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  • I Never Get Freed AdiSankaracharya Nirvana Shatakam

    Bondage, be it at the Transient or the Transcendental Level, needs  two entities.

    One never gets Bonded or bonded to when only he Is Present.

    In Indian Philosophy even yearning for Realization causes Bondage!

    The fruit that accrues of it is  the eternal desire to be Free,

    So to be a fully Liberated Soul, one is not to yearn for Realization , it as a Goal.

    The goal is to be that of simply knowing One’s True Nature and not anything else.

    This is true Moksha or Nirvana.

    Unlike Buddhism the Nirvana is not Nihilistic,One Becomes a part of the Whole .

    Lord Nataraja
    Sivoham,Ananda Thandava of Siva

    The Part can not rejoice having become one for it has been the Whole all the while and the impression of being a Part  is a temporary Illusive Phenomena,necessitated by Ignorance, impelled by Karma Vaasana,Remnants of the results of actions performed .physically and mentally.

    Upon this Realization , verily there is No need for Freedom nor is there One really.

    This is what the Acharya says,

    अहं निर्विकल्पो निराकाररूपो
    विभुत्वाच्च सर्वत्र सर्वेन्द्रियाणाम् ।
    न चासङ्गतं नैव मुक्तिर्न मेयः
    चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम् ॥६॥
    Aham Nirvikalpo Niraakaara-Ruupo
    Vibhu-Tvaacca Sarvatra Sarve[a-I]ndriyaannaam |
    Na Caa-Sanggatam Naiva Muktirna Meyah
    Cid-aananda-ruupah Shivo[a-A]ham Shivo[a-A]ham ||6||

    6.1: I am Without any Variation, and Without any Form,
    6.2: I am Present Everywhere as the underlying Substratum of everything, and behind all Sense Organs,
    6.3: Neither do I get Attached to anything, nor get Freed from anything,
    6.4: I am the Ever Pure Blissful Consciousness; I am Shiva, I am Shiva,
    The Ever Pure Blissful Consciousness.

    I have written on Niravana Shatakam with a few of the explanations I thought of.

    I am concluding this for the time being , I might post on the same later.

    For Adi Sankaracharya is an Ocean.

    You can drink as much as you can hold at a time.

    As in Life, the measure varies at different times.

    When I get some additional thoughts I shall post.

    In the meanwhile I conclude this with Shankaracharya’s concluding Sloka of Soundarya Lahari, where he beautifully illustrates the inadequacy of words!

    प्रदीप ज्वालाभि-र्दिवसकर-नीराजनविधिः
    सुधासूते-श्चन्द्रोपल-जललवै-रघ्यरचना ।
    स्वकीयैरम्भोभिः सलिल-निधि-सौहित्यकरणं
    त्वदीयाभि-र्वाग्भि-स्तव जननि वाचां स्तुतिरियम् ॥ 100 ॥

    “pradīpa jvālābhi-rdivasakara-nīrājanavidhiḥ
    sudhāsūte-ścandropala-jalalavai-raghyaracanā |
    svakīyairambhobhiḥ salila-nidhi-sauhityakaraṇaṃ
    tvadīyābhi-rvāgbhi-stava janani vācāṃ stutiriyam || 100 ||

    O Mother( the very source) of all words !  this hymn addressed to you with your own words is like doing neerajana to the Sun with the light of small lamps,  offering arghya  to the moon from the water of the moonstone and doingtarpan to the ocean by its own water.  [Note:  The sun is the source of all light which itself is used to worship the Sun.  The moonstone melts and becomes water in moonlight.]

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  • No Guru Neither Disciple Sankaracharya

    I recall n incident form the Life Sri Ramana Maharishi.

    When Paul Brunton, Maharishi’s Biographer  requested Ramana to take him as His Disciple.

    Ramana Maharishi replied,

     

    Ramana Maharishi
    Sri Ramana Maharishi

    “Who is Guru and who is Sishya, every one has to seek one’s own Salvation’

     

    Height of Advaita.

     

    At the Paramaarthika, Transcendental Level, there is no Identity except being One, even this I am not sure whether a part can identify itself a part of the Whole.

