Thursday, September 27, 2007

Ancient memories

India has memories, memories that are ancient.
To be an Indian is to inherit these memories, the memories that are archaic, memories that are stretching beyond birth, beyond death, beyond the current civilization, beyond the current earth, beyond time.
The night is the synonym of sleep, and in sleep we enter the Dream Time, a world of memories and archetypes and the unconscious.
At night comes out the rat, the vehicle of the Lord Ganesh, the elephant headed god. Elephants are known for keeping memories; they are dark like the night, like the uncconscious. In India, all rituals begin with the invocation to the Lord Ganesh, the Vigna Vinayaka, the one who removes obstacles.
Ganesh is the scribe of Vyasa, Vyasa who composed Mahabharata, Vyasa who compiled the Vedas and the Puranas.
Ganesh is also the door keeper of the home of Shiva, the Mahadeva, the Great God, the archetypal man, Pasupati, the lord of the animals. Without obeisance to Lord Ganesh, without his collaboration, without his grace, there is no access to the archaic memories, no access to the world of the archetypes. Riding on the rat, Lord Ganesh traverse his kingdom of the beings of the nether worlds, he is Ganapati, the Lord of the Ganas.
He guards the forts of Pasupati.
Deep in the heart of sleep yogins meet the archetypes, the gods and goddesses on the way to the abode of Shiva, the white one.
Yogins go with Ganesh into the dark infinity sprinkled with stars.
Constellations shows the path to a deathless star from where they have come.
They are called by the Memory.

Friday, September 14, 2007

Rhythms of Being

Existence is not a machine,
Neither a classical Newtonian one
Nor a quantum soup version.

There is the Being behind the Existence;
The rhythms of Being are not
Endless mechanical repetitions,
Reproducible automations,
Caught in a formula.
The Being is free to change its rhythm anytime;
If there is a mystery it is of the Being;
There is dance, dancer and the play.

Movement
Time / Astrology / Astrophysics
Numbers / Mathematics / Physics / Science
Measurement / Poetic metres / Poetry
Ideas / Philosophy / Language
Word / Meaning / Consciousness
Music / Dance / Art

At the heart of it all
There is Delight.