Honouring the most dominant element of all life, water!

On the occasion of padi-n-éṭṭām pérukku (āḍi 18, celebrated y’day in TN 🇮🇳), it’s time ⏳ to 🎊 celebrate 🎉 the most prevalent constituent <bhūtā> of all life, water💦, through the water-based🚿 rituals of yajur-vēda upa-karmā, renewing♻️our sacred thread🧵symbolising our triple respons-I-bilities towards ourselves, our ancestors (incl. animal & plant life from which we’ve evolved!) & global🌐society, 👩‍🎓graduating👨‍🎓 in the holistic knowledge🎓of 🐎 haya-grīva🐴, an aspect of our birthless Self’s apparent b’day🎁& relishing😋the self-assuringly🤺protective🛡bond🤝of rakṣā bandhan.

True 🔱 protection🛡<rakṣā> & 🤗bonding🤝<bandhan> ensue only from an🤰🏻all-encompassing🤱<rākhī> spirituality. Hence, this isn’t a🍾celebration🥳of the beautiful relationship between👧siblings👦alone. Instead, it’s the recognition of our oneness👆<yogā>🧘🏽‍♂️, with absolutely everything, that we now🤡foolishly🎭discriminate as separate from ourselves: the so-called “environment❣️”

In fact, the first ever rākhī🌀sūtrā was tied by our own sensuality <indrāni> to her husband, the pinnacle of our own aggressively-passionate nature <rājasik guṇās @ indrā>. Our sensuality packed📦 into the consecrated🧵thread <rākhī sūtrā> the protective power generated by her own🧘‍♀️sādhanā, to ensure the victory✌️of our🤺passions <indrā> over our😴inertia💤 <tāmasik guṇās>, enroute to purification🛁<sāttvik guṇās>.

This Mon-day full moon 🌕 thus evokes aplenty:

1. Our own mind’s (🌕 Moon’s) once-in-a-dozen-years series of conjunctions, simultaneously with our own wisdom (Jupiter) & BMI’s capacity for patient forbearance & dedicated work (Saturn 🪐) in our own Self’s quarter of elevating solitude uttarāśāḍā in the earthy doorway of Capricorn♑️<makarā>;
2. yajur upakarma;
3. hayagrīva Jayanti;
4. rakṣā bandhan;
5. padi-n-éṭṭām perukku (āḍi 18); &
6. 27th anniversary of the mahā-samādhī of pūjya śrī svāmi chinmayānandā at Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, CA🇺🇸, just days before he was one of only three monks of sanātana dharmā elected to address the centennial world parliament of religions at Chicago, IL 🇺🇸, in the illustrious footsteps of svāmi vivēkānandā. He was then replaced by the equally-illustrious satguru śivāya subramunīyasvāmi of Kauai ādhīnam̐, Hawaii🇺🇸.

It isn’t a mere coincidence that, be it👨human👩, Earth🌏, 🦒animal🦔or🌳plant🌱 , nearly three-fourths of all biological🧬systems are physically & chemically🧪constituted by H2O💧! Let’s🧘‍♀️meditate🧘🏽‍♂️on this basic life-sustaining element radiating from the 2nd subtle node of ourSelf-establishment (sva-adhiṣṭhāna/sacral nature) as the formless ultimate with a form (su-brahman-yā),  just below & behind the navel within the spinal cord, the seat of our own gut-wrenching wisdom, symbolised by Jupiter🟤<guru-guhā, murugā>, which rows 🚣‍♂️ us out of our illusion <māyā> of worldliness to our reality of spirituality.

🕉 ज्ञानानन्दमयं देवं निर्मल स्फटिकाकृतिम्

आधारं सर्व विद्द्यानां हयग्रीवं उपास्महे |

🕉 ஞானானந்தமயம் தேவம் நிர்மல ஸ்படிகாக்ருதிம்

ஆதாரம் ஸர்வ வித்யானாம் ஹயக்ரீவமுபாஸ்மாஹே.

🕉 jñānānandamayaṃ devaṃ nirmala sphaṭikākṛtim,

ādhāraṃ sarva viddyānāṃ hayagrīvaṃ upāsmahe.