Tonight is the Full Moon of April 2021.
I joined on line to a philosophical/spiritual discussion by a leading Guru from South India. Normally his talks are entertaining but this time, there was a seriousness about it, as if he is taking a turn towards spirituality and leaving behind trivializing important concepts in an entertainment oriented fashion.
He started his discussion at around 7 pm. He was talking about the different full moons, in March April May June and July, five of them and explaining the significance of each one of them
The last month was the announcement of the birth of Spring, this one is Chaitra, in which he explains one feels the coolness of the moon's beams, May is Vaishaka which is referenced to Buddha and then followed by Women's power Full Moon.
Moon has much cultural connotations, and in indigenous cultures it is associated with female cyclic hormonal flows.
This Guru being from India could not help bring the current situation there and of course he neither blames or searches for an aetiology or resolution, except to say , couched in philosophical terms, the individual's role in collective responsibility.
I went out side the house and the moon was shining in its greatest glory.
The last forty five minutes of the talk was much palatable for my sensitivities and also included a ritual in breathing in the moonbeams.
I repeated the BP readings 45 minutes from the above.
the change is impressive, 16 mm Hg down Systolic BP and 10 mm Hg in Diastolic BP. I cannot think of many medications commonly used to treat hypertensive patients to be so effective!
The effect on my BP was almost like what i experience after Vipassana meditation for about 30 minutes.
If you have BP in the range of 130/80, I recommend that you listen to people who are much more in balance with their thinking, they do not have to be GURUs but they have to be some special human beings with unique individual thinking about the rationality of the connection of self with the universe.
Good Luck..
