MUSINGS -6
'BRAMAM' (DELUSION OF VIEWING ONE FOR THE OTHER, AS IN THE CASE OF 'ROPE AND SNAKE') IS REMOVED BY GAINING KNOWLEDGE OF THE ROPE. BOTH THE SNAKE AND ROPE ARE ONLY CONCEPTS. ROPE IS 'PRIMARY ILLUSION', AND SNAKE IS 'SECONDARY ILLUSION'. BOTH THE ILLUSIONS COME UNDER THE CATEGORY OF ' AVIDYA'MAYA'..
WHILE THE 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE' (I-AM) IS 'VIDYA-MAYA, 'I AM AN INDIVIDUAL' 'I HAVE INDIVIDUALITY' ARE 'AVIDYA-MAYA'. 'AVIDYA MAYA' REFLECTS MITYA (ILLUSION) AND 'BRAMAM' (DELUSION).
A NEW BORN CHILD EXHIBITES ONLY A 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE'. THE CHILD IS FREE OF CONCEPTS. THE CHILD CANNOT DIFFERENTIATE A SNAKE AND A ROPE.
ONE WHO HAS GAINED WISDOM-KNOWLEDGE NEVER SEES A NON-SELF IN THE 'OBJECTIVE WORLD. HE EXPERIENCES 'SELF' WITHIN AND WITHOUT.
HAPPINESS IS GAINED THROUGH 'WISDOM KNOWLEDGE'.
WISDOM KNOWLEDGE IS ABOVE MENTAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONCLUSIONS. WISDOM KNOWLEDGE DAWNS IN A MAN THROUGH ,DIVINE GRACE.
PRAYER TO GOD MAY APPEAR SELFISH IN THE BEGINNING. YET THE PRAYERS NOT ONLY FULFILL THE DESIRES BUT ALSO PURIFY THE MIND, PRAYER IN DUE COURSE TURNS INTO DEVOTION AND SURRENDER . AS THE DEVOTION GROWS IN INTENSITY, THE DEVOTEE DESIRES NOTHING OTHER THAN GOD.
MIND IS THE PRIMARY ILLUSION AND CONCEPTS ARE SECONDARY ILLUSION.
ABSOLUTE IS SILENCE. LIFE IS THE EXPRESSION OF THE ABSOLUTE. 'LIVING' IS THE APPEARANCE ON 'LIFE'.
LIFE IS EXISTENCE AND LIVING IS THE SENSE OF EXISTENCE.
SENSE OF EXISTENCE ALONE IS ABSENT IN DEEP SLEEP. LIFE CONTINUES TO EXIST IN DEEP SLEEP.
THOUGHTS ARISE FROM ' LIVING'. THOUGHTS MOVE FAST AND SIGZAG HORIZONTALLY. THEY TRAVEL SLOW AND STEADY VERTICALLY.
LIFE IS PERCEIVED THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF LIVING.
LIFE AND LIVING EXIST TOGETHER SO LONG AS LIFE WILLS IT SO.
LIVING BRINGS IN CONCEPTS IN THE FORM OF THOUGHTS.
WORLD IS KNIT BY KARMA, AND INDIVIDUAL'S KARMA IS A PART OF IT.
KARMA-FIELD AS A WHOLE IS FREE. EVERY PART OF IT , HOWEVER, IS WELL DETERMINED.
COMPASSION OF BUDDHISM, LOVE OF CHRISTIANITY AND SACRIFICING SPIRIT OF VEDIC CULTURE COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER FOR SACRIFICING SELF-INTEREST TO THE EXPANDED SELF.
FAITH OF THE MIND, REASONING OF THE INTELLECT AND TRUST OF THE HEART, COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER.
SPIRITUALITY IS THE LIFE OF RELIGION.
TO BE RELIGIOUS IS TO KNOW THYSELF.
BLISS CANNOT BE EXPERIENCED. BLISS IS.
COSMIC EGO PASSES THROUGH WAKING/DREEM/DEEPSLEEP. CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE AXIS.
INFINITE HAS NEITHER SPACE/TIME, NOR NAME/FORM.
THOUGHTS , LANGUAGE AND KARMA REVEAL ONLY PARTIAL TRUTH.
CONSCIOUSNESS DOES NOT COME OUT OF COSMOS; COSMOS COMES OUT OF IT.
