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SILENCE IS ABOVE THOUGHTS AND ABOVE 'NO-THOUGHTS. SILENCE IS  NEITHER A SUPPRESSION OF THOUGHT.  IT IS THE ABSOLUTE STATE, WHERE THERE IS NEITHER A 'SEER' NOR A 'SEEN' NOR THE ACT OF 'SEEING'. AT THE PHENOMENAL STATE, 'A SLEEPING MAN' IS THE NEAR EXAMPLE.  AT THE ABSOLUTE STATE,  ETERNAL SILENCE IS THE TRUTH.

OUR PHYSICAL STRUCTURE REPRESENTS  'LIVING', WHILE 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE, REPRESENTS "LIFE".

"I-AM"  IS  'SENSE OF EXISTENCE '.  IMMEDIATELY,  ON  ITS PROJECTION, THERE ARISE CONCEPTS  WHICH  SHADOW  THE VERY 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE'.

"I-CONSCIOUSNESS" IS BEYOND CONCEPT,  ALTHOUGH  CONCEIVED BY THE HUMAN MIND,  AS THE ORIGIN OF "I-AM".

'CONCEPTS' ARE THE 'BONDAGE', AND ABSENCE OF 'CONCEPT' IS  MUKTHY.

'I AM AN INDIVIDUAL'  IS  ONLY AN OBJECTIVE CONCEPT, WHERE "I-AM" RESEMBLES TO BE A 'SUBJECT'.  INTUITIVELY UNDERSTOOD,  'I-AM' IS ALSO AN OBJECT, AND 'I-CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ONLY  SUBJECT.  "ETERNAL SILENCE"  IS  THE  ULTIMATE REALITY.

"ABSOLUTE",  "I-CONSCIOUSNESS" ," I-AM", " I AM AN INDIVIDUAL"AND "INDIVIDUALITY", ARE THE DIFFERENT STAGES IN THE PROCESS  OF SHRINKAGE,  AND  THE REVERSE IS THE PROCESS OF EXPANSION!!

WHILE "I-AM"  IS  WISDOM KNOWLEDGE,  'I AM AN INDIVIDUAL' PROJECTS EMOTIONS AND RATIONAL KNOWLEDGE.

THE ESSENCE OF WISDOM KNOWLEDGE IS  PURE HAPPINESS. 

EMOTIONS  RELATE TO PLEASURE AND PAIN,  ATTRACTION AND REPULSION.

RATIONAL KNOWLEDGE RELATES  TO LIKES AND DISLIKES.

EMOTIONS AND RATIONAL KNOWLEDGE ARE BOUND  BY THE WHEEL OF TIME - (KALA CHAKRAM).

WISDOM KNOWLEDGE IS  BEYOND  KALA CHAKRAM, BEYOND RATIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND EMOTIONS.

BEYOND I-CONSCIOUSNESS. IS ETERNAL SILENCE;  " I CONSCIOUSNESS"  IS  PEACE.  "I -AM" IS. HAPPINESS; 'I AM AN INDIVIDUAL'  RELATES  TO 'EMOTIONS AND RATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; "INDIVIDUALITY"  IS. EGO  i.e., ATTACHMENT TO BODY, ENTERTAINING  DOER-SHIP AND  ENJOYER-SHIP, AND POSSESSOR SHIP.

ISHWARA  IS EVERYWHERE,  WITHIN AND  WITH OUT - ISHWARA  IS  " I  "  AS  WELL  AS  " I AM".

ONE  HAS  THE  FREEDOM  EITHER TO REALIZE  HIMSELF AS. GOD,  OR PROJECT  HIMSELF OBVERSELY.

THAT WHICH EXPRESSES AS 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE' IS "LIFE", AND THAT WHICH IS EXPRESSED  THROUGH 'LIFE' IS. 'LIVING'.

IN EACH BREATH, 'LIFE'  IS  INHALED FROM THE. INFINITE, AND  'LIVING'  IS EXHALED.

'LIFE' IS "PEACE"  AND  'LIVING' IS 'HAPPINESS'.  BEYOND IS "INFINITE"

FAITH  EMANATES  FROM  MIND, BELIEF FROM  INTELLECT AND TRUST FROM HEART.


ATTRACTION/REPULSION, POSSESSION, ATTACHMENT - ALL THESE EMOTIONS ARISE FROM EXPECTATION.

EQUANIMITY OF VISION, ACCEPTANCE, WITNESSING - ALL THESE ARISE  FROM  WISDOM KNOWLEDGE.

THOUGHTS EMANATE FROM "I AM",  AND EXPRESSED THROUGH EMOTIONS AND RATIONAL THINKING.  BEYOND THESE TWO IS "WISDOM-KNOWLEDGE" WHICH ARISES FROM "INTELLIGENCE" AND EXPRESSED THROUGH EQUANIMITY OF VISION, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS  "SAMA DARSANAM", "SAMATWAM".

"HAPPINESS" ,  "LIKES AND DISLIKES" AND "PLEASURE AND PAIN" ARE RESPECTIVELY FROM WISDOM-KNOWLEDGE, RATIONAL  THINKING  AND EMOTIONAL MIND.

SAMHARAM, THIRODANAM AND ANUGRAHAM ARE  THE  THREE FUNCTIONS OF LORD SHIVA.  SAMHARAM  DESTROYS THE CONFLICTS IN CONCEPTS,  THIRODANAM  ERASES THE CONCEPTS  ALTOGETHER AND FINALLY, ANUGRAHAM ABSORBS THE ENTIRE CREATION CAUSED BY VIDYA AND AVIDYA MAYA.

PHILOSOPHICALLY,  INDIVIDUALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DISSOLVE IN I-AM;    AHAMKARAM AND JEEVA BHODAM  MERGE WITH ATMA BHODAM.

I-CONSCIOUSNESS AND ATMA BHODAM ARE ONE AND THE SAME - THE FORMER IS MACROCOSMIC AND THE LATTER IS MICROCOSMIC. ONE IS 'WATER IN THE OCEAN' AND THE OTHER IS 'WATER IN THE WAVE'.

IN THE MAHAVAKYA "TAT TWAM  ASI",  TAT IS  PARAMATMA AND TWAM IS ANTHARATMA. SOMETIMES INTERPRETED AS  BRAMHA AND JEEVA. ULTIMATELY, IT IS ONE AND THE SAME REALITY, EXPRESSED DIFFERENTLY, SIMILAR TO WATER EXPRESSING OCEAN, SEA OF WAVES, INDIVIDUAL WAVE , BUBBLES ETC.

OUR  JOURNEY IS FROM SILENCE ZONE TO NOISE ZONE; FROM  COMFORT TO  DIS-COMFORT.    SILENCE IS  "LIFE" AND NOISE IS "LIVING".  SILENCE IS HIDDEN,  IN EVERY ACTIVITY.  MEDITATION - DHYANA- IS RECOMMENDED, ENABLING TO GO BACK TO THE SOURCE.

MEDITATION  BEGINS WITH ONE THOUGHT-A MANTRA, AND ENDS WITH NO-THOUGHT - NO MANTRA.

NIRGUNA  BRAHMAM IS 'SHIVAM',  AND  SAGUNA BRAHMAM IS 'SAKTHY'.  BEYOND  IS  'ABSOLUTE' -  'SUDDHA BRAHMAM'.

DEVI  IS  SAKTY WHO  BRINGS  OUT  AASAKTHY (DESIRE) TO THE. INDIVIDUAL.  HE  MISUSES  THE. AASAKTHY IN THE PURSUIT OF WORLDLY DESIRES SUCH AS PLEASURE, LIKES AND ENJOYMENT,  AND IS CAUGHT IN DUAL AND CONFLICTING CONCEPTS;  WHEN  HE  TURNS  ASAKTHY TOWARDS  DEVI  HERSELF,  IT BECOMES  BHAKTY, AND  HE IS BLESSED WITH 'PURE HAPPINESS'.

DEVI IS BOTH CONSCIOUS AND COSMIC ENERGY , A  SANKALPA OF SHIVA.

UNDERSTAND  REALITY AND GET AWAY FROM  IMAGINATION. THIS IS POSSIBLE ONLY THROUGH  DIVINE GRACE,  ALTHOUGH  WE CLAIM  FREEDOM  OF MIND,  IN THIS RESPECT.

GOD IS  EXPERIENCED  IN  'SILENCE'.  ONCE WE START EXPRESSING THROUGH  MIND,  GOD  BECOMES A REFLECTION/DEFLECTION. MIND HAS FREEDOM EITHER TO BE IN SILENCE OR IN EXPRESSION.

THE SOURCE OF MIND (  'I AM THE INDIVIDUAL' )  IS  "I-AM"  (SENSE OF EXISTENCE) AND THE SOURCE OF 'I-AM'  IS  "I-CONSCIOUSNESS" (EXISTENCE)




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CONCEPTS  ARE  BROADLY CLASSIFIED AS  POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE,  AND  EMOTIONS  ARE CLASSIFIED  AS ATTRACTION AND REPULSION. 

CONCEPTS FUNCTION  AT  THE INTELLECTUAL LEVEL,  AND EMOTIONS FUNCTION  AT THE MENTAL LEVEL.

SANKALPAM  IS. CONCEPTS;  VIKALPAM IS MISUNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPTS .  SANKALPAM  IS MITYA  AND VIKALPAM IS 'BRAMAM'

SNAKE IS A CONCEPT; ROPE IS ANOTHER CONCEPT;  IMAGINING THE ROPE AS SNAKE IS VIKALPAM.

RHYTHM,  SATYAM  AND  PARAM  INDICATE "I AM", " I "  AND "BEYOND".


"I-CONSCIOUSNESS" IS "LIFE" THE FIRST EXPRESSION OF "ABSOLUTE".
I-CONSCIOUSNESS  IS THE GOD-PRINCIPLE  AS  WELL  AS  ATMA.
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE. BETWEEN ATMA AND GOD PRINCIPLE.  ONE IS MICROCOSMIC AND THE OTHER  IS MACROCOSMIC.

IN DEATH,  THE 'LIVING'  (JEEVA).  DISINTEGRATES, AND "LIFE" (ATMA)  CONTINUES  TO EXIST.

WAVE, SEA OF WAVES AND OCEAN REPRESENT RESPECTIVELY I AM AN INDIVIDUAL,  I- AM  AND I CONSCIOUSNESS.

AHAMKARAM, JEEVA TATWAM, ATMA TATWAM, ISHWARA TATWAM AND BRAHMA TATWAM.  MEAN:  FROM INDIVIDUAL EGO TO INDIVIDUAl,  FROM INDIVIDUAL TO I AM, FROM I AM TO " I  " AND FROM  " I  "  TO THE ABSOLUTE.

HAPPINESS IS THE NATURE OF "I AM",  OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "LIVING" IN IT'S FULL EXPRESSION.  PEACE, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS THE BASIS FOR HAPPINESS. PEACE AND HAPPINESS  ARE THE ESSENCE OF LIFE AND LIVING.  THEY ARE NOT TO BE VIEWED. SEPARATELY.  THEY FUNCTION  SIMILAR TO OCEAN AND SEA OF GENTLE WAVES.

ISHWARA AND ATMA ARE ONE AND THE SAME "I-CONSCIOUSNESS" - ONE IN THE MACROCOSMIC SENSE AND THE OTHER IN THE MICROCOSMIC SENSE.  WHEN  GOD IS VIEWED  AS 'LIFE', THE ENTIRE COSMOS REPRESENTS "LIVING".


