#The Significance of Seeing The Light
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Karthikai Maha Deepam – 2022 - Sri Ramanasramam
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Sri Aruṇacala Tattuvam, ‘The Tattva [Truth, Reality or Signification] of Arunachala’
Oneself, the heart, the centre, which surges when intellect and ego suffer anguish, is the actual truth of Aṇṇamalai, which shone between Brahma and Viṣhṇu when pride was dispersed, not knowing to reach.
Explanatory paraphrase:
The actual truth of Aṇṇamalai [Aruṇachala], which shone forth as a column of light between Brahma and Viṣhṇu when their pride was dispersed [or destroyed] because of their not knowing [or being able] to reach its top or bottom,
is oneself, the heart, the centre, which surges [or is exalted] when intellect and ego suffer anguish [despairing because of their not being able to know their real nature, and thereby becoming willing to surrender and subside].
Note : On the day of Deepa - Darsana (the day in November - December when a sacred light is lit on the top of Arunachala) on 24-11-1931 Sri Muruganar composed the above verse and gave it to Sri Bhagavan entreating him to compose another verse explaining the significance of seeing the light (Deepa darsana). Sri Bhagavan then graciously composed the following verse in the same metre.
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Dipa-Darsana Tattuvam, ‘The Tattva of Seeing Deepam’
Giving up the awareness ‘this body alone is I’, that mind abiding only in the heart by self-attentiveness, seeing the non-dual real light of ‘I’ is the actual truth of seeing the light of Aṇṇamalai, which is called the centre of the world.
Explanatory paraphrase:
The actual truth of seeing the light on Aṇṇamalai, which is called the centre of the world, is seeing the non-dual real light of ‘I’ by giving up the mati [mind, notion, sense or false awareness] ‘this body alone is I’, and by that buddhi [mind, intellect or dehatma-buddhi, the false awareness that a body is oneself] abiding only in the heart by aha-nokku [inward look, ‘I’-ward look, looking at ‘I’ or self-attentiveness].
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- Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi - Sri Arunachala Mahatmyam: Deepa Darshana Tattvam pg. 7-8-9
Source: Video of 28.11.2020: Michael James discusses Aruṇācala Tattuvam and Dīpa-Darśaṉa Tattuvam
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#Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi#Muruganar#Michael James#Arunachala#Annamalai#Karthigai Deepam#Sri Arunachala Mahatmyam#Mahathmyam#Deepa Darsana Tattuvam#The Significance of Seeing The Light#dispute of Brahma and Vishnu
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#mushroom oasis vn#bts#poll time#light spoilers#whats it for?#uhhh idk <3#i feel like mushroom's obviously gonna win but we'll see#i really like the blue butterfly one#just bc its so simple but significant#but democracy is a thing here on this blog so ill let the votes decide <3
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One side of me: Kaz loves Inej so much and he thinks about her so much and he is her no.1 supporter and he is the man ever™
The other side: Kaz is being reduced to constantly thinking about Inej when in reality that isn't true and Jordie is just as significant but people reduce Kaz to only thinking about Inej anyway. It especially hurts when Kaz is trying to pretend he doesn't care about Inej but will never allow himself to forget Jordie
#some of yall are hurting me spiritually#like im a diehard kanej stan#but whenever i see a “pov summarised” and 75% of it is just “inej inej inej” i die a little inside#WHERE THE FUCK IS THE JORDIE MENTION?????#yes she is his start back to light but jordie was his start to darkness and these are equally as significant#ofc inej has to be there but not THAT much#yall are doing too much#screaming into the void#kaz brekker#inej ghafa#jordie rietveld#six of crows#grishaverse#six of crows duology
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Feels like everyone is making real black and white judgments about Ricky. Half y'all are like "he was the kindest angel" and the other half is like "he was a Nazi".
Like you absolutely cannot make this kinda judgement off of what we were shown about this character.
He was very much not a perfect "angel." He knowingly benefitted from a corrupt and cruel system. However, that doesn't mean he believed that system was just or correct. Nor does it mean he made no attempts to change that system. We don't know enough.
Not to mention he says he has read "history books". However, that likely means he has read "Homeworld" approved literature. Books which frame the Homeworld as morally correct and just. Considering the living situation of FineTime, He likely never interacted with information outside the propaganda fed to him and never had the chance.
I just simply don't believe you can claim he's a terrible person, completely irredeemable, from what we've seen. But I also don't believe you should be viewing him as some perfect kind soul.
