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'.   





Friday, July 13, 2012

MUSINGS - 12

 "I AM"  IS A PROJECTION OF " I ",  AND NOT THE OTHER WAY. THIS REALIZATION  COMES  FROM WITHIN.

REALIZE " I  ". IN EVERY  APPARENT MOVEMENT  PROJECTED AS "I AM". (ANALOGY:  OCEAN AND WAVES  .

" I "  IS ENERGY -  STATIC,  AND  "I AM"  IS. ENERGY - VIBRANT.  .TWO' ASPECTS OF 'ABSOLUTE.

DO NOT BELITTLE 'LIVING'. AT THE SAME TIME ,  DON'T GET TRAPPED IN 'LIVING'.  CONSTANTLY  CONTEMPLATE ON 'LIFE',  THE SOURCE OF 'LIVING'.

DESIRE AND EFFORTS TO ACQUIRE POSSESSIONS,  ARE THE TRAP. AS YOU ACQUIRE MORE AND MORE POSSESSIONS, YOU GET POSSESSED BY 'MAMATHAI' ( ONE FACTOR OF EGO). .  'SACRIFICE'  IS THE ANTI- DOTE FOR POSSESSION

KSHETRAM AND KSHETRAGNAN ARE RESPECTIVELY LIVING AND LIFE - IDOL IN THE SANCTUM-SANCTORUM IS 'LIFE',  AND THE TEMPLE STRUCTURE IS 'LIVING'.

GROSS, SUBTLE AND CAUSAL,  TOGETHER, REPRESENT 'KSHETRAM'  AND THE CAUSELESS CAUSE FOR THE ABOVE THREE STAGES, IS 'KSHETRAGNAN'. 

'AALAYAM' AND 'AARADHANA'  (TEMPLE AND TEMPLE-WORSHIP) RELATE TO ' LIVING', AND THE CAUSELESS CAUSE CONCEIVED AS AN IDOL IN THE SANCTUM,  IS. THE. 'LIFE'.



DO NOT GET ENCHANTED BY 'LIVING'.  AT THE SAME TIME, RESPECT 'LIVING'  BY REALIZING 'LIFE' IN IT.

NO MAN IS AN ISLAND.  HE IS A PART OF THE COSMOS. 
EXPAND THE  SELFISH MIND TO COVER THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE, GO BEYOND TO REALIZE THE 'FULLNESS'  WHICH COVERS THE 'INDIVIDUAL' AS WELL AS THE ENTIRE COSMOS.


IT IS THE EGO THAT SHRINKS  THE INDIVIDUAL  AS AN ENJOYER, DOER, POSSESSOR AND OWNER OF A SEPARATE BODY, MIND AND INTELLECT. WE SHALL COME OUT OF EGO, MAKE THE MIND,  WIDE ENOUGH,  DEMOLISHING THE WALL OF 'INDIVIDUALITY.

IMAGINE 'SKY' AND BE ONE WITH  IT - ' IMAGINING'  IS 'BHAVA-ADWAIDA,  WHICH HAS TO FRUCTIFY AS. ANUBHAVAM, AND ANUBOODHY, ULTIMATELY.

NADAM, BINDU AND KALA ARE THE EXPRESSIONS OF THE ULTIMATE.  FROM NADAM,  BINDU APPEARS,  AND FROM  BINDU,  KALA APPEARS.

GUNAS SHAPE THE DESIRES WHICH, IN TURN, INSTIGATE KARMAS.

IMPULSES AND INSTINCT ARISE  FROM GUNAS DIRECT. SO ALSO, INTUITION, IN THE OTHER  EXTREME,  IS  DIRECT FROM  'CONSCIOUSNESS'.  IN BETWEEN THE  IMPULSE AND INTUITION, MIND PROJECTS EMOTIONS , AND INTELLECT PROJECTS RATIONAL THINKING.


ACTIONS OF ALL ANIMATES , OTHER THAN HUMANS , ARE INSTIGATED BY IMPULSE AND INSTINCT.  IN  HUMANS ALSO, CHILDREN ARE MAINLY LED BY THE ABOVE TWO FACTORS - AS THEY GROW, THEY ARE INFLUENCED BY MIND AND INTELLECT. WISDOM KNOWLEDGE AND INTUITION ARE THE ULTIMATE TO BE AIMED AT.  A FEW REALIZED PERSONS ONLY COULD ACHIEVE THIS AND EXPERIENCE  UNINTERRUPTED  HAPPINESS.

THE GREATEST SIN IS  'LOSING THE CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE'.  THIS INNOCENCE IS GRADUALLY MARRED BY STORING 'THOUGHTS', ENTERTAINING DIFFERENT CONCEPTS, ACCUMULATING EXTENSIVE AND INTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE, ACTING/REACTING TO EVENTS, WITH PREJUDICES, AND FINALLY  FEAR OF DISEASES, AND DEATH.  IF ONLY,  WITH WISDOM KNOWLEDGE, ONE COULD RETAIN CHILD-LIKE INNOCENCE THROUGHOUT, HOW BLESSED HE WOULD BE!!

EGO IS THE DISTURBING FACTOR IN US, WITH A FEELING OF 'I AM THE 'DOER', 'I AM THE 'ENJOYER',  'I AM THE 'POSSESSOR',  AND 'I HAVE INDIVIDUALITY'.  WITHOUT THESE FOUR FACTORS,  "I AM", AS SUCH, HAS A UNIFIED  CONCEPT EXPRESSING "HAPPINESS", ATTAINING FULFILLMENT IN "PEACE".

IMPULSES, INSTINCTS, EMOTIONS, RATIONAL THINKING, WISDOM KNOWLEDGE, AND INTUITION, ARE  THE  SIGN POSTS  IN  THE PATH TOWARDS 'FULFILLMENT'.

BE A WITNESS TO ALL DOINGS  (THROUGH YOU),  AND BE  HAPPY. DON'T HAVE ATTACHMENT  TOWARDS  OBJECTS ( INCLUDING THE BODY), WHICH  YOU CLAIM AS YOUR OWN.

PEACE  SHOULD BE WITHIN, TO EXPRESS HAPPINESS .  WE BREATHE-IN PEACE; THEN ONLY,  HAPPINESS CAN BE BREATHED OUT.  'I' THE LIFE PRINCIPLE AND 'I AM' THE LIVING ASPECT CAN BE MEDITATED UPON  IN OUR BREATH-IN AND BREATH-OUT, RESPECTIVELY.  THIS 'BHAVAM' OF PEACE AND HAPPINESS SHALL, IN DUE COURSE, BECOME 'ANUBHAVAM', BEFORE TURNING  INTO 'ANUBOODHY'.