SIMILARLY, WHEN. ATMA IS CONSIDERED AS 'LIFE',  JEEVA IS THE 'LIVING' ASPECT.

ATMA IS 'LIFE' AND JEEVA IS 'LIVING'.

AN INDIVIDUAL HAS BOTH THE ASPECTS OF LIFE AND LIVING. 
'I AM  AND I AM AN INDIVIDUAL'- ATMA AND JEEVA.

'EXISTENCE' AND 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE' CANNOT BE SEPARATED. THEY EXIST TOGETHER SIMILAR TO OCEAN AND SEA OF WAVES, SIMILAR TO DANCER AND DANCING, SIMILAR TO SHIVA AND SIVAA.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ABSOLUTE. (BRAHMAM)  AND GOD PRINCIPLE (I-CONSCIOUSNESS) IS SIMILAR TO 'LIGHT' AND 'DAY LIGHT'). 

BOTH "ISHWARA CHAITANYAM"  AND "ATMA  CHAITANYAM" ARE ONE AND THE SAME "LIFE PRINCIPLE..

ULTIMATELY, BRAHMAM,  ISHWARA AND ATMA ARE ONE AND THE SAME CHAITANYAM, AND THE "INDIVIDUAL" IS AN APPEARANCE  SIMILAR TO AN INDIVIDUAL WAVE,  PROJECTING  B.M.I - KSHARA ASPECT.

ISHWARA IS PRAISED WITH THE EPHITHET "KSHARA-AKSHARA".(I  AM  AND  " I ") "SENSE OF EXISTENCE" AND "EXISTENCE".

EXISTENCE  IS HIDDEN IN EVERY ANIMATE AND INANIMATE IN THE COSMOS, AND 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE' IS THE EXPRESSION EXPLICIT IN CERTAIN CATEGORIES LIKE HUMAN BEINGS, ANIMALS, BIRDS ,.

ATMANUSANDANAM  MEANS "BE EVER AWARE OF GOD WITHIN".  ATMANUSANDANAM IS "BHAKTHY" AS DEFINED BY SRI SANKARA.

 " I  " IS  PEACE AND 'I AM' IS HAPPINESS. ATMA IN EACH ONE OF US IS BOTH LIFE AND LIVING. "AM". HAS NO INDEPENDENT EXISTENCE, WHEREAS " I  " HAS. 

ATMA IS BOTH LIFE AND LIVING .  JEEVA IS  CONFINED TO 'LIVING'.  A HARMONIOUS LIVING  EXPERIENCE HAPPINESS.

IN DEATH JEEVA DISENGAGES FROM " B.M."   AND DISSOLVES IN ATMA.  ATMA HAS NO DEATH. IT ABSORBS JEEVA - IT'S OWN REFLECTION, SIMILAR TO OCEAN ABSORBING A WAVE.

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CONSCIOUSNESS IS PEACE, I AM IS PEACE AND HAPPINESS. ' I AM AN INDIVIDUAL WITH B.M.I'   REFLECTS LIKES/DISLIKES,, PLEASURE/PAIN AND ATTRACTION/REPULSION, WITH DUAL AND CONFLICTING CONCEPTS, AS REFLECTION/DEFLECTION OF I AM.

" I " IS INHERENT IN I AM .  " I  " IS 'PEACE';  (LIFE);  I AM IS THE MEDUM FOR PEACE TO EXPRESS 'HAPPINESS' . I AM AN INDIVIDUAL BRINGS OUT DUAL AND CONFLICTING CONCEPTS, EXPRESSING LIKES /DISLIKES, PLEASURE/PAIN AND ALL KINDS OF ATTRACTION/REPULSION.,  AND A FEELING OF 'INDIVIDUALITY'.

WHAT ONE SHOULD AIM AT,  IS PEACE, PEACE, PEACE.  AS LONG AS  BODY LASTS, ONE SHOULD ASPIRE FOR HAPPINESS, THROUGH RHYTHMIC LIVING,  WIPING OUT THE PLEASURE/PAIN,  AND. LIKES/DISLIKES,  FROM THE MIND.


THE OCEAN AND THE SEA OF GENTLE  WAVES  CAN BE TAKEN AS AN ANALOGY OF " I  "  AND "I AM" (LIFE AND  RHYTHMIC  LIVING, EXISTENCE AND SENSE OF EXISTENCE). .

SAMSKRITHY (DIVINE DIRECTION)  IS  COMPARABE TO  A  CART-DRIVER WHO CONSTANTLY KEEP A WATCH ON THE MOVEMENTOF THE BULLOCKS, AND DRIVE THEM IN THE PROPER DIRECTION. ON THE OTHER HAND  SAMSKARAM  IS THE MOVEMENT OF THE BULLOCKS, BASED ON INSTINCTS.  OCCASIONALLY, THE DRIVER USES THE WHIP  TOO, AS A PART OF HIS  DIRECTION!

INTEGRATED VISION, UNIFIED VISION, EQUANIMITY OF VISION ARE DIFFERENT TERMS TO EXPLAIN "SAMATWAM" WHICH IS THE CORE OF SRI KRISHNA'S  ADVICE IN BHAGAVAD GEETHA.

SAMATWAM, SAMADARSANAM, SAMGNANAM  ARE SYNONYMS.

ONE CAN ASPIRE TO GET OUT OF INDIVIDUALITY/INDIVIDUAL, AND REMAIN AS "I AM" (RHYTHMIC LIVING EXPERIENCING  PERFECT HAPPINESS). AT THIS STAGE, DEHABHIMANAM SHALL BE REPLACED , AND ONLY DEHABHODAM SHALL REMAIN, WITH MINIMUM KARMA AND MINIMUM POSSESSION, WITHOUT ANY ATTACHMENT, WHATSOEVER.  WITH THEM.

SAMADHY IS THE STAGE WHEN DEHABHODAM IS FINALLY DROPPED..


"LIFE" IS "ATMA" (EXISTENCE);  "LIVING" IS "JEEVA" (SENSE OF EXISTENCE)
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DHARMA RELATES TO RHYTHMIC LIVING. THERE ARE VEDIC TEXTS IN THE FORM OF SUTRAS  UNDER SRUTHY, AND  SASTRAS UNDER SMRITHY . 

,APASTHAMBA,  BHODAYANA, GOWDHAMA AND VASISHTA HAVE AUTHORED  SUTRAS. UNDER SRUTHY. 

MANU, YAGNAVALKYA, NARADA, VISNU, KATYAYANA AND BRIHASPATHY ARE SAID TO BE AUTHORS OF SASTRAS UNDER SMRITHY.

DHARMA RELATES TO THE CONDUCT OF LIVING, SEPARATELY FOR EACH VARNA, AND ASRAMA.

IN THE PRESENT AGE  OF INTERMIXTURE OF VARNAS, THE VARNA-DHARMA HAS LOST IMPORTANCE.  SIMILARLY, WHEN  OCCUPATION IS CHOSEN WITHOUT ANY DISTINCTION OF VARNAS,  THE DHARMA OF BRAHMIN COMMUNITY - LEARNING AND TEACHING VEDAS - IS LOST.

COMPASSION, LOVE AND SACRIFICE ARE THE PRESENT-DAY DHARMA COMMON TO ALL VARNAS AND ASRAMAS.

VARNA  DHARMAS ARE  RECEDING.  ACHARAMS, LIKE SANDYAVANDANAM, BRAHMA-YAGNAM,SAMIDHA DHANAM ETC.,  MEANT  FOR  BRAHMIN COMMUNITY, ARE  PERFORMED  IN A HAZZY WAY. SHODACHA SAMSKARAMS  LIKE NAMAKARANAM, UPANAYANAM, MARRIAGE,SEEMANTHAM , RITES IN CONNECTION  WITH DEATH  ETC., ARE PERFORMED IN A HALF-HEARTED MANNER, WHILE GIVING MORE IMPORTANCE TO THE POMP AND SHOW OF THE CEREMONY.

ALL THESE RITES RELATE TO "LIVING" .  RULES  WERE CODIFIED AND  WERE RELEVANT TO THE PERIOD WHEN VARNAS WERE WELL COMPARTMENTALIZED

"LIVING. ('KSHARA'ASPECT OF THE 'REALITY)  IS BOUND TO CHANGE FROM TIME TO TIME, WHEREAS "LIFE" (AKSHARA. ASPECT) REMAINS THE SAME  FOR EVER.

IN THIS CONTEXT ONLY, BHAKTHY  IS BECOMING POPULAR.  THIS BHAKTHY IS  SPREADING TO ALL COMMUNITIES,  ALL. ASRAMAS, ALL VARNAS, AND IT HAS SPREAD IN OTHER RELIGIONS AS WELL. 

BHAKTHY  IS  EXPRESSED AT THE MENTAL LEVAL, IN THE FORM OF BHAJANS  ETC., AT THE INTELLECTUAL LEVEL  IN  SATSANGH, AND AT THE WISDOM LEVEL IN  THE  FORM  OF MEDITATION, UPASANA,  ETC., FINALLY, BHAKTHY ATTAINS FULFILMENT IN 'REALISATION' WHERE BHAKTHA, BHAKTHY AND BHAGAVAN  BECOME ONE.

'BHAKTHY' IS THE PATH OF SURRENDERING AND KNOWING. ALTERNATELY, ONE CAN TREAD THE PATH OF GNANA, DOING TATWA-VICHARAM  ETC., AND FINALLY LAND UP IN SURRENDERING .
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DEVI IS IMAGINED IN THE SAHASRARAM AND SHIVA IS IMAGINED IN THE HEART (HRIDAYAM) PROBABLY TO INDICATE CO-EXISTENCE OF "I AM". AND " I  ".

DEVI  IS. "SENSE OF EXISTENCE".  WHILE SHIVA IS "EXISTENCE",  DEVI. IS THE FIRST EXPRESSION OF SHIVA.

DEVI IS VIDYA MAYA;  DEVI  BRINGS OUT VISWAM  - A UNIFIED CONCEPT -  A HARMONIOUS  VISION OF GENTLE WAVES. 

AVIDYA MAYA IS THE REFLECTION OF  VIDYA MAYA,  SPLITTING THE HARMONIOUS CONCEPT, WITH NAME AND FORM, TIME AND SPACE AND CAUSE AND EFFECT.

DEVI  IS  PRAISED "VIDYA-AVIDYA SWAROOPINI" -  WHILE VIDYA  BRINGS OUT VISWAM, A HARMONIOUS CONCEPT, AVIDYA  REFLECTS SPLIT CONCEPTS.

AVIDYA  MAYA HAS TWO ASPECTS VIZ.,  MITYA AND BRAMAM WHICH MEAN ILLUSION AND DELUSION.

DHARMA RELATES TO RHYTHMIC LIVING;  SATYAM  IS  'LIFE PRINCIPLE'  WHICH IS THE BASIS FOR 'LIVING'. 'KALAM', KARMAM' AND GUNAM FUNCTION AS THE FIELD FOR 'LIVING',  WHILE  'SATYAM' STANDS ALONE.  SATYAM IS 'PRESENCE' WHEREAS DHARMA IS CONNECTED WITH PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.  DHARMA HAS DUAL CONCEPTS - POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE. SATYAM IS BEYOND CONCEPTS.

RHYTHMIC LIVING BASED ON THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF DHARMA, LEADS TO HAPPINESS.  SATYAM  REPRESENTS "PEACE"

LIVING WITH  THE QUALITIES  OF LOVE, COMPASSION AND YAGNA (SACRIFICING SPIRIT) IS TERMED AS RHYTHMIC LIVING (DHARMIC LIVING)

BHAGAVATHAS  KINDLE YOUR EARNESTNESS TO FIND OUT 'REALITY'.  ACHARYAS. LEAD YOU TOWARDS  DEVI,  AND DEVI  TAKES YOU TO "REALITY".

