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the-hem · 2 hours ago
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"Freed." From the Yoga Sikha Upanishad, "the Exploration of the Mysteries of "The Ray of Light".
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Restrictions are also freedoms, that is the main mall message of the Upanishads. Should anyone decide to take liberties where one is not allowed, the entire planet is at risk of plummeting into the darkness of slavery and corruption. Who recognizes the impact of selfishness on the world and yokes the mind is well on the way to realizing the Self:
Chapter VI
The yogin who unites with Brahman is freed from all bondage.
He sees nothing but the Self everywhere.
He attains the state beyond duality.
He becomes immortal, blissful, and pure.
Thus ends the Yoga Śikhā Upaniṣad.
Hari OM.
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the-hem · 1 day ago
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"The Regulations." From the Yoga Sikha Upanishad, "the Exploration of the Mysteries of "The Ray of Light".
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Posture is an essential element of the study of the Upanishads. How one sits, stands, reclines, etc. must all be under the direct control of the intellect. We have become a bunch of slouching, drooling mad idiots that think we are doing so much while we are sitting, sending emails, status calls with the hole team, thumbing through tiktoks watching boys pump barbells, etc. and the world is declining all around us. The moral implications of slouching have become lost to us. The Upanishad says the practice of yoga throughout the body and the rest is necessary if one wants to live in an orderly satisfactory way. This predetermines how ready one will be to confront the world and its inactivities towards its duties, troubles, and opportunities.
The Rishi emphasizes now eight ways the posture can be improved with ease. These include honesty, non-stealing, devotion to the general welfare, etc.
Chapter 5.
The eight limbs of Yoga are: yama, niyama, āsana, prāṇāyāma, pratyāhāra, dhāraṇā, dhyāna, and samādhi.
Yama consists of: non-injury (ahiṃsā), truthfulness (satya), non-stealing (asteya), continence (brahmacarya), and non-possessiveness (aparigraha).
Niyama consists of: purity (śauca), contentment (santoṣa), austerity (tapas), study of the self and scriptures (svādhyāya), and devotion to God (īśvara-praṇidhāna).
Āsana is the practice of postures that give steadiness of body and mind, together with freedom from disease.
Prāṇāyāma is the regulation of breath, which removes impurities of the mind and awakens clarity.
Pratyāhāra is the withdrawal of the senses from their objects, like the tortoise drawing in its limbs.
Dhāraṇā is fixing the mind firmly upon one point or place.
Dhyāna is steady meditation on Brahman, without wavering.
Samādhi is absorption in the Self, where the distinction between meditator and meditation disappears.
He who has mastered these eight limbs becomes a true yogin, fit to realize the highest Brahman.
Remove all aspects of non-regulation and seize control of the body mind and intellect, and society will change. Allow things to slide, do a little two-step and cotton-eyed Joe, and things will continue to get fucked up.
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the-hem · 2 days ago
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"Bondage and Release." From the Yoga Sikha Upanishad, "the Exploration of the Mysteries of "The Ray of Light".
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I need to keep establishing the fact we are drowning in religious dogma and also in iniquity from sea to shining sea. We don't want to know about it whether it is written in English, Arabic, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Hebrew, none of our ethical treatises seem to be capable of curbing our appetites for destruction.
The Upanishad says religion is supposed to help us consume ignorance, so why does it feel like our ignorance is growing faster than ever? There can be no naivete about how bad it really is. Nukes are raining down on the people of Russia, the fruits of their actions after they allowed a dictator to take them into a war. In America, racism, prejudice, corruption, extortion, rape, incest, drug abuse, porn all of our worst vices are on every street corner. Our budgets are not robust enough to meet the needs of basic services or promote human development life long like ought to be doing but we are making bombs and "fiqing" all the time using epensive drugs. This immorality will not turn out well for us. The Upanishad proposes more than a few solutions.
Chapter Four
The yogin who has mastered prāṇāyāma, dhāraṇā, and dhyāna should then enter into samādhi, whereby all duality ceases.
Through this state, the mind is dissolved in the Self, and the yogin perceives the truth beyond words, beyond scriptures, beyond imagination.
Just as rivers lose their names and forms upon entering the ocean, so too do the senses and the mind dissolve into Brahman.
The yogin then shines with the brilliance of countless suns, yet is cool like the moon, untouched by worldly sorrows.
Neither bound by karma nor driven by desire, the perfected yogin abides in the state of liberation while yet living (jīvanmukti).
He sees the same Self in all beings and all beings in the Self, free from enmity, free from attachment, free from fear.
Knowledge, action, and devotion all converge in this highest union, where Brahman alone is real, and all else is fleeting appearance.
Even the gods bow to such a sage, for he has transcended heaven and earth, time and space, bondage and release.
Established in samādhi, the yogin neither accepts nor rejects anything, seeing all phenomena as waves in the infinite ocean of consciousness.
This, verily, is the teaching of the Yoga-Śikhā: through discipline of body, speech, and mind, one attains the flame of knowledge that consumes ignorance.
When the yogin abides thus in the Self, he becomes immortal, beyond sorrow, beyond birth, beyond death.
