Spiritual and Ancient Leadership
9/15/24
Why religion for me?
Religion, philosophy, mindsets, purpose, passion - it’s all the same thing. It’s just guidance for our future selves. My mind runs, but to what I do not know. Some say it wants to expand, be free, experience, in delusion, in passions…
It’s important to decide what it is we want in one word, or we will never be clear in our actions. When we’re not clear, life feels more limited. Our action is less than, like a reaction, not one of self-expression.
It’s not happiness. And it’s definitely not fulfillment.
For happiness, I think of being a glass cube, with the granted wish that you will always be happy. You will see others play, grow, cry, but you cannot join. If happiness is the end game, there would be no reason to leave your glass cube, would there? Would that be enough for you? Would you be fulfilled?
Fulfillment seems boring. You’re full. Now what?
Some would say, well then you’re free to expand. But you wouldn’t care for freedom or change, if you were full.
I believe it’s connection. Love.
I believe that with love, things become clear, and energy is created. Like the connection of two polar magnets. This connection is just is, no? Like between an electron and proton.
This energy is present when two collide to create something. Man and woman. Soul and life. Mind and imagination.
Love is the energy that glows, creates, and allows us to be content with our bottomless souls.
If we are thinking without moving, not imagining, not designing, not processing, but if we are just thinking heavily, well then it’s a lack of love. Being in love requires no thought.
We never had a point for anything except for ourselves. And it’s why we wither.
But i think expanding our love further and further every day would not only be a worthy goal in of itself, but can also help us increase our energy naturally and organically. The real life energy that the Mark Zucks and Jeff Bezos sucked out of us because mommy and daddy didn’t tell them how smart they were enough times.
For others, it’s energy, then life, then enough life to love. No, no, no.
It should be the other way around.
Love, then life, then enough life to have energy.
It’s not to build a life that you love. It’s to love life in all of it’s flavor. To drink it’s juice as Satyakam Ramakrishan would say.
Everything in our lives is a reflection of us. To reject one sliver of life is to reject one sliver of yourself. We would never do such a thing to one another, because we love one another, yes?
I think the path of love is one of no steps which means running is not conducive. Yet to be still, still enough to love, takes tremendous effort. The love we give our families take work, so that it doesn’t feel like work later.
I believe it’s a matter of readiness, boundaries, growth, all that is required for flow, play, laughter, and overall fun.
We found that love compounds. Finding something new to love enhances our deep connections to what we already love. My love for spirituality deepened by love for my Rati. What is possible when our love is unlimited, when Kama shines through us?
This is why religion is important to me, because no one can truly know when Kama fully envelopes them. Our minds are too feeble. That’s why we use faith.
But with faith, comes magic.
(And I’ll be your Slytherin if you would be my Ravenclaw ;) )
If we embarked on this adventure, it would take little discipline to explore.
Our practices are exploration. We don’t have to practice. We get to.
We get to meet Kama with every practice we sow from our hearts, with the spells of laughter and love we’re starting to learn all too well.
1/26/25
So why Tantra?
Indra is the storm of storms,
giver of life, protector of said life.
Brahmanas realized the storm is
the perfect role model for kings.
That’s a whole book in of itself, but in short, here’s the storm’s (the real meteorological phenomenon’s) leadership strategy. This is the same core values our ancient kings practiced:
Do what’s needed, answer the call wherever and whenever “time” and “gravity” (or Krishna, wielder of the chakra of time) sends you.
Be what’s needed, whether it be in size or strength or something else, and command what’s needed (elemental power) to do what must be done.
Devote yourself to the wielder of the chakra of time, so much you are essentially nothing but a no-name servant, so that you can be everything and thus unstoppable.
This idea of “be nothing to be everything” is confusing but it’s shared by: Brahmanas, Ancient Kshatriyas, Osho, Taoists, Bruce Li, Samurais, Shaolin Warriors, Jiddu Krishnamurti. I’ll go into this naturally, maybe.
If that’s not Tantra, then I don’t know what is. This is the guidelines for most if not all practices in the Vedic umbrella such as Yoga, Bhakti, Buddhism, Taoism, even Stoicism in part. Tantra, for me, is a great beginning and advanced tradition as Osho pointed out.
