Essence of vedanta- post 41

Dear All,

Sadhaka's Entry in the path of Jnana- Sravanam

• Though the sadhaka had read through Swami's talks on Bhagawad Gita, Swami's Vahini series, Swami's Sathya Sai Speaks few volumes, all these reading were at intellectual level.  And, let us be very clear. Any thing understood at intellectual level in spirituality is only HEARING and NOT LISTENING and Sravanam is all about Listening and not hearing and forgetting.
• In 2010 Parthi yatra of Gulf region, some thing transpired in absolute silence between Swami and the sadhaka, which pushed him into the path of Jnana.
• That one look, glance of Sai (which has been described later in the samarpan bhajans- Sundara nayanabi Ram line in Jagata Udharana, Raham nazar Karo Sai baba in Bed Paar Kao bhajan etc, by the author in a tube manner) ignited the fire in Sadhaka to take up the path of Jnana.
• He came back to Muscat and then, from August 2010 to Jan 2010, all  major vedantic treatise, the 10 upanishads, the Atma bodhas and the yoga vasishtas and the viveka chudamanis, the moksha gitas, the Brahma Sutras,  the so far unknown and untouched ( untouched by most human beings on earth) treatise- the Ribhu Gitas and the Avadhuta Gitas etc etc. were read and grasped in the unearthly night hours from 10 PM to 1 mid night when the world was asleep.
• So, in sadhaka's case, the Sravanam  itself took a subtler mode. it was not listening to the Guru's instructions. Then what it was????
• In sadhaka's case, the Guru was God incarnate, The Sad guru of all sad gurus, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
• The Guru was  physically away from the disciple.
• The Guru created an environment wherein, study of each scripture by the sadhaka was as though, the Guru ( God) Himself was literally speaking through  those scriptures and the disciple listened and at the very same time, those teachings penetrated the heart and soul of the disciple.

So, what all went through within the disciple in this unique Sravanam Journey????

• Viveka- Discrimination between real and unreal, dawned and stayed within. 
• Vairagya- dispassion towards unreal gathered momentum within.
• Six virtues or the shad Sampath might have dawned within but it was so subtle that the disciple could not understand.
• How ever, MUMUKSHTAVA, INTENSE CRAVING FOR REALIZING THE TRUTH, EXPERIENCING THE TRUTH- was lit up and lo and behold, the intensity of this fire was so much that in the fire, his past and present memory/ thought about the city, the country, the world, the creation- all got burnt.
• The impact  of this lit up mumukshatva were the following:-
• Attachment/hatred/Fear- these were slowly disappearing, getting weaker,  day by day.
• Heart sought silence more and more automatically because, for getting deeper into the spiritual reading, the subtler sravanam in the sadhakas' case, silence was necessary. 
• Friends were gone and with them, foe(s) were also gone. Neither there were any mine and nor were there any thine.
• The so called mind could not take itself away from the  call of Nirvana Shatakam, even for a split of a second. His car   music system would have played " Aham nirvikalpo nirakara Roopah" lines N+ 1times!!
• Romance, if you must say, was there on the air..., but the Romance was with the REALITY and the lover in this case was all out for getting his fiancee (REAL TRUTH/ EXPERIENCE) now and for ever,  never to leave her!!
• Peace or Bliss, if one names it thus, was a natural state with the mind resting in the nirvana shatakams and the Atma Bodhas etc. 

We will move on to Mananam, in the next post.

Love