Showing posts with label systemization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label systemization. Show all posts

Monday, June 27, 2011

The Celestial Mandala of Crystal Maitreya

While the buzz of the day is focused on inbound crystal energy and transmutation of human nature, I've unfolded the Celestial Mandala of Crystal Maitreya for the systematic cultivation of luminosity, ascending to the crown of awareness. The Sanskrit word "Maitreya" means "Benevolent", and the word "Buddha" means "Awakened-One". Much like the Sun and Moon in our sky, such concepts are universal and unbound by the particulars of faith and culture. The carrying intention is to illustrate the dance of the universals of awareness, independent of narrow and superstitious belief.


If you can count to 16 and grasp the binary principle (ON/OFF = 1/0), you can contemplate on the celestial appearances of Crystal Maitreya in a cardinal wheel of sixteen permutations over A) Primal Reality, B) Causal Worlds, and C) Phenomenal Worlds. This is the stuff of legends; and these are the spheres of archetypal awareness explored by sages and saints since the days of the Sun and Moon over Earth under Heaven. The patterns of nature are the source and the unifier of beliefs; therefore, seek to uncover natural and straight human truths in this elementary mandala.


Whatever your particular religious or scientific symbols may be, we all live in a world shaped (or created) by an interplay of [+] Prime Energy / Awareness and [-] Root Matrix / Patterns. When active and luminous [+] Dynamis (Yang) meets supporting and [-] Neutralis (Yin) in a self-sustaining [±] Balance Intermix in the 2^1 = [2x] Primal Reality, the multiplying 2^2 = [4x] Causal Worlds and 2^3 = [8x] Phenomenal Worlds come into being. These domains of awareness are a repository of patterns revealing the foundational unity in mysticism, spirituality and religion.


The path leading away from chaos and conflict is a path of sharing and universalization. Conflicts are a particular world of languages, while awakening is the universal stuff of experience. When pure awareness shines on the canvas of prime patterns, the world transforms from a fragmented and unpredictable field of anarchy into a symmetric display of complementary patterns. As all composites in the world follow the same elementary laws of physics, and as inner awareness and the phenomenal world are inherently married, the wisdom embedded in patterns is versatile and universal.

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I've given 16 illustrative names to the 16 archetypes, a play of characters with three anagram series on three levels. The peak of the physical and phenomenal realm is "Maitreya Sananda". Again, "Maitreya" means "Benevolent", and "Sananda" means "with Son". These are the three layers of descending luminosity — A) Primal Reality: [+] Maitreya, "Benevolent"; B) Causal Worlds: [++] Maitreya Buddha, "Benevolent Enlightenment"; and C) Phenomenal Worlds: [+++] Maitreya Sananda, "Son of Benevolent".


Then, in order of derivative emergence — [+] Maitreya is Benevolence, [++] Maitreya Buddha is the Awakening of Benevolence, and [+++] Maitreya Sananda is the Beloved Child of Benevolence. Maitreya — "Pure Awareness", "Luminous Energy", "God Is Balance", "Conscious Spirit": Harmonize your parallel perspectives; seek the unifying pattern in the echoes of the shadow; and immerse yourself in the luminous wisdom of primal energy!

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≡ Intellect [Sphere of Awareness]: Primal Reality — 4x Maitreya ≡


Here is the primal world of pure energy and symmetric patterns; their interplay in a luminous wheel of reflections; and the undivided resolution following their embrace in silence. These are the original seeds and root spheres of universal being, experienced as the primal domains of luminous wisdom and ominous tranquility; their primal dance in unity; and their final sphere of absolution. When contemplating, make these spheres the entirety of your unified awareness.


