Essence of vedanta-Post 43

Dear All,


Bullet points on nidhidhyasana given in earlier post

• Contemplation is defined as seeing the meaning or bringing back to the mind the content of the teaching acquired during sravanam and mananam. 

• Nidhidhyasanam is intense absorption of THAT which one has listened and about which one has convincingly known after listening.

• And, if the sravanam and mananam has taken place with utmost sincerity, then nidhidhyasanam  HAS TO HAPPEN BY ITSELF, 24/7. 

• Such intense absorption leads to the ultimate experience which is " ATMA SAAKSHATKARAM".

The sadhaka was convinced thoroughly on the upanishad teachings that:-

• In the waking , dream and deep sleep state, there is one witness which sees, which illumines the intellect/ mind of the sadhaka.
• There was, is and ever will be one source  which created this universe, sustains this universe and into which the universe folds itself time and again and since that source is all pervading, the sadhaka is also the same source or a part of that whole where the part is not different or distinguishable from that whole.
• the entire creation with all its attributes, all beings is just a super imposition on that real SOURCE where the super imposition is due to the ignorant mind which gives a false identity to each being that he/ she is body, mind and intellect , whereas, there is only one identity of all - THE PART OF THAT WHOLE DIVINE ENERGY/ SPIRIT.

Now to the stage of nidhidhyasana , as experienced by the sadhaka.

• The contemplation on the above Truth became so intense that it stretched beyond the morning meditation hours and continued through out the day as a silent process within, whether the sadhakas was at home or at work place or any where else, in any environment, performing any action what so ever. 
• There is an illustration in vedanta known as Brahmara-Kita-Nyaya. This illustration is not brought here as a theory but to exactly demonstrate what actually happened to the sadhaka

Brahmara-kita-Nyaya

The Bhramara or the wasp is said to sting the insects or the Kitas which it brings to its hive and through stinging them and poisoning them makes them feel its presence alone everywhere, at all times. 

The insects, so to say, meditate on the presence of the wasp, at all times, and in turn become wasps themselves thereby. 

• Exactly this is what happened to the sadhaka. The contemplation on that one REAL SPIRIT/ THE BRAHMAN/ THE CREATOR/ PURE CONSCIOUSNESS was so intense that slowly, the sadhaka started existing in the same state of that source/ consciousness  which was being meditated by the sadhaka.

What is the experience of that pure consciousness ???? What happens within???? What is the state of such existence??

• The only barrier/ block/ obstruction between God existing as Pure consciousness and we the human beings - is our ego  which says to us that we are so and so.. at human level. 
• This ego is present in our mind and pollutes our mind.
• So, when the sadhaka existed as THAT on which he was meditating, this mind, filled with the ego, was absent. 
• When  the mind is non existent, sadhaka lost all  his identity and human level- his identity as husband, as father, as CEO, as son, as brother, as friend, as a singer in sadan, as dafli player in sadan, as bhajan co ordinator in sadan etc. etc. 
• When he lost identity of himself, naturally, all identities of all others in the world which is connected with, which originates with one's own identity , was also lost.
• So, when there was no mind, no ego, no ignorance, then He, atleast during the intense nidhidhysana state in the morning hours or when ever the eyes closed involuntarily even during the day time, existed exactly as the SOURCE which EXISTED prior to creation, where there was nothing else but THAT PURE EXISTENCE ( explained as sathyam in sathyam jnanam anantam related posts in the same theme )

Thus, the theoretical knowledge that there is an eternal witness  which illumines all the threes states- waking, dream and deep sleep- became real TRUTH when the sadhaka could discard the experiences in the waking, dream and deep sleep state and along and merge with that illumining source - THE PURE CONSCIOUSNESS.

Continued...