Kolkata - a flower path

photos taken by Rahual Dhankani

a meditation in red in Kolkata

OH Calcutta!

your screeching crows, howling hounds, wailing cats, moaning babies-

all the restless horns rise in unison like a tidal wave

your shouting selves bury market songs

and then the tinkering -

each revving engine and roaring bus that passes 

sends my heart beating faster to catch yours.

cacophonous being dressed in red laughter with a scarf lingering in the labyrinth of the path

a rusted faucet drips water, filling in the cracks of a dusty sidewalk like mystical tributaries in a mandala

the matted grey locks of the beggar wed the dangling malas of marigolds

the crossed legs of the vegetable seller mirror the dutiful hands of the pan wallah

the children share snacks on the stoop of the tailor's shop

while the stitching of the sewing machine orchestrates

the colorful scraps on the floor 

the frame of dark eyes of bus riders stare out across train tracks to infinity

while bricks crumble where the pissing man hides

in this thick smog of workday woes

the crackle of the trash pyres line the roadside

the bells of the evening's aarti awaken mind's eyes

the blinking lights of the fancier interior of an autorickshaw

illuminates the face of the handicap man protesting for equality

the curd sweets beckon

and the smiling beauty beams radiance from within the blur of yellow cabs

the used clothes salesman contemplates purple flowered undies

the bathing men

the painted lori

the collage of all the new and old, 

here and now

the 2 names for the same town

the collapsing colonial structures

the stasis to modernize 

this city

this life

this art that requires participation

OH Kolkata!

built from the inside out 

has my heart beating faster to catch yours.

a view from a taxi KOLKATA 2/22/10

LUNAR LOVE

 To accept the 13 moon calendar is a positive, concrete act demonstrating the move from fear to love, from chaos to harmony, from war to peace. The end of time is the end of the old time of violence and separation encoded in an irregular and chaotic calendar. The New Time of Peace and harmony emerges as light embedded in a perpetual calendar that is a reflection of Eternity. For more than 150 years this change has been deliberated. Now the cycle is closing. 

The closing of the cycle means the reintegration of the human consciousness into the solar ring through the application of the correct standard of measure. Whether humans are aware of it or not the Earth goes around the sun and it makes a solar ring with each orbit. With the accurate measure of the 13 moons each with 28 days the solar ring can be made conscious. If we make this simple adjustment of following the Thirteen Moon calendar, then in one year our consciousness will bring the orbital solar frequencies into proper alignment with the human mind. This precipitates heightened awareness or consciousness that has not previously been known. 

When history began in Babylonia, Sumeria and the Middle East it forfeited knowledge of the solar ring for a focus ion the synodic lunar calendar which has nothing to do with the solar ring. When the conquest of the New World happened, the Babylonians destroyed the knowledge of the calendar which contained knowledge of the solar orbit. By destroying this knowledge they also destroyed the basis of cosmic perceptions - this is the root of the calendar change and the closing of the cycle. Keep in mind that the destruction of Mayan time knowledge was completed by a Vatican calendar reform in 1582 which gave us the (Gregorian) calendar we use today. 

The 13 Moon/28-day calendar is the salvation of planet Earth because it is a cosmic mechanism that creates a frequency which matches the solar frequency. Attuning to this solar frequency will result in an amping of consciousness - this is the evolutionary trip switch. 

"Who owns your time owns your mind. Change your time and you change your mind. Change your mind and you change your world."

RIO

shot in Lencois at the river, Brazil