Keepers of the Kalachakra

by Ashwin Sanghi

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‘We refer to quantum physics as science and Vedanta as philosophy, but they are one and the same. From Aristotle all the way to the nineteenth century, the term “natural philosophy” was used instead of science. There was a reason for it. A good scientist has to be a philosopher and a good philosopher must also be a scientist.’

I have no evidence, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.’

‘The 10th of January 5114 BCE, at 12:30 p.m.,’ declared Brahmananda.

‘Mythology is a set of lies that people rarely believe,’ Brahmananda said and paused. ‘And history?’ ‘A set of lies that people have agreed to believe.’

‘Reality cannot be explained by words, because it lies beyond the realms of the senses and the intellect,’ said the monk. ‘It can only be intuitively experienced. When the rational mind is quietened, the intuitive mind awakes.’

The Upanishads talk of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam—the notion that the world is one family. It is the idea that everyone and everything are related. Distinctions and separations are false.’

‘Religious conflict is a constant across the ages,’ said Sharma. ‘When Pakistan was created in 1947, Hindus were 15 per cent of the population but were less than 2 per cent by 1998. In Bangladesh of 1931, Hindus were around 30 per cent of the population but are less than 10 per cent today.’

love was not about finding someone you could live with. Rather, it was about finding someone you couldn’t live without.

Yojananam sahastra dwe dwe shate dwe cha yojane aken nimishardhena krammana namostute. With deep respect, I bow to the sun that travels 2,202 yojanas in half a nimesha.

history is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren’t there. So where lies the ultimate truth?

brat stood for ‘Born Raised And Transferred’.

Karl Marx said that religion is the opium of the people.

‘The lowest level of the palace represents the body. The body mandala features twelve large lotus flowers, each having twenty-eight petals. These represent the twelve months of twenty-eight lunar days each. In that sense, the Kalachakra is a representation of both space and time.