THE FEDS ARE INVESTIGATING UMASS AMHERST FOR ANTI-PALESTINIAN BIAS
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You've Never Seen OLD NORTH BRIDGE From Here
"Come with me to Concord, Massachusetts where I visit the exact spot where local town militia companies gathered on April 19, 1775, and made the fateful decision to leave their position on this high ground - now known today as the Muster Field - and march to North Bridge where some of the very first shots of the Battles of Lexington and Concord were fired, igniting the American Revolution."
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USS Chesapeake and the Battle of Boston Harbor
In the summer of 1813 USS Chesapeake left Boston harbor to challenge HMS Shannon. The battle was exceedingly bloody and incredibly brief, and gave birth to one of the navy’s most famous mottos
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As the nine nights represent the nine planets, we will be focussing on #Navaratri and the nine planets with an account of one or another the planets for nine nights. For the sixth night of Navaratri, we will take the planet #Venus. The colour for the sixth day of Navaratri is green, so we scribe in #GREEN for this sixth day observance of Navaratri. The #Goddess is #Devi #Katyayani.
Today is the sixth day of the Navaratri celebrations which are held for nine nights. All festivals are meant to remind mankind that they should cultivate noble qualities by engaging themselves in activities beneficial to one’s own self and society. Sai Baba made this reference to Navaratri and the Nine Planets:
As part of Navaratri celebrations, people worship different forms of divinity. You should develop sacred feelings and experience divinity. What is the inner meaning of Navaratri celebrations? These nine nights represent nine planets. Each planet has its own significance. However, these planets are not outside, they are within. If your feelings are impure and unsacred, the result also will be the same. You are responsible for the good and bad you think and experience.
Truth, goodness and beauty – these are the attributes of Divinity and true humanness – that is, human beings acting with integrity – vasudeva sarva midam – ever seeking divinity in all things. In #Sankrit, #Truth is #Sathyam; #Goodness is #Sivam; #Beauty is #Sundaram.The planet Venus contains, releases and perpetually flashes forth different patterns of cosmic energy. Whether the ever-changing energies coming forth from Venus raises us up or pulls us down, is largely dependent on how we understand and take up, integrate and apply the energies of this planet. Venus is our sense of divine love, beauty and grace.
While Venus is taken to represent the passions, and following our happiness, there is a capacity in the influence of Venus to think and to make quite sharp decisions. Venus may access the intellect in what the famous depth psychologist Carl Jung calls the feeling function (in Jungian typology) which makes decisions on the basis of what is valued, what is felt to be important. So Venus has the ability to make the best, balanced and heart-felt decisions.
In the field of possessions, personal property, Venus gives wealth, houses, property and high status. There is nothing wrong with having wealth, it is not filthy lucre as some joke. It is a form of cosmic energy which we may use to create joy and beauty in our living, our homes, a spending of energy in property and vehicles which expresses proper use of wealth, one of the four goals of life. Excessive attachment and dissemination of ego to possessions (my status, my life is my possessions) is lower expression of this cosmic force. A home with beautiful gardens and flowers expresses the Venus energy in its highest essence.
Devi Katyayani
#Ma Katyayani is worshipped on the sixth day of Navaratri. She is one of the most worshipped forms of #Durga and is considered a #destroyer #of #evil. She has four hands and she wields a long sword and a lotus in two of them. She blesses with the third hand and protects with the fourth one.
According to ancient legends, she was born a daughter of Katyayana Rishi, born in the Katya lineage originating from Vishwamitra, thus called Katyayani, “daughter of Katyayana”. Elsewhere in texts like Kalika Purana, it is mentioned that it was Rishi Kaytyayana who first worshipped her, hence she came to known as Katyayani. In either case, she is a demonstration or apparition of the Durga and is worshipped on the sixth day of Navaratri festival.
As per Hindu mythology, Devi Katyayani showers her blessings on those marriageable girls who worship her with complete devotion. This devotion towards Devi Katyayani is part of an age old tradition that started from Gokul in Braja. It is believed that, centuries ago, Gopis in Gokul used to fast during the first month of winter to fulfil their wish of marrying Lord Krishna. Since then, the sixth day of Navaratri has been considered to be significant for those girls who have stepped into the age of marriage and, as such, it is devoted to the worship of Devi Katyayani.