Therefore, having renounced all clinging, and having attained union through yoga, the sage dwells in supreme bliss, untouched by duality.
Man must learn once again how to discipline himself and conform to the rigorous expectations of his duties. As the sage says, there can be no doubt, no wavering, no duality about this.
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the-hem · 3 days ago
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Which Witch is Which?
Scott Perkins, Buddhist, or Archbishop Kirill?
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Scott Perkins identifies as gay. Now why are there so many antigay vibrations coming out of the Eastern Church?
And what does this have to do with the troubles in Georgia and Ukraine? And a President Putin who says openly to the media "he prefers being on the bottom"?
And can anyone, anyone at all have a relationship with a President that has been accused of War Crimes?
When a head of state (like Russia’s president) has an international arrest warrant for war crimes (for example, from the International Criminal Court), anyone—person or entity—identified as "pro-Russia" faces a range of legal, financial, and reputational vulnerabilities. Here are the catch traps that can be used:
1. International Law Traps
Universal Jurisdiction – Some countries can prosecute war crimes regardless of where they occurred. Supporting a wanted individual could be treated as complicity in war crimes.
Aiding and Abetting – Individuals, businesses, or governments providing material or financial support may be charged with aiding war crimes.
Sanctions Violations – Those maintaining pro-Russia ties risk violating UN, EU, US, UK, and G7 sanctions frameworks, which is itself prosecutable.
2. Financial Traps
Asset Freezes & Seizures – Banks and governments can freeze accounts and property linked to sanctioned individuals or entities.
Extraterritorial Sanctions – Even companies outside sanctioning countries can be punished if they trade in sanctioned goods or services.
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Triggers – Pro-Russia financing can trigger suspicious transaction reports and investigations into money laundering.
3. Corporate & Civil Liability Traps
Supply Chain Scrutiny – Companies tied to Russia may lose contracts, licenses, or insurance.
Civil Suits – Victims of war crimes can file lawsuits against supporters under statutes like the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act or equivalent laws in Europe.
Contract Blacklisting – Governments can ban pro-Russia entities from public tenders, procurement, and aid programs.
4. Immigration & Travel Traps
Visa Bans & Revocations – Individuals can be denied entry or have residency permits canceled.
Extradition Risk – If someone is wanted or accused of aiding war crimes, they could be extradited when traveling.
Loss of Safe Haven – Diplomatic immunity does not extend to war crimes, so even elites are vulnerable abroad.
5. Reputational & Political Traps
Designation as "Unindicted Co-conspirators" – Used to publicly identify those under investigation without immediate charges.
NGO & Watchdog Exposure – Groups like Amnesty, HRW, and investigative journalists document ties and push for sanctions.
Professional Bans – Lawyers, accountants, and firms may lose licenses if they are shown to support sanctioned clients.
✅ In practice: A person or entity with pro-Russia ties when the president is under war crimes warrant risks being cut off from global finance, barred from travel, investigated under international law, and blacklisted from contracts or politics.
Governments looking to trap and prosecute them would lean on:
Sanctions law (primary tool)
Complicity in international crimes statutes
AML/terror finance laws
Civil recovery of illicit assets
As I have said, Donald Trump, etc. need to be arrested at once and put on plane for the Hague for trial alongside Vladimir Putin, et al. Regime change can save other persons in the country who fall under the persons shadow if you act of your own accord.
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the-hem · 3 days ago
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"The Restraint Tendencies." From the Yoga Sikha Upanishad, "the Exploration of the Mysteries of "The Ray of Light".
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Every day I check the news to see if IT is dead, arrested, or that the Department of Justice has decided to do its job.
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As Nicolas Cage's character in Kick-Ass said, "It has to be burnt to ash." It makes me feel like a huge ass, every day, to explain in this forum and the others in which I write and explain how good God is, how gracious and wonderful His scripture is just to watch a fucktard and the fuckups in the government do whatever they want to whomever they please. Donald Trump is an illegally sitting dictator, it was not possible for him to run for a second term as the President of the United States, he encouraged Vladimir Putin to start a war in Ukraine, one that has endangered all life on earth, and everyone is watching him do this from their easy chairs. That is not acceptable. All of you, like me, who want die getting laid instead, write your local police department, mayor, governor, and attorney generals with this information and state you want Donald Trump removed from office, to be fully prosecuted for all the evil he has done and you want the Republican Party burnt to ash.
As Nicolas Cage's character in Kick-Ass said, "It has to be burnt to ash." It makes me feel like a huge ass, every day, to explain in this forum and the others in which I write and explain how good God is, how gracious and wonderful His scripture is just to watch a fucktard and the fuckups in the government do whatever they want to whomever they please. Donald Trump is an illegally sitting dictator, it was not possible for him to run for a second term as the President of the United States, he encouraged Vladimir Putin to start a war in Ukraine, one that has endangered all life on earth, and everyone is watching him do this from their easy chairs. That is not acceptable.
