A scene is a compilation of several frames of pictures. Images of Mar's surface were pieced together to arrive at the following amazing 10-minute video clip. We are let in on the secret of making this video at https://nypost.com/2020/07/22/breathtaking-new-video-gives-4k-high-def-views-of-mars/
The video’s “journey across the surface of another world” was posted by Britain’s ElderFox Documentaries, which said it was created using digital photos shot by three NASA rovers — Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity — and beamed back to Earth. They were then “stitched together” to create the illusion of a camera panning across the desolate and barren landscape — and provide what the narrator calls the “most lifelike experience of being on Mars.”
Time is an assembly or sequence of several moments. Moments merge into becoming a time frame. We do not see the miracles happening at the moment until after several moments have gone by. Swami Prabhavananda says,
The saints saw and sensed all of life in totality, as they had come to an awareness that they are a part of all. We choose to see life as existing in another human being or animal, but fail to see the same in the plants, the minute insects, the microscopic organisms, and the cells, mutating each moment. We fail to see these wonders taking place every moment for we are preoccupied with something else elsewhere or in the future failing to pay attention to what is on hand. We never live in the moment. Our mind is always preoccupied with everything else except the task on hand. As we become accustomed to a task it becomes automatic hence we do not give it its due attention. Rarely do we get so absorbed with the task on hand to the extent that we forget ourselves, giving our heart, soul, and senses fully into it. We are missing many precious and memorable moments go by these days as we are busy manipulating our handphones and cameras.
On the other hand, a child is always fully absorbed in the moment be it just looking at a page from a book or playing with his or her toy for hours. Have you noticed how difficult it is to bring a child away from what he or she is doing? They are so engrossed in the task that everything else can wait, even hunger, peeing or sleep. While absorbed in his or her moment they do not fail to absorb all the sounds that go on around them too. I used to wonder what goes on in the minds of these children each moment. I used to sit and watch my 3-year-old granddaughter grow up. She teaches me a lot. We have a lot to learn from them, for the child is the closest representation of divinity. I would rather be in the presence of a child than a holy man. The child does not put on a face or a show. We have the divine living around us as a child, bringing cheer, happiness, and joy to an otherwise dark world of prejudice, jealousy, anger, and hate. Children do not judge, they do not know from right or wrong. Experience teaches them to avoid the flame and love rain. Agathiyar too told us there is no right or wrong; our experiences shall show us which is which. Cherish those moments with the child for he/she shall grow up too and fast and step into the ugly world of adults.
Time is a sequence of moments and hence a sequence of the mutations of the gunas which take place at every moment. We only become aware of these moment changes at intervals when a whole series of them has resulted in our senses. We are not aware from moment to moment that a bud is opening but at the end of a series which may take several hours we recognize the mutation, the blossoming flower.
The gunas form this universe in order that the experiencer may experience it and thus become liberated. When liberation is achieved the gunas have fulfilled their purpose. The sequence of mutations of the gunas comes to an end.But why talk about the end when there is life all around us each moment. But we miss to see it in all its glory. When was it we last saw the moon in the sky, not momentarily but following it for some time? When did we take in the cool breeze that brushes our faces reminding us of its presence? Nature keeps knocking on our doors but we have shut it out from our lives. But as Swami Prabhavananda says we only seem to see the larger events after it has taken place fully or completely. We only see the thunderstorm that blows away homes and trees. We only see the fury of the hurricane that rages across the country. We only see the devastation that nature does but not its beauty. Hence nature comes to remind us of its presence in a big way.
The saints saw and sensed all of life in totality, as they had come to an awareness that they are a part of all. We choose to see life as existing in another human being or animal, but fail to see the same in the plants, the minute insects, the microscopic organisms, and the cells, mutating each moment. We fail to see these wonders taking place every moment for we are preoccupied with something else elsewhere or in the future failing to pay attention to what is on hand. We never live in the moment. Our mind is always preoccupied with everything else except the task on hand. As we become accustomed to a task it becomes automatic hence we do not give it its due attention. Rarely do we get so absorbed with the task on hand to the extent that we forget ourselves, giving our heart, soul, and senses fully into it. We are missing many precious and memorable moments go by these days as we are busy manipulating our handphones and cameras.
On the other hand, a child is always fully absorbed in the moment be it just looking at a page from a book or playing with his or her toy for hours. Have you noticed how difficult it is to bring a child away from what he or she is doing? They are so engrossed in the task that everything else can wait, even hunger, peeing or sleep. While absorbed in his or her moment they do not fail to absorb all the sounds that go on around them too. I used to wonder what goes on in the minds of these children each moment. I used to sit and watch my 3-year-old granddaughter grow up. She teaches me a lot. We have a lot to learn from them, for the child is the closest representation of divinity. I would rather be in the presence of a child than a holy man. The child does not put on a face or a show. We have the divine living around us as a child, bringing cheer, happiness, and joy to an otherwise dark world of prejudice, jealousy, anger, and hate. Children do not judge, they do not know from right or wrong. Experience teaches them to avoid the flame and love rain. Agathiyar too told us there is no right or wrong; our experiences shall show us which is which. Cherish those moments with the child for he/she shall grow up too and fast and step into the ugly world of adults.
