BRAHMAVALLI EIGHTH ANUVAKA

                                                                           

                                                                          

Mantra: asadwa  edemagra  asith  tatho  vai  sada  jayatha…

The  world , which has Paramatma as its cause had no name or form and other attributes and un manifest  before it was created.  But it developed name and form and attributes soon after it was created. Brahman created the world by its own will and without any implements! So it is self created. This is the form of rasa or essence. By experiencing this rasa or essence the individual is happy. If this form of bliss is absent in the space of the heart ( hrudayakasa) there cannot be any movement or activity( chaitanya) in the world. A sadhaka  will reach s fearless state only when he remains fearless regarding  atma  which is unseen by the senses, formless and indescribable. A person, whether a pandita  or  not –if he sees the Brahman as different or separate, shall have the feeling of fear.

       The three questions posed in the previous anuvaka are answered here. 1 A scholar or vidwan fixed in the atma  becomes  Brahman himself and remains fearless according to siddhanta. 2 An ordinary layman, because of his divisive and differentiating outlook involves himself in the cycle of birth and death and samsara( family life). Though a scholar or vidwan, by considering the atma as different in day to day life, he loses the identical or unitary aspect of the Brahman. Even the small feeling of difference in ‘atma’ dumps him into the fearful cycle of birth and death. He can never attain the Brahman!

         Even the devas with their brahmagnana are unable to experience forever their concentration intensely on atma gnana. They conduct themselves afraid of this fact. A mantra is given to illustrate  this  fact.