Thursday, November 29, 2012

MUSINGS - 19

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.




Thursday, October 18, 2012

MUSINGS - 18

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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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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

MUSINGS - 17

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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Monday, August 20, 2012

MUSINGS - 16

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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Monday, August 13, 2012

MUSINGS - 15



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 ?.








Saturday, August 11, 2012

MUSINGS -14


WE SEE  GOD  PRINCIPLE OUTSIDE  IN 'DWAIDA',  WE OBSERVE  THE SAME WITHIN AND WITHOUT  IN  VISISHTADWAIDA,  AND  REALIZE  IT WITHOUT  DISTINCTION OF OUTSIDE AND INSIDE, IN ADWAIDA.

I AM THAT;  I AM  I;  AND 'I' -  INDICATE THE ABOVE TRUTH ;  AND THEY OPERATE  RESPECTIVELY  IN THE WORSHIP,  IN MEDITATION,  AND  IN SAMADHY/DEEP SLEEP STAGES.


" I " IS "BHODAM" AND "I AM" IS.  "EXPRESSION" ;  MIND, EGO, DUAL CONCEPTS, INTELLECT ETC., ARE REFLECTIONS/DEFLECTIONS OF "I AM".

"I AM" IS THE 'WITNESS'  OF THE REFLECTIONS/DEFLECTIONS;  "I" IS THE "KNOWER";  BEYOND IS "KNOWLEDGE".

KNOWER, WITNESS  AND WITNESSED,  REPRESENT RESPECTIVELY,  I -CONSCIOUSNESS, I AM,  AND MIND/INTELLECT/EGO.

 "BRAHMAN"  IS NEITHER KNOWER, NOR WITNESS, NOR WITNESSED    BRAHMAN  IS "KNOWLEDGE ".

THE KNOWER IS KNOWN IN KNOWLEDGE MEANS  -CONSCIOUSNESS
IS KNOWN  IN  AWARENESS -AWARENESS IS "LIGHT". AND CONSCIOUSNESS IS DAY-LIGHT. CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE EXPRESSION OF AWARENESS.

'I AM THAT', 'IAM I'  AND 'I'  ARE OUR OWN VISION AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ONE AND THE SAME TRUTH, OBSERVED OUTSIDE, OBSERVED WITHIN AND WITHOUT,  AND REALIZED  WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF 'IN' AND 'OUT'.

"I AM" IS THE WITNESS OF ITS REFLECTIONS - -(MIND, INTELLECT ETC.,);
"I CONSCIOUSNESS". IS THE "KNOWER" OF 'I AM '.  BEYOND "I" IS "KNOWLEDGE".


"I AM"  IS "JEEVA SAKSHY"  WITNESSING IT'S REFLECTION IN JEEVA AND B.M.I EQUIPMENT.  "I CONSCIOUSNESS" IS  "SARVASAKSHY" AS A "KNOWER" OF "I AM" AND IT'S REFLECTION.  "BEYOND"  SARVASAKSHY AND JEEVA SAKSHY.  IS "ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE".

"SIVOHAM"  IS SHORTENED AS "SOHAM" AND SOMETIMES  "HAMSOHAM";  IT IS SHORTENED  FURTHER TO "I AM", PROBABLY ON REALIZATION THAT 'IAM HAS " I  " IN IT.

  IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER THE 'MANTRA' IS SHORT OR LONG. REALIZE ONE TRUTH,  ERASING  ALL THOUGHTS ,  WITH THE MANTRA "I AM" - A COMBINATION OF "I " AND "AM".

IN SIMPLE TERM,  ABSOLUTE IS THE ONLY TRUTH,  AND ALL OTHERS ARE REFLECTIONS.  SILENCE IS THE ONLY LANGUAGE, AND ALL OTHERS ARE  'APPARENT VIBRATIONS'.