A4. ∞ [∞] ○: Zero-One | "I Metaray" = Undimension Paradox | Beyond: Non-Localized | Invisible
= Nondual Awareness | Final Unbecoming | Total Resolution | Never | Nonduality
= Primal Void | Transcendence | Emptiness | Wuji | Nirvana | Advaya | Ajata

—► "Before Sun and Moon"


A3. ☯ [±] ½: Balance | "A Timeray" = Rainbow Dance | Middle: Axis Mundi | Translucent | Rainbow Diamond
= Mirror Awareness | Cosmic Union | Quantum Flow | Golden Wheel | Always | Ether
= Motion of God | Holy Spirit | Perfect Love | Taiji | Ananda | Yoga

—► "Dancing Sun and Moon"


A2. ☺ [+] 1: Dynamis | "Maitreya" = Luminous Consciousness | Above: Sun | Luminous | Synthetic Gold
= Specifying Awareness | Source Cognition | Prime Energy | Dynamic Force | Future | Fire
= Will of God | Benevolent Father (Pneuma-Adonai-Elohim) | Loving Companion | Yang | Cit | Isvara

—► "Primal Sun"


A1. ☻ [-] 0: Neutralis | "Matriyae" = Matrix of Patterns | Below: Moon | Reflective | Liquid Silver
= Unifying Awareness | Base Pattern | Root Substance | Movable Objects | Past | Water
= Word of God (Logos-Law-Prophets) | Redeeming Son | Beloved Consort | Yin | Sat | Dharma

—► "Primal Moon"

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≡ Heart [Sphere of Experience]: Causal Worlds — 4x Maitreya Buddha ≡


Here is the causal world of quaternary influences and orientations; four fundamental forces governing the attitudes and objects of the phenomenal world; four cardinal beacons on the path of ascending awareness. These are the subtle spheres of composite existence, experienced as the cardinal domains of introverted, observant, interactive and universalized orientation. When contemplating, make these spheres your extrovert and introvert hemispheres, the principal fields of emotion and intellect, and observe their interplay and resolution.


B4. ☺☺ [++]  11: Big Picture | "Maitreya Buddha" = Enlightened Benefactor | North | White-Yellow
= Perfection | Symmetric Awareness | Systemic Relations | Universal Overself | Summer | Midday
= Benevolence | Strong Force | Air | Greater Yang | Gabriel | Pratipada-Marga | Jnani | Savitarka

—► "Sun Outward, Sun Inward"



B3. ☺☻ [+-] 10: Causality | "Mahdi Tabudyear" = Competent Transformer | West | Blue
= Operation | Catalytic Awareness | Reactive Connections | Operative Self | Autumn | Dusk
= Compassion | Electromagnetism | Fire | Lesser Yin | Michael | Duhkha-Nirodha | Jijnasu | Savicara

—► "Sun Outward, Moon Inward"


B2. ☻☺ [-+] 01: Foresight | "Debi Dhaturayam" = Natural Visionary | East | Green
= Observation | Evolving Awareness | Cyclic Recurrence | Observing Self | Spring | Dawn
= Sympathy | Weak Force | Water | Lesser Yang | Raphael | Duhkha-Udaya | Artharthi | Sananda

—► "Moon Outward, Sun Inward"


B1. ☻☻ [--] 00: Introspection | "Buramide Dhyata" = Ancient Contemplator | South | Red
= Existence | Grounding Awareness | Subjective Evolution | Inner Self | Winter | Midnight
= Equanimity | Gravity | Earth | Greater Yin | Uriel | Duhkha | Arti | Sasmita

—► "Moon Outward, Moon Inward"

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≡ Body [Sphere of Manifestation]: Phenomenal Worlds — 8x Maitreya Sananda ≡


Here is the phenomenal world of principal states and transitions; eight archetypal situations of the triune human Body-Heart-Intellect; an eightfold path of the twenty-four elders from the darkness of nescient birth to the luminous crown of ascension. These are the manifesting energetic spheres of existence, reflected as the journey of the embodied human self. When contemplating, make these spheres and states of consciousness one with your Body, Heart and Mind, and reflect on the course of your experience across the refined archetypes of embodied awareness.