But sadly, we rush the child to walk fast, eat fast, etc and grow up. Children who need to explore the world around them and play are given workbooks instead or smartphones or are glued to the TV set or online videos. Children are practically dragged along the road to keep up with the tempo that we have come to be accustomed to. The poor child doesn't even have a moment to take in his surroundings. He is rushed through from one environment to another, from his home to the school or babysitters, to the busy malls and the gated homes of relatives and friends. We make them into another monster or a machine like us.
Agathiyar asks us to do things at the right moment to see success in our venture. How do we know if its the right moment then? We are blessed if he comes to initiate us in carrying out the task. But then we should follow as told, starting immediately on the task. For when he tells to start on something, be it a venture, a remedy, a new business venture, an auspicious event, etc its the most favorable time, the planets are favorable, the people are all there to facilitate your work and all shall go on smoothly without any hitches and delay.
For someone who was asked to come to his worship some 8 years back, she decided only to turn up now. Agathiyar tells her that it was rather too late for her to be of service to him and put all her plans and desires to work on bringing fame to him. The time he stipulated to her was the ideal time for all her wishes to come true as the AVM group was intact; numerous events were held, puja and charity were at their peak too. Now since all that is no more, Agathiyar asked her to drop all her ideas and join the club and go within too.
We were rushed into bringing our daughter's wedding ahead in 2016 rather than in 2017 after Agathiyar through his apostles delivered the message to do so. The reason is only known to him. We carried out as told and are glad we followed as Tavayogi who came to Malaysia specifically to grace her wedding, took ill after some time and soon went into samadhi the following year.
I learned a lesson too in delaying something that was tasked to me. When he asks that I commission a bronze statue of his at Swamimalai and bring it over to the Jegathguru Sri Raghavendra Mrithiga Brindavanam Kinta in Ipoh where he shall reside and bless his devotees, I got to it immediately. An email I sent out to numerous metal casting workshops in an around Swamimalai-Kumbakonam saw Varadaraj from the Bronze Creative give me a call immediately telling me he would take up the job. Agathiyar stipulated the precise specifications and wanted his image to be a replica of that at Agathiyampalli. Varadaraj went over to Agasthiyampalli to see for himself and get the feel of Agathiyar there bringing back photos to aid in making the statue. All was timely and went well as dictated by Agathiyar until we intruded into his scheme and plan by having our own thoughts, assumptions, fears, and worries, deciding and taking matters into our hands. When we foresaw some delay in the completion and kumbhabhisegam or consecration of the Brindavanam, several people ask me to put on hold making the statue. Their advice was well meant considering as to where we were going to place Agathiyar after arriving in Malaysia in the event the opening of the complex was delayed further or worst still stalled. I put a word to Varadaraj to hold on. But as the opening kept delaying, I reconsidered to carry on with the task given to me whether the complex project saw its completion or not. Varadaraj resumed the job. But by the time it was completed and ready to be shipped to our shores, it was already year-end. I had wanted his statue to grace our home during his Jayanthi and Guru Puja that fell on 3 January 2010. I had informed the small group of devotees, family, and friends that they could expect to see Agathiyar as a statue that year. Unfortunately, as it was year-end, and since the Indian government had come out with a new ruling that required that all statues be certified by the authorities as new to put a stop to rampant smuggling of ancient statues abroad, Varadaraj faced delays in having the papers cleared to ship him out. We were unsure of his arrival until the eleventh hour. But Agathiyar came into the picture and worked his miracle, gate crashing into our home and his Vizha precisely a day before, not by sea but by air, bringing joy and happiness to all of us.
There is a price we pay when we do not adhere to the precise timings given by him be it regarding our ventures, marriage or matrimony, beginning a business or career, etc. We need to take heed of his advice and look out for the signs. We need to be alert and in the moment. Most of the time we are in a daze, a result of maya or illusion, and are never able to see through the screen, hence falling a victim or incurring losses or jeopardizing our own efforts.
Although we understood that we should not delay the matter if it comes from him, Agathiyar is known to shelve them at times for reasons only known to him. Although the Siddhas are beyond spacetime, we are very much at the mercy of the planets. The day we understand the tattvas and master them, we are free from their clutches. Then the planets become a guru to us.
