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Originally Posted by sakredkow
Hi namaste!
The Church of the Lotus Mind of Christ (COTLMOC) was founded by me.
I was raised Catholic in Sydney Australia and my mother was a yoga teacher. That produced an eclectic spirituality from an early age. I went to university majoring in Sanskrit at the Australian National University Canberra.
The COTLMOC is my mission to spread love and forgiveness as humanity's quintessential existential purpose.
love to all!
namaste I bow to you.
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Om Swastiastu and Namaste _/|\_
That's pretty cool.
I really should formalise my own knowledge of Sanskrit one day.
Devanagari was a language I just picked up quite accidentally.
As a young child, I spent a lot of time in Bali, Indonesia and fell in love with their customs and culture. I loved attending the Wayang Kulit 2-3 times a week, but totally
yearned to understand what they were saying in the long, drawn-out drone they spoke and so, I found myself studying Balinese full-time.
From Balinese, I went on to study ancient Javanese and from there, the Brahmi Script, the Pallava Script and Bhujimol before I started reading stuff in Tibetan without actually formally learning the language. I could read the script, but had no idea what it meant and had to go through relating script to words...which lead me on to the whole Vajrayana Buddhist side of things, even though I was a confirmed Shaivite.
In the end, I noticed the cultural language similarities between all of the Indus Valley tribes...noticing how "Bhairava" also became "Vairochana" dialectically and established the whole 'Mahakala" relationship and the significance between Shaivite Hinduism and Buddhism and led to the formation of the Kapalika sect and laid the groundwork for Agama Hindu Dharma.
From there, when I was 21, I married a Hindu Pundit/Purohit/Pujari from the Fiji Islands and my study of Samskritam began formally with the Rig Veda and the Purusha Shuktam (of all things) and I learned the Agnihotra, the Nav Graha Puja and then I started reading and studying all of the Upanishads in their original Sanskrit, whilst also studying Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Soundarya Lahari and the Kundalini Tantra.
So, thanks for the exposition on the 24 Tattvas of Prakriti (even though I already know it).
After that, I started reading the Itihasas, the Bhagavad Gita, Ramayana, Mahabharata all in the original Devanagari, but I couldn't get into
any of that, because all of my prior teachings and knowledge kind of spoiled that for me...I mean, the Vedas, the Agamas, the Upanishads are like the ultimate 'spoiler alert' for anything/everything which followed it.
So, I started doing Hatha Yoga, Laya Yoga and chanting the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra, the Rudram (Namakam and Chamakam), the Shiva Kavacham, Shiva Stuthis, Shiva Stotrams and learned the remainder of Adi Shankara's offerings...all of the Ashtakams and Shatakams, meanwhile having my head buried in the Taittreya and Mandukya Upanishads.
I'm totally blessed with knowing all of the Puranas, the Smarta tradition and the whole Samkhya philosophy...it's so totally beautiful! amazing to be a Hindu!
Like the philosophy started by saint Ramanuja, Madhava and carried on by Sri Chaitanya, I am
also of the school of Acintya Bedha-Abheda Tattwa, but I apply it to Shaivism and not Vaishnavism...and I am the only one who does that I have found...even Shaiva Siddhanta and Lingayatism doesn't go there.
In essence though, I am of the Aghor and apply Tantric practices and principles, just like my ancestors all did...yet, I am a Caucasian female of atheist lineage and I was also born and live in Australia...but my past-life is just very rich with all of this. I took to the whole language and philosophy like a fish takes to water.
That's my story and I'm pleased to finally meet you.
Om Namo Bhagavate Rudraya
Om Namah Shivaya
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