The Technology of Spirituality – by Bawa Khurshed Batliwala

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Summary

• Indians call geography Bhugol (gol meaning round).
• Earth is called Jagat meaning that which moves.
• Antares was called the biggest and brightest. These people knew this 5 to 7 thousands of years ago.
• A dual star system called Arundhati and Vasishta (Mizar and Alcor) was looked at by couples getting married. What is special about these two is that they orbit around each other instead of just one orbiting around another which is more common.
• Talks about rust proof iron pillars. India only knew how to remove zinc for 4000 years. Instead of distilling normally they flipped the set up upside down so the heat was on top and ice at the bottom to cool the zinc so it doesn’t escape.
• Goes onto a shloka about Lord Krishna. Using the Katapayadi sankhya letters are replaced by numbers and that gives you the value of Pi (3.14………….)
• In Vasco Da Gama’s journal he went looking to ‘discover’ India. He would only sail keeping the coast in view. He met a Gujarati in the South African cape who had ships 10-12 times bigger than Vasco’s and Vasco had the biggest one in his fleet. He was escorted by 3 Indian ships to Goa.
• The reason Indians knew so much was because all the scientists were saints. They did meditation and meditated on planets, science, etc. It was destroyed by the British so that we’d be ashamed of our own country and traditions. They stopped us doing yoga and started us doing PT (personal training?). We need to get back to yoga and meditation.

The 3 Gunas

1. Tamas – helps you sleep. If it goes out of control you get lazy and lethargic. If it happens too much you get into procrastination. Which then goes into loss of interest and then it goes into depression. In US 44.3M people suffer from depression. Modern methods and drugs don’t work. So you’re violent to yourself.
2. Rajas – The ability to act. When rajas goes out of control you can’t sit and you’re restless. Then you get bombarded by thoughts. Follows with impatience and indecisiveness. Which goes into irritability then into anger and aggresion and then into violence. So you’re violent to the outside.
3. Sattva – this is when Rajas and Tamas are balanced. You are not bombarded by thoughts when you close your eyes. You feel cheerful and people around you feel cheerful. Your efforts bear fruit faster and easier than usual. Success and extreme good luck. You have to learn meditation to achieve this. So balance the other 2 gunas and then increase the Sattva is the formula for success.

• Narayan and Lakshmi are married. Narayan is knowledge and Lakshmi is wealth.
• Increase sattva exercise with the class for 20 minutes.
• For success you need 1) Domain expertise – doctors need to know body parts, etc, 2) Soft skills – how to handle stress, leadership, negotiation, etc. Studies show that 80+ percent in soft skills helped more than domain expertise but that is how you learn in school.

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