Imagine being like a little child again and believing everything you hear. There is something so wonderful about that trusting, open-hearted naivete that God loves. The more I have grown up, the more I realize that maturity in Christ is all about “growing down.” It is about becoming a child again. Not being childish but being childlike in our ways and our thinking. (Source: http://www1.cbn.com/Devotions/being-a-child)Henry Wei in his book “The Guiding Light of Lao Tzu”, Synergy Books International, writes that both Lao Tzu and Jesus consider reversion to the state of a child as necessary for salvation for entrance into the kingdom of heaven. In the eyes of Lao Tzu, “the infant with its pristine purity and innocence is the perfect symbol of Tao itself.” He goes on to say that one needs to bring tenderness in him. The child, like the breath at ease brings us to slow down, bringing us to live in the moment. Agathiyar has asked us to stay in solitude for certain moments of the day, abstain from any form of physical or mental activity, instead only watch the breath. This shall eventually lead us to the pace of slowing down and eventually sitting in samadhi where the airs merge and become still in Kevala Kumbakam. This is the right time he tells us.
Agathiyar asks us to do things at the right moment to see success in our venture. How do we know if its the right moment then? We are blessed if he comes to initiate us in carrying out the task. But then we should follow as told, starting immediately on the task. For when he tells to start on something, be it a venture, a remedy, a new business venture, an auspicious event, etc its the most favorable time, the planets are favorable, the people are all there to facilitate your work and all shall go on smoothly without any hitches and delay.
For someone who was asked to come to his worship some 8 years back, she decided only to turn up now. Agathiyar tells her that it was rather too late for her to be of service to him and put all her plans and desires to work on bringing fame to him. The time he stipulated to her was the ideal time for all her wishes to come true as the AVM group was intact; numerous events were held, puja and charity were at their peak too. Now since all that is no more, Agathiyar asked her to drop all her ideas and join the club and go within too.
We were rushed into bringing our daughter's wedding ahead in 2016 rather than in 2017 after Agathiyar through his apostles delivered the message to do so. The reason is only known to him. We carried out as told and are glad we followed as Tavayogi who came to Malaysia specifically to grace her wedding, took ill after some time and soon went into samadhi the following year.
I learned a lesson too in delaying something that was tasked to me. When he asks that I commission a bronze statue of his at Swamimalai and bring it over to the Jegathguru Sri Raghavendra Mrithiga Brindavanam Kinta in Ipoh where he shall reside and bless his devotees, I got to it immediately. An email I sent out to numerous metal casting workshops in an around Swamimalai-Kumbakonam saw Varadaraj from the Bronze Creative give me a call immediately telling me he would take up the job. Agathiyar stipulated the precise specifications and wanted his image to be a replica of that at Agathiyampalli. Varadaraj went over to Agasthiyampalli to see for himself and get the feel of Agathiyar there bringing back photos to aid in making the statue. All was timely and went well as dictated by Agathiyar until we intruded into his scheme and plan by having our own thoughts, assumptions, fears, and worries, deciding and taking matters into our hands. When we foresaw some delay in the completion and kumbhabhisegam or consecration of the Brindavanam, several people ask me to put on hold making the statue. Their advice was well meant considering as to where we were going to place Agathiyar after arriving in Malaysia in the event the opening of the complex was delayed further or worst still stalled. I put a word to Varadaraj to hold on. But as the opening kept delaying, I reconsidered to carry on with the task given to me whether the complex project saw its completion or not. Varadaraj resumed the job. But by the time it was completed and ready to be shipped to our shores, it was already year-end. I had wanted his statue to grace our home during his Jayanthi and Guru Puja that fell on 3 January 2010. I had informed the small group of devotees, family, and friends that they could expect to see Agathiyar as a statue that year. Unfortunately, as it was year-end, and since the Indian government had come out with a new ruling that required that all statues be certified by the authorities as new to put a stop to rampant smuggling of ancient statues abroad, Varadaraj faced delays in having the papers cleared to ship him out. We were unsure of his arrival until the eleventh hour. But Agathiyar came into the picture and worked his miracle, gate crashing into our home and his Vizha precisely a day before, not by sea but by air, bringing joy and happiness to all of us.
There is a price we pay when we do not adhere to the precise timings given by him be it regarding our ventures, marriage or matrimony, beginning a business or career, etc. We need to take heed of his advice and look out for the signs. We need to be alert and in the moment. Most of the time we are in a daze, a result of maya or illusion, and are never able to see through the screen, hence falling a victim or incurring losses or jeopardizing our own efforts.
Although we understood that we should not delay the matter if it comes from him, Agathiyar is known to shelve them at times for reasons only known to him. Although the Siddhas are beyond spacetime, we are very much at the mercy of the planets. The day we understand the tattvas and master them, we are free from their clutches. Then the planets become a guru to us.