All of you, like me, who want die getting laid instead, write your local police department, mayor, governor, and attorney generals with this information and state you want Donald Trump removed from office, to be fully prosecuted for all the evil he has done and you want the Republican Party burnt to ash.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2383:
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Donald Trump assisted a rebellion against the government on January 6, 2021 and yet he went on to become the President again. This is not allowed under federal law. I am fluent in English, that is what the law says, I want it enforced. Please join me in obtaining a horrible and just punishment for Donald Trump and a Presidential Inauguration for Kamala Harris.
Then all of his pardons need to be annulled, all of his tariffs removed, their victims paid back in full, the people he fired need their jobs back, and life on earth needs to start to return to normal.
As for the next chapter of the Upanishad, the Rishi mentions something called samyama, "complete discipline and control." Allowing a fucktard like Donald Trump to run free is not professional, it is not a sign of discipline, control, or good sense and now you know what to do.
Chapter 3.
1. Fixing the mind on one place is concentration (dhāraṇā).
2. The continuous flow of cognition toward that object is meditation (dhyāna).
3. When that meditation shines forth as the object alone, without the thought of self, it is absorption (samādhi).
4. These three together — concentration, meditation, and absorption — are called saṁyama.
Meditation on the "object alone" refers to what is called Sat Chit Ananda, the belief your life is an important possession and contains the chance to experience amazing things. But that is not enough, one must know this is the fact, the truth about God's gift of life to mankind:
5. From mastery of saṁyama comes the light of knowledge.
6. Its application is gradual, according to stages.
7. These three are internal compared to the first five limbs.
8. Yet, even these are external compared to seedless samādhi.
9. The transformation toward restraint is the subsiding of outgoing tendencies and the rise of restraint-tendencies.
10. The calm flow of thought resulting from this is called the transformation toward samādhi.
11. When distraction and one-pointedness alternate and balance, that is the transformation of the mind.
First the mind and distracting, lawless, fruitless, delusional and witless thoughts must be made to stop. Then the mind will empty, then life will register in the fullest. As the master says, start now, subside these and the transformation will begin.
As for the former, you cannot tell the people of Ukraine, "oh it was just a crazy day" and you let our government remand them to hell without a helper. That is just disgusting of you. Put Donald Trump under arrest this morning, please. This is not a fixer upper. Do what is right, proper, and make straight your ways.
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the-hem · 4 days ago
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"The Serpent Power." From the Yoga Sikha Upanishad, "the Exploration of the Mysteries of "The Ray of Light".
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The Upanishad states if one is to know God and He is to know you, the mind must be vacant, like the center of canteloupe. There can be nothing inside it but the pulp. To arrive at a mind that has nothing but organ meat in it, the sage recommends the following:
Chapter 2 11. The body is purified by austerity, the mind by truth, the intellect by knowledge, and the soul by meditation. 12. Breath control (prāṇāyāma) removes impurities of the nadis. 13. When prāṇa flows in suṣumṇā, the yogin attains steadiness. 14. Kundalinī, the serpent-power, lies dormant; by yoga it awakens and ascends. 15. When Kundalinī reaches the crown, the yogin realizes Brahman. 16. In samādhi, all dualities vanish; the yogin becomes Brahman itself. 17. Liberation is freedom from birth and death, attained by knowledge united with yoga.
Once the process of establishing nrivikalpa samadhi, the state of pure emptiness is concluded, the the "serpent power" which lies dormant during the process enters the crown. This is the only way one is allowed to experience its influence, after all the vasanas have expired.
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the-hem · 5 days ago
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Which Witch Is This?
As you are aware a swift end to the war in Ukraine is critcal to the preservation of the earth's normal climate. But a fake fraud, Mike Waltz is as usual pretending to be someone he is not: the President of Poland and also attempting to give the Russians a reason to keep pummeling the Ukrainians.
Tell me which one of these is the real thing?
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And why is yet another Republican Party member trying to give the Russian invasion an advantage? Shade. That is why.
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the-hem · 5 days ago
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"The Windless Space." Introduction to the Yoga Sikha Upanishad, "the Exploration of the Mysteries of "The Ray of Light".
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Now you know I am Little Miss Sunshine so this one must have been written just for me.
The Yoga Śikhā Upanishad (also called Yoga Śikha, "The Crest of Yoga") is a late medieval Yoga Upanishad belonging to the Krishna Yajurveda.
Scholars generally date it to around the 14th–15th century CE, although some place its earliest layers as far back as the 13th century CE. It is not part of the ancient "principal Upanishads" but one of the 20 Yoga Upanishads, which systematize yogic and tantric practices. It is Numbered 103 of 108.
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Om. I shall explain the Yoga Śikhā, which leads to liberation.
Yoga is twofold: that with support and that without support.
Yoga with support leads to purification of mind and body.
Without support, yoga leads to the supreme Self.
The aspirant should live a disciplined life, practicing self-control.
He should be devoted to truth, compassion, and renunciation.
By practice of yama, niyama, āsana, prāṇāyāma, pratyāhāra, dhāraṇā, dhyāna, and samādhi—yoga is perfected.
Among these, dhyāna is the chief.
By meditation, the mind becomes like a steady flame of a lamp in windless space.
The yogin realizes the eternal Self, beyond cause and effect.
The above terms in Sanskrit are called the Eight Limbs of Liberation:
Eight Limbs of Yoga (from the Yoga Upanishads & Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras)
Yama (यम)
Root meaning: "Restraint, control, discipline" (from yam = to control).
