July 2018 notes

https://www.scribd.com/doc/75815994/Vasistha-s-Yoga-Swami-Venkatesananda


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H8mOv-nIL4   YV Sara

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Chp 1   Vairagya

The perception of the defects of the world has destroyed the undesirable tendencies  in my mind, therefore, desire for sense pleasure does not arise in my mind, even as a mirage does not appear on the surface of the water.

I have given up everything, BUT I HAVE NOT ESTABLISHED MYSELF IN WISDOM, hence I am partly caught and partly freed.

Chp2      Mumukshu vyavahara

true sage = who is not swayed by sense pleasure

Take recourse to self effort grinding one's teeth.

that alone is self effort which springs from 'right understanding.'


4 gatekeepers to the realm of freedom or moksha

self control
spirit of enquiry
contentment
good company

when mind at peace, heart leaps to the supreme truth...supreme bliss.

Knowledge of truth arises from such enquiry
tranquility
supreme peace
ending of sorrow




chp 3 Creation   utpatti


Awake in deep sleep
not awake to the world
wisdom unclouded by deep tendencies/sanskaras.

It is in the seer, sight, seeing as  very seeing.
When you know it you realise yourself.

Notion of external knowable removed...self knowledge.

On firmly established in IC...at peace.

Bracelet..gold
when world assumed to be real
Self not seen

Such is the forest of world appearance
one who cuts it with root of enquiry
freed from it

Reject error of ideas.
remain rooted in Self

only when Mind severed by weapon of non-conceptualisation...can one reach brahma

'I am not Brahma' binds you.

"I am Brahma' liberates you

As long as Maya not understood as Maya...creates delusion..hence suffering

Once it is understood for what it is ..great joy and peace.

chp 4

One bound by I mine ..can be defeated by child


Be established in non-I

Intelligence rendered pure by destruction of inner impurities..heart illumined by Light of Self.

Through enquiry into the Self

sees worthlessness of birth/death

lives in peace

One who declares,'all is Brahma.' to an unawakened or half awakened person goes to Hell

Do not enquire, 'How ignorance came into existence.'
Enquire into , 'How to get rid of it.'

One who is not distressed by impure state of Mind......demon in human form.

O unsteady Mind,
worldly life not conducive to your true happiness.
reach state of equanimity
....peace , bliss, truth

Fools = who have not controlled their Mind.


Only ONE is there. (tu hi saccha)
He is the Supreme Light.
Omnipotent, omnipresent
Remains Silent, as if inactive.


Lamp in a windless place..Bali

Adore Self by Self
Behold Self by Self
Firmly established in the Self by the Self


Cycle of birth/death interminable
Maya ceases only by mastery of one's heart or mind
not otherwise.

Delusion of ego sense ..like blueness of sky

Strive to kill mind

Knowledge of truth is the fire that burns all hopes of desires as if they are dried blades of grass.
That is 'Samadhi'
Not simply remaining silent.




They alone are friends, scriptures and days
that generate in one's heart
true dispassion and Self-knowledge.

To the truly dispassionate...3 worlds..blade of grass.

2 seeds for tree known as mind

Prana
obstinate fancy.

Such enquiry preceded by dispassion
and attained stability by practise

...all noble qualities resort to it naturally.

Attachment..makes condng. more dense

Mind nothing but aggregate of vasanas.
if they cease..supreme peace.

Vichara, Enquiry = itself knowledge

moksha = ignorance ceases thro' Self enquiry
Jiva..no jiva
mind..no mind


When he stays like lamp without fuel
He shines like lamp with fuel


Feeling 'this is' = Sansara

It's cessation = moksha

This is essence of Dnyana



'I am not this' and deprive it of any support.

Vajra samadhan..Samadhi

When he knows Self = pure C. and not body..no samsara.


If one's understanding is not thus purified by right understanding or wisdom
-it does not remain without the support of Sansara.

Yogis ..with psychic powers..subject to ignorance...noticed in them.


Fire in dream doesn't scorch you when realised it as dream.


control over Mind = Victory over senses.

























219 YV


Mind should be awakened by means of
Enuiry
dispassion
control of senses

Intelligence thus awakened shines as Brahma.
Else, it experiences the Finite world.

When this Inner Intelligence is not awakened it does not really know or understand anything.

Mind blossoms fully only when the Light of the Infinite shines upon it.

Figure of a granite dancer does not dance.

291

Knowledge of truth burns up all hopes and desires as if they are dried blades of grass.
That is known as Samadhi.
Not simply remaining Silent

Eternal satisfaction
clear perception of what is
egolessness
not being subject to the opposites of pleasure and pain
freedom from anxiety and wish to acquire or reject



Only on those days on which the Light of the Self shines on oneself....does one truly live.

293

The wise man should constantly enquire into the nature of the Self, Vishwa.

In this, neither wealth nor friends
...nor scriptures are of any help.

Only the Pure Mind which is constantly engaged in Enquiry and which is endowed with Dispassion

enables one to cross this ocean of ignorance (bhavasagar)

The very moment one looks at the body as an inert object, one attains Self knowledge


When darkness of Ignorance dispelled, light of knowledge shines.



So long as one does not subdue the Mind with the Mind, one cannot attain Self- knowledge.
As long as one entertains the false notions of I , Mine; so long sorrow does not come to an end. Even as the Sun in the painting never sets.


295

No other way than Self knowledge to cross the ocean of Sansara, to rid oneself of Bondage


piece of wood and it's reflection...no relationship
Similarly, Body , Self no reln.

It is by the rejection of the conditioning that bondage is got rid of and the highest good attained.

Conditioning=cause of sorrow.


Cause for world appearance = non investigation into the nature of Reality

303

This self knowledge not gained by description, explanation, instruction of others.
Everything is known only by 'direct experience'.



Error of Sansara not dispelled; except by right exertion with the right attitude and wisdom.

Fie on him...who is sunk in the mire of world illusion.

Sage rests in his own Self...Intelligence firmly established in Inner Self.


312

Due to Constant Investigation, the Mind remains established in itself.

O Senses...has the time not arrived for you to gain Self-knowledge.




315

O Mind, be firmly rooted in the realisation of your non-existence.


You were born of ignorance which is the absence of wisdom and discrimination.

Error of existence arose from Ignorance.

Liberation attained only by wisdom or Self knowledge.



322

The very nature of Mind is stupidity.


On account of the intensity of the conditioning, he discards his own nature and perceives only the world illusion.


above only in unwise man.

When conditioning thus confirmed that Mind becomes cause for Rebirth.


325

Unpurified vision perceives the world.
Purified vision perceives the Infinite Consciousness.
                                                                                  = Liberation

327
Since realisation of truth, cessation of mind, ending of conditioning interwoven. Difiicult to deal with them separately.


By every means in your power, renounce the pursuit of pleasure and renounce 3 simultaneously.

Abandonment of conditioning and restraint of prana of equal effect.

When desires, cravings, aversions do not arise in the Mind even when objects are in front, then it is to be inferred that the mental conditioning has weakened.
Thence arises wisdom.
Conditioning weakens even further.
Mind ceases.






Not possible to kill Mind without proper methods.

To overcome Mind:

Knowledge of Self
company of holy men
abandonment of conditioning
restraint of prana.



even if a little control over Mind by Self enquiry...attained the fruit of Life




When such Enquiry preceded by Dispassion and has attained stability by practice...noble qualities resort to it naturally.


Ignorance and it's retinue do not bother one who is established in Self Enquiry and who sees what is without distortion.

He who is not constantly engaged in Self Enquiry and is thus not constantly conscious of the Self  is considered a dead man.


Inner Light=Self knowledge

329

Dense conditioning which exists in the unwise = Attachment.



When Inner Light, kindled by proper study of scriptures and enquiry into the truth illumines both knowledge and the experience of it, their total identity is realised.


Inner Light  = Self knowledge


dense conditioning in Unwise = Attachment

Milk doesn't abandon it's colour when boiled.
Similarly, ..doesn't abandon his wisdom when tested by calamities.

Constant Self Enquiry. Firmly established in Self Knowledge.


333

By 'dispassion', 'clear understanding of Truth'...Sansara crossed

334

 Illusory notion of Mind experienced as long as the sublime realisation of Truth not experienced through company of the wise.


As long as this experience of the world as a reality has not been shaken by the energy derived from the clear perception of the truth, so long the existence of Mind etc. seem to be self evident.

When he sees body as a deluded experience of a non-reality, how can Mind arise in him?

Behold Inner Light all the time.

Mental condn. has vanished. Mind has come to an end

338

No right understanding...deluded notions.

Beffudled by the wrong notions which arise in the absence of the Light of knowledge, one is constantly carried hither and tither  like a blade of grass in wind.

In the absence of self-knowledge, all is naught.

creation essenceless...yet false reality.

345

Mental condng. transcended consciously after thorough investigation = Kaivalya.


Realsn. of Self not without repetition or spiritual practise.

Avidya has become dense in thousands of incarnations.

349

When one knows 'this is not I', the unreality of the ego sense realised.

dispassion

I am verily Brahma


352

Self knowledge .......and........restraint of 'prana.'



368

Only by clear understanding and perception...one's nature purified.

Remain in that exalted state. Do not get involved in world appearance.


375

When one does not have self control, he uses flowers.
Such worship futile.
Also, adoring Self as external form.. futile.
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Lord beyond thought and description.


Thoroughly deluded Mind goes from error to error, from ignorance to greater ignorance.

Consciousness conditioned by self limitation, afraid of itself. ....Jiva Consciousness.

380

Labouring under thick veil of ignorance...unable to comprehend the harm that it has inflicted upon itself.

Mind divested of support, stays in the Self.

