Tuesday, December 9, 2008

On TRAC to Jiva Gypsies

THE TRAC PROGRAM - (for the 5 Root Races)

The TRAC program is a project intiated by Datuk Jegadeshan, one of swami's ardent and prominent devotees. He travels the world promoting Hinduism for the minority Indian youth and uses TRAC to help them establish their spiritual identity and roots through understanding their Tradition, Religion, Aspiration & Culture.

The program has been very popular in America for minority Indians dealing with the challenges of their tradition over the prevailing culture; where youth face the struggle of maintain their Vedic identity against the modernities and temptations of capatilisitc life as well as the issues of generational gap from their migrant parents.

This post is suggesting how TRAC could be a useful program that could be applied to all the "Gypsy" cultures of the 5 Root Races (concept) and help get all youth on TRACk to find their roots and identity, and use it as a way to transition into being part of a global contemporary gypsy culture.

The first part of the TRAC's definition below is for the original program whilst the second part is my addition. It considers the economical crisis and planet in peril and, the need of youth today to have a practical knowledge of financial matters and apply the values of TRAC in the world around them. These two 2 Royal Rails of TRAC will also help bridge the generation gap of the parents traditional past and their own realistic future.


DEFINITION

T = TRAC, which stands for the path or track from:

i) the
PAST of your Tradition, Religion, Aspiration & Culture/Character,

leading you on trac(k) to establishing your
identity, values and confidence in the PRESENT

ii) and be able to anticipate the
FUTURE of:

Trends (macro & micro economics/political/sociological) and
Rights (need over greed) with
Awareness (knowledge - eg. financial) and
Creativity with Consciousness (planet friendly innovation for the global economy).

From TRADITION (trend & history) to RELIGION (rights of ancestral identity) to ASPIRATION (awareness & confidence) to CULTURE (& creativity) = getting youth on their TRAC to JIVA GYPSIES (universal creative contemporary culture in the 5 root races

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DESCRIPTION OF TRAC

The TRAC program is a half way house for minority youth living in countries without a strong identity who are lost and need to get on track to gain the self confidence in themselves before they can venture off track and into SAI..

Many people in the Sai organisation think that TRAC is divisive to Sai's mission, keeping youth away from the more inclusive "unity of faith" approach that swami promotes, but perhaps it is just a stepping stone or platform for many (in this case) Hindu youth. Sick of the blind ritualism and enforcement of ignorant parents who are unable to bridge the generation gap between themselves and youth, TRAC in the case of Hindu youth, might help build a better understanding for youth to transition from the conflicts of rebelling against conformity into more expansive choices that they can identify with and use meaningfully into making their futures happier. And, perhaps the addition of the second definition for TRAC (future) might help people and Sai devotees see its unifying rather than apparently divisive effect.

As swami says, religion is 3/4 character building and and the end of education is character, whose culture ends in perfection; whereas spirituality is 3/4 self-inquiry and the end of knowledge is Love, whose end is in the freedom born of a true investigative and wise form of spirituality.

So the TRAC of Tradition, Religion, Aspiration & Culture (leading to character) could be seen as a journey that balances and moves youth through the modern influences of trends, rights, awareness and creativity (leading to the consciousness & spirituality of SAI).

So for me, the end of Uncle Jega's TRAC process is the Character whereby youth have self-confidence and are ready to appreciate swami's unity of faiths and consciousness. TRAC promotes the making of a dharmic ego as a necessary preliminary to the wisdom of getting off TRAC and onto SAI; through the I of TRAC, to the We of Gypsies, to the One of SAI and an advaitic metaphsyical religion of identity in Consciousness.

(Global Spirituality as a Unity in Diversity through a Unity of Faiths to a Metaphysical Religion of our expaned Identity... Advaita of Who am I? via the "I" to "we" to "One")

And again, as swami says, we cannot cut off the ego with judgments, but must let wisdom drop the tail away, and that by climbing the "real coconut tree" of spirituality we automatically climb and enjoy the fruits of the "shadow tree" of the world. So too, a more complete TRAC approach (with both rails) might help integrate all this through a more self-inquiry (identity) approach leading to spirituality for the global based knowledge economy where creativity in culture from a unified metaphysical consciousness (of the 5), will allow the egos' tail to drop off and the shadow coconuts enjoyed by a future youth entertainment for the world, whether Hindu, SAi or humanitarian.

This concept could be used for all groups and root races, but the philosophy tailored towards their unique TRAC to their being relevant and creative in resurrecting their culture in a contemporary way in the context of modernity on the foundation of their traditions.

So there can be TRAC for Hindus, TRAC for Christians, TRAC for religions, TRAC for root races .. eg. blacks through their strengths and spirituality expressed in art, music and entertainment.

As TRAC is already popular in the USA where there are already the 5 root races co-existing and a similar TRAC program already implemented for African Americans through Isaac Tigrett House of Blues, it seems like the ideal place to set the stage and pioneer a co-ordinated TRAC to HOB to JIVA GYPSIES to SAI to METAPHYSIC to ADVAITA evolution of spirituality.

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USA - JIVA 5 ROOT RACES - TRAC TO GYPSY TO SAI

*AMERICA as land of (JIVA SOUL) GYPSIES as same as original MIGRANTS again looking for new life (the American Dream)

*5 root races there with native native American Red Indians to White (flamenco espanics) to black Africans (voodoo), Whites (flamenco espanics) to more recent migrants from Asia (yellow) and more recently India (browns) as part of the IT soft ware boom

* Today migration is wherever you feel your identity via profession and life style..... as Universal Gypsies ... flat world (computer, internet and soft ware).. no borders but identity with a nation .... live where you identify with... as a international gypsy

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1.
AFRICA

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So what is the Africa
black TRAC =>

Tradition = (Gypsy) Voodoo art, Tribal Blues

Religion = Tantric Nature Worship - Shamanism

Aspiration = Communion through singing and dance - Soul, Rock, Blues, Jazz, Gospel Church

Culture = Entertainment through song and prayer

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2.
EUROPE (Spain & Celts) white root race

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So what is the European white
TRAC =>

Tradition = Gypsy Pagan => Christianity => Classical & Renaissance

Religion = Christianity ... Aspiration = Scientific..... Culture = Modernities


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3.
TRIBAL SHAMANISM (Red)

TRAC for Shamanism & native Americans similar to Africans

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Sub TRACs
Tradition = Shamanism, Religion = Islam (varies) Aspiration & Culture


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4.
INDIA Vedic Tantric Shamanism Gypsies from Rajastan

TRAC for India

Tradition = Vedas, Religion = Sanata Dharma, Aspiration = 4 goals, Culture = Caste

=> Jiva5 => 5 Human Values Sai Organisation

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5. SAME TRAC APPROACH TAKEN FOR
CHINA

(
Tradition of filial piety, Religion of Tao, Aspiration of harmony between heaven & earth; Culture of Confusius)


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