WATER IS THE ONLY SUBSTANCE.  OCEAN,  SEA OF WAVES, WAVE, WAVELET, FOAM, BUBBLE ETC., ETC.,.ARE DIFFERENTLY PERCEIVED, WITH NAMES AND FORMS, WITH TIME AND SPACE, WITH CAUSE AND EFFECT, ATTRACTION/REPULSION, LIKES/DISLIKES ETC
 

ERASE ALL THOUGHTS ,  WITH THE MANTRA "I AM" - A COMBINATION OF "I " AND "AM", AND REALIZE  "ABSOLUTE".


SINGLE CONCEPT  "I AM"  IS AVARANAM .  MULTIPLE  CONCEPTS  ARE 'VIKSHEPAM' ,  MISTAKING ONE FOR  THE  OTHER , IS  'BRAMAM'.

E.G., ROPE IS A CONCEPT,  SNAKE IS ANOTHER CONCEPT - THESE. MULTIPLE CONCEPTS  ARE CAUSED BY 'VIKSHEPAM'.  MISTAKING ROPE AS A SNAKE ,  AND  THE RESULTANT EMOTIONS, ARE KNOWN  AS  'BRAMAM'.

THE VERY APPEARANCE  OF " I -AM" ( PRIMARY CONCEPT), FOLLOWED BY MULTIPLE CONCEPTS  AND THE RESULTANT EMOTIONS, IS 'JAGATH'.

"PARAM" ,  "SATYAM" AND. "RITAM". ARE. THE THREE TERMS THOUGHTFULLY  COINED BY THE ANCIENT SAGES,  TO  INDICATE  ABSOLUTE,  I-CONSCIOUSNESS  AND  "I AM".


IT IS NOT THAT DIFFICULT TO CONTEMPLATE UPON THESE TERMS WITH 
  THE ANALOGY OF "WATER",  "OCEAN"  AND  "SEA WITH RHYTHMIC WAVES". 

A RHYTHMIC 'LIVING' WITH WISDOM KNOWLEDGE,  IS WHAT WE SHOULD ASPIRE FOR,  OUTLIVING  EMOTIONS AND EGO. 

"I-CONSCIOUSNESS"  (LIFE) SHINES IN  RHYTHMIC LIVING.  'LIFE'. AND 'LIVING'  ( 'I' AND 'I AM';  OCEAN AND THE RHYTHMIC WAVES, EXIST TOGETHER).
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AGNANAM IS THE DISEASE AND ATMA VICHARAM IS THE MEDICINE.


WHEN ONE SUFFERS THE EXTREME, EGO IS LOST.


ANYTHING THAT TAKES YOU AWAY FROM "SELF" ,  IS "MAYA"
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WHOLESOME IS OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "SAMGNANAM".(SAMYAK -GNANAM)
'EQANIMITY  OF VISION, SAMA-DARSANAM, SAMATWAM ARE DIFFERENT TERMS, FOR THIS 'UNIFIED VISION'.

BOTH SUFFERING AND CONSOLATION ARE AS ORDAINED BY ONE AND THE SAME 'SHIVA-SAKTHY'.

VIKARAM, VICHARAM AND VIVEKAM   MEAN   EMOTIONAL CONFLICTS,  DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF THE ROOT CAUSE, AND WISDOM KNOWLEDGE  RESPECTIVELY.

GNANAM IS EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE,  VIGNANAM IS INTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE, SAMGNANAM IS WISDOM KNOWLEDGE.  PRAGNANAM IS SUPREME KNOWLEDGE.


I CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE 'LIFE'. AND 'I AM'  IS THE 'LIVING'  - TWO ASPECTS OF THE 'ABSOLUTE'.  (ANALOGY:OCEAN AND WAVES ARE THE TWO ASPECTS OF WATER)














Monday, July 16, 2012

musings 13

musings 13
BREATHE-IN  IS  'LIFE', AND BREATHE-OUT  IS 'LIVING'. 'LIFE' IS 'PEACE' AND 'LIVING ' IS HAPPINESS.