C8. ☺☺☺ [+++] 111: Heaven | "Maitreya Sananda" = Victorious Visionary | North | Crystal
= Perfection | Lucid Awareness | Vision & Power | Finale | Master | Ascender | Luminosity
= Samadhi | Drishti | Sahasrara | Khristos | Caelestis | Drashta | Bhava | Vismaya-Adbhuta

—► "Sun in Body, Sun in Emotion, Sun in Intellect"


C7. ☺☺☻ [++-] 110: Lake | "Amnesia Datayarn" = Hypnotic Integrator | North-West | Gradient
= Integration | Subconscious Awareness | Depth & Profundity | Retirement | Philosopher | Contemplation | Wisdom
= Dhyana | Sankalpa | Brahmarandhra | Ephesus | Humanitas | Muni | Asakti | Hasya-Hasya

—► "Sun in Body, Sun in Emotion, Moon in Intellect"


C6. ☺☻☺ [+-+] 101: Fire | "Amanita Ardensay" = Analytic Sublimator | West | Yellow
= Analysis | Analytical Awareness | Grasping & Illuminating | Middle-Age | Scientist | Ascetic | Knowledge
= Dharana | Vac | Manipura | Smyrna | Caritas | Pandita | Ruci | Krodha-Raudra

—► "Sun in Body, Moon in Emotion, Sun in Intellect"


C5. ☺☻☻ [+--] 100: Thunder | "Adama Syriantean" = Sovereign of Domains | South-West | Orange
= Opposition | Achieving Awareness | Shaking & Reacting | Maturity | Preacher | Magician | Dominion
= Pratyahara | Karmanta | Svadhisthana | Pergamum | Castitas | Naisthika | Nistha | Jugupsa-Bibhatsa

—► "Sun in Body, Moon in Emotion, Moon in Intellect"


C4. ☻☺☺ [-++] 011: Wind | "Mediast Narayana" = Heart-Mind Mediator | North-East | Turquoise
= Expansion | Expansive Awareness | Expansive & Detached | Adolescence | Psychologist | Explainer | Reconciliation
= Pranayama | Ajiva | Visuddha | Thyatira | Patientia | Sadhaka | Anartha-Nivritti | Rati-Sringara

—► "Moon in Body, Sun in Emotion, Sun in Intellect"


C3. ☻☺☻ [-+-] 010: Stream | "Andaman Easyrita" = Healer of Hearts | East | Green
= Immersion | Emotional Awareness | Flowing & Abysmal | Childhood | Healer | Balancer | Fulfillment
= Asana | Smriti | Anahata | Laodicea | Temperantia | Bhakta | Bhajana-Kriya | Soka-Karunya

—► "Moon in Body, Sun in Emotion, Moon in Intellect"


C2. ☻☻☺ [--+] 001: Mountain | "Admire Santayana" = Teacher of Saints | South-East | Violet
= Establishment | Emergent Awareness | Mastery & Fortitude | Infancy | Adept | Prodigy | Orientation
= Niyama | Vyayama | Ajna | Philadelphia | Industria | Sishya | Sadhu-Sanga | Utsaha-Vira

—► "Moon in Body, Moon in Emotion, Sun in Intellect"


C1. ☻☻☻ [---] 000: Earth | "Amen Dainyastara" = Abode of Stillness | South | Red
= Reception | Receptive Awareness | Receptivity & Stillness | Birth | Incognito | Peacemaker | Tranquility
= Yama | Samadhi | Muladhara | Sardis | Humilitas | Ajnani | Sraddha | Bhaya-Bhayanaka

—► "Moon in Body, Moon in Emotion, Moon in Intellect"

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The straight eightfold path of ascension, from the receptive Dust of Earth to the luminous Light of Heaven, is a cognitive lifecycle that passes through the cardinal and ordinal stations of human awareness, cultivating the Intellect, Heart and Body from the dawn of awakening to the illuminating fields of infinite balance. The three worlds — Primal, Causal and Phenomenal — move in parallel from East to West and South to North (on the flowchart). Here are the locations of the sixteen stations for conscious exploration:

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[8x] Phenomenal World: 1. South -► 2. South-East -► 3. East -► 4. North-East |-► 5. South-West -► 6. West -► 7. North-West -► 8. North
[4x] Causal World: 1. South -► 2. East |-► 3. West -► 4. North
[4x] Primal Reality: 1. Below -► 2. Above |-► 3. Middle -► 4. Beyond

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This series encodes the basic pattern for cultivating a celestial rainbow body at the inner Himalayas. Symmetric contemplation of balanced archetypes hastens the process of conscious integration, increasing the saturation of celestial rays of awareness that equalize, rejuvenate, transform and crystallize the patterns of the mind. To resolve the anxiety of the human situation, turn your neural network into a harmonic spectrum of crystal streams. Optimized awareness by means of meditative neuroplasticity — a process tested by time and proven throughout the history!

