Is true freedom can true freedom be found.
Our thinking pattern makes us feel amazed at life imperturbably going on even when our individual life is being questioned, threatened. We are not taught to think globally as other civilizations do. We are not taught to feel like impalpable atoms chaotically chained in the unwritten archives of the Universe. We are taught to believe our individual existence matters, and we feel as though the Universe is gravely impacted by our daily trials and tribulations in the space called Life. We are not afraid to accept the notion of an uninterrupted sleep; on the other hand an eternal awakening (eternity, if it were conceivable, would be just that) plunges us into dread. Unconsciousness is a country, a motherland; consciousness, an exile.
Is Eternity the KEY to ending this perpetual exile? Is it the Key to understanding the unbearable lightness of being? I wish I knew... yet, the more I know, the less I know.Isn't eternity an illusion, a butterfly chasing the wind?
Up to a certain moment our death seems too distant for us to occupy ourselves with it. It is unseen and invisible. That is the first, happy period of life. But then we suddenly begin to see our death ahead of us and we can no longer keep ourselves from thinking about it. It is with us. And because eternity sticks to death, we can say that our eternity is with us, too. And the moment we become aware it is with us, within us, about us, we feverisly begin to look after it. This second period of life, when a person cannot tear his eyes away from his eternity, is followed by still another period, the shortest and most mysterious, about which little is known and little is said. Strength is ebbing away, and a person is seized by disarming fatigue. Fatigue: a silent bridge leading from the shore of life to the shore of eternity. At that stage, eternity is so close that envisaging it has already become boring. It is again unseen and invisible, in the way objects are when they become too familiar. Eternity no longer stirrs us. It has become an integrate part of our lives. We seem to have accepted it. Not everyone reaches this furthest limit, when a person ceases to minister to his eternity and no longer considers it a serious matter, but whoever does reach it knows that there, and only there, can true freedom be found. -Liliana Badd
The nectar of immortality
Ksheera Sagara Mathanam is one of the most famous episodes in the Puranas and is displayed as symbol in a major way every twelve years in the festival known as Kumbha Mela in India.
The story appears in the Bhagavata Purana, the Mahabharata and the Vishnu Purana.
In this story of 'eternity'
Kurma, avatar of Vishnu…supporting the
mountain Mandar on his back, with gods in the tail end and Asuras helding the mouth, wrap Vasuki- the serpent king, as rope, around mount Mandar as a dasher tool…
and in the following battle Devas are defeated and victorious Asuras (demons) led by king Bali gains control of the universe. Devas seeks help from god Vishnu who advise them to treat asuras in a diplomatic manner to
get the nectar of immortality and to share it among them.
Halahala (Also called 'kalakuta') During the Samudra Manthan by the gods and demons,
one of the product emerged from the churning was a dangerous poison (Halahala).
This terrified the gods and demons because the poison was so toxic that it might have destroyed all of creation.
On the advice of Vishnu, the gods approached Shiva for help and protection. Out of compassion for living beings, Shiva swallowed the poison in an act of self-sacrifice. However, his consort Parvati who was looking on, terrified at the thought of his impending death, squeezed his throat
to prevent the poison descending into his body.
Thus the poison was stuck in Shiva's
throat with nowhere to go, and it was so potent that it
changed the color of Shiva's neck to blue.
For this reason, he is also called Neelakantha (the blue-throated one.