kali

kali ma

Night and Day Two:
Brahmacharini - She Who remains celibate
Brahmacharini begins at Sunset Sept. 30 and ends at Sunset, Oct. 1.


Kali only destroys that which was not created on a solid foundation.

Kali stood for Existence, which meant Becoming because all her world was an eternal living flux from which all things rose and disappeared again, in endless cycles. As a Mother, Kali was called Treasure-House of Compassion (karuna), Giver of Life to the world, the Life of all lives. She was the fount of every kind of love, which flowed into the world only through her agents on earth, women.

Some of Kali's older names found their way into the Bible. As Tara, the earth, she became Terah, mother of the Hebrew ancestral spirits called "teraphim". The Latin Terra, meaning "Mother Earth," said to be interchangeable with Venus.

Indo-European languages branched from the root of Sanskrit, said to be Kali's invention. She created the magic letters of the Sanskrit alphabet and inscribed them on the rosary of skulls around her neck. The letters were magic because they stood for primordial creative energy expressed in sound - Kali's mantras brought into being the very things whose names she spoke for the first time, in her holy language. In short. Kali's worshippers originated the doctrine of the Logos creative Word. Kali's letters magically combined the elements, which were previously separate as fiery-airy (male) or watery-earthy (female) forces. The former were "cruel"; the latter "benevolent. "

Though called "the One," Kali was always a trinity. Her three forms were manifested in many ways: in the three sections of the cosmos (heaven, earth, andthe underworld), the three stages of life, the three trimesters of pregnancy, and so on. Women represented her spirit in mortal flesh. "The Divine Mother first appears in and as Her worshipper's earthly mother, then as his wife; thirdly as Kalika, She reveals Herself in old age, disease and death."

Kali's three forms appeared in the sacred colors known as "Gunas": white for the Virgin, red for the Mother, black for the Crone, symbolizing birth, life, death. Black was Kali's fundamental color as the Destroyer, for it meant the formless condition she assumed between creations, when all the elements were dissolved in her primordial substance. "As white, yellow, and other colors all disappear in black, in the same way ... all beings enter Kali."

Kali is the Goddess who takes away darkness. She destroys all impurities, consumes all inequities, and purifies her devotees with the sincerity of Her love.

Now, the process of expressing a yearning for Kali truly manifests. Begin by entering with focused breath on the heart, and then call Her forth:

Om krim kalyai namah
(We call and bow to Kali, She who is all Life, with honor and respect)

Om hrim srim krim paramesvari kalike svaha
(Great Goddess Kali, by the power of your all-pervading nature and supreme perfection, She who is the mystery of life, death, and regeneration, we are One with you)


Om kali kali mahakali kalike papaharini dharmarthamoksade devi narayani
namo-stute
(Greatest of All, Kali, Great Goddess who is the revealer of Truth, Kali who is
with us in life, make our path one of peace and virtue, bring us your strength for liberation, for self-awareness, for the awakening of our spirit, our planet and all beings, Kali, you who are All, we bow to you!).

Shiva's Lament

Arise O my beloved wife
I am thy husband Shiva-ji
Open thy eyes and look at me!
With thee I can create all things
Without thee I am powerless
I am a corpse, I cannot act
Forsake me not, come back to me!
O let me see thy smile again
Say something sweet into my ear
Dost thou not see me weeping here?
Thy words will be unto my heart
Like summer rain on thirsting land
You used to greet me when we met
With joy and a happy face
Why art thou so still and without voice?
Canst thou not hear how I lament?
O Mother of the Universe,
O Mistress of my soul, arise!
My beautiful and beloved wife,
My faithful spouse, come back to me!

.emacs

my dot emacs grows
one day i look inside it
singularity

extraordinary

"If you do what you love to do, then you won't do it in an average way."
~ Angela Bassett

leibniz

"Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic."

Gottfried Leibniz

zen

zen style programming

lalla

When you eat too much,
you forget your truth,
and fasting makes you conceited,
so eat with some discipline,
and consciously. Be
an ordinary human being.
Then the door will open,
and you'll recognize the way.
Lalla, be moderate!

- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic

&

In praise of the ampersand

babaji

I am here to share the Teachings. I am not a show, not an entertainment, not a crystal ball. I am no one. I am no thing.It is Truth,Simplicity, and Love which forms the foundation of the Teachings. It is Truth,Simplicity,and Love which created this vast multiverse and which powers the life force within. It is the bridge over your obstacles. It is your tool for destroying the Lower Self and connecting to the real you. It is the way to the High Path.

Attach to the Teachings, not the Teacher. Many will look at the Teachings, few will live them. Many will adore the Teacher, few will admire the Teachings. What do I ask in return for sharing the Teachings. That you be of Service to all sentient beings. That you be a Beacon of Light for those moving through the darkness. That you do this unconditionally without regard to outcome.

If you strive to live in Truth,Simplicity, and Love, if you are of Service, you will not be disappointed. If you live in the lower world of ego, your desire for things, money, power, and recognition, will never be satisfied, and only despair will result.



Babaji



www.babajispeaks.com

is

The basic fallacy of man's search is that,
instead of BEING the universal Conscious-
ness or Absolute Principle which he
noumenally IS, he endeavors to attain an
imaginary ideal happiness in his existence
as a phenomenal object by trying to become
something else.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar

i

"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." - Marshall McLuhan

optimize

"premature optimization is the root of all evil" - Knuth

languages

It is good to learn more programming languages, it will make you a make you a better programmer.

Right now I'm programming in haXe, Flash, Ruby, and C++, and I am learning Lisp by watching the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and getting into a bit of Python. I'm also reading The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth, with his machine language analogue called MIX. Each one is teaching me something different about coding.

sage

The sage is indifferent. He does not hanker
after more pleasure, nor does he refuse whatever
may come to him by way of experience. There is
no volition, either positive or negative, because
there is no separate entity to choose, want or
strive for anything.

- Ramesh S. Balsekar

ghandi

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves."

karma yoga

"This is the time of Karma Yoga. It is the method for realization in this Age. Now I want Karma Yoga."

"Courage is necessary. I want to root out idleness and create a world of brave, intelligent beings."

Babaji

limit

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. -- Schopenhauer

system

I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Man's; I will not
Reason and Compare; my business is to Create.

-- William Blake, "Jerusalem"

I was just in Vancouver at the Vancouver PHP conference, and it was really amazing.

When I got home, I noticed that my host-key authentication with SSH wasn't working. I knew that there were some files in /etc/ssh that needed to be modified when my Telus internet connection changed it's IP address. But, which files?


root.web 12 [/etc/ssh] # grep 169.253 /etc/ssh/* | cut -d ":" -f 1 | uniq -c
1 /etc/ssh/shosts.equiv
2 /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts


This command is neat and simple:

First, "grep" for a bit of the IP address.

Then, cut out the first field, delimiting on colons.

Third, find unique instances and count them.

Neato!