Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Swami Suryadevananda

Can the Heart Expand to This?

Can this be considered with an 
open heart and mind?...

It takes a big heart and mind
To let each and all have their room
And not get worked up about it.
Just let people and things be as they are
As each must bring about self-change
From within themselves and by themselves—
And till then, each is each other's training aid
Acceptance enlarges heart and mind
Expand the heart so there's room for all—
Including all these things we are appalled by
It is very difficult but real spiritual practice
The heart must have room for the whole world!
When you include all within your heart
They do not bother you anymore
Abandon outsideness and otherness
And see—you stand together with everything
He who made kittens and rabbits
Also put snakes in the same grasses
In nature each understand compatibility
Without contempt—just living carefully
To respond naturally amidst everything
We first have to return to naturalness
Naturalness knows how to move about
Amidst the multitude of its own variety
We try to compensate by shrewdness
It does not work, we hurt and hurt others
Naturalness does not fumble here at all
It does what is right every moment naturally
Some may still get hurt in nature's play
But this is seeing things from outside
Nothing stands outside nature, it includes all
Waves rise and fall in the same ocean
Differences are nature's call to you
To return to inward no-difference
Rooted in the unchanging there's no problem
The ocean never worries about her waves
( Extract from a poem by Swami Suryadevnanda)





Monday, August 28, 2017

Future of this blog

Dear All,

Extract from author's earlier post is recaptured below

Even if one sincere reader is there in any country of the world, then that reader may revert on next theme after reading this post.

Love

"...............So, While the current theme “ essence of vedanta” is  coming to an end this week, he shall wait for few suggestions from  you, from at least some of you on WHAT SUBJECTS / THEME SHOULD BE TAKEN NEXT IN THE BLOG.  IT COULD BE ANY SUBJECT. NO SUBJECT IS INFERIOR OR LESS IMPORTANT IN THE SPIRITUAL PATH. 

If no one wants any new subject/ theme, then the blog posts may come to an end or just continue with some spiritual quotes daily."

You may either give your suggestion as a comment in the blog or mail your suggestion to the author in his email - satyamurthyv@gmail.com


Love

Saturday, August 26, 2017

Essence of Vedanta- Last Post 45

Dear All,


As mentioned in the previous post, He gives below the instant outpour on a Friday morning in 2012, seated in a morning meditation at a devotee's place in Muscat. 

How the pour emerged from within, how He could contain the pour and still sit normally throughout the archana, How He could rush home and recapture the pour that emerged from within and pen down the same- ALL THESE ARE MIRACLE WHICH CANNOT BE EXPLAINED AT ALL!!!


In the last few posts he has given his own spiritual evolvement not for speaking about himself but as a case study for all present and future generation's spiritual seekers on how evolvement takes place step by step. 

This would remain in internet even after the author passes away. 

Love.

PS. As clearly mentioned by him in a previous post, he awaits suggestion from readers on what to take-up next. 

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SONG OF "I"

I AM I

I REMAINED UNAWARE OF I

A COSMIC VIBRATION CAME, 
WITH THE ENERGY BORROWED FROM I, 
WITH THE I UNAWARE OF SOURCING ITS ENERGY FOR THE VIBRATION TO ARISE

WITH IT, I BECAME AWARE OF I

BUT, WHEN I AM WITHOUT THE CONCEPT OF EVEN THIS COSMIC VIBRATION AND I BECOMING AWARE OF I, 

I SIMPLY REMAIN AS I


I, REMAINING AS I, WITHOUT PROJECTING MYSELF, 
COULD NOT HAVE CREATED, SO, 
I PROJECTED MY POWER AND 
AS PRAKRITI WENT ON TO CREATE, 

I REMAINED AS I

CREATION CAME INTO EXISTENCE, 
MACROCOSM AND THEN MICROCOSM WHEREAS, 
DEVOID OF ALL THESE CONCEPTS, 

I REMAINED AS I

RISHIS ATTEMPTED TO DEFINE ME, 
THEY CONCLUSIVELY ATTRIBUTED SATHYAM, JNANAM AND ANANTHAM TO ME AND DECLARED, 

I AM THE CHANGELESS, BIRTHLESS, DEATHLESS SATHYAM AS I EXISTED PRIOR TO EVOLUTION AND WOULD CONTINUE TO BE I, 
REGARDLESS OF THE CHAIN OF EVOLUTION AND INVOLUTION. 