Objectification or conceptualisation leads to Self-forgetfulness.

382

When Mind destroyed by Mind, veil rent asunder, truth of world jugglery seen, notion of world appearance and concept of jiva destroyed.



Mirror reflects only when clean, not when covered by dirt.

Realn. of IC..best form of worship.


386

Lord attained without the least effort, by one's own Consciousness...not by material objects.



Continous, unbroken awareness of indwelling Self = Supreme Dhyan

387

Self not realised by means other than meditation.

(13 secs..cow in charity, 101 secs..1 sacred rite, 12 mins ...thousandfold merit, 1 day ...highest realm...etc )


389

one should worship Self, after abandoning distinction between desirable and undesirable.


That alone is regarded as worship which is performed when one is in a state of equanimity like that of space, when the Mind has become utterly quiescent without the least movement of thought, when there is effortless absence of perversity.

391

Enquire into the Nature of the Self. Same time refrain from actions that promote Avidya.
Then  ignorance vanishes.

Self knowledge not the result of teaching by a preceptor....beyond Mind, senses (even of the Guru)

That which is obtained only after the other ceases, is not obtained with it's help, while it still exists.

Not with..not without

It is only when scriptural knowledge, instructions of a preceptor and true discipleship come together that self knowledge is attained.

Mind of knower of Mind is No Mind.
It is pure Sattva.

Then, Turyatita

399

Abandoned the conceptualising tendency of Consciousness.


Their Consciousness is absolutely pure. Purified of all images (concepts and percepts)

Such a state of the Purity of the Self is not a vision. (an experience of the Mind and the senses)
It is incapable of being taught.
It's neither easy, nor tough. Neither distant, nor near.

By Direct Self experience alone.

Free from all these. free from a hundred veils of the heart,
One should experience the Self in all that is seen.


by suitable aids, un-awakened is  awakened.

In Fullness, Fullness is ever established.  (poorna madah...)

Deluded rise and fall...until awakened
Then Truth known


406

Cessation of thoughts, notions, psychological conditioning = Yoga AND Dnyan (wisdom)

Behold Self in All, all in Self
Remain forever firmly established in Yoga.

Self in all, all in self. Self as non-doer. He 'sees'. he knows the truth.

Sense experience born of delusion of contact with illusory elements

He who knows this and is undisturbed, is earmarked for Liberation.

Wise man ..whose actions are burnt in the fire of Self knowledge.


409

do not call anatma, atma


Jiva sees forms conjured by previous Vasanas.

These sanskaras destroyed only by intense self effort.

Never give up Self-effort.

Vasanas arose in Ignorance and foolishness.

Ceases only on the dawn of Self-knowledge.

What is Jiva except Vasana or mental conditioning?
Which again is vain imagination or thought form.


Vasana abandoned..Libn
Else bondage (even if learned) ( no use )

He who is not free from the bonds of Vasana, is firmly bound to it's illusion.

Just a trace..mighty forest of Sansara.

Seed of vasana by correct understanding and self knowledge.

like a lotus in water  (doesn't get wet)

412

Mind is but the movement in Consciousness.
Non realisation of this truth is world vision.

When inner Intelligence awakened, craving for pleasure recedes.

418 

Dream like nature of thought form realised only by the intense practise of Yoga, not otherwise.

By one pointed devotion , mendicant became rudra.

Until Liberation , embodied being undergoes tremendous sorrow.

Maya impossible to cross by ignorance,
By knowledge of truth it's easily crossed.



Fully awakened and constantly engaged in Samadhi...samkhya yogis.

Vasanas destroyed ...only then Mind becomes No Mind.
Mind doesn't abandon prana until Self knowledge sets in.


Unreality of concepts concerning world objects realised ...due to Self knowledge.
puts an end to Vasanas. Breaks the link between Mind and Prana.

Mind absorbed in Self even for one moment,...will not abandon Self knowledge.
Very seeds of Sansara are fried.
Ignorance dispelled. Vasanas destroyed.
Rooted in Sattva. Beholds Inner Light. Rests in Supreme Self.

427


worldly life essenceless, stupid

regurgitating the same foul excrements.

Self.. omnipresent and eternal...to be known..


434

Antraveshtika, 100 nadis. Kundalini lies within.

When Kundalini unfolds and  moves, there is awareness within oneself.

440

Know junction of Sun and moon within yourself.

Instruction of disciple by preceptor = tradition
Cause of Enlightenment = Purity of disciple's Consiousness.

Only Self knows Self.
Snake knows it's feet.

441

Brahma beyond Mind, senses.
Not known through someone's instructions.
Not known without them either.
(philosopher's stone story)

Self ..reality..pure..forgotten even for a moment...object of experience attains expansion.

Unbroken Awareness reqd.

450

elephant rider fooloishness story..when opportunity arises to slay..and you refuse..life long suffering.

If heart abandons Mind...there is realisation.

'Who am I' This enquiry is the fire in which the seed and the very roots known as chitta (mind) are burnt completely.

461

Mind is abut a bundle of notions which limit the truth.

The 'notion' 'I am"...Bondage, self destruction
The 'realisation' 'I am' ..freedom and purity.


The confused state in which unreality appears to be real = Mind

Non comprehension of Truth = Mind (ignorance)
Right comprehension  =  Self realisation

464

Only when the Mind is utterly quiet, when one has completely abandoned all desire, senses rid of colouring; are the words of the preceptor rightly comprehended.

when freed from psychological condn. impurities removed; words of the Guru enter the innermost core of one's being, just as an arrow enters the stalk of the lotus.

You have attained that state of purity. Therefore, Enlightened.

By satsanga, your karmas destroyed.


465

Liberated ones live in Sattva, not the Mind.

Dense psychological condn. = Mind

Sees display of sparks..doesn't realise it's fire.

Sparks are but fire and no-different from it = Nirvikalpa Samadhi.

481

This Self knowledge not gained by study of scriptures or with the help of a guru, it can only be gained by Self for itself.

Steps:

1. Study of Scriptures

2. Reflection or enquiry.

3. Non attachment or psychological freedom.

4. Snapping of the bond of vasanas.

5.  Bliss derived from pure awareness

6.  Self -knowledge.

7. Turya

8. Turyatita.



482

When Self-knowledge arises, desire drops away and with it the Self abandons the notion of individuality and realises it's infinite nature.


those who entertain notion "I,' 'Mine'...pit of ignorance

those who have abandoned such notions rise higher and higher.

Thorn by thorn...mind by mind

mind with it's notions and limitations = subtle body

485

1st state;

Activities of world meaningless (repetitions)..nivritta

'How shall I cultivate dispassion, cross the ocean of samsara?'..enquires constantly


2nd state;

Vichara


Holy company



3rd state:

Asamasanga

Roams the forest in seclusion, quietens the Mind.

Scriptures, virtuous conduct...faculty of seeing the Truth.

'I am neither the doer nor the enjoyer.'     ordinary non-attachment.

By the diligent practise of this yogic method, by resorting to the company of the holy ones and the avoidance of evil company, the truth is clearly revealed.

Realises 'I am not the doer, but God alone is the doer. Nor did I do anything in the past.'

Abandons vain and meaningless words.
Remains inwardly and mentally silent.

....................superior non-attachment or freedom.

abandoned all dependency.  Shines as supportless and limitless space itself.



Above 3 states..waking states..since there is a division in consciousness.

Holiness in a seed state in the first, sprouts in the second, attains fruition in the third.

By diligent practice of first 3 states, ignorance destroyed..light of wisdom arises in one's heart.



4th state:

Yogi beholds the one in all with a Mind that is free from division.

Division ceased. Unity steady. Behold the world as if it were a dream.



5th state:

Only undivided reality remains.


6th state:

Turya


realises 'I am neither real nor unreal, nor even egoless. I am beyond duality and unity. All doubts are at rest.

Remains like painting of a lamp.

7th state:

Disembodied liberated beings...undescribable state.


Desire is that elephant in the forest ..needs to be killed...for these 7 states to reach fruition.


...maddened with sensuousness, restless with conditioning..this elephant destroys everybody in this world.
..goes by diff. names: desire, vasanas, Mind, thought , feeling , attachment.

should be slain by weapon known as courage or determination born of the realisation of oneness.

Only as long as one believes in objective awareness does desire arise. This is called 'samsara'.

It's cessation is liberation.

Thought free, notionless state ..the best


488

Enlightenment characterised by Pure Inner Light.

Truth or Self subtle..hence appears to be veiled by ignorance.

Past habits , tendencies very strong. Hence, mere Self effort inadequate.

490

No greater friend than Vairagya
no worse enemy than samsara.

Restrain activities of Mind and senses.
Repeat Om till Mind gains perfect peace.

Pranayama for purification of Mind.

Withdraw senses from contact with external objects.

Investigate source of Body, senses, mind, Buddhi. Let them return to their source.


497

He who has not gained victory over greed, shame, vanity...derives no benefit by reading this scripture. It is a useless waste of time.

Realisation of unreality of ego-sense = self knowledge.

poisonous nature of sense experience. ..intensify suffering.

Senses filthy. Lead to misfortune.

Generate greed, difficult to overcome, bring about rebirth.
Enemies of men of wisdom
friend of the foolish.

502

Only when one's intelligence does not get drowned in objective perception
is one able to cross this ocean of samsara.
It is not achieved by god or other means.


Maya functions due to the existence of ego sense.
When truth concerning ego sense investigated and understood...Maya vanishes.


507

In the absence of self knowledge, the seed of ego sense expand into a mighty tree
Since, seed contains the tree.

Jiva perceives unreality within itself as if they were real

dnyani..rejects individualised mind and objects

Wise..unconditioned mind


513

The ignorant wander aimlessly and take to the wrong paths.

