WHO IS OUR GURU?

 

                                   NOT FINDING GURU

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                                    RAMANA MAHARSHI SAID, "I HAVE NOT SAID THAT A GURU IS NOT NECESSARY. BUT GURU NEED ALWAYS BE IN HUMAN FORM. FIRST A PERSON THINKS THAT HE IS AN INFERIOR AND THAT THERE IS A SUPERIOR, ALL- KNOWING ALL POWERFUL GOD WHO CONTROLS HIS OWN AND THE WORLD'S DESTINY AND WORSHIPS HIM OR DOES BHAKTI. WHEN HE REACHES A CERTAIN STAGE AND BECOMES FIT FOR ENLIGHTENMENT, THE SAME GOD WHOM HE WAS WORSHIPPING COMES AS GURU AND LEADS HIM OUT. THAT GURU COMES ONLY TO TELL HIM "THAT GOD IS WITHIN YOURSELF. DIVE WITHIN AND REALIZE". GOD, GURU AND THE SELF ARE THE SAME".'

                                        LACK OF FAITH

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                          I DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD. I HATE GOD. THROW AWAY ALL THE PICTURES AND IDOLS OF ALL DEITIES. HE IS MERE A PIECE OF MARBLE NOTHING MORE THAN THAL. BURN ALL THE SACRED BOOKS. IF WE USE IT AS FUEL THEN AT LEAST WE WILL HAVE SAME WARM WATER". A MIDDLE AED WIDOW SAID AFTER HEARING ABOUT THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF HER ONLY DAUGHTER. BEFORE THIS INCIDENT, SHE WAS A RELIGIOUS WOMAN WHO DAILY PRACTICED ALL THE HOLY RITUALS.

                        WHEN WE ARE HAPPY WE HAVE FIRM BELIEF IN GOD'S PRESENCE AND LOSE IT AS SOON AS ANY SORROW COMES IN OUR LIVES. LACK OF FAITH IS DISCOURAGING AND IS DANGEROUS OBSTACLE IN THE PATH OF GOD REALISATION. AS DISCOURAGING THOUGHTS ENTER THE MIND ONCE IMMEDIATELY STOPS WORSHIPPING GOD AND PRACTISING MEDITATION. WITHOUT ANY DELAY. ONE SHOULD PUT A CHECK ON THEM AND SHOULD CONTINUE WORSHIPPING GOD AND PRACTISING MEDITATION EVEN IF ONE'S MIND DOESN'T WANT TO. WITH TIME, NEGATIVE THOUGHTS WILL SETTLE DOWN AND ONE WILL HAVE MORE FIRM BELIEF IN GOD.

                          NEVER LOSE FAITH IN GOD. WHATEVER HE DOES IS THE BEST FOR US. OUR MIND IS LIMITED BUT GOD'S IS INFINITE.

                          FEEL THE PRESENSE OF GOD IN EVERY HUMAN BEING, ANIMAL, TREE, PLANT, FLOWER, FRUIT, STONE, RIVER, MOUNTAIN, SEA, SUN, MOON, EARTH, FIRE AND SKY. GOD IS THERE IN EACH AND EVERY PARTICLE. GOD IS OMNIPRESENT, IT IS US WHO HAVE TO FEEL HIS PRESENCE.

                        ALL THESE OBSTACLES LIKE ANGER, GREED, LUST, JEALOUSY, HYPOCRISY, ATTACHMENT AND EGO CAN BE OVERCOME ONLY WHEN ONE REALISES THAT THEY ARE ONE'S WEAKNESS. THE EASIEST WAY TO ERADICATE THEM IS TO FIND OUT THE WEAKNESS WHICH IS THE BIGGEST HINDRANCE IN THE PATH. CONCENTRATE TO ERADICATE THAT WEAKNESS. PUT EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE IT. SLOWLY THERE WILL BE REDUCTION IN THAT. WHEN ONE IS FULLY SURE THAT IT IS REMOVED THEN MOVES ON TO THE NEXT OBSTACLES.

                                 LAZINESS AND DROWSINESS

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                         A BIRD HAD BECOME LETHARGIC TO GO TO OTHER PLACES IN SEARCH OF FOOD. SOON ITS FAMILY AND FRIENDS COPIED ITS LETHARGIC NATURE. IN THE SAME MANNER, OUR MIND TOO BECOMES LAZY TO DO  A WORK REGULARY. IT STARTS TO SEARCH FOR USELESS EXCUSES AND EASY MEANS. IT ALSO EXPLORES SHORT CUTS FOR AVOIDING HARD TASK. SUPPOSE IF MIND WANTS TO SKIP MEDITATION FOR A DAY AND ONE ALLOW IT TO DO THEN THE NAUGHTY MIND WILL WANT TO SKIP IT FOR SOME MORE DAYS. MIND WILL TRY TO LESSEN THE TIME OF MEDITATION BY GIVING A FUTILE JUSTIFICATION. IF IT SUCCEEDS, THEN THE NEXT DAY IT WILL TRY ITS BEST TO FURTHER REDUCE IT. CRUSH THE BUD OF LAZINESS IN THE NIP OTHERWISE IT WILL GO ON INCREASING. 

                      SOMETIMES A PERSON DROWSES WHILE CHANTING ON ROSARY. MIND GETS TIRED OF CONCENTRATING ON ONE POINT AND OF MONOTONOUS REPETITION OF THE SAME MANTRA. IT FINDS EASY TO SLIP IN THE SLEEP THAN TO STAY FOCUSED ON THE MANTRA. THE BEST WAY TO AVOID SUCH SITUATIONS IS BY STARTING CHANTING THE MANTRA LOUDLY OR STARTING CHANTING THE MANTRA WHILE STANDING. IF DROWSINESS OCCURS THEN ONE CAN SPLASH WATER ON FACE, CAN DO BREATHING EXERCISES OR DO SARVANGASANA OR SHIRSHANA FOR A FEW MINUTES. THIS WILL MAKE THE MIND ALERT.

                       LIKE THIS INNOCENT KID OUR MIND ALSO SEARCHES A GOOD EXCUSE FOR NOT OBEYING ORDERS.

SAMADHI PADA (THE YOGA FOR THE GODDESS)

                                     SAMADHI PADA 

                             LET'S TAKE UP THE CLASSIC SUTRA OF PATANJALI, WHICH IS THE SECOND ONE AFTER , "NOW, THE INSTRUCTION IN YOGA". YOGAS CHITTA VRITTI NIRODHA, WHICH LITERALLY TRANSLATED WOULD MEAN, "YOGA IS THE RESTRAINT OF THE MODIFICATIONS OF THE CHITTA". DIFFERENT TRANSLATORS HAVE USED "FLUCTUATIONS", "DISTORTIONS", AND SO ON, TO EXPLAIN IT. BUT IT IS NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND THE WORD CHITTA BEFORE COMPREHENDING THE WORD NIRODHA, MOSTLY TRANSLATED AS RESTRAIN.

