ATMA BODHA 43

 

ATMA BODHA 43

“ARUNENEVA BODHENAPURVAM-SANTAMASE-HRITE

TATA-AVIRBHAVET-ATMA –SWAYAMEVA AMSUMAN EVA.

“Aruna, the lord of the early dawn  himself has taken away the thick darkness when soon the sun rises. The Divine consciousness of the Self rises when the right knowledge has already destroyed the darkness in the bosom.”

Man’s life is inextricably intertwined with the “vasanas’ or leanings of the manifold previous births. Unless we break through this dense darkness it is impossible to get into the Citadel of Truth which is the treasure house of the divine experience.

Soon  after the early dawn. a little later after the East is illuminated with the golden hue, the sun emerges in all his glory and energizes life in the world.  Aruna or the dawn is the harbinger of the sun. In the same manner when we diligently and constantly meditate on Truth and destroy the egocentric tendencies in us, as well as the obstructing darkness……the vision of the Self, the experience of Oneness is revealed. That is the experience of our own Self.

 It is maya or illusion and avidya, mental agitations, ego centric vanities that obstruct the vision of our own Self. Meditation plays a large part in quietening the thought flow and the mind’s extrovertedness. Thus, when the mind is pacified and withdrawn from its extraneous activities, turns inward, it loses itself and becomes one with it.

“The Self-existent pierced the senses outward, and so one looks outward and not within one self. Some wise man, however, seeking immortality, and turning his eyes inward, sees the inner Self.”  ((KATHOPANISHAD IV  (Up.II. I)