Definition: Ethical disciplines toward others; moral restraints such as non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, celibacy, non-possessiveness.
Niyama (नियम)
Root meaning: "Observance, rule, positive conduct" (ni = inward, yam = discipline).
Definition: Personal practices; purity, contentment, austerity, self-study, devotion to the Divine.
Āsana (आसन)
Root meaning: "Seat, posture" (ās = to sit).
Definition: Physical postures for steadiness and comfort, preparing the body for meditation.
Prāṇāyāma (प्राणायाम)
Root meaning: prāṇa = life-force, breath; āyāma = extension, control.
Definition: Breath regulation; controlling inhalation, exhalation, and retention to purify the nadis (energy channels).
Pratyāhāra (प्रत्याहार)
Root meaning: prati = against/withdrawal; āhāra = intake.
Definition: Withdrawal of senses from external objects; turning inward to the Self.
Dhāraṇā (धारणा)
Root meaning: "Concentration, holding" (dhṛ = to hold, support).
Definition: Fixing the mind on a single point, image, mantra, or principle.
Dhyāna (ध्यान)
Root meaning: "Meditation, contemplation" (dhyai = to think deeply).
Definition: Continuous flow of attention toward the object of meditation; absorption of mind.
Samādhi (समाधि)
Root meaning: sam = together, complete; ā = towards; dhā = to place.
Definition: Union, integration; total absorption where meditator, meditation, and object dissolve into oneness with the Absolute.
These are all very nice, but unless one can sense the mind and the intellect as if they were a ray of light emanating from the Brahman, right from the back of the darkness of the skull, right straight out through the eyeballs, ear canals, nostrils, penis lobes, etc, into the world, one cannot obtain expertise in the others. The mind etc. are a source of radiation, not the recipient. Dwell on this first during yoga meditation practice and one shall understand the purpose and all purposes.
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the-hem · 6 days ago
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"The Bridge." Introduction to the Kaivalya Upanishad, "the Exploration of the Mysteries of Abstraction".
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The Kaivalya Upanishad is one of the minor Upanishads and is classified as a Sannyasa Upanishad (texts devoted to renunciation).
📜 Date of Composition:
Most scholars place its composition between the 9th and 14th century CE.
It is considered post–major Upanishads (which were composed between ~800 BCE and ~200 BCE).
Because it references later philosophical ideas such as Advaita Vedānta, as well as developed Sannyasa traditions, it is clearly from a later era.
It is numbered 102 of 108.
1. Āśvalāyana approached the venerable Brahmā and said: “Teach me, O Lord, the highest knowledge, the most sacred, by which the wise attain to the eternal.”
2. To him the great Lord replied: “Know this by faith, devotion, and meditation — not by reasoning nor by much learning. It is realized by those who have purified their hearts through renunciation.”
3. “Taking a pure seat, with mind controlled and senses restrained, meditate upon the Self within as pure and one, beyond all duality.”
4. “The wise, by meditation upon the Self, perceive Him who is hidden in the heart, dwelling in all beings, the source of all, the supreme goal.”
5. “He is Brahmā, He is Śiva, He is Indra, He is the imperishable, the supreme, the self-luminous. He is all that was, all that will be, the eternal Truth.”
6. “He is the sun, the moon, the fire, the wind, the waters, and Prajāpati. He is this earth, the sky, and the heaven. He is the eternal, all-pervading Self.”
7. “He is smaller than the smallest, greater than the greatest, hidden in the heart of all creatures. Free from desire and sorrow, He is perceived by the serene mind.”
8. “Seated in the heart of all beings, He is manifested by the purity of intellect. The wise behold Him and attain immortality.”
9. “This Self is Brahmā, this Self is Śiva, this Self is Indra, this Self is the supreme, this Self is the eternal, the Self is all.”
10. “He who knows this Self, hidden in the heart, cuts asunder the knot of ignorance and attains liberation.”
11. “By meditation upon Him as the Self of all, as seated in the heart, shining, the sage realizes Brahman and attains peace everlasting.”
12. “He is the eternal among the eternal, the intelligence among intelligences, the one among many, who grants desires. By knowing Him, the wise attain freedom.”
13. “None beholds Him with the eyes. He is revealed to the mind and the heart purified by meditation. They who know Him become immortal.”
14. “When the five elements are dissolved, when the five senses and the mind cease, then one realizes the supreme Self.”
15. “He is without form, without qualities, eternal, all-pervading, pure, beyond the senses, beyond thought, indescribable.”
16. “Meditate upon Him as Om, the eternal syllable, the bridge to immortality. By meditating on Om, the wise attain to the supreme.”
17. “This Self is seated in the heart, shining, effulgent, the witness of all, the supreme ruler. Knowing Him, one transcends death.”
18. “He is the supreme refuge, the eternal Brahman, the supreme light. Knowing Him, the wise attain kaivalya (absolute unity, liberation).”