                        MANY TRANSLATIONS HAVE USED THE WORD "MIND-STUFF". BUT MY SUBMISSION IS THAT IF PATANJALI MEANT MIND-STUFF, THE APPROPRIATE EQUIVALENT WORD SHOULD HAVE BEEN MANO VRITTI. I WOULD PREFER TO USE THE MORE FACTUAL WORD, BRAIN, FOR CHITTA. VRITTI MEANS ACTIVITY, MODIFICATIONS, FLUCTUATIONS, AMONG OTHER WORDS.

                     THE BRAIN IS NOT STATIC. IT IS INTENSELY DYNAMIC AT ITS CORE. BUT REGULAR BRAIN ACTIVITY, MARKED BY ATTRACTIONS AND REPULSIONS LINKED TO THE OBJECTIVE SENSORY WORLD, KEEPS THE BRAIN SO DISTRACTED THAT IT HAS NO TIME TO REACH IN TO ITS CORE, BECAUSE OF THE FLUCTUATIONS THAT IT FEELS.

                   WHEN THESE DISTRACTIONS AND FLUCTUATIONS DISAPPEAR, THE COMPONENTS OF THE INCESSANT MOVEMENT OF THOUGHT ARE SILENCED AND ERADICATED. THE BRAIN NO LONGER DISSIPATES ENERGY AND SETTLES INTO A SILENT, DEEP AND TRANQUIL STATE, WHICH IS ITS REAL CORE, SAYS PATANJALI. IN THIS STATE, THE YOGI IS FILLED WITH TREMENDOUS ENERGY, EXPERIENCING BLISS AND FULLNESS.

                           THE QUIET AND TRANQUIL BRAIN IS EMPOWERED WITH THE HIGHEST INTELLIGENCE AND BECOMES CAPABLE OF RISING TO THE FULLNESS OF SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS.

                   AS SOON AS THE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL ACTIVITIES OF THE BRAIN ARE CURBED, COLLECTIVE WISDOM IS REALIZED. FREE OF THE BURDEN OF USELESS INFORMATION, THE BRAIN TURNS INWARDS AND REALISES ITS FULL POTENTIAL. AS THE BRAIN IS NOW CLEAR OF ALL THE PAST DEBRIS, IT BECOMES CREATIVE AND SUBTLE.

                    ACCORDING TO YOGA, THE CORE OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS HAS ALL THE KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM "A PRIORI" WITHIN ITSELF. WISDOM IS NOT ACQUIRED FROM OUTSIDE BUT IS REVEALED FROM WITHIN WHEN VARIOUS CONDITIONINGS ARE REMOVED. THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THIS VAST, ALMOST OMNISCIENT POTENTIAL IS YOGA.

                          THE THIRD SHLOKA APTLY DESCRIBES A YOGI'S STATE AS: TADA DRASTAH SVA RUPE VASTHANAM. "THEN THERE IS THE ABIDING IN THE SEER'S OWN ORIGINAL FORM". TO PUT IT SIMPLY , WHEN FLUCTUATIONS AND DISTRACTIONS CEASE WITH YOGA PRACTICE, ONE REALISES THAT ONE IS THE SEER, PURE AND BLISSFUL - NOT THE "SEEN" WHICH IS ONLY PART OF LIFE'S DRAMA.

                       THE YOGI REALISES THAT HE DOESN'T POSSESS CONSCIOUSNESS BUT IS CONSCIOUSNESS ITSELF. SHE/HE IS NO LONGER CONFINED TO THE BRAIN'S LIMITED THOUGHT PROCESSESS, WHICH HAVE, INDEED, BEEN SUCCESSFULLY TRANSCENDED. THE YOGI IS NOW DIVINE AND NEEDS NO DIVINITY OR DEITY AS A CRUTCH.

                              THE FALSE BELIEF IN A SEPARATE EGO, DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS, IS PUT TO REST, AND ONE ABIDES AS THE ONE UNIVERSAL PURUSHA, SEVERED FROM PAIN - AS THE GITA STATES. THE ROOT OF ALL CONFLICT THAT STEMS FROM THE NARROW INDIVIDUAL EGO-SENSE IS BANISHED FOREVER. THE YOGI IS NOW FREE.

THE KUNDALINI AND THE SIX DHARSHANAS

 

                                        THE KUNDALINI

                        THE CONCEPT OF KUNDALINI ISN'T MENTIONED ANYWHERE IN THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI OR IN THE SANKHYA LITERATURE. WHILE SOME OF THE LATER UPANISHADS NOR THE VARIOUS NATH TEXTS LIKE THE GHERANDA SAMHITA, SHIVA SAMHITA OR EVEN THE HATHA YOGA PRADIPIKA MAKE MUCH OF THE WORD KUNDALINI. THE WORD KUNDALINI APPEARS IN THE YOGA TANTRAS LIKE THE SHAT CHAKRA NIRUPANA AND OTHER WORKS IN TANTRA, INCLUDING THE BUDDHIST TANTRAS WHICH HAVE PREDOMINANTLY SHAKTA LEARNINGS.

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                 *   THAT THE THERE ARE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF KUNDALINI BELONGED TO A SECRET GROUP OF SELECTED INDIVIDUALS OF THE TIME AND THEREFORE, IT WASN'T OPENLY AND OVERTLY DISCUSSED.

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                 * THAT FOR A PERSON ON A SPIRITUAL EXPLORATION OF THE STUDY, AN AROUSAL OF THE KUNDALINI ISN'T ESSENTIAL.

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                  * THAT EVEN THOSE WHO DON'T DIRECTLY PRACTICE THE SO-CALLED KUNDALINI YOGA HVE THEIR KUNDALINI AROUSED INADVERTENTLY WITH THE EXPERIENCES MENTIONED IN THE YOGA TANTRAS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE EXPERIENCES OF GOPI-KRISHNA OR FOR THAT MATTER, THOSE OF J.KRISHNAMURTI, ALTHOUGH, HE REMAINED SILENT ON THE SUBJECT WHEN QUESTIONED.

