I am a soul returning close to the single authentic source threading the path of mysticism in the occurrence of a combined peace, joy, compassion or love. My agony between competing forces of light and dark, and positive marked division between the material kingdom, the administration of evil forces, and the higher spiritual kingdom from which it is divided. My words may seem to confuse and unclear, at the same time over-simplified and full of subtle meanings hidden from the naive.

My words are very easy to know, and easy to practice; but there is none in the world who can recognize and capable of practice them.
A dimensional fluctuation amid one construction of reality to another. I am crossed a path by sin, shame, remorse.
Repentance, awareness of lower-self attachments and dervishes giving up the thoughts and behaviors is now the necessity for reinstating unity and grace.
Mortification and dejection, defamation and allegation, abundant lives breathed, none could grasp me and in this way my voyage demands further obligation.
My ancestry and individuality is of free spirit. I question if this is a joy. The joy is of mankind shuns and Almighty embraces. That is the joy in the departure from the material release. (2009)


"Religious truth is the inner meaning of the law revealed in the heart of the Sufi by the Divine Light."

In terms of the Ultimate Reality or Truth, I have now come to reject the very basis of "manifestation" and in doing so all systems of thought and knowledge in reference to it is invalid

According to my experience there is nothing to understand about enlightenment as enlightenment is the way of enlightenment itself.

The subject of enlightenment – or anything else – did not interest me all my life ………….. My life-story can be separated into the three catastrophe parts. The first part of my life with Human experience. The second part of my life experienced a Bodily experience with a discontinuity from my human life with the ongoing bodily experience – though not absence – of thought. But I lost all connectivity with the acquired knowledge and memories, and I was made to re-learn everything, as if the slate had been wiped clean.

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Friday, September 3, 2010

Kashmir and the Kashyap Mahameru

"If there is a Heaven on earth, It is here, It is here, It is here" - Jehangir. 

Rarely have truer words been spoken. The heavenly vale of Kashmir has been an integral part of Indian Culture, History and Tradition since time immemorial.

Indian religious and spiritual texts can be broadly divided into three categories:

  • The Ved (4 original texts that lay out the perspectives of Indian Dharma);
  • The Upanishads (treatises that interpret the Ved) and
  • The many Purans, collection of preachings, stories and anecdotes that bring the Indian Dharma to the common reader (this structure can be seen in the Bible which was written centuries after the Purans). 
The Nilamat Puran provides the first mention of Kashmir and lays out the etymology of the word Kashmir as "Ka" (meaning water) and "Shimir" (to desiccate"). So Kashmir means a land desiccated from water. This Puran considers the valley to be an embodiment of Uma, the fond name for Parvati, the daughter of Himalaya. 

This supports the Vedic legend about the great Sage Kashyap who established his Ashram in the valley. According to the legend, the valley of Kashmir was once a lake called Satisar. The sage Kashyap is credited with the draining of the lake by cutting the gap in the hills of Baramulla (originally Varah-Mula). Therefore the valley became known as Kashyap-Meru or Kashyap-Mir, the mountain or sea of Kashyap.

Indian culture was created by a number of great Sages or Rishis who entered India and formed Ashrams for education and research. Kashyap was one of the original sages. He was the son of Marichi, who was considered as the son of Brahma, the creator of the world. 

        
(Ancient Martand Temple in Kashmir) (Buddhist Stupa near Baramulla) (Muslim Tomb from a Hindu Temple)

The tradition established by Rishi Kashyap endured through centuries and Kashmir became a great center of education. The entire land of North India from today's Pakistan to Kashmir and onwards to today's Tibet became the greatest center of scholarship and education in the world. One of the greatest temples in India, Survana-Pitha (or Sharada Peeth as it is called today) is in Kashmir. The Rishi tradition has been preserved and practiced by the Pandits of Kashmir. 

Emperor Ashok, one of the greatest emperors in world history, is credited to have founded the city of Sri-Nagar, the capital of today's Kashmir. Ashok adapted Buddhism and under his sponsorship, Buddhism spread from India to all areas of Asia, across China all the way to Japan and Korea and through out today's South-East Asia. 

Due to the influence of Ashok, Kashmir became a center of Buddhist scholarship and scholars from all over the world came to Kashmir to study. 

Adi Shankar-Acharya, the most celebrated, modern era scholar-reformer in Indian History, reestablished the historical role of Indian Dharma through out India by defeating the greatest Buddhist scholars in debates. Beginning in South India, Shankar-Acharya traveled all over India and finally entered the great Survana-Peeth temple in Kashmir. 

According to legend, this temple had four doors for scholars from the four directions. The southern door (representing South India) had never been opened, indicating that no scholar from South India had ever entered Suvarna-Peeth. When Shankar-Acharya defeated all the scholars gathered there in all the scholastic disciplines including Mimamsa, Vedanta, the southern door of Suvarna-Peeth opened automatically and Shankar-Acharya entered the throne of Transcendent wisdom.  

With the Uzbek conquest of Kashmir, Muslim rule became established in Kashmir in 1349. Akbar, the great Mogul ruler of Delhi conquered Kashmir in 1548 and it stayed under Mogul rule until Sikhs under Rana Ranjit Singh captured it in 1780. 

Akbar's son Jehangir fell in love with Kashmir. Not only did Jehangir speak about his love for Kashmir, but he left monuments to his love for eternity.  

The glory of Sri-Nagar is the Dal Lake. Jehangir built exquisite gardens named Nishat and Shalimar that lead to Dal Lake. From the edge of Dal Lake, Nishat Bagh (garden) rises through 12 terraces along a broad central canal toward the nearby mountains. Chadars, sloping chutes, funnel water through each terrace to rectangular pools studded with fountain jets. 

Bollywood has always loved Kashmir from its early days. Below we present monuments of Bollywood's love for Kashmir. Most of these are tales of young men who visit Kashmir only to fall in love with a beautiful young Kashmiri woman. The first shows Nishat Bagh in its glory in the classic from "Arzoo". 

Kashmir is the valley for romance. You can sit in a shikhara (a covered gondola) and float on the gentle waters of Dal Lake. It takes about 3 hours to see the entire lake.  

Editor's Note; The source of the pictures and the historical background is Wikipedia.

(This article is a reprint from CinemaRasik http://www.cinemarasik.com. 

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