Essence of Vedanta - Part 44

Sadhaka's State Expressed in Limited Words 

Thus continuing with nidhidhyasana daily, in the morning hours and then during many part of the day, the sadhaka could instantly align and merge with the absolute TRUTH and exist as PURE EXISTENCE (Sathyam) instantly and naturally.

In this state He could:-

• Not differentiate between good beings and bad beings
• Not differentiate between Man and woman, found and old.
• Not relate to any relations in the past
• Not recount any specific thing that happened in his past. This is explained by the truth that the memory bank or the chitta is empty, all actions are undertaken / propelled by pure intellect and once action is performed, the impact of the action does not get stored in the mind, in chitta.
• Not recall / think/ contemplate on any form of any God, including his Sadguru and God Sai with whose grace, he could reach to this state.
• Not relate to any of the wordings/ expressions/ Bhava contained in any bhajan while singing any bhajan in the centre.  This is so because, the differentiation between God and himself was gone and there was nothing but God, the pure existence that existed.  

• The above state of non differentiation between God with a form and the world is explained with a lucid example- Only when a fan is switched on and till the fan starts working in its full speed, one can make out the differentiate between the 3 blades of a fan and see the 3 blades distinctly. 
• Once the fan starts running in full speed, one can never see the 3 blades any more. One can only feel and experience the coolness caused due to the running of the blade. Similarly, in sadhana, only upto the penultimate stage, one can experience difference between God and Himself, God and the universe. 
• Once Realization dawns on a being, then all differentiation is gone and he can neither think about himself as ego, nor think of a God with form as different from him, nor recognize the world and its beings as separate from one SOURCE, the PURE CONSCIOUSNESS. 
• This resulted in his slow withdrawal from bhajan and bhajan singing, from teaching bhajans, from conducting practice , from attending centre and central functions, from holding on mike, singing to God ..., as , there was no more God, no more him, no more creation. There was just PURE EXISTENCE!!!
• At this state of existence one is all alone and one is all complete, exactly as explained in the creation theme posts through Vedic verses when it is said that " HE/ THAT WAS ALONE, WITHOUT ANY THING APART FROM IT".
• Love or compassion no more could be directed to / expressed to one and not to any one else. The natural state of existence was Love and therefore, any one who walked to him, talked to him could experience that pure love. To them, this human being existed, with a body, dressed up, with senses, showering love to them but in fact, in essence, he could never related himself with his own body or his physical personality. 
• An incident is explained so that any spiritual aspirant, existing in any part of the world may read, relate such a state of existence to his own state in his spiritual evolvement. The sadhaka is seated in front of his superior/ boss in his head office. The boss shouts at him for some reason. Leave alone getting affected by the shouting, the sadhaka, at the same time, instantly , was showering total love to that boss, saying without words " Hey, this is not your real state of existence. You are love as much as God is love. Hence, be love. Let your anger not affect your real state". Now, a sincere reader should rise far above the form of the one who is writing this and visualize the state which is expressed here!!!.
• At home front, all expectations from family was gone because, essentially, the one who was expecting all these years, all these decades , was gone. When the  sadhaka himself is no more able to relate to his physical state, then where are the family members and where are any expectations from them???? . 
• Peace had to prevail in family at last because, hitherto, 2 hearts, 2 ego were dashing against one another and there was sound. When one ego has died completely, when one had has stopped clashing, how can then be war?? How  there can be sound?? How there can be agitation?? For a war, 2 sides or atleast 2 human beings are required on either side. When one person is non existent, the other person can either realize that the other person has transcended  his ego or, the other person can think that he has won a walk through game as the other person has succumbed. In either of his thoughts, the one who has transcended ego has no concern!!!!. Think!!!!!
• So, in short, nothing in the world, good, best, bad, worse, worst thing that was happening around, ins work place,at home, in society etc.  could have any impact on him who had aligned and merged with the supreme. 
• The Dhina hitherto, had merged with the Nadhi and ultimately with the endless ocean, the God supreme. Post merger, the part that had merged , could never be withdrawn from the ocean!!!! The doll that was made of salt, had merged with the ocean that is salty, never to be withdrawn from the ocean to exist again as the salt doll!!
•  To the world who was close to him prior to his merger with supreme, he was no colorless, spice less, emotion less, taste less. nothing in him that existed before, could be witnessed by the world now, though apparently, he remained the same. So, the world left him as much as he had left the world long before!!!

He shall end this theme post tomorrow  with an outpour that emerged from the essence within, seated on a morning meditation on a Friday at a devotee's house!!!

Love.

Essence of vedanta-Post 43

Dear All,


Bullet points on nidhidhyasana given in earlier post

• Contemplation is defined as seeing the meaning or bringing back to the mind the content of the teaching acquired during sravanam and mananam. 

• Nidhidhyasanam is intense absorption of THAT which one has listened and about which one has convincingly known after listening.

• And, if the sravanam and mananam has taken place with utmost sincerity, then nidhidhyasanam  HAS TO HAPPEN BY ITSELF, 24/7. 

• Such intense absorption leads to the ultimate experience which is " ATMA SAAKSHATKARAM".