Do not engage in Self enquiry. Do not drop wicked ways.

Better to be a worm in a rock....than be in the company of un-awakened.
poisonous (association)

Mind filled with perverse notions.
Hence, it does not reflect Inner Light of Awakened Intelligence.


Prosperity..a bait to trap the unwary in the pit of sorrow.

Sansara is twisted and torturous to the one ruled by psychological conditioning and latent tendencies.


516

By the mere investigation of the nature of bondage, it ceases to bind.

obstacles on path do not hinder ..one who observes carefully.



Triad = modifn. of mind

Truth or Self undivided by division..hence beyond contemplation..dhyan

518

Seeds which sprout as the world is the self limitation or conditioning in Consciousness.

Burn that seed by non-attachment or freedom.

uprooting of condng.  =  freedom, non attachment.

Attain this freedom by any means.

519

Purest truth expressed only in complete silence.

Notion of 'I' = utter ignorance. blocks path to libn.

Yet the foolish man endeavours with the help of this darkness of ignorance to find the Light of  truth.


Attain fearlessness by realising there is no 'I'.

When one is able to able to abandon the inert materiality of the mind, the intellect and the ego sense, one attains the pure one attains the pure, unconditioned being.
= libn.

Understanding firm and unshakeable

concept rejected ..egosense ceases...dhyan ..Samadhi.

529

Desire does not arise in a wise man.

To the one who has risen above the ego sense, the whole universe appears to be worthless.
Such a person not tempted by anything in 3 worlds.
to him , even the status of God is worthless than piece of hair.

532

Anatma = Sansara

Man of self knowledge awake to that which is non existent to the unawakened.

Object, Mind both essenceless.

Abandons the notion of existence of objects...rests in one's own pure Self.

540

Vajra dhyan

Means:

Scriptures
company of holy ones
meditation


Ignorant see world as physical reality. Wise a s Consciousness.


When the fruit of the supreme truth has been gained

Messenger sent by self = viveka

It brings about gradual awakening of one in ignorance


Truth about Self realised only by the one who is established in the supreme state, not by those who rest in ego-sense.


Sage of Self realisation has crossed samsara..come to end of all karma.

559

Persistent and repeated efforts = Abhyasa.
That is the greatest good. Purshartha
No other path.


Only by persistent and determined self effort and by one's own direct experience is perfection attained. Not by any other means.

By such Abhyasa..fearless

On account of non understanding , jiva falls under sway of illusion..what foolishness.


595

one not interested in liberation = worm

597

One should investigate the truth in the company of the knowers of the truth and then one should stand firm in one's own realisation without being distracted.

604

Powers of levitation gained by even ignorant men.

Pleasure gardens do not make one happy ..as self realisation.



617

Partial awakened..psychic powers.

636

Sorrow swings from 1 extreme to another on account of doubt.

Nothing other than self- knowledge can remove this notion of 'I'.

Self-knowledge does not arise except through the investigation of the means of liberation.

Hence, by every means one should investigate the means of libn.

663

World appearance...only an appearance...non-existent.

...hence they realise the truth as utter silence.

667

Ignorance doesn't cease without the full control of the senses.

Whatever Jiva thinks...becomes instantly.


Hence the attempt to gain control over senses should be directed to that self-awareness.

When one's awareness is thus firmly held within oneself, the Mind abandons restlessness and flows towards the Self.

Wise man attains victory over senses and does not drown in vasanas.



When they does contemplate the truth constantly, they gain enlightenment by which they attain the highest state.

669

Fool who thinks reading this once suffices.


This scripture efficiency.. in action..perfection in wisdom.

Self knowledge, non-knowledge...words and viewpoints.
Totally unreal in the eyes of the knower of truth.

by supreme self effort he has realised self knowledge.

Mountain in dream...void ..when dreamer wakes up.
Forms non-existent..when one wakes up


Characteristic of an ignorant man: tries to be what he is not.


when one realises dream as dream, there is joy

Never associate with ignorant people who cannot recognise the truth.

681

Therefore, when it is realised that there is no creation at all, does real self-knowledge arise which leads to liberation.




Such libn. unending, infinite, unconditioned...truly nirvikalpa Samadhi.
In it one remains firmly rooted in self knowledge.
Turiya

The realisation that the objective universe does not exist is perfect awakening.

It is not deep sleep not nirvikalpa or savikalpa Samadhi. nor is it imaginary.

In it universe exists as well as dissolved at the same time.

Supreme peace.

Delusion ends only when self knowledge arises in one who has carefully studied this scripture.


682

At the end of investigation, Silence alone remains.

Enlightened one attains knowledge of Self, remains Silent.

best among men.



After knowing objective universe illusion..doesn't disappear without persistent practise.


By mere study of this scripture, ignorance dispelled.





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Swami Rama Tirtha:

To know

this True Self, this soul, is the necessity for every

one to be happy, but to lose oneself day and night

in this spiritual ecstasy is the share of a few, the

true Faqirs.  

Life alone defines in its infinite self-contradiction

the Reality and its Self-Realisation. Our definitions

are all abortive, being intellectual justifications

from our relative standpoints which in themselves

never touch life but at one infinitesimal unknown

point. The contradictory statements made by poets,

like Swami Rama, do not come strictly under

philosophy, and no true philosophy can undertake

to reconcile their contradictions. Their self-

contradictoriness in itself is an evidence of an

exalted self-realisation, or as Miss E. Underhill puts

it "it is proof of the richness and balance of his

spiritual experience."

The Path to God in your own self lies through

The Path to God renunciation of all desires.

Renounce within all desires and live repeating OM.

Without paying the price, you cannot reach God, you

cannot regain your birthright. "Blessed are the pure in

heart for they shall see Clod. Purity of heart means

making yourself free of all clingings to the objects of the

world, Renunciation, nothing short of it. Gain this

purity and you see God.

Could you love God with even half the love that yon

show your wife, you would realise the Truth this second.

Who puts you in bondage? Who is it that enslaves you,

your own desires, none else.

The very moment you cast over-board these desires,

clingings, love, hatred and attachments and also throw

off even the desire for light and chant OM for a second,

you free yourself from all bondage and become well-

balanced in equilibrium, nothing of yourself left with

that person, with that body, or with that object . . . Sit

still, chant OM and then think who is within you.

Feel that, and rejoice in your own divinity and desire

pleasure from within you, enjoy happiness of your

Atman. Throw aside all abnormal desires and inordinate

wishes.

All religion is simply an attempt to unveil ourselves and

to explain ourself.

The real self which is knowledge absolute and power

absolute is the only stern Reality, before which the

apparent reality of the world melts away!

OM is the name of this Reality,

Realise it and sing in the language of feeling, sing it

with your acts. Sing it through every pore of your body.

Let it course through your veins, let it pulsate in your

bosom, let every part of your body and every drop of

your blood tingle with the truth that you are the Light of

lights, the Sun of suns, the Ruler of the Universe, the

Lord of lords, the True Self!

Om represents O-Am, or I am He. Om represents the

pure idea of I am.

A man, who sings Om in all these ways, chants it with

his lips, feels it with his heart and sings it through

action, makes his life a continuous song.

To everybody

he is God. But if you cannot chant it with feeling nor

chant it with your acts do not give it up, go on chanting

it with the lips. Even that is not without use . . . But

chanting it through feelings and actions would

naturally follow if you commence humming it with the

mouth.

I am the Unseen spirit which forms all subtle essences.

I flame in Fire,

Love means perception of beauty.

Fighting with darkness will not remove it. Bring the

light in and the darkness is over.

True purity is that where all beauty is absorbed in me

and I feel and enjoy my spiritual oneness with all to

such an extent that to talk or think of meeting any object

sounds like a painful hint of separation.

If you make yourselves this second divested of all

desires, if you free yourselves of all worldly clingings,

you know that every desire of yours chops off a part

of yourself, leaves you only a small fraction of yourself.

How seldom it is that we meet a whole man!

  A whole man is an inspired man, a whole is the Truth. Every

wish or clinging seems to add to your stock, but in

reality makes you a fraction, an insignificant portion of

yourself.

The very moment you cast over-board these

desires, clingings, loves, hatreds and attachments and

also throw off even the desire for light and chant Om for

a second, you attain immediate freedom, Anand, Bliss

Supreme.

If anybody should ask me to give my philosophy in one

word, I would say, "Self-Reliance", the ―Knowledge of

Self‖.

You respect your Self when you are filled with God-

consciousness;

when you are filled with the thought of

God within, then are you filled with Self respect.

By the

worship of the body you are committing suicide; you are

digging a pit for yourself.

The path of salvation, the way to realisation, is

apparent death, that and nothing else, crucifixion and

nothing else, there is no other way to inspiration.

Let God work through you, and there will be no more

duty. Let God shine forth. Let God show Himself. Live

God. Eat God. Realise the Truth and the other things

will take care of themselves.

The reading of books and learning all knowledge is one

thing; and to acquire the Truth is another. You may

read all the sacred Scriptures and yet not know the

Truth.

Death asks, not "What have you?" but ―Who are you?"

Life's question is not "What have I?" but "What am I?"

The Self within is the Self without Yes, but the Real Self,

and not the false self induced by "sense-slavery". 

The true work is God-consciousness. If you could

sustain it then, whether in busy New York or the silent

Himalayas, the effect remains the same. The place, form

and mode of activity do not matter.

Without OM, one dies

He insists at times in very emphatic language on

the ceaseless repetition of OM. His own repetition

of OM was ceaseless. But none of his followers ever

caught this fire, except for the days and hours they

were with him. I never saw him excuse himself

from this incessant labour. "OM," he used to say,"

is the divine punctuation of life, without it, one

cannot breathe the divine breath. Without it one

dies."  

