What is wisdom?

Wisdom is having the knowledge of that, that there is no knowledge.

Knowledge is something that says to acquire; Wisdom whispers, there is nothing to acquire.
Knowledge is the one that shows duality (dvaita); Wisdom is the one that exhibits non-duality (advaita).
Knowledge is the one which shows many differences; Wisdom is the one that shows there is no difference.
Knowledge is the one that creates waves; Wisdom is the one that merges all the waves into the ocean.
Knowledge is the one that says there are so many things to learn; Wisdom is the one that says everything need to be unlearned.
Knowledge is the one that tells you to react in a situation; while Wisdom is the one that tells you to only act in a situation and not to react at all.
Knowledge is understanding; while Wisdom is realizing it.
Knowledge tries to live in the past or future; while Wisdom lives only in the Present Moment.
Knowledge is like saying an apple is an apple by seeing it; while Wisdom is eating the apple and becoming one with it.
Knowledge is knowing the path; while Wisdom is walking the path.
Knowledge is knowing that there is a path to walk; while Wisdom is knowing that there is no path and everything is a path.
Knowledge is labelling everything; while Wisdom is being with everything and in the awareness of only One-thing or everything.
Knowledge is illusion; while Wisdom is Dis-illusion.
Knowledge is crystallization; while Wisdom is dissolution.
Knowledge tries to identify and seek the Truth expressed in many ways; Wisdom merges into the Truth and is one with it.
Knowledge is the identification of the ego that I am not the Truth and I have to seek the Truth; while Wisdom is Truth itself.
Knowledge and Wisdom are not two opposite words. Knowledge is one of the expressions of Wisdom.

What is God & where is God?

Instead of answering this question directly, we will take a different approach. The approach through the microcosm.

When you look at any object, you say that it is made up of so and so metals or particles. These particles belong to so and so element. When these elements are divided further, then we end up with atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, mesons.......so on and so on till we reach the lowest particle called quanta. Even the lowest measurable time is also called as quanta and the energy is also called as quanta.. Beyond this any particle cannot be further divided.

Now let us consider many particles of quanta putting together.

Can they be placed together with out any empty space between them?
It is not possible.

So, the one which is present is only empty space. This empty space is the one which is present everywhere and is all pervading. When this empty space dances then the particles are formed and this dance macabre is the whole reason of this physical cosmos that we see. Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (author of Autobiography of a Yogi) puts it so nicely that Universe is made up of thoughtrons and lifetrons.

The empty space exists as the substratum for everything and no-thing of this whole Cosmos or Universe. Without the empty space no particle and no object can sustain even for quanta of time or for a Planck's time (10^-43 second).

So this empty space which is all pervading, which is present in all the times (past, present and future), which never undergoes any sort of change and which is the sustenance of each and every object can be called as God. So, God is empty-ness, no-thing-ness and can be made aware of only through silence (no-thought). The empty-ness can be as a form or formless, because the form is made from the formless and the formless can manifest into a form. So the form and formless are present only in the form of empty-ness which is the only one that is present. This means that there is no form or formless, there is only one and that is empty-ness. It is the ego which creates an illusion that the empty-ness is present in as a form and formless. Once this identification of ego or i is gone then the awareness of empty-ness happens.

There is also a simili often given in vedanta and Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda in his various lectures; the movie that we see on the screen is actually the shadows created by the light. In reality there are no actors or action being happening there on the screen. The screen is made only to project these shadows, which is nothing but this world. In fact there is no screen also, it is only the light that exists. We get identified ourself with the shadows created in various colours and forms and experience various emotions. But when we take a 180 degree turn and see the light coming from the booth, we can just laugh at the whole situation.

This whole concept will still lie as a concept ........ if one does not get into the awareness of the Truth all by oneself.

When the self merges with the Self (the one-self disappears) and only when the One-Self is perceived all through...... then, such awareness happens.

A Trip to Tiruvannamalai / Arunachalam….

A Trip to Tiruvannamalai / Arunachalam….

Day 0:

Before starting from home I called up my mother-in-law and Swamini Jyotirmayananda to take their blessings for this holy trip. Swamini Jyotirmayananda told aruna = no runa; which means that one can come out of all the clingings or bondages after visiting Arunachalam.  With that blessing started off from Hyderabad in Sabari Express to Katpadi. 