PLEASURE/PAIN, ENJOYMENT/SUFFERING, LIKES/DISLIKES, AND ALL TYPES OF ATTRACTION/REPULSION, ARE DISTORTIONS OF "HAPPINESS". CONSTANT REMEMBRANCE OF "PEACE" WITHIN
AND  EXPERIENCING "HAPPINESS" WITH  OUT, SHALL LEAD TO  REALIZATION OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH.


FOCUSSING ATTENTION ON THE BREATH AND CONNECTING THE SAME WITH THE 'MANTRA' -(SIVOHAM)  PEACE & HAPPINESS IN EVERY BREATH, SHALL  LEAD TO REALIZATION .

ALL OUR 'CONCEPTS'  OF  - MAHAVISHNU/SADADHIVA/SAKTHY  ARE POINTERS TO . "ABSOLUTE TRUTH".

BHAGAVAN  AND BHAGAVATHY REPRESENT ' I  " AND  " I AM " RESPECTIVELY. ABSOLUTE IS BEYOND BOTH , AND BEYOND CONCEPT!

WITHOUT  ANY OF THE  'PHILOSOPHICAL/RELIGIOUS JARGONS', COMMON MAN CAN REALIZE THIS "TRUTH"  WITH THE ANALOGY OF "WATER-OCEAN-AND SEA . . IT IS NOT DIFFICULT TO COMPREHEND THE
UNITY OF WAVE  WITH THE SEA, (OF  ALL WAVES) , UNITY OF THE SEA  WITH THE  OCEAN, AND UNITY OF OCEAN WITH THE  WATER DEEP WITHIN.

THE MORE YOU BECOME AWARE OF THE SUBJECTIVE REALITY, YOU SHALL BE LESS CONCERNED WITH  THE 'OBJECTIVE WORLD'  INCLUDING THE BODY AND POSSESSIONS!
THE QUESTION OF 'ENJOYER'  AND 'DOER'  DOES NOT ARISE AT ALL, WHEN YOU ARE OBLIVIOUS OF BODY AND POSSESSIONS.

"WHO AM I"?  THIS IS THE FIRST QUESTION RAISED BY 'BRAMMA' AS HE CAME OUT OF THE 'SANKALPAM' OF "BRAHMAN"  THE ABSOLUTE.  ( 'I AM' QUESTIONING IT'S OWN ORIGIN ).

ATMA GNANAM AND ATMA NIVEDANAM COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER.

"PANCHAKRITYA  PARAYANA": (ONE OF THE EPITHETS PRAISING DEVI).  'SRISHTY, STHITHY, SAMHARAM, THIRODANAM AND ANUGRAHAM'. ARE 'PANCHAKRITYAM.
DEVI  IS  'BRAHMA-VIDYA '

DEVI  IS SAKTHY;  DEVI  IS  WISDOM-KNOWLEDGE; DEVI  IS 'SYMBOL OF HOMOGENOUS CONCEPT'.DEVI  BRINGS IN HAPPINESS.

WHEN  WE ARE UNABLE TO COMPREHEND  DEVI  IN HER HOMOGENOUS  FORM,  WE BRING IN THE CONCEPT OF MIND WITH MULTIPLE CONCEPTS, LIKE NAME. AND. FORM, TIME AND SPACE AND CAUSE AND EFFECT. ASSUMING  APPARENT  CONFLICTS  IN THEM, WE ARE CAUGHT IN THE NET OF ATTRACTION /REPULSION, LIKES/DISLIKES,  PLEASURE/PAIN ETC. , AND  THUS, WE GO  FAR AWAY FROM  DEVI - PURE HAPPINESS.

MIND IS ONLY A REFLECTION OF DEVI EXPRESSING DIFFERENT EMOTIONS SUCH AS  PASSION, LOVE, ATTRACTION.

