareness include our diverse environment as it in India today because of many destructive forces should…..Rules or Commandments regulate a against Hinduism and India. There is no Dharma culture. They are based on survival, emotions and without karmayoga. The Bliss of self is experienced History. They are local, cultural and time dependent in Karmayoga, here and now, in a semi-trance, relative values in a society. Rights and wrongs are bliss of unselfish effort, courage and love, This stable and harmonious, if they are related to awareness becomes part of our eternal soul. This is Absolute truth, as ethics. If not, they are the only practical application of of Bhakti, Jnana implemented by force and fear as blind faith and and Dhyana yoga-s for dharmi-s. This can only be have no universal philosophy. Attempts to create a accomplished with extraordinarily disciplined, self- philosophy based on a blind faith and belief system effort, love and perseverance in everything we do in tend to be self contradictory and fail to evolve with this life. rest of nature. Blind faith and commandments are -26- As shown above, there are four Dharmas for non-violence and respect for diversity in creation every person to follow. All of them are based on expressed as ritualistic worship of nature, Love, Responsibilities, and Unselfish action. They represented by multiple gods and idols, with full are in priority: 1). Swadharma (chosen awareness that the experience of absolute love in all responsibilities). 2). Kula or Jathi Dharma (Family or paths, is god. This is evident from the tolerant community responsibilities) 3). Kala dharma existence of many life forms in India that have been (Responsibilities based on the needs of the time) 4.) forced in to extinction in other parts of the world. Sanathana/Sama Dharma eternal Responsibilities to As shown above, the evolutionary path of God / Nature/ environment. On the right, the graph individuals, cultures and religions go through three shows the physics and metaphysics of Dharmic path stages: 1) Ignorance (tamas) 2) Selfish awareness of love, courage and Karmayoga, through creation. (rajas) and 3) Unselfish awareness (satva). Dharma The philosophy of dharma is popular all over the is a path through these three stages of creation to world as Buddhism. It has brought love, harmony reach inner divinity or ‘Inner Strength’. The and a peaceful civilization to most of the world. For harmonious path of dharma to moksha is made over 2500 years, dharma has been accepted possible by making each step of its application voluntarily by various cultures in the east. It has also practical, flexible, natural and local, but with one influenced the west. This is quite different from the uncompromising condition that all actions be based other religions where fear of god and violence have on unselfish love and non-violence. This enables one been the primary tools in forcing their local, history to stay on the path of dharma as one struggles centric, blind belief as a universal truth. In an through the real world of ignorance and selfishness, universal truth there is only love and evolution. In a to reach our inner strength or god. This extra local philosophy of relative love; hate and devil are ordinary and unselfish effort in Karmayoga to reach essential to express love in relative conceptual superhuman results in all aspects of life is 'tapas'. terms. This need for hate has forced some local Tapas also applies to our effort in transition from religions to use hate, revenge and violence to spread physical to universal consciousness in meditation. their religion as universal. When force and violence In the absence of dharma both individuals and are removed through mutual respect for other faiths, religions get caught and stagnate in the lower stages these religions will have evolved in to dharmic, of awareness and evolution, which is a state of universal philosophies. There is a new awareness in intolerance, lack of mutual respect, violence and the west of this universal truth and many have materialism as practiced by many cultures and converted in to Buddhism or follow Buddhist religions today. At present, there is a danger of philosophy. However, powerful and structured violence and materialism becoming a global religious organizations find it hard to evolve. The philosophy because of the confusion between origin of Buddhism and its philosophy is in Hinduism. modernization and westernization. Where the basic ethics have been practiced as love, -27- This graph shows both a macro and micro every stage. Nothing is guaranteed in evolution view of creation and consciousness from a Hindu except freedom of choice ( from a micro point of view. The origin of creation as shown in perspective and mutation from macro the middle with a red question mark is eternal. perspective) followed by consequences. There is Meaning it is beyond time-space and it can be no perfection in dynamic creation since it is a only be experienced as still consciousness, where transition and not a state. Even in Hindu the physical world and time-space disappear. This scriptures, there is no perfect god or guru who is considered a trance state from the physical knows or controls all things in creation or just dimension. Both of these states of consciousness even in his own life. However, the path of dharma are ‘realities’ from their own perspective similar is a path of love and happiness, to inner strength, to vision in different species. This timeless-ness freedom and universal consciousness. The is possible since time-space is a collective and stories of perfection that are told in most cultures individual perception of a dynamic consciousness is a list of wishful thinking, sometimes based on and it is a variable. Therefore, in Hindu scripture, experiences of higher consciousness that point