Thursday, November 24, 2011

MUSINGS - 2

THOUGHTS, CONCEPTS AND EMOTIONS MAKE ONE IGNORANT OF GOD'S EXISTENCE, WITHIN, AND HE SEEKS HIM OUTSIDE. IN DUE COURSE, VIVEKAM WOULD BRING GOD WITHIN, FOLLOWED BY CONTEMPLATIVE AWARENESS OF GOD, .


WHO IS GOD? HE WHO KNOWS  "I - AM  IS  GOD... MIND WITH CONFLICTING CONCEPTS AND EMOTIONS, IS IMPURE. GET RID OF IMPURITIES THROUGH 'VICHARAM'. 'VIVEKAM' (WISDOM KNOWLEDGE) WOULD REVEAL THE SOURCE OF MIND. 


'ACTION' IS POSSIBLE ONLY AT THE STAGE OF 'DUALITY'

REALIZE 'ONENESS' WITHIN, AND AT THE SAME TIME, LET ACTIONS ON THE SURFACE TAKE PLACE. MOVEMENTS OF THE WAVES ON THE SURFACE,   AND THE OCEAN, SHOULD BE CONTEMPLATIVELY THOUGHT OF.

REMOVE THE COSTUME OF EGO, MIND AND INTELLECT. '. IT IS NOT THAT EASY TO REMOVE THE COSTUME, AND REALIZE 'LIFE'. INSTEAD, EVEN WHILE 'LIVING', BRING TO YOUR MIND/INTELLECT THE CONVICTION THAT 'LIFE' IS THE ENERGY BEHIND 'LIVING'. THIS IS POSSIBLE ONLY   WITH  DIVINE GRACE, .



NON-DUALITY SHOULD BE FELT WITHIN. WHEN YOU DEAL WITH OUTSIDE WORLD, DUALITY STEPS IN. GIVE DUALITY ITS DUE PLACE.

DANCER IS NON-DUAL AND 'DANCING' IS DUAL IN ITS DIFFERENT APPEARANCES.


MENTAL ATTITUDE OF THE DRAMA-ACTOR EVEN WHILE EXPRESSING DIFFERENT EMOTIONS IN THE DRAMA PLAY, IS THE REALITY AND THE 'ACTING' IS AN APPEARANCE.


WE ARE 'ONE' AT THE BASE, AND ON THE SURFACE, WE APPEAR TO BE MANY. LEARN THAT, THERE MAY BE DIVISIONS, BUT NO SEPARATENESS. THE SHAPE, THE ACTIONS AND THE MENTAL THOUGHTS OF EACH INDIVIDUAL 'APPEAR' TO BE DIFFERENT. IN ESSENCE WE ARE 'ONE'/
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'I' IS A CONCEPT. 'I AM' IS ANOTHER CONCEPT. THERE IS A
THIRD CONCEPT THAT 'I AM' IS AN APPEARANCE ON 'I', AND 'I' IS THE EXPRESSION OF THE SUPREME POWER WHICH IS INCONCEIVABLE. WE ARE ENTANGLED IN CONCEPTS. IN OUR ATTEMPT TO BRING 'UNICITY' WE HAVE DEVISED ANOTHER CONCEPT 'SIVOHAM' i.e., 'I' IS 'I AM'. WHAT IS THE WAY OUT TO GET RID OF CONCEPTS. 'SILENCE' - THIS IS NOT AN ANSWER SO AS TO TO MAKE IT ANOTHER CONCEPT. THIS IS TRUTH.


DEEP SLEEP IS A 'RESEMBLANCE' OF 'SILENCE'. 'AWARENESS' IS 'SLEEPLESS SLEEP'. THIS IS THE HIGHEST TRUTH.


'LIFE' EXPRESSES AS THE BABY BREATHS IN, ON COMING INTO EXISTENCE. 'LIFE' APPEARS EXTINCT, AS THE MAN HAS HIS FINAL BREATH-OUT. WE NAME THESE TWO EVENTS, AS 'BIRTH' AND 'DEATH'. IN REALITY, THERE IS NEITHER BIRTH NOR DEATH.