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                       I AGREE WITH ALL THE THREE ABOVE MENTIONED POINTS WHILE I DON'T FULLY AGREE WITH THE SECOND POINT. IT WOULD BE BETTER TO SAY THAT THE KUNDALINI PERHAPS IS AROUSED IN MYSTERIOUS AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE WAYS DURING THE CULMINATION OF THE SPIRITUAL EXPLORATION. REGARDING THE FIRST POINT, THE REASON WHY THE WORD KUNDALINI HAS BECOME SO CHEAP AND MISUSED IS BECAUSE OF THE RANDOM AND FREELY AVAILABLE - OFTEN MISREPRESENTED - EXPOSITIONS WHICH HAVE EVEN GONE TO RIDICULOUS EXTENT OF TEACHERS PROMISING TO AROUSE THE KUNDALINI IN A FIXED TIME FOR A FEE.

                       FOR THOSE WHO NEED A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE THEORY OF THE KUNDALINI AND THE DESCRIPTION OF THE CHAKRAS OR CENTRES THROUGH WHICH THE KUNDALINI ASCENDS AND DESCENDS IN THE HUMAN FORM, THERE IS NO BETTER THAN THE SHAT CHAKRA NIRUPANA TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR AVALON AS THE SERPENT POWER.SHAT-CHAKRA-NIRUPANA AND PADUKA-PANCHAKA, THOUGH IT MUST BE MENTIONED THAT THE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE LEARNT FROM QUALIFIED TEACHER.

                           TO SUM UP, KUNDALINI, OR KULA KUNDALINI AS IT IS MENTIONED IN THE YOGA TANTRAS IS THE PRIMORDIAL ENERGY, THE SOURCE OF ALL CREATION, CALLED PRANA SHAKTI THAT-AFTER HAVING DONE ITS WORK-RESTS IN THE MULADHARA AT THE END OF THE SPINE IN ALL HUMAN BEINGS AND IS INTIMATELY LINKED TO THE LIBIDO. IN NON-YOGIS, IT IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF SEXUAL AROUSAL, THE ECSTASY THAT FOLLOWS AND THE BIOLOGICAL CREATION OF A NEW HUMAN BEING. FOR THE YOGI, IT IS THE SAME ENERGY WHICH WHEN CONTROLLED AND SUBLIMATED ASCENDS THE CENTRES OF CONSCIOUSNESS ALONG THE SPINE TILL IT MERGES IN THE MALE COMPONENT CALLED SHIVAM IN THE THOUSAND-PETALLED LOTUS, THE CROWN CENTRE CALLED THE SAHASRARA CHAKRA. THE TEACHINGS FOR THIS PROCESS CAN ONLY BE LEARNT FROM AN ADEPT TEACHER AND THE RESULTS CAN HAPPEN GENERALLY ONLY WITH CONSTANT AND PERSISTANT PRACTICE FOR AN EXTENTED PERIOD OF TIME.

                      ❤   THE SIX DHARSHANAS AND THEIR MEANING

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                     1. DHARSHANAS : SIX ANCIENT SCHOOLS OF PHILOSOPHY. COMING FACE TO FACE WITH REALITY, WOULD BE A FAIR TRANSLATION OF THE SANSKRIT WORD, DARSHANA. THE SIX DARSHANAS ARE NYAYA, SANKHYA, YOGA, VAISHESHAKA, MIMMAMSAAND VEDANTA.

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                      2. KAIVALYA : A DERIVATIVE OF THE WORD "KEVALA" - ALL ALONE, IT MEANS COMPLETE FREEDOM FROM THE VAGARIES OF PRIMAL OBJECTIVE MATTER.

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                     3. YOGA : FREEING THE MIND OF ALL DISTRACTIONS (YOGAS CHITTA VRITTI NIRODHA).

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                     4. KRIYA YOGA : A TECHNIQUED, PRACTICE OR ACTION TOWARDS A SPECIFIC RESULT IN THE MOVEMENT TOWARDS SPIRITUAL FULFILLMENT.

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                      5. ASHTANGA YOGA : THE EIGHT LIMBS OF YOGA AS DEFINED BY PATANJALI NAMELY : YAMA, NIYAMA, ASANA, PRANAYAMA, PRATYAHARA, DHARANA, DHYANA AND SAMADHI. PATANJALI NOWHERE MENTIONS THE TERM ASHTANGA YOGA. IN FACT, HE CALLS IT KRIYA YOGA.

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                      6. VEDAS : THE VEDAS ARE THE "REVEALED" ANCIENT SCRIPTURES.

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                      7. SHANTI MANTRA : HYMN OR PRAYER FOR PEACE.

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                       8. UPANISHADS : ANCIENT PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS OF INDIA DELVING INTO ONE'S TRUE IDENTITY.

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                      9. ISHWARA : THE SUPREME BEING, A PERSONAL GOD OR DEITY, THE HIGHEST SELF OR SPIRITUAL INSPIRATION.

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                     10. SHIVA SAMHITA : AN ANCIENT TEXTS ON YOGA WHICH DISCUSSES TECHNIQUES AND PRACTICES OF YOGA AND THEORY OF "ASANAS" OR POSTURES AS A PATH TOWARDS LIBERATION.

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                     11. YOGA YAGNAVALKYA ; A CLASSICAL TEXTS ON YOGA WHICH COMBINES ASHTANGA YOGA - THE EIGHT LIMBED PRACTICE AND VEDANTA.

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                    12. CHITTA : THE MIND AND THE LIMITED CONSCIOUSNESS .

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                   13. VRITTIS : MOVEMENTS, ACTIVITY, DISTRACTIONS.

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                    14. SEER : THE SUBJECT - SEER- SEPARATED FROM THE OBJECT, THE SEEN AND THE ACT OF "SEEING" A WISE PERSON OR A SAGE.

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                      15. GUNAS : ATTRIBUTES PRESENT IN PRAKRITI AS PER SANKHYA PHILOSOPHY WHICH HAS BECOME THE BASIS FOR VEDANTA, BUDDHIST AND OTHER EASTERN PHILOSOPHERS. THERE ARE THREE GUNAS: TAMAS (DARK OR DENSE) , RAJAS (ACTIVITY BASED) AND SATTVA (HARMONIOUS, BALANCED).

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                     16. ABHYASA : PRACTICE.

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                     17. SAMSKARAS : MENTAL CONDITIONING OR IMPRESSIONS FOREMED.

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                     18. KLESA : IMPERFECTION OR AFFLICTION.

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                     19. PRAVRITTI : TURNING OUTWARDS WITH SENSE OBJECTS DIRECTED ONLY TO THE EXTERNAL WORLD.

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                    20. NIVRITTI : TURNING WITHIN OR MOVING TOWARDS.

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                    21. KARMA : THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT, ACTION.

