Dwapara Yuga - The long run

In 1054, a supernova was visible in the sky day and night for almost 2 years forming what is now known as the Crab Nebula. Its passing was noted by ancient Chinese astronomers and also by Native Americans in what is today New Mexico.

No recorded trace of the event remains in Europe, although that may be from a long tradition of ascribing (or suppressing) earthly significance to astronomical events, whether the Star of David signaling Christ's birth or Halley's comet appearing around the time of the Norman Conquest (as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry).

As we progress more and more into Dwapara Yuga, the evanescence of all earthly events becomes clearer to ever larger numbers of people beyond tiny monastic elites.

Beyond the founding and later dissolution of families, schools, religions, movements, companies, cities and countries, only the cycles of the moon around the earth, the earth around the sun and the sun around its twin star, have any relative permanence.

When we think of the Maya, the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Druids or others, the astronomical insight designed into their architecture underlines the relative immaturity of our knowledge, not least because we ourselves have only very recently become able to notice it.

Halley identified the nature of his eponymous comet in 1705, Dwapara 5 and the Crab Neblua, the remains of the event seen in 1054 were not observed in the West until 1731, Dwapara 31, with detailed explanations coming around the 1960s, Dwapara 260s. In the long run, meditation and its implicit acceleration of 'internal Yugas' would seem to be the best investment of time.

OZYMANDIAS

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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The founder of salesforce.com, a Silicon Valley darling, credits the foundation of the company and the philanthropic elements within it, in part, to the influence of the Dalai Lama, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Mata Amritanandamayi in his 2009 book underlining the possibility of business success without a completely egotistical outlook.