The mind is slowly taking a setback and the chanting of

Arunachala Shiva Arunachala Shiva Arunachala Shiva Arunachala;

Arunachala Shiva Arunachala Shiva Arunachala Shiva Arunachala

 is going on very gently at the background without any effort, completely involuntarily. Due to summer it is very hot and I had to keep a wet cloth on my head to keep myself cool. Spent some time in silence and some time in reading. Slept a bit early to wake up at 2:30am. Got off at Katpadi railway station and moved towards bus stop in an auto. Took the bus to Tiruvannamalai and it started at 4:15am from the bus stand. It took almost 2 ¼ hrs to reach Tiruvannamalai and reached there by 6:30am. Somehow suddenly there was an anxiety in me related to that of a child seeing its father after a very long time. Felt a bit strange. Moved to the place Shiva Sannidhi which is on the opposite side of Ramanasramam where I booked my accommodation.

Day 1:

I started from Shiva Sannidhi and went to Ramanashramam…, had the darshan and moved on to the dining hall and had breakfast of 2 idlis and pongal. After breakfast moved into the meditation hall and sat there for a while and started the Girivalam or the Giripradakshina, the circumambulation of Arunachala Hill. It is a pleasant experience. 

The chanting of

Arunachala Shiva Arunachala Shiva Arunachala Shiva Arunachala;

Arunachala Shiva Arunachala Shiva Arunachala Shiva Arunachala

is constantly going on at the background of mind.

Visited the first of the Ashta Lingams, the Yama Lingam and started moving along the path. After walking for about 9km got a bit tired and as I was not much used for long walks it was pretty tiresome walk across the stretch of 14km of Girivalam or Giri pradakshina. As it was said in many writings over the internet, …………………………. the mind does not function much. The mind takes a setback ……………….. along the path of Girivalam at various instances.

The identification with the body is very very less, …………………………… except for the pain in the body which is felt intermittently and the heat, there wasn’t any thought much. 

The chanting was going on….

Arunachala Shiva Arunachala Shiva Arunachala Shiva Arunachala;

Arunachala Shiva Arunachala Shiva Arunachala Shiva Arunachala

always at the background of the mind.

There is a sense of silence always all through the walking……..even after I entered the busy streets of Tiruvannamali where the Girivalam almost ends………the silence is present as substratum and is felt very clearly. I think it is that awareness of silence which is felt and makes whole Giripradakshina very holy and as a meditation. Visited at the end the Arunachaleshwara Temple also and came back to room, had lunch and slept. Because of the 14km stretch walk I think body got tired and went aloof.

Got up around 2:30pm and set a foot to Ramanashramam to go to Skandashramam. I asked a guy at Ramanashramam……. how to go there? He said it is straight up and questioned, “why are you going in the heat?” I said …… “I just wanted to go”.

I thought it would be too long to go to Skandasramam. The path is well laid with the natural stones from the rock of Arunachal Hill and within 25 minutes I reached skandasramam. And there it is……..the silence is completely prevailing. I sat in the cave for meditation, I thought I would sit for 5 minutes. As I sat, I could not realize that half-an-hour just slipped away. Then took the path downhill which is pretty steep to Virupaksha cave. It is hardly about 7 minutes walk from Skandasramam. Again sat there in silence in Virupaksha cave and there also again time just slipped away. Thought of sitting for 5 minutes but half-an-hour just went aloof. Then it was time for the cave to be closed. So got up and went downhill till the main road at the Arunchaleshwara Temple and then walked down slowly to Shiva Sannidhi.

Day 2:

Got up early and meditated in the room itself. After breakfast started slowly towards Skandasramam. I walked very slowly and rested at various places on the path and sat on small rocks which were laid a bit away from the path.

It is very nice to observe the nature from that place. The shades of the trees, the sunlight passing through between the branches, between the leaves, here and there sometimes lizard moving around making a typical bustle on the fallen dried leaves, wind gently blowing and every where the silence which is embracing the whole atmosphere.

It was anything more than pleasant…......... the whole atmosphere.

As usual mind does not function much. Spent about an hour in the cave at Skandasramam and went downhill to the Virupaksha cave and spent there also an hour in silence.