SURRENDER ' SENSE OF SEPARATENESS' TO 'REALITY' AND BE ONE WITH REALITY.
KNOWLEDGE BRIDGES KNOWER AND THE KNOWN.
MIND IS NOT A PROBLEM WHEN THERE IS ONLY GOD THOUGHT.
BREATHE IN LIFE FROM THE 'INFINITY' AND BREATH OUT LIVING. THIS IS PRANAYAMA.
LIFE IS DANCER AND LIVING IS DANCING.
LIFE ABSORBS NOTHINGNESS OF THE DEEP SLEEP, AND EVERYTHING OF THE WAKING STAGE.
SPIRITUALITY ABSORBS RELIGION, AS WELL AS, ATHEISM, FOR, BOTH RELIGION AND ATHEISM ARE ONLY CONCEPTS.
MEDITATION IS FINE TUNING OFTHE MIND.
PEACE EXPRESSES CALMNESS AND NOT THE OTHER WAY.
BLISS IS 'ABSOLUTE', PEACE IS DIVINE, HAPPINESS IS HUMANE. PLEASURE IS COUNTERFEIT OF HAPPINESS.
PEACE ENTERS YOU WHEN YOU STOP CHASING IT.
STOP STIRRING THE MIND. MIND SETTLES DOWN ON ITS OWN.
.
WATER,OCEAN AND WAVES LOOK DIFFERENT WHEN VIEWED IN ISOLATION.
ABSOLUTE EXPRESSES DIVINE AND COSMOS IS AN APPEARANCE OF DIVINE.
ATHMA- VICHARAM IS NEITHER MENTAL NOR INTELLECTUAL EXERCISE.
ATHMA-VICHARAM IS CONTEMPLATIVE AWARENESS DEEP WITHIN.
GNANA HAS THE LIMITED FUNCTION OF REVEALING REALITY IN REFLECTION,LIKE A MIRROR.
AGNANA WITH DIRT AND DUST CAUSES DISTORTED REFLECTION.
REFLECTIONS ARE NOT REALITY.
SPIRITUALITY IS FREE OF CONCEPTUAL CONTRADICTIONS, UNLIKE RELIGIONS AND ATHEISM
BY THE GRACE OF GOD(IF IT IS HIS WILL):
AVOID CONCEPTS
AVOID JUDGE MENTAL ATTITUDE .
LEARN TO ACCEPT EVENTS AS THEY COME.
GET RID OF SENSE OF INDIVIDUALITY.
GET RID OF DOER SHIP.
BE COMFORTABLE WITH YOURSELF AND PEOPLE AROUND.
FILL IN THE MIND WITH GOD-THOUGHT. BE A WITNESS TO THE FUNCTIONING OF THE MANIFESTATION.
REALIZE THAT YOU ARE BEING LIVED.
LIFE IS A MYSTERY, NOT A PROBLEM,
UNDERSTAND THAT GOD BESTOWS WHAT YOU DESERVE, AND NOT WHAT YOU DESIRE,
EVENTS HAPPEN AS THEY SHOULD, AND NOT AS WE WISH.
PONDER OVER HOW YOU LOOKED LIKE BEFORE YOUR PARENTS WERE BORN.
BEING HAS ITS EXPRESSION IN BECOMING, AND BECOMING ATTAINS FULFILLMENT IN BEING.
LIVE AS IF YOU ARE ACTING, AND ACT AS IF YOU ARE LIVING.
REALIZE THAT THE WORLD IS UNREALLY REAL, AND REALLY UNREAL.
RESPOND TO SITUATIONS, AND DO NOT REACT.
EXPERIENCING PEACE AND HARMONY IS THE ENLIGHTENED STATE.
BRAHMAN IS THE ONLY REALITY.
CONSCIOUSNESS (ISHWARA) IS THE EXPRESSION OF REALITY.
COSMOS IS THE APPEARANCE ON CONSCIOUSNESS.
INDIVIDUAL IS THE REFLECTION OF COSMOS.
INDIVIDUALITY IS THE 'DECEPTION' OF ASSUMING INDEPENDENT 'DOER SHIP AND ' ENJOYERSHIP'
MAYA IS THE ILLUSION OF MULTIPLICITY IN APPEARANCE (COSMOS)
INTELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE IS THE ANALYSIS OF CONCEPTS IN THEIR MULTIPLICITY.
