ATMA BODHA 53

 

ATMA BODHA 53

UPADHI-VILAYAT-VISHNOW NIRVISESHAM VISETH MUNIHI

JALE-JALAM VIYAT-VYOMNI TEJA- STEJASI VA YATHA.”

“WHEN THE UPADHIS ARE TOTALLY DESTROYED, THECONTEMPLATIVE ONE IS COMPIETELY ABSORBED IN  “ VISHNU” THE ALL PERVADING SPIRIT, LIKE WATER INTO WATER SPACE INTO SPACE AND LIGHT INTO LIGHT.

The upadhis are responsible for the expression of one’s personality and identify with the body, mind and intellect.  There might be other limiting factors but all of them are  due to association with these “three evils.” The aspirant who wants to end this conditioned existence and discover the whole in him should withdraw his mind from the sais “Upadhis”

When he no more identifies himself with his individuality,  when the egocentric existence is destroyed, then  ‘ like water in water, space into space, and light into light he merges with the VISHNU, the All pervading. When one’s limited existence is made unlimited, he is nothing else  than the All pervading. The stains on the mirror are no longer present, are washed out and he reflection brighter and clearer.

As the “Upadhis’  and equipments are annihilated, the seeker, a man of reflection, (Manana Seelavan) experiences inner BLISS devoid of any admixture of qualitative distinction (nirviseshatvam). When the VISHNU or the All pervasive nature of one’s own Self is realized as the SELF in all one comes to remain  at one moment with HIM in eternal, everlasting joy’ losing one’s own limited’ individuality.

“ WHEN THE SEER SEES THE REDIANT CREATOR> THE LORD< THE PE#RSON WHO HAS HIS SOURCE IN THE BRAHMAN, THEN DOES HE BECOME A KNOWER AND, SHAKING OFF GOOD AND EVIL AND BECOMING FREE FROM STAIN, REACH SUPREME EQUALITY WITH THE LORD.” MUNDAKOPANISHAD  V (Up  III i)