Narada Bhakti Sutra - Post 11

Dear All,

Now we move on to the last 2 expressions of verse 3.

Amrito Bhavati: He who has attained God realisation becomes immortal. He ever lives in the presence of God. He has his being in God. He has no more desires and so he will not take any more body or birth. Immortality, amritatwa constitutes the essential nature of Bhakti.

Tripto Bhavati : A devotee who is a Siddha or who is perfect, and who is immortal is absolutely satisfied.

Contentment here referred to is not the kind of satisfaction which one gets when some desire is fulfilled. It is absolute satisfaction that comes from the absence of all desires and the attainment of God realisation. Only when one attains the highest perfection he can be perfectly satisfied in his own Self. Only then, he can be contented with oneself. There is no other gain superior to that absolute satisfaction attained through God-realisation.

He who has the philosopher’s stone cares not for little pieces of gold. Even so a devotee who has reached the fountain source of everything cares not for the little objects of this world.

The devotee loves God and serves Him and His creation. He does not strive consciously for Mukti but God confers Mukti on His devotee unsolicited.

Special note by Author on Trupto Bhavati

In 2012, spiritual session on a verse from  Brahmanandavalli in Taittriya Upanishad was given by the Author to a select group of devotees on a verse which says,

“HE WHO KNOWS…WITHIN THE CAVE OF HIS HEART, REALISES ALL HIS DESIRES ALONG WITH THE OMNISCIENT BRAHMAN”

This line of the verse was further explained in the highest context of Brahman to the devotees.

Afterwards, the  essence of “Realizing / Fulfilling all desires (Trupto Bhavati) was also explained in a relatively lucid manner to the devotees later and the essence of the same is reproduced below,  replacing "Brahman" which was explained in that teaching given with "God", so that it becomes relatively easier to understand.

In  our  desire fulfillment at worldly level, each desire is fulfilled successively.

· If you have one pleasure, you cannot have another pleasure at the same time, and if you want to have a third kind of pleasure, the first two must go. Thus, you cannot have varieties of pleasure at the same time because of the conditioning factor introduced by the sense organs in such experience.

·  Your senses do not give you simultaneous knowledge of anything. When one thing is happening, another thing is forgotten.

Except god realization, all other desire fulfillments: -

•     are caused by senses.

•  are due to fulfillment of a desire of processing /  experiencing something which is outside yourself.

•   Due   to the above 2 conditioning factors, you cannot enjoy more than 1 desire at one time. the mere fact that the   desire fulfillment is due to your sense perception of object outside you, these 2 factors playing together- senses and outside objects - can give you fulfillment of only one desire at a time.

•  Have you ever experienced, that you could simultaneously enjoy fulfillment of more   than 1 desire at a time?? not possible!! 

• And, since a human is always hungry to experience (though it takes him lots and lots of birth to even know about this hunger) the ultimate / eternal / everlasting desire (which can be joy, not desire), he jumps from one tree to another, runs from pillar to post, enjoying one fruit (desire), leaving the remains then and there and jumping in search of a more sweeter fruit which he believes can give him more happiness for increased duration of time than the former fruit. 

• Not only that he jumps from one fruit to another, after jumping to 10 fruits like this, his vasanas (mental impressions on consuming each fruit) draws him back sometimes from the 10^th fruit to the 2^nd fruit and thus he is caught in the chakravyuh of the objective world of objective fruits.

Now come to the desire fulfillment upon God  realization/  Finding and merging with God, in love, with Love and AS  LOVE.

All the conditioning factors in the earlier relative desire fulfillment are not there in God realization.

Neither senses are there, nor mind is there, nor external objects are there and therefore, the fulfillment is not due to anything without. 

The fulfilment here is within, total, complete, not successive or one by one, but instant and simultaneous.

It is not fulfilling one desire at a time when it comes to desire fulfillment of Finding God. 

There are no other desires and hence it is not that any other desire is there in the waiting line, to be fulfilled after God realization fulfillment. 

When you have Found God and merged in God, then along with that, all possible desires are fulfilled

                                              because

you cannot have any more desires to be fulfilled, upon fulfillment of desire to merge with God, in LOVE.

Hence, the one who has found God is - TRUPTO BHAVATI!!!!

Love.

Narada Bhakti Sutra - Post 10

Sutra 4. Yallabdhwa puman siddho Bhavati, Amrito  Bhavati, Tripto Bhavati. 

(On attaining it (this supreme love) man becomes perfect, immortal and (fully) satisfied.)

Yat: which;

Labdhwa: having attained;

Puman: man;

Siddhah : perfect; Bhavati: becomes;

Amrita: Immortal; Bhavati: becomes;

Triptah: satisfied; Bhavati: becomes.

Puman: The word Puman is specially significant. It means any man. The practice of Bhakti and the attainment of Mukti are not restricted by any considerations of caste, creed, colour, sex, or country. Every human being who has faith, devotion and aspiration can cultivate Bhakti and attain God-realisation through Bhakti. Even Nandan, Dharma Vyadha, Raidas, Kabir attained God-realisation.

Siddho Bhavati : The devotee becomes perfect through God-realisation. His object is attained. All his desires are gratified by God-realisation. He never feels the want of anything. He enjoys supreme peace, eternal and perfect satisfaction and everlasting bliss and so he becomes a siddha.

For a devotee Siddhis or powers are worthless. He does not care for them. These are nothing when compared to Divine Love . He rejects even the position of Indra or Brahma, even Mukti or liberation. His mind is filled with divine ecstasy. He has realized the whole.

He has realized the essence and totality of all He has attained the source and fountain of all. And so he is perfect, immortal and thoroughly satisfied. He cannot be attracted towards external objects, which are incomplete, imperfect, defective and are only parts .

A Siddha is a perfect man. He has reached the goal. He has attained God-realization. 

In common parlance the word Siddha denotes a man who is endowed with various superhuman powers or Siddhis. It is not in any such sense the word is used here. The sign of a perfect man or Siddha is not the possession of miraculous powers but the attainment of God-realization or unity With the Supreme Being.

Author's special note 

(As long as one is a devotee, as mentioned above, he does not care for any Siddhi or Yogic powers when he does not even care for liberation/Mukhti.  The devotee is satisfied to be immersed in his love for God.

Once the devotee attains moksha / liberation as a fruit of his Parama Prema for Lord, even then, the Jiva devotee turned Jivan mukhta, never ever thinks/ cares about any Siddhi or Yogic powers, nor does he  demonstrates any such powers.

Only for the transformation of his fellow beings, only in the task given by God intuitively, with his mind rendered absolutely pure, a jivanmukhta spontaneously  uses his power to know the minds of his fellow beings, his disciple so that He prescribes instructions to take his disciple / fellow beings to a higher level in  their spiritual evolvement.

Any power exercised by a Realized being is only in the interest of  his disciple or for the Loka Kalyanam and the mukhta does not even recognize / recollect the power exercised by him in this regard!!!!)

Love.

A bhajan offering on the Maha Shivaratri day

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!!!!!

Love