A sample implementation of the systemic Wisdom Flow mandala for archetypal contemplation.

Contemplate on these archetypes by means of receptive internalization; reflect on the practical matrix of systematic balance; and awaken the luminous spirit of enlightenment in your thoughts. Then construct the Crystal Mandala in your heart and enter; embark on the epic journey of Seven Heavens and behold the Kingdom of God within; and fulfill your dormant human potential by unveiling the pinnacle of conscious luminosity! This is the heart of the Crystal Maitreya; and the essence of the spiritual quest I've come to know and experience over the years. Bodhisvaha!

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Friday, November 5, 2010

The Human Totality and Multiple Dimensions of Existence

When we seek to expand the horizons of our thought, a recurring problem lies in the fact that a great many people have a hard time following us, simply because we're navigating way out there. After all, everyone has an innate need to contextualize new concepts against a familiar grid of thoughts. What are these esoteric dimensions then, and what do they have to do with anything? This is an attempt to build a basic bridge between the conventional single-dimensional outlook and the multi-dimensional systemic perspectives of reality we seek.

Kathleen Farago MaySeeking Balance in the Paradise Matrix
A vivid depiction of the human conflict with contradicting dimensions.

Dimensions of the Human Totality

The human being is a psycho-physical totality with the two basic dimensions of the body and the mind. The physical body is easy enough to understand as a one-dimensional object. When the primary imperatives of the mind revolve around the active needs of the body, whether in acquiring pleasures or averting pains, in immersing the mind in material realities, or in collectively organizing others around parallel agendas, the mind and the body exist primarily in the same flat and familiar material dimension. Then, human existence revolving around the body is inherently one-dimensional and exoteric.

When we move beyond the physical dimension and explore our inner potentials, it's all esoteric by definition — esōterikós: inner. The concept of multi-dimensional existence is esoteric indeed, as it involves the rich world of human psyche, rather than the mere external realities of life. Despite its more ephemeral nature, it's not a domain of existence to be shunned or evaded. If one were to shy away from the depths of the human mind, one would forsake an incredible radiant pool of potentials. These inner potentials are the undercurrent of the progressive evolution of human species.

To gain a sense of the multi-dimensionality of the mind, try picturing the entirety of your own mind — your basic drives, attachments, priorities, curiosities, memories, traumas, realizations and ignorance — as a single object with a particular mass, dimension and structure. You'll find that it's extremely challenging to pin the mind down to a single and contained one-dimensional object — assuming you observe your thoughts carefully enough to to notice them as separate from your base consciousness to begin with.

Having reached for the form of your own mind, now try picturing the minds of people you know in similar terms, and you'll get a good insight into the social layer of multi-dimensionality. The world you see is formed of countless subjective mental bubbles, each with their distinct characteristics, dimensionality and trajectories, colliding with each other in blissful ignorance of the underlying operative principles.

The human totality and its potentials are much greater than the simple day-to-day needs we face and tackle. The dimensions of the mind are essentially infinite, only restricted by self-imposed cognitive restrictions that keep your consciousness oriented and focused on the everyday world alone. If you learn to probe into the depths of your mind, first exploring the active patterns of your mind and conquering them, and then exploring, unraveling and coming to terms with your subconscious mind and its latent traits, you will discover an emergent potential of countless possibilities yet undiscovered and unexplored.

Kathleen Farago MayMatrix Mandala
There are infinite potentials in the interwoven dimensions of our reality.

The Benefits of a Multi-Dimensional Mind

The benefits of mastery over the one-dimensional drive of the mind, or in other words a skill for real time mental management and optimization, are too many and obvious to enumerate here in detail. Learning to map and project your own inner patterns and potentials, you will approach a platform where you can shift  your cognition from a limited individual perspective to collective perspectives — without the constant interference and distractions of the individual mind with its countless idiosyncratic imperatives. Moreover, it's hardly possible to live in a spirit of equality and do unto others as you would have them do unto you without grasping the constant and variant dynamics and dimensions of the many minds we meet.