While coming downhill from Virupaksha cave, met an old man in a small building/hut where he prepared ayurvedic oils and selling them. Two types of oils are being prepared using natural herbs. One is for curing about 100 diseases (but more famous for healing joint pains) which is for both internal & external use and the other one for only external application. His name is Sri Valasitar and his Guru's name is Sri Sadananda Yogi who attained Maha Samadhi in 1993 after living for about 220 years.

The whole Arunachala hill is so much embraced in silence that one can get into the awareness of silence without much effort. I don’t mean to say there will not be any thoughts, but there will not be any clinging towards the thoughts. We don’t remember anything much about the thoughts. The mind does its job of wavering, but the silence also does its job of creating the absolute awareness of the intimacy with the cosmos.

Afternoon, I spent most of the time meditating in the room itself.

Day 3:

Got up a bit early and meditated in the room. Went to Ramanashramam and spent some time in silence. Moved all around the asramam and saw all places. Bid a final adieu. 

Came back to Shiva Sannidhi. Had breakfast and got ready to move to Tirupathi.

Overall it was a trip where No-thing was there and No-thing was felt. It was a Nothing-ness trip. Silence embracing silence.

What is shunya?

This is a conversation between two individuals both existing within. Questioner (Q) and Answerer (A)

Q) What is shunya?

A) Shunya means emptiness. But that is just only a translation of one language into another. In reality if we have to understand emptiness how can we do that. For example.....if there is an empty vessel in front of us and......I say that this vessel is empty.......then one can say, no this is not empty,......there is air in it....In fact the vessel is filled with air which we do not see with our eyes. Then how can we perceive emptiness?

If I can further add up to the confusion, let us just look into the cosmos up there. There are so many stellar bodies around. Planets, stars, comets, meteorites etc. Now between all these stellar bodies there is empty space where there is no air also, which scientists call it as vacuum. So.... can I call that as emptiness?

No.

Q) Why?

A) Because, light travels through vacuum. So there is light which is travelling even in the vacuum. So in reality there is no emptiness up there in the space of the cosmos.

Q) Then what is emptiness?

A) So, by this analogy we can understand that there is no emptiness in this physical or gross world.

Now let us look into the subtle world.

What does the subtle world consists of?

Q) Thoughts.

So, everything is only a thought and nothing else. Our dreams, aspirations, goals etc., are all thoughts in our mind. Or, what we call our mind is nothing but a bundle of thoughts with certain attributes (gunas) like good, bad or neutral. Now, let us look at a situation where there are no thoughts. When there are no thoughts, what is there?......




Just be there...........................a situation.............where there are no thoughts................be in the moment.....



Q) Silence.



That is still a word.



...... situation.............where there are no thoughts....................






Q) One cannot express it.

A) Now that is what shunya is. That is what is emptiness. The one which cannot be expressed. The inexpressible can never be expressed. It is beyond the thoughts, beyond the mind. It is beyond the beyond.

And, I can express my ignorance by stating such a statement that it is inexpressible.

Who is a human being?

Any person being human.

Tattva Bodha by Jagadguru Sri Adishankaracharya

Tattva bodha at a glance (Mind map)

For Tattva Bodha pdf file of above chart please click here

How to understand life?

We cannot understand life.

The understanding that we cannot understand life itself is the understanding. Nature has certain laws and it runs only on those laws. Whoever it might be it does not matter. Everyone has to oblige with nature's laws and it is not easy to understand nature's laws or the laws of the Universe. So, to understand the laws of the Universe, one has to become one with the Universe which simply means one has to forego all the thoughts and be in the state of beyond mind. And, when this being in the state of beyond mind happens then one will not bother about understanding anything or any happening. Whatever happens...one will just observe without any identity.

Mind-thought-world-Nothingness

The mind exists only as long as thoughts exist. The moment there are no thoughts, there is no mind and when there is no mind (no thoughts), then there is no world. So the whole world and all the happenings in the so called world are only the expression of thoughts. The world ceases to exist when thoughts cease. In that emptiness where there are no thoughts the True Existence reveals itself. The Nothing-ness state is the State and that is the True Nature of everyone of us. This Nothing-ness is the Consciousness that prevails as the Substratum of the whole existence.

What is Spirituality?

Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi has put it in four simple words.
Deham (देहं)
naaham (नाहं).
Koham (कोहं)?
Soham (सोहं).

What does it mean?
Deham naaham = I am not this body
then,
koham? = who am I?
soham = I am That

What is Shubhodayam mean?

It is conjugation of two words. Shubha (शुभ)+ udayam (उदयं). Shubha = good or mangalam (मंगलं). Udayam = to rise.When someone wishes or says shubhodayam, then it means let the good or mangalam rise. And, the person who utters also will have a gesture in the form of folded hands nearer to the Heart (not the physical heart) or just a hand touching the Heart. This is a old form of gesture stating that one can be peaceful only when one concentrates on the Heart and not on one's mind or thoughts. This is one way of entering into Silence and wishing the other also to enter into Silence, so that only the Silence prevails (actually awareness of Silence). When the awareness of Silence happens then peace prevails. There is also a Buddhist tradition stating ami tofa  meaning 'let peace be with you'.

What is the use of technique on Spiritual Path?

All techniques on Spiritual path are like vehicles which will lead you till the house on the main road. Once you reach the house, you will leave the vehicle outside and walk alone into the house. Similarly techniques help you to control the mind and once it is done, you leave both the technique and mind; and walk alone in Silence into the house of Stillness. Once you are in the house of Stillness, you know everything, then no one need to tell you anything. You know what the Truth is. No one need to confirm it.

Key to Self Realization

What is the key to Spirituality?

Silence is the key to Stillness
Stillness is the key to Nothingness
Observe the Emptiness &
Be in That Nothingness

Knowledge on Spiritual Path

How much will knowledge help on Spiritual path?
Very much.

How it will help?
Till you forego it.

I could not understand. Can you elaborate it?
By knowledge you mean, the knowledge you gain from the world, from discussions with knowledgeable people, experts, so on; knowledge that you gain by reading scriptures of all sorts of all creeds etc., am I right?

Yes.
It is so much helpful that as a rope is helpful to climb a tree or a wall.

What does that mean?
It is helpful to that extent, that after which you have to leave it or forego it.

How is that so?
All the so called knowledge, whether from scriptures or be it from wise people will help you in giving an indication to the path. They all are pointers and nothing more than that. You have to walk the path alone with your chosen pointer. And, it is unique for each individual. All paths finally merge into Silence. Hence, the final path is the path of Silence and one walks Alone on that path, no Guru no Disciple...Alone...You have to forego every identity, every thought, every concept, all the knowledge that you have gained. Because knowledge itself will become a limitation on that path. Hence you will forego that also. Once you forego everything, beaten so much by everything and fail in everything; then from that failure comes the success. After foregoing everything, you will become aware of the Nothingness which is ever present and that Nothingness will give you everything, because that Nothingness is Everything.

Karma

What is Karma?
Karma is nothing but conditional thinking.

Can you elaborate it?
Let us say you are grown up in a particular religious environment, then your concept of God will be pertaining to the beliefs and the environment in which you have been brought up. A Hindu will think about God as Shiva, Vishnu, Ganapati, Mother Goddess or many other forms in which that person is brought up. In the same way a Christian may think God in terms of Jesus the Christ or Mother Mary; a person brought up in Islam thinks in an other way; like wise each person thinks in a peculiar fashion in which that person is brought up, and that person gets conditioned in this mode of thinking over a period of time and it becomes difficult for that person to come out of this thinking pattern. Hence that person's mind gets conditioned to that kind of thinking. This conditional thinking is not just in the religious matters, but also in all other materialistic matters.

Do you mean to say that, this kind of thinking is not proper?
Not exactly. The thinking pattern in which you think - as long as you are not conditioned by it, then it is ok. If not, then that same thinking pattern becomes your limitation.

I am unable to understand. Can you explain further?
Sure. Let us say there is a wave of the ocean. If the wave thinks that it is completely different from the ocean and gets into a conditional thinking that it is only a wave and not at all a part of the ocean. What will be its status? Miserable. Isn't it? A Wave is having the same characteristics that of the ocean. Only that it is a small part of that vast ocean. So the concept of God of a Hindu, a Christian, or any other is only a part when it is considered and restricted to only one particular aspect of God. However, when you consider that God is Omnipresent and Omniscient, then your conditional thinking about the concept of God will change drastically and you will end up seeing God in everything and everywhere. Now to come to this stage what is that you have done? You have overcome your conditional thinking about God in which you have been brought up.