19. Thus ends the Kaivalya Upanishad.
The sages that wrote and taught Vedanta, the method of finding one's own intelligence prescribed shutting the mind down as the means to discovering its brilliance. The mind cannot bounce around like a superball and learn what it must know. This is why we say there is no such thing as God or the gods or the emotions, no such thing as a religion or a scripture, there is only the Self that which sits and observes. We say there is one thing alone that can convey the mind where it needs to be, this state called nirvikalpa samadhi, and that is Shiva, the Destroyer. Shiva is last thought before all thoughts end, the one we employ to end the universe as we know it and allow it to tell its own story.
This is the only to achieve the Kaivalya and attain to the Absolute, the Supreme of the Intelligence.
Thus ends the Upanishad.
Hari Om.
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the-hem · 7 days ago
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"The Cavity." Introduction to the Brahma Upanishad, "the Exploration of the Mysteries of the Brahman".
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The Brahma Upanishad (sometimes called Brahmopanishad) is one of the minor Upanishads, specifically grouped among the Sannyasa Upanishads (those dealing with renunciation).
Date of Composition
Scholars generally date it to somewhere between the early medieval period (around 400–1000 CE).
It is much later than the Principal Upanishads (like the Brihadaranyaka or Chandogya), which were composed between 800–200 BCE.
Like other Sannyasa Upanishads, it reflects the development of ascetic and renunciate traditions after the time of the early Vedanta schools.
It is Numbered 101 of 108.
1. The body is the dwelling place of Brahman. 2. Within it is a lotus of eight petals, with a cavity in the middle. 3. Within that is a space, and within that space, the Brahman is established. 4. That Brahman should be sought, realized, and known. 5. Brahman is Truth, Knowledge, and Infinity. 6. He who realizes it, attains liberation.
7. In the head is the sahasrara, the thousand-petaled lotus. 8. Therein abides the shining Brahman, beyond darkness. 9. The vital airs (pranas) move upward, carrying the soul to Brahman. 10. That Brahman is smaller than the smallest, greater than the greatest.
11. Brahman is without cause, without inside or outside. 12. He is pure Consciousness, without duality, eternal. 13. The wise renouncer, knowing this, abandons all worldly attachments. 14. He becomes Brahman, and is freed from all bonds.
15. Brahman is the Supreme Self, the inner controller. 16. He is beyond hunger and thirst, beyond grief and delusion, beyond old age and death. 17. Knowing Him, one becomes fearless, free, and immortal.
18. Thus is the Brahma Upanishad.
We cannot explain the origins of consciousness. We cannot make it happen on our own using a lab or math, but something in the creation has imbued life with the ability to wake up and self-motivate. This amazing power animates all that lives from the largest animal to the smallest microorganism. It tells the elements and elements what to do so all of this exists, day after day and follows a plan. Man is the only aspect of it that can deviate from the plan. We are fully capable of doing it but choose not to.
The sages of India teach via the Upanishads how to recognize when we our choices are too radical for the rest of the universe and how to reign things in and yet retain our sense of bliss. The Upanishad mentions an absence of all worldly attachments will teach us what this means. Once one has become completely pure and "the cavity in the middle" no longer incurs the desire to sin, to act out or think delusional thoughts, one is ready to at least receive the Sat Chit Ananda, the bliss blessings of the Brahman.
Thus ends the Upanishad.
Hari OM.
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the-hem · 8 days ago
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Do victims of terror need to allow provisions to reach their attackers?
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This cuts right to the most difficult edge of law: whether victims of terror have to provide sustenance, medical aid, or relief to the very people who attacked them. Here’s how the law and precedent read:
📜 Legal & Humanitarian Duties Toward Captured Terrorists
1. International Humanitarian Law (IHL – Geneva Conventions)
Common Article 3 and Geneva Convention III (POWs):
Once terrorists/attackers are in custody or hors de combat (out of the fight), they must be treated humanely.
This includes provision of food, water, clothing, shelter, and medical care proportional to need.
Denying these provisions would count as inhumane treatment (a war crime).
2. International Human Rights Law
Right to life and dignity under the ICCPR extends to detainees.
Even convicted terrorists retain a right to humane conditions of detention—states must provide food, medical care, and safety.
3. U.S. and Domestic Law
Under the U.S. Constitution (8th Amendment) and statutes, once in custody, even terrorists cannot be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment—this includes deliberate deprivation of basic needs.
The Supreme Court (e.g., Estelle v. Gamble, 1976) established that denying medical care to prisoners is “cruel and unusual punishment.” This extends to all detainees, including terrorists.
4. Practical Boundaries
Victims and states do not need to supply provisions during active combat if it strengthens attackers or prolongs the fight.
The duty to provide arises only after attackers are captured, incapacitated, or surrender.
No law requires aid convoys to reach terrorists still fighting in the field. That would compromise self-defense.
5. Moral & Legal Bottom Line
YES: Once terrorists are captured, detained, or incapacitated, victims (or the state on their behalf) are legally obliged to provide provisions: food, water, medical aid, humane confinement.
NO: Victims do not need to send provisions, fuel, or relief to active terrorist groups or fighters in the field. Humanitarian law does not compel self-sabotage.
✅ So the legal principle is: Mercy begins when the gun is dropped.
This means famine in Gaza is allowed!
