BHAVAM, ANUBHAVAM, ANUBHOOTHY.

BHAVAM IS IMAGINATION; ANUBHAVAM IS EXPERIENCE AND ANUBHOOTHY IS CONTEMPLATIVE AWARENESS.

After acquiring extensive and intensive knowledge (gnanam and vignanam) about the reality vis-a-vis appearance - Life & Living, an individual constantly imagines Life in every activity and relegates Living to the background. This is similar to imagining water in every wave. Although living aspect only comes to the forefront with name and form and time and space, one should remember that it is LIFE which projects as Living. LIFE is Brahman, Life is Consciousness, Life is Atman, Life is the Base (Aadharam). Thus 'Bhavam' is 'imagining' and 'remembering'. After acquiring Gnanam and Vignanam, 'bhava adwaitham' is the initial step in the spiritual progress.

Next to "bhavam' is 'anubhavam'i.e. experience. The imagination shall fructify into 'Experience' throughout the 'living'. At this stage of Anubhava Adwaitham the individual experiences Happiness outliving pleasure and enjoyment. While in 'bhava adwaitham' Happiness is imagined, in 'Anubhava adwaitham' Happiness is experienced. At this stage, the individual is blessed with Equanimity of Vision - Sama darshanam. In his living there is no conflicting concept nor he is a slave to emotions. He attains the stage of "Samgnanam" above gnanam and vignanam.

Enjoyment and Pleasure are connected to senses, mind and intellect, and are reflection and deflection in the "Living" field, whereas Happiness is the expression of Life in Living.

Next to "bhavam' and 'anubhavam' is "Anubhoothy". This is 'Contemplative Awareness' above the stages of imagination and experience. In Contemplative Awareness, PEACE shines. This Peace is Life, Consciousness, Shanti, Atman and Brahman. This is beyond imagination and experience. This is beyond pleasure, enjoyment and Happiness.

From birth to death, we breathe in Life - Peace, and breath out Living - Happiness. One should not allow Happiness to be covered by likes and dilikes (two faces of Enjoyment) and pleasure and pain. While Happiness, in its true spirit, expresses Universal Love and Yagna spirit, enjoyment and pleasure are shadows shadowing Happiness. Ultimately, PEACE (SHANTI) is the Absolute Truth, Happiness is the relative truth and likes/dislikes, pleasure/pain are illusory and deceptive truth.

In Bhavam, Happiness is imagined, in Anubhavam, Happiness is experienced and in Anubhoothy, PEACE prevails. It is PEACE that alone expresses as Happiness, reflects as Enjoyment and deflects as Pleasure. PEACE is the BASE (Aadharam), Happiness is the substratum (Athistanam) and Enjoyment and Pleasure are reflections and deflections with dual and conflicting Concepts and Emotions.