And, when you come to a stage that you are not even the doer of anything and everything is just happening all by itself, then you will come to a stage called surrender. Then you will understand that there is no karma. Everything, and every happening is just happening and it is there just like that. Even your body is also just a happening in the cosmic drama.

Do you mean to say I can overcome my karma or change my karma by just changing my thinking pattern or my thoughts?
Yes, as simple as that. And, more than that is: when you do not think, then there is no karma.

Actually, it is not the thinking pattern or thoughts that build your karma, it is the attachment towards your thoughts or the identification that you create with your thoughts build your karma.

What is Substratum, Silence & Stillness?

Substratum is the screen without anything (NOTHING). 

Silence is when there is no noise of mind. 

Stillness is the state where there is No thought and no mind state.

For practical purposes, keep watching the screen behind the movie instead of the movie.

What is the meaning of the sloka samudra vasane devi?

Shlokam श्लोकं శ్లోకం:

समुद्रवसने देवि पर्वतस्तनमण्डले ।

विष्णुपत्नि नमस्तुभ्यं पादस्पर्शं क्षमस्वमे ॥

samudravasane devi parvatastanamaṇḍale ।

viṣṇupatni namastubhyaṃ pādasparśaṃ kṣamasvame ॥

సముద్రవసనే దేవి పర్వతస్తనమణ్డలే ।

విష్ణుపత్ని నమస్తుభ్యం పాదస్పర్శం క్షమస్వమే ॥

O! Mother Earth, who has the ocean as clothes and mountains as your bosm, who is the wife of Lord Vishnu, I bow to you. Please forgive me for touching you with my feet. 

This is the meaning which we all know. We will look at it in the impersonified way.

samudra = ocean; vasane = staying; devi = goddess (actual meaning here is the feminine part of the cosmos, i.e., the manifested form of the unmanifested); parvata = mountain; stana = bosom; mandale = space; vishnu = all pervading; patni = wife; (vishnupatni = wife of vishnu - this is how we understand as a person - the meaning turns out as the other half of the vishnu, in the impersonal the meaning would be - the manifested form of the unmanifested); namaha = bow; tubhyam = to you; paada = step; sparsham = touch (paada sparsham means the touch of thought, i.e., going from NOTHING state to Thought state. Because the moment the thought starts, then the duality comes in, the unmanifested becomes manifested); kshamasvame = forgive me (this is one meaning where we understand as a form. The other meaning of this is: kshamasva = king's face; which means the face of the king, that is the manifested form of the unmanifested, considering the king as the unmanifested and the king's face as the manifested.)

Now the whole meaning of the sloka comes out as:
I bow to the manifested One so that every step that I take remind me of the unmanifested One behind this expression of the manifestation and let me be aware of the substratum of this manifestation in every work that I carry out in this manifested world.

What is Brahman?

Brahman = The one which is emanated (not created)

To understand this word, one has to look into the deeper meaning of this.

It is just like an idea that you are thinking not present really but still present. Let us say you are thinking about a beautiful landscape in your mind with green pastures, a creek, river, birds flying around, animals moving here and there, people playing around etc. Now this whole scene is there only as an idea in your mind. It is not there existing outside in gross form. And, if you tell someone - see the beauty of my landscape which is there only as an idea in your mind. People will laugh at you and tell you that you are crazy. They will also say that it is an illusion and it does not exist in reality.

Let us say you have build this idea of beautiful landscape into gross form. Then people will say - oh! here it exists. But you know that it is still only an idea. Because what is existing outside has emanated from within you and in reality does not exist. It is like a spider emanating from it the thread to weave the web. The gross landscape is only a manifested form of the idea that has been emanated from you (your mind). For you - truly speaking both do not exist, it is only an illusion. You as such only exist. The idea and the manifested landscape will undergo change and do not exist.

In the same way this Brahman or the external manifested world is only an idea of the unmanifested One. It is just an illusion. Only the Unmanifested One exists. The rest is all illusion.

Hence, only Brahman exists. The thought, the idea, the manifested world: all are only illusions.


sarvam khalvidam brahma.