TYPES OF YOGAS AND ITS BENEFITS

 

                           

                                       YOGA SUTRAS 

                                   AUM IN THE UPANISHADS

                     SHLOKA 12   💫❤

 

                         AMATRAS CATURTHO VYAVAHARYAH

                            PRAPANCOPASAMAH SIVO DVAITA

                            EVAM AUMKARA ATMAIVA, SAMVISATY

                            ATMANA TMANAM YA EVAM

                             VEDA YA EVAM VEDA

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                        THE FOURTH IS THAT WHICH HAS NO ELEMENT, WHICH CANNOT BE SPOKEN OF, INTO WHICH THE WORLD IS RESOLVED, BENIGN, NON-DUAL. THUS, THE SYLLLABLE AUM IS THE VERY SELF. HE WHO KNOWS IT ENTERS THE SELF WITH HIS SELF.

                  THE KATHA UPANISHAD, AMONG THE PRINCIPLE UPANISHADS, TALKS OF AUM DURING THE INTERESTING DIALOGUE BETWEEN YOUNG NACHIKETAS AND THE LORD OF DEATH, YAMA.

                       TO NACHIKETA'S QUESTION: TELL ME WHICH THOU SEES BEYOND RIGHT AND WRONG, BEYOND WHAT IS DONE OR NOT DONE, BEYOND PAST AND FUTURE?

                         YAMA SAYS:

                          SHLOKA  15, SECTION 2   💫❤

                     SARVE VEDA YAT PADMA AMANANTI TAPAMSI SARVANI CA

               YAD VADANTI, YAD ICCHANTO BRAHMACARYAMCARANTI, TAT TE

                        PADAMSAMGRAHENA BRAVIMI: AUM ITY ETAT

                     THAT WORD WHICH ALL THE VEDAS DECLARE, WHICH ALL THE AUSTERITIES PROCLAIM, DESIRING WHICH PEOPLE LIVE THE LIFE OF THE STUDENT OF THE TRUTH, THAT WORD TO THEE, I SHALL TELL IN BRIEF, THAT IS AUM.

                         SHLOKA 16   💫❤

 

                        ETADD HY EVAKSARAM BRAHMA, ETAD HY

                       EVAKSARAM PARAMETAD HY EVAKSARAM

                       JNATVA, YO YAD ICCHATI TASYA TAT

                          THIS SYLLABLE IS VERILY, THE EVERLASTING SPIRIT. THIS SYLLABLE, INDEED, IS THE HIGHEST END, KNOWING THIS SYLLABLE, WHATEVER ANYONE DESIRES, WILL BE HIS.

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                    THE PRASNA UPANISHAD REFERS TO AUM IN THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN SATYAKAMA AND THE SAGE, PIPPALADA,

                         SHLOKA 1   💫❤

                            SATHA HAINAM SAIBYAS SATYA-KAMAH PAPRACCHA, 

                            SA YO HA VAI TAD, BHAGAVAN,

                            MANUSYESU PRAYANAMTAM AUMKARAM

                           ABHIDHYAYITA, KATAMAM VA VAS

                           A TENA LOKAM JAYANTI

                   VENERABLE SIR, WHAT WORLD DOES HE, WHO AMONG MEN, MEDITATES ON AUM UNTIL THE END OF HIS LIFE, WIN BY THAT?

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                      TASMAI SA HAVACA, ETAD VAI, SATYA-KAMA, PARAM

                      CAPARAM CA BRAHMA YAD AUMARAH, TASMAD

                       VIDVAN ETENAIVAYATANENAIKATARAM ANVETI

                     TO HIM, HE SAID, THAT WHICH IS THE SOUND AUM, O SATYAKAMA, IS VERILY THE HIGHER AND LOWER BRAHMAN. THEREFORE, WITH THIS SUPPORT ALONE, DOES THE WISE MAN REACH THE ONE OR THE OTHER.

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                      MANY  MORE REFERENCE TO THE PRANAVA ARE FOUND IN THE EARLY AS WELL AS LATER TEXTS, BUT THE EXAMPLES QUOTED HERE ARE IMPORTANT AS THEY SHOW THAT THE TEACHINGS ON AUM ARE ANCIENT AND ALSO THAT PATANJALI, THE AUTHOR OF THE YOGA SUTRAS IS AWARE OF IT. IN SPITE OF HIS PREDOMINANTLY SANKHYAN LEANINGS, HE IS READY TO GIVE CREDENCE TO UPANISHADIC TRADITION WHEN REQUIRED, EVEN THOUGH HE DOEST NOT OVERLY ACKNOWLEDGE HIS INDEBTEDNESS

                 HE COMES THROUGH AS A TEACHER WHO IS READY TO EMBRACE NON-SANKHYA TEACHINGS, PROVIDED THEY CONTRIBUTE TO THE SOLE GOAL OF YOGA, WHICH IS KAIVALYA OR LIBERATION.

                    A BRIEF DISCUSSION ON SUTRA 28 OF THE SAMADHI PADA OF THE YOGA SUTRAS IS NECESSARY NOW.THE SUTRA SAYS: REPETITION OF IT AND REALISATION OF ITS PURPOSE".

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                  IF WE LOOK AT AUM AS PURE SOUND, CAPABLE OF OVERCOMING OBSTACLES TO THE ATTAINMENT OF SAMADHI OR PURE, INNER CONSCIOUSNESS, AS MENTIONED IN SUTRA 29, THE QUESTION ARISES AS TO HOW IT SHOULD BE REPEATED OR CHANTED AND WHETHER THERE ARE CERTAIN TECHNIQUES TO DO THAT.

                   ALTHOUGH STRICTLY SPEAKING, PRACTICAL METHODS ARE DISCUSSED MORE IN THE SECTION CALLED SADHANA PADA, IT WOULD BE WORTHWHILE TO DISCUSS THE PRACTICE OF PRANAVA SADHANA OR REPETITION OF AUM RIGHT NOW SINCE WE RE ALREADY ON THE SUBJECT.

THE TYPES OF MEDITATION AND ITS USES

                                THE JAPA MEDITATION 

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                                             DHRANA

                              ACCORDING TO SWAMI JNANESHVARA BHARATI, "CONCENTRATION (DHARANA) IS THE PROCESS OF HOLDING OF FIXING THE ATTENTION OF MIND ONTO ONE OBJECT OR PLACE'. WHEN THE MIND IS CONCENTRATED ON AN OBJECT LIKE FLAME OF LIGHT, SYMBOL OM, IMAGE OF DIETY OR TIP OF NOSE WITHOUT ANY DISTRACTION IT IS KNOWN AS DHARANA.