MIND (I AM THE INDIVIDUAL) HAS COME OUT OF "DEVI"  AS  IF  A  REFLECTION, AND  IT  SHOULD  ULTIMATELY  RETURN TO THE SOURCE .

REMEMBER THIS WITH THE ANALOGY OF 'INDIVIDUAL WAVE", '(MIND)    BECOMING. ONE WITH  OTHER WAVES.
NIRVIKALPAM  IS "NIRVIKALPA BHODAM " -  CONSCIOUSNESS  DEVOID OF CONCEPTS.

DEVI  REFLECTS  AASAKTHY, IN EVERY MOVING BEING.
DESIRE, MAYA, AGNANAM , PRIYAM ARE DIFFERENT NAMES  FOR AASAKTHY.

AASAKTHY TOWARDS  .DEVI  IS  BHAKTHY.
ASAKTHY  REFLECTS DIFFERENT  EMOTIONS  IN THE FORM OF PLEASURE/PAIN, LIKES/DISLIKES AND ALL TYPES OF ATTRACTION/REPULSION.

WISDOM - KNOWLEDGE IS SANYASA.

CONTEMPLATE  DEVI  IN  EVERY ANIMATE BEING.

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OCEAN IS BEHIND ALL WAVES AND THEIR APPARENT MOVEMENTS.

DIVINE GRACE (SAMSKRITHY) FLOWS EQUALLY ON EVERYONE;  BUT, .  PRARABDHAM (SAMSKARAM)  EXPRESSES DIFFERENTLY

AADYATMIKAM IS THE HITAM  FOR EVERYONE. ALL OTHER ACTIVITIES LIKE PRAYER, POOJA, VEDAS, UPANISHADS AND ALL RITUALS, HELP  US  TO  KEEP  AWAY FROM NEGATIVE KARMA - ANISHTA KARMA, AND TO  MAKE US RECEPTIVE TO DIVINE GRACE (SAMSKRITHY).

ASAKTHY (DESIRE), IS FOLLOWED BY KARMA (ACTION) SHAPED BY GUNAS, AND  BOTH  KARMA AND GUNA REVOLVE  IN KALA CHAKRA -WHEEL OF TIME.

KALAM, , KARMAM AND GUNAM ARE THE PRODUCT OF  ASAKTHY - A REFLECTION OF  "I-AM" (SYMBOLICALLY IN THE FORM OF "DEVI".)

WHILE KALAM, KARMAM AND GUNAM DECIDE  PRARABDHAM (SAMSKARAMS - VASANAS),  DEVI  BLESSES EVERY ONE WITH SAMSKRITHY -WISDOM KNOWLEDGE' WHICH  HELPS A SMOOTH SAIL ON THE OCEAN OF SAMSARA.

IN PRACTICE,  DIVINE GRACE HELPS TO MOULD THE INDIVIDUAL -CHARACTER , SO AS TO 'RESPOND ' TO EVENTS (WITH SAMA-BHAVAM) WITHOUT 'REACTING'.


"I AM" IS NEITHER THE B.M.I. NOR 'DOER', NOR 'ENJOYER/SUFFERER, NOR 'POSSESSOR '.  'I AM' IS " I " (CONSCIOUSNESS  EXPRESSED ).

'I AM',  REFLECTS  BODY -MIND-INTELLECT (B.M.I)  WHICH IN TURN REFLECTS  EGO,  AND THE RESULTANT DOER/ENJOYER/SUFFERER AND. POSSESSOR.

"I" REMAINS AS 'KNOWER'';  "I AM"  REMAINS  AS "WITNESS". 'I AM AN INDIVIDUAL' IS THE DOER ';  'I HAVE INDIVIDUALITY'  ENTERTAINS  FALSE  OWNERSHIP TO  THE DOER SHIP AND ENJOYER SHIP.

'LIFE' AND 'LIVING' CAN BE TALKED ABOUT;  BEYOND IS  'ABSOLUTE SILENCE'.


