The Unknower
The Known trying
to know the Unknown,
Became the Unknower.
Explanation:
Known - Seeker (any individual); Unknown - Absolute or Brahman; Unknower - Merged into Brahman and became Brahman itself.
Analogy:
It is like salt finding to depth of ocean has become ocean itself.
Hugging the Emptiness
Hugging the Emptiness,
Lost interest in judging, bias and prejudice.
Hugging the Emptiness,
Lost interest in body and mind.
Hugging the Emptiness,
Lost the discrimination of within and without,
difference between this and that,
here and there, far and near.
Dualities escaping into oblivion,
Nothingness showing its eternal presence,
Awareness has become aware of itself.
Unperturbed stillness
Wondering in amazement
Seeing the Unseen
In the stilled stillness,
Seeing the Unseen,
Hearing the Unheard,
Perceiving the Unperceived,
Seeing no difference,
in Thee and I,
Melting into the Infinite,
Loosing in the Nothingness,
Blissed out and joyful,
The Awareness has become aware of itself again.
Seeing Me in Thee
I stretched my arms for Thee,
Seeing me in Thy Heart,
Hugging me eternally,
Unseen tears rolled.
Thine eternal Love,
Engulfing me,
Lost every identity.
Let me never lose You,
For Thy Hug is solacing,
empowering and joyful;
Seeing me in Thee
Life turned Blissful.
Hearing Thee
Hearing Thy Throb in the Heart,
Entered the realm of Silence and Stillness.
And lost in hearing Thee.
Neither the I nor You existed
Existed only Silence and Stillness
All existed as Nothing and One.
Dancing in Silence
Entering the realm of stillness,
Beyond mind,
Hugging Thee in the Heart,
Whilst the eyes closed,
The Eternal Eye seeing all,
World knowing naught
Me dancing in Silence,
As You dance within me.
Sourcing Love
Joyous Living
Diving deep within,
Reflecting on the Self through self,
Realizing the triviality and transiency of the external world,
Entering the realm beyond mind,
Seeing through and through, sans physical eye,
The eternal beauty of Silence and Stillness.
Awakening
What is awakening? Is it possible that someone or something gets awakened?
Awareness is omnipresent and is present eternally. When this Awareness itself becomes aware of its presence and acknowledged in any physical entity it can be called as Awakening.
It is not that the physical entity is awakened, but the awareness present in that physical entity is acknowledging the presence of the awareness in that physical entity.
The physical entity can be from the measurable smallest particle Quanta,... through the sub-atomic particles, atomic particles like electron so on... through different animal species right from bacteria,... fish, pig, horse, tiger, etc., through a human being, ... meteors, planets, stars, myriad stellar bodies, etc., the emptiness, the nothingness... - it could be any. In all of these the awareness is present and is being acknowledged by the awareness itself by that Eternal Grace.
The Omnipresent Awareness,
Has become aware of its eternal presence,
And is acknowledged by Itself.
The Awareness itself is awakened,
To acknowledge its omnipresence.
I am Pure!
I came from Purity,
I came from Joy,
I came from Eternity.
Entering the world,
my Purity got tainted with identities,
Entering the world,
my Joy got tainted with desires,
Entering the world,
my Eternity got tainted with boundaries of greed.
Letting go my identities,
and staying Be;
Letting go my desires;
and staying Be;
Letting go all boundaries of greed;
and staying Be;
I have become aware of
The Eternal presence of Purity.
And getting awakened in Purity.
I realized that I am Pure.
Energy and Bliss
Energy in motion is emotion
Energy in stillness is Bliss.
Root of the Energy is Consciousness.
Root of Consciousness is Stillness.
Root of Stillness is Nothingness.
Root of Nothingness is Eternal Awareness.
The Known and Unknown
The Known and the Unknown
Senses sensed
the Known,
Mind conveyed the Known,
Neither the senses nor the mind,
could sense or convey the Unknown.
From where the Known
has originated?
How the Known is made knowable?
Is there something Knowable and Unknowable?
Does the Unknowable knows all the Knowable?
Can the Unknowable be known by the Knowable?
Or is the Unknowable origin of Known, and Knowable?
How to reach the Unknowable through the Knowable?
While everything is unknown by the Known,
how can it be called as Knowable?
While the Known
is sensed by the senses and conveyed by the mind,
The Unknown is neither sensed by the senses nor conveyed by the mind.
If Unknown is the origin of the Known,
then the Unknown cannot be known by staying in the Known.
The Unknown can be known only by going beyond the Known.
Breath is
bridge between the Known and the Unknown.
Going beyond breath through breath the Unknown is reached.