Venus and the Feminine
The Planet Venus is also known in #VedicAstrology as Shukra, the celestial poet, son of Lord Bhrigu (var, Bhrgu), and is sometimes mistaken as the Indian version of Cupid (he is definitely NOT), an archetype of Valentine and true love and more recently, ruler of bedroom pleasures and little else. (The god of love in Vedic tradition is called Manmatha, not Shukra)
People think that Venus am all about sex. It is true that sex is one of the things in the portfolio of Venus, but it is one of the lesser things. Mostly Venus is about beauty, (artistic) truth and children (the end result of reproduction). Venus engages the love flowers, fruits, meadows, honeybees and sweet, refined things. Venus cultivates the sense of refinement; music, dance, laughter and fun are within my purview.
When your soul sings with delight, there is the drishti of Venus; when you celebrate life with colour, beautiful fragrances, wonderful cooking, there Venus is present with energy. Poetry, gardening of flowers, refined emotions, imagination, and renewal of life and spirit. These are the feminine gifts of Venus.
Significance of Navaratri
“Recognising one’s mother as the very embodiment of all divine forces, one must show reverence to her and treat her with love. This is the true message that the Navaratri festival gives us. The Supreme Shakti manifests herself in the form of Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati. Durga grants to us energy – physical, mental, and spiritual. Lakshmi bestows on us wealth of many kinds, not just money, but intellectual wealth, the wealth of character, and others. Even health is a kind of wealth. She grants untold riches to us. Saraswati bestows on us intelligence, the capacity for intellectual enquiry and the power of discrimination. The Navaratri festival is celebrated in order to proclaim to the world the power of these goddesses.
One’s own mother is a combination of all these divine beings. She provides us energy, wealth, and intelligence. She constantly desires our advancement in life. So, she represents all the three goddesses that we worship during the Navaratri festival. If the Pandavas were able to become so dear to Krishna and make their lives worthy by serving Him, it was not on account of their own merit or austerities. It was Kunti Devi’s love for them that brought to them such a great fortune. Even when they had to live in the forest or in the House of Wax, she always stayed with them and prayed for their welfare. The Pandavas also reciprocated her love, and that accounts for their final victory. Lakshmana, likewise, was able to dwell in the forest with his brother Rama, serving ceaselessly, only because of his mother Sumitra’s blessings”. Sai Baba, SS, 11/88. p. 290
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The Second Night of #NavRatri is dedicated to #Ma as #Brahmacharini – the Seeker of the #Absolute.
Now as we will recall – ‘Brahman’ is from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-. This term in PIE refers to something that is ‘high’, ‘exalted’ – and also produces, unsurprisingly, terms for ‘mountain’ (like the Germanic ‘Berg’). It would perhaps be improper via implication to suggest that Her quest is to ‘Get High’ – even though the ultimate goal of said questing is, indeed, wreathed frequently ‘midst Cannabis smoke.
‘Acharani’, meanwhile, a feminine form for ‘Acharana’ – one who goes, or one who follows. This derives from the same root which gives ‘Carya’ – a term not only for ‘motion’ and ‘journeying’, but also for adhering to customs and precepts. And, as it happens, from PIE *kʷel- – which is the same root which gives us our modern English “Cult” and “Culture”, “Telos” and “Teleological” … as well as “Bicycle”.
This is because that PIE *kʷel- root in fact means “to turn”. Just what a wheel does (another descendant term) or a circle (again, from the same root). It is not hard to see how the ‘circle’, the ‘wheel’, the ‘way we go’ pertains both to journeying and to how we conduct ourselves (whether in terms of culture or initiatory precepts) in this journey that we term ‘life’.
So – Brahmacharini, therefore, is moving upwards in both senses.
In the literal sense, She ascends the Himalayas toward the fabled realm where Lord Shiva is to be found.
In the theological sense, She ascends also upward toward the Absolute, the Supreme. Interestingly, this might be thought of as Her remembrance and reconnection with Her Own True Nature – accomplished, certainly, via Her reconciliation and reintroduction to Her Husband, the mighty Mahadev.
Now this is interesting, because in the West we are most familiar with what is known as the ‘Katabasis’ – the ‘Going Under’. Often this is overtly intended as going down into the Underworld, there to meet the dread sovereign(s) of that realm in pursuit of the sought-for boon. Even in Christian times, the Alchemical motto V.I.T.R.I.O.L. – “Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem” (‘Visit the Interior of the Earth and Rectifying [i.e. making one’s self pure or whole], you Find the Hidden Stone”) – was prominent amidst those esoteric spheres.