'LIVING' IS 'IGNORANCE' ;  'LIFE'  IS. 'KNOWLEDGE' .  BEYOND  IS "AWARENESS" - (MAHAMOWNAM ),  EVER EXPRESSING   LIFE AND LIVING.

GNANAM, VIGNANAM, SAMGNANAM  DENOTE  RESPECTIVELY, KNOWLEDGE  OBTAINED THROUGH 'SENSES', INTELLECT  AND INSIGHT.  BEYOND THE SAID THREE IS "PRAGNANAM".

MIND  RECEIVES AND TRANSMITS THOUGHTS FROM GNANAM AND VIGNANAM.  INSIGHT IS "WISDOM KNOWLEDGE"  OTHERWISE KNOWN AS 'SAMGNANAM'.  BEYOND , IS  AWARENESS - INFINITY - BRAHMAN, !

SAMGNANAM AND PRAGNANAM ARE 'MOWNAM' AND 'MAHAMOWNAM', RESPECTIVELY.
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BHAKTHY IS A 'BHAVAM' - ANANYA BHAVAM -  BHAKTHAN AND BHAGAVAN  IMAGINED AS 'ONE'.  IN COURSE OF 'TIME',  BHAVAM  TURNS INTO ANUBHAVAM, (EXPERIENCE),  AND FINALLY, BOTH BHAKTHAN AND BHAGAVAN TURNS INTO  'ONE',  .
DWAIDAM,  VISISHTADWAIDAM AND ADWAIDAM  HIGHLIGHT BHAVAM, ANUBHAVAM AND ANUBOODHY RESPECTIVELY.
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WHILE 'I AM'. IS VIDYA MAYA WITH A UNIFIED VISION OF CONCEPTS, 'I. AM THE INDIVIDUAL' IS 'AVIDYA MAYA' WITH CONFLICTING DUAL CONCEPTS. GOD IS THE REFLECTION OF  'SUPREME',  AND  EXPRESSED  AS  MAHA-MAYA.

LORD SHIVA IS PEACE AND DEVI  IS HAPPINESS.  THEY TOGETHER ARE MEDITATED UPON AS "ARDHANAREESWARA". "I". AND I AM  - LIFE AND LIVING, ARE VIEWED TOGETHER.


THERE IS NO LIVING WITHOUT LIFE; BUT LIFE EXISTS FOR EVER EVEN IN THE ABSENCE  OF LIVING.  LIFE IS OTHERWISE KNOWN AS BHODAM, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXISTENCE, ISHWARA, " I CONSCIOUSNESS ".

LIFE IS  MUCH MORE MYSTERIOUS  THAN  THE  LATEST DISCOVERY OF GOD-PARTICLES. THERE ARE MANY MORE MYSTERIES YET TO BE DISCOVERED IN THE LIVING FIELD.

LIFE IS SELF LUMINOUS KNOWLEDGE, AND ALL DISCOVERIES IN 'LIVING' FIELD, IN ESSENCE, ONLY REFLECT THAT SUPREME KNOWLEDGE.

SUPREME KNOWLEDGE ONLY REFLECTS THE KNOWER, KNOWN AND THE KNOWING PROCESS.

"I THINK I AM ALIVE" IS A THOUGHT PROCESS; " I KNOW I AM ALIVE"  IS  AN INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE, ARISING FROM THE WHOLE MIND. .

" THE INDIVIDUAL"  IS 'DOER' ;    "IAM" IS 'OBSERVER';  "I"  IS  "KNOWER"  BEYOND  IS  "KNOWLEDGE"..

THERE  IS NOTHING OF OUR 'DOING'.  OUR VERY BIRTH/DEATH  IS THE  PROOF OF THAT

WHEN  THERE IS 'BHODAM', THERE APPEARS COSMOS. " NO BHODAM, NO COSMOS." (SHRI BALAKRISHNAN NAIR'S 'MASTER KEY  TO VEDANTA -

TRANSFORM COSMOS INTO 'BHODAM'; THEN BHODAM ONLY EXIST.