SALOKYAM, SAMEEPYAM, SAROOPYAM AND SAYOOJYAM  ALSO. MEAN THE ABOVE  SPIRITUAL PROGRESS.

OM  NAMO  NARAYANAYA -  THIS  MAHAMANTRA  IS THOUGHTFULLY COINED BY SAND-WITCHING  "NAMO" IN BETWEEN "OM" AND "NARAYANA".  WHILE OM REPRESENTS THE RELATIVE REALITY  OF TRINITY GODS, NARAYANA REPRESENTS  ABSOLUTE REALITY .  'NAMO'  MEANS  SURRENDER  OF 'INDIVIDUAL' TO  BOTH THE REALITIES.

INTELLIGENCE IS WISDOM KNOWLEDGE  (DIVINE GRACE ),  AND INTELLECT IS RATIONAL THINKING.

"I AM" (SENSE OF EXISTENCE)  ONLY HAS  PROJECTED  DEVI WITH A  NAME AND FORM.  "  I ",  AS SUCH,  IS NOT INVOLVED IN IT.


"I AM"  REFLECTS "RHYTHMIC LIVING".  "I-CONSCIOUSNESS"  IS THE "LIFE PRINCIPLE".  LIFE AND LIVING EXIST TOGETHER LIKE THE OCEAN AND RHYTHMIC WAVES THEREON.

RHYTHMIC LIVING  MEANS  LIVING WITH THE DHARMIC PRINCIPLES OF "COMPASSION", "LOVE" AND "SACRIFICE".

WITHOUT "LIFE" NO 'LIVING' CAN BE IMAGINED.  AT  THE  SAME  TIME,  LIFE  EXISTS INDEPENDENT OF 'LIVING' , AS EVIDENCED  BY DEEP SLEEP.
IN DEATH TOO,  ONLY THE 'LIVING'  DISAPPEARS..

IN THE CONCEPT OF 'ATMA' AND 'JEEVA', THE FORMER IS "LIFE" AND THE LATTER IS LIVING.

"I-CONSCIOUSNESS" IS MACROCOSMIC AND ATMA IS MICROCOSMIC.  BOTH REPRESENT "LIFE CONSCIOUSNESS".

"I AM" IS 'CHIT';  "I AM" IS 'AANANDAM';  "I AM"  IS  "SAT";   I AM HAS " I " IN IT. I AM IS SENSE OF EXISTENCE. I AM IS BREATHED OUT AS HAPPINESS. I AM IS ANDHARYAMI.

DHARMIC LIVING IS AN ATTEMPT TO DISCIPLINE THE OTHERWISE ARRHYTHMIC LIVING.  LIVING IS ONLY A REFLECTION OF LIFE.  LIFE AND LIVING OPERATE SIMILAR TO OCEAN AND WAVES.  WHEN THE WAVES ARE TURBULENT AND FIERCE, IT IS ARRHYTHMIC LIVING.


SHIVA/MAHAVISHNU REPRESENT CONSCIOUS ENERGY, DEVI  (SAKTHY, MAHALAKSHMY) REPRESENT COSMIC ENERGY COMBINED WITH CONSCIOUS ENERGY

BHAKTHY IS THE PROCESS OF CONNECTING THE 'INDIVIDUAL' TO 'UNIVERSAL'. THE PROCESS  STARTS WITH FAITH, AND  THROUGH  BELIEF,  CULMINATES IN TRUST.

MAN TALKING AND GOD LISTENING IS PRAYER: GOD TALKING AND  MAN LISTENING IS MEDITATION. ( SWAMY SHANTANANDA PURI)

" I "  EXPRESSES THROUGH "I AM";  I AM GETS FULFILLMENT IN " I ".
'I' IS THE ESSENCE OF "I AM".

THE MOMENT YOU COME TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE DREAMING, YOU SHALL WAKE UP. (NISARGADATTA)

YOUR DREAM IS UNREALLY REAL AND REALLY UNREAL.

'LIVING'  HAS ONLY THAT MUCH REALITY AS THAT OF A DREAM.

WHO AM ' I '?  THE VERY QUEST IS THROUGH 'I AM'!

POSSESSION AND POSSESSIVENESS ARE DIFFERENT. WHILE POSSESSION COMES AND GOES IN THE COURSE OF EVENTS, ON WHICH WE HAVE NO CONTROL,  POSSESSIVENESS IS AN ARTIFICIAL CREATION .  THE FORMER  HAS TO BE PUT UP WITH WHILE THE LATER CAN BE AVOIDED  THROUGH WISDOM KNOWLEDGE.

POSSESSIVENESS IS OTHERWISE TERMED AS EGO, INDIVIDUALITY AND SELFISHNESS.

"WHATEVER COMES, LET THAT COME; WHATEVER GOES, LET THAT GO.

I AM, I AM AN INDIVIDUAL, I HAVE INDIVIDUALITY, POSSESSIVENESS INCLUDING THE BODY, SO CALLED RELATIONS, FRIENDS, MATERIAL COMFORTS, ALL THESE ARE ADDENDUM TO "I" - THE REALITY.

A  SAINT HAS COMPARED "REALITY" TO CONCENTRATED WHISKY (!!)WHICH CANNOT BE CONSUMED AS SUCH.  SODA - A SOFT DRINK - (ALL KINDS OF RELIGIOUS PRACTICES),  IS NECESSARILY ADDED TO MAKE THE DRINK ENJOYABLE!!

"I AM"  IS AKSHARA  AND "I AM SO AND SO" IS KSHARA.  BOTH AKSHARA AND KSHARA ABIDE IN "I CONSCIOUSNESS" .  BEYOND IS ABSOLUTE WHICH ABSORBS  THE  ABOVE SAID THREE ASPECTS .

STICK ON TO "I AM" WITHOUT DILUTING THE SAME TO 'I AM AN INDIVIDUAL', AND 'INDIVIDUALITY'.  'I AM' SHALL IN DUE COURSE MERGE WITH "I-CONSCIOUSNESS", AND ULTIMATELY BOTH SHALL REST IN "ABSOLUTE" - THE GREAT SILENCE.

JEEVA REPRESENTS  INDIVIDUAL,;  ATMA REPRESENTS  "I AM"; PARAMATMA REPRESENTS  GOD PRINCIPLE, AND BRAHMAM REPRESENTS  " ABSOLUTE" -  ALL THESE  ARE MERE CONCEPTS ENTERTAINED BY 'I AM THE INDIVIDUAL'(JEEVA). 

ATMA  NEVER  ENTERTAINS  DIFFERENT CONCEPTS SUCH AS TIME-SPACE, CAUSE-EFFECT, NAME-FORM.  .

JEEVA IS A REFLECTION OF ATMA , REFLECTING ANTHAKARANAM (MIND, INTELLECT, STORED VASANAS  AND INDIVIDUALITY). JEEVA HAS ITS JOURNEY THROUGH KALAM, KARMAM AND GUNAM.


EGO  IS  A DEFLECTION - A FEELING OF 'INDIVIDUALITY' - DOER SHIP, ENJOYER SHIP, ATTACHMENT TOWARDS  BODY  AND POSSESSOR SHIP.

SECLUDE " I AM"  BY  EXCLUDING  THOUGHTS. " I AM " SHALL  IMMERSE IN " I ", IN DUE COURSE;  'SENSE OF EXISTENCE' SHALL IMMERSE IN "EXISTENCE". TILL THEN, REMAIN IN "I AM" WITHOUT ATTACHING  MIND/THOUGHTS  TO  IT.

"I AM"  IS THE UNIFIED VISION OF "EXISTENCE".  A NEW BORN CHILD IS THE APPARENT MODEL OF "I AM". THE CHILD HAS NO CONCEPT OF TIME AND SPACE, NO CONCEPT OF CAUSE AND EFFECT AND NO CONCEPT OF NAME AND FORM.  THE CHILD  DOES
NOT  EVEN DIFFERENTIATE THE ELEMENTS.

ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT 'LIVING' HAS  ITS  BASE IN 'LIFE'.  THEY EXIST LIKE WAVES AND OCEAN.

OCEAN HAS MORE REALITY THAN THE WAVES.  WAVES APPEAR AND DISAPPEAR;  OCEAN REMAINS CONSTANT.

LIFE IS DIVINE GRACE - LIVING APPEARS ON IT AS IF A 'HUMAN EFFORT'.
WITHOUT LIFE WHERE IS LIVING? THE ULTIMATE TRUTH  IS  THAT BOTH THE OCEAN AND WAVES  HAVE THEIR BASE IN "WATER".

APART FROM WATER, OCEAN AND SEA OF WAVES, FURTHER DISSECTION AS INDIVIDUAL WAVE AND STILL FURTHER ENTERTAINING A FEELING OF INDIVIDUALITY (EGO ) ONLY DISTURBS THE OTHERWISE PEACEFUL NATURE OF  OCEAN AND THE HAPPINESS IN THE COLLECTIVE WAVES.

IT IS SAID THAT "TUREEYA" IS 'I AM' AND TUREEYADITA IS " I ", ALTHOUGH IN PRACTICE, BOTH TUREEYA AND TUREEYADITA  EXIST IN "I AM". THEREFORE, CONTEMPLATIVE AWARENESS RESTS IN CONSTANT CONTEMPLATION OF "I AM".

SILENCE  BRINGS  OUT ONE'S  INNER STRENGTH.
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BHALYAM, PANDITHYAM, MOWNAM AND MAHAMOWNAM ARE RESPECTIVELY EMOTIONAL, RATIONAL, WISDOM KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE  (PRAGGNANAM).

AHIMSA , IN ITS TRUE MEANING , IS DHARMIC LIVING; KURUKSHETRA BATTLE ,IN THIS SENSE ,  WAS A 'DHARMIC WAR'
WHERE KILLING WAS A NECESSARY EVIL.  ULTIMATELY, THE KURUKSHETRA WAR WAS TO DO AWAY WITH THE EVIL ELEMENT, AND ESTABLISH THE TRUTH THAT A HEALTHY LIVING IS WHAT IS EXPECTED OF "LIFE". (AMPUTATION OF A PART OF A BODY IS A MUST  TO RESTORE A HEALTHY -DHARMIC- LIVING.)

DHARMIC WAR IS A WAR BETWEEN TWO VALUES VIZ. , ALTRUISM AND ATTAVISM.

DHARMAM  IS  DIFFERENT FROM ACHARAM .  THAT WHICH HOLDS  YOU,  IS  DHARMAM. THAT WHICH IS HELD BY YOU , IS  ACHARAM..

ACHARAM  SHOULD  BE  BASED ON DHARMA .  THE BRAHMINS GIVING MORE VALUE TO ACHARAM IN PERFORMING THE YAGNA 
THAN TO  THE DHARMA  OF  FEEDING THE STARVING CHILDREN  ( AN EPISODE IN SRIMAD BHAGAVADAM ),  IS  NOT A  DESIRABLE ACT.

IN SHORT, RHYTHMIC LIVING IS DHARMA.  ACHARAM MUST BE A TRUE EXPRESSION OF DHARMA, AND NOT A  MERE REFLECTION.

WHILE ACHARAM  IS A  WAY OF LIVING BASED ON  VARYING CULTURE, DHARMA IS THE  'ADHISHTANAM'    FOR LIVING.

COMPASSION,  LOVE. AND  CHARITY. ARE THE THREE ESSENTIALS OF DHARMA.

