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NEWSLETTER YOGTANTRAGAMA ISSN NO: 2454-888X Issue 9 333322 YOGTANTRAGAMA ISSN NO: 2454-888X Oct-December 2017 From the Editor in Chief’s desk: By Swami Paranand Tirth EDITOR IN CHIEF: SWAMI PARANAND TIRTH From the chief editors desk .. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali, 1931 (http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2016/may/10/salvador-dalis- On Predating and Outlasting Time the-persistence-of-memory-explained/) सदेव सो륍य इदमग्रआसीत ् O! Benign one existence alone prevailed in the “existent and time transcendental” entity. beginning! an enlightened seer instructs his “Existent and Eternity” must be timeless rather indolent son. The pupil is not in a notions. To be existent and eternal an entity position to correlate time transcendent and must be beyond all the three time dimensions absolute notions. So for the sake of conveying i.e. past, present and future. There has to be an to him he uses the conflicting notion सत ्that is absence of these three time dimensions. YOGTANTRAGAMA ISSN NO: 2454-888X | Issue9 2 Anything conditioned in these three tenses has fraction are all the eternal word and its innate been called mithya or virtual in discursive meaning. Vedanta. Whatever is virtual or transitory must have a real substratum even for its appearance - that appearance is real or let’s say reality itself. One of the most popular Vedic hymn *says all The truth predates time and outlasts it. All other this that was and will be is *purusa* alone . The relative notions are subject to their ephemeral, past the present and the future is all Omkara transitory and momentary disposition hence the besides whatever lies beyond time is also identification with the essential nature is "Omkara”, says the smallest but highly inevitable . significant canon of metaphysics -Mandukya Upanisad. There can be no rational order of succession in the phenomena of the awareness To identify oneself with real nature costs switching between the time conditioned and everything .Everything as it were comprises time transcendental modes. This so much everything else besides the essential nature –or coveted Swaroop or essential nature is defined the subjective substratum. The knowledge of as spontaneous and innate and therefore not an essential nature fails to dawn owing to the ideation or conceptualization. erroneous identity which is why there is so much emphasis on discriminatory wisdom and dispassion in the traditional lineage of self Since it is also the universal self there is no realization. Discrimination between the recess for any admixture of nescience and its ephemeral and eternal is one of the four products, nothing can supersede it, being all requisites for self realization. In fact absolute transcendental there can be nothing more subtler dispassion from the ephemeral and objective and pervasive than this . The swarup or essential phenomena has to be inculcated. It is only after nature is limitless and owing to its perfect ascertaining the eternity as one’s essential homogeneity and all pervasiveness there is no nature gained through faith and devotion as well space for any form of displacement, exterior or as intuitive insight generated by them that one internal .There is absolutely no space and time gets established in his essential nature (which is conditioning in the self so rhetorically speaking beyond time conditioning). there are no boundaries and thus no abode. Enlightenment is not something that happens in What one understands as "freedom” can be some time fraction. Emancipation literally is possible only from a spiritual perspective. In the transcending the relative time notion. The eastern metaphysics liberation, emancipation instant of epiphany lies within the domain of or moksha which follows self realization have conditioned awareness. Time, space, material been the most cherished objectives of human conditioning and the aberrant identification with life. They have been called produces of this conditioning, leads to a पु셁षार् थ or परमपु셁षार् थ in the eastern culture. perpetuated quagmire of misgivings. Just as a Despite the omissons and commissions of man cannot lift himself up by pulling his shoe indulgences in the Tantras, the sine qua non of strings no upaya can lead an aspirant out of this moderation and dispassion cannot be denied. plight. Hence one must resort to Mahasahas or You cannot enter the kingdom of heaven bag the great venture to transcend the concomitant and baggage. trail of cause and effect. The instant of crossing the threshold of time conditioning and the time Exalted with the ecstatic bliss of self realization, transcendental lies within the time conditioned the pupil of Astavakra king Janaka upon portion of the phenomena. The preceding time realizing his absolutely detached and all fraction, the present one and the next time pervasive nature says- YOGTANTRAGAMA ISSN NO: 2454-888X | Issue9 