to the origin of creation is an eternal void or nirguna limitless possibilities, similar to limits of brahman. mathematical equations. The only ‘perfection’ that can be experienced is deep sleep. Even this is The perception of creation and its three a transition because of deeper dynamic evolutionary qualities or ‘gunas’ , explained consciousness that wakes us up to the same earlier, go through the same cycle of expansion physical reality. This concept is shown as a black and contraction, individually and collectively as dot or absolute ignorance or ‘Tamas’. Very close to dynamic organisms and organizations. This is it, on the other side of ‘void’ is the highest similar to our own states of consciousness in a possible state of conscious awareness ‘OM’, that day, where still consciousness is our deep sleep is experienced repeatable by a few yogi-s, as self state. This similarity is the systemic, pattern realization or ‘Sat-Chit-Ananda’ (the eternal duplication nature of creation. Life forms evolve experience of bliss of consciousness). This rare from still consciousness to dynamic experience is described in the Bhagavad-Gita as a consciousness and back to still consciousness in multi-layered nature of consciousness and cycles, eternally, shown as multiple loops in blissful vision of creation, that includes past evolution in the graph above. There is present and future. Psychic-ESP is a limited progression and regression in this evolution at experience of this common consciousness. -28- Like modern computers Hinduism is a graphic based on freedom to choose a ‘personal god’ and and symbolic language. Hindu spirituality, science, respect for diversity. This democracy in thought and mathematics, culture, rituals and philosophy have spirituality is unique to Hinduism. It made Hinduism graphic and symbolic representations. All aspects of non-violent and civilized. It is expressed in multiple nature are expressed symbolically because of the gods and philosophies as portals to one supreme multidimensional nature of the universe. In this experience of the ‘devine’. This is the foundation for graph, the multidimensional philosophy (Wisdom) all things Hindu, including art science and of Sanathana dharma and its application as mathematics. This is a natural, adoptive path of Hinduism, in its current version, is explained. On the least resistance to achieve higher levels of universal left the Hindu philosophy is explained as an awareness and civilized life. The success of this evolutionary process from the physical dimension to method is evident from long history of Hinduism. metaphysical dimension, in three stages of nature. The Vedas are the original intuitive scriptures The path from body consciousness (tamas) to ‘heard’ in resonance with nature and in clear selfish, ego-awareness (rajas) to unselfish, self- consciousness, as opposed to man made scriptures. awareness (satva) is the path of dharma. Beyond These experiences were debated and evolved as unselfish awareness is the path to multi- multiple philosophies or as different paths to a dimensional consciousness, as in ESP and Para- c o m m o n e x p e r i e n c e o f ‘ m u l t i - l aye re d psychology. The ultimate, unlimited experience of consciousness’ or God. The analytical, universal consciousness is Void or nirguna bhrahman. The philosophy that agrees with modern science is concept of universal oneness or a systemic “advita Vedanta”. The Hindu philosophy was made universe, is based on pattern duplication in nature, more accessible in stories for implementation in real through the conscious and intuitive experiences. life, as puranas, which is the foundation of Hindu The graph also shows the possibility of stagnation in art, music and culture. The secret of survival of the process of evolution because of ignorance and Hinduism is: like nature, it has some basic natural intolerance. As evident from history, intolerant rules based on unselfishness and love, and the rest religions that obsess over their personal rules book, is adaptive evolution, toward a well defined goal of stagnate in violence, at the lower levels of evolution. all inclusive, universal love. This is quite different All individuals, life forms, organizations and even from one prophet and one book of exclusive rules religions can be mapped on this scale of evolution as and commandments as in Abrahamic religions. qualities in consciousness (gunas). Hinduism is not man made. It is derived from nature as an experience and later, analyzed and On the right, the practical path to this higher documented by yogi-s in thousands of research consciousness is shown as Hindu dharma. It is documents. -29- As shown above, Ashrama Dharma or stages in 4). The optional stage of renunciation (Sanyasa). life helps us in our harmonious evolution in This classification was intended to harmonize the consciousness, as we adapt to changes in life and evolution of our soul, as the body and mind mature our environment, by changing our priorities. These and change with time. At each stage in life a apply to all four ‘Verna-dhramas’ based on particular yoga system takes the primary focus. The subconscious, natural tendencies (gunas) and f our yoga systems discussed before are shown in ‘Jathi dharma’, which are based on professional- the graph with corresponding age group. The state community and extended family responsibilities. of sanyasa or renunciation is spontaneous in the There are hundreds of professional Jathi-s under process of dharma, as the body and brain-mind each of the four verna. In all of these, the central become dysfunctional with age, and relative love concept of dharma as karmayoga or unselfish, becomes absolute by default. dedicated effort does not change. This is quite Festivals are a communal worship of nature in its different from strict, inflexible, outdated