                          THE INTERNET CONNECTION IS TOO SLOW. MAM, COME HERE AN CHECK WHAT WENT WRONG WITH THE COMPUTER". THE BOY SAID WHO WAS WORKING AN A PROJECT REPART ASSIGNED TO HIM AS HOME WORK.

                          THE MOTHER CAME IN, PEEPED FOR A SECOND WAS SURPRISED TO SEE COMPUTER SCREEN. AT THAT TIME, THAN TWENTY WINDOWS WERE OPENED. "YOU HAVE OPENED SO MANY WINDOWS THAT'S WHY ITS SPEED SLOWED DOWN. IT YOU OPEN ONLY ONE WINDOW THEN ITS SPEED WILL BE FAST . IN THE SAME WAY IF YOU CONCENTRATE YOUR MIND ON ONE TASK, THEN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO FINISH IT IN LESS TIME".

                           SWAMI VENKATESANANDA SAID, "WHEN THE ATTENTION OF THE MIND-STUFF IN DIRECTED IN A SINGLE STEAM TO A CHOSEN FIELD, WITHOUT BEING DISSIPATED AND THUS DISTRACTED THAT IS CONCENTRATION".

                           

                         DHYANA💫

                               UNDISTURBED STEAM OF THOUGHTS AND CONTINUED ABSORPTION IN THE POINT FOR LONG TIME RESULTS IN CONTEMPTION.

                          THAT IS THE POWER OF FOCUS! POWER OF FOCUS IS SUCH THAT IT CAN BURN ALL THE NEGATIVITY INSIDE A HUMAN BODY.

                        THE MIND ENTERS IN DEEP CONCENTRATION WHEN THE OBJECT OF CONCENTRATION AND THE ACT OF CONCENTRATION BECOMES ONE. THE MIND BECOMES STILL, SOLO POINTED OR CONCENTRATED. IN SAMADHI ONE DOESN'T HEAR OR SEE. THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL CONSCIOUSNESS VANISHES. ONLY SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS IS LEFT ONE EXPERIENCES ULTIMATE PEACE.

                          TYPES OF SAMADHI💫

                                      SAMADHI IS OF TWO TYPES I.E. SAMPRAJNATA OR SABIJA OR SAVIKALPA AND ASAMPRAJNATA OR NIRVIKALPA. IN SAMPRAJNATA SAMADHI THE KNOWER, KNOWLEDGE AND THE KNOWABLE ARE DISTINCT. ONE EXPERIENCES THIS SAMADHI WHEN THE KUNDALINI ENERGY RISES UP TO SIXTH CHAKRA I.E. AJNA CHAKRA AND OPENS IT. IN THIS SAMADHI THA SANSKARAS (PAST KARMAS) ARE NOT FRIED. WHEN THE TIME COMES THESE SANSKARAS CAN GROW AND CAUSE TROUBLE FOR THE SADHAKA (DEVOTEE) LIKE A SEE WHICH CAN GERMINATE ON RECEIVING FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS. IN SAMPRAJNATA THE KNOWER, KNOWLEDGE AND THE KNOWABLE ARE SAME. THIS SAMADHI IS EXPERIENCED WHEN KUNDALINI ENERGY REACHES SEVENTH CHAKRA I.E. SAHASRARA CHAKRA AND THE THOUSAND PETALS LOTUS FLOWER IS OPENED. NO PAST KARMA'S SEEDS ARE LEFT. THEY ARE ALL FRIED UP. WHEN ASAMPRAJNATA SAMADHI OS CONSTANTLY PRACTISED IT LEADS TO LIBERATION.

                             APARIGRAHA💫

                             IT MEANS NON POSSESIVENESS AND NON HOARDING. ONE SHOULD TAKE WHAT IS NECESSARY AND AVOID BEING GREED. ONE SHOULD BE SATISFIED WITH WHAT ONE HAS AND SHOULD NOT YEARN FOR MORE AND MORE. HOARDING OF THINGS INDICATE "FEAR FOR FUTURE". IF ONE WISHES TO PROGRESS ON SPIRITUAL PATH THEN ONE HAS TO SHED THE FEAR BY NON HOARDING OF THINGS. THE MOST IMPORTANT IS TO SHED ANY ATTACHMENT WITH SUCH THINGS. GET RID OF WORRY ABOUT YOUR MONEY, ABOUT YOUR BELONGING AND ABOUT YOUR FUTURE- GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING.

                      IF THE YOGI IS WORRIED ABOUT THE NEXT MEAL IT MEANS HE HAS NOT OVERCOME HIS GREEDINESS AS WELL AS FEAR OF FUTURE.

                               NIYAMA 💫

                        NIYAMA MEANS THE RULES FOR PERSONAL AND RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE. THEY ARE MORE INTIMATE AND PERSONAL WHEN COMPARED TO YAMAS. THE FIVE NIYAMAS ARE SAUCHA (PURITY) SANTOSH (CONTENTMENT), TAPAS (DISCIPLINE), SWADHYAYA (SELF STUDY) AND ISHVARAPRAMIDHANA (SURRENDER TO GOD).

                         SAUCHA💫

                   SAUCHA MEANS CLEANLINESS OF BODY AND MIND. IT IS EXTERNAL AS WELL AS INTERNAL PURITY. OUTER CLEANLINESS DENOTES THAT ONE SHOULD WASH ONE'S BODY REGULARLY TO KEEP IT FREE FROM DISEASES. WITH A SICK BODY ONE CANNOT CONCENTRATE PROPERLY. AN OLDER PROVERB SAYS "THERE IS A HEALTHY MIND IN A HEALTHY BODY" INNER CLEANLINESS REFERS TO HEALTHY AND PROPER FUNCTIONING OF ORGANS AND CLARITY OF MIND. BY DOING ASANAS AND PRANAYAMAS, ONE CAN PURIFY ONESELF INTERNALLY. REGULAR ASANAS MAKE THE BODY HEALTHY. FIT ANS STRONG WHERE AS REGULAR PRANAYAMAS CLEAN LUNGS, PURIFY BLOOD AND HELP IN PROPER CIRCULATION OF BLOOD. CLEANSIG OF MIND IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CLEANSING OF BODY. EMOTIONS LIKE ANGER, JEALOUSY, GREED, LUST, HATRED AND PRIDE SHOULD BE REMOVED AS THEY ARE VERY DISTURBING FOR MIND. A SPECIAL MENTAL BROOM IS NEEDED TO WIPE OUT ALL NEGATIVE SENSATIONS FROM MIND.

