ATMA BODHA 67

ATMA BODHA 67

“HRUDAKASO- UDITO HI- ATMA BODHA-BHANUTAMO-APAHRIT

SARVANYAPI SARVADHARI BHATHI BHASAYATE- AKHILAM”

“ The Atman, the Sun of Knowledge  that emerges in the sky of the heart, terminates the  darkness of the ignorance. It pervades and sustains all and shines and makes ana makes everything to shine.”

The word Hridaya  means Heart. It does not mean the biological heart here. Here it means that arena in the mind from where the humane thoughts gurgle up and flow. The term heart here is used in the same sense in which we call a man of love and goodness as a man of heart.

It is only when there is ethical purity and moral goodness that the bosom can realize spiritual unfoldment and the consequent divine experience.

As at the ushering of dawn the darkness disappears and the light of its own glory brings everything clearly to our cognition so too at the Dawn of Wisdom, all Knowledge  bursts up to our awareness.

“ HE IS MY SELF WITHIN THE HEART, SMALLER THAN A GRAIN OF RICEOR OF BARLYOR A MUSTARD SEEDOR AGRAIN OF MILLET OR EVEN THE GRAIN OF MILLET----HE IS MY SELF WITHIN THE HEART, GREATER THAN THE EARTH, GREATER THAN THE SKY, GREATER THAN HEAVEN, GREATER THAN ALL THESE WORLDS.”       (CHANDOGYOPANISHAD)  

 

ATMA BODHA 66

ATMA BODHA  66

“SRAVANADIBHIH UDDEEPTAH GYANAGNI- PARITAPITAH

JEEVAH SARVA-MALAN-MULTAH SWARNAVAT DYOTATE SWAYAM”

“THE ‘JIVA’ FREE FROM ALL IMPURITIES, BEING HEATED IN THE FIRE OF KNOWLEDGE KINDLED BY HEARING AND SO ON, SHINES OF ITSELF LIKE GOLD.”

The three requisites for obtaining knowledge on Vedanta are (1) listening to the truth from the scripyures as explained by the teacher (Sravana) ; (b) reasoning of the truths heard(Manana) and (2)deep contemplation on what has been heard and reasoned out(Nidhidhyasana)

Spiritual discipline isis of great significance and is intended to clean the mind of its impurities. Therefore removal of the ignorance (avidya) alone enables the revelation of the Absolute Truth. It is one’s own spontaneous experience of one’s own SELF. An earnest seeker after Truth, who is able to kindle the fire of knowledge in his pure bosom and who is free from doubts and fears realizes the SELF in him. Hence the ego-centric personality (Jivatman) has to rid himself off his own limitations and rediscover his real nature as the Eternal SELF.

The ore as it comes up from the gold mines is mixed up with a lot of impurities. When the washed off Gold is heated and poured in, its molten brilliance acquires for itself its real glory and beauty. So too the individuality when heated in meditation and the molten SELF is poured out,  it radiates in its essential  immortal contents.