Dwapara Yuga: Behind the many, one

As any student of traditional martial arts knows, behind the exotic Chinese, Thai, Brazilian vocabulary, one finds the same 'kick', 'punch', 'throw' and greater or lesser vocabularies of physically possible movements and counter movements.

Similarly, in any profession behind the technical jargon and obfuscation are hidden a small number of defining principles the knowledge of which drives fee rates. Senior corporate management are often drawn from consulting or accounting companies whose partners have seen enough variants in different companies to discern the patterns and apply them for themselves e.g. layoff employees, increase productivity short term, raise stock prices, cash out options and move on, or another such as price, quality, timeliness, pick any two!

In the book Civilization One: The World Is Not as You Thought It Was, the authors show that ancient units of length, weight and time (beginning with stone circles in Britain) were derived from astronomical data illustrating a level of knowledge only recently reached by ourselves. Further, they show that our modern Imperial and indeed metric systems have the same bases: new expressions of astronomical constants.

In Kriya Yoga, with Babaji and Lahiri Mahasaya, we have an ancient technique linking the breath to evolution in a spiritual sense, a constant of our bodies and this world, which recurs throughout history and geography, changing only its names and outer forms from Christianity to Buddhism to Islam and beyond. Seven lampstands or seven energy centers, spirit or breath, once the formula is known the names of the variables are of no consequence.

This esoteric constancy is the mirror of the exoteric constant of one God worshipped in many forms and ceremonies, often a reflection of the worshippers: an angry God for the angry, a compassionate one for the compassionate and a golden opportunity for the more Machiavelian of priestly classes to achieve dominance. As Osho once observed, where there are days of carnival and celebration, the background must be one of limitation and oppression. Priestly classes today have forms reflecting 'secular religions' of consumerism, communism, fascism, nationalism, the fading expressions of Kali Yuga thought forms, each exploiting the many for the benefit of a few mafia-family-like instigators.

As the wheel of Dwapara ascends such truths become more and more evident to greater and greater numbers of people transforming and simplifying our relations with one another.

For example, 20 years ago, corporate data centers outstripped anything in the consumer space. Today, the average consumer harnesses such powerful tools from Satellite TV, to an iPhone, to Google, to TurboTax that corporate IT appears archaic and unresponsive. This one generation move has caught many corporations and governments out as they scramble to appear relevant in a world that will no longer tolerate their layers of gatekeepers and self-serving secrecy.