'SILENCE' IS "TRUTH".. CONTEMPLATIVE AWARENESS OF TRUTH, IS THE HIGHEST EXPRESSION OF SILENCE.


LIFE IS PEACE. BUDDHA SAYS THAT ULTIMATE PEACE IS HIDDEN IN LIFE.


IMAGES CREATED BY CONCEPTS, DO NOT REPRESENT REALITY; THEY ARE IMAGINARY.


REALITY IS REALITY, WHEN IT IS NOT GRASPED CONCEPTUALLY.


DO NOT ALLOW CONCEPTS TO SEPARATE YOU FROM REALITY.

THE DISTINCTION OF SUBJECT-OBJECT EXISTS SO LONG AS THERE IS DISTINCTION BETWEEN 'EXISTENCE' AND 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE'.
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IT IS SANKALPA -( GNANA AND VIGNANA), THAT BRINGS FORTH CONCEPTUAL DUALITIES, APPARENTLY CONFLICTING. 'SAMGNANA' - WISDOM KNOWLEDGE, VIEWS CONCEPTS TOGETHER WITHOUT CONFLICTS.


'LIVING'  NEEDS 'LIFE' FOR APPEARANCE.. THIS IS SIMILAR TO 'DANCING' AND 'DANCER'. DANCING CANNOT TAKE PLACE WITHOUT A DANCER. WE CANNOT SEE 'DANCING' SEPARATELY UNLIKE MUSIC AND PAINTING WHERE, EVEN WITHOUT THE SINGER AND PAINTER  BEING PRESENT, THE MUSIC AND PAINTING CAN BE HEARD/SEEN AND ENJOYED. 

THERE IS YET ANOTHER HIGHER TRUTH. WHEN THE DANCER REMOVES HIS DANCE ROBE, HE REMAINS AS A PERSON. HERE, THE 'PERSON' IS 'ABSOLUTE TRUTH', 'DANCER' IS DIVINE TRUTH, AND THE DANCING IS CONVENTIONAL TRUTH.


LIFE AND LIVING CO-EXIST, SO LONG AS LIFE WILLS IT SO. . LIFE IS PRESENT THROUGHOUT LIVING. 


THE 'WHEEL OF TIME' (KALA CHAKRAM) WITH THE FORKS OF BIRTH AND DEATH, ROTATES AS PER THE COSMIC WILL OF THE SUPREME.



JEEVA IS A REFLECTION OF ATMA CHAITANYAM ENLIVENING THE ANTHAKARANAM. SAT-CHIT-AANANDAM IS THE NATURE OF  ATMA.


PRANA, WHEN DEPARTED FROM BODY-MIND-INTELLECT STRUCTURE, JOINS THE SOURCE .. PRANA, WHEN ATTACHED TO BODY-MIND-INTELLECT STRUCTURE, IS KNOWN AS 'JEEVA'.   PRANA, WHEN MEDITATED UPON (ANUSANDHANAM), MERGES WITH ATMA. .


"OM SHANTY - SHANTY - SHANTY. "OM" DENOTES BRAMMA, VISHNU AND SHIVA - GODS OF CREATION, SUSTENANCE AND DISSOLUTION. 'SHANTI' IS THE SUPREME POWER FROM WHICH THESE THREE ASPECTS ARISE. .


THE MANTRA 'SATYOJADAM' COVERS FIVE  ASPECTS VIZ.,
'SATYOJADAM' REPRESENTS BRAHMA; VAMADEVA REPRESENTS VISHNU ; AGORA REPRESENTS RUDRA; TATPURUSHA REPRESENTS MAHESHWARA, AND EASANAM IS SADASHIVA. THEIR FUNCTIONS ARE CREATION, SUSTENANCE, SAMHARAM, TIRODANAM AND ANUGRAHAM.

