TAPAS

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“Tapas-austerity of the mind and body-means that you should be able to bear heat and cold, physical discomfort and fatigue; as well as insult, injury, persecution and any sort of humiliation.”
-Swami Sivananda

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Meditation is the exercise of the mind to regulate its attachment to the worldly subjects

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CELL GENESIS 

A key part of the new findings, made by a team from The Scripps Research Institute in California, is that a chemical process called phosphorylation may have happened earlier than previously thought.

This process adds groups of atoms that include phosphorus to a molecule, bringing extra functions with it – functions that can turn spherical collections of fats called protocells into more advanced versions of themselves, able to be more versatile, stable, and chemically active.

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mny kngs rd bk

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9500 light years away is UY Scuti, a star so large that you could fit billions of our sun inside it:

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ta qra

What is the difference between my awareness and awareness? My awareness seems to be just content of a greater awareness. Are the two related?

The easiest way to (inadequately) describe this is to realize there is no one, no ‘self,’ inside the body organism, and that whatever appears as “my” or “our” awareness just appears as ‘borrowed’ from Pure Awareness or Infinite Consciousness. This is attested by Buddha, Adi Shankara, and all other ‘realized sages’ through Ramana Maharshi and beyond, but can only be confirmed when there has been a total seeing through the illusion of the false ‘self’ and its utter collapse of that which would claim awareness (or anything else) as “mine.”

That’s why I said ‘inadequately described’ above. This question is a mental one, asked by a ‘mind’ which is certain it is a real ‘separate self.’ So even though we can describe this no-self, no-‘personal’-awareness truth, it will remain just conceptual (and therefore utterly useless) to the mind that asked it or any of the conceptual answers given. 

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henotheism 

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kant trascendental idealism 

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Strength training builds muscle mass, which in turn burns fat. Additionally, it’s been proven to promote cognitive function

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srm

From ~~~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, T. 43

Q.:

We surrender; but still there is no help.

M.:

Yes. If you have surrendered, you must be able to abide by the

will of God and not make a grievance of what may not please you.

Things may turn out differently from what they look apparently.

Distress often leads men to faith in God.

Q.:

But we are worldly. There is the wife, there are the children,

friends and relatives. We cannot ignore their existence

and resign ourselves to Divine Will,

without retaining some little of the personality in us.

M.:

That means you have not surrendered as professed by you.

You must only trust God.

Q.:

I have read Brunton’s book A Search in Secret India,

and was much impressed by the last chapter, where he says

that it is possible to be conscious without thinking.

I know that one can think, remaining forgetful of the physical body.

Can one think without the mind?

Is it possible to gain that consciousness which is beyond thoughts?

M.:

Yes. There is only one consciousness, which subsists in the waking,

dream and sleep states. In sleep there is no ‘I’. The ‘I-thought’ arises

on waking and then the world appears. Where was this ‘I’ in sleep?

Was it there or was it not? It must have been there also,

but not in the way that you feel now.

The present is only the ‘I-thought’,

whereas the sleeping ‘I’ is the real ‘I’.

It subsists all through.

It is consciousness.

If it is known you will see that it is beyond thoughts.

Q.:

Can we think without the mind?

M.:

Thoughts may be like any other activities,

not disturbing to the Supreme consciousness.

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“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”

— Anton Chekhov

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