Sandeha Nivarini - Post 18

So, the entire spiritual journey is not to gain anything new, anything afresh but to remove the ignorance of our identifying ourselves as this mind and senses and recognizing ourselves as one with that pure awareness. 

There was one saint in the Himalayas to whom one visitor expressed anxiety that how can he believe that he is Brahman / pure consciousness when he can see himself as a person with a body??

Saint: How do you know that so and so is your mother?

Visitor: There are hospital records Swami ji. And more over the nurse has seen me after I came out of my mother's womb and she is witness.

Saint: Are, Hum us nurse se bhi gaye guzre hain jo tum hamari baat par bharosa nahin kar rahe ho, jab hum kah rahe hain ki tum BRAHM (Brahman / Pure awareness) ho?????

(Are my words so incredible that they are  not even as real as to the nurse's confirmation?? As she confirmed that you are so and so, Am I not also confirming that your are Brahman, the pure consciousness????)

Dear ones,

We are verily God / pure awareness. This is Sathyam, Sathyam, Sathyam. 

Swami addressed us "Divyatma Swarupalara" from 1940 t0 2011 only to drive the truth in us that we and He are ONE PURE AWARENESS.

Atleast after today's post, we have to be clear that we have caught that pure illumination / consciousness somewhere in the middle, not as source, but as the mind which is illumined by the pure consciousness through reflection from our intellect and then, holding on to our mind, we are dancing and living this life sojourn + several births before and several births after with a firm belief that we are this body, we are this mind. 

Let us begin our march for the glorious home coming. Let us reach the source which has illumined the entire creation and yet stands apart from the creation alone, call it God, call it Brahman, call it pure consciousness. We have to reach that source and merge with that source. 

Till the time we take up sincere sadhana to march towards the goal, we will endlessly be taking up some religious activities here and there and then eating, sleeping, making merry and ultimately die, to be reborn, to clear our karmas and it is a chakravyuh, a vicious circle in which we will be caught for ever. 

Love.

Paramhansa Yogananda

God is

the life behind your life,

the sight behind your eyes,

the taste behind your tongue,

and the love behind your love.

To realize this to the fullest extent is Self-realization. Without God's power you can do nothing.

If you always hold this thought, you cannot go wrong, because you will have purified the temple of your mind and your soul with the vibrations of God.

Sandeha Nivarini - Post 17

Dear All,

Swami has explained awareness / chit in the 2 previous posts. He has summarized "awareness" in these 2 answers.

Swami :  Awareness has another name: pure consciousness (suddha sathwa). It is as opposed to the impure consciousness as knowledge (vidya) is to ignorance (a-vidya).  

Impure consciousness is inherent in the pure as much as darkness is inherent in light.

Swami: That is why the Lord is referred to as truth (sathya) and Brahman. This truth is indivisible (akhanda). It is non-dual (a-dwaitha). It is without end. In the Upanishads, this truth, which is associated with the unmanifested power of illusion (maya-sakthi), is called the Full (Purna), “That (Adah)”. The truth associated with the manifested power of illusion is called the Full, “This (Idam)”. This is the secret of the Upanishadic mantra “Purnamadah Purnamida ...”.

Author's note

We so often hear this expression "sat chit ananda". It also is found in many Sai Bhajans. "Satchitananda Prabho Daya Karo Prem De ..........." and many more bhajans.

Now what is this chit or pure consciousness as expressed by Swami??

A recap derived from Janaka's story, taken up in the theme "Essence of Vedantha" and may be once earlier also, may be of use here.

• When we are in waking state, the same source / Spirit is within us which gives us  various experience
• When we are in dream state, still it is the same spirit / source which is fetching us the dream experience.
• When we are in a deep sleep state, it is the same spirit / source that gives us an experience on the next day that we had a wonderful deep sleep on the previous night. Thus, the same source exists which gives us the experience of "no experience" during deep sleep. 

So, while the states are different, the one spirit / source is the only constant spirit / God / SELF within us which illumines our intellect / senses  which in turn give us various experience in all the three states.

This one source which is illuming all our experience in all the three states - waking, dream and deep sleep, is PURE AWARENESS or CHIT or PURE CONSCIOUSNESS. 

Why we human beings are not able to experience this pure consciousness / awareness all the time?? 

• This pure awareness illumines all our states - waking, dream and deep sleep. Correct?? We have learnt this already.  It has to be crystal clear . In deep sleep, our mind is not working, our intellect is also not working. Then WHO / WHAT is THAT which gives us the experience of "NO EXPERIENCE" when we wake up to say on the next day that we had a nice sleep with no dreams???? Who was there, watching us, knowing  that we had no dream and conveying to us (making us aware) of this dream less sound sleep??? This is CHIT or Pure consciousness.
• This pure consciousness, when it illumines us, it illumines our intellect and from intellect, this gets reflected to our mind and then through the mind, to our senses.
• To understand the above, we can correlate the same with the sunshine falling on a mirror and then getting reflected from the mirror in the place where the mirror is. 
• Basic and fundamental error which we human beings commit is  that "WE RECOGNIZE THIS CONSCIOUSNESS ONLY FROM THE STAGE IT HAS GOT REFLECTED AND HAS TOUCHED OUR MIND OR EVEN MORE PRECISELY, OUR SENSES". 
• Once pure consciousness is recognized in relation to our mind , then it becomes EGO. 
• So, our basic existence starts from this EGO of identifying the pure awareness as we, with our body, our mind, our senses!!!
• It is like this. We stand in front of a mirror, we see our face in the mirror. If we fail to recognize us as our actual face and instead, we end up believing that we are the one which is there in the mirror, then what happens???? Is it not a false identity???

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