Reaching the Unknown, the Unknowable is known.
Knowing the Unknowable,
the Known, Knower and the Knowable became Unknowable.
Transient World
Everything in this world is transient.
Anything that comes will go one day.
Birth happens to change into death one day,
Pain comes to change into pleasure one day,
Pleasure comes to change into pain one day,
Health comes to change into sickness one day,
Sickness comes to change into health one day,
Death comes to change into birth one day.
Every state, phase and stage is transient,
Everything in this world is transient.
Become Motionless, Become Thoughtless
Breathing naturally in-and-out,
In the moments of breath ceasing its flow in-and-out,
In the moments of thoughts reducing their flow in-and-out,
Body tending to become motionless,
Mind tending to become thoughtless.
As the seeker dies,
The Awareness rises,
Laughing at the delusion of the seeker,
Only to show its constant presence,
And the seeker, seeking and sought,
Becoming One,
Delusion ceases.
Thoughts, motion no longer bothering,
Becoming motionless and thoughtless effortlessly,
Enjoying the bliss ever after.
I am not the role
Playing myriad roles over and over,
got identified and entangled again and again.
Couldn't even realize that it is just a role,
Couldn't even think for a little while that it is just a role.
Over and over suffered again and again,
By getting entangled with the role.
Entangling with myriad roles, I created own rules,
Forgetting and foregoing Creator's Rules.
Suffered through incessantly,
Unerringly stepping into biases,
endless futile discussions, gossips,
prejudices, judgments, arguments, altercations,
Losing peace, health, happiness and joy.
Every entanglement separated Being from Meing,
To throw into the tantrums of the worldly life,
To tease, tickle and beaten till the Me kneeled,
Either in despair or in devotion,
To surrender willingly to that eternal Director,
Creator, Organizer, Coordinator, and Dissolver,
Only to show that every act is just a role,
To be played and not to get entangled;
To entertain and not to get entertained;
Until the player realized and
Entangled with the Director rather than the role.
Player playing the role to the Director's satisfaction,
To realize not the role-player, but a part of Creator,
Is Blessed and freed from all the roles,
Not to play again on Life's stage,
to merge into Eternal Nothingness.
Meing to Being
The Me while playing
myriad roles in this life,
got identified and entangled.
The Be played
myriad roles in myriad lives
without identification and entanglement.
Pain and pleasure, Blame and praise,
All dualities existed in the Meing.
By letting go the dualities of relativistic world,
Entered the realm of non-dualistic world,
To live and exist in the Being state.
The state of Being sans Me,
The state of Meing sans Be.
The Me and the Be,
Moving from Meing to Being,
Life's journey continuing,
To live, enter into and
Finally to become Nothing.
Inner Silence
Not believing in the mind,
Stepped into a realm beyond mind.
Not believing in fear of losing identity,
Stepped into a realm beyond identities.
Not believing in the noise and chaos of world,
Stepped into a realm of silence and simplicity.
Letting go the external noise,
Stepped into a realm of inner silence.
Letting go the dualities of world,
Stepped into a realm of Oneness.
Stepping into Oneness,
Doubt, belief, question,
questioner, answer
Disappeared into oblivion, and
Entered the realm of Nothingness.
Letting Him In
Meditating alone,
Wanted Him to come in.
He answered,
I will come in when you go out.
Stepped out... to see in awe,
The Beloved, Lover, Love,
all became One.
He was always in,
Deluded was I as "I" existed.
Letting me go out, and
Letting Him in.
Journey of Life,
Life's learning,
All completed.
Acquired everything in delusion
To learn that only Nothing exists.
Had to unlearn all learning,
To become aware of Nothingness.
Letting me go out, and Letting Him in.
Awareness became aware of Nothingness.
Listening
Made an attempt to listen to self,
Kept away all prejudices, biases and judgments,
Entered the silence and stillness to see,
The reflection of Self.
Couldn't see clearly and listen,
As the clinging's persisted,
Biases, opinions, judgments existed.
Made an attempt again to listen to self,
This time started with listening to nature,
The gentle swish of leaves, soft squeaks of branches,
Coos of dove, chirps of birds, buzz of bees,
hum of the breeze, song of the tweets,
my inclinations, impulses, ideas,
opinions, prejudices, biases,
All taking a backstage,
Could listen to creation.
Made an attempt again to listen to self,
This time started with my own breath,
The gentle "hum-sa" sound of breath,
The gentle chirp of cricket, all within,
Entered into a realm of stillness and silence,
All clinging's being gone into oblivion,
Saw the True Self in the self,
Awed by the splendour and amazement,
Became speechless, wordless, emotionless,
And finally merged into Nothingness.