WISDOM KNOWLEDGE IS THE REALIZATION OF ' ONENESS' UNDERLYING THE CONCEPTS AND EMOTIONS.
WISDOM KNOWLEDGE ENRICHES INTELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE.
ONE SHOULD CONTEMPLATE UPON REALITY, EXPRESSION, APPEARANCE, REFLECTION AND DECEPTION, WITH THE ANALOGY OF WATER, OCEAN WAVES AND WAVELET, AND REALIZE THE NON-DUAL REALITY. PEACE PREVAILS ON REALIZATION.
A WAVELET IN THE OCEAN SHADOWED BY SELF-DECEPTION ASSERTS 'I AM A WAVELET'. ANOTHER REALIZES ' I AM WATER REFLECTING A NAME AND FORM IN THE VAST OCEAN OF WAVES AND WAVELETS'. ONE SUFFERS CHAOS, AND THE OTHER EXPERIENCES HAPPINESS OVER THE SAME SITUATION.
I IS EXISTENCE; I AM IS SENSE OF EXISTENCE; BEYOND IS ABSOLUTE...
I IS SHIVA, I AM IS SAKTHY, BEYOND IS SADASHIVA.
I IS PURUSHA, I AM IS PRAKRITHY, BEYOND IS PURUSHOTTAMA.
I IS GOD, I AM IS VISWAM, BEYOND IS BRAHMAM.
I IS CONSCIOUSNESS, I AM IS COSMIC EGO, BEYOND IS AWARENESS.
I IS PARAM ATMAN, I AM IS ATMAN AND BEYOND IS BRAHMAM.
I IS OCEAN, I AM IS WAVES, BEYOND IS WATER.
I IS DANCER, I AM IS DANCE, BEYOND IS PERSON.
I IS SATYAM, I AM IS DHARMA, BEYOND IS PARAM.
I IS DIVINE TRUTH, I AM IS COSMIC TRUTH, BEYOND IS ABSOLUTE.
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I IS DAY-LIGHT I AM IS DAY AND NIGHT, BEYOND IS LIGHT.
I IS KNOWER, I AM IS KNOWN BEYOND IS KNOWLEDGE.
I IS AKSHARA, I AM IS KSHARA, BEYOND IS PURUSHOTTAMA.
I IS KNOWER, I AM IS WITNESS;, BEYOND IS SILENCE.
MEDITATION IS A MENTAL PROCESS. IT IS NOT AN END IN ITSELF.
DURGA, LAKSHMY AND SARASWATHY REPRESENT SAKTHY - DYNAMIC ASPECT OF ENERGY.
MOTHER OF UNIVERSE AND FATHER OF HEAVEN FORM THE ETERNAL COUPLE - SAKTHY AND SHIVA, IN ONE FORM AS ARDHANAREESWARA.
MAYA HAS ONLY THAT MUCH VALUE AS THAT OF THE SYMBOL 'X' COMMONLY USED FOR SOLVING ARITHMATICAL PROBLEMS. THERE IS NO NEED OF IT ONCE THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED. ALL 'APPEARANCES' SERVE THE PURPOSE OF 'X', AND THEY DISAPPEAR WHEN 'REALITY' IS REVEALED.
WITNESSING IS THE ART OF LIVING. LIFE WITNESSING THE LIVING SIMILAR TO DANCER WITNESSING HIS OWN DANCE. A LIVING WITHOUT LIFE, AND A DANCING WITHOUT DANCER CANNOT BE IMAGINED.
SILENCE IS REALITY. SILENCE EXPRESSES CONSCIOUSNESS. SILENCE IS LIGHT, AND CONSCIOUSNESS IS DAY-LIGHT.
WE ARE BEING LIVED, AND NOT THAT WE ARE LIVING. WITH THIS UNDERSTANDING, THERE WONT BE A GUILTY FEELING OR DISAPPOINTMENT OVER THE RESULT OF ACTION.
IN THE REALLY UNREAL WORLD (A DRAMA STAGE) THE INDIVIDUAL (ACTOR) ENACTS THE ASSIGNED ROLE, LIFE-LIKE, LEAST MENTALLY AFFECIED BY THE EMOTIONS HE EXHIBITS.
COSMIC WILLL EXHIBITS FREE-WILL AND FATE IN THE INDIVIDUAL. MAN'S FREEDOM OF CHOICE IS A DELUSION.