MARRIAGE IS A TRAP WHERE TWO  INDIVIDUALS  OF  OPPOSITE SEX  ARE  CAUGHT AND CHAINED BY THE SHACKLES OF INSTINCT AND EMOTION.  WHEN  VIEWED  DIFFERENTLY , WITH  DIVINITY ATTACHED TO  IT,  MARRIAGE IS  A CELEBRATION  OF  'I' ABSORBING 'I AM'. (LORD MAHESWARA AND DEVI )

DEHA BHODAM AND DEHA ABHIMANAM ARE ABSENT IN DEEP SLEEP. AS WE WAKE UP, "I AM" - DEHA BHODAM  ARISE, FOLLOWED BY DEHA ABHIMANAM, THOUGHTS ETC. 

BOTH THE 'KNOWER' AND THE 'KNOWN' ASPECTS  ABIDE IN "KNOWLEDGE".


"SATYAM"  IS BEYOND CONCEPT,  AND OUR DESCRIBING IT AS PRAGNANAM AND AANANTHAM, IS  BOUND  BY CONCEPT.

SATYAM  IS  'SILENCE',  AND ANY  CONCEPT OF IT IS ONLY A CREATION OF MIND.

DEVI  IS COSMIC EGO EXHIBITING  BOTH  VIDYA MAYA  AND AVIDYA MAYA.  WHILE VIDYA MAYA  BLESSES  US  WITH  WISDOM KNOWLEDGE (SAMGNANAM), AVIDYA MAYA REFLECTS  ILLUSION (MITYA),  WHICH  IN  TURN  BRINGS  OUT  'DELUSION' (BRAMAM).  WE ARE CAUGHT IN BOTH MITYA AND BRAMAM.

WHILE AVIDYA MAYA BRINGS OUT DUAL/CONFLICTING  CONCEPTS,  VIDYA MAYA  EXHIBITS.  HOMOGENEITY . (E.G., OCEAN  WITH GENTLE MOVEMENT OF WAVES IN HOMOGENEITY REPRESENTS VIDYA MAYA, AND CONFLICTING  WAVES    REPRESENT AVIDYA MAYA).

ONLY  WITH THE BLESSINGS OF DEVI,  ONE CAN  OUTLIVE INDIVIDUALITY AND SENSE OF INDIVIDUAL ( BRAMAM AND MITYA), AND  ATTAIN  WISDOM-KNOWLEDGE.


FROM  DEEP SLEEP TO DREAM , FROM DREAM TO THE WAKING, THUS GOES THE  CREATION.  SIMILARLY, FROM  WAKING TO DREAM AND FROM DREAM TO  DEEP SLEEP, IS THE REVERSE PROCESS OF DISSOLUTION.

WHEN THE CYCLE OF EVOLUTION AND DISSOLUTION IS REPEATED, NATURALLY, THERE SHOULD BE A STATIONARY BASE FOR THE CYCLE.

'MANAM' (MIND WITH FULL OF THOUGHTS) SHOULD BE REPLACED BY 'MOWNAM' (SILENCE)


ATMA IS LIFE AND JEEVA IS LIVING. THEY EXIST TOGETHER IN "I AM".

PARAMATMA , ANTHARATMA, JEEVATMA AND AHAMKARAM  ARE THE DIFFERENT TERMS FOR  I-CONSCIOUSNESS, I-AM, I AM AN INDIVIDUAL AND INDIVIDUALITY.

EMOTION AND RATIONAL THINKING,  (MIND AND INTELLECT), HAVE THEIR BASE IN INTELLIGENCE.  MIND AND INTELLECT  ARE  COSMIC ENERGY,  AND INTELLIGENCE  IS CONSCIOUS  ENERGY.

BOTH THE COSMIC AND CONSCIOUS ENERGIES  EMANATE FROM  ABSOLUTE ENERGY

COSMIC ENERGY IS "LIVING"  AND CONSCIOUS ENERGY IS "LIFE".
( GENTLE VIBRATION OF WAVES  IS 'LIVING', AND THE OCEAN IS 'LIFE').

WE HAVE FREEDOM  TO  REGULATE OUR THOUGHTS.

IT IS INTELLECT THAT HELPS TO CONTROL THE  EMOTIONAL THOUGHTS.

WISDOM KNOWLEDGE  DEVELOPED THROUGH INTELLECT, HELPS TO OUTLIVE BOTH  THE EMOTIONS  AND INTELLECT. 

WISDOM KNOWLEDGE , IS OTHERWISE , KNOWN AS "INTELLIGENCE. 

SAMGNANAM, WISDOM KNOWLEDGE AND INTELLIGENCE ARE SYNONYMS.

PHYSICAL EXISTENCE, EMOTIONAL EXISTENCE, RATIONAL EXISTENCE,  WISDOM EXISTENCE ARE THE  STEPS IN THE LADDER OF SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION  TO  ARRIVE  AT THE  " EXISTENCE"  PURE.

IT IS ADVISABLE NOT TO LOAD THE MEMORY WITH THE TERMS  LIKE ABSOLUTE ENERGY, EXISTENCE, CONSCIOUSNESS, I AM, I-CONSCIOUSNESS  ETC. IT IS BETTER TO STICK ON TO RELIGIOUS TERMS LIKE 'BRAHMAM, PARAMATMA,  ATMA, JEEVA,  AHAMKARAM .

MEDITATE.  ON ATMA (ATMANUSANDANAM); ATMA AND PARAMATMA ARE ONE AND THE SAME. BOTH ABIDE IN BRAHMAM. AT THE SAME TIME,  JEEVA AND AHAMKARAM ARE REFLECTION AND DEFLECTION OF ATMA


AASAKTHY, AGNANAM  AND  'AHAM', IN DUE COURSE, TURN INTO BHAKTHY, GNANAM AND BHODAM.

IT IS INTELLECT THAT KINDLES THE 'INTELLIGENCE' WHICH IS INHERENT IN EACH ONE. THEREFORE, ONE HAS TO  UPLIFT ONE'S OWN EMOTIONAL MIND TO INTELLECTUAL MIND WHICH IN TURN LEADS  TO  'WISDOM -KNOWLEDGE' AND FINALLY TO "REALITY".

FROM EMOTION TO RATIONAL THINKING,  FROM THERE TO WISDOM KNOWLEDGE AND FINALLY TO INTELLIGENCE. AIMING AT INTELLIGENCE, EMOTION  SHOULD TURN INTO BHAKTHI YOGA, INTELLECT  INTO GNANA YOGA AND WISDOM KNOWLEDGE TO ENLIGHTENMENT. THIS IS TERMED AS SPIRITUAL JOURNEY.

THERE  IS A CONCEPT THAT WHEN  THERE  IS  NO SENSE OF EXISTENCE., AWARENESS COMES  TO THE FOREFRONT.  IN DEEP SLEEP,  ALTHOUGH, THE  SENSE OF EXISTENCE IS ABSENT, IT IS A TEMPORARY PHENOMENON, SIMILAR TO APPEARANCE AND DISAPPEARANCE OF WAVES  ON THE OCEAN, FOR THE TIME BEING.

"I AM",  NEVER PRESENTS  ITSELF, ALONE.  IMMEDIATELY, ON APPEARANCE, 'I  AM' STARTS REFLECTING, SPACE-TIME,  NAME-FORM, CAUSE-EFFECT AND ALL CONCEPTS, EMOTIONS, RATIONAL THINKING AND EGO.

INSTEAD OF SHRINKING AS EGO, "I-AM"  SHOULD EXPAND AND IMMERSE IN "I-CONSCIOUSNESS.  THE WAVE SHOULD IMMERSE IN OCEAN .

MIND IS LIVING , AND THAT WHICH HOLDS THE MIND IS LIFE; MIND IS COSMIC ENERGY,  AND LIFE IS CONSCIOUS ENERGY.

LIVING  EXPRESSES THROUGH  TIME, CHARACTER AND ACTION  AND LIFE EXPRESSES THROUGH LIVING.

THE VERY CONCEPT OF DEVI RESIDING IN THE HEART OF MAHAVISHNU, SUGGESTS  THAT ATMA (I-AM)  IS IN THE 'HEART OF
"I-CONSCIOUSNESS".

IT IS ATMA THAT REFLECTS JEEVA (I AM AN INDIVIDUAL) WITH THE ANTHAKARANAM AND INDRIYAS  FORMING THE PHYSICAL BODY.

MIND (ONE OF THE ANTHAKARANAM)  BRINGS IN CONCEPTS, APPARENTLY DUAL AND CONFLICTING IN NATURE, AND EGO (ANOTHER PART OF ANTHAKARANAM) REACTING TO THE CONCEPTS, WITH LIKES/DISLIKES  BRINGING IN PLEASURE/PAIN.

INTELLECT FUNCTIONS AS A GUIDE , TO VIEW THE  CONCEPTS WITH DISCRETION, AND  ENDOWS WISDOM KNOWLEDGE SO AS TO LEAD A RHYTHMIC LIVING , AND  EXPERIENCE PURE HAPPINESS.

SENSE OF EXISTENCE IS "CHIT".  PHYSICAL EXISTENCE IS "SAT". THE RESULTANT  EXPERIENCE  OF SAT  AND  CHIT 
IS "AANANDAM".


SATYAM IS BEYOND CONCEPT, BEYOND UTTERANCE AND BEYOND EXPERIENCE.


DEVI  REFLECTS  AASAKTHY (DESIRE) WHICH IN TURN DEFLECTS  KAMA, KRODHA,  AND AHAMKARAM.  WHEN WE TURN OUR ATTENTION TO THE SOURCE I.E., DEVI HERSELF, AASAKTHY  BECOMES,  BHAKTHY, AND WE ESCAPE FROM THE REFLECTION AND DEFLECTIONS.

DEHAM IS 'LIVING',  AND DEHI IS 'LIFE'.  DEHAM ROTATES IN THE WHEEL OF TIME, AND  DEHI  IS THE AXIS.  KARMA AND GUNA ARE THE FORKS  IN THE WHEEL OF TIME.

AN ASSUMED OBJECT IS 'LIVING', AND THE SUBJECT IS 'LIFE'.
THIS LIFE-LIVING DANCE  IS SIMILAR TO OCEAN AND WAVES, FIRE AND SMOKE.

IT IS EGO THAT CAUSES MITYA AND BRAMAM (ILLUSORY WORLD APPEARANCE AND DELUSION OF MISUNDERSTANDING  THE CONCEPTS) ONCE THE UNREALITY OF THE ILLUSORY WORLD IS INTUITIVELY GRASPED, REALITY IS REVEALED.

ANY AMOUNT OF EFFORT, LIKE RELIGIOUS PRACTICE, PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY,  WITHIN THE EGO CIRCLE,  WON'T HELP TO  COME OUT OF THE EGO PRISON.

ALL EFFORTS ARE SIMILAR TO THE SEARCH FOR THE 'TENTH MAN'.

IMPULSES, INSTINCTS, EMOTIONS, RATIONAL ANALYSIS  ETC., ARE ONLY SHADOWS,  OR RATHER SMOKE CONCEALING THE 'REALITY'.







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REALIZED  PERSONS WON'T GET AFFECTED BY DESIRES, BECAUSE THEY WON'T HAVE ANY URGE TO FULFILL THE DESIRES.  DESIRES ARISE BECAUSE OF 'PRARABDHAM'. FROM WHICH, EVEN THE 'REALIZED' HAVE NO ESCAPE.

THERE IS NO THINKING WHEN WE ARE TRULY HAPPY.