Also, more excitingly the philosophy or lifestyle of Tantra was a requirement for ancient kings. And our advanced level was just the entrance exam for them.
Competency of the Tantra tradition is a necessity for leadership, competency and prowess.
And if the Bhramanas did not convince me, or if my past or my current experience could not eventually convince me, then seeing my wife in action always does.
Men do not know Tantra is being a king.
Women do know their ideal motherhood, fantasized in their mind, is Tantra.
And I’m the insane one…
So bringing this back to me…
I find it important to call out and ridicule my delusions, l
ike thinking there is any value in creating something 3 years earlier
relative to doing it the right way,
with full devotion and without an ounce of impatience.
As impatience can only come from the ego,
and never from virtue.
It’s just Vedic science.
I think this is the lesson Rama was trying to teach Sugriva…
when Sugriva was like, “Hey Rama,
you know you can smoke him,
I can know you can smoke him,
so why do you delay
saving your beloved
when she’s in dire need?
Apparently, it’s very tantric to not force time’s hand.
If I further my understanding I may learn it’s my delusion to think I have an ounce of control in the first place.
Last year the word was “foundation” and it resulted in:
A new house, a new religion, new values, our little soma, a binder full of notes to expand on.'
This year is purification, so worship to Shiva is a necessity.
I’m actively purifying (eliminating) my dreams as I keep finding reality to be better.
It makes me wonder what our contemporary “role models of success” actually accomplish as they single-mindedly pursuing their one “dream.”
Just one? Why on Bhumi’s Earth would you pursue only one dream if you know what was given to you?
But my insecurities are successfully distracting myself with goals, none of which were requested by my wife.
I make zero progress in growing and protecting my wife as a man who follows the Vedas should (naturally).
So, I can know my goals stem from insecurity and not for Kama, our god of love and devotion.
And if it’s not for Kamadeva, it’s not for Indradeva either…
I found Tantra to be a good symbol for this goal for simplicity’s sake. No, you will not learn Tantra from an expert. You’ll be learning from an enthusiast, who just happens to be radically and extremely sexy.
But yet, I feel like I am miles ahead from mainstream Tantra practioners. That could just be my ego and arrogance, but it’s not for me to decide is it?
If it were, I would definitely not be properly practicing Tantra, as my Rati pointed out.
Oh, the wisdom of my Somasachi…
And I’m excited to further my blind study of Jiddu Krishnamurti, Bruce Li, Osho, Satyakam, Miyamoto, Shaivism, and a few satellite practices, more than other philosophies or strategies I was introduced to.
I find it to take up more “rent” in my imagination than any other topics. I say blind because I will never want to speak to these philosophies and religions, because I am not masters of their thought. But my self-study, blind and masterless, has given me more fruit (more rasa as Satyakam shares) in one year than my collegues get in ten.
My practice this year is to get out of my own way and keep organizing my life so the unexpected can be turned into serendipity, not entropy.
For my Rati and I, this is easy as it applies to our marriage. And we expect it will be easy for the rest of our family and descendants.
But as this applies to the material world, I can improve…
To do less, with less of our precious attention, focus, and energy, means to better organize how we eat, clean, relax, learn, enjoy, work, procreate, finance, decorate, fornicate, party, host, grow. And if we do this properly, we will just end up with more responsibility.
It takes far more focus, influence and “work,” than the ignorant would believe.
Jiddu Krishnamurti said if one person has it takes to even attempt the no-mind strategy as it should be done (a principle of Tantra), he can die happy, his work being done.
Bruce Li began, recorded it, created a new martial arts and digital media genre like Stan Lee did superheroes. Bruce Li claimed he was just getting started with the “no-path” path before he died tragically too young.
I’m hoping, no, I will ensure this year my effort is not pathetic…
I believe if I share my journey, people will actually get religion pragmatically. And also, at the same time, find the lessons in Tantra adaptable to society’s most challenging goal.
And if I can, I may be able to get away with using your attention to improve my writing, influence and “provider-ability”.