BEING APPEARS AS BECOMING, AND BECOMING ATTAINS FULFILMENT IN BEING. SAKTHY ATTAINS FULFILMENT IN SHIVA. SHIVA IS DANCER, AND SAKTHY IS THE DANCE.
FROM SENSES TO MIND, FROM MIND TO INTELLECT, AND FROM INTELLECT TO INSIGHT. ( FROM EMOTIONS OF PLEASURE/PAIN TO CONCEPTS OF LIKES/DISLIKES, AND FINALLY TO WISDOM KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCING HAPPINESS.
BHAVAM IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE WORD UTTERED.
WAKING STAGE DISPROVES DREAM CONSIDERING IT AS A DELUSION. SIMILARLY, SLEEP IS A PROOF THAT WAKING AND DREAM ARE ILLUSION AND DELUSION. LIFE IS A PROOF THAT SLEEP, WAKING AND DREAM ARE ONLY APPEARANCE AS 'LIVING' - A REFLECTION OF LIFE. DEATH IS FINALLY A PROOF THAT LIVING IS ONLY TEMPORAL AND LIFE IS ETERNAL. ONLY WAVES DISAPPEAR, OCEAN WITH WATER CONTINUES TO EXIST.
DEHA-BHODAM IS CONFINED TO CONCEPTS; DEHA=ABHIMANAM BRINGS IN EMOTIONS.
WHEN 'I AM' SHRINKS IT IS EGO-I; WHEN I-AM EXPANDS IT IS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS - PURE " I ".
IN 'I AM' WE CAN IMAGINE BOTH ' I ' AND 'I AM", BOTH 'EXISTENCE' AND 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE'. IT IS, THEREFORE, RECOMMENDED TO MEDITATE ON 'I AM' WHICH WOULD ULTIMATELY LEAD TO 'PURE ' I '.
IT IS NEITHER EMOTIONAL LIVING NOR INTELLECTUAL LIVING, IT IS WISDOM-LIVING THAT BRINGS IN HAPPINESS, AND LEAD US TO PEACE.
VIHARA BHAKTHY (EMOTIONS IN FOREFRONT), VICHARA BHAKTHY (INTELLECT IN FOREFRONT), SAMARPANA BHAKTHY (ATTITUDE OF SURRENDER), VIVEKA BHAKTHY (THROUGH WISDOM KNOWLEDGE) - ALL OF THEM COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER.
ONE HAS TO CROSS OVER BOTH 'AVIDYA' AND 'VIDYA' IN ORDER TO REALIZE THE ULTIMATE TRUTH.
EFFORT AND GRACE EMANATE FROM THE TOTAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND ACT SIMILAR TO THE FUNCTIONING OF WAVES AND PARTICLES OF 'PHOTONS'.
ATMANUSANDANAM IS BHAKTHY - ( SRI SANKARA).; FOR THE INTELLECTUALS BHAKTHY IS GRACE, FOR THE EMOTIONALS, BHAKTHY IS AANANDAM, FOR KARMA-YOGIES, BHAKTHY IS SERVICE.
GOD IS TO BE WORSHIPPED NOT OUT OF 'BEETHY' (FEAR) BUT SHOULD BE OUT OF 'PREETHY' (LOVE-PREMAM)
EVENTS, AND OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS EVENTS, DIFFER FROM INDIVIDUAL TO INDIVIDUAL. THE LAW BEHIND IS A MYSTERY.
CONCEPTS , IN DUALITY, ARE ILLUSIONS, AND EMOTIONS OF PLEASURE AND PAIN ARE DELUSIONS HAPPINESS IS THE UNITARY VISION OF CONCEPTS AND DEVOID OF EMOTIONS.
ALL OUR ACTIVITIES CAN BE CATEGORIZED INTO THREE DIVISIONS: PLEASURE OF THE SENSES, ENJOYMENT OF THE INTELLECT AND HAPPINESS OF THE ' EQUANIMITY OF VISION' ('SAMADARSANA); PEACE IS BEYOND AND IS THE BASE.
FAITH COMES FROM THE MIND, BELIEF COMES FROM THE INTELLECT AND TRUST COMES FROM INSIGHT.
BHAKTHY IS FINE TUNING OF MIND TOWARDS THE HIGHEST VALUE, CALL IT BY ANY NAME, GOD, CONSCIOUSNESS, ABSOLUTE, SUPREME, AWARENESS ETC.
.
