ANANTAM
A king who is the ruler of this whole world may imagine that he has simultaneous happiness of the entire kingdom of the earth. "The entire earth is mine," the king may feel. But the entire earth stands outside the king. The experiencing consciousness of the king does not hold under his grip or possession this vast earth that he considers as the means of his satisfaction.
So the king's happiness is a futile, imaginary pleasure; really, he does not possess the world. The world stands outside. If the object of experience stands outside the experience, the experience cannot be regarded as complete. Unless the object of experience enters into you and becomes part and parcel of your own existence, you will not be able to enjoy that object.
All objects cause anxiety in the mind because they stand outside the experiencing consciousness. Even if you have a heap of gold in the grip of your palm, it cannot cause you happiness. It will only cause anxieties of different types – such as how to keep it, how to use it, how to protect it, how not to lose it, and how to see that it is not leading you to bereavement.
The possessor of gold and silver is filled with anxieties, and that person cannot sleep well. Even a king cannot sleep well because of the fear of attack from sources that are external to him. To be secure under conditions which are totally external to yourself is hard, indeed, to imagine.
However,
Brahman experience (The experience which is indicated in all theme posts) is not an object of contact; it is an identity. The object is the experiencing consciousness itself. The content of awareness becomes the awareness.
You are not merely existing, minus the consciousness of existence. There is all-existence, a simultaneous knowledge of all things – omniscience, a simultaneous taneous enjoyment of all things, and perfect freedom. It is perfect freedom because there is nothing to obstruct your freedom in that state.
Here, in this world, whatever freedom you may have is limited by the existence of other things in this world. Your freedom is limited by the freedom of another person and, therefore, your freedom is limited to that extent. You cannot have unlimited freedom in this world. But That (Brahman) is unlimited freedom. It is unlimited because anantam brahma: "Infinite is Brahman.
Readers,
Are you finding these posts theoretical??
If so, it is because you are not connecting the posts on satyam and jnanam and anantam with the questions with which we started these posts on satyam , jnanam , anantam.
After all the previous posts and also the intro to upanishads, we summarized the ending part of all theme posts and asked ourselves, what would be the experience of the essence of all theme posts which have been learnt so far.
For example, We asked ourselves,
"What would be the pinnacle of our experience when, as per the essence of the theme " purpose of Human birth" which was the 1st theme in this blog, we retrace, we listen to our Lord's call, leave this glittering world and experience the million times more intoxicating God consciousness"
In this context, we have given these SATYAM, JNANAM, ANANTAM posts.
Sincere readers may once again keep the above italicized question in mind and then do a revised reading of the Satyam, Jnanam, Anantam posts in the next 2 days.
The author will then try to explain as to how the above question and the posts on the three - Satyam, Jnanam, Anantam get aligned and completed!!
Hari Aum Tatsat.