#doctor who#fifteenth doctor#ncuti gatwa#ncuti!doctor#ricky september#dr who#also when interacting with the doctor about Pulse Codes he showed no significant reaction to the doctors appearance unlike Lindy#altho that couldve just been due to the situation at hand and him focusing on survival over bigotry#the positive interactions with the doctor are likely why people liked Ricky and see him in a better light than the other FineTimers
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if phoebe IS controlling dr. wenabocker then all i can think about is this stoat who learned how to read like five days ago having to discuss high level nuclear physics with grad students in a lab
#personally i think the stoat shouid get an honorary phd#body snatching aside#burrows end#also aabria really had me wondering if phoebe’s name meaning light had any plot significance or was some kind of foreshadowing#but i think she was just having fun <3#aabria if you see these tags know i spent a whole twenty minutes thinking about The Implications of this stoat’s name#just to be like weeeeeeell it’s probably nothing#dimension 20
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hes a vast avatar to me for reasons
#(it's because I'm a vast avatar and I relate to him)#ok but I do have more reasons#first of all:#the sun is sooo vast to me. usually it's one of the first things that really makes you think about the scale of the universe#I mean it's one of the most significant things to life on earth. and it's so incomprehensibly massive compared to us..#it's around the same size as the moon in our sky despite being around 400 times further away#second of all. as my favorite guy mike said:#“what good's the height [and] terrifying draw of gravity unless you really *know* the scale of what you're facing?”#you have to KNOW the danger you're in. see the ground down below and feel the dizzying rush as you comprehend your fate#the cosmic beast blinks unable to focus on something so microscopic. you know it could crush you without even noticing#the way the stars a million lightyears away blink photons in your receptors and know you are so insignificant on a universal scale#third of all:#connecting to the last point. insignificance. that's literally the whole apathy thing#reminding heart he means nothing. the sun is depended on by its planets and everything that lives#the moon is a rock that orbits the earth. it reflects the sun's light. the most significant thing it does by itself is cause tidal changes.#fourth: mind just seems like the type of guy to enjoy the feeling of vertigo and want to kiss some cosmic entity#cj mind#nevermeanttodraw
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#kingdom hearts 2#kh2#the world that never was#scenery#my gif#i wish to know the significance of this building#yes it looks very cool but i always felt like there was more to it#it's called memory's skyscraper and we see two significant battles take place here#one with sora vs xemnas in some sort of alternate plain where there's nothing but a void while they fight at the base of this building#and one with riku vs roxas with riku fighting for sora's memories and roxas fighting in memory of xion#which has significance to the name of the building#i can't help but raise an eyebrow to how the 358/2 days novel refers to it as a facade of a buliding#what does that mean... what is this place#OH and something in ddd happened here too. sora had a distant memory of himself riku and aqua from the past#HMM..#oh and i like how there's a truck that smashed into the side of the building and is left there still running with the lights blinking#which organization member did that
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Doing one of the scariest things an artist can do (draw a tree)
#i'm having like. war flashbacks. to a piece i just irrecoverably fucked up at least a year ago.#that just absolutely obliterated my confidence as an artist. like i feel like i did not recover from that for a long time#to be fair there were more complicated things going on in that one that were above my skill level i think#and that was when i was trying exclusively water colors too (which is. a choice. for a fuck around/find out artist)#but esp reffing heikala's work again like..... ah... it is taking me back. and i am so scared.#i feel like that piece is maybe two years old actually.#either way it was an incredibly significant deceptively personal piece and this one. is also very much that in a way.#it is going to be extremely devastating if i fuck this up.#to my credit. i do feel like i've grown a lot as an artist since then. a lot of things feel more.. doable?#like instead of being above my skill level it feels more like a challenge.#like i'm also gonna have to do some funky lighting in this piece too... it'll be interesting to see how i can do that#w how i've gotten used to using v specific pencils in a v specific way. it does feel doable. just challenging#mostly i'm just scared of trees.
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cataloguing obscure bits of dh lore/best gags from the live q&a posts they did in 2017 ... "sometimes people are just good friends"
#i really like how detailed and creative a lot of dp's answers are...he will take a prompt and run with it!#i may need to reevaluate the significance of rebhi's life and death in light of david having 'dated' him at school#like do we ever see david interacting directly with carol? was he mentally comparing himself to her?#can we frame rebhi's death as symbolically vengeful or jealous? or something else deeply weird and psychosexual?#definitely human#marscorp#the bunker#i was so mentally ill when these were going on and it shows but if nothing else i 100% stand by my remarks about patrick#i've only gone through 2-12 so far and it was a bit heartachey and a bit cringe but less than i expected and mostly just really fun#remember how good it was to be 22 and parasocially insane getting wasted on cheap cider in a mould-ridden flat in cardiff!!