'BRAMAM' (DELUSION OF VIEWING ONE FOR THE OTHER, AS IN THE CASE OF 'ROPE AND SNAKE') IS REMOVED BY GAINING KNOWLEDGE OF THE ROPE. BOTH THE SNAKE AND ROPE ARE ONLY CONCEPTS. ROPE IS 'PRIMARY ILLUSION', AND SNAKE IS 'SECONDARY ILLUSION'. BOTH THE ILLUSIONS COME UNDER THE CATEGORY OF ' AVIDYA'MAYA'..
WHILE THE 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE' (I-AM) IS 'VIDYA-MAYA, 'I AM AN INDIVIDUAL' 'I HAVE INDIVIDUALITY' ARE 'AVIDYA-MAYA'. 'AVIDYA MAYA' REFLECTS MITYA (ILLUSION) AND 'BRAMAM' (DELUSION).
A NEW BORN CHILD EXHIBITES ONLY A 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE'. THE CHILD IS FREE OF CONCEPTS. THE CHILD CANNOT DIFFERENTIATE A SNAKE AND A ROPE.
ONE WHO HAS GAINED WISDOM-KNOWLEDGE NEVER SEES A NON-SELF IN THE 'OBJECTIVE WORLD. HE EXPERIENCES 'SELF' WITHIN AND WITHOUT.
HAPPINESS IS GAINED THROUGH 'WISDOM KNOWLEDGE'.
WISDOM KNOWLEDGE IS ABOVE MENTAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONCLUSIONS. WISDOM KNOWLEDGE DAWNS IN A MAN THROUGH ,DIVINE GRACE.
PRAYER TO GOD MAY APPEAR SELFISH IN THE BEGINNING. YET THE PRAYERS NOT ONLY FULFILL THE DESIRES BUT ALSO PURIFY THE MIND, PRAYER IN DUE COURSE TURNS INTO DEVOTION AND SURRENDER . AS THE DEVOTION GROWS IN INTENSITY, THE DEVOTEE DESIRES NOTHING OTHER THAN GOD.
MIND IS THE PRIMARY ILLUSION AND CONCEPTS ARE SECONDARY ILLUSION.
ABSOLUTE IS SILENCE. LIFE IS THE EXPRESSION OF THE ABSOLUTE. 'LIVING' IS THE APPEARANCE ON 'LIFE'.
LIFE IS EXISTENCE AND LIVING IS THE SENSE OF EXISTENCE.
SENSE OF EXISTENCE ALONE IS ABSENT IN DEEP SLEEP. LIFE CONTINUES TO EXIST IN DEEP SLEEP.
THOUGHTS ARISE FROM ' LIVING'. THOUGHTS MOVE FAST AND SIGZAG HORIZONTALLY. THEY TRAVEL SLOW AND STEADY VERTICALLY.
LIFE IS PERCEIVED THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF LIVING.
LIFE AND LIVING EXIST TOGETHER SO LONG AS LIFE WILLS IT SO.
LIVING BRINGS IN CONCEPTS IN THE FORM OF THOUGHTS.
WORLD IS KNIT BY KARMA, AND INDIVIDUAL'S KARMA IS A PART OF IT.
KARMA-FIELD AS A WHOLE IS FREE. EVERY PART OF IT , HOWEVER, IS WELL DETERMINED.
COMPASSION OF BUDDHISM, LOVE OF CHRISTIANITY AND SACRIFICING SPIRIT OF VEDIC CULTURE COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER FOR SACRIFICING SELF-INTEREST TO THE EXPANDED SELF.
FAITH OF THE MIND, REASONING OF THE INTELLECT AND TRUST OF THE HEART, COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER.
SPIRITUALITY IS THE LIFE OF RELIGION.
TO BE RELIGIOUS IS TO KNOW THYSELF.
BLISS CANNOT BE EXPERIENCED. BLISS IS.
COSMIC EGO PASSES THROUGH WAKING/DREEM/DEEPSLEEP. CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE AXIS.
INFINITE HAS NEITHER SPACE/TIME, NOR NAME/FORM.
THOUGHTS , LANGUAGE AND KARMA REVEAL ONLY PARTIAL TRUTH.
CONSCIOUSNESS DOES NOT COME OUT OF COSMOS; COSMOS COMES OUT OF IT.
SURRENDER ' SENSE OF SEPARATENESS' TO 'REALITY' AND BE ONE WITH REALITY.