This year, I focus on karma as it should be done, meditation as it should be done, bhakti as it should be done, and focus on “purifying” as the Bhramanas imagine (well if a toddler attempted it relative to them). This is Greg McKeown’s essentialism but on a whole new level.
Why? Magic.
These principles of growth will be universal for anyone in any field, professional or personal.
But it will also help you understand spirituality and the world in a new way. The real way. Not because it’s Tantra, but because this is the beginning of true leadership that our Indradeva, the protector of life, built for us.
2/2/25
[Lyrics to the song I’m listening to:
“When two become one, that’s when I run
But this time I’m going to stay
I can feel my body blur into yours
I can feel the colors start to fuse”
-KREAM, Marlo Rex
When I take the leap, I anticipate feeling this way]
The trouble is the best moves, techniques, or frameworks are hidden because they are unpopular. They don’t get likes, not even 2K or 20K years ago.
But the inner child that drives such big moves wants attention.
I want the attention and the validation. The compliments the “wow you’re so impressive.” At least in this fantasy where I’m actually being listened to, hah!
It kills me that apparently, my wife alone is not enough. Why should I need any more? Indradeva, Shiva, Kama, they’re all very upset about it. It shows how much I have to go.
If you practice spirituality and Sanatan Dharma as it was meant to be, no one is supposed to know what you do or how well you do it. Not even your wife. With no confession of “this is what I did for you,” not even on your deathbed. And it’s so hard. How did they do it?
For the path that I am looking to subscribe to, to share my journey is a crutch. I want to say it is to help others, but Truth is central to our philosophy.
But maybe, that is why it can be valuable to you.
I won’t sound like the others because…
I don’t care for your money. Not for this.
My hope is this will be a studying tool for me, like the valedictorian’s notebook they always carried around. It was definitely the notebook, and not the work ethic, obviously.
How deluded and crazy it is to formalize my own study. I’m creating my own post-grad curriculum and today is the commencement ceremony.
This course, study, path, tradition, will start around Tantra.
Osho once said, to which I agree, that Tantra is the most effective tradition for the beginning and end steps for enlightenment. More rigid styles like yoga or buddhism may be more effective in the middle.
(So you know of my delusion,
I was about to type Osho believed…
and I felt like the man, already dead, came to me and said,
with his weird hand motions and pauses,
“I do not believe anything!
I have no mind! You must lose yours!”
I stopped listening when he began shouting
“bliss!” So I changed it to “Osho once said”
and he’s much happier.
This may be Tantra…)
Maybe this imaginary course of mine, where I am the student and teacher in a school with a student enrollment of 1, is to explore spirituality as it was designed. But for today, tomorrow and all days after. And know it well enough to explain it in Plain English. Hence the notebook.
(As you know, this was all handwritten. Sorry handscribbled?)
Everyone talks about spirituality but no one can speak to what it was designed for in the first place or even when the idea was first brought into this world. No one can speak to who created the idea, how it changed, who changed it and why, etc. I cannot either, yet, but at least I know it’s important to our practice today.
I hope some may agree one day…
And due to that, I know at least a little and unfortunately, that is more than 99.9% of “spiritualists” out there.
Why?
Because to really understand spirituality, the way Bhramanas, the fathers and pioneers of our idea of spirituality, you need to understand history, geographical power dynamics (think politics of the Pangea-like land, or military tactics of the ancient Silk Road), psychology, economics, psychology, neurochemistry, physics and much more.
Only someone who has no real goal in life and too much time can randomly know topics from so many different domains (enough to pass an undergraduate intro course).
So, perfect for me.
As I write this, I try my hardest to disprove that this may be the reason I may know more than others. It would be too convenient for me, no?
Too convenient for someone who spends his time escaping in books, trying to experiment things for fun instead of actually pursuing my goals.
But it gave me such a unique perspective and journey that I hope to share thoroughly.
I later learned it was well-known that those that have goals and ambition, like being a successful scholar, king or merchant, will have their focus too narrow to understand that which is not material in nature.
This is because this narrow focus is great for a goal, but terrible for love, the core idea behind spirituality.