 Without inspiration, all is

vanity.

That the Swami -was inspired none can

deny.

Swami Rama lived the deep life of a Bhagat,

of a man of Simrin, of a self-intoxicated poet, of a

man maddened with the exquisite beauty of the

Divine Face in the Universe, and this almost

continuous ecstatic state of his mind does not seem

to be the result of any self-discipline] but of a

sudden onrush of Higher Inspiration.

 In San Francisco,

when he said: "I am God" tears of bliss trickled

down his closed eyes, his face sparkled, and his

arms vibrated with passion to hold the very

universe in his embrace. This emotion assuredly is

not of any philosopher. This passion was of a

Vaishnava Bhakta. In early days, he seldom spoke

in public without shedding tears at the very name

of Krishna for hours. He beheld Him on the

Kadamb tree and heard his flute ringing in his ears,

while bathing in the Ganges at Hardwar. In his

house at Lahore, he read Sur Sagar with the

glorious passion that brought him the vision of

Krishna after which he swooned away. Seeing a

serpent with upspread hood in his room that very

day after the swoon, he beheld Krishna dancing on

its hood. He told me that for days and nights he

wept in love of Krishna, and his wife saw in the

morning that his pillow was wet with tears,

By going to

one's native place, one becomes gross, loses the

subtle thread of thought that grasps fine ideas. The

reason for it is that the mind gets degraded by

contact with physical pleasures.

What people call brain, that too develops by

exercise and by hard labour.

Swami Rama Tirath in those days, was living in the

neighbourhood of Tehri Garhwal. His days and

nights passed in incessant thought. He lived in the

wild, unrestrained, joys of Vedantic consciousness.

Most of his poems were composed in those days

 I

would say "self-reliance", the knowledge of self. Hear, O

man! Know thyself. True, literally true it is when you

help yourself, God must help you. Heaven is bound to

help you It can be proved, it can be realised that your

very Self is Grod—the Infinite, the Omnipotent. Here is

a reality, a truth, waiting to be verified by experiment.

Verily, verily, depend upon yourself and you can

achieve anything. Nothing is impossible before you.

Slowly and resolutely as a fly cleans its legs of the

honey in which it has been caught, so we must

remove every particle of attachment to forms and

personalities. One after another the connections

must be cut, the ties must snap, till the final

concession in the form of death crowns all

unwilling renunciations.

The Law is fire, it burns up all worldly

attachments, it scorches the ignorant mind, yet it

purifies and destroys all kinds of pestilential

plague germs which attack the spirit.

Let nothing be prized higher than God, nothing

valued equally with God. Compliments, criticisms

and diseases are equally fatal if we regard the Self

as subject to them. Feel yourself God and sing

songs of joy in God-head. Look upon compliments

and criticisms even as Rama looks upon physical

ailments merely as footmen from God's Durbar

who with all the authority of the supreme

Government say—"Get out of this house, i.e. body-

consciousness, at once!" They obey me when I

occupy the Durbar throne; they whip and stab me

when I enter into this hovel—the body-

consciousness.

The Law is all pervasive, it is the higher Self of

each and all, and it is Rama in this sense. Yet it

must kick out and kill out the personal self. It is

cruel but its cruelty is the quintessence of love,

because in this very-death of the apparent self

consists resurrection of the real Self and life eternal.

He who keeps the false self and claims for it the

prerogatives of the King-Self, must as it were, be

devoured by vultures on the height of vanity. The

freedom of Vedanta is not immunity from Law for

the limited local self, i.e., personality and body.

This is turning GOD into the very reverse. Millions

of beings perish every hour through this mistake.

Thousands of heads are sinking into pessimism,

and hundreds of thousands of hearts are breaking

every minute, by the foolish reversal of the order of

the Law. Freedom from Law is secured by

becoming the Law, that is, the realisation of

Shivoham.

That prayer of the ancient Aryan maidens is

springing deep from the very bottom of Rama's

heart, and tears,

O! Tears are pouring madly along

with it.

O God! O Law! O Truth!

 Let this head and heart be

instantaneously rent asunder, if any other

connection lodges there but Thee.

 Let this blood be

curdled immediately, if any other idea flows in the

arteries and veins along with it but Thee.

Another

Shruti:

"As a woman of a man, so shall I learn of Thee, I

shall draw Thee closer and closer, I will drain Thy

lips and the secret juices of Thy body, I will

conceive of Thee, O Law! O Liberty!"

Is not Rama married to the Trishul, married to

Truth and Law, that other attachments and other

connections are still expected of him as of a harlot?

"I own no other as my King but He the Beloved

Krishna."—Mira Bai.

As a little bird just learning to fly, leaving one

stone or twig, perches on another similar support,

then on another and another, but cannot leave

entirely those ground objects and soar into the

higher air, so a novice in Brahmajnana while

disengaging his heart from one thing or disgusted

with a particular person, immediately rests on

something else, then clings to another similar

delusion, does not give up dependence on frail

reed or straw, and quits not in his heart the whole

earth.

An experienced Jnani would turn the

apparent faithlessness of one earthly object into a

stepping stone for a leap into the Infinite.

The art of

religion consists in making every little bit of

experience an occasion for a leap into the Infinite.

The seeming things being all of a piece, while

giving up one thing outwardly he makes it a sign

and a symbol for renouncing all inwardly.

Deplorably dense must he be who does not

recognise the piercing Truth that Death of the

selfish personality alone is the Law of life.

As Self is Ananda and is the All, therefore Self-

realisation means Realisation of my own Self as

Supreme Bliss crystallised into the whole world.

So long as any sort of desire clings to a person, he

cannot realise bliss.

To realise God, have the Sanyasa spirit, i.e., entire

renunciation of self-interest, making the little self

absolutely at one with the great self.

Truth-consciousness brings strength and victory.

Skin-

consciousness (even if it be Brahman-consciousness or

Sannyasa-consciousness) makes a cobbler of you.

This is the crucifixion of selfishness and this is

resurrection of the All Self. One aspect of it is usually

styled Bhakti and the other is called Jnana

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Totapuri:




Exercising self-exertion and unshakable will-power, he had liberated himself from attachment to the sense-objects of the relative universe.

For forty years he had practised austere discipline on the bank of the sacred Narmada and had finally realized his identity with the Absolute.


"Brahman", he said, "is the only Reality, ever pure, ever illumined, ever free, beyond the limits of time, space, and causation.

 Though apparently divided by names and forms through the inscrutable power of maya, that enchantress who makes the impossible possible, Brahman is really One and undivided.

 When a seeker merges in the beatitude of samadhi, he does not perceive time and space or name and form, the offspring of maya.

Whatever is within the domain of maya is unreal. Give it up. 




 Destroy the prison-house of name and form and rush out of it with the strength of a lion. 




 Dive deep in search of the Self and realize It through samadhi. 




 You will find the world of name and form vanishing into void, and the puny ego dissolving in Brahman-Consciousness.




  You will realize your identity with Brahman, Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute." Quoting the Upanishad, Totapuri said:

"That knowledge is shallow by which one sees or hears or knows another.

What is shallow is worthless and can never give real felicity. But the Knowledge by which one does not see another or hear another or know another, which is beyond duality, is great, and through such Knowledge one attains the Infinite Bliss.

How can the mind and senses grasp That which shines in the heart of all as the Eternal Subject?"


Totapuri asked the disciple to withdraw his mind from all objects of the relative world, including the gods and goddesses, and to concentrate on the Absolute.

But the task was not easy even for Sri Ramakrishna.

He found it impossible to take his mind beyond Kali, the Divine Mother of the Universe.

"After the initiation", Sri Ramakrishna once said, describing the event, "Nangta began to teach me the various conclusions of the Advaita Vedanta and asked me to withdraw the mind completely from all objects and dive deep into the Atman.

But in spite of all my attempts I could not altogether cross the realm of name and form and bring my mind to the unconditioned state.

I had no difficulty in taking the mind from all the objects of the world. But the radiant and too familiar figure of the Blissful Mother, the Embodiment of the essence of Pure Consciousness, appeared before me as a living reality.

Her bewitching smile prevented me from passing into the Great Beyond.

Again and again I tried, but She stood in my way every time. In despair I said to Nangta: 'It is hopeless. I cannot raise my mind to the unconditioned state and come face to face with Atman.' He grew excited and sharply said: 'What? You can't do it? But you have to.' He cast his eyes around. Finding a piece of glass he took it up and stuck it between my eyebrows. 'Concentrate the mind on this point!' he thundered. Then with stern determination I again sat to meditate. As soon as the gracious form of the Divine Mother appeared before me, I used my discrimination as a sword and with it clove Her in two. The last barrier fell. My spirit at once soared beyond the relative plane and I lost myself in samadhi."

Sri Ramakrishna remained completely absorbed in samadhi for three days. "Is it really true?" Totapuri cried out in astonishment. "Is it possible that he has attained in a single day what it took me forty years of strenuous practice to achieve? Great God! It is nothing short of a miracle!" With the help of Totapuri, Sri Ramakrishna's mind finally came down to the relative plane.


Totapuri had no idea of the struggles of ordinary men in the toils of passion and desire. Having maintained all through life the guilelessness of a child, he laughed at the idea of a man's being led astray by the senses. He was convinced that the world was maya and had only to be denounced to vanish for ever. A born non-dualist, he had no faith in a Personal God. He did not believe in the terrible aspect of Kali, much less in Her benign aspect. Music and the chanting of God's holy name were to him only so much nonsense. He ridiculed the spending of emotion on the worship of a Personal God.

After the departure of Totapuri, Sri Ramakrishna remained for six months in a state of absolute identity with Brahman.

