Reviving Hinduism I— a forgotten way of life that enables one to see the absolute truth

Roshan R Naganathan
5 min readNov 5, 2020

Shaivism and Vaishnavism at a point in time and context were starkly differentiated and polarized.

This probably was to keep the common faith in the dual nature of energy as both the pure wave and the indivisible particle as separate entities to understand their dual nature but served against the purpose and thus led to the sad duality weaved bloodshed story we all know and the ultimate order correcting things in a chaotic, yet beautiful manner putting it all right again each and every single time; but with a catch, Maya. Or the illusion/veil of duality.

I would like to believe that this process just happens like a veil drop before a puppet show or how a mirror gets dusty as soon as it is put out into a windy and dusty day, just that this windy, dusty day is perpetual.

But when we ultimately start blurring the lines

Somewhere between an Om Namah Shivaya and an Om Namo Narayanaya we often tend to forget the “Aham Brahmasmi” and we do feel it as well, but don’t know what it is mostly so let it go as an uncomfortable feeling because of the unfamiliarity.

For those who are unfamiliar with the Eastern texts and thereby the reference above, an interpretation of the same could be that somewhere between recalling the fact that we, consciousness, are all in fact primordially a wave, and accepting that we are indivisible particulate as well; we often tend to forget that the role of the creator is still left to us and we are what pushes and pulls from either end of this beautifully threaded infinity loop.

Literally manifested in modern sensuality as a concept, “push-pull”. Again, a reflection of the absolute truth itself.

The push element that seems to be given to us as superpowers are love, the curiosity to always look for the self, grounding, humility, and forgiveness, and the pull is to ground all that information that comes back, to reality itself.

All this virtuous utopian talk may seem disparate, as “transcendental crap” or far-fetched, but there is only one ultimate truth and that very fact is inevitable.

It is just interpreted in different ways and forms using the present moment and splashed on to the medium in many beautiful ways through the various means given to consciousness.

What we like to refer to as art, or appreciation of beauty as a concept itself while being grounded in the present, is, therefore, simple creation out of a particular moment on to any medium.

These metaphors were originally used to inculcate values and beliefs, and thus stories with higher meanings were weaved and passed on in the right frequency through voice.

That was why the mode of passing on information was orally done, with only vocal frequencies and the ear involved in storing valuable information, because if we plainly look at it, the one medium that is given to us to manifest matter is sound itself and sound only, so it might have made best sense to pass on collected, concise information in the form of sound and later these were again misinterpreted and lost in time; Maya our old friend always comes with new surprises and that is the chaos we face ultimately, be it internal or external.

PS: Therefore, we may safely establish the fact with the above given empirical truth, that music is THE cure for everything.

These metaphors that were supposed to help students of the cosmos understand and pave their own ways have lost their touch of divinity due to the contextual change and interplay of events leading to blind superstitions and misbeliefs that are being largely misinterpreted.

Maya, as we mentioned before and will be mentioned again; is inevitable.

“Aham Brahmasmi” is interpreted as accepting that “I am Brahma” or the creator; and thus by assuming this role and surging primal electricity voluntarily through oneself as information, a piezoelectric crystal in the pineal gland gets activated due to the cranial pressure from one cycle of conscious, diaphragmatic breathing as the primordial eye of awareness, what I would like to call as a piece of the whole eye, which gives grounding and the freedom of the observer’s role(what physicists playfully call 4D), what is also defined as Ajna Chakra in Yoga.

With this process one is reaffirming each time that the information thus received from the unknown is pure, and also the fact that the person is present in that moment and after acknowledging so, proceeds to create, and therefore the world moves forward.

Thus it is important that any individual has value structures that are continuously built but should also remind oneself to constantly get it destroyed by accepting the random input that the present provides and integrating it into a core belief system to build a more efficient value structure that helps seamlessly move forward from any chaotic instance presented to the self, all while being grounded.

Value structured thinking is what in polarized duality ends up being expressed or referred to as “left-brained” and those sticking to a belief system to lead their own entropy as “right-brained”.

Hinduism merely gave one person a detailed map of clearly mentioned highlights/morals/observations of the cosmos as metaphors and as art in the form of a story, to root oneself in the same and quickly adopt an already existing story so that we may face mother chaos with full energy and rebuilt fortresses like we are always meant to, and thus Hinduism when adopted as a way of life to create art out of the present to literally and honestly just create than seeing it as a “religion”, is a powerful and beautiful path one can carve the self into.

So perhaps the best thing we can do here is that we can polish these unique mirrors given and assigned to us with all dedication to constantly show other versions of yourself that they, in fact, are themselves; so that we may all finally come together to co-create and create further to feed this beautifully threaded loop of infinity into creation, dissolution, and harmony at the same instance over and over.

These words of wisdom,

Come with lack of vision.

This is the first time I ever,

Get to stand and witness.

We Are, Karnivool.

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