And you might be thinking, well isn’t love just having the goal of having a happy relationship?
The answer is no.
So everyone who studies, not as a driven seeker, but out of organic curiosity will come to the same conclusions. The following ideas that we know today are a mockery of what they are meant to be such as enlightenment, spirituality, religion, love, or God.
We see the same happening to science today. What you see on social media, in best-selling books, podcasts, news media, is not science.
I know this, because if it was, you would be Albert Einstein in your understanding of the sciences compared to me, as you follow “the studies” and I do not.
So, Tantra is one of those topics that only a few truly understand. I would like to emphasize my request to not mistakenly take me for one of them. But at least I can tell you it is definitely not a way of doing things like Tantric-Yoga or Tantric-Sex.
Tantra is a philosophy, religion, protocol, lifestyle, value system.
If someone were to practice it correctly, you should not be able to tell that they’re life is completely, and irrevocably, different from yours.
It’s a complete upheaval of every thought, every cell in my body, every instinct.
If done correctly, this writing should be the last words of a Ravi that once was.
(5/12/25 - There’s a very interesting story about this…I wonder if anyone will ask…)
All then will Hail Magicwalla. Well, after Vishnu, Indra, and every celestial… We might have to circle around and appease the Nagas, Pitris and possibly the Prajapatis, Daityas and Gandharvas. But then, it will be me! In all my wizarding glory!
So here’s the end goal that upon reaching, I will learn is just the first milestone (yay!):
I should have zero goals, yet be more successful everyday
I should be using love instead of discipline
I should put everyone’s needs before my own and make it work
I should have zero thoughts
And zero ailments
I should stop saying “I” in my first my writing, then my verbal language, then my thoughts
No complaining, arguing, excuses, or expectations, even when those around me tell me I could and should.
Why? Because when I make an inch of progress on the skills above, I enter a completely new world. Such that if I’m describing my life, it will sound like a fantasy to me even two years ago.
Things that are supposed to be impossible today like:
My Rati and I don’t fight. We don’t even argue.
I work on my own time and own expectations.
Around me, laughing is a constant.
Creativity isn’t luck in my family.
When I look at a flower or a beautiful organism, I always see something you don’t. Something so much more. So do my wife and the loved ones around me.
My spouse and I can be ourselves at every point of our lives - no suffocation, bondage, expectations, guilt, emotional and verbal violence.
And I didn’t even begin to get started on this path.
Typing up words do not count.
Unfortunately for you, the “beginning” of my path does not correlate to the most optimal place to begin to learn Tantra.
For example, I don’t think you can really understand the reasoning behind the no-goal mindset behind Tantra, if you do not understand statistics and probability theory. You can trust, but you won’t get it.
It was my understanding of electricity, the physics behind the nature of electrons (heavily influenced by Nikola Tesla, a student of the Vedic sciences) to understand Dharma and the whole “we are not the doer” lesson.
But hopefully I bring it up as my path takes me there organically. I will need to touch on and expand my understanding of every science I know if I want to do this correctly. If it’s in my head, I have to write about it.
For example, I will eventually need to share how important the physics concept of torque is to our digestive systems and sexual health and potency. If not, it will be in my head and in my way. Oh the delusions…
But here’s my start or my current. Obviously, I’m going to focus on these “skills” because I know that there are my weaknesses so there is an inherent bias.
It’s not that I want the results, but more so that I want to be the person in which those results are automatic.
This is how Bhramanas, or kings, more or less saw prosperity. Wealth was described by one’s ability to produce wealth, not how much wealth was accumulated.
Think profitability vs. cash balance.
This is a crucial distinction that I will forget everyday, because of the work cut out for me in my training and practice.
Financially, technically, I’m hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and don’t have the income to begin paying it off.
Regarding my health, my physique is that of a homeless glutton.
Regarding my home, for my goals, is passable, but not a refuge yet
Regarding how I care for my family, I could be putting more work into the relationships of my parents and extended family, as if I know how to love someone. Spouse and kids, I think I have what I need to grow organically.
Emotionally speaking, my heart-mind is a shit-show from my neglect. I get angry, hurt, scared when it's entirely unnecessary and inorganic and I’m making a mess of what should be beautiful and virtuously prolific.
