Dharma for Dummies
1/26/25 <- very important…i knew very little…
[I said “I want to write this for me, not them.
I don’t want to play their game. I just want to write.
Even if it means no chance in getting paid, attention, validation, anything.”
She says “Good, then it must have a name.”
Oh how my Rati gives birth to what feeds my soul,
then calls it my own work.
The frustration…]
But on to the naming…. (Looking back at this as I type this up, I made no progress on a name. But we march onwards!)
It will have Dharma in it, because Hinduism as we know it collectively (not how the most devoted practice it today) is many times a mockery of what it’s meant to be and represent.
And no one is to blame but me, because if one knows better, then it’s on them to do better. Oh the weight of that phrase…
Indradeva should be insulted. And any day I do not fight for Dharma, against this delusion and darkness that taints something so beautiful, the vision the Bhramanas, Taoists and Buddhists had for us, is my own insult to Indradeva.
And oh does he make me know it.
I mean sometimes all it takes is to crack a window or reach out to a friend or something, and yet…
The idea of Dharma we know today is either the Buddhist idea of giving back to the Universe, or the Hindu idea of morality.
Many people from each side argue with each other which is the right definition and it’s a hilariously perpetual joke. It is like arguing whether the definition of being eco-friendly is going green or staying clean.
It’s not two different meanings, but two different ways to achieve a shared goal - one that’s harder to define. Even for scholars, masters, etc.
So we had to simplify, reduce and settle for definitions that work for peons, like people that use labels when referring to themselves or others.
I’ll try to resurface my latest writing on Dharma if it makes the cut, but I’ll be happy to tell you a core principle to work off of from.
But I’ll write it in the most convoluted way because this is for me, not you, you no-good-schiester. Unless you are my Rati, then hi 😛🙃 (Obviously the emojis were not handwritten…hand-drawn?)
Let’s start here:
Any child that likes STEM has an instinct to ask why, why, why. It’s draining, so much so sometimes that we forget how beautiful it is. My Rati and I made it a game to see how many “why’s” we can answer before the child gets bored with themselves. (It’s hilarious if you can get there btw). It pushes us.
But even more magical than being a part of a children’s learning, such questioning can reveal the why’s that we actually don’t know. Like the following:
We know the sky is blue, but why is it up?
We know why we breathe, but why do we need to breathe to live?
Why sun and rain and who dunnit?
Why gravity and who dunnit?
Why time and who dunnit?
Why galaxies and who dunnit?
And who created us from stardust? And where is that information, this blueprint, that was used to make us? AND….who dunnit?
If the universe is expanding, into what space or design? And who’s designing?
Here is a big “physics” concept of Sanatan Dharma that can help you understand Dharma:
Imagine the two-dimensional plane is like a map. And the third-dimensional plane is like a globe. Well then, 4-D can best be presented the entire path the globe takes as I chuck it across the room, representing matter flying through spacetime as the universe expands.
If you have anyone claims to have any information of a 5th dimensional plane, they must know something I do not. And thus, you should listen to their social media reels, instead of my writing below. But to continue…
If you can imagine the Earth’s path (or any object’s path) across spacetime, or the fourth dimension, as a brushstroke on the canvas as time, then the question is this:
Who’s painting? Whoever, whatever, we each want to call God. Easy.
The harder question, and more productive question:
What is it he’s trying to paint? What is the final image of our universe across every point in time, to be painted in this 4-dimensional canvas that is space-time?
Why is this important?
That final image, design, vision, is what ancient scientists who called themselves Bhramanas, identified as Dharma.
This is why I must concede to appreciate how Satyakam speaks about God as a cosmic painter.
In a practical sense, Dharma is this:
If your actions fit into God’s end-design, this final image, such as torching all of your belongings, then that’s Dharma.
So is laughing, sex, dancing, art, insight, anger, grief, pain, evil, heroes and worship.
If God, or the Universe, is painting something, how will you fit in it?
