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The cosmic egg or the big bang, whichever narrative you look at, in our observable, 'known-unknown' world, will still be akin to groping the elephant like the blind men, unless they understand this triumvirate below and how we see #Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva-Shakti to explain cosmology. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/1230936609610067969
This triumvirate that we have as our origin story for the cosmos in harmony was perhaps last practiced by society in the IVC period. Post this, the Treta yuga (prior to Kalyuga) ended, in the last urbanisation, the Mauryan onwards, sectarianism started. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/876057233708113921?s=20
This is even seen in the archeological work that Dr BB Lal did. Now the interesting part really is how this holistically harmonious view ended and each strand (described via our Puranas and Itihasas) continues separately in Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Shakti. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/1170619561361588229?s=20
The long and short of it comes back to this - our understanding of truth and metaphysics handed down to us better explain everything and all things that have happened to humankind, and the theory of everything, if you're able to unravel it.
This is #it. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/1077571268348588034?s=20
This is #it. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/1077571268348588034?s=20
This is why we need to go back to discover the hidden, unsaid meanings and understand our roots. With context. Today, such a hypothesis, however outlandish it might seem, is not beyond the realm of the impossible. Infact, we might be in a blind spot now. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/1077561772502994944?s=20
Anyone who has done his "yagnopavitham, avani avittam" is possibly familiar with the timescales spoken during the ceremony. We are in the 7th manavantra (or the '7th age of man'), that is the time that we live in now. Civilization has happened earlier too. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/1077563056178122752?s=20
Dharma is the only reason and rational way to be. And it's proven by the way we've been able to continue, culturally, in the ways defined aeons ago, and perhaps even yugas. One that was in harmony with the nature outside, and nature within. Micro to macro. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/1077582749135859714?s=20
Consciousness, Dharma, choose label or perspective that you can understand well. Consciousness is how we are here. Because we are aware we are here. Just like from the cosmos, to the observable universe to the nature around us, is conscious, aware of #it. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/1077580230917640193?s=20
The expansion of time-space will continue to be filled with more entropy, not less. And correspondingly what was possible and simple earlier, is complex and challenging now. The symbolism of the cow losing legs, is us losing sense, skill, sensibilities. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/1077569651595333634?s=20
If the metaphor of the cow as a representative of a fall in Dharma, as we transition from a yuga to the next, is not clear then this line perhaps best explains it from the Mahabharata. On the night of Pashupatinath, pay obeisance. We're reaching endgame. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/1018460509312389120?s=20
Who and how that will be effected and actioned is unfolding right in front of you. ( #JSR). And why you should be looking to go the way of Dharma is simply because it has kept Bharata and its people sustained for all aeons. From the very ancient to today. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/1038868542190313472?s=20
The most important step that we need to do in our own lives will be to find our purpose, ikigai, raison de etre and fully and completely with all devotion 'live out our lives', while we dance the play that has been set. And in motion. We need to be 'us'. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/1038872208158773249?s=20
This is most important now because we're playing with time. We've reached the level where we can replicate #Creation. Which as the history of humankind goes, is not just historical, but epochal, even yuga-level. And that means, by an elementary deduction. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/973650814903472128?s=20
Why we need to know 'us' is most important cuz we, India, will be the only one resourceful enough in this time to be able to see thru and understand reality via our metaphysical model and see us thru. You've to #get it. #Experience-awareness beats #ittiam. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/973650795055992832?s=20
Reality in the 2nd half of this century will be highly improbable to understand. So we'll be fed. By stories. Marketing. Eventually we'll make a real (or even deceptive) switch. Unless you've been keeping yourself woke, you won't get it. Yoga or Trip. 
https://twitter.com/vaid/status/973650799275528193?s=20
https://twitter.com/vaid/status/973650799275528193?s=20
We need to move and be ready for our times. The age of information. The art of the machine. #Kalki. However, what it will manifest like we can only fathom our way through. However we need to atleast be self-aware about it. And keep ourselves prepared. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/973650825867399168?s=20
This is why patterns are important. Or kolams. Or shapes. Geometries. The patterns follows principles that we establish as scientific truths and mathematics. It's expressed as numbers, colors, forms, structures. Each with its own organic spirit. Symbolic. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/1023211720246931457?s=20
Patterns are only understood thru experience-awareness. Ittiam restricts you. To the #unknown-unknown. Knowing itself is nothing but #nothingness becoming #everythingness. That process is life. Shakti experiencing. Brahman discovering. And creation happening. By Tapasya to #live.
This transition from nothingness to everythingness is essentially the realm of the unknown-unknown, from an epistemological perspective. It is also apt to describe the time and century that we live in. It is incumbent on us to be able to lead the right way for the world at large.
From routes to roots. That's the arc that can be used to describe our journey. In the way of all the old and the new, synthesized, anew, to be readied for us to continue civilization. As us. It is perhaps willed, but then so is our will to play the game. We're all artists here.
Why should we go this way? What is the world today, led by the West, missing? They're missing the grains of cultural continuity. Materialistic advancement and its rise and fall is inevitable, as in our past. But our cultural construct has lived on still. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/1196342640213495808?s=20
It is this cultural continuum that can span yugas, that we occupy here, in India. Which is slyly denied in our history books, but literally every practice by the common people of this land, is positively reinforcing this. And it's a must for our times. https://twitter.com/vaid/status/959890159025229824?s=20
Since we live in surreal times, trying to comprehend and understand a quantum worldview is not easy, a guide - new show on @netflix @MidnightGospel is a very Rick and Morty type explainer that shows you how âillusory(maya)â everything is. Ignore the cartoonish crassness though.
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