 "For six months at a stretch", he said, "I remained in that state from which ordinary men can never return; generally the body falls off, after three weeks, like a sere leaf.

I was not conscious of day and night. Flies would enter my mouth and nostrils just as they do a dead body's, but I did not feel them. My hair became matted with dust."

Totapuri, coming to know of the Master's marriage, had once remarked: "What does it matter? He alone is firmly established in the Knowledge of Brahman who can adhere to his spirit of discrimination and renunciation even while living with his wife. He alone has attained the supreme illumination who can look on man and woman alike as Brahman. A man with the idea of sex may be a good aspirant, but he is still far from the goal."

In the nirvikalpa samadhi Sri Ramakrishna had realized that Brahman alone is real and the world illusory.

By keeping his mind six months on the plane of the non-dual Brahman, he had attained to the state of the vijnani, the knower of Truth in a special and very rich sense, who sees Brahman not only in himself and in the transcendental Absolute, but in everything of the world.

In this state of vijnana, sometimes, bereft of body-consciousness, he would regard himself as one with Brahman; sometimes, conscious of the dual world, he would regard himself as God's devotee, servant, or child.

 In order to enable the Master to work for the welfare of humanity, the Divine Mother had kept in him a trace of ego, which he described — according to his mood — as the "ego of Knowledge", the "ego of Devotion", the "ego of a child", or the "ego of a servant".

In any case this ego of the Master, consumed by the fire of the Knowledge of Brahman, was an appearance only, like a burnt string.

He often referred to this ego as the "ripe ego" in contrast with the ego of the bound soul, which he described as the "unripe" or "green" ego.

The ego of the bound soul identifies itself with the body, relatives, possessions, and the world; but the "ripe ego", illumined by Divine Knowledge, knows the body, relatives, possessions, and the world to be unreal and establishes a relationship of love with God alone. Through this "ripe ego" Sri Ramakrishna dealt with the world and his wife. One day, while stroking his feet, Sarada Devi asked the Master, "What do you think of me?" Quick came the answer: "The Mother who is worshipped in the temple is the mother who has given birth to my body and is now living in the nahabat, and it is She again who is stroking my feet at this moment. Indeed, I always look on you as the personification of the Blissful Mother Kali."

A man of God-realization transcends the idea of worldly duties, but the ordinary mortal must perform his duties, striving to be unattached and to surrender the results to God.

The mind can comprehend and describe the range of thought and experience up to the Visishtadvaita, and no further.

The Advaita, the last word in spiritual experience, is something to be felt in samadhi.

for it transcends mind and speech. From the highest standpoint, the Absolute and Its manifestation are equally real — the Lord's Name, His Abode, and the Lord Himself are of the same spiritual Essence. Everything is Spirit, the difference being only in form.

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As and when this truth is clearly seen, immediately there is an end to sorrow.

If this truth is not seen,

then sorrow becomes firmly and solidly established.

The wicked and the ignorant do not see this truth.

In their eyes, this Sansara is a solid reality and they do not perceive this truth at all.

The 2 expressions ;supreme being','Universe; synonymous.

When, through the study of scriptures dealing with self-knowledge, this truth is realised, there is liberation.


696

The entire Universe exists in a mustard seed.
But when the reality is known, it does not exist in a mustard seed.



698


In course of time, by the constant practise of Vichara,
and of equanimity,

or by being endowed with purity at birth,

perfect knowledge arises in the wise man.

who sees the reality in everything.

Then his buddhi or awakened intelligence, regains it's nature as pure Consciousness devoid of duality.



702

When there is notion of reality in unreal phenomenon, there is bondage.

703

When there is full awakening, the dullness of intelligence comes to an end.
Then liberation which is peaceful, formless and real comes into being.

Knowledge does not have an object to know. Knowledge is independent and eternal.It is beyond description and definition.

When this truth is directly realised, there is perfect knowledge.

By awakening, awakening is attained.
And the concept of awakening is clearly understood.

The world is not what it appears in the eyes of the ignorant.
What is real in the eyes of the enlightened is indescribable.



711

Awakening or enlightenment happens by itself, just like the sun's brilliance at noon.

All cravings and desires come to an end in the awakened person.
Therefore, nirvana arises in him without desiring it.


Cessation of craving...awakening.

712

Hallmark of enlightenment = cessation of craving.

When the latter is absent, there is no enlightenment but scholasticity
which is in fact ignorance or viciousness.

Perfect cessation of craving born of the perfect enlightenment = liberation.

When this is attained, one does not grieve though continuing to live.

For one who rests in his own Self and rejoices in the Self,
in whom cravings have ceased and ego sense absent,
life becomes non-volitional and there is perfect purity.

One in million able to reach it.

716

Not by study of scriptures, nor by hearing instructions of preceptor, nor by charity nor by even worship of god is the direct realisation of the supreme truth attained.

Since , it is beyond these.

By the practise of precepts of the scriptures, the mind becomes pure and transparent.

Then even without wishing for it, one sees the supreme truth.

Supreme truth realised when one contemplates the real meaning of the scriptures with he aid of
words of preceptor, self discipline and control of Mind.

Equanimity enables purity to grow.


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Tirumandiram

2559 Follow Guru

They follow not the Way

Guru taught;

They seek not the Holy One;

Indulging in frivolous talk, they wander;

They sing not His holy deeds;

They who thus dance about

What will their desert be?

2609: Constant Think of Him and Receive Grace

They who constant think of Him

Will reach into a body,

Glorious and strong;

There, if they adore Lord

In ways appropriate,

They reach the World of Jnana,

Receiving Grace of the Holy One.

2613: Conquer Desires

No use prattling of

Breath and Sushumna;

Sunder your desires and passions;

Having sundered,

The Lord's place, easy be.

2614: Lord is in the Desire-Abnegated

In stony houses and stately halls, He is not;

In parlors deep and temples massive, He is not;

In holy garbs He is not;

In the thoughts of those,

Who have desires abnegated, is He,

Fleshly body, though therein be;

He, their liberation granted.

2615: Sunder Desires

Sunder your desires, sunder your desires

Sunder your desires even unto Lord;

The more the desires, the more your sorrows;

The more you give up, the more your bliss shall be.

2616: Jnana Way

The five senses burn you up;

They lead you to destruction's way;

Give up desires and scatter them away;

Reach to the Truth of Jnana;

That the Way to reach Lord.

2617: Perish not in the Flood of Pleasure and Pain

Unto the ocean that foams and rages

At full-moon tide,

Many, many, floods rose and passed away

Through passage of Time;

Caught in floods of pleasure and pain,

Celestials numberless perished;

Caught in the floods of desires

The humans countless sank;

God alone forever stood

In the Ocean of Bliss Eternal.

2619: Jnanis Remain Immortal in God-Love

Realizing Truth in full,

Luminous Siddhi and Mukti they attained;

Sex desire entire devoid,

They achieved mighty Siddhis eight;

As Siva Jnani leaves behind this body,

Divine Grace descends on him;

And then in God-Love, forever, he remains.

2620: Realize the Truth that Jiva is Siva

That this Jiva to become Siva

They in love sought not;

That this Jiva is Siva

That truth they know not;

Knowing not this Jiva is Siva,

They diverse births take,

And into worlds several wander

When Truth they realize not.

2621: Jnanis are not for Becoming Performing Gods

The Five Gods consign Jiva to broiling miseries,

And then cooling him,

Again consign him to fresh birth;

Thus in the whirl of creation endless they them ordain;

The status of these Five Gods

The Jnanis seek not;

But within the fleshly body itself

Through the mystic thread of Sushumna

They enter into union,

One wih the Lord.

2622: Seek Nandi Within

You say, redeemed you are;

But you have not seen the Way appropriate;

Nandi merges in fragrant flower within;

Hold Him in your thoughts in vision clear,

Then have you sown the seed

Of birthlessness-to-be.

2627: Year for Lord

As the calf that searches,

And calls for mother-cow,

I, in yearning, sought and cried for my Lord;

He is Hidden Truth of Vedas

Who beyond heavens eternal stood;

In endearness tender,

He entered into me,

In this body fleshly.

Think constant of Siva's Feet,

He, Divine protection grants,

2632: Seek Him Within and Without

This birth is a lasting curse to me;

And so, I seek Him in drooping heart

In Mountain and Sky

Within and without;

And in Fire within too;

Thus in holy thought immersed,

I stood.

2633: Jiva's Task is to Seek Him

Receiving in full the Grace of Lord in Mukti State,

Purified of Tattvas, the Suddha State attaining,

To perform Tapas thus is Jiva's task;

And so rid of Karmas, in devotion true they stand;

They indeed the Jnanis

In transcendental bliss immersed.

2635: Divine Experiment

The Mighty Lord, the Great Nandi,

Granted me His Feet of indescribable Bliss;

And in Ocean of Grace immersed me;

Freeing me from illusions all,

And secretly guarding me in safety,

He bore me to the holy banks of Silentness

That indeed was an Experiment Divine.

2636: Seeking Union in God

He is the Wise One;

He fills Vedas rare;

He is the God of countless Gods;

He is of Divine Sense possessed,

The five senses transcending;

With Him who these attributes has

I my union seek.

2637: Dividing Line Between Knowledge and Ignorance

"Jnana, Jnana," thus laments this world,

They know not that Jnana of Jiva

Is Jnana none, but (ignorance);

When Siva Jnana overlays Jiva Jnana,

They both Pure Jnana are;

Thus much is it after all,

Between Knowledge and Ignorance.

2638: Merge in God's Pervasiveness

Into the Goal beyond goals,

Into the Assembly where none assemble,

Into the Knowledge beyond knowledge,

I loosened myself,

In single-minded thought;

I merged in Holy Nandi's Grace,

There in Pervasiveness beyond pervasiveness

Was Siva.