Two sides of same coin
Birth and death,
Day and night,
Health and sickness,
Praise and blame,
Pride and modesty,
Affluence and poverty,
Gain and loss,
Pleasure and pain,
Are two sides of the same coin.
While the ignorant indulges in either one,
creating myriad identities,
The wise indulges in none,
letting go all identities.
Walking on any one side,
Ends the journey one day,
And make us to walk on the other side,
Without any choice.
Better to walk on the rim of the coin,
And be not attached to any side.
The duality exists in the relativistic world,
To teach us that everything is transient.
The Creator coded this way the creation,
So that the creation can merge back into Creator.
Escaping the duality, we escape the relativity,
And escape the transience,
To become the eternal One.
Silent brook
Walking along a silent lane,
Walking along a silent brook,
Walking amidst fully blossomed spring trees,
Step-by-step feeling the silence and stillness,
Amidst the rustle of leaves and bustle of flowers,
Even though mind feeling the narrowness of the lane space,
Heart feeling the beauty and vastness of Cosmos,
Romancing with the unruffled, non-chaotic beauty of the silence,
Entering and enjoying the blissful state of stillness.
Identity stepping aside, narrowness disappearing,
prejudices, biases, judgments into oblivion,
Heart feeling the presence of vastness;
As revealed and projected onto
the empty screen of thoughtless state;
The silence and stillness,
Merging with I, You, That, This,
Everything and Everywhere,
To reveal the eternal presence of Nothingness.
Breathing Consciously
I was breathing unconsciously,
I halted and turned my attention to my breath,
In a little while, I am breathing consciously.
The breath entered in through the nostrils,
down the trachea, lungs, stomach, abdomen,
body gently moving along with the flow of breath,
I becoming conscious of the breath and the body,
able to witness the breath and body as something separate.
Breath again moved and I witnessed consciously,
Suddenly breath halted - stilled into the stillness consciously,
Suddenly there was silence - merged into the silence consciously,
Breath flow halted, body movement halted - witnessed everything consciously.
Suddenly everything turned into Nothing,
Consciousness turned into Nothingness.
* * *
Sod of Silence
Thou hast shown me Thy path of interiorization,
And, I lost the path of outwardness, to travel inward.
Thou hast made me to touch Thy sod of silence,
And I lost all vocabulary to describe Thee.
Thou hast made me to touch Thy sod of stillness,
And I lost all identities, to identify with Nothingness.
Thou hast covered my face with Thy sacred garment of Omnipresence,
And I lost all my veils of illusion, to be in Thy presence.
Thou hast allowed me to enter Thy Sanctum Sanctorum,
And I lost the path to wilderness, to trod on Thy path of Eternity.
Thou hast allowed me to enter Thine Eternal realm of Superconsciousness,
And I lost all my consciousness, to be in Thine Eternal realm of Nothingness.
Thou hast blessed Thy child,
to stay in Thine Eternity,
And this child of Thine lost everything,
to gain Thine Eternal Nothingness,
And to stay eternally blessed.
Who is 'Who' and What is 'What'?
Who is 'Who' and What is 'What'?
'Who' is made up of thoughts;
'What' is made up of
unique combination of 5 elements of nature
which are again made up of thoughts by 'Who.'
As long as there was pleasure and merry,
'Who' enjoyed every bit of 'What',
And never questioned anything and anyone.
The moment pain, sickness came,
'Who' started blaming 'What' and its composition.
'What' retaliated stating,
"I can't be blamed."
It is you who created the 'What' with your own thoughts.
I just materialized based upon your thoughts.
And, it is my job, to go back into from where I have come.
'What' further stated,
before creating I have warned you
About every consequence.
As long as there was pleasure and merry,
you enjoyed it.
Why do you cry and weep?
when everything created has to dissolve back.
'Who' got entangled and forgot that the
'What' is its own creation.
And everything that is created has to be dissolved.
Finally in self-reflection, stillness and silence,
'Who' realized its mistake,
And could see that,
Not only the 'What', even 'Who'
is made up of only thoughts.
The moment this was realized,
Both 'Who' and 'What'
Dissolved into Nothingness,
And Nothingness ever remained as Nothingness,
Always ready to create another 'Who' and 'What'
Waiting for thought.
What is Māyā (माया) or Illusion?
Introduction
Whenever we perceive something (about an object or about a person) we try to perceive in two ways and generally a combination of these two perceptions is considered to be a human perception. First one is the sensory perception (received through any one or combination of 5 senses/sense organs), while the second one is cognitive perception which is based upon the extent of the intellectual information an individual has about an object or a person.