                          SANTHOSH💫

                              SANTHOSE IS CONTENTMENT AND SATISFACTION. IT IS THE FEELING THAT ONE IS SATISFIED WITH WHAT ONE KIND HAS. JEIHE VIDHI RAKHE RAM LEIHI VIDHI RAHIYE" MEANS WHAT EVER BE THE CIRCUMSTANCES CREATED BY GOD ONE SHOULD BE HAPPY AND CONTENTED WITH THAT.

                       ONE SHOULD BE CONTENTED EVEN IN DIFFICULT SITUATIONS.

                       TAPAS 💫

                  IT MEANS DISCIPLINE - DISCIPLINE OF THE BODY AS WELL AS MIND. IT MEANS TO HAVE CONTROL OVER THE BODY WHICH CAN FURTHER HELP TO CONTROL MIND. IT GUIDES US TO BURN ALL THE DESIRES COMING IN THE PATH OF SELF REALIZATION. TAPAS ALSO INCLUDES DISCIPLINING FIVE SENSES I.E. NOSE, EAR, TONGUE, SKIN AND EYES. TONGUE IS THE MOST DIFFICULT TO DISCIPLINE AS IT ALWAYS WANT TO EAT TASTY FOOD AND TALK GOSSIP. BY DISCIPLINING ONE'S EATING HABITS AND BREATHING ONE CAN EASILY CONTROL BODY AND MIND.

                    SOME PERSONS PRACTISE TAPAS BY STANDING IN ICE COLD WATER AND SOME BY STANDING ON HOT SAND IN SUMMER FOR LONG TIME. ONE WHO CAN BE BEAR COLD AND HEAT DOES THE PHYSICAL TAPAS. MENTAL TAPAS IS MORE DIFFICULT THAN PHYSICAL TAPAS. ONE WHO CAN BEAR THE INSULT AND HARSH WORDS DOES THE MENTAL TAPAS.

                        SWADHYAYA💫

                        SWADHYAYA MEANS SELF STUDY. IT MEANS READING SACRED SPIRITUAL TEXTS LIKE RAMAYANA, SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA, BIBLE, QURAN AND GURU GRANTH SAHIB. SWADHYAYA CLEARS DOUBT, STRENGTHENS FAITH, ENCOURAGS MOVING FURTHER ON SPIRITUAL PATH AND OVERCOMING ALL OBSTACLES COMING IN THE WAY. IT HELPS IN ANALYSING AND INCORPORATING THE TEACHINGS OF THE SAGES. IT REMOVES NEGATIVE THOUGHTS AND THROWS LIGHT ON A NEW POSITIVE OUTLOOK TOWARDS. IT REMOVES NEGATIVE THOUGHTS AND THROWS LIGHT ON A NEW POSITIVE OUTLOOK TOWARDS LIFE. ONE'S OWN INTERPRETATION OF FACTS AD INFORMATION HELP IN EVALUATING ONESELF.

                ISHVARAPRANIDHARA 💫

                          IT MEANS SURRENDER TO GOD. IT MEANS PUTTING ALL THE ACTIONS AND THEIR FAITHS TO THE LORD'S FEET. THIS ATTITUDE HELPS IN BECOMING ONE WITH GOD.

                                 

THE NEW TRICK TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL

                          WHAT TO DO FOR YOUR GOAL?

 

                        QUESTION 💫❤ : 

                        I SEE I DON'T TRUST LIFE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. NOTHING FEELS POSSIBLE UNLESS I DO. THERE ARE MOMENTS WHEN TRUST HAPPENS, BUT WHAT I SUPPOSED TO DO AT OTHER TIMES WHEN I DON'T FEEL IT? PRETENDTING TRUST SEEMS EVEN WORSE. LIVING IN FEAR FEELS NO GOOD EITHER. 

                    ANS :👀👀 

                      RUPA, THAT'S HOW WE GO ON CREATING NEW GOALS. I GO ON TAKING GOALS FROM YOU AND YOU GO ON NEW GOALS. NOW ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUST NOW THAT BECOMES THE GOAL. NENETY-NINE PERCENT AND YOU ARE WORRIED.

                  CAN'T YOU SIMPLY BE AS YOU ARE? WHY BOTHER ABOUT ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUST? TRYING TO BE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT WHEN YOU ARE NOT IS BOUND TO CREATE HYPOCRISY. YOU WILL BECOME ARTIFICIAL, YOU WILL BECOME UNNATURAL.

                                                              💫❤💫

                     AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUST MEANS? ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUST MEANS TRUSTING EVEN IN YOUR MISTRUST- THAT'S WHAT ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUST MEANS. IF THERE IS A MOMENT OF UNTRUST, YOU TRUST THAT MOMENT TOO! WHAT CAN YOU DO? ONE MOMENT YOU TRUST ME, GOOD, ANOTHER MOMENT YOU DON'T TRUST ME, GOOD. THIS IS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUST. WHEN ALL IS GOOD IT IS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUST.

                       NOW YOU ARE AGAIN TRYING TO CREATE TROUBLE ANXIETY FOR YOURSELF. ONE MOMENT YOU TRUST ME GOOD, YOU FEEL VERY GOOD. THEN ANOTHER MOMENT COMES DISTRUST NOW YOU ARE WORRIED, NOW SOMEHOW YOU HAVE TO CHANGE THIS DISTRUST INTO TRUST. NOW YOU ARE AGAIN STARTING A NEW LADDER.

                                                              💫❤💫

                     NOW YOU WILL COMPARED. "SOMEBODY HAS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUST THIS MOMENT NEVER COMES TO HIM. AND SOMEBODY HAS EVEN LESS TRUST THAN ME". AND YOU ARE BECOMING PART OF A HIERARCHY, YOU HAVE STARTED COMPARING. AND YOU ARE CREATING AMBITION AND FEVER. AND WHEN IT DOES NOT HAPPEN, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? AND ANYTHING DONE BY YOU WILL BE UNNATURAL. SO YOU WILL BECOME ARTIFICIAL, WHEN IT IS NOT THERE YOU WILL PRETEND. YOU WILL AT LEAST BELIEVE THAT IT IS THERE AT LEAST ON THE SURFACE. YOU WILL BECOME AFRAID OF GOING DEEP INTO YOURSELF, BECAUSE IF YOU GO DEEP INTO YOURSELF YOU WILL KNOW THAT IT IS NOT THERE. 

                      ONE HUNDRED PERCEN TRUST MEANS: ACCEPT LIFE WHATSOEVER IT BRINGS TRUST, MISTRUST, LOVE, HATE, GOD, DEVIL, GOOD, BAD. YOU DON'T TRY TO CHANGE ANYTHING, DON'T TRY TO CORRECT ANYTHING. BE IN A LET-GO-THAT IS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUST.