However here, upon first glance, the journey is in the opposite direction. It is, after all, Upwards rather than Below.
And yet – here, there is an underpinning thematic unity. In both cases, one is braving arduous routes and perils to venture to a realm where a Divinity and spirits preside. In both cases, these are realms far removed from what is habitable by ordinary humans, ordinary mortals. And in both cases, there is a fantastic wealth of wisdom (and other sources) to be beheld therein. If one can make it in – and then, more remarkably, make it back out again.
We might go further. I have long observed that in the archaic Indo-European world-view, the Sky and the Underworld – are substantively coterminous. I shall not repeat the reasoning nor the exploration herein. Except to note that we might comfortably observe that the same God holds sway in both places – Lord Shiva, a Lord of Wealth (‘Plouton’, we might say, to dip into the Ancient Greek) and the Dead and possessed of great Wisdom, indeed.
But we are digressing somewhat.
The course of Brahmacharini is to head out into the wilds and engage in a quest. One for Her True Self – and also for (and thusly through) Her Other Half. For it is only there, and rejoined with Her Missing Piece, that She can become most truly Herself. Whole, Hale, Healthy – ‘Holy’, in a more fully realized sense.
The quest is long and dangerous. The Himalayas are no place for a young woman – their upper reaches prove inhospitable even to experienced mountain climbers and hardy men. And yet She continues – She persists.
Why? Because She must. She is following Her Nature – Her Calling, Her Destiny.
What is that Destiny? ‘Happiness’ does not quite begin to cover it – although it is its necessary correlative coefficient. ‘Wholeness’, as we have inferred above, might come closer to the mark.
Eventually, in amongst the higher peaks, She encounters it. Or, rather, She encounters Him. Lord Shiva – there, Himself. Engaged in austerities in the harsh conditions, desperately endeavouring to forget His Wife – the One Whom He had lost amidst the flames of the Sacrifice of Daksha.
She approaches. He recedes.
He might be somewhat intrigued by this woman that has somehow managed to make Her way up all the way to His customary haunting-grounds and bear the harshness of both climactic and other conditions. She may even remind Him somewhat of She Whom He Had Lost. And that is precisely, in part, why He recedes – out of guilt, out of grief, out of disbelief in a miracle that cannot be.
And yet – She is not discouraged. She presses on. He climbs up ever higher in the Mountains, undertaking further Austerities – She matches Him. Demonstrating that this truly is no ordinary woman – able to keep pace with the nature of the God.
What comes next? Shiva’s pause. His beginning to reconsideration. He allows Her to engage Him in dialogue – seeking to perhaps assuage Himself that this cannot, in fact, be Her. Or perhaps to assay whether She, in truth, might just be.
In some tellings, They commence a theological debate. It might sound curious (although I can personally attest that to a .. certain sort of prospective couple, this is indeed something that happens – good to ensure you’re on the ‘same page’ about the most important matters, after all), and yet it is in actuality the most natural thing in the world.
After all, that is precisely what it is upon – nature, Their Nature(s), and how two Gods in Each Other’s presence can be assured of various, greatly important, things.
Eventually, She prevails. Proving to Him that She is, indeed, Who She Is. And prevails, also, through various other rhetorical ‘tests’ delivered by He.
This showcases something further rather interesting – the ‘answer’, it would seem, was inside of Her all along. It only required the proper context, the proper circumstance, the right environment (i.e. with Him) in order to become more fully realized. ‘Immanentized’, we may say.
So. ‘Brahmacharini’, then, is the ‘Seeker of the Absolute’, the Venturer to the High Places – not only terrestrially, nor even cosmologically and metaphysically, but also into (and as) Her Own Self, likewise. For She, as Devi, is the Absolute
And the End of the Journey is also the same location as its Beginning.
A ‘Circle’, some might say – as with the Water, a Cycle.
What’s that Proto-Indo-European term again?
*kʷel-
The ‘Cycle’, the ‘Turning’ of the High (*bʰerǵʰ-), is complete.