Seeing yourself in that end-design, the mere will of it, is Dharma. It’s rewarded by life-energy. If you’re on to something on your pursuit of Dharma, of harmony with this image being created through the medium of space-time, you will always feel inspiration. And energy that cannot make you sleep.
This is not life-energy in the general sense nonsensical spiritualists use. I mean, actual Prana, the energy that makes it difficult to get tired while having fun or having sex (the right way at least…). Kundalini. Energies that no one will ever talk about it because they have not figured out how to charge you for it. Yet.
Indradeva tells me it’s important that I tell you: “fulfilling responsibility given to you will always be in accordance to Dharma.” I would add, “so is any act stemming from real Love, (not today’s definition of love and passion).”
But it’s also important to take caution from any man that listens to the voices in his head… (to those that are curious, 99% chance I don’t have a voice in my head, but a way of using two-way dialogue as Socrates did, to tease out more wisdom while he walked through the woods. And a 1% chance, that’s just God doing his thing, in whatever way you imagine it. Who would ever know? )
Indradeva tells me with Dharma comes love. That on the other side of responsibility can only be love.
And if you are acting in accordance to Dharma, Kama will come through and spread his pure, creative love.
But Indra always warns me to tell you not treat Kama like Tinker Bell from Peter Pan, he doesn’t like that…
But how does one know if they are even on the right track of even conceptualizing Dharma - The Grand End Design of this Mysteriously Sexy Cosmic Painter, using Matter for his acrylic, Prana for his fuel and Beauty, like my Rati, for his inspiration.
The Bhramanas made it easy for us.
If you do the following, you know Dharma enough to talk about it.
Everything else (even my writing) should be considered conjecture if one cannot perform the following.
Find a globe, one that spins. Spin it and stop it with your finger, preferably somewhere that has vegetation. You’ll understand why in the next steps.
Pick a date in the calendar between 12-24 months.
And then, make it rain on command, at the spot you picked, at a specific time you designate.
The idea is not to guess correctly. I mean to pick a day that you know should not experience rain, like in the summer, and then make it rain on that day, at the time designated.
Tricky, right?
I’m excited for this post because I hope this is where I lose those looking to use Hinduism to make themselves appealing enough to jerk off with a mirror. Or appealing enough to others that also just need a hug from loved ones.
Besides, the point of looking sexy is because Shiva is sexy A.F., without question, and we all want to be like him.
But the whole point is this - the U.S. puts in at the most 120 years of technology and we go from steam boats to spaceships. Brahmanas put in 50K years at the least, (though more like 5M years), and focused only on the Sun and Rain, because life is better when you have food to eat tomorrow.
Especially when everyone around you can eat too.
They actually found, over so much time, that this alone was better than everything else they could have wished for. Not only in a virtuous way, but even from a hedonistic way. This was the lesson of King Yayati in the Mahabharata.
Everything is always better when everything and everyone has what it needs.
It’s always been that simple.
And they were never shy on their methods, it’s this.
Make rain or the Sun more important than you. Study it. Study it so much you find yourself worshipping it (or not being able to tell the difference).
They will tell you that you’ll realize by just studying the Sun and Storms in this way, that you will organically learn physics, biology, botany, astronomy, and more, just from watching this universally organic technology (literally as proven by our 16 prajapatis, our Universal, outside of Earth, agents of Creation like sound and storms) at work and at play.
Then the other sciences come after as if from intuition.
It’s easy to verify with pattern recognition from there.
They will tell you, with enough devotion across generations across millenia, you’ll know mother Earth so well, you will be able to undress her. (they found it worked well with women too). That’s when you begin to gain a few kernels of wisdom that actually matters, that can better a people.
But they never meant to undress her.
Ravana did, but not for perverted reasons, but because that is the logical extreme if you have personality, desires, and ambition. This is why our way, is our way, and why that way, is Dharma.
