Wish fulfilled!

My wish to have a feature to highlight the latest posts I add to this blog, regardless of their assigned date, has been fulfilled! Look to the right at the Latest Post Featured widget that I discovered on Blogger. Now I can highlight those posts as I add them. Enjoy!

Shankar.

Time for a revival

I ran into an old friend at the local cooperative store and I was reminded that I haven't posted on this blog for a while now. Well, it was gratifying to know that someone was reading this blog and found some benefit from it. So I am resuming my posts after a hiatus.

Actually I save the content for my blog as notes and so when I update my blog sometimes the posts are pre-dated as I fill in notes from the past. I try to post the thoughts dated on the day they were jotted down as notes. So do browse the earlier months and years for often my blog updates end up in the archives! Unfortunately I have not yet figured out how to mark up my most recent additions, even if they correspond to an earlier date. Maybe if one of the readers could help me with this that would be wonderful!

Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy reading the revival of this blog!

Namaste!

Om is the eternal song.

Om is the eternal song.

VijnAna or Realization

VijnAna or Realization is seeing God in everyone and everything. JnAna is all that precedes this sight.

Liberation is...

Liberation is being completely at peace in knowing that nothing that you do is either necessary or will make a whit of a difference and yet not being upset at being impelled by Shakti beyond the ego to be seemingly performing activities for complete purification of the mind.

The world does not need your wisdom!

Wisdom lies in knowing that the world does not need your wisdom but that your very perception of the world and attendant delusion of its reality and existence is evidence of your ignorance!

Okay, this may sound harsh. But it is documented as a revelation to myself. When such thoughts arise of their own accord in your mind, believe me you will feel blessed!

When the Truth is beyond words...

When the Truth is beyond words, name and form, surely all this prattling can be of no use! And yet, it is the Power of that Truth in silence that enables all this prattling, manifests as it, and is hidden in it. As fire in wood. Or to remember the analogies from the BG: as fire is enveloped by smoke, a foetus by the amniotic fluid, as a mirror by dirt, so this Truth is enveloped by rajas.

To think I was born is a myth.

To think I was born is a myth. To think I will die is a myth. How can the unborn die? In my purest truest essence I am Eternal. (Note that In BG jAtasya etc comes after natvevAham jAtu nAsam; indeed 2.12 and 2.27) In that state I have Infinite Power which is the dynamic aspect of my true nature. This Power is so great that on entering into a mind and a body It overpowers my true nature and I become identified with the limited mind and limited body. Projecting the world experience out of pure sport on the screen of the mind I unnecessarily distance myself from myself. But the cure for ignorance appears in the form of Guru who is only a purified and weighty mind that reveals the truth to me as if for the first time. This play of mine is endless and yet each time it appears so real and authentic, but it is not. See the other as no different from yourself. Do as you would be done by. Conquer your selfish nature that limits possession to your body and mind. Give the other who is no other than yourself what you always owned. Would you deny yourself your rightful share? Would you not love yourself? Om Tat Sat.

Why have you entered this body ...

Why have you entered this body so unwisely? Due to past ignorance.

At least have the good sense to exit it wisely. 

Why do JnAnis appear to behave differently?

JnAnis appear to behave differently based on their past karma but their jnAnam is the same. All know the truth having originated from Brahma. Only difference is frequency of recollection of the Truth- the smRti. NityajnAnis such as the trimUrtis are not for one instant unaware of the truth.

In truth only I exist...

In truth only I exist. But if I delude myself to be the one with a name, then pain and misery follow.