The sadhaka was convinced thoroughly on the upanishad teachings that:-

• In the waking , dream and deep sleep state, there is one witness which sees, which illumines the intellect/ mind of the sadhaka.
• There was, is and ever will be one source  which created this universe, sustains this universe and into which the universe folds itself time and again and since that source is all pervading, the sadhaka is also the same source or a part of that whole where the part is not different or distinguishable from that whole.
• the entire creation with all its attributes, all beings is just a super imposition on that real SOURCE where the super imposition is due to the ignorant mind which gives a false identity to each being that he/ she is body, mind and intellect , whereas, there is only one identity of all - THE PART OF THAT WHOLE DIVINE ENERGY/ SPIRIT.

Now to the stage of nidhidhyasana , as experienced by the sadhaka.

• The contemplation on the above Truth became so intense that it stretched beyond the morning meditation hours and continued through out the day as a silent process within, whether the sadhakas was at home or at work place or any where else, in any environment, performing any action what so ever. 
• There is an illustration in vedanta known as Brahmara-Kita-Nyaya. This illustration is not brought here as a theory but to exactly demonstrate what actually happened to the sadhaka

Brahmara-kita-Nyaya

The Bhramara or the wasp is said to sting the insects or the Kitas which it brings to its hive and through stinging them and poisoning them makes them feel its presence alone everywhere, at all times. 

The insects, so to say, meditate on the presence of the wasp, at all times, and in turn become wasps themselves thereby. 

• Exactly this is what happened to the sadhaka. The contemplation on that one REAL SPIRIT/ THE BRAHMAN/ THE CREATOR/ PURE CONSCIOUSNESS was so intense that slowly, the sadhaka started existing in the same state of that source/ consciousness  which was being meditated by the sadhaka.

What is the experience of that pure consciousness ???? What happens within???? What is the state of such existence??

• The only barrier/ block/ obstruction between God existing as Pure consciousness and we the human beings - is our ego  which says to us that we are so and so.. at human level. 
• This ego is present in our mind and pollutes our mind.
• So, when the sadhaka existed as THAT on which he was meditating, this mind, filled with the ego, was absent. 
• When  the mind is non existent, sadhaka lost all  his identity and human level- his identity as husband, as father, as CEO, as son, as brother, as friend, as a singer in sadan, as dafli player in sadan, as bhajan co ordinator in sadan etc. etc. 
• When he lost identity of himself, naturally, all identities of all others in the world which is connected with, which originates with one's own identity , was also lost.
• So, when there was no mind, no ego, no ignorance, then He, atleast during the intense nidhidhysana state in the morning hours or when ever the eyes closed involuntarily even during the day time, existed exactly as the SOURCE which EXISTED prior to creation, where there was nothing else but THAT PURE EXISTENCE ( explained as sathyam in sathyam jnanam anantam related posts in the same theme )

Thus, the theoretical knowledge that there is an eternal witness  which illumines all the threes states- waking, dream and deep sleep- became real TRUTH when the sadhaka could discard the experiences in the waking, dream and deep sleep state and along and merge with that illumining source - THE PURE CONSCIOUSNESS.

Continued...

Essence of vedanta- Part 42

Dear All,

Now we move on to the sadhaka's evolvement in the second stage - mananam

Bullet points on mananam dealt in previous posts are :-

• Deductive reasoning can not be used to establish what Vedanta says. That means, deductive reasoning can neither contradict what Vedanta says, nor mere reasoning can be used to establish what Vedanta says. 

• one can contemplate while walking in nature or sitting quietly after prayers or meditation when one's mind is tranquil. 

• In fact a mind that has been exposed to the teaching of one's Guru  will naturally contemplate on the vision of Vedanta at any time of the day. 
• The whole life becomes contemplative as one aims to make the vision of Vedanta as clear as the daylight.

Now for the sadhaka's evolvement in this stage.

• Burning conviction or Mumukshatva  had already set in, which is shared in previous post.
• Now, as the sadhaka started meditating on the teachings which he had read I his process of Sravanam, he could be convinced thoroughly on the truth expressed  in all the vedantic treatise read by him.
• The impact of the TRUTH in his subtler intellect swelled to such a level that that the intellect swiped and rendered the other faculties of Antah karana- Ahankara (ego) and chitta ( impressions) totally impotent.
• The mind was so much filled with the impact of the TRUTH proclaimed, taught and spoken in all the treatise that it could not give any room for any thing else to enter and disturb it. 
• Slowly, in the subtler realm, the impressions or vasanas- about himself, about the world around and about the impressions each bring had about the other which was believed hitherto by the sadhaka- all these impressions were getting flushed out, finding no space for them in the heart/ mind of the sadhaka. 
• While as a husband or father, he  was handling his family responsibilities and the CEO role was being performed to his best possible level, non e of these had any impact on the mind which was basking in the new found glory of God consciousness.
• Mind had, by this time, totally withdrawn from the world and its glitter and here, the presence of all 6 virtues were actually experienced. ( For more on shad Sampath, please read relevant posts on sadhana chatushtaya in  same theme, covered earlier).
• So, with no past impressions, no desires, no attachment, no hatred, no fear- Even day dawned as a new, fresh day with no back ground of yesterday!!

Now, the stage was set for the sadhaka to actually experience what He believed and concluded as the only TRUTH, the ONLY REALITY!!!

Continued......

Love