     

    The World of Names and Forms are Real and Illusory, All at the same time, depends on one’s respective and stand point.

     

    Watch a child start expressing its likes and dislikes, especially of people.

     

    It expresses spontaneously without being able to rationalize.

     

    It forgets them as soon as people are out of sight.

     

    It lives in the present, no associations, consciously.

     

    Otherwise the Child is Full of Happiness or Bliss.

     

    Its smile conveys its Blissful State,especially when it is asleep.

     

    This is Ananda, unsullied by Impressions.

     

    This is Nirvana. The Original State.

     

    न मृत्युर्न शङ्का न मे जातिभेदः
    पिता नैव मे नैव माता न जन्मः ।
    न बन्धुर्न मित्रं गुरुर्नैव शिष्यं
    चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम् ॥५॥
    Na Mrtyur-Na Shangkaa Na Me Jaati-Bhedah
    Pitaa Naiva Me Naiva Maataa Na Janmah |
    Na Bandhurna Mitram Gurur-Na-Iva Shissyam
    Cid-Aananda-Ruupah Shivo[a-A]ham Shivo[a-A]ham ||5||

    Meaning:
    5.1: Neither am I bound by Death and its Fear, nor by the rules of Caste and its Distinctions,
    5.2: Neither do I have Father and Mother, nor do I have Birth,
    5.3: Neither do I have Relations nor Friends, neither Spiritual Teacher nor Disciple,
    5.4: I am the Ever Pure Blissful Consciousness; I am Shiva, I am Shiva,
    The Ever Pure Blissful Consciousness.

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  • Savitarka Samadhi PatanjaliYoga

    Samadhi, the State of becoming or returning to our original State of Being,that is of Being, Knowledge and Bliss is explained in Patanjali‘s Yoga Sutra 1.17.

    There is a difference between the ‘Nirvana‘, spoken of in Buddhism and The Samadhi of Yoga.

    Buddhism advocates Nirvana, a State of Nothingness, Sunyavada.

    Both Samadhi and Nirvana are Higher or elevated sense of Consciousness.

    Yoga Samadhi is positive in the sense that one reverts to his original state of Being which consists of Being, Knowledge and Bliss.

    Nirvana , on the other hand is the negation of all transient attributes and attaining  a State of being Nothing, without attributes.

    The difference,please do not read philosophical interpretations in this statement,is akin to being fully satisfied after eating and the feeling of Fullness one has without having eaten.

    Types of Brain Waves
    Types of Brain Waves, Delta for Samadhi( near samadhi)

    The Types of Samadhi.

    Some people refer this as Super Consciousness or Supra Consciousness, which is incorrect as Consciousness is One and our lack of realizing it does not make it Super.

    Yoga never calls anything as Super or Supra.

    In Samadhi we return to our original State of Being.

    Savitarka Samadhi,

    Savicara Samadhi,

    Ananda Samadhi,

    Saasmita Samadhi

    Savitarka Samadhi.

    ‘Tarka’ means ‘questioning, logic’

    Samadhi attained by the path of questioning is Savitarka Samadhi.

    This is the first step or type of Samadhi.

    Our minds wander after many objects at the same time and we pay attention to one of them for a brief span of time, at the same time, being aware of the other things as well, both physical and mental.

    To rein in the Mind it is essential to reduce the number of objects we pay attention to , to attain better efficiency.

    This becomes easy when we fix our mind on a single object  at a given time.

    When one thinks of some thing to the exclusion of the others, his concentration and his control over the reactions the object produces increases.

    At this stage one can exercise control over the object.

    The object will be focus of attention to the total exclusion of everything else,(this will be explained in detail when we discuss Pratyahara, Dhyana and Dharana).

    One increase efficiency by performing to his full potential. thus enabling a better result.

    As the number of objects being attended to are less here, so are the impressions in the Mind and later reflected in Chithi.

    So we are reducing the Chitha Vrutthi being spoken of in the second Sutra of Patanjali.

    Yet there is a pitfall here in this state of Savitarka Samadhi.