Increased focus in introspective capacity and pattern recognition are central human assets beyond the "mere" comprehension of your own unrealized potentials. The better you learn to understand the abstract patterns guiding your mind and the minds of others, the clearer your perception of patterns in the environment becomes. The better you understand the diverse dimensions in which the minds of others move, the better you are able to understand their subjective imperatives and capacities.

With full recognition and abstraction of your mental contents and dynamics, the entirety of your know-how can be converted into general-purpose formulae. You then become the ultimate observer and CEO of your mind, able to switch in and out from the pull of your psychological currents at will, and able to adapt your abstracted know-how across diverse fields of life. For the simple fact that it helps you intercept the emergence of negative patterns within you before they turn into action, it's well worth it.

The more holistic your understanding becomes, the better you will be able to intuit the future. In this, we are no longer working with magic or visions — we are working with scalable causality and probabilities. Then, whether we're talking about commerce, politics, society or sports, impartially observing and understanding the extant and emergent patterns gives you undeniable leverage beyond those unable to perceive, model or project the course of events beyond the scope of immediate and evident causes and effects. Nostradamus of visionary fame would gaze at the patterns of the skies and ponder on the patterns of the known world, reconciling them into probabilistic predictions of the future of mankind.

Kasmin nu vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavatīti? — "By realizing what does all of this become cognizable?" — asked the budding sage from the ancient seers of India. That, by which everything else becomes cognized, is the ultimate dimension that synthesizes and reconciles all other dimensions into a symmetric and immanent whole. While the ultimate "source code" of existence is nondual and incomprehensible to the dimensionally challenged human psyche, as we journey through the layers of the mind and approach greater depths, the world reveals itself repeatedly in renewed and broader terms, providing an infinite fund of knowledge for anyone with the eyes to see.

Kathleen Farago May: Offering
Mastering the patterns, you'd be in a real position to make a positive offering.

Dimensional Conclusions

This quest for mental expansion is the basic foundation and motivation for many of us who choose to journey into cosmic mansions in between and during our everyday routines. It's not about an idle intellectual curiosity or a misguided metaphysical quest devoid of real life relevance. Quite to the contrary: It's about seeking to comprehend the totality of our human situation, taking control of and optimizing our own existence, and transcending the inner and subsequently outer limitations imposed by our mental and social environments.

There is an abundance of existential and functional dimensions the mind can reach for and learn operate in — beyond the above essential strata for gaining basic control over our lives and recurring situations — but they are too numerous and too far outside a general frame of reference to be featured in this article. To name some Indic and Oriental schools of thought for historical reference, the extended potentials and dimensions of the mind have been systematically discussed for example in Theravadan teachings on mental focus and absorption or Jhana / Dhyana, the rapid psychological transcendence and enlightenment of Zen, the truly esoteric and symbolist Vajrayana, and the mental remodeling methods of Advaita Vedanta and Raja Yoga.

Understanding the dimensions of the mind is undeniably a quest worth embarking on, should the world you experience through your senses ever begin to look stale and restrictive. This discovery of additional dimensions overlapping and interacting with the gross every-day reality is critical in forming a working synthesis between the matter and spirit in your being. In the process — as long as you remain vigilantly true to your internal integrity — the world will also become that much more a better place for all of us to share and evolve in.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Output of the India Years (MPI 50)

Project manager profile in 2007.
As I've worked further towards a synthesis of my experiences and accumulated skills from over the years in Hindu and Buddhist circles, it's clear that with sufficient abstraction all scenarios and their dynamics can be pooled into a symmetric set of multi-field expediency, also in diverse business and technology contexts.

Engaged in diverse projects in diverse groups, the unifying environment across the board has been one of intense focus and dedication to improving and perfecting one's accomplishments, while acting a carefully tailored frame of mind. When you do things for a holy purpose and it reflects on your entire existential status, motivation for getting the job done properly and thoroughly is naturally available. Moreover, when you are meticulous with every emerging detail, things tend to get done very efficiently.