2642: Lord Will Make You First of Many

He is of attributes mighty;

The Fruit of Tapas;

All things goodly He is;

In the center of my thoughts He resides;

He is the Great Nandi;

Seek the Holy One in truth unfaltering,

He will place you as the First of Many.

2643: I Found Love Within Me

He was with me

As I searched Him within me;

And continuous there He stood;

My Father, Paraparan,

Pervasive He stands;

And transcending beyond too,

He shows me the Way.

2645: Unsheath the Sword of Jnana

Unsheath the Sword of Jnana and smite;

That instant you shall know Lord;

Unite in Him,

Who the Lord of Celestials is;

Away then shall you be

From the rabble numerous

That to desire cling.

2646: Be not Separated from Lord

Holding the Sword of Jnana

That Primal Lord gifted me,

None there is to separate me (from Him);

Search did I there further

Leaving traces none;

Then Jiva with Primal Siva one became.

2647: Search Lord in Calmness

Pasa, that seminal seed of birth

Maya, that invisible one,

Karma, that to desire gives birth,

The doubts and fears

That in their train come,

The births numerous,

-All these I scorched;

Thus my thoughts purified,

In calmness I search;

The skilful ones that practise thus

Shall one with Tat-Para be.

2648: Tat-Para Enters Within Jiva

He taught me

The word that is beyond words;

He severed my desires

For learning limitless;

My body, restless as waves,

He in calmness fixed;

In my purified being within

He, the Tatpara, entered.

2655: Jnanis Seek Lord Within the Light of Manifestness

Mayas twine envelope the body of sheaths five

When their end they reach,

The Holy Light of itself appears;

Those who seek the Truth in that Manifestness (Svarupa)

Are the Jnanis, in Silentness Exceeding.

2656: When the Holy Guru Appears

When the Tattvas six and thirty subdued are,

Then shall the Holy Guru appear

For you to adore;

Siva-State too will on you be conferred;

And then will well up the Bliss Ineffable.

2659: At the Thought of Guru's Form Impurities Vanish

At the thought of Garuda's form

The serpent's poison leaves

Its terrors lose;

Unto it,

At the thought of Guru's form

The triple Malas leave instant;

The Jiva then Siva becomes.

2660: When Jiva Becomes Siva

None know where the Lord resides,

To those who seek where the Lord resides

The Lord within them resides;

When they the Lord see,

Jiva becomes Siva.

2661: God is in the Silentness of Perception Beyond Three Turiyas

To perceive the things that appear,

To perceive the things that appear not,

That is Knowledge Higher;

To perceive the things in ways different

As in waking, dreaming and rest of states,

-These three perceptions will there be not,

In the State the Three Turiyas transcended;

There Nandi stands firm, in Silentness Exalted.

2662: Sakti is in Ajna Center

In the Center between the eye-brows

Is the Sphere of the Moon;

There on the flower of petals two

Is Virgin Sakti seated;

Radiant as Crystal is Her Form;

(To vision Her)

Seek you the Guru

Who all bonds sundered.

2665: Love Lord and Sever Pasas

Our Holy Nandi

Once He loves, separation Knows not;

Think of His Form

And within you He melts;

Enter into His Essence

And see Him in your heart;

For those who can do this,

The seminal Karmas slumbering die;

The Ego-Consciousness forever perishes.

2666: Lord can be Reached by Earnest Seeking

Reach you may

Our Holy One that is Truth Perfect;

Sunder Pasas strong and away cast them;

Seek Him firm and think constant within;

Reached then shall be

The Holy One that is Dharma.

2668: In Seeking be not Discouraged by Initial Failures

When you seek to reach the Lord

And have a miss,

Take it as the work of your evil Karma in the past,

And so persevere in your devotion fervent;

You shall at last reach the Primal Lord.

2669: How Lord Enters Within

Thinking of Lord

Their inconstancy lost;

Uniting in Lord

Their existence lost;

In their thoughts

Their ego lost;

Thus he entered

Showing the Way Illumined.

2670: Holy Guru Shows the Light in Eye-Brow Center

Unto a lustrous ray of red gem

On to a green stone set

Is the Holy Guru's Jnana precept;

That ray in the eye-brow Center is;

It is the Light within the Light Resplendent.

2674: Grace Gives Clear Vision

He made Jivas renounce

That they the Lord adore;

He made them praise Him in words meek;

That He the Nandi His Grace confers;

No more the other Gods we adore;

Our vision is clear now;

We became the Object

For other Jivas to seek and worship.

2675: Articulate Pranava is Siva's Form; Inarticulate Pranava Sakti's Form

The Sthula (articulate) Pranava (Aum)

Is the mighty key-word to Bliss of Manifestness (Svarupa)

The Sukshma (inarticulate) Pranava

Is Sakti's Divine Manifestness (Svarupa)

The Mudra (Jnana) is the Cause of that Manifestness

The Pranava aloft is the Vedanta Highway.

2679: Goodly Teaching of Sanmarga

My despairing thoughts

Are in confusion thrown;

The steady thoughts

Lead to vision clear of Light Divine;

The steadfast mind

Is the place, environs and devotion appropriate;

Goodly indeed is Upadesa (teaching) of Sanmarga (Jnana).

26803*6 Ascending Order to Finite Goal Within

To vision the Sixteen-Petalled Center within is Sodasa

It is the Way of Sanmargis;

Beyond is the end of Nine centers,*

Still beyond is Pranava

Ascending further beyond is the End Finite,

Of Jnana (Knowledge) and Jneya (Known) in one.

2681: Know Light Within

Know the Light, your Form becomes Light;

Know the Hidden Form; you that Form become;

Know the Light's Form; you that Light become;

That Light within you to melt, He in love stands.

2682: That Light Dispels Soul's Darkness

Easy to enter the Universe of Eight;*

That spreading Light of immense vastness

Dispells the Primordial darkness entire;

In the Mystic Lotus within as day-light it spreads;

Dispelling contending Pasas,

Was my Lord there seated.

That Light dispelling my darkness,

In me stood into oneness suffused.

2686: The Light Within is the Blending of All Lights-Jnana, Siva and Pranava

That Light within

Is pure as light of lightning;

It is Light that is great and red;

It is the Light of Param

That beams Jnana;

It is the Light of Adharas six ascended,

It is the Light born of constant thought on Pure Word (Aum)

It is the Light that is blended of these lights all.

2689: When the Lights of Siva and Sakti Blend in Jiva Light

As unto the Light of Lord

That in Him reposes;

Is the Light of His Sakti Grace,

When the three lights Sun, Moon and Fire

Within shines by Yoga Way,

The Lord, indeed, nears you,

As one Light in your inner Light.

2694: He Who Receives Siva's Light Becomes Jivan Mukta, Rid of Mayaic Darkness

The light Effulgent that glows afar

Is the Lord that spreads His beams as unto the Sun;

When He the Maya's darkness dispells,

Jiva in this body, a Jnani-Renunciate becomes (Jivan Mukta).

2696: Jiva then Blossoms as Divine Flower

In the Heavens stood Lord;

The Celestials, too, stood there;

Yet they knew Him not,

And bewildered ever stand;

When Pasa's desires

And the odor of Karma Past

Together leave,

The Jiva as a Flower of Divine blossoms.

2698: Fifty Letters Become Five

The letters Fifty are Vedas all;

The letters Fifty are Agamas all;

When the secret of letters Fifty is known,

The Fifty letters, Five Letters Became.

2704: Chant Sivaya Nama in God-Love

Chant that mantra Sivaya Nama once,

Your heart welling up in God-Love;

Then will transparent ambrosia within you well up;

They who seek not that pure ambrosia to drink

Will be unto bubbles of a water-fall,

That know rest none from birth's whirl, ever.

2708: Letters Five Alone Can Dispel Darkness

Knowing not the greatness

Of our Lord's Letters Five,

Will they ever dispel their darkness?

Poor in spirit are they, (who think otherwise);

They will to the nether world consigned be

Surrounded by serpents of diverse species.

2709: Sivayanama is Alchemic

In slighting terms they speak of our Lord;

With thoughts centering on the Light

And hearts melting in love

Let them chant His name;

With the alchemic pill of Sivaya Nama

He will turn thy body gold.

2715: Chant Siva Siva and Receive Grace

They who chant not "Siva Siva,"

Are from ignorance freed not

Verily are they beings dumb;

Do say "Siva Siva"

Unintermittent and spontaneous,

In the depths of your heart;

They who thus chant

Are in Siva Jnana Pure;

Theirs shall be the Grace Divine.

2719: Five-Lettered Holy Word Leads to Samadhi

Penetrating the fiery Sphere of Sun

And passing beyond into the sphere of cloud-laden Meru

By the Adhara Way,

He (the yogi) there in Samadhi slumbers;

And then articulating the Holy Word

He sees the Lord

And is forever absorbed in His thought.

2721: The Five Letters Unwrites Fate's Letters

Ripe they hang

The Letters Five

In Vedas ancient;

They know not the Way

To Slumber-in-Waking;

"Letters we know," they say

Witless are they;

They know not the Letter

That their Fate's Letter unwrites.

2722: Siva's Sport Divine

Everywhere is the Holy Form;

Everywhere is Siva-Sakti;

Everywhere is Chidambaram;

Everywhere is Divine Dance;

As everywhere Siva is,

Everywhere Siva's Grace is

All, all, His Sport Divine.

2724: Ananda Dance is Honey-Sweet

Endless is She,

Sakti of abiding Bliss;

With Her He dances the Ananda Dance

Honey-sweet it is;

You have witnessed it;

And having witnessed it,

Dance transcending knowledge all;

You, then, become the arena

For Lord's Ananda Dance to perform.