NON-ACTION  IS 'BEING' AND  ACTION IS 'BECOMING'. (ANALOGY: WATER IN THE DEPTH OF OCEAN, AND WAVES ON THE SURFACE)
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RECOGNIZE   DIVINE WILL IN PRANA-APANA.

A PHILOSOPHER 'DISSECTING'  ADWAIDA,  VIWS  INITIALLY THAT THE COSMOS IS UNREAL  AND CONSCIOUSNESS ALONE IS REAL.THEREAFTER,  HE,  CONCLUDES THAT CONSCIOUSNESS COVERS COSMOS AS WELL.

  REALISM AND IDEALISM)  ARE TO BE VIEWED AND REALIZED TOGETHER - SYMBOLICALLY  IN  'ARDANAREESWARA' AND IN THE DANCING FORM OF LORD NATARAJA , EXHIBITING BEING AND BECOMING , AND THE DANCER AND DANCING . THE CONNECTING FACTOR OF  I AND I AM IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH 'SADASIVA' WITH A FORMLESS FORM.

ANALOGY: WAVES, OCEAN AND WATER RESPECTIVELY INDICATE CONVENTIONAL, DIVINE AND ABSOLUTE TRUTH. WATER IS THE CONNECTING FACTOR, FOR WAVES AND OCEAN.


WHO AM I. ? IS THE PERFECT QUESTION BY THE 'LIVING', AND "SILENCE". IS THE PERFECT ANSWER.

NAME AND FORM, TIME AND SPACE, CAUSE AND EFFECT,  RELATE TO "LIVING"
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 LIFE AND LIVING CANNOT BE SEPARATED AND  SEEN IN ISOLATION. THE INDIVIDUAL IN DEEP SLEEP , OR FOR THAT MATTER , IN SAMADHY , OR  DECLARED  DEAD, MAY APPEAR  BEREFT OF 'LIVING' FOR THE TIME BEING.

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WE ARE BLISSFULLY IGNORANT OF THE  TOGETHERNESS OF  LIFE-LIVING (I AND I AM). -.


"HAMSOHAM" PROBABLY CONVEYS  BOTH  AHAM-SHIVA  AND SHIVA-AHAM.

NAMA-SHIVAYA  IS THE SAMARPANAM OF "I AM" TO " I ", SURRENDERING 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE (I AM) TO "EXISTENCE" ( I CONSCIOUSNESS).

"I "  IS SHADOWED BY  'I AM' - THE COSMIC EGO, SIMILAR TO OCEAN ("I" CONSCIOUSNESS )  SHADOWED BY  THE SEA OF WAVES.


WE HAVE STARTED OUR LIFE -LIVING JOURNEY  IN BIRTH, AND OUR JOURNEY ENDS IN DEATH.

" I  "  APPEARS TO BE BOUND BY INDIVIDUAL SOUL,  EGO, INTELLECT, MIND, BODY AND ABOVE ALL 'I AM' - SENSE OF EXISTENCE. THESE SIX BONDAGES ARE  SANKALPAM  IN "I - CONSCIOUSNESS", (AS IF A DREAM ).  " I  " IS UNTOUCHED BY THIS APPEARANCE.  ' I ' SHALL WAKE UP FROM THIS  DREAM WHEN THE 'SANKALPAM'  ENDS.,  "SANKALPAM IS THE BONDAGE  AND ABSENCE OF IT IS 'LIBERATION'...

WHEN ONE DECLARES "I AM", HE EXHIBITS ONLY THE 'LIVING'  ASPECT FORGETTING THE "LIFE" BEHIND.   .  WAVES AS SUCH CANNOT BE VIEWED  IN ISOLATION WITHOUT THE WATER SHAPING   THEM.

