ATMA BODHA 39

ATMA BODHA 39

“ATMANYEVA-AKHILAM DRISYAM PRAVILAPYA- DHIYA-SUDHIHI

BHAVAYED-EKAM-ATMANAM- NIRMAL-AKASAVAT-SADA.”

“The wise should merge intelligently the entire world of objects in the Atman alone. They should  always think of the Self ever as contaminated by anything as the sky.”

A seeker’s success in discovering  the Truth is the core of intelligent discrimination. It is easy for him to be misled by trivialities of normal material existence. His identification of the body with the Self or Atma plays a large role in deceiving him. Where does the outer world exist for him when he realizes the supremacy of the Self? If not, why is it so?

The seeker experiences the Truth-experience through the light of discrimination brought about by the Pure intellect. In that light of discrimination, if we analyze and withdraw ourselves totally from matter envelopments, we should have no more occasion to  moan over the past or agitate over the present or worry for the future There can be no more any wrong perception  of the Truth for us.

When we dream we find ourselves in a different world altogether but as we come out of the dream the dream world with all its things merge into our own mind. The same dreamer now rediscovers himself as the waker. In the same manner, the Pure Awareness in me, the illuminator of the objects of the outer world merges back upon itself even as the plurality of the world is not recognized. A single pointed  mind  has no place for anything else. Similar to the dream world going back and merging into the very mind that dreamt the dream, so too the world of perceptions ends in the experience of the Atman, the illuminator of all finite experiences.

“Then Prajapati said to him, “He who moves about happy in a dream----he is the Self and he is the immortal; and the fearless. He is Brahman.” ( Chandogyopanishad 13)

“Then Prajapati said,” When a man is asleep, composed and at perfect rest and has no dreams-----that is the Self, that is the immortal, the fearless.”  (Chandogyopanishad 15)

“Then Prajapati said to him, “O Maghawat, this body is indeed mortal, it is always held by death. But it is the support of the Self which is immortal and bodiless. The Self, when it is in the body, is subject to pleasure and pain. So long as he is in the body he cannot be free from pleasure and pain.  When he is bodiless, then neither pleasure nor pain touches him.” ( Chandagyopanishad 18)

“Verily there are two states for this person-----the state of being in this world and the state of being in the other world. There is an intermediate third state—that of being in sleep. In this intermediate state he sees  both those states--- the one in this world and the other  in the other world. Now whatever outfit is required for the other world he obtains it and sees both the evils ( of this world) and the joys (of the other world). And when he falls asleep he takes with him the material from the whole world, breaks it

and himself builds it up again. He dreams by his own light. In that state the person becomes self –illuminated.” ( Brihadaranyakopanishad  9)