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I’ve been in the path of a couple partial eclipses and they’re neat I guess but the totality was WILD. Just a completely different ball game
#maybe the most astonishing thing is how significant the distinction is between near eclipse and total eclipse#the second even a tiny fraction of a fingernail sliver of sun reappears it’s like someone flipped a light switch in the heavens#truly breathtaking. i get why people travel across the country to see them now#my posts
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this might just be because i am deeply, deeply terrified of The Vast Depths Of The Ocean, but i just cannot get myself up in arms about the whole "grave desecration" part of titanic tourism.
it is in fact significantly more comforting for me to imagine my hypothetical watery grave as somewhere people are constantly dropping in at all times than one where i am left to rest in cold, black, unfathomably desolate peace for all of eternity. cold, black, unfathomable desolation is precisely where the "nightmare" part of this nightmare scenario comes in for me, after all.
so yes, if you happen across my sunken bones, you all have my full permission to haul them back up to land. i don't care how much damage the oxygen and change in pressure is going to do to them and their archaeological value, just get me out of there.
#i acknowledge the anthropocentrism of this#but i feel like we can give my amygdala a pass on the self-centredness of its primal fears#this all being said#i fully respect it if grieving family members don't want people treating a location of great pain to them#as a fun tourist outing#the edmund fitzgerald is very much in living memory#for example#but like#the titanic is not#we're at a point where no one who personally knew anyone who died on the titanic is alive anymore#also we are constantly digging up wwi corpses and then sending them back to their country for proper military burial#when they've been identified#so like#this might be a significant moral failing on my part but i just cannot see the problem#anyway these oceangate folks really saw me fall back into one of my periodic Titanic Phases a few weeks ago#and said 'hey wouldn't it be fun if we kicked that morbid fascination up a notch or ten'#if it sounds like i am making light of this situation it is because this is very literally the nightmare scenario#the kursk sank when i was 10 and left its psychological fucking mark on me#not to mention the fateful fucking day i learned about tsunamis#horrifying#all of it#there is not enough money in the world to get me to go up into space or down into the depths of the ocean
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“love, love, bird, bird” [x] (for @magpie-trove)
Unknown // Julien Baker // Sophokles tr. Anne Carson // Tamara Panici // Natalie Diaz // via Pinterest // Paramore // Unknown (via Pinterest) // Victoria Chang // Michael Dickman
#am i totally happy with this web weave?? not really#I'm trying to get out of my habit of how dark my stuff can get like i want more hope but i think maybe this has that???#you can see it with your eyes even in the dark!!!!! that's where i want to be!!!! in a place where i can see the light in the dark!!!!!!!#without the hand the lamp would remain cold!!!! significant bc nos has dexterity issues due to. yknow. claws.#she is learning to find the light in the dark. learning to sit down for dinner with her dead brother. yeah#Lu rambles#web weaving#bird bird
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my gaming pc is just????? shot to hell???? IDK WHAT HAPPENED ive been trying every fix i know for the past 3 hours to NO avail and it's like
at this point i might have to take it in but idek WHERE to take it, i bought it custom in 2020, and i have fairly decent knowledge and have taken it apart and reassembled it, but whatever this is, is beyond my ability to diagnose\
i am truly just. SO upset. i would gladly welcome an asshole mainsplaining techbro into my home rn if he could FIX THIS without my having to spend a zillion dollars and play the anxiety waiting game for a professional diagnosis
#the duality of fran#yeah yeah there are worse things#but i wanna play bg3 and cry#im very small and very tired and overwhelmed#fans are on incl gpu fans#so i dont think its a power issue#BUT power button light isnt on and pc wont shut down unless i cut off the power at the outlet#like i cant just hold to shut down#let alone get a signal to the monitor#tried resetting the cmos to factory settings to see if it would reset the bios#no luck\#unplugged and replugged the RAM and gpu in case smthn was disconnected for whatever reason. no luck#like idk what to do beyond this! idk how to diagnose what's wrong bc i cant narrow down whats malfunctioning#i cant even get it to boot up properly#and i dont want to keep half booting it up and then murdering it by unplugging since the power button isnt working#\i feel like the power button not shutting it down is significant but idk what to DO with that info#fuck me. i need to get drunk and cry but i have work tmrw and i have to go to this important out of office meeting ALONE WITH STRANGERS#AND i took off the tattoo bandaid and im SO itchy and one spot is a lil oozy right in the elbow crease
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Anyway speaking of the sun did I ever tell you about the tales of arise eclipses
