Sashti viradham

how?

1st day (day after no moon day, diwali)
    - cleanse with laxatives, oil-pulling, enema
    - flush with hot sea-salt water - infused with either or combo of lemon, ginger, cucumber, pinapple
2nd to 6th day
    - fast in the terms you pre-decided. Originally, a fast is a full dry fast, i.e., no food or water intake. 
    - no laborious work or unnecessary words spoken to ensure the energy is preserved
    - feeling physically light & mental clarity by 3rd or 4th day is reliable symptom of right progress.
    - 5th and 6th day the intensity of devotion or meditation significantly amplifies. Show-up and do the rituals promptly in the pre-decided hours.
7th day 
    - during sunrise, ensure it is sashti tithi, do a soorasamhara ritual and break the fast.

why?

- The intake (through 5 senses) heavily infuence and besiege our innate emotions.
- The expression becomes more habitual and far from the authentic self. 
- Our breathe pattern is totally altered by these intakes.

By cutting down all possible intake (information we hear and see, sensations we feel, things we taste and the smell inhaled);
 - there is no energy to give-in to the usual distractions
 - habits truncated at the source.
 - breathe naturally flows shallow. 
 - innate emotions surfaces up. 
 - get easily absorbed in devotional and meditative practices.
 - opening up the possibilty to experience the natural infant breathe within us.

What to do during viradham?

Experience and express the emotions differently from the usual pattern. With reduced energy levels, the expressions will automatically be less aggressive and brain re-wires and naturally seeks new ways of expression.
- sit and devote often.
- watch breathe, meditate daily.
- Introspect and evaluate the quailty of devotion and meditation.
- self-realize and set yourself free from the human-invented by-emotions: guilt, shame and image
- levitate from society/media driven lower vibration traps: fear, desire and pride
- detach emotions in dealing with others troubles, dont get entangled in their pathos

Survivability

Global warming, over-population, natural disaster, pandemic, corruption, inflation, unemployment, curiculum, racism, sexism are decoys. They overshadow the top three hot brewing imminent threats to our livelyhood, that can take effect within hours of outbreak.
  1. Armed syndicate taking over communities: The concept of freedom along with the sense of safety and security will be wiped out within half a day.
  2. Hackers taking control of the power grid: Access to essential resources (water, food and warmth) is directly wired to arbitrary resources like electricity and internet.
  3. Malicious adulteration of water, food, air and/or electro-magnetic radiations can quickly escalate and result in high fatality rates. Resulting in panic and chaos, eventually triggering the above mentioned threat #1 and #2.
⁠No Transport: Without electricity/internet, whole air/sea travel comes to standstill. If you missed the drill, lookup crowdstrike outage 2024. Armed armies in streets will discourage any road travel as well.

No Communication: This is obvious. All our modes of communication directly relies on the latest technologies.

Wealth vanish: Without electricity/internet, all the paper wealth cease to exist. Under seige by armed faction, any remote resources are inaccessible.

The only saving grace is, no more mortgage, rent, tax, insurance, bills to pay.  Where you are and what you own is all yours until any armed group hijack and take over. Those with high debt-to-wealth ratio may experience a minor relief in this grief.

Who can survive? Those with;
  1. ability to protect self and dependents
  2. source of water
  3. ability to grow or access to eatables
  4. survival skills - combat, arms, hunting, hideout, stealth travel
  5. ability to quickly join hands, make deals and/or recruit collaborators
  6. Leading others, public speaking, devising and executing plans.
  7. Ability to coach knowledge, skills and inspire others
The powers that want the control, don’t like any of these abilities in the hands of anyone other than their allies. So, its natural to anticipate their attempts to steer people clear from such survivability. By enforcing regional laws against it, peanalizing such sources with large taxes, threatening people against it, luring unsuspecting crowd with easier alternatives, keeping the crowd distracted with fear, desire and pride manipulating entertainment.

While it is good to hope none of these strike mutiple cities at the same time potentially paralyzing the law enforcement; It doesn’t hurt to invest a little thought into it and devising a panic response plan that suits your family, community and surroundings.