BHAKTHY AND WORSHIP ARE TRUE AT THE CONVENTIONAL LEVEL.  VASTU-VICHARAM AND  DHYANA ARE ALSO TRUE AT THE DIVINE LEVEL.  'SILENCE'
IS THE ULTIMATE  TRUTH   AT THE ABSOLUTE LEVEL.

VIEWING 'LIFE'  AND 'LIVING' AS  SEPARATE, COMES UNDER 'DWAIDA'.
VIEWING THEM TOGETHER  IS ADWAIDHA .  WHEN LIFE AND LIVING ARE CONNECTED TO ABSOLUTE, AND AT THE SAME TIME KEEPING THEM DISTINCT, IS VISISHTADWAIDA..

CHANTING MANTRA  OR SINGING SONGS IN PRAISE OF GOD GIVES HAPPINESS AT THE MENTAL LEVEL.  THIS HAPPINESS, AT THE MOST CAN BE TERMED AS 'ENJOYMENT'. THIS TURNS INTO SORROW, WHEN THE MANTRA OR THE SONG  IS  INTERRUPTED FOR A FEW DAYS..

A QUIET MIND EXPRESSES HAPPINESS.  DUAL  CONCEPTS AND CONFLICTS ARE ABSENT IN THE QUIET MIND.

THERE IS NO THINKING WHEN WE ARE TRULY HAPPY.  IT IS AN EXPRESSION BY ITSELF, AND IT DOES NOT DEPEND ON OBJECTS.

'I AM.  HAS APPEARED ON 'I-CONSCIOUSNESS', FOR NO REASON.

IT SHOULD BE WELL ESTABLISHED, IN ONESELF, THAT 'I-CONSCIOUSNESS' IS SIMILAR TO 'OCEAN',  'I-AM'. IS SIMILAR TO A UNIFIED VISION OF WAVES ON THE OCEAN, AND "AWARENESS" IS SIMILAR TO WATER WHICH IS THE ESSENCE OF OCEAN AND WAVES.

MEN ARE AT DIFFERENT STAGES, IN THEIR JOURNEY, TOWARDS THE TRUTH. CERTAIN PERSONS ENTERTAIN FAITH, ON AN EXTERNAL POWER, AND PURSUE RELIGION; CERTAIN OTHERS, ENTERTAIN BELIEF, AND PURSUE 'TATWA VICHARAM'.  A THIRD CATEGORY TRAVELS THROUGH SPIRITUAL PATH, AND GAIN WISDOM KNOWLEDGE.  ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE SAME GOAL OF SELF-REALIZATION'.


ENJOYMENT, FESTIVITY ETC., ARE THE POSITIVE ASPECTS AT THE MENTAL LEVEL, REFLECTING HAPPINESS.  SIMILAR IS THE POSITION WITH LIKES AT THE INTELLECTUAL LEVEL.  PURE HAPPINESS IS BEYOND THESE MENTAL AND INTELLECTUAL LEVELS.

BOTH 'KNOWLEDGE' AND KARMA ARE USEFUL IN THE 'LIVING' FIELD.  BUT WISDOM KNOWLEDGE (SAMGNANA) A  UNITARY VISION, ALONE CAN BRING US HAPPINESS

KARMA AND BHAKTHY COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER, FOR KARMA HELPS TO PURIFY THE MIND, AND BHAKTHY MAKES THE MIND ONE POINTED.

UPASANA - THE UNINTERRUPTED MEDITATION, ON A  DEITY, OR FORM OR WORD, HAS BECOME POOJA AND BHAKTHY, LATER ON.

VEDAS AND RITUALS HAVE,  OF COURSE, VALUE AT THE MENTAL LEVEL.

'I-AM'. IS A COSTUME PUT ON BY 'I-CONSCIOUSNESS'. TO ACT DIFFERENT ROLES, SUCH AS 'I AM AN INDIVIDUAL', 'I HAVE INDIVIDUALITY'.

SAMSKRITHY (DIVINE GRACE) INTERACT  WITH  'SAMSKARAM''

PERSONALITY IS JEEVA BHAVAM, AND SPIRITUALITY IS  ATMA-BODHAM.  (I AM AN INDIVIDUAL AND I AM  RESPECTIVELY). 


WORSHIP, POOJA, UPASANA, DHYANA ETC.,  ARE IN JEEVA BHAVA


"I AM"  IS. WITHOUT THE INTERFERENCE OF MENTAL IMAGINATIONS .  "I AM" IS ATMA BODHAM.


COSMIC  MIND WITH CONCEPTS  ARISE FROM "I AM" .

FROM COSMIC MIND, INDIVIDUAL MIND ARISES , REFLECTING  DUAL AND  APPARENTLY CONFLICTING CONCEPTS.

FROM THE INDIVIDUAL MIND ,  A SENSE OF INDIVIDUALITY ARISES ENTERTAINING  KARTHRITWAM, BHOKTHRITVAM ,  AND DEHABHIMANAM - TOGETHER KNOWN AS 'INDIVIDUAL EGO (INDIVIDUALITY) (AANAVAM).


"I AM" IS, OTHERWISE, CALLED "ATMA"  THE FIRST SPROUT  OF "I-CONSCIOUSNESS".  "I AM" REFLECTS- JEEVA AND  THE DEPENDENT B.M.I (BODY-MIND-INTELLECT) EQUIPMENT  IN EACH INDIVIDUAL.

"I AM" IS THE MICROCOSMIC FORM. AND " I " IS THE MACROCOSMIC FORM OF ONE AND THE SAME  CONSCIOUSNESS.


THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SANYASY AND AN ORDIARY MAN IS THAT THE FORMER HAS NO KARTHRITWA BHAVAM, NO BHOKTRUTWA BHAVAM AND NO DEHABHIMANAM, WHILE THE LATTER POSSESSES ALL THE THREE.

WE MAY TERM THE 'DOING' AS "IGNORANCE", AND  'BEING'
AS 'KNOWLEDGE".  DOING IS 'JADA SAKTHY' AND ' BEING' IS 'CHIT SAKTHY', AVIDYA AND VIDYA SAKTHY  RESPECTIVELY.

THE PRINCIPLE OF CHIT AND JADAM IS DEVI TATWAM .

DEVI IS 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE' , AND SIVA IS ''EXISTENCE'.  BEYOND IS "ABSOLUTE ".  DEVI BESTOWS HAPPINESS AND SIVA IS PEACE. 


KALAM, KARMAM AND GUNAM DO NOT BELONG TO 'CONSCIOUSNESS, (EXISTENCE) ,  NOR  DO THEY BELONG TO "I AM"(SENSE OF EXISTENCE )  THEY ARE ONLY 'REFLECTIONS  ' OF "I AM".


THERE IS NEITHER 'TIME' NOR 'SPACE'  IN "PRESENCE"; SIMILARLY, NO NAME AND FORM AND NO CAUSE AND EFFECT.  ALL THESE PAIRS ARE THE PRODUCTS OF MIND - WHICH IS A REFLECTION  IN THE 'SENSE OF PRESENCE' ("I AM" ).


THE URGE IN EACH ONE OF US - WHETHER IT IS EXPLICIT OR IMPLICIT - TO FIND OUT THE SOURCE, IS SIMILAR TO THE URGE SEEN IN BIRDS TO RETURN TO THEIR NEST, AND SIMILAR TO THE URGE OF THE RIVER TO JOIN THE OCEAN LEAVING BEHIND ITS NAME AND FORM.

TRUST ENCOMPASSES BOTH FAITH AND BELIEF, AND NOT OPPOSED TO THEM.

DEHA  BHAVAM  SHOULD, IN DUE COURSE, BE REPLACED  WITH ATMA BHODAM.

OUTLIVE THE CHIT-JADA GRANTHY. THIS GRANTHY APPARENTLY  SUBSIDES IN DEEP SLEEP.

ATMA IS THE LIFE PRINCIPLE, AND JEEVA IS THE LIVING PRINCIPLE  -


IN THE MAHAVAKYA "TAT TWAM ASI",  "ASI"  HAS COMPARATIVELY, MORE IMPORTANCE, BECAUSE ONLY WITH "ASI", TAT AND TWAM  CAN BE IMAGINED.

MEDITATION IS  A  'BHAVAM'- IMAGINING  A  PARTICULAR MANTRA OR WORD, AT THE MENTAL LEVEL.  BHAVAM  CULMINATES  IN ANUBHAVAM AT THE LEVEL OF 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE'. 

WHILE MEDITATING "SHIVOHAM " AT THE MENTAL LEVEL, ONE SHOULD  IMAGINE PEACE WITHIN AND HAPPINESS WITH - OUT.

DEVI - (VIDYA AND AVIDYA SWAROOPINI)  IS THE CONNECTING FACTOR BETWEEN 'LIFE' AND 'LIVING'. AVIDYA  LEADS TO 'LIVING', AND VIDYA LEADS TO  DEVI HERSELF.

DEVI  IS BOTH  VYAKTHAM AND  AVYAKTHAM ; DEVI IS BOTH "I AM" AND " I  "

WATCH THE BREATH WITH THE MANTRA "SIVOHAM", AND BE IN AWARENESS OF PEACE AND HAPPINE.

"I AM AN INDIVIDUAL"  IS THE FIRST CONCEPT FROM COSMIC EGO.  THE INDIVIDUAL WITH THE B.M.I .  STRUCTURE  BRINGS  FORTH  INNUMERABLE  CONCEPTS.

"INDIVIDUALITY" IS INDIVIDUAL EGO ( DOER SHIP, ENJOYER-SHIP  POSSESSOR-SHIP AND 'DEHABHIMANAM".

TALK LESS;  EAT LESS  AND  THINK  LESS.  FILL THE MIND WITH GOD-THOUGHT.  IN DUE COURSE, EGO SHALL BE LOST, AND THE MIND  SHALL DISSOLVE IN "I AM".

LESS THOUGHT LEADS TO REDUCED ACTION. KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION ARE NOT COMPATIBLE.

ALPHABETS  CANNOT BE FORGOTTEN  EVEN IN GRADUATE CLASSES. SO IS THE  CASE  WITH DEVOTION TOWARDS GOD , EVEN AFTER MASTERING VEDANTA AND OTHER SCRIPTURES.

IMAGINING DEVI TATWAM  "I-AM"  IN SAHASRARAM, AND SIVA TATWAM
("I-CONSCIOUSNESS)  IN THE HEART  CENTRE,  IS CONCEIVED BY CERTAIN SCHOOLS.


PRIMARY IGNORANCE (AGNANA) BRINGS OUT VIDYA MAYA AND AVIDYA MAYA.  VIDYA MAYA IS  "SENSE OF EXISTENCE" (I AM), A UNITARY VISION WITHOUT ENTERTAINING CONCEPTS.

AVIDYA MAYA BRINGS OUT CONCEPTS - "I AM THE INDIVIDUAL IS WITH B.M.I. STRUCTURE",  EGO,  GNANAM,VIGNANAM ,GUNAS, ELEMENTS  AND WORLD APPEARANCE. ALL THESE ARE CATEGORISED AS 'MITYA' (ILLUSION).  WHEN ONE CONCEPT  IS VIEWED FOR ANOTHER CONCEPT,  (AS IN THE CASE OF ROPE-SNAKE ANALOGY), IT IS KNOWN AS BRAMAM (DELUSION). THUS, MITYA AND BRAMAM COVERS THE ENTIRE AVIDYA MAYA.

