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003 WHAT IS ETERNAL? WE , OR THE WORLD? OR THE UNIVERSE?

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The following is a poem in Telugu language spoken by 100 million people. It has rich literature of 1st Century CE origin or even earlier. But,written poetry is available , as at 2021, only from 10th Century A.d. The following is one poem composed by Yogi Vemana of 15th Century circa. Along with the Telugu script, the verse is repeated below in Romanscript. AaTa veladi. Meaning Dancing lass. (Name of the prosody meter of the verse. This Kandam verse's meter is very advanced with numeruus features). నీవు నిలిచియుండు నిఖిలంబు నిలువదు nIvu nilaci yunDu, nikhilambu niluvadu నిలిచియుండు నెండు నీరువలెను nilachi yundu enDU nIru valenu నీవు నిశ్చయంబు నిఖిలంబు మాయయౌ nIvu nischyambu, nikhilambu mAya yau విశ్వదాభిరామ వినర వేమ! viSvada abhi rAma ! vinura vEmA ! vemana satakam వేమన శతకం . Satakam means a hundred verses. 100 verses or Satakam can become a small A5 booklet of about 40 pages. But, Vemana did not write just 100 verses. About 2500 of Vemana's verses have
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002, Part 3 of 100 Essays of Musings on Covid19- Corona Virus, Yoga Vasishta

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Part 3 of 10 Essays series, of Musings on Covid19 -Corona. Continuation of:-- Part 1 is at: http://vivekanandayb.blogspot.com/search/label/284 Part 2 is at: http://hinduismreformsyb.blogspot.com/search/label/032 Karkati is a Demoness. In Yoga Vasishtha she is a benevolent demoness. Her form is ala a 'needle'. She is linked to an epidemic called VishUci, which Yoga Vasishtha's Telugu language have interpreted as Cholera. Karkati, to satiate her hunger , was moving in Himalayas, searching for food. Karkati came across a king and his minister . Being a wise demoness, she did not directly venture into devoring them. She placed before them a set of ten questions about wisdom. The king and his minister answered them with equal wisdom . After the king 's minister answered the questions asked by Karkati satisfactorily , she and the King & his minister develop friendship. After some mutual praise , Karkati narrates her food needs , food habits and preferenc
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1 Boiled rice or lime immaterial, but we shall eat rice only

Thank U friend.  I do not believe in the existence of spirit.  The feeling of 'I', 'My' are born out of sanga (attachment) with the body.  The idea of 'sAkshIbhUtam' (we witness what we do, thinking that this body is not 'I', has been espoused by St. Thyagaraja in his kIrtana 'manasu svAdhInamain' in rAga SankarAbharaNam,  which you can have a look at in any Carnatic music book or any Carnatic music site.  This is simpler than kapila's SAnkhya philosophy which is more enamoured with numbers such as  panca bhUtams, pancha tanmAtras, mano buddhyahankAra cittams, most of which represent metaphysical imaginations.  Whether we like it or not, the truth remains, that we are the body, and we are bound to take care of it giving food, bath, titillations and so on.  At the same-time, tintinnabulations should ring within us continuously to remind us that we as a body are nearly-non-existent when viewed in a time frame of infinity.  This simultaneous du
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