Chinmayananda Saraswati

अज्ञानतिमिरान्धस्य ज्ञानाञ्जनशालाकया

चक्षुरुन्मीलितं येन तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः

Ajnana-Timirandhasya Jnananjana-Salakaya; 

Chakshurunmilitam Yena Tasmai Sri Gurave Namah.

(Prostrations to that Guru who, by the collyrium-rod of Knowledge, opens the eyes of those who are rendered blind by the darkness of ignorance)

"The Guru is God Himself manifesting in a personal form to guide the aspirant. Grace of God takes the form of Guru. To see the Guru is to see God. The Guru is united with God. He inspires devotion in others. His presence purifies all. 

The Guru is verily a link between the individual and the Immortal. He is a being who has raised himself from this into That, and thus has a free and unhampered access to both the realms. He stands, as it were, upon the threshold of immortality; and bending down, he raises the struggling individuals with his one hand, and with the other lifts them up into the empyrean of everlasting joy and infinite Truth-Consciousness. "

(Swami Sivananda)

Dear All,

If the author has to actually justify the quote of Chinmaya above and then Chinmaya's Guru Swami Sivananda's saying given above, then a whole volume has to be written and still  the author would be falling short of vocabulary to actually describe what these masters have written.

Swami Chinamaya says - All rituals, all worships, all efforts by any person (Japa mala, sitting in the assembly hall for attending satsangh etc.) are of little use in one's spiritual upliftment  unless the aspirant is fired up with mumukshatva (intense craving for God realization) and a realized master comes to him, holds his hand and says "Run with Me" (in the path of sadhana as per Guru's instructions)

And about learning by watching Guru's actions, Guru's silence, Guru's words, only those blessed ones who have had opportunity in their lives to be in the presence of a realised Master can actually explain this inexplicable learning process otherwise.

In the earlier days when almost each child used to be sent to the Acharya, to stay in the hermitage of the Guru, the learning that the disciple used to get by observing his Guru is something which no one can describe and no one can understand. 

Sri Chinmaya has written about his experience and learning on observing Tapovan Maharaj, Swami Venkatesananda, Swami Krishnananda etc., have written in detail about their learning on watching their Guru Swami Sivananda, Muruganar has written poems after poems on his learning under the feet of Sri Ramana where the learning was totally in silence as Ramana hardly spoke on spiritual aspects explicitly.

How can Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda be left out in the list? He has written many pages in "Autobiography of Yogi" about his observing and learning from his Guru Sri Yukteswar. 

It so happens that in the hermitage of a Guru, a dozen disciples undergo training for 10 years but out of them, only one or two come out as outstanding and spread the fragrance of their learning from their Guru to the world. This is because of the tuning which Chinmaya has mentioned in his quote. 

There may be many direct disciples of Tapovan Maharaj but only Chinmaya went on to become world renowned saint. Same is the case with Sri Krishnananda or Chidananda under Swami Sivananda and so on.

Such chosen disciples, out of their prarabdha on one hand and due to their intense purushartha on the other hand, end up tuning themselves 100% to their masters and are able to grasp each and every gesture, each and every word, each word of compassion or even scolding of their Master and are able to almost peep into the heart of their Masters and grasp everything that their Master has to give to them.

There are volumes of books on Guru's contribution in Disciple's emancipation like  GURU BHAKTI YOGA by Swami Sivananda  or GURU VACHAKA KOVAI based on Sri Ramana's teachings and GURU TATTVA by Swami Sivananda and many more. 

Love.

Jesus

Dear All,

The initial 2 lines echo Saint Chinmaya's quote where the saint says, even if you slip, even if you fail in your (spiritual) life, do not be afraid, do not get demoralized. Each failure teaches you something very important in your life.

The second part is echoed in the author's spontaneous writing on Buddha's post which he sent to all Muscateers yesterday. The relevant portion of Buddha's post is reproduced below.

The portion given below is as though the response of the devotee to Lord Jesus's assertion that "Lord is one, He goes with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you".

The devotee listens to Jesus's gospel and responds with tears thus:-

"What ever I am, I am Yours. You say You are love and You have told us to live in love. If I have to practice the same, then how can the love not cover myself also? I may be a sinner, I may not be succeeding in progressing towards You, but who else but You can give me the strength to reach You?? 

Mujhe Shakti do, with that strength, let me immerse in devotion / love for which, mujhe Bhakti do and  after I reach the last but one stage in my Bhakti, give me Your hand and help me cross the last step, Mukti do, to whom can I pray for all these, who has all these things to give but You, O Sai Shiva!!!"

This crying out to Lord is natural and spontaneous because:-

1.  The devotee by himself is not able to evolve in the spiritual path. He is weak, slave to his worldly attachments, existing  like a sheep, though he is Lion, in essence.
2. When the devotee searches for support, for someone to hold his hands/carry him on his shoulders and take him to the abode of peace, Prashanti,  the devotee looks at the Lord, call him Jesus or Allah or Ishwar or Sai.
3.  Looking at Sai, the devotee recollects Sai's words "........sambhavami yuge yuge"
4. Thus, the devotee knows that Here is the Lord who has been coming again and again in various forms from time to time for the protection of virtuous. 
5. Since the Lord has come, gone and come back again and again and now, after 24/4/2011 has gone once more to His abode, the devotee gets an assurance within and cries out, who else but You can know the path to the ultimate abode (liberation) as coming and going from/to that place is Your hobby. So, who else but You can carry me through and reach me safely to the BRINDAVAN  of divine beauty, the garden of liberation, from this BHAVA SAGAR of samsara with only pain?

