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Forword to the book , Journey to the Source

Don Davis, Music Composer of Matrix Movies wrote the foreword for the book.

"As Morpheus told Neo, only the door can be shown but he is the one who has to walk through it, this book "Journey to The Source" holds the door open and illuminates our path"

- Don Davis, Composer of Matrix Movies, 2004

Click here to listen to the Navras composed by Don Davis for Matrix Revolutions

Interview of Don Davis

Don Davis: Yeah. And, you know, when we first looked at Revolutions , Larry and Andy told me they wanted the super burly brawl, which is the cataclysmic fight mano-et-mano between Neo and Agent Smith, they wanted the choir to have a significant voice in that scene. And I told them that I thought that was a really good idea but if the choir just sang "ooooohs" and "aaaaaaaahs" it would be significantly not very good. So I asked them if they would look for something in literature that represented some of the ideological themes that had influenced them when they were writing The Matrix that we could give to the choir and have them sing. And I told them that I actually preferred a language that wasn't English and if possible a "dead" language like Latin, so that even around the world there's nobody who is actively speaking the language that the choir is singing.

They eventually came up with about six passages from the Vedic scriptures called the Upanishads. And we had them sing it in the original Sanskrit. And these texts are amazingly apropos to the whole ontological concept of The Matrix. It refers to "the one." Let me read one of them: "In him are woven the sky and the earth and all the regions of the air. And in him rests the mind and all the powers of life. Know him as "The One" and leave aside all other words. He is the bridge of immortality."

I mean [laughs] that's amazing. And the first text you hear sung in the burly brawl sequence is a prayer which goes "From delusion lead me to truth, from darkness lead me to light, from death lead me to immortality." I think that adds a whole layer of meaning to the entire trilogy.

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The book "Journey to the Source" discusses about the Uni5 pattern reflected in the movie the Matrix.

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Adaminte Makan Abu -2011

The moral of the story about impatient killing of the goose for the golden egg is that we are so focussed on the result rather than the process. If we take care of adam-abu-5 the goose well, we will get an eternal supply of golden eggs.

However in the modern times, we are so much result oriented than process oriented. Whether it is about gaining materialistic wealth or about raising children, education or doing spiritual practices, we are so much result oriented that we compromise the processes of doing the action efficiently.

An action becomes a ritual when the awareness of doing the process is ignored by focussing only on the results.

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This is the theme "golden" underlined in the Malayalam movie Adaminte Makan Abu. A story about a couple wishing to go for the Hajj spiritual pilgrimage to Mecca from kerala, South India. This Indian drama film is written, directed and co-produced by Salim Ahame d.

Abu (Salim Kumar) and Aishumma (Zarina Wahab) an elderly Muslim couple living in Kerala's Malabar region does not comprimise their spiritual principles to fullfill their aspiration is to go for Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.

We see the strength in their personality, by refusing to undertake a "Physical (body level) pilgrimage to Mecca. They are prepared to patiently wait to go the next year rather than self-justifying compromising actions to physically be at Mecca. Today millions who undertake religious pilgrimage attain only success of reaching the destination physically, but they fail at the Awareness or spiritual level. This is because of the result oriented mind set, missing the very purpose of the pilgrimage.

Abu makes barely money by selling attar (a perfume obtained from flowers) and religious books. Aishumma breeds cattle and hens, helping her husband realise their shared dream. Every day they drop few pennies in their saving box to go to Haj.

To meet the travel expenses, Abu sells his cow and old Jack fruit tree. Abu is helped by the manager of a travel agency to get flight tickets and other documents for his journey.

adam-abu-2 When the passports and the tickets are ready the chritian sawmill owner, while handing over the money for Abu's tree, says that its wood turned out to be rotten and useless. He insists that Abu still take the money, since his cause is noble. Abu refuses it, saying that it wouldn't be "Halal (the Arabic word for actions that decreases SAL Energy needed to reach Godhood). When Good-natured people try to help Abu by offering to loan him the amount, but as this goes against the accepted Islamic practices, he refuses to take anything. Because every help we get from Soceity, is symbolically a loan from the Cosmic energy (SAL Energy). This is why all spiritual traditions emphasizes to do donations and Seva (Selfless service) to pay back this Cosmic loan.

When Abu decides to drop the Hajj Journey, a Hindu school teacher, Abu's friend, comes to his aid at his time of need. But he says that one should go only with the self earned money and not accept "free money". The travel agent also was ready to pay Abu's travel ticket as a tribute to his parents unfilled wish to go Haj. Abu refuses his kind offer saying that using others "Money or Energy" will benefit the donor and does not give him the merit of the pilgrimage.

On the Holy night, Abu tells his wife they will go the next year. He feels God did not want to come with the money got by killing a life, the jack fruit tree. He says the tree too had life, and several lives must have died when he cut the tree in front of his house. Abu feels that that maybe one of the reasons for his not being able to go on the journey.

On the dawn of the Hajj, he plants a new sapling of a jackfruit tree and is seen going to the mosque to pray on the morning of Hajj.