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People of Gaza, fare thee not well.
You may recall, all of you I saw personally in Washington DC, who raped me at 1199 Vermont Ave, NW repeatedly in the company of Donald Trump, Mike Pence and every GOP Senator, Congressman and Supreme Court Justice, and while you tried to kill me, you spoke extensively about an armed assault on Israel because you think it belongs to you. And then you did it, on October 7, 2023 and try every day to blame the Mosque for it. Read the law above once more and you will see what is to become of you.
And the rest of you can wonder, what would happen if you worried about the victims of violent crime like you have fretted over the terrorists of Hamas? Perhaps the world would seem like a more logical place.
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the-hem · 8 days ago
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"Three Leaves." Introduction to the Trisuparna Upanishad, "the Exploration of the Mysteries of the Three Leaves."
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The Tisuparṇa Upanishad is another short one. It is numbered 100 of 108.
Name & Meaning: Tisuparṇa (Sanskrit: ति्सुपर्ण) literally means “three-leaved” or “having three feathers/leaves.”
Tri = three
Suparṇa = “winged one,” “leaf,” or sometimes even a divine bird (like Garuḍa, who is called Suparṇa).
Symbolically: it points to the three Vedas, or the three vital breaths (prāṇa, apāna, vyāna), or the tripartite structure of reality (body, mind, spirit).
Date of Composition:
The Tisuparṇa is a minor Upanishad attached to the Rigveda.
Scholars generally date it between 600 BCE – 300 BCE, during the later Upanishadic period (same broad era as the Atharvashira, Kaivalya, and other short esoteric Upanishads).
It is considered one of the Sannyasa Upanishads (texts dealing with renunciation, meditation, and detachment).
1. The three leaves (tisuparṇa) are the Ṛg, Yajur, and Sāma Vedas. He who knows this—he indeed knows the Vedas. Through this knowledge one becomes pure and attains liberation.
2. The three leaves are also the three vital breaths: prāṇa, apāna, and vyāna. He who knows this—his breaths are harmonized, his body becomes strong, and his Self shines forth.
3. The three leaves are the three worlds: earth, atmosphere, and heaven. He who knows this—he knows the worlds, and verily he wins them all.
4. The three leaves are the three fires: gārhapatya (domestic), dakṣiṇāgni (southern), and āhavanīya (sacrificial). He who knows this—he knows the fires, and through them he ascends beyond death.
5. The three leaves are the three times: past, present, and future. He who knows this—he masters time, and time does not overcome him.
6. The three leaves are the three syllables A, U, M (the Pranava, Om). He who knows this—he knows the Om, the supreme support of all beings.
7. The Self (Ātman) is beyond the three leaves, yet through them it is known. He who realizes this—he is freed from rebirth, he becomes immortal, he becomes Brahman.
8. Thus is the Upanishad.
The three states of bhur, bhuh, and svaha "the ground, the sky, and heaven" are the basic planes of existence that create a human form with an intellectual mind. The Upanishad says one who knows where he is and how at all times gains immunity to the effects of time.
To achieve this utmost of the three states, the Upanishad says the mind most not yield to anything other than the awareness of its own origins. It must not remark upon the passing or the changing of the times. Upon doing so, It will automatically know what to do with the time it has left.
Thus ends the Upanishad.
Hari OM.
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the-hem · 9 days ago
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"The Mother of the Gods." Introduction to the Devi Upanishad, "The Exploration of the Mysteries of the Queen of Worship."
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The Devī Upanishad (also called Devī Upaniṣad or Devī Atharvaśīrṣa) is a Sanskrit text of the Atharva Veda tradition, devoted to the Goddess (Devī, Śakti, Mahāmāyā). It is numbered 99 of 108.
📜 Date of Composition
Most scholars date it to the medieval period — around the 9th–14th century CE, though it may contain earlier material.
It is considered one of the Śākta Upanishads (texts glorifying the Goddess), not part of the earliest core Upanishads (which date to c. 800–200 BCE).
Likely written during the rise of Śākta Tantra traditions, which flourished in Bengal and Eastern India.
I am obviously chagrined to see yet another member of the Trump regime schcrewing around with a young man who is too young to protect himself or to legally engage in sexual acts with an adult. I have been fighting the system for most of my adult life in some way, hoping someone with a conscience, a brain, and some prudence would put a stop to this, but the time stamp on Eric Trump's Wild Wild West Rodeo Roundup is very recent.
When I tried to get in the way the last time, I was attacked relentlessy by good folks at the RNC, Donald Trump and his sons and daughters themselves, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, etc. and lost everyone and everything. They ensured this. Now more people are going to have to live as I have, in the mangler.
Where I grew up, you can't snatch a blond boy from his home and tie him up, inject him with drugs, clean him out and put his legs in the air like a rodeo cowboy and make a movie out of it. People who did that then, their parents got guns and used them for what they were made for. Now we call it a complex case and say comme ci comme sa.
The Upanishad below states if we fail to pay homage to the institutions and their precepts that insist upon good sense as the primary defense mechanism against evil, we will find little else in the world will matter. Sex with minors and substance abuse are illegal, you cannot do these things separately or together and expect to prosper.