KNOWLEDGE BRIDGES KNOWER AND THE KNOWN.
MIND IS NOT A PROBLEM WHEN THERE IS ONLY GOD THOUGHT.
BREATHE IN LIFE FROM THE 'INFINITY' AND BREATH OUT LIVING. THIS IS PRANAYAMA.
LIFE IS DANCER AND LIVING IS DANCING.
LIFE ABSORBS NOTHINGNESS OF THE DEEP SLEEP, AND EVERYTHING OF THE WAKING STAGE.
SPIRITUALITY ABSORBS RELIGION, AS WELL AS, ATHEISM, FOR, BOTH RELIGION AND ATHEISM ARE ONLY CONCEPTS.
MEDITATION IS FINE TUNING OFTHE MIND.
PEACE EXPRESSES CALMNESS AND NOT THE OTHER WAY.
BLISS IS 'ABSOLUTE', PEACE IS DIVINE, HAPPINESS IS HUMANE. PLEASURE IS COUNTERFEIT OF HAPPINESS.
PEACE ENTERS YOU WHEN YOU STOP CHASING IT.
STOP STIRRING THE MIND. MIND SETTLES DOWN ON ITS OWN.
.
WATER,OCEAN AND WAVES LOOK DIFFERENT WHEN VIEWED IN ISOLATION.
ABSOLUTE EXPRESSES DIVINE AND COSMOS IS AN APPEARANCE OF DIVINE.
ATHMA- VICHARAM IS NEITHER MENTAL NOR INTELLECTUAL EXERCISE.
ATHMA-VICHARAM IS CONTEMPLATIVE AWARENESS DEEP WITHIN.
GNANA HAS THE LIMITED FUNCTION OF REVEALING REALITY IN REFLECTION,LIKE A MIRROR.
AGNANA WITH DIRT AND DUST CAUSES DISTORTED REFLECTION.
REFLECTIONS ARE NOT REALITY.
SPIRITUALITY IS FREE OF CONCEPTUAL CONTRADICTIONS, UNLIKE RELIGIONS AND ATHEISM
BY THE GRACE OF GOD(IF IT IS HIS WILL):
AVOID CONCEPTS
AVOID JUDGE MENTAL ATTITUDE .
LEARN TO ACCEPT EVENTS AS THEY COME.
GET RID OF SENSE OF INDIVIDUALITY.
GET RID OF DOER SHIP.
BE COMFORTABLE WITH YOURSELF AND PEOPLE AROUND.
FILL IN THE MIND WITH GOD-THOUGHT. BE A WITNESS TO THE FUNCTIONING OF THE MANIFESTATION.
REALIZE THAT YOU ARE BEING LIVED.
LIFE IS A MYSTERY, NOT A PROBLEM,
UNDERSTAND THAT GOD BESTOWS WHAT YOU DESERVE, AND NOT WHAT YOU DESIRE,
EVENTS HAPPEN AS THEY SHOULD, AND NOT AS WE WISH.
PONDER OVER HOW YOU LOOKED LIKE BEFORE YOUR PARENTS WERE BORN.
BEING HAS ITS EXPRESSION IN BECOMING, AND BECOMING ATTAINS FULFILLMENT IN BEING.
LIVE AS IF YOU ARE ACTING, AND ACT AS IF YOU ARE LIVING.
REALIZE THAT THE WORLD IS UNREALLY REAL, AND REALLY UNREAL.
RESPOND TO SITUATIONS, AND DO NOT REACT.
EXPERIENCING PEACE AND HARMONY IS THE ENLIGHTENED STATE.
BRAHMAN IS THE ONLY REALITY.
CONSCIOUSNESS (ISHWARA) IS THE EXPRESSION OF REALITY.
COSMOS IS THE APPEARANCE ON CONSCIOUSNESS.
INDIVIDUAL IS THE REFLECTION OF COSMOS.
INDIVIDUALITY IS THE 'DECEPTION' OF ASSUMING INDEPENDENT 'DOER SHIP AND ' ENJOYERSHIP'
MAYA IS THE ILLUSION OF MULTIPLICITY IN APPEARANCE (COSMOS)
INTELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE IS THE ANALYSIS OF CONCEPTS IN THEIR MULTIPLICITY.
WISDOM KNOWLEDGE IS THE REALIZATION OF ' ONENESS' UNDERLYING THE CONCEPTS AND EMOTIONS.