rules that various forms. Stories, music, dance are a part of create stress, conflict and wars even for minor this spiritual culture which developed in the absence evolutionary changes, as in some religions and of egoistic, materialistic royalty. Festivals and cultures. There are four life-stages or ‘ashramas’ in Samskaras are a way of celebrating and reminding a dharmic life-time. Each with a set of prioritized the responsibilities of the individuals within the duties and responsibilities that are considered community. The opposite of dharma is adharma. It sacred. There are ritualistic reminders of these is selfishness, intolerance, materialism and un- duties and responsibilities as samskaras, with a Godliness. In the absence of dharma, an adharmi family god and associated festivals. defaults to a stage of senility as he tries to recreate Dharma is a scripted individual, family and his youth with fragmented body and mind. community responsibility at each stage of life, The goal of Dharma is to evolve through gunas developed over thousands of years. It harmonizes with discrimination, karmayoga and gnanayoga, to the individual with the extended family and the a satvic universal awareness and Bhaktiyoga, where professional community. The goal is to provide, mind completely surrenders to heart, and when peace, stability and predictability at home and moksha will be a default state with the decay of creativity in the social-professional-community life, body and mind. Here, only surrender of selfishness with a central focus on communal harmoney, to unselfishness is required. However, the goal of environment and spirituality. Even the family homes sanyasa is to focus on moksha exclusively by were built around these concepts as vasthu. As ignoring all gunas completely in isolation. This is shown above, life was modeled in 4 stages to match through Dhyanayoga. Sanyasa and Dharma are the evolution of body, mind and awareness : 1). mutually incompatible and they can cause confusion Student (Brahmacharya) 2). Family (Grahasta) 3). and Tamas, if practiced simultaneously. Retirement / Community Service (Vanaprastha) and -30- In Hindu culture, community and extended family stage, even now. Hindu culture encourages all sciences are of primary focus, for stability, economy and and arts as an expression of love, tolerance and spiritual awareness. Extended families are meant to divinity. No aspect of life is excluded, including sex, as tolerate, support, balance and stabilize the various long as it is based on knowledge, freedom, personalities within the family, for the common goal of unselfishness and love. Sex is a sacred event, since happiness and spirituality. The freedom to worship at restraint of sex is a symbolic sacrifice (tapas) and a home and at will, kept Hindu spirituality pure and out of commitment at the alter of marriage, the extended organized institutions, politics, violence, exclusivity as family and the community. Until marriage, interaction in abrahamic religions. Hindu culture developed between men and women is only as brothers and around temples and professional communities (Jathi) sisters or fathers and mothers. This is intended to avoid in small villages. In community festivals and social the common confusion between love and sex. Love events, individual and collective creativity was develops from innocence and purity, after marriage celebrated in art and music, based on spiritual, Puranic and not from previous failed experiences, secrecies themes. Hinduism survived because of decentralized and compromises. democracy in Panchayat systems, spirituality, and Marriages were arranged to promote personal and because of unification of diversity through spiritual community welfare (Jathi) instead of transient values pilgrimages. of appearance and sex as in modern culture. Family life Love, peace, environment and spirituality are the was stabilized with tradition and strict behavior central focus for family stability. Family members have protocol, mutual respect and self discipline, in an a role to play with specific responsibilities, which are extended family and professional community related well defined and scripted over centuries to minimize environment. Extended families were matched for conflict and develop freedom and harmony. This made marriage based on family history, health, traditions, Hindu culture excel in both materialism and spirituality profession, discipline and compatibility, instead of until 1750 (ref: Pg-35). Women played a primary role in power, wealth, looks or race, as for example, in the maintaining these traditional values refreshed in yearly west. Arranged marriages require such a selective festivals, rituals and ceremonies. Women are match for the safety of the bride, who is familiar with considered ‘Laxmi’ or the goddess of prosperity in the finer aspects of family craft and culture. Each Jathi- traditional Hindu families. They represent goddess of professional community had its own Guru- kula knowledge, wealth and creation. While women system, samskaras and priests. This Jathi-Verna naturally focus on Bhaktiyoga to maintain a spiritual, system maintained professionalism, creativity and satvic and loving ambiance at home, men are expected harmony of the individuals, extended-families and the to guard their family against tamas and rajas in the community for millennia. There was no anger and external environment (Dharma-kshetra/Kurukshetra) jealousy in Jathi and Verna systems, until the British and also promote satva, through the practice of created chaos out of a natural, harmonious diversity to karmayoga, which includes Gnana, Dhyana and Bhakti. divide and rule a superior Hindu culture. This This is quite different from the role of women in many destruction continues today by foreigners lead Indian other male dominated