Thease are the notes from the workshop which had about pureland budhism in banglore fireflies.
This is a Buddhist religion which talks about amithabudha as a god like figure and believes worshipping him will give us the rebirth in Pureland. First, we have to see what is polyethnic and monoethnic religions. Monoethenic religions are the religion which believes in a single god also an evil so thereafter they are in a constant fight between good and bad all Abrahams religions are like this.
Lets see about polyethenic relegion, these are the religion which talks about different gods and different ideas as such. They don't define what is good and bad only says just assume that we are so good and approach life god realization will happen gradually nobody can't be so good and nobody can't be so bad.
Now come back to Pureland Buddhism Pureland Buddhism believe salvation is only possible after death. One thing is that there is no death only, and you are not going to get anything after death, everything is here and reveled. And believing in single god is the product of monoethenic religion which will not give anything apart from some blind followers.
I am concluding any religions which demand you to believe something extraordinary without using your common sense is nothing but a bad deal. Not only for you also to humanity.
Hinduism is a religion which took immorality as morality believes Brahman is the absolute and when he do Leela entire creation happen. Teaching that instead of following a dogma or religious practice give self inquiry constantly and try to answer the most famous question Of Ramana Maharshi "Who am I?"
Over a period of time christian missionaries and mohammadeyans killed almost all kinds of creativity possible by Hinduism. Resulted celibate gurus and monks (None of the Hindu monks were celibate all were married and had three or four wives with kids) all over the asrms in India and abroad.
Nataraja guru was the wisdom successor of Narayana guru, he founded a guru shishya Sampradaya called Narayana Gurukula his successor guru Nithya renamed it as an east west university of brahmavidya aiming to unite the wisdom from east and west resulted a series of gurukulas and ashrams on the both sides of kanakpura road Banglore.
Two of the gurukulas was having direct connection with Varkala which functions as the head of Narayana gurukulas all over the world. Gurukula (Died one)
This was previously located on the opposite side of the main gate of Ravishankar arm. This Gurukula is no more working its gone completely. Now we can see a school there.
Gurukula -2
I reached here when I was doing my second year of BE This spreads across ten acres of land and I met an Anglo Indian lady here she introduced herself as maa.... Always smiling and working with cows. She was the disciple of natraja guru also colleagues of guru Nithya. I happened to be her student for almost six years from now. When I am writing this she crossed her 70s with with kids and grand children.
I met an artist called sahadev over here this place is filled with a lot of his art work almost all buildings will tell one story of him. When I met him, he initiated me with very bad shoutings and happened to spend almost one year with him. Since then a good friend of mine.
Nataraja Gurukula.
This one was constructed by Nataraja guru deciple guru fready, he is an adventurous person with a lot of courage he got his samdhi here. Still we can have some adventurous experience in at this place.
Ram ram asrm.
One yogi named Vishwamithra ram ram he was the disciple of Nataraja guru after separating from guru, he started one asrm called Ram ram asrm on the top of a hill he was very fond of kids and he taken care of them his son Vinod along with his wife Saraswathy runs this asrm now. Still, they are taking care of kids along with some businesses which helps the asrm to sustain in its all glory.
Fireflies
This place is found by Sidharth as the matter of building a place which connects all cultures together and finding a way of eco-spirituality we could see the Seetha devi temple here. She is the daughter of mother earth. This place doesn't have any direct connection with gurukulas but this connected with it one way or another. This place too surrounded by marvelous arts of sahadev.
This is one of the very famous meditation retreat founded by Sree Sree Ravishankar. A corporate spiritual regeneration center offers variety of crash courses on yoga. One of the very best site seeing trip for those who like to enjoy an altered way of life style for a short period one of the interesting place to go.
An arm located on kanakapura road other than that of other arms here you can't find any kind of gurus. Based on the philosophy "Nature is the spiritual truth" Surrounded by a lot of artifacts from deep spiritual meaning to meaningless.
Most of you might be knowing the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurthy the one who groomed by any Bessant. He set up schools across the globe his philosophy is that the learning will only happen if you unlearn. A school which thinks about the way of philosophy.