By knowing our mother Earth, and the metaphysics of the cosmos, the Bhramanas were able to get a glimpse of a new image that the cosmic painter (the OG God) would sign off on.
So, by living according to the designs of God, through millenia of study, they managed to make it rain, very unlike the lil Wayne way (though they could, but you could never catch one bragging if they were twice-born.)
Here’s the thing, not more than a handful today know how, if any at all.
And not even a dozen would know where to look for such people. But even so, not a single human today, except maybe like three if any, could pull it off, even if Narada and Vaishsta, themselves came to Earth specifically to create a super detailed wiki article with every footnote.
It would be too hard for our feeble hearts (not necessarily minds). It would not be believed because no one would be willing to do it even if it was needed to be done to save the world and would make them the world’s hero.
That’s why Rama and the Iksvaku line was so special.
Today, such a devoted investment to collaborate with the elements would be passed off as not worth it because the payoffs is in centuries, and everyone told you to live for yourself, for no regrets, as if you’ll die tomorrow.
And that you should enjoy your own fruits or not do it at all. Whelp.
Once we entered the agricultural revolution our value system shifted as human beings across the globe in a way that it no longer made sense for one person or one institution to be responsible to maintain rain in an geographical area sustainably.
I wonder if anyone else can see humanity’s irony. Yuval Noah Harari did and told all of us in Sapiens.
Contrary to belief, and I would agree, this is when we went from the collective of hunter-gatherers, to the sum of parts (nuclear family units) to feed a lord in trade of protection. This is when feudal societies really began, not the in the Middle Ages as we were taught.
At this point, well before 2000 B.C. no longer did it make sense to make it rain on the behalf of the people. It was too costly economically for a family to participate in such activity.
There became a economic imbalance, creating an economic scarcity with introduction of technology that assisted in food, which meant a necessity for hierarchy.
And with such hierarchy, driven by the distribution of goods, makes certain activities, like making it rain as needed, too expensive and restrictive.
In other words, our competency of Dharma as it was designed was no longer economically feasible given the changing power structures in civilization. So, it was no longer a priority.
If there was ever a time where the entire population stepped into a new, “darker” era, it was the invention of anything that created a power hierarchy in us humans in accordance to anything outside of our own bodies.
Because with such an inorganic power hierarchy, comes the need to use your ego, a fake identity, that was only meant to divide the “strong” from the “weak.” the “right” from the “wrong,” and the “better” and “than them.”
For example, it’s not darkness, according to Lao Tzu when chickens create a pecking order. It’s darkness when all the chickens gang up on one due to a lie, something false.
And that’s why, to many, eating animal flesh is Dharma when hunting with the same weapons other predators in the wild use. For example, it, it was Dharma to hunt a tiger with a spear. However, it was not Dharma to use a net, a lie, or overpowering force to capture them, or kill them while mating.
It does not align to all the other universally organic forces that move our elements and animals. No other force or animal would take a soul in such a manner.
This is a blog, I don’t care to call out my research. I don’t want you to believe this, just to wonder if it’s worth your curiosity to learn about in the future.
So now, Dharma is a lost art once irrigation was invented.
But, I grew up reading about wizards, not because I was geeky, but because I’m gonna grow up one day to be a mighty fine wizard, the best Slytherin the world has seen.
If Dharma is my way to access the divine, to connect with it, I’m one step closer to the whole wizarding thing, obviously.
You don’t need to make it rain. But for us, a Bhramanas rain is love. This is what I’ll write about.
To practice Dharma, to allow it to rain a divine love upon us and those around us on command. Osho tells us that divinity, the magical cosmic power that cannot be tied to any one religion or philosophy or source, doesn’t just trickle in, it descends, it pours, it storms!
Like a thunderbolt shocking you to your senses.
Indradeva says “say my name. Typing doesn’t count.” I feel like Kamadeva would say something because it’s Love that we’re talking about, but me thinks he thinks vajras and parrots (Kama’s ride) don’t mix.
