Saturday, May 11, 2013

MUSINGS 21

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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