Intellectually speaking, my narcissism would say lightyears ahead of the norm, but lightyears behind my mental programming. No control, no center, no healthy purification systems.
This is why my path is difficult for me. It’s not as easy as saying let’s make a goal and get it done.
It would feel like my solution would not be stable, sustainable and customized for me.
I would feel like focusing on a goal & time frame would blind me to a better goal or approach when it does arise, or to know if it’s no longer the right goal anymore, or to opportunities for anything else.
For me it is not that goals mean less freedom for what I truly want to do.
For me, what society calls freedom is bondage and what society considered bondage, I consider freedom.
But it’s like this…
I know people who have a goals to run 23 miles…
But they can’t hop without looking like a fragile marionette. They cannot sit correctly. Stand correctly. Breathe correctly. Manage their anxiety. Get off their pills. They don’t know how to lift or sprint safely.
And for what?
A friend told me “so I can have something to feel proud of myself for.”
See, for me, the trade off does not make sense. I’d rather be the opposite.
Brahmanas believed the only reason it is not just a matter of time for you to have everything you ever wanted and needed, is because you did something wrong early on that messed up your perspective. A mistake you made, most likely unknowingly, made your perspective too biased from stress, fear and addiction to think clearly enough to manifest it organically.
So, their strategy is to focus on that perspective, (what someone would call the roots) and not band-aid solutions (what someone would call the leaves). This writing will expose me pulling out the roots of the weeds of my delusions.
But it will also tell you what influencers mean when they’re so proud to say “fam, you need to look at the roots” without telling you anything else…
Today’s contemporary thinking: Running 23 miles is hard so I should put in as much effort and time needed to achieve it.
Brahmanas thinking: (a reduction) Why would you have to run 23 miles in the first place, we have cars. If you moved as much as you should have from the start and developed a good work ethic because of your values and love for life, it would not have been hard enough to be a prideful feat in the first place.
For Bhramanas, what is keeping me from my goals is my own wrong thought patterns, to which I agree, and it boils down to simply this: I have too much main character energy.
I say this as a black-and-white, blanket statement.
You can’t argue, it’s my life not yours. Shoo go away.
I finally convinced my Rati that if she has a headache, it is my fault for having too much main character energy. Get it? She never bothers me, they never anger me. I get bothered and I get angered.
My anger, need for attention and validation, my expectations, my false fantasies…
that’s what is in the way, not discipline.
And the vision I’m trying to build with this main-character energy is tainted
with such a bias; so much so that if I didn’t have my ego…I would be like
“why was I even going for this in the first place?
This and that other thing are so much more rewarding!”
And if I were to “attack my goals” on impulse, I get validation but I skip all the above.
And now, some of these roots, faulty perspectives, are now stopping me from upgrading my creative capabilities and protecting my girls from the darkness society calls “virtue.”
Let’s talk about one of those salty roots, Wrath
Today, and the last 8-12 weeks, marked the fight against the Immortal Wrath. (only Vashista, one of the Saptarishis and royal Bhramana to Rama and Sita’s line, was able to defeat).
But at least I can give my anger a couple of hard slaps, or as my uncles would say…
a good ‘laffo’ or ‘phut-tahk’.
Anger is a misunderstood Immortal. Hanuman needed this Immortal to save Rama and Sita.
My laughs hide my anger. I was always so angry but never realized it until last year. My anger almost instantaneously revs my thinking mind enough to make it feel like distraction, anxiety, weakness.
But when I was younger, my anger would cut others deep. I would lash out as a defense, sometimes against manipulative guilt trips, sometimes unwarranted, but it always ended with “my opponent” crying harder and walking away faster than I did.
I had to stop, but because humans, sometimes the more manipulative, coercive, very influential communication tactics continued. Traditional families, am I right?
I had to learn to never hit back or they may not get back up the same.
I knew there was a way to deal with this, but to lash out and justify it was not it. No one could convince me that it was “justified” behavior. And because I had this perplexing conundrum when I was an dumb-manchild, I think I began to confuse my anger for anxiety.