2735: He Dances in Sushumna and in Jnana that Arises in Yoga

In Yoga

That unto elephant goad subdues the senses,

Is Bodha (Jnana);

There arises in rhythmic cadence

The drum-beat of Thom-Theem;

To that, Sankaran, in accord, dance

Within the central Sushumna Nadi;

When He thus dances, He enters in you,

And there abides, never to leave ever after.

2740: He Dances, for His Devotees to Witness

Holy Devotees are they,

Who bliss of Hara's Feet attained;

Holy Devotees are they,

Who in Hara entered;

Holy Devotees are they,

Who to Siva's Holy Feet cling;

Holy Devotees are they,

Who witnessed true

The Lord's dance in golden Hall (of the astral sphere).

2741: Effect of Witnessing Siva Dance in Golden Hall

Uncontrolled was I;

He controlled me;

He blessed me with His Holy Feet;

He immersed me in Transcendental Bliss immense

Thus He dances, Our Nandi,

The goodly dancer of Jnana Dance;

Unto a picture He made me sit still

And in me abided.

2745: When They Witness Holy Dance

World-seeking you no more hanker after;

No more bewildered are your thoughts;

Sorrows harass not your body within;

Your breath will be trained in the Yogic way;

Your senses controlled from straying away;

All desires are rid;

The heart elates in bliss-seeking;

Thus it is,

When the Holy Dance they witness.

2748: Mystic Frontiers of our Universe

The Land of Mount Meru,

And the Land of South that lies beyond it

Are the Ida, Pingala;

The Holy Hall where the Lord of Crescent Moon dances,

Is the Sushumna

-Thus lie the frontiers of this universe vast.

2763: The Form-Formless Dancer is Gurupara

The Holy Way is Form-Formless

In the Holy Temple of Chittambala,

The Form that dances there

Is the Form of Guru within,

They who full know,

He is Form-Formless

They receive His Grace Divine

That Jnana Way.

2770: Ajna Center is Astral Temple of Lord

Straight within the fore-head

Between the eye-brows

Is the astral space vast;

Peer, peer within there

The luminous Mantra (Aum) will be;

The place where they in yearning sought Him

Is the place where He in yearning is;

That verily is the Holy Temple of Chittambalam

And there did I firm sit.

2778: Rapturous Experience Flowing From Witnessing Holy Dance

At the sight of tamarind

Water in mouth wells up;

As unto it,

Are all those who witness the Holy Dance;

They shed tears of joy;

They melt in love of Lord;

In their hearts,

Ambrosial bliss of Divine Light wells up.

2779: So too: They Who Hear of It

They stagger, their sense lost,

Drunk of Sivananda Bliss;

They who still retain their senses,

Frenzied become;

Thus are they,

Who the Divine Dance witnessed,

In the Holy Arena praised by all;

Even those who hear of it

Are unto those who witness it;

-All rapture is theirs too.

2796: Dance of Bliss is Union in Siva

"Bliss Bliss," they say;

Witless are they;

None know the Dance of Bliss;

Having witnessed the Dance of Bliss,

The Jiva its separateness ends,

And in Divine Bliss unites.

2808: When Siva's Light is Reached

The Light Transcendental

Is knowledge beyond knowledge;

When in it merge in silentness

In the Lights Three (within) that are mighty,

Then is Siva reached;

If His Feet there you leave not,

Long, long may you be.

2810: In Kundalini Yoga Jiva's Thought Merges in Space

As you breathe in the Yogic Way,

You reach the Inner Light,

That is the breath of worlds all;

The Damsel in the Muladhara

Then rises and upward ascends,

Spreading Her day-light brilliance,

And thus uplifted,

My thoughts in space within merged.

2811: Drink of Ambrosia in Space

Move close to Lord,

He leaves you not;

Move close to world,

He leaves you alone;

He the Supreme Lord Nandi;

Move close to the Flashing Light

Within the (mystic) astral space,

And there adore;

You may drink of Ambrosia Divine.

2812: The Cosmic Space of Samadhi

In the Outer Space is universe and the world,

In the Inner Space is Primal Jnana,

In the Space where Siva is is Light Resplendent

In the Space that composes the Cosmos

Is Samadhi's destination.

2813: Bliss in Sushupti and the Lord of Bliss in Turiya

In the conjunction of Mind is the Waking State,

Then the Dream, where bliss experienced be;

Beyond it, is (sushupti) where Bliss experience certain is;

Ascend still, there is the Void (Turiya)

Where are only Two-Bliss and Lord of Bliss.

2815: Enter Within and Follow Guru's Way

When the Celestials above consumed ambrosia,

He consumed poison;

Follow the Way of Tapas, the holy men taught,

And enter within;

He will give you Jnana, that is pure gold;

So, Siva's Feet do seek.

2816: Kindle Light Within Light

Break open the Kundalini Light

Light the Lamp within;

Kindle the Light within that Light

They who can thus brighten,

The Light within the Light

May reach the Feet of Him,

Who is lustrous Lamp of Jnana.

2820: Lord Himself Removed "I" and "He" Distinction

As I and He, I separate sought;

And as I thus sought,

"I and He are separate are not;"

-Thus the Lord of Primal Jnana Himself granted,

And then no more was the thought of I and He.

2823: Lord is the Support Unfailing

For those who can see Him

He is the light of their eyes;

For those who can see Him

He is the ambrosia of the Oceans;

Them who adore Him

The Mighty Nandi never fails;

To them alone who yearn for Him

He stands as Support unfailing.

2825: In the Seventh Void is Siva-Knowledge-Bliss

All voids as void

As all and nothing,

The three Voids below,

And the three Voids above,

Seeking them,

And knowing not what this Void is like,

In that Supreme Bliss

Is the Tat-Para Jnanananda;

Siva-Knowledge-Bliss

In that He and I one become.

2830: Lord is in the Farthest Stretches of Thought

Think of Him as far as your thoughts stretch,

Adore Him in melting love,

Praise Him in songs melodious,

Well may you envelop Him in your heart;

Me too,

My Lord Nandi, His Grace extending,

Led to think of Him

To the farthest reaches of my thought.

2838: When Jnana Supreme is Attained

Knowing not the foot-prints of Faith's Way,

They the eight causal sins of greed, lust and others commit;

They are egoity possessed;

They who transcend these,

And Jnana attain,

Verily become Lord of Immortals in High Heavens.

2840: Unless Lord Himself Reveals as Guru, He is Beyond Reach

Form He has none,

Yet Form He assumes;

Birth He has none;

Yet is He the seed of all births;

Beyond Formlessness, too, He is,

The elusive Lord;

Unless Himself as Holy Guru reveals

None, Him reach.

2841: Meditation on God's Manifestness

They who meditate on His Svarupa,

See Him as the light within;

They who meditate on His Svarupa,

Will Timeless Eternity attain;

They who meditate on His Svarupa,

Will with Celestials be;

Yet who does seek His Svarupa true

In the world here below?

2845: He Stands Concealed in Kalas of Sakti

In the valleys within the cranium I stood,

Adoring Him in penance devout;

And there I discovered Him, the Thief,

With Sakti standing in Kalas concealed;

Discovering Him, I ended my birth's cycle.

2846: Knowledge of the Way of Becoming

I knew the Way of Becoming,

I knew the Way of Seeking the Rare One,

I knew the Way of Entrance to Him;

No more the egoity,

None other the locale

The Primal One I become,

He and I one will be.

2850: Seek Lord Always

What though the welkin thunders,

What though the seas rise and foam,

What though the fires spread and burn,

What though the tempests roar and blast,

Unconcerned I seek Lord

In devotion intense.

2852: Jnanis Are Unconcerned

If this body to harm comes

There is One to fashion another;

If a land to destruction goes,

There is another land for people to migrate;

If a house to pieces falls,

There is another house to dwell;

-Thus do their thoughts, unconcerned run,

Who Nandi's bounty know.

2853: Siv

a Reveals in Doubt-Free Thought

Those whose thoughts inseparable in Siva merge,

In their thoughts, Siva reveals;

Those who can vision their thoughts doubt-free,

In their thoughts, Siva is.

2857: He is the Fragrance in the Flower Within

He is Sentience, He is Life;

He is union, He is separation;

He is Continuity beyond thought;

He stands in the fragrance of flower within.

2862: Aim of Suddha State

Mukti, Siddhi and mature Jnana attained,

In devotion standing,

In Param standing,

In the mighty Sakti standing

They realize the Tattvas;

Then from that Suddha State

They passes to Sukhananda Bodha State.

2867: Holy Way is Strewn With Thorns

The Holy Way is by thorny bushes covered

They know not how to remove it;

They who know how to remove it

Are they for whom my heart yearns.

2872: Kundalini Yoga

In the Triangular Field,

Are the Ploughs Three;

Yoke the bulls tight with rope;

Drive the ploughshare deep

They who held not their tongue,

Ploughed not in the Center

Closing their legs together,

They plough the waste in vain.

2873: Control of Breath

Two the picottahs, seven the wells;

The elder draws out, the younger waters;

If into fields the water flows not,

And into waste flows,

Verily is it unto the fowl

That the harlot rears.

# to draw water

2874: Tattvas-Lower and Higher

Twenty and four the cows that stray uncontrolled,

Other cows gentler are seven and five;

Well may the gentler ones a whole pot of milk give;

But Jiva has the straying uncontrolled ones alone.

2875: Yoga Way to Transcend Tattvas

Twenty and four the cows that are in calf;

Better far a pitcher of milk from cows that yield;

When you know how to milk the cows of breath (yoga)

The other cows near not.