Here's how the net total reads when distilled into additions to my professional CV, and you are allowed to tell me to shove it because I'm so full of it. In my world, everything is in perpetual beta regardless. [People interested in networking can look me up with the full CV at LinkedIn.]

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Form = Emptiness and the
Meaning of Three Fingers
Summary and Specialties

I have a long and solid background in Hindu, Buddhist and Oriental studies and associated meditative and cultivation disciplines, along with parallel research into psychology and general-purpose applications of their diverse methodologies, also in business and technological environments.

On the creative and alternative side, I have a definite personal and professional interest in deep aesthetics, expressive photography and innovative media, ayurveda and natural medicine, activism for good causes, and a general love for symmetry fueled by all these years.

Language skills: Native fluency in Finnish and English, major French and English with minor Swedish at school, good modern/classical Bengali, practical Hindi, philosophical Sanskrit and Pali interpretation, working  knowledge of several other Indic, Nordic and Romance languages and related writing systems.

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My early years with the Hare Krishnas, all the ding-ding notwithstanding, did provide me with a very useful and versatile environment for developing diverse skills and accumulating valuable experience on several fields. "Service is good for you", they say for karma-yoga. Even while the basic intention of the said service is of course to advance development of inner virtue, it's hard to escape the practical market realities in sales and missionary work.

ISKCON: Sales / Marketing / Communication / Technology
Religious Institutions industry, Marketing and Advertising industry
June 1995 – January 2000 (4 years 8 months)

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International: Book and CD sales, direct marketing. Sales team leader, trainer, manager and cashier (1999), sales accounting, . Personal rapid marketing to diverse age and industry target groups. implementation of innovative direct consumer cold lead sales strategies for fast sales results for groups and other high-yield audience connectivity scenarios.

Library and store bulk sales, event sales booth presentations, sales material arrangements and stock control. Customer follow-up and ethical sales development for customer post-sale satisfaction and returning business, internal law and organizational structures. Projections for on-road stocks with overhead for unexpected sales on the basis of past sales volume by season, location, team members, and revenue requirements.

Dramatic highlight from diverse
more and less strange projects
Department and project leadership, talks and lectures, congregation expansion models, cell group organization, education and consultation,  audio archive organization and source material networking, community management and conflict resolution, event organization and promotion, periodic internal upskilling in management and sales seminars, scalable on-road and large catering cooking and organization skills, dramas and scripts.

Poster/brochure design, prepress and promo material printing, e-communication, Internet, Telnet and BBS systems, textual research and language studies, personal web projects and other computer work. Communication and coordination across heavily hierarchical and often archaic multi-level managerial and advisory structures in national and global scope; success in a highly demanding environment.

Modeling and implementation of philosophical and operative formulas in practical contexts; mental training and discipline to sustain functionally desirable perspectives across environments. Deep philosophical research on practical and metaphysical causation, causal chains and causal combinatorics, and derived practical projections and mental projection models.

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The second related entry is a combination of web freelance work and involvement in the diverse aspects of Swami B.V. Narayana's international movement and related websites, publishing, propaganda, and congregational work.

Freelance / GVS: Developer / Designer / Promoter / Organizer
Information Technology and Services industry, Publishing industry
June 1999 – January 2002 (2 years 8 months)

International Ali Baba
of Propaganda Work
Freelance: Small/medium business websites, basic eCommerce solutions, CMS customization and simple custom CMS prototyping and deployment, brochure sites and home pages, graphics and content production, web software modification, CMS and publishing systems testing and deployment, miscellaneous scripts and utilities, personal and volunteer NGO website projects. Self-directed learning through tutorials, manuals and professional collaboration.

GVS: Desktop publishing, translation and editing, brochures and promotion, general prepress work and on-demand click-print mass publishing, community management, event organization, lectures and seminars, tutorials and study materials preparation and production, audio archival and associated online resources, e-book library compilation, organization and material production, promotional writing, miscellaneous research, resource sites and general propaganda strategy.

Collaboration and pioneer work with Gaudiya Vedanta Publications in editing, layout, custom fonts and general prepress, parallel with independent startup publishing, distribution and sales models and trials. International Gaudiya Vedanta Society congregational organization, engagement continuity cultivation, market expansion strategy and public representation. International networking and strategic think-tanking for exchange of ideas and effective outreach across mixed target groups.