                                                              💫❤💫

                     AND LET ME REMIND YOU AGAIN, OTHERWISE, NEXT DAY RUPA WILL BE HERE SAYING, " I CAN ALLOW LET-GO SOMETIMES, BUT SOMETIMES IT DOESN'T HAPPEN. THE LET-GO IS NOT ONE HUNDRED PERCENT". LET-GO AGAIN MEANS THE SAME: WHEN IT HAPPENS, IT HAPPENS, WHEN IT DOEN'T HAPPEN, IT DOESN'T HAPPEN. YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO A THING.

                    DO ANYTHING AND YOU BECOME ARTIFICIAL AND PEOPLE HAVE BECOME SO ARTIFICIAL. IT IS VERY TRUE, VERY RARE, TO SEE EVEN A SMALL PART INA PERSON WHICH IS NOT ARTIFICIAL. AND IT HAS ALL HAPPENED, THIS CALAMITY HAS HAPPENED,BECAUSE YOU ARE SUCH A GREAT IMPROVER CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVING UPON YOURSELF, CORRECTING AND CORRECTING. FROM YOUR VERY CHILDHOOD YOUR PARENTS WERE CORRECTING YOU, THEN YOUR TEACHERS WERE CORRECTING YOU, THEN YOUR PROFESSORS WERE CORRECTING YOU, YOUR PRIESTS WERE CORRECTING YOU, THE WHOLE SOCIETY HAS JUST BEEN CORRECTING YOU. AND NATURALLY, AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF CORRECTION BY EVERYBODY, YOU YOURSELF BECOME A GREAT CORRECTER. THEN YOU START CORRECTING YOURSELF.

                                                                💫❤💫

                      IN FACT, YOU ARE ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE UNIVERSITY ONLY WHEN YOU START DOING THE WORK OF THE PARENTS AND THE TEACHERS AND THE PROFESSORS AND THE PRIEST ON YOUR OWN THEN THEY ALLOW. THEN THEY SAY, "RIGHT , OW THERE IS NO DANGER. THIS MAN WILL DO WHATSOEVER WE WERE DOING, AND WILL DO IT FAR BETTER BECAUSE HE WILL KNOW FROM THE INSIDE, HE WILL KNOW THE INSIDE STORY".

                     HAVE YOU NOT OBSERVED IT? SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING. SUDDENLY YOU HEAR YOUR MOTHER'S VOICE: "DON'T DO IT!" IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD IT, TRY TO HEAR, AND YOU WILL FIND YOUR MOTHER STILL SAYING, "DON'T DO IT" ACTUALLY YOUR MOTHER'S VOICE YOU CAN HEAR, OR YOUR FATHER'S SAYING, "THIS IS WRONG. THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO DO THE THING. CORRECT IT". OR YOUR TEACHERS CORRECTING. THEY HAVE CREATED SUCH A RIFT IN YOU THAT YOU HAVE BECOME TWO.

                        THIS WHOLE SOCIETY EXISTS IN A KIND OF SCHIZOPHRENIA. EVERY PERSON IS SPLIT. THIS SOCIETY HAS TRIED THE TRICK OF DIVIDE AND RULE. IT HAS DIVIDED EVERY PERSON INTO TWO. THE CORRECTOR AND THE ONE WHO HAS TO BE CORRECTED. SO EVERYBODY HAS BECOME LIKE A SMALL STUDENT AND THE HEADMASTER - BOTH ARE THERE! AND THE HEADMASTER WITH CANE SHOUTING AND THREATENING, AND THE SMALL CHILD ALWAYS BEING CORRECTED.

                                                                💫❤💫

                    PLEASE DON'T TRY ANYTHING UPONG YOURSELF STOP TRYING. LET THINGS BE. LET THINGS BE AS THEY ARE. THEY ARE UTTERLY BEAUTIFUL. ALL UGLINESS IS CREATED BY YOU. YES, SOMETIMES MISTRUST IS PERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL. SOMETIMES DOUBT IS GOOD, IT PROTECTS YOU FROM MANY FOOLISHNESSESS. IT PROTECTS YOU FROM GULLIBILITY. SOMETIMES TRUST IS GOOD, SOMETIMES NO TRUST IS GOOD. BUT WHATSOEVER THE CASE, THIS I CALL ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUST-THAT YOU ALWAYS SAY, "GOOD, SO THIS IS THE THING IN THIS MOMENT. SO THIS MOMENT GOD WANTS ME TO BE TRUSTFUL AND THIS MOMENT GOD WANTS ME TO BE DOUBTFUL". LEAVE IT TO GOD, AND YOU SIMPLY BE AT THE RECEPTIVE END, A RECEPTACLE, AND YOU WILL BE SURPRISED. LIFE WILL START HAPPENING TO YOU AND GOD WILL START HAPPENING TO YOU. 

                          BUT WE ARE TRAINED VERY DEEP DOWN FROM THE CHILDHOOD TO BE FALSE, TO BE UNTRUE, TO BE FORMAL.

THE TRUTH OF BLACK HOLE AND WHITE HOLE

 

                

                       THE MISTERY OF BLACK HOLE AND 

                                       WHILTE HOLE

                              THE SCIENCE OF TRUTH

                           WHAT IS RELIGION? IT IS NOT THE HOWLING WHAT IT HAS BECOME TO THE MASSESS. IF THE MASSES ARE RIGHT, THEN ANIMALS HAVE A GREAT RELIGIOUS SENSE-WOLVES HOWLING, DOGS BARKING AT THE MOON, AT THE DISTANT, AT THE FARAWAY.

                           PAUL TILLICH HAS DEFINED RELIGION AS THE ULTIMATE CONCERN. IT IS EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE. IT IS THE IMMEDIATE CONCERN, NOT THE ULTIMATE CONCERN. INFACT, THE IMMEDIATE IS THE ONLY ULTIMATE THERE IS.

                        RELIGION IS NOT A DESIRE FOR A DISTANT, A CURIOSITY FOR THE FARAWAY. IT IS AN INQUIRY INTO ONE'S OWN BEING.

                         THAT'S WHY BUDDHISM IS NOT CONCERNED WITH GOD AT ALL. IT IS CONCERNED WITH YOU, WITH YOUR REALITY. IT'S WHOLE PROCESS IS LIKE PEELING AN ONION. BUDDHISM CONTINUES TO PEEL YOUR REALITY. LAYER UPON LAYER, IT GOES ON DESTROYING THE ILLUSION, THE DREAMS. AND JUST AS HAPPENS WHEN YOU PEEL AN ONION, ULTIMATELY ONLY NOTHING IS LEFT IN YOUR HANDS.

