ATMA BODHA 45

 

ATMA BODHA 45

“STANOW PURUSHAVAD- BHRANTYAT KRITA BRAHANI- JEEVATA

JEEVASYA TATVIKE ROOPAE TASMIN- DRISHTE NIVARTATE.”

“BRAHMAN APPEARS TO BE A JEEVA ON ACCOUNT OF OUR IGNORANCE. IT IS LIKE CONFUSING A POST TO BE A GHOST. WHEN THE REAL NATURE OF THE “JIVA” IS REVEALED AS THE SELF THE EGOCENTRIC INDIVIDUALITY IS TOTALLY DESTROYED.”

It is delusion that makes us think and recognize the post as a ghost. It is because of the non-apprehension of the post . The result is the misapprehension of the ghost. Likewise, on the Brahman, the Supreme Self and the substratum for all, our ignorance or avidya  projects our egocentric existence and the world of diversity. In the resultant confusion we spin and weave in us a cobweb of our own creation. Later we we identify ourselves with our body, mind and intellect. Thus we are totally caught  in a net of our own creations because of our own ignorance.

We have to understand the One Truth behind  all this multiple existence.  We should start seeing the post behind the ghost We should begin to experience the SELF in us like a dream that rolls back in to the dreamer. Then all this illusory existence loses its imaginary reality------the apparent truth with which we have painted them all in gay enchantment.

What is the result of this non-apprehension of the post? It is the misapprehension  as the head, trunk, limbs, dress, eyes , movement etc of the vivid vision of the ghost. It is the misconception or superimposition of  the ghost on the post.  When the cause, the misconception dies, the effect, the ghost also ends. With the end of the ego sense, all its by-products also  are removed.  And there is no more bondage!  

“Two birds inseparable companions, cling to the same ree. One of them eats the sweet fruit, the other looks on without eating.”

“On the self same tree man sits immersed and deluded and grieves  on account of his helplessness. But when he sees the other-----the Lord who is worshipped by all-----and his glory, he becomes freed from sorrow.”  (MUNDAKOPANISHAD  ( V Up.III.I)