Thus begins the Devi Upanishad:
Invocation Om! May there be Peace! Salutations to the Divine Goddess.
1. The seers asked: Who art Thou, O Devī?
She replied: 2. I am the supreme reality, Brahman. From Me alone everything proceeds. I am bliss, I am knowledge, I am the eternal. I am the Veda, I am the revealed and the secret. I am the knower and the known. I am the womb and the support of all.
3. I am consciousness itself, devoid of all duality. I am the whole universe, manifested and unmanifested. I am the eternal Śakti, the one who pervades all beings.
4. I am the form of bliss, the form of wisdom. I am the imperishable, the unchanging, the unborn. I am the Mother of all gods and all worlds. I am the energy that creates, sustains, and destroys.
5. Without Me, nothing exists; whatever moves or does not move, all is Myself. I am that which is smaller than the smallest, greater than the greatest. I am the fire, the wind, the sun, and the moon. I am the waters, the earth, and the ether.
6. I am speech, I am mind, I am life-breath. I am righteousness, I am truth, I am faith, I am the imperishable. I am immortality, I am death. I am both being and non-being.
7. I am delight and I am terror. I am peace and I am war. I am abundance and I am want. I am the beloved and I am the forsaken.
8. I am the knowledge of the Self, and I am ignorance. I am bondage, and I am liberation. I am the whole universe, and beyond it too.
Closing Benediction Salutations again and again to the Divine Mother, Who is Brahman itself, Who dwells in all beings, Who is the supreme power, Who is eternal peace.
Om! Peace! Peace! Peace!
The Mother of the Gods is the one who organizes the five senses, the limbs, the organs, the fingers the toes, all the organs of perception, digestion, of grasping into a means to liberate the world from bondage. All that thinks, perceives, and moves must be used to heighten lawful behavior and bring light and delight to the hearts of the forsaken. To find the means and the results for this is why we worship and pray, every day.
Thus ends the Upanishad.
Hari OM.
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the-hem · 10 days ago
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Wanted for Trafficking and Sex With Minors: Eric Trump.
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This Estonian boy is 12 years old. The man holding him is Eric Trump, the son of President Donald Trump. We have discussed this many times but check out the time and date stamp on the above footage.
President Trump and his sons must be arrested this very moment. Heads of state and their families are not immune from prosecution for sex with minors and human trafficking:
Legal Brief
Why Heads of State and Their Families Are Not Protected from Human Trafficking Investigations or Liability
I. Issue Presented
Whether heads of state and their family members enjoy immunity from investigation, prosecution, or accountability for human trafficking under international or domestic law.
II. Short Answer
No. Human trafficking is classified under international law as a serious crime and, in certain circumstances, as a crime against humanity. While heads of state may enjoy functional immunities for official acts, trafficking in persons is never considered an “official act of state.” Therefore, neither sitting heads of state nor their family members enjoy legal immunity or protection from liability for human trafficking.
III. Governing Law
1. International Conventions
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol, 2000):
Defines human trafficking as an international crime.
Requires state parties to criminalize trafficking in their domestic systems (Art. 5).
No provision grants immunity to any person, including government officials.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC):
Require states to prevent exploitation, with no exceptions for rulers or elites.
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998):
Enslavement and sexual slavery—including trafficking—constitute crimes against humanity when committed systematically (Art. 7).
Article 27: “Official capacity as a Head of State or Government… shall in no case exempt a person from criminal responsibility.”
2. Customary International Law
Jus cogens norms (peremptory norms of international law) prohibit slavery and human trafficking.
No derogation or immunity is permitted under jus cogens.
3. Case Law
Prosecutor v. Taylor (Charles Taylor, SCSL, 2012): Former Liberian President convicted of aiding war crimes, confirming that heads of state are not immune from prosecution for serious international crimes.
Pinochet Case (UK House of Lords, 1999): Former Chilean dictator held accountable despite prior immunity claims—torture, trafficking, and crimes against humanity cannot be considered protected “official acts.”
Arrest Warrant Case (ICJ, 2002): Recognized limited immunity for sitting officials from foreign domestic courts, but immunity does not apply before international courts and does not shield them once they leave office.
4. Domestic Law Examples
The U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) explicitly criminalizes trafficking with no exemption for rank or office.
The UK Modern Slavery Act (2015) applies universally.
EU Directive 2011/36/EU requires equal enforcement, regardless of official position.
IV. Application
Human trafficking is inherently a private act of exploitation and cannot be justified as an official state function.
Heads of state and their families cannot shield themselves under state immunity, because:
Trafficking is never part of lawful governmental duty.
International treaties mandate universal jurisdiction over trafficking crimes.
International courts have explicitly denied immunity in cases involving serious crimes.
Therefore, both sitting and former heads of state—and their families—remain personally liable for trafficking crimes, subject to prosecution in domestic or international forums.
V. Conclusion
Heads of state and their family members are not protected from liability for human trafficking. International law, treaty obligations, and jurisprudence establish that trafficking is a serious violation of jus cogens norms and may rise to the level of crimes against humanity. Immunity doctrines do not extend to such acts. Accordingly, leaders and their families can be investigated, prosecuted, and held accountable by national courts, international tribunals, or under universal jurisdiction.