cultures, where women political parties and media. continue to fight for respect and equality at every -31- Caste by birth, as in the west, is not supported the most peaceful and the wealthiest country in the by the Vedas and Upanishads. As stated in the world for millennia until as recently as 1750AD, Bhagavad Gita, the Guna-Verna or ‘choice system’ is when the British destroyed the Hindu gurukula based on natural tendencies of the conscious and education system and cultural continuity. They subconscious. Conscious tendencies are based on corrupted the brahmin community with forced our environment, genetics and heredity. The British education system to promote Christianity. subconscious tendencies are based on past life This changed India’s GDP from 38% to 2% in a span tendencies in our soul, which make us suitable for of 200 years, making India a consumer market to different professions. The purpose of Guna-Verna feed the British industrial revolution. system is, freedom of choice, social harmony and The Europeans had an enforced class or caste natural decentralization of powers. There are four system. They are 1). The rich and powerful, Vernas to choose from, based on the four natural Aristocrats 2) The professional middle class 3) centers of powers in a community. Under each verna Slaves. The slaves and the middle class were there are many specialized professional Jathi- systematically abused with violence, taxes, rape groups. Whereas, Verna is by choice, Jathi is by and murder. History in Europe and in other similar family and professional community. Unfortunately, aristocratic, war-lord cultures is full of stories of overtime, guna-verna has become a ‘Jathi’. The four struggle for survival by the lower castes. The Vernas are: 1). Service/craftsmanship (shudra) 2). Spanish word ‘Caste’ applies to this system. In the C o m m e r c e / A g r i c u l t u r e ( Va i s h ya ) 3 ) . west, which is a highly structure culture, even skin Administration/Army (Kshatriya) and 4). Intellect color and appearance have become a new class (Brahmana). A person can choose to belong to any identity. Even today, it is used in many public places one of the four Vernas based on his Gunas or such as restaurants, clubs, government policies, talents, but he is limited to only one chosen Guna- private homes, etc. Unfortunately this degeneration Verna. Vernas were kept separate to minimize is being copied in many other parts of the world. ‘power politics’ commonly seen in many other Hinduism had no enforced class structure and cultures. Most of the world cultures deteriorate slaves, supported by scriptures. The Verna-Jathi because of political collaboration between power system had no such violent revolutions in its history, centers. In addition, the brahmin verna was the British used Caste system to create their own deliberately kept poor and isolated with strict code aristocratic war-lords and slaves in their colonies, as of conduct, since they were the maintainers of the a part of their divide, rule and destroy philosophy of scriptures and Verna Dharma (code of conduct). colonialism. In India the British miss-represented These restrictions decentralized power and helped verna as Caste system. Now, Caste is being used to Hinduism survive for millennia. In Hinduism, even destroy Hinduism and India, by anti-Hindu, political Muslims can be Gurus based on their attitude. Verna and religious organizations and by Hindu sepoys or is similar to modern professional organizations with the anti-Hindu, pseudo secularists (Hindus with no choice, membership, training, rules, procedures and self- knowledge or self-respect). rituals. In Verna these are called Samskaras. The Varna dharma was vibrant and made India one of -32- In (a) is shown an organic structure that sustains effort by Hindus, because of foreign control of nature based on love, procreation and survival as Indian media and politics. Hindus now need to common instinct. There are three basic re focus on unity-in-diversity, karmayoga and expressions of love in creation: pleasures of the kshatriya dharma, to defend themselves and rebuild body (tamas) shown in green, the excitement of the Hindu culture of universal love and brotherhood. ego shown in red (rajas) and the peaceful happiness The Catholic church, as the most powerful of the self shown in blue (satva). Most of nature is organization in the world, has the potential to make held together by the first two. The organizations this world completely peaceful – immediately! It is based on pleasure (Tamas) are turbulent, chaotic the wealthiest, the biggest, the most powerful and and slow. The ego-centered organizations (Rajas) well organized religion in the world. It has the power are intelligent with narrow selfish perspective and to be a leader in making this world peaceful and they tend to be fast, successful and transient. Such loving, by just declaring mutual respect for all non- ego-centered organizations self-destruct after or violent religions, followed by non-proslytization. even during, their egoistic leadership, because of Unfortunately, the leaders of the church have lack of support from nature. The peaceful happiness compromised their ethics and the teachings of based on mutual respect and sensitivity to Jesus, to accommodate a power structure that has environment is the civilized way of life, which is yet been successful in violence, wealth and to dawn on most of this evolving world of greed and colonization, but not in peace, unselfish love and selfishness. spirituality. Unlike satvic Nature, which is flexible, In (c) is the practical dharma/karmayoga system diverse and evolutionary, they have been violent, supported by nature. Here the primary motivation is competitive and intolerant. This is their top-down unselfish love where each part is holistically power structure