    Being able to concentrate on a single object  provides one with not so normal powers of being able to dominate the object and literally bend it to one’s Will.

    This is the core of the so-called paranormal abilities like Clairvoyance, Clairaudience , Kinetasis  , which form a part of Asthta Siddis  or Ashtama Siddhis.

    Ashtama or Astha Siddhis.

    • Aṇimā: reducing one’s body even to the size of an atom
    • Mahima: expanding one’s body to an infinitely large size
    • Garima: becoming infinitely heavy
    • Laghima: becoming almost weightless
    • Prāpti: having unrestricted access to all places
    • Prākāmya: realizing whatever one desires
    • Iṣṭva: possessing absolute lordship
    • Vaśtva: the power to subjugate all[3]

    The practitioner gets lost in these Yoga Sadhana by being enamored of these powers and loses the goal of Self Realization.

    So this Samadhi, though the first step,is not of Higher order.

    Patanjali warns that this  Samadhi would increase attachment to Objects and increase one’s attachment to objects and consequently multiply the Chitha Vrutti, instead of reducing it.

    Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhi

     

     

     

     

    http://ramanisblog.in/2013/05/01/yoga-sutra-1-17-samadhi-contemplation/

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  • Why We Can’t Stop Thinking?

    Thinking is what makes us what we are.

     

    Too much thinking brings in Misery and as a wag put it,’Life is a tragedy for those who think, but a Comedy to those who feel’.

     

    Recent study reveals that thinking is what makes us survive and make us a complicated mechanism.

     

    However stopping ‘thinking’ is possible, according to Indian Philosophy.

     

    Patanjali’s Yoga Sastra is all about ‘cessation of the modification of Chitta(stilling the thought waves)’

     

    This is described as ‘Moksha’, ‘Nirvana‘ when one realises He is One with the Reality.

     

    Brain scanning technology is quickly approachi...
    Brain scanning technology is quickly approaching levels of detail that will have serious implications (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

     

    ‘Most likely you have not needed to worry whether the rustling in the underbrush is a rabbit or a leopard, or had to identify the best escape route on a walk by the lake, or to wonder whether the funny pattern in the grass is a snake or dead branch. Yet these were life-or-death decisions to our ancestors. Optimal moment-to-moment readiness requires a brain that is working constantly, an effort that takes a great deal of energy. (To put this in context, the modern human brain is only 2 percent of our body weight, but it uses 20 percent of our resting energy.) Such an energy-hungry brain, one that is constantly seeking clues, connections and mechanisms, is only possible with a mammalian metabolism tuned to a constant high rate.

     

    Constant thinking is what propelled us from being a favorite food on the savanna—and a species that nearly went extinct—to becoming the most accomplished life-form on this planet. Even in the modern world, our mind always churns to find hazards and opportunities in the data we derive from our surroundings, somewhat like a search engine server. Our brain goes one step further, however, by also thinking proactively, a task that takes even more mental processing.

     

    So even though most of us no longer worry about leopards in the grass, we do encounter new dangers and opportunities: employment, interest rates, “70 percent off” sales and swindlers offering $20 million for just a small investment on our part. Our primate heritage brought us another benefit: the ability to navigate a social system. As social animals, we must keep track of who’s on top and who’s not and who might help us and who might hurt us. To learn and understand this information, our mind is constantly calculating “what if?” scenarios. What do I have to do to advance in the workplace or social or financial hierarchy? What is the danger here? The opportunity?

     

    For these reasons, we benefit from having a brain that works around the clock, even if it means dealing with intrusive thoughts from time to time.’

     

    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ask-the-brains-why-impossible-to-stop-thinking

     

    Read my blogs on this subject under Indian philosophy.

     

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    As we age and our memory starts to function less well, names are most likely among the first things to escape us. You can use tricks to help remember, such as rhyming the name with an object. What is easiest, however, is to keep in mind that everyone has difficulty with names, so you can be less embarrassed when one eludes you and less critical of others when yours escapes them.

     

    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ask-the-brains-why-does-memory-for-names-detoriate-with-age

     

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