Like I knew I got angry when my father gave me a hard time about a poor decision, but I never knew I was subconsciously angry that he did not teach me what I erroneously thought he should have (which now I know is disgustingly wrong, but I was younger and even dumber).
That anger translated to anxiety when I had to pick up their call.
It was the Ramayana that showed me that anger is not okay because it’s only human. No.
Anger is okay because if your mind is clear, it is the fire in your soul saying something needs to change for the sake of love, the love for all, for Dharma itself.
And it is on us to know what that one right move to put your anger to use is.
This is why Hanuman reveled at holding in his anger, waiting to unleash it
whenever Rama gave him the green light (or go-ahead).
I wonder if I can be like Hanuman and say
“I know what this roaring fire of anger is meant to be directed into,
and I will grit my teeth until the time is right.
If I’m not 100% of my next move,
as if it’s God telling me, then
I must look to forgiveness or another means of release.
(Though I find natural release is easy
when dealing with the Instant Pot,
not so much for Anger).
Rama did the same. Lakshmana was sitting with Rama on the beach, asking Rama,
“Bro are you not angry? Ravana took your girl. You’re Rama. He’s Ravana. Why are you sitting here?”
Rama answered “Because time and destiny” and Lakshmana shut his mouth. I did too.
If I need to release it, it must be in the water or sound. Because into water means into the entire cosmos. Because drops of water is part of all of water, you see? And you can’t carve out a piece of this cosmos without finding traces of water in it.
Water is also where life energy and evolutionary energy resides.
Can my anger breathe life into what needs to be created?
If not, can I release my anger into the air, into sound, where one can find God, if nowhere else.
Can I minimize the loops of anger -> destiny. No one likes too long of a lag…
Or will I break down and find my Somasachi and vent and complain.
And let this anger lead me and my Rati
deeper into the hands of a more terrifying Immortal, Desire.
Well, let’s see..
Some, more, unadulterated words
[She taught me to cry heart wide open, a purer form of love.]
I’m the kind of man that raises his voice to his mother and that makes me a Rakshasa, a demon, a walker of the night.
Literally, in opposition of everything I want to be. So I have some work to do. But it’s not easy, yeah?
Life is peaches and rainbows when you get to pretend to be a hero, to put a mask to cover up the darkness you cannot admit to yourself.
Knowing how evil we are ourselves will cripple you. But the point is to learn to walk better afterwards, not to pretend your hands are clean so you can keep walking in your own way.
Everyone admits they have dirt on their hands when the laundry airs, but it seems as though the dirt disappears when they start pointing fingers.
And it’s why I get angry. Why I’m so angry. Because I still point. Enough to to drip mud.
And why is that so unacceptable to me, this weakness?
That is also something that angers me. Why do I blame myself when I should rejoice.
It’s so hard...
Everyone gets to choose verbal, emotional or physical violence, and say…
“Oh, it’s only human to fight with your spouse and
indirectly traumatize your children.” I don’t.
And worse, my loved ones don’t.
And I can’t seem to change that.
We have to dig filthy for the gems everyone ignores.
Because if not for us, then who?
I’m stripped naked in a masquerade party because God told me I don’t get to be a Rakshasa anymore.
And I sit here and I sulk over it.
It’s all just my ego. That’s why Tantra.
Because with insight..
you learn that the you
that you know
is pure evil,
and that the you
you don’t know,
is God.
The me that’s not me,
the Shiva, doesn’t spend time raging,
he prepares or transforms organically,
without any thought,
let alone one to spare time complaining
on something God-given.
So, onwards for the Mad Paladin…
1/26/25
This is the year of Tantra.
It’s time that I get serious in my studies with Indradeva.
Indra was a symbol for kings from 5M years ago up to 500 B.C., right up until he was ignored because it was impossible to be self-centered and worship him at the same time.
With technology, of any kind, even the most ancient, always comes main character energy. Yuval Noah Harari will tell you this.
The qualities of kings that were considered virtuous for kings directly aligned with how well someone with those qualities was able to feed their people and/or have them thrive.