implemented by the Romans as connected to the organic whole through a collective shown here in red (b). This is an intolerant structure sense of selfless service, responsibility and love. of force incompatible with modern concept of love, This can be compared to the parts of a body that freedom, peace, evolution and flexibility. This is the work together harmoniously. This is an organized nature of man-made, egoistic organizations. socio-spiritual system adopted as a dharmic culture Unfortunately this is also the model for the modern by Hinduism. Hinduism is the only religion that has world, where even violence and terrorism have been been revived by nature after many brutal invasions, accepted as religion. Therefore, the survival mantra mainly because of nature worship as part of a for the modern world is: Oh! God of Jesus, collective consciousness. However, in modern Mohamed and Mosses, please save us from your times, this may not be possible without organized followers ! -33- Hindu dharma is based on Verna and Jathi yoga. It is not a culture of life. Quite opposite to Samskaras discussed earlier. It celebrates life. In vibrant Dharma concept, sanyasa starts with a this flexible structure, primary importance is given personal death ceremony as a symbolic rejection of to individual freedom and social responsibility, with all of life and responsibilities (dharma) for the focus on spirituality for love, peace, harmony and pursuit of moksha. For this reason, Sanyasi-s lived in creative inspiration. All aspects of life were to be isolation in forests and ashrams. Ashoka the enjoyed without self-indulgence. In the Bhagavad- Emperor, 272BC, had a very strong, negative impact gita, the importance of Verna dharma is emphasized on Hinduism. When Ashoka enforced Buddhism , an and not sanyasa. In particular, kshatriya (warrior) idealistic, monastic philosophy, as a culture on dharma of protecting and managing the verna- India, Kshatriya dharma was lost. Ashoka’s empire smskaras and dharmic social structure, was was reduced to 1/5 its size,as shown above, soon emphasized. The Bhagavad Gita even encourages after his death, and the Hindu culture was open to defensive war against insensitive and ignorant invasions and destruction by uncivilized invaders forces of nature (Tamas and Rajas), as a Hindu until 1947. This can be compared to recent lack of Dharmic responsibility. There is no surrender in this defense in Tibet against the Chinese invasion. war of dharma-kshetra/Kuru-kshetra. Sri Krishna in As shown above, Hinduism has not fully the Bhagavad Gita, recommends discrimination and recovered from this impact of Ashoka/ sanyasa not surrender. Surrender limits intelligence and philosophy of renunciation and a lack of interest in causes fear and confusion. Surrender implies life. For centuries, sanyasa has been used as a defeat, inaction and disinterest. Even for a sanyasi backdoor by cowards who cannot complete their in the forest, it is impossible to avoid the inner accepted dharmic responsibility. Many even conflict between right and wrong, and evolve in abandon their helpless wife and children in the consciousness. The only surrender is our selfishness pretext of sanyasa and become false gurus. to our own unselfishness at all times, as dharma. It However, Hinduism partly recovered because of takes courage to do this. Hindu dharma is a practical extensive scriptures, nature oriented Hindu and flexible application of an idealistic, universal festivals, culture and, the universal truth inherent in philosophy. It separates practical dharma from Hinduism. Unfortunately, Hindu dharma of social idealistic sanyasa. responsibiliy and karma-yoga have not fully Buddhism is based exclusively on the Sanyasa recovered. Even today, very few Hindus have read philosophy of moksha and renunciation of the world or understood the Bhagavad-Gita, the essence and life through, seclusion and meditation/Dhyana- Karma-yoga and Hindu-Dharma. -34- As Swami Vivekananda said, the foundation of held together by love, non-violence, piligrimages India and Hinduism is spirituality. This is evident and peace inherent in Hinduism. This diverse from its history of lack of interest in wars, conquest culture will explode in to a forest fire of violence, if and materialism. When most of the world history is triggered by the intolerance of Abrahamic religions, centered around wars for power, wealth and This is a very real danger , since, historically, intolerance, the focus in Hinduism is love of nature Abrahamic religions have been the cause of many as spirituality, where even poverty has been wars and destruction of families, cultures, accepted as a spiritual path. This harmonious way communities, environment and nations all over the of life made India not only the worlds most spiritual world as discussed in the following pages. place but also the worlds economically most Unfortunately, the ignorant and narrow minded successful country until 1750, even after 1000 years religious leaders in the west have branded universal of barbaric invasions. ( V Mitchell, NYTimes : philosophy of Hinduism as ‘Devil worship’ in the ‘According to a Paris-based OECD, India was the form of ‘idol worship’. This has allowed them on a largest economy on Earth 1500 of the last 2000 path of destruction of Hinduism, the only culture years, including the 2nd largest only 200 years ago.) with a practical, proven, universal philosophy of Today, after barbaric invasions and British love, peace and non-violence that the world needs colonization, India is one of the poorest and most today. corrupt countries in the world. Its GDP was reduced As we can see from the graph above, this foreign from 38% to 2% and forced in to a consumer interference is much more severe and dangerous market, to feed the industrial revolution in British than the