Here's a simple formula:
Pain=ignorance; wisdom=bliss
The body is a cage of pain. To identify with it is ignorance.
Living
outside the body is sheer bliss.
Why does the bliss of samadhi not appear
to be permanent? On account of the mind's forgetfulness of Devi. She is the power
of Om, the Shakti. Time continues as long as the mind won't rest permanently
in Om. This apparent division of Self into time is merely for other
memories to be purified and replaced by Om.
This body is a memory of the
mind. Constant sense experience reinforces viShayAnanda (bliss of objects) and
viShayAsmRti (memory of objects). This concretizes the 'I am the body '
idea.
Constant experience of samadhi controls this memory (recall YS: tajjah
samskArah anya samskAra pratibandhi) and replaces those with memory of
the true Self through Om (again YS: tasya vAcakah praNavah), which is the same as
Ishvara.
These observations can be
mis-interpreted as rejection of the world experience but that is not the
import. Once the world is seen as the play of the Lord, everything is
the play of the One and Its Power to be Many. Everyone is realized. Everyone is God. Shiva coming to interact with you through Shakti. All
experience is vibration of Om. Even the so-called inanimate creation is
simply the mind presently overpowered by tamas that in time will be seen
as the Self alone. It is only the angle of vision that has to change:
jnAna dRShTi with jnAna cakshu. Vision of wisdom through the eye of wisdom.
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