This leads to an equation:
Human Perception = Sensory Perception + Cognitive Perception
Let us consider an analogy where an individual sees an object E.g., refrigerator. As far as sensory perception of that individual is considered regarding the refrigerator, it would be based upon the physical dimensions, color etc. When it comes to the cognitive perception of that individual, it depends upon the extent of the intellectual information that individual possesses about the refrigerator. A mechanical engineer will have a different cognitive perception from that of an electronic engineer for the same refrigerator. A simple home maker who uses the same refrigerator might have a completely different cognitive perception. This means, even though we all see the same object (s), the way we perceive about it would be different based upon the intellectual information we as an individual possess about those object (s). This is like four blind men who touch a portion of an elephant and develops different cognitive perceptions about the same elephant. One blind man who touches the ear says that the elephant is like a big fan, the other who touches its legs says that the elephant is having four pillars, the other who touches the tail says it is like a thin rope, while the last one who touches the trunk says that the elephant is like a long and thick rope. Now if we look at their individual perceptions, they are right in their own perceptions, but it is not true - why? - because it is not complete. Their understanding or perception of a portion of an elephant is true to them, but a person who can see the elephant completely 3-dimensionally in all the 360 degrees will say that the perception of these blind men is half true which also means half lie and their individual or collective perceptions will not really describe the whole elephant. This means the perceptions of all the blind men are in reality deceptions.
Extending this analogy to our daily perceptions and self reflecting upon our cognitive perceptions, we can arrive at a conclusion that all of our perceptions are half true which also means they are half life. This means all of our daily cognitive perceptions are actually deceptions, because we use different lenses/shades to see objects or to understand people. Thus, every perspective is deceptive. It is never complete and true.
Hence, our revised equation would be:
Human Perception = Sensory Perception + Combination of Deceptions
Mechanism/Technique
How to overcome illusion or māyā?
To arrive at the second aspect, one need to understand what is meant by going beyond the sensory perception and cognitive perceptions. This can happen only when we withdraw our senses from all external objects which sage Patanjali called it as pratyāhāra प्रत्याहार. Once we withdraw all of our senses from external worldly objects and by some breathing technique can still the breath, then we can - may be for a moment - reach the stillness, thoughtless state. This is the state where we would be able to see everything as is without any shades/lenses. A long practice of the above practices and a longer duration of stillness and breathless states will result in another realm of perception which is called as intuitive perception. Please do not mistake this intuitive perception with gut instinct. Generally it takes 10 to 15 years of strong practice of mindfulness/meditative practices to cultivate intuitive perception.
Thus our final revised equation would be:
Human Perception = Sensory Perception + Cognitive Perception (Combination of Deceptions) + Intuitive Perception
Living in this world was never easy to anyone. Somewhere there would be difficulties. Neither everything will be bad, nor everything will be good. Good and bad co-exist. The creation itself is based on dualities and everything in the creation is relativistic. There is nothing absolute or permanent about the creation. There is nothing permanent about nature's phenomenon. It is highly dynamic and keeps constantly changing. It is up to us what are those choices that we need to make and for every choice that we make there will be consequences which inevitably we need to reap them and face them.
There is a story where two boys were participating in a competition. The task in the competition was to eat 50 bananas. Out of 50 bananas 25 were raw bananas and 25 were adequately ripened. Since the task was to complete both the varieties, one boy first made a choice to eat the adequately ripened bananas, while the other boy made a choice of eating the raw bananas first. Both boys could not complete the task. By the time they ate 15 bananas their stomachs were full and could not eat even one banana more. The boy who ate first the adequately ripened bananas was having full energy and could continue his day with full vigor and strength while the boy who ate raw bananas had to suffer indigestion and had to take medicine to cure himself from the stomachache that he got.
The above story illustrates that we all have choices to make in this relativistic world. Among the variety of choices - what are those choices that we make depends upon our awareness. An awareness of the Truth will make us to see the different choices available with a different perspective. The way we see and perceive the world is always different. The external world is made up of five elements of nature (earth, water, fire, air and ether). Whenever we see an object or aspect, we can never understand or perceive the complete composition of any object or aspect. With our limited intellectuality, we create labels and boundaries to our comprehension. In reality, our sensory perception is limited and our cognitive perception is also limited. With these limitations, we are not in a position to grasp the Truth as the Truth is beyond all these deceptive perceptions of the relativistic world. Any individual who makes an effort to think beyond the relativistic world and attempts to see beyond the thought process would enter into a state of awareness from where the Truth can be felt and the relativistic world can be witnessed.