#im thinking about it again xyhdfgdchdchjh#do you think they like. considered it#i MEAN ofc they did#they cided that sun disappearing behind rena but dO YOU THINK#that they initially planned to have that actually impact like. the WORLD#in a significant manner?#with the actual luminosity level being affected and all#because like for cyslodia iirc this means no sunlight in the morning#(or cyslodia that we get to explore cyslodia's pretty big after all)#but like i can see how this is a problem like#you liberate cyslodia that is the One Realm where its always nighttime except when you end the renans' grasp on the region there#it still doesnt get a full day of sunlight because of astronomical reasons that we cant do anything about yet#also probably the region of the Central Ocean is in perpetual darkness as well but for those same astronomical reasons#like it GERS CONFUSING it would confuse everything idk#but heres the solution: you ditch that cyslodia in endless nighttime idea bc it was stupid in the first place#like. in calaglia they harvest fire astral energy so its a fiery place. theres fire everywhere. in menancia theyre harvesting#earth astral energy so its super lush and green. and so on and so forth#and in cyslodia theyre harvesting light astral energy so theres. theres no light. its dark. because theyre stealing it!!!!!#well why usnt menancia a barren wasteland then. why isnt ganoth super dry. wha#i COULD accept it if like. maybe. if like the completely stealing the light thing us like. ganabelt specifically.#like hes just a Special Boy and found a way to pull all the stops#and something like that has never been done before in the history of the crown contest#but no this has been going since the great conquest apparently so???#like how arent the other lords doing something like that too?#is light astral energy like so fundamentally different that the harvesting process is the opposite of what happens in other realms?#and if thats the case why dont they ever explain it in the game. or just make a pasing comment about it. I'm not picky#aaaanyway. just get rid of that specific cyslodia plot point#and THEN you can focus on how living in the shade of rena influenced what parts of Dahna#like. to just kinda like. cement the world building a bit?
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there's something specifically inside my head that is closing up that makes trusting anything so hard. i have to manually keep my mind open to the potential of anything being significant. i am so used to things being bad and things hurting and things not working and being powerless that it takes an exorbitant amount of mental energy to make sure I don't let myself shut down possibility. and I do it because I never want a certainty inside of me besides love to rule anything. but I want my brain elastic again. i want it open like breathing. it doesn't erase the unfairness or the critique or any of the bitter-built philosophy.
#it's so hard to describe what I mean. i think it's the combo of the like. specific part of my brain's development + the amount of trauma#I have endured + the degree of which that has been taking place on a backdrop of the world being incredibly injust no matter what I do#this is very very silly but the extent of how much this impacts me was made clear by how like. closed off I was to even liking an album by#my favourite singer. like obviously I am obsessively keeping myself open I would never let my preconceived sense of doom and stubbornness#control my willingness to let things in#but it shouldn't be so hard to keep my mind open to things like... liking my favourite musician of most of my life's music...........#and that's a VERY silly example but that's why it's easier to talk about. it takes so much work to be open enough for things like therapy#or religion because they've damaged me so much#how am i supposed to handle this on a backdrop of constant constant helplessness in the face of living insecurity and illness and trauma?#the problem is if you try so so so hard again and again and remain hopeful regardless of how illogical that hope is#but you get let down so constantly since you're never stop trying ever even when systems fail you again and again#and you're watching horrible things happen and everything that shapes you is horror#then regardless of how much you try it's so hard to let yourself let go of the very realistic lived experience of doubt and critique#and I DO. do NOT get me wrong. I am obsessive and refuse to be my own problem#but the act of doing so shouldn't be like this. it's in everything i do. from simple things like listening to new music to even the mere#possibility of a future#i am very worried this one is going to be misinterpreted bc I AM NOT saying I'm stubborn in the face of systems that have repeatedly failed#me. I AM NOT. I am saying to not be shouldn't take this work when it envelops the rest of my life.#if anyone reads this far please please acknowledge the degree of which I almost pathologically try again and again when I can guarantee#nearly everyone wouldn't and still fight to keep myself open to hope because that's just something in me that is like that. but BEING like#that is. repeatedly putting yourself in situations where you are powerless already and helpless to get better and then are hurt more and#there's no way to escape it's just the repeated nature of it and then trying to not be the issue.#it's the problem in itself.#my ambition SHOULD be smarter.#god I'll go into this when I fully understand it another time. i don't think i have this phrased in a way to make all the dots of what i#mean correlate in the significant ways to anyone but me#but hey i guess i'm expecting anyone to read this in a light to misperceive me in the first place instead of accept maybe I'm not explainin#well or giving me the benefit of the doubt. see.#delete
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oh thank god I've not been pronouncing it wrong in my head all this time
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