But Love is why we Dharma. (Oh T-shirt slogan!)
Cosmic Equilibrium.
Also Storm from X-men should have been an old bald man with a crescent moon on his forehead. Stan Lee obviously did not read the Vedas.
Anyways…
So is it possible for us humans to make it rain? Yes.
Would you ever put in the sacrifice today? No.
Could you, if you had the directions, probably not. It’ll be too much of what we would consider a spiritual burden, a king of the entire land type of burden on your shoulders.
But this is rain. And we have irrigation and supermarkets. The rain is not why we’re destroying our agricultural or food industries by the day. It’s the love that’s missing.
I always saw love as the way Bhramanas saw rain and their relationship to it. Their ability to command through worship, it’s almost magical.
I’ll happily come off as arrogant saying this, but when I chose Sailu as my partner for life, whether she would fall in love with me was never a question. I knew because in a few weeks, I decided loving her and studying her deep enough to be able to undress her, like a once Bhramana devotee can undress the cosmos, was more important to me…
…than me becoming any vision I had of me.
With that new perspective, many impossible things became possible, even easy, like Love was meant to be.
And everything changed everyday ever since. I wonder if that happened to you, with anything or with anyone.
Difficult, but simple. Like the perfect, crispy Dosa. Or funnel cake.
Love is connection. With his connection to the elements, Indra, the king of kings, the storm across planets, can command every element needed in the universe. And it’s is not his strength that drives his command.
It’s the king’s connection, his love for his kingdom Earth, that gives him command and respect - enough to hurl lightning bolts large enough to leave craters.
This is not to be taken conceptually. The storm and earth are too connected on a metaphysical level, and that’s what makes them so strong alone and together.
The Tao shares:
“Heaven is long-enduring and earth continues long.
The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue this long
is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
This is how they are able to continue and endure.”
It was when I read this, that I truly begin to understand the role of masculinity and femininity. The role of Heaven and Earth, of Indra and Bhumi, Shiva and Parvati, Radha and Krishna, of the giver and receiver, sound and silence, of the masculine and the feminine.
So, Dharma is love. Love is Dharma. When you connect profoundly to a partner, whether it be Earth, an idea, a living soul, you’ll understand God’s design for life.
Like how Kvote, orphaned magician in Patrick Rothfuss’s frustratingly unfinished trilogy, knew the name of the wind, the essence of a wind’s essence. He could have just asked Hanuman to ask his Dad Vayu, eh? Kvote, too, should have studied the Vedas.
And it’s this connection that brings you to Dharma, and then you begin to feel God’s brushtrokes. That’s love.
That’s the feeling of love, the excited butterflies. It’s our body responding to Dharma, a metaphysical resonance of our action and the organic, primordial activity of the cosmos.
It feels like when you’re fully in the throes of play.
You’ll see this when the light in a baby’s eyes see the chromatic, illuminating beauty of a flower, in a flower, behind the flower.
It’ll feel like light inside of you, even your soul, almost reconnecting with itself in a form outside of you, like a rose or another’s soul.
This type of love is true leadership, the territory in which you can begin to attempt to gratify Indra, king of kings. This will be the first and last ideal of royalty, those that have the power and insight to give back to their communities, kingdoms, and heavens.
Responsibility is the only method, but love can only be the outcome if you are true.
So, I’ll probably talk about a lot of things, but Dharma (or Tao, or Supreme Love, of No-mind and no-path), the end goal of spiritualists, will be the center. Possibly, possibly not. Let’s hope I can stay true to my aim, like Rama himself. #DharmaDawgz4lyfe
P.S:
(Can we talk about how Rama would have definitely been the head honcho of Ted Lasso’s DharmaDawgz, to always speak true and from the heart, no matter what. Am I right?
Fun fact: Sugriva, king of all the monkeys, was supposed to have Roy’s energy, everyone being batshit scared of him but loving him to death. )
