Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Vedic Dhyana Rig Veda 1.2.1 Soma
Happiness is the secret. We must find joy as if our life depended on it. It does
For Joy changes everything
Stop whining. Stop being negative. Be grateful. Learn to thank others even if they are doing nothing transactional for you
Discover what you most enjoy. Then find ways to spend more time with it. Preferably turn it into the means for your subsistence. Plan to follow your bliss as much as you can
Sri Krishna was right. Find your svabhava and svadharma and live it fully. It is the road to liberation. The Veda gives us this secret. Indulge your happiness limitlessly
Luxuriate in bliss. Feed this ananda to all your component parts. Your mind, your heart and body. It is the key to svasthya
Indra can destroy your enemies if you feed it huge amounts of Soma. Mitra will fill you with love, Varuna with wideness. There is a method to this madness. For Indra grants you light and knowledge when he is drunk with soma. Purify yourself. Burn in Agni. Then drink ‘the infinite like a giant’s wine’ as Sri Aurobindo sang.
Happiness is not a byproduct or result. It is the means and the accelerator. This is the Vedic hack our Rishis gave us right at the beginning of Vayu Suktam RV 1.2.1
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Veda for Gen Z RV 1.1.4
The one great sin that is brought out to me by the Veda right off the bat is narrowness, being small, considering myself powerless and insignificant in this universe
In the fourth rik of the first Suktam itself the transformation begins
Agni widens and surrounds the seeker from all side, विश्वत: परिभूरसि , as his or her armor, as the leader of the journey, and as the dynamic continuum between the seeker’s consciousness and the universal powers called devas
No, I am here to know myself, the Agni within and the bliss he generates, the expansion he initiates and the universe he makes me become
No, I am not a trifle consciousness seeking only for myself but seeking for the whole universe and as the universe which is my family and my existence
No, I can conquer myself and the world and bring it greater light and truth with utmost surrender and love and transform it without ego
That is how I see the Veda. Perhaps we all will too someday. Narrowness is my first sin
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Augustus did something Caesar never managed to do. He turned power into order, and order into something that could outlive him.
The Western world is still living inside the civilization he helped build – in its laws, its institutions, its political vocabulary, and its understanding that order must be transmissible across time or it is not order at all. One of the founding fathers of Western Civilization. A genius of power. Not celebrated enough.
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We imagine ourselves as unified beings, continuous across time, authors of our own choices. This is largely an illusion. Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux reminds us that the conscious self we experience—the “I” that seems to orchestrate our lives: is merely a thin slice of a vast, mostly hidden self. What we call self-awareness is, in his words, “only a part, and perhaps only a small part, of a broader, objective self that is mostly unconscious or implicit.”
The explicit self is not some sovereign entity floating above our brains; it is a configuration, a particular arrangement of unconscious patterns, forever shaped by processes we cannot access.
Cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga takes this disorienting insight further. Through elegant experiments, he has shown that the mind is essentially a fiction-maker. The brain generates a coherent narrative sense of self from the microscopic fraction of its own activity that reaches consciousness, which is roughly 2%. Ninety-eight percent of what your brain does remains in shadow. Yet from that small visible portion, the mind weaves an intricate story: “I decide, I choose, I am continuous, I am in control.” Gazzaniga describes this as the brain’s narrative function, a ceaseless internal storytelling that assembles: “a coherent whole from the thousands of systems we have inherited to cope with challenges.”
This is not a demeaning revelation. Rather, it points to something profound: the self is not a transparent, fixed essence, but a creative construction. Rebuilt moment by moment, selective and artfully composed depending on what story we need to tell ourselves.
Psychologist Daniel Schacter has shown that the mind labors continuously to maintain consistency, to preserve the illusion of a stable author beneath changing beliefs and fading memories. Even more radically, psychologist Daniel Wegner suggests we have the relationship between thought and action backward. We do not think and then act; we act based on countless unconscious impulses, and then, after the fact, we attribute intention to ourselves. We construct the motive retrospectively.
For an actor, this invites a profound shift: away from seeking “motivation” as a starting point, and toward trusting the organic emergence of action from embodied engagement with circumstance.
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