Jeffrey Armstrong
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Vedic Astrology Deck: Find Your Hidden Potential Using India's Ancient Science of the Stars (2006) 16 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Muut nimet
- Kavinda Rishi
- Syntymäaika
- 20th century
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA (birth)
Canada (passport) - Asuinpaikat
- Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
- Ammatit
- guru
astrologer
translator
poet - Suhteet
- Grahame, Sandi (wife)
- Organisaatiot
- Vedic Academy of Science and Arts
- Agentti
- S. Grahame and Associates
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Kirja-arvosteluja
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- 90
- Suosituimmuussija
- #205,795
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- 2.8
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- 11
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…. 1. You have a task, but you don’t want to do it. All you can see are the negative consequences of doing your duty.
…. 2. You must do your duty; “none of us will ever cease to be”; dance of manifest and unmanifest; honor; equanimity.
…. 3. Action is necessary, not just knowledge; giving back to the holy devas; teaching by example.
…. 4. Secrets of the transmission of knowledge, ages of the world, past lives, society, and more.
…. 5. Yoga of discernment/yoga of action compared; non-attachment; transcendental joy.
…. 6. Let go of ‘control’ over results but do not pretend you can sit idly on a cloud in this life; you’re your own best friend or worst enemy; equanimity; moderation; seeing yourself in others; future lives.
…. 7, 8. Nature of God; theory; definitions.
…. 9. ‘I am’ statements; ‘if you offer to the others, you go to the others; if you offer to me, you come to me.’
…. 10. ‘I am unborn and without beginning…. I am the source of everything….’ (Krishna is the ultimate boss, yo.)
…. 11. More Krishna devotion/Krishna’s ‘ghastly universal form’.
…. 12. Which kind of yoga is the best?
…. 13. The knower and the known; the individual soul and the supreme soul; definitions.
…. 14, 15. the gunas; cosmic tree and other metaphors & more teachings on the nature of Krishna.
…. 16. Qualities of devas and asuras. IMO, very good-witch-bad-witch, you know. “And the bad witches are ~~bad~~!!”, right. But that’s one kind of Hinduism, which is I guess the kind that everyone has to pretend to be when they talk to their parents, lol.
…. 17. Three forms of various things or activities, one for each of the gunas.
…. 18. Monastics & non-monastics; more teachings on the gunas; dharma and occupation; attaining Brahman; offering everything to Krishna.
…. “And when your play is all the rage, Remember all the world is a stage.” (from translator’s concluding original poem)
…. Perhaps I’ll note here that, although I wasn’t raised in a dharmic religion, I’ve never viewed the ultimate/best goal as totally non-embodied or totally impersonal. However, from the Indian or whatever point of view, if you like the personal life, you’ll probably just spend more time on the epics as a whole—which are very long—rather than ‘just’ the Gita excerpted from one of them. Despite the fact that the “best opinions/best books”, “the Gita is one of the best books” hierarchy did exist there, they didn’t quite force anybody’s hand, exactly.
…. The gunas are basically ‘levels of functioning’; they’re not like Enneagram numbers, ie. sattva is not 1, rajas is not 4, etc. Each number/personality has all three types of character within it…. The first time I read it, I understood so little of it, but then I had been exposed to so little in the way of psychology, typing systems, just churches that believed in thwacking, such that even an absolute/character-centric typing system was both a serious revelation and seriously beyond me….
…. Anyway, I don’t think it’s the One Best Translation of the One Best Book, you know, and given what some segments of the population invest in the Gita, maybe the odd comment or two comes off as a little snarky. (Ie that there are parents in India, as well as the West, and sometimes it works out rather similarly.) But although Krishna’s not my favorite god, I see the value in letting him have his say. He’s not the god-of-gods for me, but I can kinda see how any sufficiently developed god can be like the One Everything, the One Key, for some people.… (lisätietoja)