Akashic records

[old3bob]

 

"In Hindu philosophy, the Akashic Records represent a universal memory bank. Derived from the Sanskrit word akasha (meaning sky, space, or ether), these records are believed to store all events, actions, and thoughts of every soul that has ever existed".

 

Don't know much about this and less as far as how other religions or philosophies address it.  Per the quoted description above that is one very huge memory bank, and who has would access would seemingly have great purity and great need to do so...(for the keepers/guardians to allow it)

 

On a personal level I know that pure masters can access the memories of their students - memories that their students may have forgotten long ago although still stored somewhere in their mind.

Edited March 11 by old3bob

[Lairg]

It may be that the Cosmos is alive and that its experiences are stored in its light-body - until removed

 

 

[old3bob]

 

well the present "cosmos" is alive for the present and very long cosmic cycle, until it returns, but then starts all over again...(like the seasons)

Edited March 11 by old3bob

[Lairg]

4 hours ago, old3bob said:

the present "cosmos" is alive for the present and very long cosmic cycle, until it returns, but then starts all over again...(like the seasons)

 

Presumably there is a carry-over during the mahapralaya - otherwise there would be no progress

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pralaya

[old3bob]

 

well that sounds logical but Brahman is non-evolutionary and can not be added to or taken away from, thus progress does not apply to It (as the source of cosmic cycles) because if it could then It's regression or de-volution would also be possible. (as it is for things)

[Lairg]

43 minutes ago, old3bob said:

 Brahman is non-evolutionary and can not be added to or taken away from, thus progress does not apply to It

 

Why does Brahman bother if it can achieve nothing through manifested existence?

 

 

[old3bob]

 

thinking mind would like to pin Brahman down but it can not, for if it could "Brahman" would be a "thing". 

 

To borrow from Taoism's T.T.C. chap 43,  "Only nothing (or to me no-thing) can enter into no-space".

Edited March 12 by old3bob

[Lairg]

32 minutes ago, old3bob said:

"Brahman" would be a "thing". 

 

Does Brahman  interpenetrate all that exists?

 

Does that mean that every intelligence includes some aspect of Brahman?

 

 

[old3bob]

1 hour ago, Lairg said:

 

Does Brahman  interpenetrate all that exists?

 

Does that mean that every intelligence includes some aspect of Brahman?

 

 

"aspect" sounds like a key meaning

 

[Lairg]

By first stage enlightenment the initiate is sensitive to but not aware of the presence of Brahman

 

It seems that Brahman drives existence to provide structured experiences.

 

Who knows what experiences Brahman seeks?

 

 

 

 

 

[stirling]

14 hours ago, old3bob said:

well that sounds logical but Brahman is non-evolutionary and can not be added to or taken away from, thus progress does not apply to It (as the source of cosmic cycles) because if it could then It's regression or de-volution would also be possible. (as it is for things)

 

This in itself makes me doubt the existence of Akashic records, as much as I would LOVE to go revisit experiences I have previously had. If Brahman is non-evolutionary, it suggests to me that evolution itself a mistaken mental construction created from conflating thoughts about a "past"  projected "future" into an imagined story arc which doesn't really exist in this reality. 

 

Interesting little rabbit hole, and essay on Hinduism, Time and the writings of Bhartari, an early Hindu philosopher. According to Bhartari:

 

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"Time is the creative power of Brahman, and thus is responsible for the birth, death, and continuity of everything in the cosmos. Time is one, but when broken or limited into sequences appears as moments or actions. These segments of time are mentally categorized as seconds or minutes. Such limited segments of time are then mentally unified into day, week, month, and year. In the same fashion, notions of past, present, and future are developed. When time is thought of as action not yet completed, the notion of the present is established. An action that has been completed is time as past; and an action yet to be completed is time as future. All of ordinary life is sequenced by these three powers of time. Yet all the while, declares Bhartrhari, there is really no sequence at all. From the ultimate viewpoint all three powers of time are constantly present. Time is One." 

 

https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1206&context=jhcs#:~:text=Time is the creative power,categorized as seconds or minutes.

 

This makes complete sense to me, but I am no Hindu scholar - take it cum grano salis.

[old3bob]

1 hour ago, stirling said:

 

This in itself makes me doubt the existence of Akashic records, as much as I would LOVE to go revisit experiences I have previously had. If Brahman is non-evolutionary, it suggests to me that evolution itself a mistaken mental construction created from conflating thoughts about a "past"  projected "future" into an imagined story arc which doesn't really exist in this reality. 

 

Interesting little rabbit hole, and essay on Hinduism, Time and the writings of Bhartari, an early Hindu philosopher. According to Bhartari:

 

https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1206&context=jhcs#:~:text=Time is the creative power,categorized as seconds or minutes.

 

This makes complete sense to me, but I am no Hindu scholar - take it cum grano salis.

 

 

things take place (evolve or devolve) in times and spaces, no-thing is not caught up in that way...yet is simultaneously the source of things.  Suffering in Buddha Dharma could be called a thing - yes or no,  yet I'd say "Buddha Nature" could be said as not being caught up by or limited to Dharma(s).