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Here are the years I spent divided between Finland and India while digging deeper into the ancient traditions, producing associated services and resources, and providing diverse consultation, research papers, and community organizational support for a small global audience. Total 50 individual and indexed projects.

Sri Krishna Chaitanya Shastra Mandir: Editor / Translator / Research / Archival / Prepress / Project Manager
Publishing industry
February 2002 – August 2007 (5 years 7 months)

Radhakund CPP (Chief
Production Professor)
Manager for Sri Krishna Chaitanya Shastra Mandir global and local publications in English, four produced and mass-printed books with matching e-book versions, general production management.

Author and producer for general digest e-books and websites [Gaudiya.com], translation [Sanskrit and Bengali to English and Finnish] and integrity verification, direct clarifications with original author, general proofreading, manuscript organization and archival work, historical and doctrinal research and exegesis, research papers and general queries, abstracted information storage and applications, synthesis and systematization of scattered source texts.

Desktop publishing, printing press contacts and production supervision, website design, copywriting and development, wiki logging and encyclopedic collaboration, cross-referenced multilingual databases and reference tools development, shared authoring models and workflow conceptualization, small-scale website networking and centralized search engine infrastructure.

Lots of this in sorting the
head into good order.
Communications and consultation, local and virtual community management, miscellaneous research and writing, source material hunt and digitization, fund raising strategies, education and seminars, audio/video recording and media archival projects, video editing and advanced DVD authoring, environmental projects.

Founder of associated Lake of Flowers Productions providing 100+ GB of free multimedia online. Former president and executive project manager for Gaudiya Kutir, a budding non-profit organization with audience and contributions from people in the Americas, Europe, and India, working towards syndicating and organizing dozens of related projects and agendas.


Freelance / SKCSM: Madhavananda Project Index
Published URL: http://md.gaudiya.com/

The MPI is an exhaustive personal project index covering a total of six years of research and 50 individual projects undertaken
Collecting and archiving
audio/video at events.
and brought to various stages of completion, managed from both Finland and India. Further published works and productions are included in the combined portfolio and task tracker portal. A good deal of the related resources were acquired in collaboration with Sri Krishna Chaitanya Shastra Mandir and associated helpful people. Much of the production cycle and related adventures were also documented and archived online in substantial detail with photos [Vraja Journal].

Among others: Archival work, book publishing and prepress, printing and e-books, multi-project environment management, construction and rural property development, dozens of networked website projects, classes and seminars, language tools and localization, local and virtual community management, community think-tanks and study groups, promotion and study materials, tutorials and manuals, standards research and establishment, resource networking and project support, lecture podcasting and media production, 10000+ organized photos, server administration, software development, etc.

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The following initiatives grew out of this abundant pool of projects and enthusiasm. While the limited amount of available project participants and material resources limited the expansion of operations to an unfortunate degree, two out of the following three major initiatives are still alive and well, continuing to serve a global audience with diverse informative, cultural, religious and academic resources.

Lake of Flowers Productions: Director / A/V Recorder and Producer / Systems and Infrastructure
Publishing industry
March 2002 – Present (8 years 8 months)

Lake of Flowers Productions was in its prime between 2005 and 2007, producing and publishing online a total of 100.8 GB of audio recordings and edited video footage, and photographed and archived thousands of high-quality photos. Presently in archival mode, the site is supported by ads and donations, and continues to serve out free media indefinitely. As of October 2010, 27 TB of tracked media have been downloaded.

The storage and online file serving solution was provided with support from the Internet Archive (Archive.org) and their petabyte project, as free availability of high-quality media and cultural history was a shared agenda. In-house developed tools for connecting with the Internet Archive server networks made the operation silk smooth. Footage from the archives has been featured on Comedy Central's The Daily Show and in numerous independent productions.