VIDYA MAYA ELEVATES THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE SOURCE,  WHEREAS , AVIDYA MAYA BINDS THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE OBJECTIVE WORLD OF MITYA AND BRAMAM.

DEHABHIMANAM IS  'INDIVIDUALITY', DEHABHAVAM IS "I AM AN INDIVIDUAL", ATMA BODHAM  IS "I AM",  AND  BHODAM  IS  "I - CONSCIOUSNE

AS WE BOW  BEFORE  ISHWARA  IN THE TEMPLE, WE SHOULD ENTERTAIN THE FEELING OF "I AM" SURRENDERING TO ISHWARA .

THE TERMS : EGO, JEEVA, ATMA,  ISHWARA AND BRAHMAN , SHOULD BE CLEAR IN OUR MIND. (EGO IS INDIVIDUALITY, JEEVA IS THE REFLECTION OF ATMA IN EACH INDIVIDUAL, ATMA IS 'I AM' - THE SENSE OF EXISTENCE,    ISHWARA IS I-CONSCIOUSNESS,  AND BRAHMAN  IS THE SUPREME AND INCONCEIVABLE REALITY.

AS  "I - CONSCIOUSNESS (ISWARA)  IS TO THE VISWAM, SO IS "I AM" (ATMA) TO THE INDIVIDUAL.  ONE IS  MACRCOSMIC FORM AND  THE OTHER IS MICROCOSMIC FORM OF ONE AND THE SAME CHAITANYAM.

MIND (INDIVIDUAL) BY GAINING WISDOM KNOWLEDGE , GETS THE STATUS OF "I AM". 

WHEN WE PROSTRATE  BEFORE  GOD IN THE  TEMPLE,  IT IS ACTUALLY  "I AM" (ATMA) SURRENDERING TO GOD  THIS IS THE TRUE SPIRIT OF "BHAKTHY". 

THROUGH GNANA MARGA ALSO,  THE SAME GOAL IS ACHIEVED AND IDENTITY OF "I AM"  WITH GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS IS REALIZED.

ALL TRUE BHAKTHAS,  THROUGH DEVOTION , QUALIFY THEMSELVES  WITH ' WISDOM KNOWLEDGE, BEFORE REALIZING IDENTITY WITH GOD.

THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE ,WHATSOEVER, BETWEEN "I AM"  AND "I"

THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BHAKTHA AND A GNANI.

A  DRAMA ACTOR CANNOT, BY HIMSELF, CHANGE THE ASSIGNED ROLE AND THE DIALOGUE, HE HAS TO ENACT IN THE DRAMA.  THEY ARE DECIDED BY THE MANAGER OF THE DRAMA SHOW! (IT IS THE DIVINE WILL THAT DIRECTS OUR LIFE-LIVING DRAMA).

DEEP SLEEP IS SOMETIMES COMPARED TO SAMADHY.  REALLY, IT IS NOT SO.  A PLAIN GLASS ,  WITH MERCURY BEHIND, ASSUMING THE ROLE OF A MIRROR REFLECTS
OBJECTS IN THE WAKING AND DREAM STAGES.  IT REFLECTS  THE DEEP SLEEP ALSO SIMILAR TO REFLECTING A DARK OBJECT IN FRONT. 

THE GLASS WITH MERCURY BEHIND IS COMPARED TO "SENSE OF EXISTENCE", WHEREAS, PLAIN GLASS IS "EXISTENCE - (I-CONSCIOUSNESS) .

TIRODANAM IS ONE OF THE FUNCTIONS OF LORD SHIVA, AFTER  DESTROYING THE CONCEPTS CREATED BY BRAMMA, AND SUSTAINED BY VISHNU.  AFTER THE TIRODANAM, SADASIVA. ABSORBS YOU.

TO START WITH, OBSERVE THE MIND, TURNING AWAY FROM  THE OBJECTIVE  WORLD. YOU SHALL REALIZE THAT ATTRACTION AND REPULSION  ARISE IN THE  MIND,  AND THAT THEY  DO. NOT BELONG TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD.

ONCE THE PAIRS VIZ., ATTRACTION/REPULSION ARE ERASED FROM THE MIND, YOU SHALL FIND OUT THE SOURCE OF THE MIND IN "I AM" -  'SENSE OF EXISTENCE'.

"SENSE OF EXISTENCE" SHALL CONTINUE SO LONG AS  THE SENSE  OF PHYSICAL BODY REMAINS.

WHEN ONCE THE  VERY SENSE OF PHYSICAL EXISTENCE IS OUTLIVED,  PURE EXISTENCE (" I ") ALONE SHINES.

DEVI  IS PRAISED WITH THE EPITHET "ADHY GARVADAYAI" IN 'SREE LALITHASAHASRANAMAM.  IT MEANS DEVI REPRESENTS COSMIC EGO THAT IS. "I AM" (SENSE OF EXISTENCE) - FIRST EXPRESSION FROM "EXISTENCE". 

CERTAIN PEOPLE HAVE FAITH IN OMENS, AND THEY STRICTLY ADHERE TO THEM .  THIS FAITH  HAS NO RELIGIOUS  NOR RATIONAL SUPPORT , NOR HAS ANY  PLACE  IN  SPIRITUALITY.  A SPIRITUAL PERSON CONSIDERS ALL EVENTS AS "PRARABDHAM"  WITH THE TRUST THAT DIVINE GRACE SHALL  BESTOW  A MENTAL ATTITUDE  IN HIM ENABLING TO RESPOND TO ANY EVENT APPARENTLY ENJOYABLE OR PAINFUL.

" I "  TRANSFORMS ONE'S  ATTITUDE TO FACE EVENTS WITH AN EQUANIMITY OF VISION, WHEREAS, PRARABDHAM EXHIBITS EVENTS AND ATTITUDE AS DESTINED.

A WAVE IS UNREAL AS WAVE, BUT REAL AS WATER.

WE NEED NOT ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, NOR CAN WE CHANGE IT.  ANY ATTEMPT, ON OUR PART, IS SIMILAR TO A TINY WAVE ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF THE ENTIRE WAVES, INCLUDING ITS OWN SHAPE AND MOVEMENT.

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THE GUNAS REVOLVE  ALONG   WITH  KARMA IN THE WHEEL OF KALAM. THOUGHTS AND MEMORIES ARE EXPRESSED THROUGH KARMA.

KALAM, KARMAM AND GUNAM  CONSTITUTE PRAKRITHY OTHERWISE INDICATED BY THE WORD "I AM"  A REFLECTION OF PURUSHA - "I -CONSCIOUSNESS".

  "I AM" IS A HOMOGENEOUS CONCEPT. FROM WHICH  ONLY,  OTHER CONCEPTS LIKE "I AM THE INDIVIDUAL" WITH BODY-MIND-INTELLECT", " AND EGO WITH THE FEELING OF INDIVIDUALITY OF DOER SHIP, ENJOYER-SHIP  AND ATTACHMENT TOWARDS BODY, ARISE.

WHILE "I AM"  IS "HAPPINESS", THE OFF-SHOOTS - INDIVIDUAL AND INDIVIDUALITY BRING IN DUAL AND SPLIT  CONCEPTS, RESULTING  IN ATTRACTION/REPULSION, LIKES/DISLIKES , PLEASURE/PAIN .

THE OFF.-SHOOTS ARE SIMILAR TO SMOKE ARISING FROM THE FIRE, ATTEMPTING TO  SHADOW THE FIRE ITSELF.

"I AM:"  IS CONCEPTUALIZED  AS DEVI  WITH HOMOGENOUS CONCEPT  EXPRESSING PURE HAPPINESS.  .
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'BEING' HAS  ITS. EXPRESSION IN 'BECOMING'. MEANING SHIVA. EXPRESSES IN DEVI -

REMEMBER,  WE ARE IN THE GIANT WHEEL OF KALAM (-KALA-CHAKRAM); WE ARE COVERED BY THE SMOKE OF GUNAM AND KARMAM. MAY DEVI ABSORBS THE SMOKE AND  BLESS US WITH HAPPINESS, WHICH IS THE ULTIMATE IN THE LIFE-LIVING CYCLE.

DEVI  IS  THE LOVING MOTHER EVER KEEPING A WATCH ON KALAM-KARMAM-GUNAM - NAUGHTY CHILDREN -  INDULGING IN THEIR PLAY AND FORGETTING FOR THE TIME BEING, THE EVER WATCHING PRESENCE OF THE KIND MOTHER.

WHERE THERE IS NO MIND, THERE IS HAPPINESS.


MIND SHOULD NOT GET ENSLAVED TO THE BODY.  MIND SHOULD SURRENDER TO THE SOURCE.  .   

OCEAN IS LIFE ;  GENTLE VIBRATION OF THE OCEAN IS LIVING.  INDIVIDUAL WAVE IS THE MIND. FEELING OF DOER SHIP AND ENJOYER SHIP AND ATTACHMENT TO THE MIND AND BODY, IS EGO. 

BODY,  INDIVIDUAL EGO, MIND,  COSMIC EGO, CONSCIOUSNESS AND AWARENESS ARE THE TERMS OF EXPANSION FROM THE MICROCOSM TO MACROCOSM.  FROM JEEVA TO BRAHMAN.

CHANGE TAKES PLACE TO  THE BODY AND MIND (LIVING ASPECT) AND NOT  TO "LIFE".

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 'DEHA-BHODAM' AND 'DEHA-ABHIMANAM-  THE FORMER IS "I AM", AND THE LATTER IS ATTACHMENT TO PHYSICAL BODY.  WHILE DEHA-BHODAM SHALL CONTINUE TILL DEATH, 'DEHA-ABHIMANAM CAN BE DONE AWAY WITH EVEN WHILE DEHA-BHODAM CONTINUES.

WHEN THE DOER SHIP AND ENJOYER SHIP (TOGETHER TERMED AS 'AHANTHAI) AND POSSESSOR SHIP (MAMATHAI) ARE DONE AWAY WITH, 'DEHA-ABHIMANAM' GOES AWAY. THEREAFTER, ONLY DEHA BHODAM SHALL CONTINUE, MEANING "I AM" - SENSE OF EXISTENCE, SHALL REMAIN EXPERIENCING PURE HAPPINESS. ULTIMATELY IN DEATH, "I AM" MERGES WITH " I ".


KNOWING  AND SURRENDERING;  SURRENDERING  AND KNOWING - THE FORMER IS GNANA PATH AND THE LATER IS BHAKTHY PATH. BHAKTHY IS THE  OUTCOME  OF  GNANA. GNANAM IS EXPRESSED IN BHAKTHY. BHAKTHY AND GNANAM ARE NOT TWO. BOTH GNANA AND BHAKTHY GET FULFILMENT IN KNOWLEDGE, IN 'MAHAMOWNAM'.


PARA, PASHYANTI, MADYAMA AND VAIKARI  RESPECTIVELY REPRESENT "I CONSCIOUSNESS", I AM, I AM AN INDIVIDUAL AND INDIVIDUALITY; IN OTHER WORDS THEY MEAN, BEYOND CONCEPT, HOMOGENOUS CONCEPT,  DUAL CONCEPTS AND EGO REACTING TO CONCEPTS.

YOUR SPIRITUAL TRAVEL SHOULD BE FROM 'GROSS TO SUBTLE'. FROM 'LIVING TO LIFE',  FROM 'MENTAL AGITATIONS TO STILLNESS'

THERE  IS  NOTHING TO  BE  DONE OUTSIDE.  REALIZE, WITHIN, THE SOURCE OF "I AM".

