Chandogya Upanishad

There is a light that shines beyond all things on Earth,

 
beyond us all, beyond the heaven, beyond the highest, 

the very highest heavens

. 

This is the light that shines in our heart."

~ Chandogya Upanishad

in the honor of winter Olympics Sochi 2014

Never cooked Russian food or ate in the restaurants :(

how did we miss that?

Russia is a huge country with rich history how come it never occurred to me to try their food?

Russia is in headlines now with Sochi winter games and i want to try the food on the day of closing ceremony.  

what would be a better time than this;) 

Menu:

 Borscht Soup (recipe)

Piroshki Bread (recipe)

Golubtsy (recipe)

 Pelmeni  (recipe)

 Blini Crepes (recipe)

ok menu decided,
recipes ready, enthusiasm in high 
let's see how they turn out! or let's see how i am going to mess them up;)

thank you all the bloggers for your recipes and pictures!!!


**** UPDATE ****2/23/2014



cooked all of them, cheated little bit;)
we don't eat beef and pork so substitute them with mutton and turkey.
pelmeni dried after a while so i have to check what is the solution for it.

 Borscht Soup and Piroshki Bread turn out a hit among testers!!

awesome job Russia in Sochi!!!!
spasiba

time lapse and Maya story

there is a story about Maya (illusion).

one day sri krishna and Narada both are having a conversation.

Narada says, Krishna i never experienced your maya and i just wonder how it feels like.

Krishna said, Narada would you fetch me some water? 

Naradha said sure, and he took few steps and enter in to a village in the earth plane.

 there he saw a beautiful girl and fell in love, he asked her to marry him and they got married had children buried in the worldly desires, sorrows and daily hustle and bustle and what not!

time is passing by

 suddenly one night in his dream Narada heard a soft voice somebody is asking him Narada, where is my water? when are you bringing it to me?

suddenly Narada woke up next to krishna looking at him confused 

krishna asked him didn't i requested you to fetch some water where did you disappear?

Narada said, i have no idea what just happened, i don't understand, where am I?

sri krishna smiled and said narada, you wanted to experience how my Maya feels like and you just experienced it.

how is that experience?
Narada came out of amnesia and said it felt so real, i didn't even remember who i was or anything about our friendship or other dimensions.

according to vedas one second of cosmic time is 80+ years of earthly time.

when soul left for one second from our super soul to live in the human body here on earth it seems as for years because earth plane is very low vibration plane and very dense as well, on top of it we have maya.

beautiful story!!