propaganda of the so called Caste (Guna- Empire. Many predatory religious organizations in Verna and Jathi) related violence in India, which is the west are taking advantage of this state of chaos now being exaggerated to destroy Hinduism and in India, to divide Hinduism and re-colonize India. India through religious conversion. This The graph above shows the planned destruction of propaganda is mainly an age-old colonial tactic of Hinduism and India, by abrahamic religions (Ref: 'divide-rule-destroy' implemented by the colonial joshuaproject.net and BreakingIndia.com). The empires, which is supported by their hate based wealthy and politically powerful religious ‘god-devil’ religious system. Together they have organizations in the US and Germany such as the destroyed most of the peaceful cultures in the world Templeton Foundation and the Pew foundation, are and if not stopped, they will continue this planning to destroy the peacefulness of India and destruction until they destroy themselves. Hinduism by breaking it in to pieces, for religious, Destruction and intolerance are the devils that political and monitory reasons, as shown in the map reside in their subconscious history, just as above. The short sighted shallowness of these tolerance and love has resided in Hindu history and organizations can cause serious harm to the world subconscious. peace in general and south Asia in particular. India and Hinduism are a diverse, democratic culture, -35- A SUMMARY OF LORD McCAULEY‘S ADDRESS groups, including religions. The Tamas (ignorance) TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT (2 FEBRUARY 1835) and Rajas (selfishness) are insensitive. They do not …… “I have traveled across the length and breadth respond to reason or even love. There are many of India and I have seen such high moral values, adharmic, ignorant and violent people who have people of such high caliber, that I do not think we created religions in their own image. It is therefore would ever conquer this country, unless we break important to use force when necessary, as explained the very backbone of this nation, which is her in the Bhagavad Gita. The focus on unconditional spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I non-violence instead of truth, courage and dharma, propose that we replace her old and ancient has created a defeatist self-image, a lack of self- education system and her culture. For, if the Indians confidence and hope among Hindus in India. The think that all that is foreign and English is good and misunderstood concept of surrender has made greater than their own, they will lose their self- many of our gurus, sanyasis and disciples unaware esteem, their native culture and they will become of selfless community service and courageous self- what we want them to be, a truly dominated nation.” sacrifice as dharma and karmayoga. Without courage even love of god is impure. Renunciation The Well-planned famines imposed on us by the and begging god for favors and even for self- British, fed their industrial revolution and forced defense, without self-effort, has become an Hindus to become culturally and dharmically acceptable way of life. Hinduism has no gods. who disoriented and poor. Today, we are ruled by a few will take on our responsibility of self defense, no corrupt foreign forces and unethical, 'Sepoy'- matter how we beg. politicians. Ethical politics is based on unselfish courage, Dharmic principles and the Six-intelligence Today, there is a general confusion in the world (ref: Pg-19). 'Sepoys' are Hindus who have no Hindu and in many Indians, regarding the nature of education and therefore have no self respect as civilization. Civilization has been modeled after Hindus. The biggest challenge to Hindu revival are power, violence, greed and appearances, instead of these confused, westernized, anti-Hindu, pseudo ethics, love and wisdom. This modern definition is secularists. They are the new enemies of Hinduism. primarily based on the western cultures and Most of these Hindus are educated in western social religions, of narrow selfish perspective and not on sciences and like many uneducated and civilized universal values. They are based on the western, westerners, they think that Hinduism is a problem historical, feudal systems which has been successful that need to be eradicated just as the British sepoys materially at the cost of peace, environment, love, were trained to kill Hindus. These are “ the Children unselfishness and spirituality. The western culture of McCauley”. They are at all levels in all Indian was not designed for cooperative, peaceful institutions, including administration, media and coexistence with nature and environment. Hindus universities, supported by foreign religious forces. and Hinduism with their 12000 year old cultural and philosophical history of mutual respect, universal The Bhagavad Gita emphasized the importance love, peace and spirituality can play an important of subduing gunas in nature, both internal and rule in reviving universal love and ethics for the external, to save Sanathana dharma or Universal survival of this world. love and peace. Gunas exist in individuals and -36- Wikipedia.org: Crusades: “ Those who fought was later forced on other Abrahamic religions and it in the name of God were recognized as the Militias continued through the ages culminating in the Christi, warriors or knights of Christ. Christian holocaust shown above. Now, the intolerance of fighters believed that victory was achieved through predatory religions are in the process of destroying divine intervention or aid from God, and they took other peaceful religions and world peace, through great pride in their beliefs. The Crusades were a modern media and monitory politics. The leaders of series of military campaigns—usually sanctioned by these