Monday, October 26, 2020

96.5K Visits and No Clothes

Well, we went from 95,000 visits to this blog to 96,000 so quickly (thirteen days) that I didn't even notice. Now we are halfway to 97,000. How it happened is no great mystery: the pirates are still hard at work, day and night. At the same time, it's gratifying to see the many countries from which the visits are coming. The graphic below shows the main sources of visits in the last twenty-four hours.




In the last couple of weeks, the Upanishad poem-series has grown to fifty-three parts. I do not think it is finished.

Today I completed the work of publishing and translating the six stanzas of Shankara's Nirvana Shatakam (also known as Atma Shatakam). It well summarizes the teaching of Advaita Vedanta.

I am continuing to do a lot of photography, as well. The illustration below shows me as I am every day. Would my nudity be more acceptable if I drew tilak markings on my forehead and body and hung rudraksha beads around my neck? I don't think so. My nudity is not religious, it's just natural.

As always, I would like to thank you all for your continued interest and enthusiasm.






Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.


Nirvana Shatakam of Shankara VI - अहं निर्विकल्पो निराकाररूपो

अहं निर्विकल्पो निराकाररूपो

विभुर्व्याप्य सर्वत्र सर्वेन्द्रियाणि  ।

सदा मे समत्वं न मुक्तिर्न बन्धः

चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम्‌ शिवोऽहम्‌  ॥ ६ ॥


ahaM nirvikalpo nirAkArarUpo

vibhurvyApya sarvatra sarvEndriyANi.

sadA mE samatvaM na muktirna bandhaH

chidAnandarUpaH shivo'ham shivo'ham.  6


I am without change, I am without form.

Permeating the basis of all, I am everywhere and behind all the senses.

I am always in equilibrium, and have neither liberation nor attachment.

In the form of blissful consciousness, I am Shiva, I am Shiva.






Translation Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.