SHIVA RAHASYA - TALK 15

 Dear All,

Please find the YT link of the Shiva Rahasya - Talk 15, delivered at the "Kutir" on Aug 8th, 2025.

https://youtu.be/-jyRVkRG76E

YT - JDW - Sadhana Chatustaya - Part 2 - Vairagya

Sairam All,

We now enter into the cave of fire to be treated for becoming eligible for the path towards final emancipation.

The second and the most toughest qualification is VAIRAGYA, literally meaning dispassion. The word although is limited in its expression, but the essence is really deep. It is indeed the

Easy said than done is what you may be thinking. This is the test of fire. This is the acid test for qualifying the sadhaka to the next level. While at the grihastha level, this may be termed as non-attachment, at the Sansyasi level, it is total dispassion.

Come let us all dive deep into this yet another intuitive pour from the Source:

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Vairagya or Non-Attachment is to be practiced even by a sadhaka who is in worldly life, pursuing education, career or so to say one in Grihastha dharma.

Vairagya is born out of Viveka… One cannot feel the heat of fire, till one touches fire… you cannot have vairagya unless you really proceed to cross viveka and reach the state of vairagya. Herein the most important requisite is complete desirelessness. 

While VIVEKA is all about purity at the intellect level which keeps us perfect with our discrimination, VAIRAGYA on the other hand, is all about purity of feeling.

All of you must find the silence within by avoiding secular connections and going into the depth of each of the words roared by the Author which is the only bridge which will take you to the ultimate reality / truth.

Unlike Viveka where we had the matrix to make things even more clear, Vairagya is more to do with our own self-introspection. Viveka dealt with WHATs while Vairagya concentrates more deeply into HOWs. How are we going to become desireless? How are we going to be non-attached amidst existence of all those with whom we are attached? List out all the desires as an exercise and rate them in terms of achievement of your ultimate goal, if each and every desire is fulfilled. You will would end up crossing out all the desires that you would have built in. 

Delve deep into THAT one experience which once felt within,  seals the door for all transitory experiences. You will ever remain glued to this ONE SINGLE EXPERIENCE, as you would become ONE, never ever to return to be the experiencer.

How profound... How much intense are these words... How much geared up you should be to match to this intensity... Yet another introspection... Yet another test for you all...

Continued...

Love.

YT - JDW - Sadhana Chatustaya - Part 1 - Viveka

Sairam All,

When we join an institution for pursuing education, we are required to be equipped with some minimum qualifications. It holds good even for someone who joins an organization for work. These qualifications determine our intent, aspiration, conviction and the will to take up the task for which we apply and aspire.

Likewise, in sadhana too, there are qualifications which is elucidated by Author through this series on Sadhana Chatushtaya. It has been poured in a very vivid manner so that you all can dive and bathe into it. This applies to every sadhaka or a spiritual aspirant who takes up the path of sadhana.

Remember that these qualifications are required to be garnered by a sadhaka through his own efforts, which grabs the attention of the Guru. The venerable Guru then choses you to initiate into the Brahma Jnana path.

Here the Author feeds you sumptuously with these qualifications so that you get the Brahma Jnana to inch closer to the goal, perhaps in this birth itself.

Blessed are you to have such unimaginable treaties delivered to you where you are. This has been ordained to reach to you. So, you must humbly and wholeheartedly appreciate the fact with folded hands that you are given that special treatment and attention.

Man is in continuous exploration of happiness in everything that he comes across. But due to the finitude that he experiences in whatever happiness he gets, he constantly is pushed into the realms of disappointment. He then, resorts to seeking grace from the Lord to help him out of this discomfort. The ever-compassionate Lord then makes him aware that human birth is the pinnacle and bestows on him the wisdom for self-introspection and self-enquiry. Considering the Purushartha and Prarabdha levels of the jiva, he might get inward and eventually earns the grace of the Lord. This grace enables the jiva turned sadhaka to become aware of the knowledge of real and unreal. It then leads to the discrimination between the real and unreal. With this brief background, let us hear from the Source. Here is the pour on the first of the 4 qualifications – VIVEKA (discrimination):

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Once you have gone through the above pour, you would be able to connect to this chart in a much better way:

The intellectual concept is given now, hoping that you have understood it in the easiest way it was given in the pour. Vidyaranya used the following terms for expounding this concept:

Anvaya	Invariable (continuous, always present)
Vyatireka	Variable (separates present and not present)
Bhaane	Present
Abhaane	Absent

Wherever there is a combination of bhaane and abhaane (we understood as aware or not aware) - the  final conclusion = vyatireka, both aware and not aware are there.

So, when we routed the 5 koshas through the 4 states of consciousness, in all the combinations, there was at least one bhaane or abhaane (aware or not aware), so the final conclusion was, it is vyatireka.

But when it comes to last “SELF”, in all 4 states there is no combination of bhaane and abhaane, aware and not aware - it is all aware in all 4 columns of all 4 states - in the row “SELF”. So the final conclusion for this row at the last column is - anvaya, i.e, it is continuous, always present! That is why we say SELF is changeless, pure existence.

After understanding the lucid explanation given in the pour, it is possible now to be clear on the above matrix.

Next post would take you through the most profound requirement – VAIRAGYA. This takes birth from VIVEKA. So please get geared for passing through the fire to turn into gold.

Continued...

Love.