Living in the Truth, we comprehend the reality of the relativistic world completely from a different perspective. Living in reality of the relativistic world, we can never grasp the Truth. Because, the reality of the relativistic world is always an illusion - it is never 100% true. It is always partially true, which also means it is partially a lie also. By the time we have expressed any relativistic phenomenon, it has already changed. It no longer exists the same, which also means - the one that we have expressed as our partial perception has occurred somewhere in past and is no longer current or is happening in the present. It is always advisable to stay beyond the perceptions to truly understand and perceive everything of the world and at the same time not to be in the world. In this way we can overcome every illusion that is created by us or our thought processes. To stay in the awareness of the Truth is what the purpose of a human being is. When we stay in that state, then we are no longer bound by the duality of the external world or illusion or māyā. A true state of Intelligence is this state. Upanishad states this state as prajñānaṃ brahma प्रज्ञानम् ब्रह्म. Brahman is the Intelligence. In the relativistic world, we all are only intellectual and never intelligent enough. With so-called transactions of intellectual conversations, we consider ourselves as intelligent which is an illusion. We rarely think about the limitations of our so-called deceptive perceptions. The only way to overcome all this is go deeper and go beyond the breath.
When we observe further at a deeper level, through long continuous practices of meditative techniques we can also come to an awareness that breath is the one, which is actually bridging the inner realm or the astral realm with the outer physical world or realm. Hence, by going beyond the breath we enter a realm of stillness, go beyond the deceptive perceptions, and can overcome the illusion of our perceptions or māyā. Being still, we can become the witness to the relativistic world and witness it 360 degrees 3-dimensionally without being bound or influenced by it. Being still, we know and become the Truth, which is beyond every illusion. Stillness is the one, which will take us beyond all perceptions, deceptions and comprehensions. Stillness is the one, which reveals the eternal presence of the Truth. Be Still and Know.
When Thine Air is Stilled
When Thine air is stilled,
Thine everything is stilled.
Observing the bodily motion getting stilled,
Thy flow of breath is stilled.
Observing the flow of breath getting stilled,
Thy thought process is stilled.
Observing the thought process getting stilled.
Thy vital airs (prāṇa प्राण) is stilled.
Observing the vital airs (prāṇa प्राण) getting stilled,
Thine everything is stilled.
Observing the stillness getting stilled,
Thy whole creation is stilled.
Observing the creation getting stilled,
Mine and Thine - everything is stilled.
When Mine and Thine - everything is stilled,
The stillness melted into Eternal Nothingness,
And even the Eternal Nothingness is stilled,
Every-thing and No-thing - all is stilled.
While the Stillness is stilled,
There is no that and this,
There is no there and here,
There is no eternal or now,
There Is.
It Is.
Only Is.
Is.
ఏమిటి మనము చేయగలిగింది?
చేసుకుంటూ పోవడమే,
నేర్చుకుంటూ పోవడమే.
చేసుకుంటూ, నేర్చుకుంటూ
ముందుకు వెళ్ళడమే,
మనము చేయగలిగింది.
తప్పు జరిగినప్పుడల్లా
మనకు మనము
విశ్లేషించి సరిదిద్దుకుంటూ
బనత్ బనత్ బన్ జాయే
అన్న నానుడిని చాటుకుంటూ
ముందుకు వెళ్ళడమే,
మనము చేయగలిగింది.
ఓ గురుదేవా!
అనుక్షణం నీవు నిర్దేశించిన
దారిలొ ప్రయాణించ గలిగే
సంస్కారాన్ని ఇవ్వు తండ్రి.
అని మొరపెట్టుకోవడమే
మనము చేయగలిగింది.
What is Viveka (विवेक)?
The rough translation of the Sanskrit word Viveka into English would be "discrimination." Here, discrimination is not used to discriminate among the various aspects or objects of the world. Viveka विवेक or the discriminatory power of a human being is used for the following:
Meditative Techniques from Patanjali Yoga-sutras
Meditative Techniques from Samadhi Pada:
1. Reasoning and reflection on Truth.
2. Focusing on Silence and Stillness.
3. Single point focus on any one aspect of Ishvara (form or formless).
4. Focusing on pranava shabda – Om.
5. Thinking about the meaning of Ishvara while performing the japa of Ishvara.
6. Regulating the breath - keeping inhalation and exhalation of the same duration.
7. Focusing on any one worldly aspect continuously (may be a flower, flame, etc.)
8. Staying in the neutral state of beyond any attachments of dualities of nature.
9. Focusing on the aspect of deep sleep state.
10. Focusing on the light at the kutastha (on the center of the forehead, between the eyebrows).
Aid to meditation: Friendliness, compassion, pleasantness, being detached to dualities (pain and pleasure; virtue and sin).