Areas of work: A/V recording, equipment screening, testing and purchase, A/V editing and post-processing, codec, compression and storage solutions, scripted processing, online infrastructure, networked resources, peer-to-peer media distribution models, scripted image and metadata archiving, A/V versioning and archiving, web development, online archive scripts and tools, DVD authoring and production, general design, prepress and print, newsfeeds and podcasting, open-source audio/video tools

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Gaudiya Grantha Mandira: Developer / Digitizer / Systems Provider
Libraries industry
February 2002 – Present (8 years 9 months)

Software and technical solutions provider, text digitization and transliteration with Gaudiya Grantha Mandira, a non-profit initiative founded by professors Jan Brzezinski and Neal Delmonico for digitizing, transliterating, and eventually translating ancient and medieval Sanskrit and Bengali texts as a free public service.

The current library hosts almost 600 previously unavailable texts in diverse formats for both academic research and seekers of wisdom, provides an additional platform for collaboration, and a well-rounded set of free tools for converting text between all common transliteration schemes and associated Indic scripts.

Some initiatives, like a semantic markup language for automated text processing, cross-referencing and miscellaneous notation, an abstracted data storage system for bibliographies and metadata cross-referencing of categorized shorter texts, and an advanced full-text library search engine, are still in the air pending more resources and volunteer participation.

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Gaudiya Kutir: President / Project Director / PR / Networking / Systems and Infrastructure
Non-Profit Organization Management industry
June 2005 – June 2007 (2 years 1 month)

The Gaudiya Kutir was a syncretic networking initiative to advance availability of information and resources on cultural, meditative and religious traditions from medieval Bengal. With agendas for I. Education, II. Preservation, III. Celebration, IV. Facilitation, and V. Outreach, it aimed for a broad field of activities and global expansion. I contributed as founding member and VP (later President), community leader, project manager, systems developer, and resources producer.

The organization sought to pool volunteer resources and ongoing projects under one roof, providing synergy, contacts and additional resources to efforts with parallel interests and potential. With over a dozen major internal projects and assistance for numerous independent initiatives, it successfully disseminated information and provided resources to a small but growing global audience. In absence of sufficient supporting interest and funding, the project was gradually frozen, and contingencies were shaped for the initiatives to continue independently.

Activities: project organization, human and material resource management, volunteer management, local and virtual community development, lectures and seminars, educational initiatives, copywriting and press releases, promotional materials, server infrastructure, material and resource development, event organization, social media and networking, networked websites, software development, project consultation, audience activation initiatives, translation and interpretation

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Finally, below is the conclusion of the diverse business work I somehow managed to somehow accomplish in between the cracks to keep bread and butter on the table, parallel to all the religious, cultural, internal and mystical ventures oriented for broadening my overall perspectives.

CodeWallah: Developer / Designer / Project Organizer
Internet industry
October 2004 – February 2009 (4 years 5 months)

Fixing things up for
people in need..
The two final years of the CodeWallah phase went largely off the grid across India and Nepal in search of the ultimate code and the patterns of a grand paradoxical abstraction, with periodic meditation retreats and seclusion, general free wandering on foot, entertaining villagers, publishing blogs, photos, doodles, poems, serious news and editorials, and hacking in a random client update at times of electricity and "available" business time in a cyber-café somewhere down the lane.

Wandering with native and foreign
holy men of many denominations

In Nepal, I worked with two environmental/educational NGOs and an orphanage, providing marketing and networking help, volunteer organization, manual labor, technical solutions, food, and organization structuring help on a volunteer basis.

Somewhere down the line I first grasped that strange unifying light atop the yonder mountain peaks after muttering too many mantras, studying too many books, casting too many spells, hoping too many hopes, dreaming too many dreams, and walking way too many miles both physically as well as far far down the rabbit hole and back again.

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kaccin nobhaya-vibhraṣṭaś chinnābhram iva naśyati |
apratiṣṭho mahā-bāho vimūḍho brahmaṇaḥ pathi || BG 6.38

Arjuna: "O Mighty-Armed One, would one not fall from both spiritual and material, as a torn cloud perishes without any foundation, if he is bewildered on the path to transcendence?"

pārtha naiveha nāmutra vināśas tasya vidyate |
na hi kalyāṇa-kṛt kaścid  durgatiṁ tāta gacchati || BG 6.40

Krishna: "O son of Pritha, whether in this or the yonder worlds, he is not destroyed; for one who is a doer of good will never attain a foul destination."