WHAT ALL WE SEE AND  DO OUTSID, ARE ONLY REFLECTIONS/DEFLECTIONS OF "I AM". IGNORE THEM , DIVE WITHIN "I AM", AND REALIZE THE SOURCE -  "I-CONSCIOUSNESS".

DIVINE GRACE IS INDEFINABLE.  IT WORKS  IN EACH ONE OF US .EVEN WHILE WE DISCHARGE  OUR  PRARABDHA VASANAS, THE DIVINE GRACE CO-FUNCTIONS WITH  IT SILENTLY.


FOCUS THE MIND TO  A MANTRA; CONNECT ALL THOUGHTS TO THIS MANTRA.  IN DUE COURSE,  MANTRA  FILLS YOUR AWARENESS AND YOU BECOME ONE WITH " I  ".

"UTIKKUM IDATHIL ADANKI  IRU" -(  REMAIN IN THE SOURCE.  MEANING :  "I AM" TO REMAIN IN " I ". (LIVING TO REMAIN IN LIFE - SENSE OF EXISTENCE TO REMAIN AS EXISTENCE.  THIS IS THE STAGE OF ANUBOODHY.).

UNDERSTANDING OUR HELPLESSNESS TO UNDERSTAND  THE REALITY, IS THE FIRST  LESSON OF SPIRITUALITY.

SPIRITUALITY  AND PERSONALITY  DO NOT GO TOGETHER BY THEMSELVES WITHOUT A CONNECTING FACTOR.  PERSONALITY IS JEEVA BHAVAM, AND SPIRITUALITY IS  ATMA-BHAVAM.  (I AM AN INDIVIDUAL AND I AM  RESPECTIVELY.THE CONNECTING FACTOR IS BHODAM - CONSCIOUSNESS.



WORSHIP, POOJA, UPASANA, DHYANA ETC.,  ARE IN JEEVA BHAVAM.


COSMIC EGO (I AM)  - SENSE OF EXISTENCE , WITHOUT THE INTERFERENCE OF MENTAL IMAGINATIONS ,  IS  "ATMA-BHAVAM -ANANDAM -PURE HAPPINESS IS  ITS NATURE.

"I-CONSCIOUSNESS"  -  EXISTENCE -  BHODAM -  IS "ANUBOODHY".  "SHANTY" - PEACE IS ITS SWAROOPAM.


"I AM" - SENSE OF EXISTENCE,  ENTERTAINS A SINGLE CONCEPT (SENSE OF EXISTENCE). KNOWN AS 'COSMIC EGO'.

COSMIC. MIND WITH CONCEPTS  ARISE FROM "I AM"  THE COSMIC EGO.

FROM COSMIC MIND, INDIVIDUAL MIND ARISES , REFLECTING DUAL AND  APPARENTLY CONFLICTING CONCEPTS.

FROM THE INDIVIDUAL MIND A SENSE OF INDIVIDUALITY ARISES ENTERTAINING KARTRITWAM, BHOKTHRITVAM ,  AND DEHABHIMANAM - TOGETHER KNOWN AS 'INDIVIDUAL EGO (INDIVIDUALITY)

THUS ,  MAN SHRINKS FROM SELF - I - CONSCIOUSNESS. TO COSMIC EGO, FROM THERE TO COSMIC MIND, FROM THERE TO INDIVIDUAL MIND AND  TO INDIVIDUALITY

"I AM" IS OTHERWISE CALLED "ATMA"  THE FIRST SPROUT  OF "I-CONSCIOUSNESS".  'I AM' IS WITNESSING ITS OWN REFLECTION - JEEVA AND  THE DEPENDENT B.M.I (BODY-MIND-INTELLECT) EQUIPMENT  IN EACH INDIVIDUAL.

"I-CONSCIOUSNESS IS NEITHER A WITNESS NOR WITNESSED. THIS IS THE SUBSTRATUM ON WHICH  "I AM" (SENSE OF EXISTENCE) IS PROJECTED

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SANYASY AND AN ORDIARY MAN IS THAT THE FORMER HAS NO KARTHRITWA BHAVAM, NO BHOKTRUTWA BHAVAM AND NO DEHABHIMANAM, WHILE THE LATTER POSSESSES ALL THE THREE.

'DOING' IS NOT THE 'REALITY';  "BEING"  IS THE "REALITY".  WE MAY TERM THE ' DOING' AS "IGNORANCE", WHEREAS  BEING IS "KNOWLEDGE". ONE IS AKSHARA AND THE OTHER IS KSHARA.

KALAM, KARMAM AND GUNAM DO NOT BELONG TO 'I CONSCIOUSNESS, (EXISTENCE) ,  NOR DO THEY BELONG TO "I AM - THE SENSE OF EXISTENCE. THEY ARE THE REFLECTIONS  OF MIND WHICH IN TURN IS THE VIBRATION IN "I AM"- SENSE OF EXISTENCE.


THERE IS NEITHER 'TIME' NOR 'SPACE'  IN "PRESENCE"; SIMILARLY, NO NAME AND FORM AND NO CAUSE AND EFFECT.  ALL THESE PAIRS ARE THE PRODUCTS OF MIND - A RELECTION IN THE 'SENSE OF PRESENCE' ("I AM" ).

"I AM"  CAN AT BEST BE UNDERSTOOD AS  'CONSCIOUS RELATIVITY' .

THE URGE IN EACH ONE OF US - WHETHER IT IS EXPLICIT OR IMPLICIT - TO FIND OUT THE SOURCE, IS SIMILAR TO THE URGE SEEN IN BIRDS TO RETURN TO THEIR  NEST, AND THE URGE OF THE RIVER TO JOIN THE OCEAN .

TRUST ENCOMPASSES BOTH FAITH AND BELIEF.

DEHA  BHODAM  SHOULD BE REPLACED BY ATMA BHODAM.

OUTLIVE THE CHIT-JADA GRANTHY. THIS GRANTHY SUBSIDES IN DEEP SLEEP.

MAN , APART FROM HIS TRUE NATURE , HAS AN ADDED TENDENCY OF DEVAS AND ASURAS.  AS THE PURANAS DEPICT, THERE WAS A HEAVENLY COMMAND WHICH REPEATED "DA" THRICE, INTERPRETED AS DAMYATA (SELF CONTROL),  DATTA (SACRIFICING SPIRIT) AND DAYA (LOVE AND COMPASSION). BY OBEYING THE COMMAND, MAN OUTLIVES THE LEVITY OF DEVAS AND CRUELTY OF ASURAS AND BECOMES PERFECT IN HIS OWN NATURE, LIVING A LIFE OF SACRIFICE , AND EXPERIENCING HAPPINESS .

ONLY IN DUAL CONCEPTS , ALL KINDS OF GOOD AND BAD, LIKES AND DISLIKES, PLEASURE  AND PAIN, ATTRACTION AND REPULSION AND WHAT NOT  - ALL IN  CONFLICTING NATURE , APPEAR AND DISAPPEAR.  THE TOTAL SUM UP OF ALL THESE ACTIVITIES TAKE PLACE IN THE MIND  OFTHE INDIVIDUAL.


WE ARE NOT CONSCIOUS OF OUR BODY AND MIND IN THE DEEP SLEEP.    WE ARE PARTLY CONSCIOUS  OF THE BODY AND MIND, IN  DREAM.  ONLY IN THE WAKING STAGE, OUR MIND, AS WELL AS, BODY EXPRESS IN FULL.  BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE STAGES ARE REPEATED, WE CAN LOGICALLY CONCLUDE , THAT THERE SHOULD BE A CHANGELESS SUBSTRATUM, ON WHICH ONLY CHANGES COULD BE REPEATED.

CONSTANT REMEMBRANCE OF "I AM" IS KNOWN BY THE TERM "AHAMGRAHA UPASANA"- MEDITATION  ON  "I AM" - THE SENSE OF EXISTENCE- COVERING THE ENTIRE COSMOS,  AND IDENTIFYING THE SAME WITH "I-CONSCIOUSNESS". (ANALOGY: GENTLE VIBRATION OF WAVES ON THE OCEAN OF "I - CONSCIOUSNESS.


WISDOM KNOWLEDGE, EXPRESSING HUMILITY AND EXPERIENCING HAPPINESS, SUBMITS  ITSELF  TO  "CONSCIOUSNESS".

THE MIND  BRINGS OUT CONCEPTS AND PLAYS/STRUGGLES  WITH  THEM.  AT ONE STAGE, MIND GETS  DISSATISFIED  OVER  ITS OWN CREATION, AND STARTS  ENQUIRING  A CONCEPT-FREE STAGE
CONCEPTS ARE THE GREATEST BONDAGE AND ABSENCE OF CONCEPTS IS THE STATE OF FREEDOM. (SANKALPANAM PARO BANDAH; TATABHAVO VIMUKTHA

DEVOID OF THE FEELING OF DOER, ENJOYER, AND ATTACHMENT WITH THE BODY,  AN 'INDIVIDUAL'  RAISES TO THE STATE OF "I AM" (SENSE OF EXISTENCE). WE CAN PRACTICALLY SEE THIS WITH INFANTS AS WELL AS WITH  WISE PERSONS.


RESTRICT THE INSTINCTS OF SEX, HUNGER,  LOOSE TALK ,  AND  EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT TOWARDS  RELATIONS/FRIENDS.  DEVELOP  POSITIVE QUALITIES OF EQUANIMITY, SACRIFICE AND PREMAM.  AVOID EGO SENSE OF DOER SHIP ,  ENJOYER SHIP ,POSSESSOR SHIP AND OVER-CARING TO ONE'S OWN BODY.









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MAHALEKSHMY IN THE HEART OF LORD MAHAVISHNU, IS SYMBOLIC OF CO-EXISTENCE OF " I AM"  AND  "I'   (GENTLE WAVES OF HAPPINESS  0N THE OCEAN OF "PEACE".

KARMA (WITHOUT THE FEELING OF 'KARTRITVAM', BHOKTRITVAM, AND  DEHABHIMANAM') ,  SHALL CONTINUE  EVEN FOR THE 'REALIZED' .

WHAT   IS  NOT DESIRED IS KARTRITVAM , BHOKTRITVAM  AND DEHABHIMANAM.  "LIVING" (SENSE OF EXISTENCE - 'I AM')  CONTINUES,  WITHOUT THESE ATTACHMENTS, AND  DISSOLVES  IN "LIFE",  FOR  EVER  IN THE EVENT OF  'DEATH'.

SAKTHY,  MAHAMAYA, PRAKRITHY - ALL THE THREE, AND OTHER NAMES SUCH AS DURGA, LAKSHMY, SARASWATHY, INDICATE ONE AND THE SAME PRINCIPLE " I AM " ("LIVING"), THE FIRST SPROUT FROM "I-CONSCIOUSNESS - LIFE. 

MIND (I AM THE INDIVIDUAL) ,  WITH MULTIPLE AND APPARENTLY CONFLICTING CONCEPTS, IS AVIDYA MAYA.  PRIMAL IGNORANCE (I-AM) IS A HOMOGENOUS CONCEPT,  AND IS 'VIDYA MAYA.

CHIT SAKTHY IS "I AM" , AND JADA-SAKTHY IS MIND -( I AM THE INDIVIDUAL).

WHY ALL THESE EXPLANATIONS!  OCEAN IS "I - CONSCIOUSNESS" AND THE GENTLE WAVES - (APPARENT VIBRATION OF  OCEAN)  IS  " I AM"  .  OCEAN  AND WAVES  EXIST TOGETHER.