WISDOM KNOWLEDGE ENRICHES INTELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE.
ONE SHOULD CONTEMPLATE UPON REALITY, EXPRESSION, APPEARANCE, REFLECTION AND DECEPTION, WITH THE ANALOGY OF WATER, OCEAN WAVES AND WAVELET, AND REALIZE THE NON-DUAL REALITY. PEACE PREVAILS ON REALIZATION.
A WAVELET IN THE OCEAN SHADOWED BY SELF-DECEPTION ASSERTS 'I AM A WAVELET'. ANOTHER REALIZES ' I AM WATER REFLECTING A NAME AND FORM IN THE VAST OCEAN OF WAVES AND WAVELETS'. ONE SUFFERS CHAOS, AND THE OTHER EXPERIENCES HAPPINESS OVER THE SAME SITUATION.
I IS EXISTENCE; I AM IS SENSE OF EXISTENCE; BEYOND IS ABSOLUTE...
I IS SHIVA, I AM IS SAKTHY, BEYOND IS SADASHIVA.
I IS PURUSHA, I AM IS PRAKRITHY, BEYOND IS PURUSHOTTAMA.
I IS GOD, I AM IS VISWAM, BEYOND IS BRAHMAM.
I IS CONSCIOUSNESS, I AM IS COSMIC EGO, BEYOND IS AWARENESS.
I IS PARAM ATMAN, I AM IS ATMAN AND BEYOND IS BRAHMAM.
I IS OCEAN, I AM IS WAVES, BEYOND IS WATER.
I IS DANCER, I AM IS DANCE, BEYOND IS PERSON.
I IS SATYAM, I AM IS DHARMA, BEYOND IS PARAM.
I IS DIVINE TRUTH, I AM IS COSMIC TRUTH, BEYOND IS ABSOLUTE.
.
I IS DAY-LIGHT I AM IS DAY AND NIGHT, BEYOND IS LIGHT.
I IS KNOWER, I AM IS KNOWN BEYOND IS KNOWLEDGE.
I IS AKSHARA, I AM IS KSHARA, BEYOND IS PURUSHOTTAMA.
I IS KNOWER, I AM IS WITNESS;, BEYOND IS SILENCE.
MEDITATION IS A MENTAL PROCESS. IT IS NOT AN END IN ITSELF.
DURGA, LAKSHMY AND SARASWATHY REPRESENT SAKTHY - DYNAMIC ASPECT OF ENERGY.
MOTHER OF UNIVERSE AND FATHER OF HEAVEN FORM THE ETERNAL COUPLE - SAKTHY AND SHIVA, IN ONE FORM AS ARDHANAREESWARA.
MAYA HAS ONLY THAT MUCH VALUE AS THAT OF THE SYMBOL 'X' COMMONLY USED FOR SOLVING ARITHMATICAL PROBLEMS. THERE IS NO NEED OF IT ONCE THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED. ALL 'APPEARANCES' SERVE THE PURPOSE OF 'X', AND THEY DISAPPEAR WHEN 'REALITY' IS REVEALED.
WITNESSING IS THE ART OF LIVING. LIFE WITNESSING THE LIVING SIMILAR TO DANCER WITNESSING HIS OWN DANCE. A LIVING WITHOUT LIFE, AND A DANCING WITHOUT DANCER CANNOT BE IMAGINED.
SILENCE IS REALITY. SILENCE EXPRESSES CONSCIOUSNESS. SILENCE IS LIGHT, AND CONSCIOUSNESS IS DAY-LIGHT.
WE ARE BEING LIVED, AND NOT THAT WE ARE LIVING. WITH THIS UNDERSTANDING, THERE WONT BE A GUILTY FEELING OR DISAPPOINTMENT OVER THE RESULT OF ACTION.
IN THE REALLY UNREAL WORLD (A DRAMA STAGE) THE INDIVIDUAL (ACTOR) ENACTS THE ASSIGNED ROLE, LIFE-LIKE, LEAST MENTALLY AFFECIED BY THE EMOTIONS HE EXHIBITS.
COSMIC WILLL EXHIBITS FREE-WILL AND FATE IN THE INDIVIDUAL. MAN'S FREEDOM OF CHOICE IS A DELUSION.