"I AM" ,  THE FIRST SPROUT FROM " I  " , BRINGS CONCEPT WHICH  THROUGH  THE 'MIND'  REFLECTS  DUAL  APPEARANCE TO  THE CONCEPT, DISTINGUISHING 'I  AM THE INDIVIDUAL' , YOU AND HE.

" I " SHINES  AS 'SILENCE' IN DEEP SLEEP, IN SAMADHY AND IN DEATH  TOO. 

DEATH IS THE DISAPPEARANCE OF "I AM" - (SENSE OF EXISTENCE)AND NOT "I "      
(EXISTENCE).

ALL OUR KARMAS ARE INFLUENCED BY ONE OR OTHER OF THE THREE GUNAS. 

VASANAS  BROUGHT IN AS  BIRTH  INHERITANCE AND SAMSKRITHY  THROUGH DIVINE GRACE ,  SHAPE THE CULTURE IN MAN.

WE BECOME CONSCIOUS OF 'LIFE' ONLY AT THE TIME OF WITNESSING  'DEATH'.  THERE TOO, WE ARE IGNORANT OF THE 'TRUTH' THAT ONLY THE 'LIVING ASPECT' HAS MET WITH  THE 'DEATH' AND 'LIFE' CONTINUES  TO EXIST IN  ETERNITY (INFINITY).

IN DEATH, AN 'INDIVIDUAL WAVE' DISSOLVES IN THE VAST OCEAN  OF WATER.  THE WAVE HAS A BEGINNING, A DURATION AND AN END.  IT IS NOT SO WITH WATER .

"I AM" IS THE SENSE OF EXISTENCE.  DO NOT DISSIPATE "I AM" AS
'I AM THE INDIVIDUAL' AND 'I HAVE INDIVIDUALITY '.

"I AM" IS A CONCEPT OF UNIFIED VISION -GENTLE VIBRATION OF WAVES ON THE OCEAN OF WATER.

BEYOND "I AM" IS "I" WHERE THE WAVES ARE ABSENT, AS IN DEEP SLEEP,  IN SAMADHY,  AND  IN DEATH!


CONTEMPLATE  "I AM" AS AN UNION OF 'I' AND 'I AM' - LIFE AND LIVING SYMBOLICALLY  IN THE FIGURE OF "ARTHANAREESWARA" OR THE DANCER -DANCE FORM OF LORD NATARAJA OR PHILOSOPHICALLY WITH THE ANALOGY OF WATER AND WAVES. WHILE CONTEMPLATING,  DO NOT BRING MIND/BODY WHICH ARE ONLY DISIPATIONS OF "I AM".

"I AM'  IS THE INNOCENT CHILD  WITH EXPRESSION OF EXISTENCE, DEVOID OF 'SENSE OF BODY/MIND.  SPACE/TIME, NAME /FORM, CAUSE/EFFECT AND EVEN THE DISTINCTION OF 'I' AND 'YOU'.  I AM CAN AT BEST BE DESCRIBED  AS  THE ONLY HOMOGENOUS CONCEPT!

"I AM" IS THE FIRST ENTRY POST TO MANIFESTATION AND THE LAST OUT-POST TO THE    " I ".

'THUREEYA '. AND  'THUREEYATHITHA'. PROBABLY  INDICATE " I AM  ". AND  " I "SENSE OF EXISTENCE AND EXISTENCE RESPECTIVELY.

THE KNOWLEDGE "I AM", WITHIN,   IS GOD -NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ-

FROM  THE  PRIMARY  CONCEPT  OF  'I AM',  ARISE    SENSE  OF  PRESENCE,  IMPULSE,  INSTINCT  MIND,  EMOTION,  FEELING  OF  'I AM THE INDIVIDUAL',  CONCEPTS  OF  NAME,  FORM,  SPACE,  TIME,  CAUSE,  EFFECT,  EXTENSIVE  AND  INTENSIVE  KNOWLEDGE, THEY   END  WITH  WISDOM  KNOWLEDGE  OF ' ONENESS OF CONCEPTS'.