predatory religions are yet to realize the need the Papacy—that took place during the 11th for love and tolerance in the modern world, where through 13th centuries in response to the Muslim we have distributed power and economic systems. Conquests. Originally, the goal was to When the two major violent religions and their recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from leaders learn the meaning of love, tolerance and the Muslims, and support the besieged mutual respect, the world will be at peace. C h r i s t i a n B y z a n t i n e E m p i r e a g a i n s t Unfortunately this lesson may not be learnt without the Muslim Seljuq expansion into Asia Minor and a major self-destructive war. The lessons of the Europe proper. Later, Crusades were launched previous wars have been forgotten even though against other targets, either for religious reasons, almost a 100 million were killed for religious such as the Albigensian Crusade, the Northern reasons, majority of whom were innocent victims, Crusades, or because of political conflict, such as women and children ! the Aragonese Crusade. In 1095, at the Council of All the technology, power and wealth in the Clermont, Pope Urban II raised the level of war west, have their origin in materialism, organized from bellum iustum ("just war"), to bellum wars and colonialism, with sectarian and selfish sacrum (holy war).” The violence of organized motives. They are not a product of peaceful, religions as recorded in History, is ready to explode civilized, co-existence. Even modern business in to reality. Unimaginable cruelty has been inflicted strategies and capitalism, are based on ancient on innocent, peaceful cultures and civilization, in the feudal systems, glorified as ‘survival of the fittest’. name of god, religion, race and even color. These Most cultures of the modern world that have been religions lack the wisdom to see unconditional love economically successful have had a history of as the foundation that holds this diverse creation violence and organized wars. From dharma point of together. view, this is a path of evolution from ignorance to This crude culture of organized violence started selfishness and hopefully, to unselfishness and by Romans and brought in to religion, destroyed a being civilized. much more intelligent culture of the Greeks and it -37- The following is a short list of Genocide in educated and informed westerners. The blind belief millions by wars among abrahamic religions who are in unknown god is being replaced by a more realistic trying to destroy Hinduism (ref: GENOCIDE by Jane philosophy of universal love and brotherhood. Springer) 1) America-European/ /1450-1850/ However, Even today, much of the the media and 60Mil- Slave Trade-Africans. 2) Spanish// 1491- social structure in the west are still racist, where 1650/4 Mil- Caribbean-Natives 3) American/ /1492- people of European origin are preferred over others, 1891/100Mil- American-Natives 4) Turkish/ in employment, housing, education, leadership etc. /1915/1.8Mil- Armenian 5) Germans/ /1939-45/6 Even the black president Mr: Obama has to relay on Mil- Jews . There are many other genocides that are his white vice president Mr: Biden to communicate not listed here such as the genocide of Hindus by with some of the racist southern, republican, Christian and muslin invaders, genocide in politicians and religious leaders. These are the Indonesia, Darfur etc. The primary reason for this religious leaders who point to Hindu Guna-verna has been ethnic or religious intolerance mostly and Jathi systems to break India and destroy its created by the Abrahamic religions. Unlike the peaceful religion and culture. dharmic religions which believe only in love, The west has a significant minority trained to be Abrahamic religions believe in dualities of God and racist, disciplined and obedient by their religion for Devil. They find devil in objects that they do not the last 2000 years, at the cost of their own freedom agree with. This can be an individual, culture, of choice. Even the churches are segregated ! Unlike religion, ethnic group or even the color of the skin. in India where anyone can go to almost any temple. As history shows, this can even be their own From Hindu point of view, since we choose our own scientists and saints. Once they convince god, this is a brain-wash with fear and intimidation themselves of this as a group, they are fully of eternal hell and angry god. There is no conversion supported by their church in wars, murder and or proslytization in Hinduism. There has never been genocide, as a divine order. This tendency for a religious war by Hindus in their long history! Most violence persists even today because of their countries adopted Hinduism voluntarily, since structured, political- religious organization. Hinduism is based on personal evolution and not This tendency for violence shown is in the graph conversion, forced or otherwise. However, all this is above (source: wikipidea.org), where hanging of to change in the near future, unless Hindus unite in the blacks by the white racists continued until 1981. self defense, since India and Hinduism are targeted However, there is a spark of hope in the west, from for destruction by the intolerant, religious the US, because of its multiracial population. The organizations in the west. church is under attack by the scientist and the well -38- During the long history of Hinduism, many of the The Book analyses west from the following five worlds powerful cultures such as the Egyptian, the perspectives, which all Hindus and Hindu gurus Roman and the Greek have come and gone, since need to understand and propagate for Hindu their philosophy and culture was local, exclusive and survival : 1. Eternal and Universal Philosophy 2. not universal, they were constantly at war with each Local Exclusive History centric, Belief Systems. 