So, the devotee cries from the bottom of His heart, O Bhakta vatsala, Prana Sakha, I know You can never forsake me, please carry me, please give me the strength, mujhe Shakti do!

The feeling of the devotee is same, whether he is a hindu or a christian or a muslim or of any other religion because, GOD IS ONE!

"Ekam sat vipra bahudha vadanti"

(THAT  which exists is One: sages call it by various names)

Love.

Anandamayi Maa - Delight on witnessing the one essence in diverse varieties in creation

Dear All,

You are requested to align today's quote and the exposition of today's quote with the interpretation of SAI AUM bhajan in 2 dimensions given by the author. This was sent to the sadan group couple of years before.

Love

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Divyatman,

Let us travel through the journey from form to form less and beyond, from bhakti to jnana and beyond!!!

A bhajan interpreted by a devotee, which travelled all over the world through various yahoo groups and other channel then, and the same which is poured now by the SELF,  see the dimensions in both!

AS A DEVOTEE ( In the path of Bhakti), written in 2006

Dear brothers/sisters.

The Lyrics, aligned with the interpreted meaning during the meditation process of a devotee is given below:

Sai Aum Sai Aum Sai Aum

(Aum is the first primal sound, the pranava mantra. So to say, Sai is first, Sai is first and foremost of everything)

Tan Man Praan Mein Sai Aum

(Sai is filled in my physical self, my mental self; my very life breath is Sai)

Shayan Swapan Mein Sai Aum

(With SAI AS MY EVERYTHING, WHEN I WENT TO SLEEP, HE WAS AGAIN IN MY DREAM)

Gagan Pavan Mein Sai Aum

(Sai was in the sky, Sai was felt in the breezy Air) How did it happen?? Did any one post a sky high portrait, oh Sai, so that He was seen in the sky?? No.

Nayan Nayan Mein Sai Aum

(Sai was seen, fel everywhere, because I filled my eyes with Sai, my eyes refused to see anything But Sai)

Janam Maran Mein Sai Aum

(With Sai as my everything, if i were to Die and take another birth to burn my vasanas, my karma, then again, Sai wis the only Pranasakaha, who accompanies , who is there even in my death and in my next birth, He is first, He is foremost, he is everything)

AS SELF, PURE CONSCIOUSNESS (in the path of Jnana), written in 2015.

Sai Aum Sai Aum Sai Aum

O sadhakas,  Know the real substratum of all incarnations to be " AUM"!!!

He was there….

From His energy, appeared / emerged the cosmic vibration- AUM

There on, He became aware- as though

Then the so called creation emerged, (if at all it did!!!)

It is not the physical frame of Sai first; it is the shabda Brahman AUM first …. and all avatars can be meditated and realized through this AUM!!!!!

start with AUM, transcend , exist as THAT , TRANSCENDING EVEN AUM !!!!!.. It is possible; it is possible, before the wink of eye gets over!!!!

Tan Man Praan Mein Sai Aum, Gagan Pavan Mein Sai Aum

Sankhya says- From Him, upon the vibration AUM, emerged 5 elements and the 24 tatwa- all the body of all , all the minds of all, all the prana of all,  in macro and then in microcosm- retrace to their origin AUM

Shayan Swapan Mein Sai Aum

An entire upanishad mandukya is dedicated to relate A - with the waking state , then U with the dream state and then M- with the deep sleep state and the silence after M with THE (thuriya) STATE!!!

If the dream state itself dreams of SAI AUM, then how wonderful is the next state- deep sleep, shushupti- where there is neither body, nor mind, nor intellect.. and then….. who is ever there to describe THE STATE beyond deep sleep- THURIYA or THURIYA TEETHA?/!!!!!!!!!!

Nayan Nayan Mein Sai Aum

O, why can't a treatise be created to explain this one line!!!!

When all the objects of the entire creation merged in ME the pure consciousness, at the subtlest state, how can the nayan (vision/ wisdom) experience anything else except my own SELF which was ever ME, ME, the PURE ME?????

Nayan saw all objects without.. in several births……

A sadguru's nayan / glance fell on me….

His nayan became my nayan ever since then……..

He saw, smiled at the PURE ME, then…..

He gave me his nayan ever since then…..

how do i see anything else with His nayan, as HE, except THE PURE EXISTENCE?????????

how can the physical eyes ever super impose now on HIS NAYAN????????

from where do i fetch creation now, when His nayan is THE nayan????????

For HIM, MY GURU, MY LORD, lending His nayan was spontaneous and He is there to lend His nayan to the entire humanity - HE IS THE SAHASRA SEERSHA PURUSHA……!!!!!

In return, I could only give HIM, THE PURE EXISTENCE HIM, one thing as my dakshina…. NE… He did not wait for me to offer...(CHITACHORA), HE CHOSE TO TAKE IT FROM ME AS DAKSHINA FOR EVER---- AND  WHAT ELSE CAN THE OFFERING BE, EXCEPT MY EYES, WORLDLY, HITHERTO AWARE OF CREATION, CREATED AND THE CREATOR, (Jagath, Jiva and Iswara)!!!!!!

Will I not now say- NAYAN NAYAN HAI (IS) SAI AUM???????

When all objects are gone, the entire creation consumed in MY SELF, not only Nayan Nayan of ME/ HE but collectively, ANY THING WHICH CAN BE EXPERIENCED IS JUST THE AUM, PURE… IS…. PURE BE….., PURE "     "!!!!

And…….., the Journey is over!!!!!

Love.

PS- Janam maran mein Sai Aum, to the composer, has no relevance after NAYAN NAYAN HAI SAI AUM!!!!