BEING APPEARS AS BECOMING, AND BECOMING ATTAINS FULFILMENT IN BEING. SAKTHY ATTAINS FULFILMENT IN SHIVA. SHIVA IS DANCER, AND SAKTHY IS THE DANCE.
FROM SENSES TO MIND, FROM MIND TO INTELLECT, AND FROM INTELLECT TO INSIGHT. ( FROM EMOTIONS OF PLEASURE/PAIN TO CONCEPTS OF LIKES/DISLIKES, AND FINALLY TO WISDOM KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCING HAPPINESS.
BHAVAM IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE WORD UTTERED.
WAKING STAGE DISPROVES DREAM CONSIDERING IT AS A DELUSION. SIMILARLY, SLEEP IS A PROOF THAT WAKING AND DREAM ARE ILLUSION AND DELUSION. LIFE IS A PROOF THAT SLEEP, WAKING AND DREAM ARE ONLY APPEARANCE AS 'LIVING' - A REFLECTION OF LIFE. DEATH IS FINALLY A PROOF THAT LIVING IS ONLY TEMPORAL AND LIFE IS ETERNAL. ONLY WAVES DISAPPEAR, OCEAN WITH WATER CONTINUES TO EXIST.
DEHA-BHODAM IS CONFINED TO CONCEPTS; DEHA=ABHIMANAM BRINGS IN EMOTIONS.
WHEN 'I AM' SHRINKS IT IS EGO-I; WHEN I-AM EXPANDS IT IS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS - PURE " I ".
IN 'I AM' WE CAN IMAGINE BOTH ' I ' AND 'I AM", BOTH 'EXISTENCE' AND 'SENSE OF EXISTENCE'. IT IS, THEREFORE, RECOMMENDED TO MEDITATE ON 'I AM' WHICH WOULD ULTIMATELY LEAD TO 'PURE ' I '.
IT IS NEITHER EMOTIONAL LIVING NOR INTELLECTUAL LIVING, IT IS WISDOM-LIVING THAT BRINGS IN HAPPINESS, AND LEAD US TO PEACE.
VIHARA BHAKTHY (EMOTIONS IN FOREFRONT), VICHARA BHAKTHY (INTELLECT IN FOREFRONT), SAMARPANA BHAKTHY (ATTITUDE OF SURRENDER), VIVEKA BHAKTHY (THROUGH WISDOM KNOWLEDGE) - ALL OF THEM COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER.
ONE HAS TO CROSS OVER BOTH 'AVIDYA' AND 'VIDYA' IN ORDER TO REALIZE THE ULTIMATE TRUTH.
EFFORT AND GRACE EMANATE FROM THE TOTAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND ACT SIMILAR TO THE FUNCTIONING OF WAVES AND PARTICLES OF 'PHOTONS'.
ATMANUSANDANAM IS BHAKTHY - ( SRI SANKARA).; FOR THE INTELLECTUALS BHAKTHY IS GRACE, FOR THE EMOTIONALS, BHAKTHY IS AANANDAM, FOR KARMA-YOGIES, BHAKTHY IS SERVICE.
GOD IS TO BE WORSHIPPED NOT OUT OF 'BEETHY' (FEAR) BUT SHOULD BE OUT OF 'PREETHY' (LOVE-PREMAM)
EVENTS, AND OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS EVENTS, DIFFER FROM INDIVIDUAL TO INDIVIDUAL. THE LAW BEHIND IS A MYSTERY.
CONCEPTS , IN DUALITY, ARE ILLUSIONS, AND EMOTIONS OF PLEASURE AND PAIN ARE DELUSIONS HAPPINESS IS THE UNITARY VISION OF CONCEPTS AND DEVOID OF EMOTIONS.
ALL OUR ACTIVITIES CAN BE CATEGORIZED INTO THREE DIVISIONS: PLEASURE OF THE SENSES, ENJOYMENT OF THE INTELLECT AND HAPPINESS OF THE ' EQUANIMITY OF VISION' ('SAMADARSANA); PEACE IS BEYOND AND IS THE BASE.
FAITH COMES FROM THE MIND, BELIEF COMES FROM THE INTELLECT AND TRUST COMES FROM INSIGHT.
BHAKTHY IS FINE TUNING OF MIND TOWARDS THE HIGHEST VALUE, CALL IT BY ANY NAME, GOD, CONSCIOUSNESS, ABSOLUTE, SUPREME, AWARENESS ETC.
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