3 अहो अहं नमो मह्यं यस्य मे नास्स्त क ं चन अर्वा य स्यमे सवे यस्् ं चच्सचराचरम ् O what a wonder I am! .Obeisance to myself! who possess nothing or possess everything all that is on the earth. Swami Paranand Tirth Founder president CEO YTA Yoga Tantra and Agama [inc.] USA Yoga Tantra et Agama Centre [Quebec] Montréal CANADA YOGTANTRAGAMA ISSN NO: 2454-888X | Issue9 4 Editorial dispassion in the traditional lineage of self realization. Next we have Swamiji’s enlightening article ‘Wisdom from Shiva’s Rattle drum’ dealing with ‘Monism from a grammarian’s perspective. Creation as word and meaning ,also called as shabdi and arthi sristi in the agamic canons ,remains in a perfect homogeneity with its meaning and this transcendental form of vak being indistinguishable from pure subjective consciousness comprises the substratum which is the monistic absolute principle. Citing The path to discovery of ‘True Self’ or the examples from various texts Swamiji explains essential nature is strewn with multiple the purport of Nandikeshvara’s aprorism. obstacles, most of which are the self created ones. The anchors like identity, ego and worldly ties to which we hold on with all our might come across as hindrances on this path. This is followed by Niraj Kumar’s insightful While threre are blissful moments of floating paper on ‘Mathematical Pattern in Sriyantra’He along with the current, these are often writes, ‘Sriyantra appears as a bilaterally interrupted when the path starts to defy our symmetrical and geometrical. The central sense of reason. When it sounds illogical and triangle that emerges out of intersection is an more so when it hurts our limited ego we are equilateral triangle.” The formation of this completely at loggerheads with it. mystic triangle which is not drawn has been the focus of the paper and this the author believes holds the key for future mathematics. There are times when doubt starts filling our heart and in an vain attempt to understand what is not to be understood we find ourselves back Next we have the first part of the travelogue at ground zero. There have been times when ‘Southern Sojourns’ by Dr G.L Kaw, narrating aspirants have totally given up the path to stick the author’s latest visit to South Indian temples. to familiar grounds. It is here that a true This illustrated and detailed narrative provides a aspirant needs to summon the divine mother to very handy information for future pilgrims with help him/her cross the obstacles and this can be apt references to the historical and legendary achieved with the help of a Guru. incidences. Explaining the idea of true freedom and the This is followed by two poems by Ambika identification with ones essential and eternal Talwar full of spritiual quest and longing. The nature in the Editorial our Guru maharaj, Swami first poerm ‘Sacred lodge for Beloveds’ would Paranand Tirthji stresses on the importance remind one of mystic love poetry written by given to this enlightenment in various traditions various poets who have given words to their of Indian metaphysics. The knowledge of eternal longing. essential nature fails to dawn owing to the erroneous identity which is why there is so much emphasis on discriminatory wisdom and In the end we have a photo feature on the temples of Cambodia by Deepak Kaw who has YOGTANTRAGAMA ISSN NO: 2454-888X | Issue9 5 captured some beautiful and poetic views of these temples during his visit. (Dr.Geetika Kaw Kher is Asst. Professor at Amity School of Fine Arts (ASFA) and teaches History of Art, Aesthetics and Art Criticism) YOGTANTRAGAMA ISSN NO: 2454-888X | Issue9 6 WISDOM FROM SHIVA’S meaning and this transcendental form of vak RATTLEDRUM . being indistinguishable from pure subjective consciousness comprises the substratum which is the monistic absolute principle. An ancient एओंग ्-३ school of thought in descriptive linguistic is akin to the monosyllabic dingdong theory of the E” ong origin of word[1]* .This has its root in the ancient dictum of the Brahmans –ekakshara vai MONISM FROM A GRAMMARIAN’S vak *{ speech is monosyllabic ] that leads to an PERSPECTIVE the doctrine of arcane tradition in which each one of the Shabdadvaitam . alphabet is related to a specific ontology of the elements and their homogeneity . Swami Paranand Tirth There is yet another mystic tradition in which Key words each of the syllable corresponds to a specific numeral –this however is not in vogue any more Purism .Descriptive linguist . Ishwaradwaitam sphota. Shiv Tulyah ,Panchikaranam, This tradition of a singular monistic substratum .Anthropocentricity . Mhavakyam. Vyahritis. which blends with the doctrine of The sun of reason . Kutasth. Kalilavastha. ishwaradwaitam has been encrypted in the Chaos . aphorism ‘ai ong’. This as per the tradition of the agamic lineage stands in no need of conventional deciphering since the agamas Abstract: demand a strict subservience to the dictum of Creation defined as word and meaning .