Uwi
I can see you go for the progressive type music. ...
I go by the name of Uwe. (For Muricans, it is pronounced as
Oovah)
You're right in so far, as progressive rock was my first musical inspiration next to classical music, back in the mid-1970s, and it got me hooked. I was even gonna play keyboard in a locally well-flourishing Jethro Tull cover-band at my early age of 15, but it didn't happen as my dad didn't shelve out the money for an e-piano I'd asked him to buy for me (a Fender Rhodes then was available for roughly one thousand DM which my parents couldn't afford). So I only got to play in sessions with different borrowed instruments and spontaneously in instrument stores. Think of the movie Blues Brothers with Ray Charles as the owner of an instrument-store...
So here's what got me hooked on to music in the first place, the same time I got hooked on spirituality by reading the AOY by Sri Sri Paramahansa Yoganandaji for the first time in my life:
As my generation's parents usually were children of the second world war, who were generally hardly able to give their own (latter) children a hug, due to the atrocities they'd went thru during their own childhood, when they had no chance but to grow up fast and quickly, escaping the "firestorm" on foot to what was then named as Eastern Prussia (today the North-East of Poland) and hardly arriving there, having to escape back from the Russian offensive, finally arriving back "home", which meanwhile had been bombed to ruins and ravel. Hunger, rape, murder, and theft always on their heels as kids (! so my dad told me when I myself was a kid). Today hardly anyone remembers these things, as that generation has been vanishing...
Thanks for all the information on your background! We grew up here with the horror of the Viet Nam War, not to mention all the other sham wars to protect the investments of the riche around the world. Afghanistan and Iraq included. I see Ukraine as something different, I mean, the U.S. also was involved with WWII but we were attacked by Japan and Ukraine was attacked by Russia. The French helped us in our Revolutionary War so I see it as part of other countries responsibility that enjoy freedom to help other free loving nations. And to not ignore their calls for help as we asked for help, in our war for democracy. Until we are one world any alien race would see us as quite barbaric. Yogananda predicted there would one day be a United States of the World. But recall that the Bhagavad Gita took place in a higher age then even now, and that too was a war.
My humble opinions here. Your country was towed away by a minority of power hungry people. The same thing that has happened here with Furhrer Trump. Fortunately we have kept him from expanding his ego ambitions for the future to overthrow our democracy in the same way that Hitler and his Nazi party caused hell to Europe.
Ah, yes, thanks for the link. I was forgetting about that meaning: Samdhi, the transition between two Yugas. In a way, we are still in the Samdhi between Kali and Dwapara, at least as far as social conditions are concerned. Not the whole world has fully transitioned.
As far as I understood, Dwapara is about solving the illusion of space (among other things, predominantly through science, we already have many examples for this, such as airplanes, phones, internet, etc.), while Treta Yuga shall be about transcending the illusion of time.
Not sure about social conditions when it comes to Dwapara yuga. Wars, famines, etc. will probably accompany mankind on Earth well deep into Dwapara?
Most spiritual authorities put Krishna’s birth at approximately 5,000 years ago, which was in at least, a period that was comparable to today, it was in the descending Dwapara Yuga. Today we are in the ascending Dwapara Yuga.
The Gita is generally considered to pre-date. The Christian era. The testimony of the Mahabharata itself is that the Kurukshetra War took place toward the end of the Dwapara yoga, when the world was on the verge of descending into the dark age of the Kali Yuga. ~Yogananda; God talks with Arjuna
