The Goddess Book - Introduction


In 2017, as I just came off working for a startup incubator, I build a startup company. We worked vigorously all through the summer, from March till October. Right when the product was ready to help local food and farmers markets, Sonoma, California had a huge fire. Most of the local business and farmers markets were affected. With the fire, all across San Francisco Bay Area, you could smell smoke everywhere. I waited patiently for events to become quieter, interviewed many local food and farmers market business, but could not generate the required revenue for the startup to stay alive. Hence at the end of October, I packed my bags and head over to Mount Shasta. I continued hearing the word ‘brahma vidya’ in my ears. To me, this was a special time. One day of Brahma equals thousands of years, eternity for Brahman, according to the vedic scriptures. Brahma is the third in the Hindu trilogy, Shiva being the first, the de-constructor, Vishnu being the second, the preserver and Brahma being the third, the creator. This was my guru Brahmananda Saraswati’s time, Saraswati being my soulmate, Heather, the goddess book, my inner guru, and guru ji, my outer guru, from whom I received all the other gurus, like Sivananda, Satchidananda and Vishnudevananda, my Shiva and Vishnu vidyas or dreams, while closing this book, August 2018, my birthday, on brahmavidya, also defined in Upanishads, a gift to my soul-mates, teachers and students. This book is hence ‘the last upanishad’, because Upanishads is a living document of the students and teachers of yoga. I lived the life of Shiva for many years. Back in October 2011, when I broke up with my relationship, I had a Shiva vision, ‘this house you are living in, as to go, because there is a treasure underneath’. This was the ‘shiva vidya’ for me. Moving out of my place, and in with yogi ashrams, I practiced deep sadhana, with the focus on tantra yoga, shiva and parvati, dancing with kali. Same turn of events happened in 2011, when in November and December, I spent great amount of time in Mount Shasta, specially Platina, California, at Saint Herman Monastery of Alaska. Then back to Brahmananda ashram, in San Francisco California. I traveled a few times back and forth between Mount Shasta and San Francisco, till finally staying at the ashram for six months, before moving into Sivananda Yoga Ashram, in San Francisco, August 2012 and living there for two years, till August 2014, when it shut down. My own startup, mytweetmark, a robotic Vishnu, a ‘vishnu vidya’, spreading millions of page views of vedanta on all social media platforms. The Sivananda ashram inspired me to write blogs about the yogi knowledge I was receiving, hence by 2014, I wrote two books on yoga, validated by the teachers at the yoga ashram, where they passed on the Swami Vishnudevananda maha samadhi cloth to me. This is the Vishnu cycle, where the knowledge of the past was translated, through deep sadhana and practice, into today’s time. Most of the people nowadays are on Facebook and Twitter, hence the knowledge needed to be translated into blogs, and also auto tweet algorithms my startup, mytweetmark provided, that created millions of yogi page views across the world. The Sivananda yoga ashram shutdown in August 2014, and I lived there for two years. After the shutdown, I moved in with a zen master, another living saint, a buddha incarnation, to learn about the art of drinking water and eating vegan food. I lived with him for six months, and practiced deep sadhana with tea drinking. I spent a lot of time between Harbin Hot Springs and Sivananda yoga ashram, a shaman healing crescent moon shaped resort, before it burned down by fires, in September 2015. In January 2015, I moved into my own apartment, and continued on to write ten books, on startups, yoga and food. This continued on for the ‘vishnu vidya’ where the knowledge of the past was moved on to the current generation. Every where in San Francisco, people freely started to talk about consciousness and vegan food. By end of 2017, I worked on my startup and started tuning into deep vedantic formula. I was able to see various turn of events, and able to document most of the process, through prayer and my startup. By the end of 2017, I had written 10 books, 5 books on yoga and 5 books on startups. End of 2017 was similar to end of 2011, where I was completing a six year, buddha cycle. In Mount Shasta, the holy water, the male and female springs in Stewart Mineral Springs, Weed, California, where each cell of the white male water is examined; Each cell has six sides, a buddha sitting on each side. In November of 2017, I visited the springs, and then camped on Mount Shasta for a couple of weeks. My teacher and guide, Walking Eagle, a Native American Shaman healer, owner of the sweat lodge, I visited at the Stewart Mineral Springs. Similar to Shiva, I was ready to renounce and go into deep meditation and sadhana. I suddenly heard the voice of buddha, ‘take the middle path, go back to San Francisco’. I head back into San Francisco, December 2018, again to spend time with yogis at Brahmananda ashram and visited Father James of the Orthodox Christianity at the Church in San Francisco. Father James was the first teacher I had met in November 2011, who introduced me to the Monastery. While I was visiting the Russian Orthodox Monastery in Platina, California, and the plan to renounce as a Christian with them, Father Damascene put a Orthodox Cross on me. Father Damascene served his life, writing about his teacher, Father Rose, who is the part founder of the Monastery. He was able to guide me into various Orthodox books, perhaps astonished by how fast I was able to grasp on the ideas, with the experience and ‘knowledge of gleam’, a very highly rewarded word, in Christmas rhymes, and highest achievement of a soul. I shared the same experience with Father Pieces, my other teacher at the Monastery. Meanwhile, because of my startup, I was heavily involved with real-time news. Of course, Russia was all over the news. In the Monastery, not all of the monks shared internet, hence not knowing events of the outside world. I mentioned the news to Father Damascene and he decided that perhaps my mind is still in startups and outside world, hence it is not the time to renounce and be a monk or convert to Orthodox Christianity. This book covers the details of those vedic experiences. I continued with deep prayers and sadhana. Some of the most interesting work was the experience of #if, a vedic formula, and a programming language. Since coming back to San Francisco in December 2017, I worked for two startups and published, 'The Business Book', in February 2018, that details my experiences with Startup school and incubators. Also, encouraging other friends to participate in yogic and startup routes with experienced directions. This was my 11th book. In August 2018, carr fire, spread all across Mount Shasta to Mendocino Complex, in California, 16 fires, started for not clear reasons, destroying Marijuana fields, hot springs, many Native American and Shaman lands, with fire. Over 1.5 million to 2 million acres burned by the fire in Northern California alone, Redding California was completely destroyed. I left a voicemail for Father Pisces, asking whether I could come and stay with them at the Monastery again, and help people affected with fire. He responded right away that the fire is 26 miles away, and they are praying hard for it to stop. I was at the Outside Lands, a famous yearly concert in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California and could feel this great energy of Mount Shasta local to me, walking in the woods and by the creeks, however could feel the agony of the shaman spirits that have lost their home, and a place in the Universe. My inner prayer; they are welcomed in San Francisco. Many people who migrated from Mount Shasta to San Francisco, thanked me for the hospitality they felt on Haight Street, San Francisco. Many drummers from the drum circle that are now tuned into nada yoga, a gift from my guru ji, a nada yogi. According to the Upanishads, the sound of silence is nadam, nominal, compare it to phenomenal, which is the manifestation of the Spirit, ¼, compared it to Brahman, the Spirit itself, which holds the unmanifested and ¾. Now the whole world is hearing sound of silence, when suffering is increasing, and Brahman lives within all of us, with all the knowledge and people of the past, working together is various realms, for the benefit of humanity.