My Spiritual Awakening

 DWARKA Where God Stood at the Shore and Let Go Sapta Puri 7/7 In 1983, the Archaeological Survey of India sent divers into the sea off the coast of Dwarka. What they found changed the conversation permanently. Walls. Columns. Foundations. The geometric remains of a planned city lying on the ocean floor seventy feet below the surface. Carbon dated. Measured. Documented. Peer reviewed. A submerged city. Off the coast of the place the Mahabharata called Dwaraka. Exactly where the texts said it would be. The mythic and the archaeological pressed against each other in a way that left very little room for comfortable dismissal. This was not a story. This was a place. And it is gone. Dwarka sits at the westernmost tip of the Saurashtra peninsula in what is today Gujarat. Where the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Kutch and the Gulf of Khambhat meet. The land ends here. In every direction water. As if the subcontinent itself ran out of things to say and simply stopped. Its name  Dwarka ...

 🕉️ SAMVATSARA SERIES — DAY 0 The Cosmic Clock Our Ancestors Left Us Long before clocks were invented, before calendars were printed, before apps reminded us of dates, our Rishis had already mapped time itself. Not just days. Not just months. They mapped entire years to the movement of the cosmos. And they gave each year a name, a personality, a spiritual forecast. This is the Samvatsara. What is a Samvatsara? Samvatsara (संवत्सर) is a Sanskrit word found in the Rigveda itself, one of the oldest words for "year" in all of human history. But it is not the year we know from the Gregorian calendar, which follows the Sun. A Samvatsara follows Brihaspati, the planet Jupiter, the Guru of the Gods. Jupiter takes approximately 12 years to travel through all 12 Rashis of the zodiac. Saturn takes approximately 30 years. Our Rishis asked a profound question, when do these two great cosmic giants return to the exact same position in the sky, together? The answer is every 60 years. So ou...