               THAT NOTHING IS THE SOURCE OF ALL. OUT OF THAT NOTHING ALL ARISES AND SLOWLY DISAPPEARS BACK INTO THAT NOTHING.

                     NOW PHYSICISTS ARE COMING VERY CLOSE TO IT. THEY CALL THAT NOTHING "THE BLACK HOLE" MATTER DISAPPEARS INTO BLACK HOLES, IS UTTERLY ANNIHILATED, BECOMES NOTHING. NOW, AFTER BLACK HOLES, THERE IS TALK IN SCIENTIFIC CIRCLES ABOUT WHILTE HOLES TOO. OUT OF WHITE HOLES, MATTER ARISES. IT SEEMS BLACK HOLES AND WHITE HOLES ARE JUST TWO ASPECTS OF THE SAME REALITY LIKE THE DOOR. ON ONE SIDE OF THE DOOR IW WRITTEN "ENTRANCE", THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SAME DOOR IS CALLED THE "EXIT".

         

                     WHEN THINGS APPEAR OUT OF THE WOMB OF NOTHINGNESS, THE DOOR IS CALLED THE WHILTE HOLE  WHITE BECAUSE GIVES BIRTH, WHITE BECAUSE LIFE COMES OUT OF IT. BY CALLING IT WHILE WE ARE APPRECIATING IT, WE ARE VALUING IT. ONE DAY EVERYTHING DISAPPEARS BACK INTO THE SAME DOOR THEN WE CALL IT BLACK. WE HAVE ALWAYS CALLED DEATH BLACK. MAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN AFRAID OF THE BLACK, OF THE DARK, OF DEATH.

                          BUT IT IS THE SAME REALITY! FROM ONE SIDE IT I" BLACK HOLE" FROM THE OTHER SIDE IT IS "WHITE HOLE". BUDDHA CALLS IT SHUNYATA.

                      THERE IS EVERY POSSIBILITY THAT MODERN PHYSICS WILL COME EVERY DAY MORE AND MORE CLOSE TO BUDDHA. IT HAS TO COME. IT HAS TO RECOGNIZE BUDDHA'S INSIGHT INTO REALITY, BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE EVER DARED TO CALL NOTHINGNESS THE SOURCE OF ALL. HOW DID BUDDHA STUMBLE UPON THE FALL? HE WAS NOT A PHYSICIST. HE WAS NOT WORKING INTO THE DEEPEST REALITY OF MATTER, BUT HE WAS WORKING INTO THE DEEPEST REALITY OF MATTERS, BUT HE WAS WORKING INTO THE DEEPEST REALITY OF HIS OWN PSYCHOLOGY.

                     YOU HAVE TO BE REMINDED OF THAT ALSO. BUDDHISM IS NOT A METAPHYSICS. METAPHYSICS IS ALWAYS A CONCERN WITH THE ULTIMATE. "META" MEANS BEYOND BEYOND PHYSICS, BEYOND THAT WHICH CAN BE SEEN, BEYOND THE EARTH, BEYOND THE VISIBLE, THE TANGIBL, THE SENSUOUS. METAPHYSICS MEANS ALWAYS THE FARAWAY, THE DISTANT REALITY, THE GOD.

                         BUDDHISM IS BASICALLY PURELY A PSYCHOLOGY, IT IS NOT CONCERNED WITH METAPHYCIS. IT CONCERN WITH THE REALITY OF THE MIND, HOW THE MIND FUNCTIONS, WHAT CONSTITUTES THE MIND. AND IT GOES ON PENETRATING DEEPER INTO THE LAYERS OF THE MIND, AND FINALLY COMES TO THE REALIZATION THAT DEEPEST, AT THE BOTTOM CORE, THERE IS NOTHINGNESS.

                            BUDDHA WAS NOT BELIEVED BY PEOPLE, BECAUSE WHO CAN BELIEVE IN NOTHINGNESS? WHO WANTS NOTHINGNESS IN THE FIRST PLACE? MODERN PHYSICS IS ALSO PUZZLING PEOPLE, DRIVING THEM CRAZY. BUT REALITY IS AS IT IS, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT IS NOT THE QUESTION. YOUR LIKING OR NOT LIKING IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE IT. YOUR LIKING AND DISLIKING CAN ONLY KEEP YOU IN ILLUSIONS. REALITY HAS TO BE SEEN AS IT IS. AND TO BE CAPABLE OF SEEING THAT IS ALL THAT IS NEEDED TO BECOME RELIGIOUS., THE COURAGE TO SEE REALITY IN ITS NAKED TRUTH, IN ITS NAKEDNESS, UNDISGUISED, UNCOVERED, UNDRESSED.

                     AND ONCE YOU HAVE SEEN REALITY AS IT IS, ONCE YOU HAVE HAD A GLIMPSE OF THE REAL MAN, A GREAT TRANSFORMATION HAPPENS OF ITS OWN ACCORD THAT VERY INSIGHT TRANSFORMS YOU, TRANSMUTES YOU, YOU ARE NEVER AGAIN THE SAME, BECAUSE ALL ILLUSIONS DISSAPEAR. SEEING THE REALITY, HOW CAN YOU CONTINUE TO DELUDE YOURSELF? HOW CAN YOU CONTINUE TO DREAM? HOW CAN YOU CONTINUE IN YOUR PREJUDICES? HOW CAN YOU GO ON KEEPING FALSE OPINIONS? HOW CAN YOU CARRY ON WITH DOCTRINES AND PHILOSOPHIES AND SCRIPTURES? SEEING THE REALITY, ALL SIMPLE DISSPEARS, ONLY REALITY IS THERE. AND TO BE WITH THAT REALITY IS LIBERATION.

                       JESUS IS RIGHT WHEN HE SAYS, TRUTH LIBERATES. TRUTH IS LIBERATION. THER IS EVERY POSSIBILITY THAT JESUS LEARNT THE SECRETS OF THE TRUTH THROUGH BUDDHIST MASTERS. THERE IS EVERY POSSIBILITY THAT BEFORE HE STARTED HIS WORK IN ISRAEL, HE WAS IN INDIA, IN NALANDA, WITH BUDDHIST MASTERS. NALANDA WAS ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT BUDDHAFIELDS, A GREAT UNIVERSITY OF MONKS. NEVER BEFORE AND NEVER AFTER HAS SOMETHING LIKE THAT EVERY EXISTED AGAIN.