I live and write this blog, just a few miles from where Kobe Bryant lived with his family in Newport Beach, California. Its a couple of miles from here to the airport where he and his daughter, and 7 others with families and friends, lifted off into the sky, unexpectedly soon landing them in the eternal energetic realm, propelled by the waves of time.

Kobe's work ethic and accomplishments were legend; a dedicated warrior for excellence. He enjoyed serving his family, job, country with his talents, which were appreciated worldwide.

As a life-long LA area native and Laker fan, I could hardly imagine the sense of loss and emptiness his family and friends must feel. I went to one of the beaches in Newport today, where I got some slight symbolic sense of it. I saw the beauty of the beach on a clear winter day, but mostly empty. It was devoid of the joyful presence of summertime beach goers, who on a summer day might otherwise be enjoying the sun, swimming, making sandcastles, playing volleyball, surfing...

                              A mostly empty Newport Beach today

Kobe, being a hero-warrior of sorts to many, might have found comfort along with his family and friends, in the knowledge passed on to another warrior named Arjuna, described in the Bhagavad-Gita.

"For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.

The soul can never be cut into pieces by any weapon, nor can he be burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.

Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.

Know that which pervades the entire body is indestructible. No one is able to destroy the imperishable soul.

BG 2.20/23 /12/13

Getting closer to the shoreline, it was apparent that despite a recent family and community tragedy, the waves of time introduce other perspectives, and life does go on. Time prods everything on in one's own sphere of activities, as well as beyond the veil where our present senses normally don't penetrate.

Waves of time impact everyone, measured as hours, days, months, years, lifetimes. Time is continuous, like waves of the ocean, but we normally don't see such waves as markers of time passing which will lead to the destruction of our present physical body as time marches on.

Time also manifests the preparation of what comes next, after leaving one's earthly body. Time leads one on to eventually accept a new body of spirit or matter, of some type. Tomorrow's body is formed in the present, according to one's actions (karma) and desires. Such future bodies are determined and awarded by universal laws.

Time I Am..

Robert Oppenheimer also reflected on a verse in the Bhagavad-Gita in the process of developing and testing the first nuclear weapons, regarding destruction in the form of time and other forces.

"The Blessed Lord said: Time I am, destroyer of the worlds, and I have come to engage all people..."
Bg 11.32

Ancient Wisdom advises that just like the sun - continually radiating innumerable light particles as the energetic source sustaining life on earth - so God/Source energy sustains each soul particle eternally; during and beyond one's journey through space-time as we know it. Energy is never lost; it only changes form.

Giving up both religious and scientific dogma and gradually surrendering to one's Supreme Energetic Source in the heart, can also be part of a Mamba mentality; a focused effort to realize one's highest potential.

Such meditative focusing can be on one's loving relationship to God/Source - in a reciprocally loving service mentality performed in one's own energetic arena.

Seeing all life and matter as connected to God/Source, by God/Source can be the ultimate game-changer for all of us as players.

Certainly the eternal clock is patiently running and reminding us - Game On!

A cloud can cover the sun - but not for long!

We are accosted by trust-bait daily from various advertisements, promotions, and pitches offering keys to the promised land of lasting satisfaction.

Deciding who and what to trust and have faith in, is not always easy.

Sometimes we don't even trust or have faith in ourselves, having made a determination to go a certain direction, but mindlessly looping back into habitual unwanted patterns.

We all may be fallible beings - being subject to making mistakes, embracing illusions, having a tendency to cheat others as well as ourselves, and we are stuck with imperfect senses - just by nature.

We put our faith in other fallible soldiers outside of ourselves hoping for protection from loss and disappointment, but those presumed guardians can't give what they also don't have - which becomes apparent over time.

Although counterfeit goods and currencies exists, one need not conclude that the real deal can't be found. To find the Infallible, one needs to connect to, and place faith in, that which is eternal.

That still, genuine, timeless space is found when one seeks to connect to the all-pervasive spirit found within one's heart-space; that meditative place where faith and realization can grow.

To find, know and serve the Supreme Person, who is located within and also without, is the purpose of all religion/dharma/spirituality/yoga.

Such faith is not blind, but gradually built when one approaches the Infallible for shelter and ultimate satisfaction. People of informed faith universally find that unflinching trust can be truly cultured when finding the Supreme responds in the sphere of one's activities - in many unique ways.

God/Source, who is One and all-pervasive, is nevertheless a person who hears and feels our hearts. Our energetic Source is known by many names in many languages. One such name for the Supreme Lord in the Sanskrit language, is Acyuta, meaning The Infallible.

                                       Bhagavad Gita describes contacting The Infallible:

When one's intelligence, mind, faith and refuge are all fixed in the Supreme, then one becomes fully cleansed of misgivings through complete knowledge and thus proceeds straight on the path of liberation.

Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense pleasure or external objects but is always in trance, enjoying the pleasure within. In this way the self-realized person enjoys unlimited happiness, for he concentrates on the Supreme.

Before giving up this present body, if one is able to tolerate the urges of the material senses and check the force of desire and anger, he is a yogī and is happy in this world.


One whose happiness is within, who is active within, who rejoices within and is illumined within, is actually the perfect mystic. He is liberated in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains the Supreme.

The sages, knowing Me as the ultimate purpose of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attain peace from the pangs of material miseries

In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness and enjoys himself through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain.

Bg 5.17,23,24,29 6.22

By Stevie Wonder from Songs in the Key of Life "Have a talk with God"