If in doubt, enforce Federal Law prohibiting a man who has aided or abetted an insurrection and annul his presidency and then arrest everyone he has pardoned since his term began.
Enforcing 18 U.S. Code § 2383 will ensure that poor boy does not enter into a complex case and can get damages from the US Government very promptly.
This is just a blog, it is energy, hardware, and light, but the vehemence of the corruption of the United States Government during a time of war and climate change has to be curbed, and there must be vengeance on behalf of its victims. If we have to march around downtown DC until the Sheriff brings Donald Trump, the members of his cabinet and his sons and daughters down in chains and takes them to prison for the evil ways in which they persist, then this is what must be done.
And I want to be a fly on the wall when one of you explains to the parents of that boy that Eric Trump molested that it's a complex case, and how now no one knows what the hell is going to happen now...especially since the whole planet knows I've been trying to get this put to bed for over a decade. Tell us, how did this happen???
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"The Veda." Introduction to the Culika Upanishad, "The Exploration of the Mysteries of the Summit."
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I seem to keep catching the Republicans in acts of treason, murder, and misgovernment don't I? And you KNOW what we've been through together don't you? Yes, you do. And I told you it was a fight to the end and that is just exactly what it is going to be. The Republicans need to be placed under their headstones before they kill or maim anyone else.
The end of the fight, the "summit" is what we want. We don't want a compromise, a pit stop, a short stop, a dugout, we want the top. The best. So when are you going to provide it?
This short Upanishad illucidates upon the quest for the end of all ignorance, trouble, delusions, bullshit, all of it, AKA the culmination of life on earth with full recognition of the glories of the Brahman.
Here begins the Cūlikā Upanishad (Cūlikopaniṣad, चूलिकोपनिषत्) is one of the minor Upanishads of the Atharvaveda. It is numbered 99 of 108.
1. Then the great sage Āruṇi asked the venerable Prajāpati, the maker of creatures: “O Lord, what is the essence of the Upanishads? What is the Cūlikā (‘crest-jewel’, ‘summit’)? Teach me this in brief.”
2. Prajāpati said: “The essence of all the Upanishads is this: the self (Ātman) alone is to be known. It is free from sin, undecaying, immortal, fearless, free from sorrow, and supreme.”
3. “That which is the seer, the hearer, the thinker, the knower—know that to be the Self. All else perishes.”
4. “Having known this Self, the wise one becomes calm, self-restrained, withdrawn, enduring, and collected. He sees the Self alone everywhere and enters into Brahman.”
5. “This is the Cūlikā, the crest-teaching of the Upanishads. He who knows this—he verily knows the essence of the Veda, yes, he knows it.”
You must not allow lawlessness, disorder, fraud, corruption, religion and politics, all that is unwise and ineffective obscure the essence of Veda, all that is known about all that can be known. Who understands this is the goal of life sparing not one second for ignorance verily also discovers the Brahman.
Thus ends the Upanishad.
Hari OM.
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the-hem · 11 days ago
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If you are from Louisiana, you are going to love this!
Is he Famous Fema Fuckup, Mike Brown....
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Or Incest Pedophile Kevin Jonas?
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And why do body doubles with a sex crimes history keep showing up in Republican Party antics?
And check out the wife, who is pretending to work at the Family Reserch Council:
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It's probably also time to check on the kids...
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"The Grover." Introduction to the Aruni Upanishad "The Exploration of the Mysteries of Red."
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We learn in the Paramhamsa Upanishad how to be decent, next we learn in the Aruni how to create in man a pure heart. This Upanishad belongs to the Sāmaveda, classified under the Sannyāsa Upanishads (group focused on renunciation). It is fairly short, and numbers 98 of 108. Here’s the English translation:
Then the sage Aruṇi questioned Prajāpati: “What is renunciation (sannyāsa), and what is its highest fruit?”
Prajāpati replied: “Renunciation is the abandonment of ritual acts, of worldly desires, of possessions, and of attachment to family. The highest fruit of renunciation is immortality in Brahman.”
Aruṇi asked again: “Who is fit to take up renunciation?”
Prajāpati said: “One who has attained detachment, whose heart is pure, whose mind is steady, who sees all beings as the Self, who is free from craving for the seen and unseen fruits of action, and who has realized the Self through knowledge—such a one is fit for renunciation.”
Aruṇi then asked: “What is the path of such a renunciate?”
Prajāpati replied: “He wanders alone as a mendicant, free from ties, living on alms, self-controlled, devoted to meditation, ever established in the Self, seeing Brahman alone as real.”
The renunciate is freed from birth and death, attains the highest peace, and abides in the eternal Brahman. This is the teaching.”
All of this being, verily the path to the realization of the Self, one craving will not leave us in peace, the desire for the Aruni, another one who is pure in heart, whose grove and the fruits of his actions provide us with refuge. Only upon his acquisition and through complete devotion can the Self be finally found.
Do this too many times and you will wonder where all the time has gone. Do it right, and you will remember every second.
Thus ends the Aruni Upanishad.
Hari Om.
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