In other words, the virtue of listening to your father and mother was not because it is too convenient for old white men who wrote down our beliefs, as I once thought.
It was because kings that listened to their fathers and mothers were able to maintain a more stable kingdom to protect from invaders and distribute scarce resources, especially during tough times.
So how can we begin thinking about how Bhramanas (the old geysers mentioned above ) thought about the virtuous qualities that the most successful kings and kingdoms had?
It was not because they performed cluster analytics, which they did for astronomy.
It was because of one almost laughable simple idea: Rain.
Brahmanas had the directions to call a storm, but only kings with a certain mindset could ring the bell. It took more “investment” than we can possibly fathom, but possible for kings that had certain qualities, goals and philosophies.
It took so much investment, that it took generations to invest enough time, energy, focus, manpower, charity, political power, money and food to call rain or produce sustainable weather patterns that optimize agriculture and ecosystems.
Everything about Sanatan Dharma comes back to rain. Whether it’s Jainism, Buddhism or Vaishnavism, our roots come from our devotion to rain, our devotion to the king of rain, the storm of storms, the father of electricity and the protector of life - Indra.
Krishna makes this very clear in the Bhagvad Gita. It was skipped over because the more popular version of Bhagvad Gita translations are from a tradition that does not focus on leadership, which is not necessarily a fault.
However, we cannot miss this.
This is important because our roots are in the Vedas and the Vedas were written for kings to feed their people, for leadership.
And that’s what missing in our practice of spirituality, is the training of how to do it so you have love, power, and most of all, can bring up the people around you.
Every step of growth for me has been around leadership. My belief is that it’s the same for others, but my path felt more direct, obvious and focused.
Still, I’d ask yourself where does your competency to “lead” “others” fall on your wishlist relative to “success” or happiness?”
For me, they’re not different, there is a 100% overlap.
I still cannot ignore that everything I have, every power, relationship, skill, kernel of random fact, comes from Indra showing me how to be a leader. A leader as a husband, father, son, employee, community member, neighbor, friend, and more.
I wonder if that’s the same for you.
If it is, like me, Indradeva is your dude.
He comes to check up on us. He’s the one creating thunder if you ever heard it before.
That storm that will never leave this planet. And even in 2025, Indra, the storm, the bringer or rain, has given us everything we possibly could conceptualize as humans.
Many know of this. They looked up and saw what they could learn from it. Which is insanely incredible. Everytime I looked up, the raindrops got in my eye. You know you looked too…
They learned how to be kings. How to lead with love. To bring others up. To protect. To grow. The storm thunders out of love, out of duty of time and to mother Earth. It will always come when called. The storm teaches us the best way to lead is with selfless love and always will be. The storm can guide us to even enlightenment. Indra proves it every day with just his lightning.
It’s why Indra was named more than Shiva in Valmiki’s Ramayana. It’s why Arjuna was the reincarnation of Indra, not even of Vishnu himself.
I’m sorry Krishna. No one knew that the entire Mahabharata was so we can one day we can look up to storms for worship. We are completely blind. I hope these words can show me the way to repent for such tragedy.
But we can still try for Indradeva, protector of the nectar of life. He is the only reason man can never wipe away life from Earth no matter how hard we try to corrupt Bhumi.
To say that my work is a dedication to Indra would be an overestimation of my faith and intelligence and even possibly an insult.
But these words are my steps to get there…
This ends with saying that as I explore ideas of Sanatan Dharma, spirituality, you can know where I’m coming from. To be the best leader I can so I can fill my proximal world with love and magic.
I also write this because you will never find what qualities the Bhramanas obsessed over, not in the way ancient kings of the planet practiced them. I will probably complain as to why. But if you want to know what they truly thought, these posts may be for you.
I will explore a lot of ideas but it starts and ends with Indradeva for me.
Not Hinduism, Sanatan Dharma, or even spirituality.
Only with Indra can I reach a state of real love,
Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Love,
Osho’s love.
Satyakam’s Love,
Shakespeare's love,
Valmiki’s love
Veda Vyasa’s love
Krishna Dwaipayana’s love.
The love that
spontaneously and divinely
creates and connects light
as if weaving souls together.