THEY SAID, I AM AWARENESS, JNANAM, 
PURE AND BLEMISHLESS, WITH NO MIND, 
EXISTING AS PURE AWARENESS. 

THEY POINTED OUT THAT I AM ANANTHAM, AS, 
FROM ME, THROUGH ME AND IN ME, 
THE CREATION AROSE AND NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY EXIST BEYOND A SPACE WHERE I DO NOT EXIST. 

PERHAPS THEY ARE TRUE IN THEIR FINDING. 

HOWEVER, DEVOID OF ALL THESE CONCEPTS, 

I REMAIN AS I

THEY PROVED THAT I AM AWARENESS THAT EXISTS BEYOND TIME AND SPACE AND BEYOND LIMITATIONS.  

THEY WROTE IN SRUTHIS THAT LIVING AND NON LIVING BEINGS, NURTURED WITHIN MY DOMAIN, 
CANNOT BE ANYTHING ELSE BUT ME AND HENCE, 

I AM CONTAINED IN

EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, EVERY TIME. 

HOWEVER, 
I REMAINED, (BEYOND THESE CONCEPTS) AS "I".

IN VARIOUS AGES AND VARIOUS TIME, SPACE, 
TO TEACH HUMANITY, 
I INCARNATED IN FLESH AND BLOOD IN VARIOUS FORMS. 

HOWEVER, I REMAIN UNATTACHED TO ALL THOSE FORMS OF MINE AND 
I REMAIN AS "I"

AS JIVA, I AM AWARE THAT I AM ATMAN, 

AS ISWARA, I AM AWARE THAT I AM BRAHMAN, 

AMIDST CREATION, I AM AWARE THAT I AM ALL PERVADING, 

IN PRALAYA, I AM AWARE THAT EVERYTHING HAS RETURNED TO ME AND MERGED IN ME, 
ONLY TO UNDERGO ANOTHER EVOLUTION THROUGH MY PROJECTED  POWER, PRAKRITI.

 I AM GURU, I AM DISCIPLE, I AM PARENT, I AM CHILD, 
I AM GOD AND I AM DEVOTEE, 

I AM THE CREATOR AND I AM THE CREATION, 
I AM MICRO AND MICROCOSM, 

I AM BRAHMAN, I AM BRAHMAN, I AM BRAHMAN, 

I HAVE ALL THESE WONDERFUL RELATION LESS RELATIONSHIPS IN AND WITH EXISTENCE

HOWEVER

 IN THE DEPTH OF SILENCE, 

BEYOND ALL CONCEPTS, 
I DO NOT WITNESS MY CREATION, 

I AM NEITHER BRAHMAN, NOR ATMAN, 
NOR CREATION, NOR CREATED, 
NEITHER JIVA, NOR ISWARA, 
NEITHER SATHYAM, NEITHER ANANTHAM, NOR JNANAM, 
NEITHER A WITNESS OF COSMIC VIBRATION, NEITHER SAGUNA, NOR NIRGUNA, 
NEITHER ADVAITA, NOR DVAITA 

BEYOND ALL CONCEPTS, ALL YOGAS, ALL VEDAS, 
ALL VEDANTHA, ALL DEFINITIONS AND ALL ATTRIBUTES, 

I REMAIN AS I

IN SILENCE  I ROAR, "I AM I' AND MY ROAR IS UNHEARD ABOUT WHICH I AM UNAWARE, AS, 

I REMAIN AS "I". 
  


I AM I



Hari Aum Tatsat.