Jai Mata Di
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Mass. Prisoners Could Choose Between Freedom And Their Organs
The legislation, HD 3822, states, “The Bone Marrow and Organ Donation Program shall allow eligible incarcerated individuals to gain not less than 60 and not more than 365 day reduction in the length of their committed sentence in [prison], on the condition that the incarcerated individual has donated bone marrow or organ(s).”
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#Ma #Durga is the protective form of #Shakti, burning up all ignorance, as her fiery nature energises our highest motivation.
The Devi-Mahatmya (Greatness of the Goddess) glorifies the Mother Goddess as the embodiment of the Earth, in which she sustains, nurtures and cares for all living beings.
In her transcendent state, she is the blissful Queen of the Universe who rules over all existence with majesty and grace.
“Durga” in Sanskrit means difficulty, a fort, a place that is hard to conquer, yet also indicates the means of overcoming all difficulties and gaining all difficult attainments. Durga is Durgatinashini, “the one who eliminates all difficulties and suffering.” She steers the ship of our minds through the troubled waters of samsara, the illusory world of #maya, helping us cross the ocean of ignorance. Durga as the sublime Mother Goddess shields her devotees from the turmoil of life and alleviates the most severe sorrow.
Ma Durga is the protective form of Shakti, burning up all ignorance, as her fiery nature energises our highest motivation. Her radiant wisdom dispels the darkness within us, removing inertia, turbulence and attachment. She represents the golden-red flame in the spiritual heart, where we learn to concentrate deeply in order to experience enduring meditative bliss.
Like Shiva, Ma Durga has three eyes. Her left eye (moon) represents Divine love; Her right eye (sun) represents transformative action; and Her central eye (fire) discriminating knowledge, the three aspects of the universal light.
She lifts the veils of maya that underlie our material nature – kama (desire), krodha (anger), mada (intoxication), moha (delusion), lobha (greed), ahamkara (arrogance of the ego) and matsara (jealousy). Her light steers us through the struggles we face at a soul level, helping us work through and move beyond our karmas.
Durga’s symbolism
Ma Durga’s vehicle is the regal lion, representing executive power, will and determination. Her riding the lion symbolises Shakti’s mastery over all the forces of life, reminding the devotee that one must possess unwavering strength to maneuver through the dualistic realm of the ego.
Durga carries in her numerous hands the magical weapons bestowed on her by the Devas. Each has a particular power and capacity.
The conch shell represents “pranava”, the supreme mantra “Aum”, the universal sound vibration: Bow and arrow represent focused energy. By holding both bow and arrows in one hand Durga indicates her control over both aspects of energy as potential and kinetic.
The thunderbolt signifies firmness and insight. The devotee of Durga must be firm like a rock in conviction. Like the thunderbolt that cuts through everything with its lightning force, without being affected itself, the devotee needs to move through every challenge without losing confidence and resolve.
The half-open lotus symbolises certainty of success but not yet finality. The lotus in Sanskrit is called “pankaja” which means born of the mud. It stands for the continuous evolution of our inner consciousness amidst all negativity, want and confusion.
The sudarshan chakra or discus, which spins around the index finger of the Goddess while not touching it, signifies that the entire world revolves around her dynamic presence. She uses this unfailing weapon to destroy intractable evil and produce a peaceful environment conducive to the growth of dharma.
Her sword reveals discriminating knowledge (viveka), which has the sharpness of a razor-like blade. Knowledge free from all prejudice, doubts and distortions is reflected in the shimmer of its light.
Durga’s trident or trishula indicates the three primary qualities of Nature as sattva (balance), rajas (energy) and tamas (inertia) – and Shakti as the remover of all the three types of pain, physical, mental and spiritual.
Durga makes the gesture of fearlessness, “abhaya mudra”, granting deliverance from all possible dangers. The Universal Mother is calling her devotees: “Surrender all actions and duties unto me and I will release you from all fear, including death itself.”
https://www.vedanet.com/who-is-goddess-durga-and-why-we-celebrate-navratras/2022/
For Folks In Massachusetts:
The Massachusetts Health Connector Special Enrollment Period has been extended through June 23rd, which means that people can enroll in health insurance without needing a qualifying life event. You can learn more here: https://bit.ly/2M1rEvb. There is a May 23rd deadline to select and pay for health insurance coverage through the Health Connector effective 6/1.
(The above courtesy of my state representative, Marjorie Decker).
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