Author: carolina

Music of the Spheres: Gamaka Commentaries, Saying Two

A fall does not break or discourage me, it only raises me to a new life. Saint Paul says, “what you sow does not come to life unless it dies” (1 Corinthians 15:36). A seed must break apart in the earth if it is to unfurl and send up a stalk. Destruction is intrinsic to […]

Music of the Spheres: Gamaka Commentaries, Saying One

“I consider myself second to none since I have realized in myself the One Alone.” Status is a worry that troubles many minds. Individuals and communities perpetually vie for dominance, scrambling to occupy higher echelons in the scheme of the world. Racism, classism, sexism, bigotry—these are all the byproducts of the common urge to be […]