Essence of Vedanta - Part 12

Dear All,

In the creation session, we learnt the creation process as explained in Sankhya, as explained in Bhagwad Gita and as explained in panchadasi with the example of pure canvass and drawings.

1) The Creation process through sankhya is illustrated with the flow below 

2) The creation process as learnt through panchadasi is given below 

Pure canvas without any beginning and without any end.

The pure canvass as shown in the first diagram  has been been stiffened by starch for making it suitable for painting.

A light sketch in some form on this stiffened canvas is drawn, which is barely visible and indistinctly cognisable as to its real features.

The lines that have been drawn are filled with ink in different colors as would be necessary to present the requisite picturesque scene.

3)  We also drew a comparison of creation process as explained in Sankhya, B.Gita and panchadasi through a tabular chart 

  

	SANKHYA	BHAGWAD GITA/ VEDANTHA	PANCHADASI
Primal cause, beyond Manifest and un-manifest	Not explained	Purushottama/ Prabrahman	Pure canvass/ Purusha
Un-manifest cause	Purusha	Purusha and prakriti	Stiffening of canvass- Iswara
Manifest cause	Prakriti and Mahat	Hiranyagarbha	Outline of Drawing-Hiranya garbha
Manifest creation	Ahankara and all Subsequent tatwa	Same as Sankhya	Inked Drawings- Objects created in the universe

We concluded in post 20 in creation theme thus:-

"Once we seriously try and start re-tracing from various objects/ human beings/ nature that we see in this world, we can retrace to the cosmic mind of Iswara which planned / inked all such objects, then from the cosmic mind of Iswara, we can retrace to the unmanifest Iswara/ God and from Iswara, we can re trace to the pure canvas prior to starch, the PURUSHOTTAMA prior to purusha and prakriti,  the ONE who is beyond manifest (hiranya garbha) and unmanifest (Iswara) and settle in HIM, THE SUPREME GOD!"

Now, the  final and the last question upon understanding the creation process clearly.

" Upon retracing from the gross body and mind and senses as per sankhya flow and reaching  upto the state of purusha"

or

'Upon retracing from the drawings (our gross existence with body mind and intellect) and reaching upto the state of Purusha which is explained as unmanifest Iswara in the panchadasi learning",

What would be the actual experience of the PURUSHA or the UNMANIFEST ISWARA or the PURUSHOTTAMA explained in Bhagwad Gita??? How and what is this God realization??? What is that God who is realized as purusha/ purushottama/ unmanifest Iswara?? Can that God, who is otherwise inexplicable, be explained somehow???

Hari Aum Tatsat.

Paramhansa Yogananda

Dear All,

Let us recollect our learning on  LOVE in the path of surrender, which we learnt in the theme "SURRENDER" vividly.

Do we remember what all we learnt together on the above flow in Surrender posts??

If not, it would be extremely useful to revisit the SURRENDER posts and refresh our hearts with all the learning on the above flow in SURRENDER posts.

When the Love of God culminates in LOVE IS GOD or when God as LOVE is discovered within or when single pointed devotion for God transforms into total LOVE, what happens?? What is the experience of the devotee at this stage??

The master  explains exactly that state in the above quote.

"Now that thou hast opened my eyes, I find  doors everywhere................. through sweet  memories of lovely experiences"

In fact a whole life is not enough to actually realize the beauty of each  expression (beyond mind) in the above quote of the master.

Till the time we have not discovered the GOD WITHIN, or our devotion has not transformed to total LOVE where neither we exist nor Lord exists but only LOVE shines,  the doors that Paramahamsa mentioned in today's quote  are not opened!!!

We are shut within the four walls of our own ego with no door available to be free of our ego, to set ourselves free!!

And, when the doors open, O....., how to express the experience of  that freedom when, as the master says " every gust of my prayer opens an unentered door in the vast temple of THY presence"!! 

Should we cry in ecstasy...Aha,, Aha or as the King Janaka exclaims in Ashtavakra Gita, we prostrate to our own inner experience and say. "Aho, Aho"!!!!. 

What an experience it is to actualize today's quote of the  realized master!!!!

It is at this state or this ultimate state that the devotion transformed to  the smaller streams  of Love  gather strength, rush and join the river or the ocean of supreme Love, the Prema Sagara Sai Rama, to merge and lose jiva's identity totally, never ever to regain one's false identity , false ego or avidya as this Jiva!!!

Even while these expressions flow from the source  (not from the mind  of the author), the author  is stilled and settled as that supreme ocean of Love or Bliss!!!! 

He is trying tirelessly through these posts to share that bliss , that love with one and all, not because his mind said so but because his master, SAI spoke from within and said (in voiceless  voice as the very source)- " Sathya, Share......., give to the world what I have given to you, let it not just remain with you and go with you when you pass away from this world"!!

O brothers and sisters, take it, before it is too late!!!!

Love, Love and  just ....Love.