Life

Q) What is life?


Just being aware of Being is Life, the rest all is just a dream.

Secret behind birth of Lord Ganesha

Q) What is the secret behind the story of birth of Lord Ganesha?

Hahahhahhahhhahhahh......It is simple. The "I" exists eternally; whether with human head, no head or elephant head. Only the "I" exists, rest is all illusion. This is the subtle meaning hidden behind the story.

Silence & Stillness

Q) How to enter into silence and attain stillness?

Silence & Stillness are both same. They cannot be attained. They are ever existent and eternal. Once our external noise stops (in mind), then we get into the awareness of silence & stillness. It is only a re-cognition of that state. To get into that awareness one need to do nothing, not even thinking. One has to just recognize the ever presence of silence & stillness.

Just recognize that silence & stillness which is ever present as a substratum. No effort is required. Just recognition without any effort.

vedAnta

Q) What is Vedanta?

The word Vedanta is formed by the conjugation of two words veda + anta = vedAnta. Anta means end while veda is derived from the root word vid meaning knowledge. Hence, Vedanta means end of knowledge. So, how can we understand the end of knowledge? The end of knowledge means where the intellect stops and no phenomenon which can be understood by the mind can take us to Vedanta. So, the end of knowledge is that stage where all knowledge ends, there is nothing which can be expressed. So Vedanta is the state which is inexpressible. Hence Vedanta means the avyakta and this can exist when one is aware of that avyakta, the ever existing One. Hence, Vedanta is not a noun, it is a verb where it is existence in that One state. It is Being. Being in that NO-THING state is Vedanta. It is a state which cannot be achieved. It is a state which need to aware of as it is ever existing.

(24 August 2011)

Upanishad

What is upanishad mean?

Upa=near
nishad= to sit
Upanishad = to sit near (to sit nearer)
Near to what? or near to whom?
It is sitting nearer to our own true self. Upanishads are those which take us to our true self. Upanishads are also termed as Vedanta. When Vedas are called as knowledge from the root word vid=knowledge, then Vedanta means end of knowledge. Which means there is nothing after the knowledge. Where knowledge ends there the mind also ends. This is a clear indication that the vedas explain or give information about the manifested (vyaka swarupa) universe while vedanta or upanishads explain or give information about the unmanifested (avyaka swarupa) universe. Since avyakta cannot be expressed in words, it is always expressed in negation as 'not this', 'not this' or 'neti', 'neti'.

The prime requisite to understand upanishads is to understand the word upa, which means near and i.e., nearer to the true self or Self and this is possible only when one stops the external noise and enters into the inner silence or stillness. The near means 'inner' and it is within. In that Silence and with the help of negation one gets aware of the 'Avyakta'.

While vedas explain about 'vyakta', vedanta or upanishads explain about the 'avyakta' and they do it only by negation and with some pointers.

The prime requisite to read or learn upanishads would be to understand stillness and silence. One should be able to enter into that stillness and silence, then only upanishads can be understood.


21 August, 2011 Dakshin Express; 23:40 hrs

Waste, Leisure, Boldness & Truth

What is waste in this world? What is leisure? What is boldness on spiritual path? What is Truth?

Any Thing is waste. 

NO-THING is not waste. 

Leisure is dwelling in anything but Truth. 

Boldness is to forego every concept as above. 

TRUTH is losing every-thing and being in the awareness of NO-THING. 

Boldness is Be-ing in that NO-THING. Boldness is going beyond every concept or getting rid of every concept, because each concept gives an identity. Hence one has to forego every identity. And, there is no path. Stating that there is a materialistic path and spiritual path is all one big illusion. There is only one path and that is awakening and it is not something one has to travel, it is just awareness and it happens only when one stops seeking for something. Just being aware of That is Truth.

Losing everything is gaining eternity. 

Changing the world

Why is the world imperfect, can’t I change the world?

What we see as imperfection in the world is in reality very perfect for the world. World’s perfection is in its imperfection. Hence, there is no need to change the world. Only we have to change. We have to change our thought process and go beyond the thinking process. Once we enter into that stillness or silence or become aware of that stillness and silence, then we understand that the world’s imperfection is indeed perfect. Because everything, every happening, every phenomenon is only an illusion. It is just only a thought and nothing else. The moment the thought is not there, nothing is there. The whole world just appears as an illusion of the thought projection.