BEYOND THE WAVES AND OCEAN IS " WATER".
BEYOND "I AM " AND "I - CONSCIOUSNESS" IS "ABSOLUTE"
SHIVAM IS "I AM" AND SHIVA IS " I "
AHAM IS "I AM"  AND SHIVA IS " I "
AHAM IS DEVI - SHE-  AND SHIVA IS  HE -
"HE" AND "SHE" CAN BE REMEMBERED WITH THE ANALOGY OF "DANCER" AND "DANCING".
SHE AND HE ,TOGETHER, HAS ANOTHER NAME "AMMAIAPPA".

PHENOMENA, NON-PHENOMENA AND NOUMENAN  ARE THE THREE TERMS TO INDICATE "I AM",  " I " AND "BEYOND I ".

WE, CONSIDERING OURSELVES AS INDIVIDUALS, HAVE ONLY AS MUCH STATUS AS BUBBLES IN THE VAST OCEAN WITH INNUMERABLE WAVES ON THE SURFACE.

DEVI -UNIVERSAL MOTHER - HAS  MADE ME APPEAR AS "I AM AN INDIVIDUAL" , AND BESTOWED HAPPINESS AND  VIRTUES. "I AM THE INDIVIDUAL" IS UNDER HER CONSTANT CARE AND LOVE. 


MOTHER'S GRACE BEFALLS ON EVERY "INDIVIDUAL",  IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER ONE IS AN ATHEIST OR BELIEVER.           
"KUPUTRO JAYATHE KWACHITAPI , KUMATHA  NA BHAVATHY" (A WICKED SON IS SOMETIMES BORN; NEVER AN UNKIND MOTHER).







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GET RID OF CONCEPTS - ( THE DRESS YOU HAVE PUT ON) , AND BE FREE ('NIRVANA')

'NATURE' (ALL EVENTS  AS DESTINED),  AND 'CULTURE' (DEVELOPED  THROUGH 'DIVINE GRACE) CO-FUNCTION,  IN  EACH INDIVIDUAL.  THE FORMER  IS  SAMSKARAM, (PRARABDHAM),  AND THE LATTER IS SAMSKRITHY (DIVINE GRACE).  ' EVOLUTION' IN MAN CAN BE THOUGHT OF ONLY WITH THE ABOVE TWO CONCEPTS .

SATSANG,  MEDITATION  AND  CONTEMPLATION,  AIMING TOWARDS DIVINE TRUTH, MOULD  ONE RECEPTIVE  TO  DIVINE GRACE .

EQUANIMITY OF VISION    AND  HAPPINESS, PREVAIL WITH DIVINE GRACE.

DHARMA, DISCIPLINED LIVING,AND 'DIVINE GRACE' ARE SYNONYMS.

EQUANIMITY  OF VISION IS  WELL  EXPLAINED IN  B.GEETHA - CHAPTER 14 - SLOKA 24.    "PLEASURE/PAIIN (RELATING TO MIND),LIKES/DISLIKES (RELATING TO INTELLECT) , GOLD  /STONE,  (RELATING TO POSSESSIVENESS,) PRAISE/IGNOMINY RELATING TO EGO -ALL  TO BE VIEWED  WITH EQUANIMITY  (DESPITE CONFLICTING VALUE WITHIN EACH PAIR.

COMPASSION,' PREMAM'  AND  SACRIFICE  FLOW  SIMILAR TO GENTLE WAVES ON THE OCEAN OF PEACE.  ( 'I AM' FLOWS ON THE OCEAN OF PEACE ).

PEACE  IS. "SILENCE".


BHAKTHY -IMPLICIT FAITH -  TOWARDS  REALITY,  BRINGS
WISDOM KNOWLEDGE..

BHAKTHY IS  BHAVAM,  WISDOM-KNOWLEDGE IS  ANUBHAVAM    AND  REALIZATION. IS  ANUBOODHY.

ARTHA AND KAMA  ARE THE TWO NATURAL URGES IN EVERYONE CAUSED BY 'AGNANAM'. TO DISCIPLINE THESE URGES, AND TO LEAD RHYTHMIC 'LIVING', ''DHARMA (DIVINE GRACE)  IS A MUST.  RHYTHMIC LIVING REGULATING ARTHA AND KAMA, SHALL LEAD TO 'GNANAM', (WISDOM KNOWLEDGE),  AND  ULTIMATELY TO THE CONCEPT- LES  SOURCE.

EXTENSIVE  AND INTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE (GNANA-VIGNANA) DEAL WITH 'CONCEPTS' (SANKALPAM).  CONCEPT- LES  TRUTH  IS  "S A T Y A M".

THERE IS NOTHING TO PREACH, AND NOTHING TO LISTEN. WHY ALL THESE PREACHINGS, WHY ALL THESE WRITINGS - ALL CONCEPTS! 

EVENTS TAKE PLACE, BASED ON 'SAMSKARAM.  MAJORITY OF US  REACT TO EVENTS, THEREBY  BRING  IN  MORE SAMSKARAM;    ON THE OTHER HAND, WITH SAMSKRITHY, ONE  RESPONDS TO THE EVENTS, WITHOUT REACTING.  "DIVINE GRACE"  IS ANOTHER NAME FOR  "SAMSKRITHY".

'SMILE' AND 'SILENCE'  ARE HAPPINESS AND PEACE RESPECTIVELY.


MEDITATION IS SIMILAR TO DREAM -( HALF ASLEEP AND HALF WAKING)  FOR IT SERVES  THE  INDIVIDUAL TO ENTER EITHER INTO NIRVIKALPA (LIKE THE DEEP SLEEP) OR ENLIGHTENMENT WITH SELF-KNOWLEDGE (LIKE THE AWAKENED STAGE)

UNINTERRUPTED  GOD-THOUGHT SHALL CHANGE OUR SO CALLED DREAM  INTO  MEDITATION, AND TAKE US  EITHER TO 'PEACEFUL SILENCE' OR  TO 'HAPPY WAKEFULNESS'.

PEACE  AND  HAPPINESS ( SHANTY AND AANANDAM) ARE THE SWAROOPAM AND SWABHAVAM,  EXISTENCE AND SENSE OF EXISTENCE - " I ". AND  "I - AM" -  OF  THE ABSOLUTE  BRAHMAN.

DOER SHIP, ' ENJOYER SHIP',  AND POSSESSOR SHIP,  WHEN  REMOVED,  HALF THE EGO IS GONE,  AND WHEN ATTACHMENT TO BODY IS  REMOVED, EGO  DISAPPEARS  IN FULL.

RHYTHM, SATYAM AND PARAM REPRESENT RESPECTIVELY 'LIVING',  'LIFE', AND "ABSOLUTE". (ANALOGY:  WAVES, OCEAN AND WATER ) "I - AM",  " I " AND. 'ABSOLUTE', ALSO MEAN THE SAME.

KARMA YOGI, ALTHOUGH NOT CONSCIOUS OF DOER SHIP AND' ENJOYER- SHIP' (KARTHRITVAM AND BHOKTRITVAM),  IS STILL CONSCIOUS OF HIS PHYSICAL EXISTENCE ('I AM') - 'DEHABHODAM - SENSE OF EXISTENCE -AHAM -

AHAM BHODAM. (LIVING PRESENCE)  SHOULD CONSTANTLY REMEMBER  ITS  REALITY-"-SIVABHODAM" (LIFE-CONSCIOUSNESS);  "I AM" TO REMEMBER  "I - CONSCIOUSNESS".  THIS IS NOT MERE  'REMEMBRANCE';  THIS BHAVAM  SHOULD  BECOME ANUBHAVAM AND  ULTIMATELY  CONTEMPLATIVE AWARENESS.

ANUBOODHY IS 'CONTEMPLATIVE AWARENESS'.

DESPITE VARIOUS  BHAVAMS  AND EXPERIENCE,  IN THE 'LIVING DRAMA'  ONE SHOULD  EVER  BE  AWARE OF THE REALITY BEHIND  'LIVING''.

AS WE BECOME MORE AND MORE CONSCIOUS OF THE REALITY (LIFE) ,  OUR ATTENTION TO THE 'LIVING' SHALL BE LESSENED, AND ALL APPARENT CONFLICTS  COME TO AN END.












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SO  LONG AS WE  LIVE WITH A SENSE OF EXISTENCE, WE  SHALL VIEW "ABSOLUTE",  IN THREE CATEGORIES -   ' CONVENTIONAL'  WITH MULTIPLE CONCEPTS;  ' 'EXISTENCE' (GOD PRINCIPLE),  AND "ABSOLUTE" (BRAHMAN).


POSITIVE EMOTIONS  -LIKE  COMPASSION, LOVE ,  AND  DEEDS OF SACRIFICE, SHALL  HELP TO OUTLIVE  THE TURBULENT NATURE OF MIND IN US, AND BRING CALMNESS,  TO  OUR 'LIVING'

MAYA IS A TERM  USED TO EXPLAIN 'MULTIPLICITY'  -  GOD SHINES IN VIDYA MAYA.
,MITYA AND BRAMAM  COME UNDER AVIDYA MAYA.

DEATH OCCURS WHEN PRARABDHA KARMA  AND SAMSKRITI  COME TO AN END ,AND WHEN THERE IS NO  MORE SCOPE FOR FURTHER EVOLUTION.

MAN BORN WITH SAMSKARAM (TENDENCIES CARRIED OVER FROM  PAST LIFE)  HAS SCOPE FOR EVOLUTION , ONLY  BY ACQUIRING  CULTURE. (SAMSKRITHY)  .   AS A RESULT OF INTERVENTION OF GOD 'S GRACE IN ONE'S SAMSKARAM . SAMSKRITHY  (GRACE) OPERATES.

RECEPTIVE ASPIRANTS GET GRACE IN THE EASY WAY, AND OTHERS IN A HARD WAY. BOTH  ARE  WITHIN GOD 'S KNOWLEDGE

'WATER AND WAVES' IS THE BEST ANALOGY AMONG OTHER ANALOGIES LIKE 'ROPE-SNAKE, DESERT-MIRAGE. GOLD AND GOLD-ORNAMENT.  IN THE WATER-WAVES ANALOGY, STILLNESS OF WATER DEEP DOWN THE OCEAN,  AND   WAVES APPEARING  ON  THE  SURFACE  CAN  BE  TAKEN  TO  UNDERSTAND  'REALITY'  AND  'APPEARANCE'.  

WE ARE  INSIGNIFICANT BUBBLES;  WE CAN AT BEST ASPIRE TO REALIZE OUR POSITION  AMIDST THE INNUMERABLE WAVES ON THE SURFACE OF THE VAST OCEAN  WHICH REFLECTS ONLY  A  PART  OF  THE  INFINITY  OF  WATER,  DEEP  WITHIN.


AVARANAM IS AGNANAM, (PRIMARY IGNORANCE, PRIMARY CONCEPT)  BRINGING IN A 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE' (I - AM). ANOTHER NAME FOR AGNANAM IS ' MAYA '.
VIKSHEPAM IS BRINGING OUT MULTIPLE CONCEPTS, WITH NAME AND FORM,  TIME AND SPACE AND CAUSE AND EFFECT.

.  SATYAM IS 'ONE' - "EKAM SAT".  REALIZE 'ONENESS' IN THE APPEARANCE OF DIVISIONS.  THERE IS NO 'SEPARATENESS' WHATSOEVER , IN THE APPARENT DIVISIONS.
WHEN 'WATER'. IS REALIZED AS 'SATYAM'. WHERE IS SEPARATENESS BETWEEN ONE WAVE AND ANOTHER, AND WHERE IS THE DIVISION SUCH AS WAVELET, WAVE, SEA, OCEAN ETC ?.