Conclusion: When problems come in life, ordinary minds blame others and situations and does not contemplate one's own cause for it. This is why spiritual masters tell to look "within" and not out for solutions. We start our spiritual evolution from the moment we start to contemplate on our problems.

We are the cause for our life and not God. Of course without God's functional Energy nothing is possible. But how we spend that Energy, determines our quality of life.

All pilgrimages and rituals in any religion or spiritual traditions are only to increase the SAL Energy. But without understanding this concept, we decrease it by doing result oriented actions.

Abu sticking on to the Islamic principles highlight the importance of SAL Energy. He is ready to fulfill his wish next year but does not any way comproimse the principles of SAL Energy according to Islam. Abu beautifully connects that destroying nature (cutting jack fruit tree) is equal to turning down of others help, because getting others money (their SAL Energy) will give merit only to them and not to him.

According to Islamic principles, one has to pay back all dues before the Haj journey of no return. This symbolically means that leading a life owing nothing to anybody in soceity, will only help to reach God's abode. This will happen when we lead a life of giving more than receiving. Ironically we are constantly look for living on other's (Soceity) energy to the maximum (Selfishness), instead of contributing to soceity (Selflessness).

The SAL Energy concept is deeply embeded in Islam in many ways. Even women wearing "Purdah" is also to increase SAL Energy by not provoking "sensual thoughts" in others. When it is not understood in the proper sense, it leads to torture of women by men and liberalization attitude of women.

Symbolism of the movie ending with watering and growing of a Jack fruit sappling shows that we need to grow that SAL Energy to reach the final destination of our journey of life.

adam-abu-4 Postponing the pilgrimage next year without compromising principles, symbolize that if we cannot realize our dreams this life time, understand, that it will be fulfilled in the next birth. Our ignorance of rebirth, makes us to compromise good values of this life time.

For the golden eggs (material life), it is stupid to kill the Goose (SAL Energy).

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Journey to the Source

Welcome to this section of the book "Journey to the Source" based on the Matrix Movies.

This book gives a detailed understanding about the mystery of Life and Consciousness.Reading this will create a good change in you and understand the reality of life.

This book will create more power in you, more success in you, more happiness in you.

All the profits of the book supports the charitable activities of Uni5 Sakthi Foundation.

The book was a winner of the Hollywood Spiritual Film Festival 2004.

Foreword for the Book was given by Don Davis the Music director of all three Matrix movies, who composed Asatoma Sad gamaya song when the Hero and Villan fight. He also composed the music "Navarasa" based on Nine Upanishads as the title song in the Matrix Revolutions. .

Contact Information
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    Journey To The Source
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Book ISBN - 0975258605

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The closest Interpretation to Matrix Movies

There a a number of interpretation to Matrix Movies by different people. Every one were anxious to listen what Larry and Andy Wachowski were to interpret about the movies. They intelligently avoided to talk about so that the discussions about the movie remain immortal.

The matrix fans could get an idea about the theme from the Interview of Larry Wachowski and Ken-Wilber about the "The Many Meanings of The Matrix". The message given in the book Journey to The Source gives the closest interpretation to the "Many meanings of the Matrix".

The interview can be read from this below link.

http://www.matrixfans.net/symbolism/meanings.php

Larry: I mean, the Matrix is an exploration of consciousness...

This is the very theme of Journey to the Source. Our source is Consciousness and our life is the Journey to the source, the Consciousness, like that of Neo's Journey. This Book explores what is Consciousness, the essence of the book.

The philosophy present throughout the Matrix Trilogy is a mix of many religious symbols and ideologies,. It devalues them as a body of work to say that just one set religious ideals defined the entire philosophical undercurrent of the three films, whether its Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, sufism, Gnosticism, Mysticism, or even the aboriginals relgions.

Nevertheless all these religions have one aim, one theme in Common, help Man explore Consciousness, the Source of everything. Politics in these religions may blind the followers in reaching the source, but founders of these religions had one one Common vision - The Consciousness.

Larry: It's the whole process, that mystical, that eros that you talk about that's underneath everything has been bringing us toward the development of self-awareness and consciousness. Well I guess consciousness, and then self-awareness.

Human unsolved mystery is about "Consciousness". In spite of modern scientific advancement we are still groping to find the mystery of Consciousness. In the book "Journey to the Source", Consciousness is differentiated from Awareness. The subtle difference between these terms is probably no where clearly demarked.

Matrix movies provided a solid platform to understand these two terms and knowing these two terms one can walk the spiritual path towards the Source.

http://in.integralinstitute.org/talk.aspx?id=205

Thus, as Ken summarizes a more integral interpretation (that takes into account what is revealed in all three films), Zion represents body (filmed in blue tint), the Matrix represents mind (green tint), and the machines—this is the kicker revealed in part 3—represent spirit (golden tint). For those of you keeping track, this is indeed quite similar to the Great Nest of Being as taught by the world's wisdom traditions, a spectrum of being and consciousness reaching from body to mind to spirit.

This theme is clearly explained in the book "Journey to the Source". We are caught in the matrix web of the Mind and so we do not realize the Consciousness, the Source of everything, is the very Source of our being.