A bhajan with its in-depth contemplation on Lord Shiva, on the most auspicious occasion of Maha Shivaratri
JAYA SHANKARA BHAVA GOCHARA
SHIVA CHIDAMBARA AUMKAARA
PARTHI VIHARA PAPA VIDURA
JAGATODHARA BRAHMA PARA
Victory to Lord Shiva, who is.
Bhavagochara- beyond knowledge
(Lalithasahasranama - Mano vachamagochara – She who is beyond the mind and the
word)
Chidambara- residing in chit
ambaram- our chit, consciousness, which is vast and anantam like the vast
space- KNOWLEDGE SPACE.
Aumkara - the universal
consciousness, chit ambaram, with the cosmic vibration- AUMKARA, projected its
maya Shakti- prakriti and thereafter, the creation evolved. For clear
understanding, we say, Brahman willed...or thought… but He has no form and
attribute to think, so the evolution just happened, because we human beings wee
to be born and in our state of highest state of purity, we had to enjoy the
bliss of merging back with the source!!.
Parthivihara- taken a human
form and dwelling with His body in a finite place, though he is chit amabara
Papa vidura - destroyer of all
sins…destroyer of our mind which recognizes all our sins and the resultant
prarabdha
Jagatodhara- for the
protection of virtues and destruction of evil, I incarnate from ages to ages
Brahma Para - Para Brahman -
supreme brahman, purusha, nirgunanirakara, defined as Sathyam, Jnanam, Anantam.
UMA SAHAYAM PARAMESVARAM
PRABHUM
TRILOCHANAM NEELAKANTAM
PRASHAANTAM
DHYAATVA MUNIR GACHHATI BHUTA
YONIM
SAMASTA SAAKSHIM TAMASA:
PARASTAAT
(By mediating upon lord
Parameswara consorted by mother Uma, the highest lord, the all powerful, the
three eyes, the blue necked and the ever tranquil, a true man of reflection
reaches Him, who is the source of all the manifested world, the witness of all,
and who is beyond darkness)
Kaivalya Upanishad
Uma sahayam - Purusa and prakriti -
flutist and flute, writer and pen. Like the flute of matter is thrilled by the spirit of
krishna, the flutist, Paramesvara, the purusa, expresses himself through the
matter- prakriti.
Parameswara - No experience is possible without the spark of life
within us. the flutist thrills the flute to continue its music rhythmically.
Three eyed - Pure consciousness, not only illumines
through the vehicles, the sense perceptions, the world, to us, but it has a
vision of its own, which can be experienced by us only when we transcend all
vehicles.
Symbolically, 3rd eye represents, above
the 2 fleshy eyes of each individual, the vision for all mortal objects, an
intuitive vision , the vision of pure knowledge.
When this vision is awakened, entire world
of names and forms around siva/ around a seer, gets burnt / gets removed /
annihilated. transcending the limited vision of names and forms and comes to
live with the universal oneness.
Blue necked - Deva asura chriend the milky ocean with
mandara as rod and vasuki as the volnteered rope.
Vasuki - Tired and stressed, vomits, siva takes
the lava of poison in hand, terrible, could not throw it, so he drank. uma
presses neck which gets blue.
In our life, our sativk quality is the
mily ocean, intelelct is the mandira, lower ego and higher ego are the asuras
and devas, the ego itself being vasuki.
In advanced state of meditation, all ego,
in unconscious and subconscious mind, the vasanas must be
vomited before we get the amrita, realization / jnana.
The ego should neither posion the head
(intellect) nor the heart (mind) of the meditator; hence it is in between the
head and heart, symbolically... in the neck.
When the purusa is no more expressing
through prakriti, when the ego is removed, the highest attainment - prashantam
/ peace / bliss is reached.
Thus, the muni reaches the source of all
the manifested world, bhuta yoni, which is the eternal self!!.
Samastha Sakshim - sun and world of activities. Without
sunshine, no world activity is possible, but sin shine does not have any
relation / concern with any activity in world, nor is it responsible.
Spirit is the
witness, matter draws its energy from spirit (jagat karana, jagat adhishtana),
but the purusa is not responsible or concerned with any acitivites of the world
which has drawn its stength from the prakriti.....
No doubt by a
waker after waking up...beyond darkness... no doubt about the reality of his
experience after he is awakened to the god consciousness... the consciousness
of paramesvara!!!
PARAMESWARA in Macrocosm ( The creation)
- When we take the creation aspect, by Easwara we understand in gross level as God with form- Rama/Krishna/Shiva/Sai etc.
- When we get a little deeper, we understand that Shrutis explain Easwara as the Unmanifest God who willed and created this creation through his powers which is Shakti or powers.
- When we go a little deeper, then, the Prefix Parama is added to Easwara and Parameswara is understood as the Essence, pure consciousness beyond manifest and unmanifest which existed prior to the creation.
PARAMESWARA in Microcosm. ( The individual Jiva)
- We are the spirit (the flute as explained above, the matter )and God or the Parsmeswara is the Spirit ( The flutist as explained above.
- The Parameswara is not outside us but we ourselves are both the spirit and the matter.
- Whether we are awake or dreaming or in deep sleep, the Parameswara or the spirit within us is the eternal witness to all out state.
- At experience level, we experience Easwara as pure consciousness or Bliss or Satchitananda . We can say this is Easwara, as for as our subjective experience is concerned.
- When we transcend this experience also and get beyond the awareness of this experience, then, similar to the last stage or the subtlest stage explained in creation/ macrocosm level above, we also transcend all possible experience in meditation and we exist as beyond manifest and unmanifest, beyond all experience, beyond satchitananda.
- At this state, we also exist as Parameswara
IT IS AT THIS STATE THAT SWAMI SAYS " YOU AND ME ARE ONE"!!!!
This requires a lot of in depth contemplation and absorption!!!!!
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