VERTICAL TRUTH IS DIVINE, AND HORIZONAL TRUTH IS CONVENTIONAL. THE CIRCLE COVERING BOTH, IS ABSOLUTE. VERTICAL PATH HAS TO BE CHOSEN TO REALIZE THE ABSOLUTE. VERTICAL PATH IS SAMGNANA.



'KARTIGA DEEPAM': WE LIGHT THE LAMPS, WITH A 'MASTER LAMP'. SIMILARLY, OUR MIND - THE TINY LAMP, SHOULD GET ENLIGHTENED BY 'ATMA CHAITANYAM'  ( LIGHT-ABSOLUTE.).


INTUITION HAS NO CONTRADICTION WITH INTELLIGENCE. INTUITION IS WISDOM KNOWLEDGE. INTUITION ABSORBS INTELLIGENCE AS WELL AS EMOTIONS, ARISING FROM INTELLECT AND MIND.


MINIMIZE ACTION, SPEECH AND THOUGHTS. FOLLOW THE VERTICAL PATH OF WISDOM KNOWLEDGE.


ON REALIZATION OF TRUTH,  WE SEE NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 'I- CONSCIOUSNESS' AND 'I AM THE LIVING' .


INTELLECTUAL LEARNING (GNANAM AND VIGNANAM) IS LIKE STUDYING THE MENU, AND WISDOM KNOWLEDGE IS EATING AND FEELING HAPPY.


OUR ANXIETY ABOUT THE FUTURE, AND OUR FEAR ABOUT THE PAST, ARE OBSTRUCTIONS TO OUR 'MINDFULNESS' OVER THE WORK ON HAND. 'MINDFULNESS' IS ATTENTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY TOWARDS THE WORK.


A WAVE CANNOT REALIZE ITS SOURCE - OCEAN, UNLESS OCEAN WILLS IT SO. THIS IS DIVINE GRACE INTERPRETED AS 'FREE WILL' 'EFFORT' ETC. DEEP BELOW THE WAVE AND OCEAN, IS 'WATER' WHICH IS THE ULTIMATE.


IN THE CONCEPT 'I AM' AND 'I', IT IS 'I AM'  THAT JOINS   ' I '. .


THE ELEMENTS- EARTH, WATER AND FIRE ARE OBSERVABLE. AIR AND ETHER ELEMENTS ARE ONLY FELT. BEYOND THESE, IS THE ULTIMATE WHICH CAN BE REALIZED ONLY THROUGH INSIGHT - WISDOM KNOWLEDGE.


WHEN THE 'MIND' - THE TINY LAMP, IS LIGHTED BY THE DIVINE LIGHT OF 'ATMA-CHAITANYAM', WE REALIZE THE 'DIVINE TRUTH' IN US. THE FLAME ALWAYS GOES VERTICAL IRRESPECTIVE OF THE SHAPE OF THE LAMP.


'RADHA-KRISHNA' AND 'SHIVA-SAKTHY'. IN BOTH THE CONCEPTS 'RADHA' AND 'SAKTHY' REPRESENT 'I AM' AND SRI KRISHNA AND LORD SHIVA REPRESENT 'I-CONSCIOUSNESS'.





ALL PATHS LEAD TO THE PEAK; SOME OF THEM ROUGH AND SOME OTHERS SMOOTH AND EASY, TO CLIMB. ALL ARE ENGAGED IN CLIMBING THE PEAK. THERE IS NO POINT IN ADVISING OTHERS TO CHOOSE A PARTICULAR PATH. THE PATH FOR EACH ONE, IS ALREADY DECIDED BY THE COSMIC WILL EXPRESSED THROUGH  KALA CHAKRAM, WITHIN WHICH KARMA AND GUNAS  ROTATE.