Another beauty of this illusory world is its impermanence. Everything changes over a period of time. Everything gets transformed into something. ("Impermanence is the inevitability of the whole cosmos"). Hence when we try to understand this world with our mind we cannot understand it. Moreover we try to label everything and every happening in this world. We try to judge with our intellect. Once we get awakened or get into the awareness of the absolute then we stop labeling and judging. Then we just surrender to every happening and be with every happening. There will not be any anxiety behind any happening and there is no eager that something need to happen also. Because, when we enter into that changeless state of stillness and silence or become aware of that state, then we don’t want to change anything or happening.

One Morning

Another Morning
The awareness of awakening is happening.
Let us be just aware and
Live in the Being more than meing.

Blessed Moment - Poem

Blessed is the day for waking us into new moment.
Blessed is the moment for waking us into new awareness.
Blessed is the moment for making the awareness ever new.
Blessed is the moment for the awareness of stillness.
Blessed is the moment for the awareness of silence.

Blessed is the moment for the recognition of this inherent & intrinsic ever new joy.
Blessed is the moment of awareness which cannot be expressed.
For the moment cannot be expressed in any other way except for the silent and still joy.
For in joy we are born, in joy we live and into that sacred joy we melt.
Nothing is born, nothing is died
Everything is continuing its living,
For it is the consciousness which is living and
't is only the recognition of that eternal awareness which is missing in few moments.

Blessed is the moment for the awareness of stillness.
Blessed is the moment for the awareness of silence.

Expression of Truth

Why Truth cannot be expressed in words?

Truth is existing from the beginning. Words came into existence after the Truth. Hence, no words can describe or explain Truth.

Ego also has come after Truth, so ego also or with ego also one can never understand Truth.

Every manifested part of the cosmos what we see is in fact an illusion of the projected mind.

The best expression of Truth is Silence.

"I am not That"

When I am not That who am I trying to be?

The Truth is "I am That"

But, when I am not That, who am I trying to be?

I am trying to be an idea or thought that is raised in my mind. I am trying to identify myself every time or every moment with that thought only and trying to manifest based upon that thought. So, when I negate the thought also  with a thought "I am not this" then also I am still in the state of unawareness of "I am That". But, when I go beyond thought or mind (because mind is only a bundle of thoughts) then the awareness of "I am That" is happening automatically, rather the consciousness of "I am That" is already there. The only attempt that I have to make is to be aware of That.

What is Self-realization?

Losing the self and getting awakened in the Self is Self-realization.

The whole sadhana or practice is to lose one's self. Losing is gaining. When one makes every effort to lose and practices losing, then one gains in the Eternal One. Losing one's self is not an easy task, one should be brave enough. That is the reason they say Spiritual path is not for cowards.

When one can enter into the stillness or silence effortlessly then that is Self-realization.

Meditation

Meditation is the process where the individual "i" melts into the universal "I" and reveals the awareness that there is only One which is present and nothing else.

There is only One

September 25, 2010 0350am, Rourkela GOCL Guest house.

It just happened and appeared distinctly the phenomenon rather the noumenon of observer, object being observed and the process of observing. While the mind was in its own process of thinking, suddenly it happened that “i” as something different from my mind (with its process of thinking), and this physical body. It looked like all these three are distinctly different. Thus it is clearly evident that indeed these are different and the so called “i” is identifying with these, which is termed as illusion.

While it is happening the intuition says that even this is an illusion, and, this process of happening is a part of neti doctrine and this is the stage as mentioned in the Mundaka Upanishad as “ekameva adviteeyam brahma”

After the enlightenment it just appears that everything what is happening is happening for a reason. Behind every happening there is a well planned and well determined process of happening. It is like behind every happening there is a thought process that has already happened and the effect of the thought process is happening in the now. Hence, it is becoming more and more evident that the whole happenings in the cosmos are only the effect of thoughts that came out from someone.

If everything is pre-determined and well determined, then what is free will? Is there something like that?

All these doubts are there only in the duality. In oneness there is no doubt, because there is no other one. There is only one "sarvam khalvidam brahma." The observer, the object being observed and the process of observing is all one. The questioner, question and the answer is one.