3. other. Hinduism has survived in spite of Ashok’s Difference anxiety and Mutual respect. 4. Cultural destructive influence on kshatriya dharma, mainly and Religious Digestion/ Predatory religions. 5. because of the support of nature and truth in Western plagiarism and U-turn. scriptures. Otherwise Hinduism would have been Mr.: Rajiv Malhotra is an Indian-American one of the hundreds of religions that were destroyed researcher and public intellectual. A scientist by and digested by the violent abrahamic religions. training, he is the author of several books including: This can still be the fate of Hinduism, if Hindus do Breaking India, Invading the Sacred and Being not understand the principle of Dharma, spirituality Different. His Videos of discussions, talks, and the all inclusive Hindu philosophy of universal presentations and debates on Hinduism and India love and courage. have inspired, educated and motivated students, The British rewrote Indian-Hindu history to intellectuals, professionals and children all over the promote themselves as saviors of India from world. He has summarized his research and analysis Muslims and they down played the heroic Hindu and of the western value systems, history and its Sikh freedom fighters, and the Hindu cultural indiscriminate aggressive imposition of its values on history, to avoid any backlash from Hindus. Because Indian media, education system, culture and of this, even today, there is lack of education in true religion. His books: ‘Invading the sacred’ and Hindu history and culture. Therefore, many ignorant ‘Breaking India’ details the Historical evidence of Hindus act as ‘British Sepoys’ and help foreign western destruction and digestion of India, organizations in destroying Hinduism. Some out of Hinduism and other peaceful cultures through ignorance and the others out of corrupted ethics. violence and propaganda. He has discussed Therefore, a study of Historical truth is necessary for strategies to defend Hinduism and its values for Hindu pride, unity, self-dense and survival. global peace and, for Hindu and Global survival. Mr.: Malhotra is a model and mentor for many The book “Being Different” by Mr. Rajiv Malhotra modern Hindu intellectual kshatriyas. Please watch is a truthful discussion of the western aggressive his Videos on youtube.com and become a better imperialism and colonialism in thought and action, informed, proud Hindu intellectual kshatriya, to from Hindu dharmic perspective. This is defend against anti Hindus and Hindu sepoys ( anti- ‘Purvapaksha’, the traditional Hindu way of open Hindu, pseudo secularists). minded evaluation of differences. -39- Today the well informed people all over the forces for destruction of India and Hinduism. world, of all religions, are searching for an universal According to Mahatma Gandhi, Jathi-Verna or the philosophy to replace their outdated blind faith. The professional choice system has been the cultural followers of history centric religions realize that and economic back bone of Hinduism. there is no truth or happiness in the stories they All over the world, people are looking for a have been told, since the stories have historically practical, scientific, universal, true philosophy that created wars, violence and fragmentation of the can create happiness without destroying our world. In the modern united world of limited environment and peace. Such a philosophy and resource and good communication, all people are culture has been practiced in Hinduism for looking for an eternal peaceful solution for survival millennia. This philosophy has been accepted and happiness. What people need today is: Truth for voluntarily world wide as Buddhism, for over two security and Love for happiness. Even the obsession thousand years. Hinduism is a dynamic culture of and addiction created for materialism by a few celebration of love and life, in all aspects of nature, capitalists are now known be unhealthy and with group rituals and festivals. Hinduism is a environmentally destructive, unsustainable and complex multi-dimensional, multi-layered, rational unnecessary for happiness. philosophy that has been applied to life with love With modern communication, all are open to an and respect, in a practical, flexible format, without assault on our intelligence, freedom, and privacy, obsessive materialism. This philosophy can easily be individually and collectively, by unethical religious, communicated to the rest of the word, in rational, political and marketing propaganda. People all over scientific terms. The world needs to be told what is the world are learning to filter information in search true and effective and, what is historically known to of truth and happiness. In the middle east, the be false, ineffective and even dangerous for the oppressive cultures and religions have problems survival of the world. This is the dharma or the with their own, intellectuals, women, lower Castes responsibility of an intellectual kshatriya. As the and slaves. In India Violent religions are taking African proverb says, an intellectual kshatriya advantage of its financial struggles and transitions speaks softly but carries a stick. This is the only way for proselytization. This is similar to what these to educate the tamasic and rajasic individuals, religious organizations have done in the past cultures and religions, who choose to be aggressive through deliberate spread of disease, wars and and insensitive to love, truth and harmful to nature. chaos. We Hindus have never had a serious national The booklet shown above is a collection of ideas and problem with Guna-Verna (Caste) system until an outline for such an effort. It can be down loaded recently, when the system was politicized by foreign from the website: optimizinglife.org. -40-