WE CANNOT PREDICT ANY EVENT THAT MIGHT AFFECT EACH ONE OF US PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY. ABOVE ALL, WE ARE BLISSFULLY IGNORANT OF OUR FINAL DEPARTING-TIME LEAVING THIS MORTAL COIL. IF ONLY WE ARE CONSCIOUS OF THE ABOVE TRUTH OF THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF THE FUTURE, THE EGO I.E., AHANTAI, MAMATHAI AND ABHIMANAM CAN BE BROUGHT TO THE MINIMUM. WE BECOME MORE AND MORE CONSCIOUS OF THE 'LIFE' ASPECT VIS-A-VIS THE 'LIVING DRAMA' REFLECTED ON THE 'LIFE' CURTAIN.


'GRACE' IS SIMILAR TO A RAY OF LIGHT WHICH LEADS US FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT.


AFTER MASTERING GNANAM AND VIGNANAM, ONE ENTERS THE REALM OF SAMGNANAM I.E., EXPERIENCING A UNIFIED VISION OF CONCEPTS.. CONSTANT REMEMBERANCE OF 'SAMGNANAM' (WISDOM KNOWLEDGE) RESULTS IN THE EXPERIENCE OF 'AANANDAM'  - THE HIGHEST STAGE TO BE REALIZED IN THE 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE'. 
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DO NOT STOP WITH 'MEDITATION' FOR A SPECIFIC TIME. EXPERIENCE THE RESULTANT HAPPINESS THROUGHOUT.


TRUST IS  INTUITION MATURED BY FAITH AND BELIEF. FAITH AND BELIEF RELATE TO MIND AND INTELLECT.


FAITH IS THE SEED FOR 'BHAKTHY TREE'; BELIEF IS THE FLOWER; AND TRUST IS THE FRUIT.


RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY RELATE TO MIND AND INTELLECT RESPECTIVELY. THEY BRING IN FAITH AND BELIEF. DO NOT STOP WITH THAT. GO BEYOND, AND EARN TRUST.
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'LIBERATION' AND 'BONDAGE' ARE ONLY THE ATTITUDE OF THE MIND. AS THE MIND, SO THE MAN.

MIND MINUS THOUGHTS, IS CONSCIOUSNESS.


WAVES CANNOT SPLIT UP THE OCEAN. CONCEPTS CANNOT SPLIT UP CONSCIOUSNESS.


AWARENESS OF AWARENESS IS REALIZATION.


SAT-CHIT-AANANDAM EXPRESSES HAPPINESS; SATYAM-GNANAM-ANANDAM IS 'PEACE' FOR EVER'.


WHILE 'CHIT' - PURE INTELLIGENCE - WISDOM KNOWLEDGE - BRINGS IN A HOMOGENOUS VISION, ORDINARY INTELLIGENCE VIEWS ONLY MULTIPLICITY. 


 'CONTEMPLATIVE AWARENESS' DOES NOT REQUIRE AN OBJECT TO  MEDITATE  UPON.. AWARENESS IS BY THE 'SELF' ON THE 'SELF'. . .


'PURE INTELLIGENCE'- 'SAMGNANAM', AND WISDOM KNOWLEDGE ARE SYNONYMS.


WHEN ALL CONCEPTS END, ONLY 'CONSCIOUSNESS' REMAINS IN ITS SPLENDOR. AWARENESS OF AWARENESS IS SELF-REALIZATION'.



'EXISTENCE' ALONE REMAINS IN DEEP SLEEP, AND IN WAKING AS WELL AS IN DREAM, EXISTENCE IS REFLECTED AS 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE'. 'EXISTENCE' IS 'LIFE' AND 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE' IS 'LIVING'. IT IS BECAUSE OF 'EXISTENCE', THE 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE' REFLECTS.


LORD ANJANEYA'S SAYING: "WITH 'DEHA-BUDDHY'. YOU ARE A SERVANT; WITH JEEVA-BUDDY', YOU ARE A PART OF GOD; WITH 'ATMA-BUDDY' YOU ARE ONE WITH GOD."