2877: Sublimate Bindu Within into Para Bindu

In the eroding seed bed

Of Sorrow's field,

Train the flowing water

And dam it tight;

Then plough with the goodly young bull,

And transplant the cucumber seedling;

That shall indeed into goodly seed ripe.

2880: Do not Cultivate the Waste of Worldly Pleasures

Why they plough the waste, we know not,

They who plough the waste have design none,

They who plough the waste perish,

Unto the young weeds

That waste shoots.

2881: Yoga Leads to Grace

Within the shed where jackals howl,

Rouse your call;

The binding Pasas to Fire Consign;

Thus spend days continuous;

Then the goodly Lady appears

And there in the home, you shall be well.

2883: Control Senses

In Brahmin's home are Milk Cows Five

With none to herd them, they stray uncontrolled,

If a cowherd there is, and controlled they are,

The Five Cows will milk in abundance give.

2885: Immortality Through Yoga

The Truth of the Unwritten Book,

The Immaculate Virgin in clarity chanting,

The nectar of Flower, unopened until then,

Gushed forth;

As the Bee its fragrance drank,

Unborn it became.

2887: Body Perishes if Yoga is not Practiced

From the Bamboo Shoot arose a Margosa tree

Close on Margosa was a Palmyrah,

In that Palm is a Snake

Knowing not to drive that Snake and eat it,

The Margosa tree withered away.

2890: The Perfect Ones Practice Yoga Daily

Level up Mind-Garden in equanimity

In devotion's net, plant the cotton tree

By salvation's rope enter the place of Three,

Daily do they ascend thus,

Who perfection filled are.

2892: Kundalini Yoga Alone Drives Away Triple Pasas

In the toddy measure* of foul smell

That a derisive laugh draws and (senses) to shambles sends,

He placed the white rats three;

If on the fire* placed, they run;

Else they remain;

Of flesh-born,

How will they ever go?

2894: Worldly Desires Lead to Perdition

Food, raiment and phialled unguents,

Necklace, waistband and bangles lovely,

They who (as goal) saw,

Fly away

Unto a garment piece on a high rock laid,

Into the deep pit of six sins they fall

And there immersed are.

2900: Conquer Senses and Reach Siva

In the Way of Loud Call of Jiva

Is a Forest that stretches two leagues far;

Inside stand Robber that ceases and binds,

If the White Guard chases the Black thieves

And away shout them loud

Then does Jiva the Roof of Safety reach.

2901: Sweet Ambrosia and Bitter Nux Vomica Within the Body

In the tank where bloomed Kotti and Lily

Are Neem and Nux Vomica, too;

They who eat not the Salad of Plantain sweet,

With candy and honey mixed,

Lo! hanker after the fruit of nux vomica.

2903: Jivas Graze in the Backwood of Worldly Desires

What to do with those cows

In the backwoods of desires graze?

Take them beyond,

And lead them to Feet of Lord;

Discipline them in ways superior;

Thus manage the herd;

Until then, their thoughts turn not

From the backwoods of worldly pleasures.

2905: Attaining Liberation in Sahasrathala

Six the Birds in the house of Five,

Hundred the birds at the top of Tree,

Having ascended the Seven Steps high,

You shall sure reach the Home.

2906: Light Dawns in Sahasrathala

Within the Bathing Well,

Where they water draw

The roundly Earth swells

And Water springs;

Bind your breath and with Rope-Work

And center your thoughts;

Well may the Light Divine dawn.

2910: Vision Siva and Attain Golden Form

They who saw the Fish, remain looking at the fish;

They who saw the Hare, are of the Three rid;

He who controlled the battle tumultuous,

See the Hidden Truth,

His form golden becomes.

2912: Yoga Way to Liberation

Of three leagues is the Garden below,

Of half a league is the Forest above,

Frontiers blurring the two routes intermingled;

They who can see the Frontiers clear

Can quick cross the backyard

And reach the Hamlet safe.

2919: Freedom From Fetters

Unopened a Bud there is;

Freed from Fetters,

The bud soon blossoms, that you see

Give up desires, the Tattvas perish;

Unless they be from Fetters free,

They see not the Blossom.

2920: Uniqueness of Ambrosial Flow in Cranium

Green that Land, you no water flows,

None know it ever;

The Water that flows rain devoid

Stands not in Land untilled.

2921: Jiva Becomes Siva by Kundalini Yoga

When the Owl gets to the top of Kurunda tree

And realizes desire is the source of world

Then the Snake standing in the Center teaches (Jnana)

And Jiva, Siva becomes.

2924: Reach Nada by Yoga and Attain Status of God

In the House of Goldsmith a Child flourishes,

A Conch of Call there is;

Blow it and call the Lord in Joy;

To the Potter and the Titled Minister alike

Are granted the high state;

That do you seek.

2925: Indriyas Obstruct the Yoga Journey

The Temple buffalo left the Shed,

It saw the Army and half-way turned;

The Chief held counsel with Minister,

The Citizens closed the Gates,

Five and Four.

2926: The Lord Drives in the Tattvas into the Infant Body

The eight constituents of Body Subtle

That ultimate leave,

The eight and ten Tattvas that sneak in,

With Purusha in them immersed,

The orifices nine,

The Kundalini that serpent-like coils,

The life breath twelve finger-measure (angula) long,

-If these, the Divine Charioteer drives not in,

Verily may the infant less than human be (say, pig).

2928: Siva Draws Jiva Unto Himself

On the Peaked Mountain is a Summit High,

Beyond the Summit blows a Gusty Wind;

There blossomed a Flower that its fragrance spread

Within that Flower, a Bee its Nectar imbibed,

There the Lord unto Himself Jiva draws.

2932: Properly Guided Jiva Reaches the Finite State

The tribes of Indriyas to Jiva belong

Each at his gate with swords fight;

If constant guided,

Jiva takes the True Way to Frontier;

From that born none ever return;

From that very plane shall he transcend,

The Five-States-Beyond.

2933: Body No More Counts When Jiva-Siva Union is Effected

When in the Garden,

The Fruit of Mango, ripened, dropped,

What matters if Jackals outside howl?

When the Primal One was by Kundalini Fire reached,

The fleshly body that led to it,

Forever left.

2935: When Pasas Leave Jiva Unites in Siva

A Boat there is in the River Ghat

The Five plant their feet and row;

Thus on the river route they trade;

If in the midst the Rudder wobbles,

That becomes This.

(No more the world trade.)

18 MAUNA SAMADHI (TRANSCENDENTAL SILENTNESS)

2936: Through Samadhi Being Within is Reached

They stood, they sat, they lay

-Thus their state can be described not;

Their thought is in Samadhi's Silentness;

There is a Being Hidden;

They who reach it (Samadhi),

Have reached Him indeed.

2944: Divine Felicity Beyond Words

Thou fools who see with fleshly eyes

Know! To see with inner eye is bliss true;

How can mother tell the daughter

Of the felicity in the union with her husband?

In what terms will she that describe?

2945: Transcendental Union Beyond Word and Speech

As salt in water, in Lord I mixed,

Transcending Param and Paraparam states,

Beyond word and speech I in union merged;

"How was It?"-you ask

"It was It"-I say.

2946: Deceptive Ways of World

Lovely to look at is the fruit of nux-vomica,

Only those who eat know its taste (bitter)

When virgin matures and full woman becomes,

Only then will husband know her qualtities diverse.

2948: Merging into Void

Undistracted, I sit aloof and meditate,

Doubt-free, I follow the ancient Vedas,

I cross the awesome waste, this life is,

And beyond into the Void, that defies imagination,

I merge.

2950: Lord's Gushing Love

When for purposeful union the lovers sit and talk

Of a sudden gushes their passion;

When the Lord of fragrant Konrai flower beholds

Those who determined sit to meet Him,

He His Grace unhesitating grants.

2951: Nature of Union in God

Myself perishing, my wealth perishing,

Body perishing and life perishing,

Heaven perishing and mind perishing,

My ego perishing

-This I knew not (is union in God).

2952: Merging into Finite Reality

Darkness and Space I transcended,

As substance into Substance I merged,

To the Feet of Lord in Grace abounding,

Firm as rock immovable

My thoughts entire went.

2953: Transcendental Awareness

Meditating in oneness, I visioned Paraparam,

Meditating in oneness, I realized Siva-State

Meditating in oneness, I experienced Awareness Transcendental

Meditating in oneness, I witnessed aeons upon aeons.

2954: State of

Oneness in God

When you have, yourself, limitless become,

Who, in limit, are you to see?

When you have, yourself, He become,

Who are you to think of?

The Eyes that vanquished the God of Love,

Whom are they in longing to look for?

-Tell me, yourself, the real Truth.

2955: Thoughts Stand Still in the Beyond

You dumb ones!

They seek to speak,

Of the One beyond speech!

Can you ever reach the shores

Of the Shoreless Vast?

For them whose thoughts stand still,

Unto the waveless waters,

Unreserved He appears;

He of the matted locks.

2956: Maya Creates No Illusions There

Maya is but mind's work,

It creates the illusions;

When the mind's illusion disappears,

Nothing there left to worry about;

Death will not there be;

Chatter no more;

To seek the Self is Truth Divine.

2957: The Realized Souls Have No Possessions

Mala none; impurity none; pride and prejudice none;

Family none, excellences none; affluence none;

For them who in wisdom

Plant themselves in Nandi

-Firm in His love.

2960: They are Inseparable in God

None can intimidate me hereafter,

The Lord came and entered my thoughts,

There will I sport and wander in joy;

No more will I with anyone else be.

2961: How They Hastened to the City of God

I freed myself of fetters

The Creator bound me with,

I learned the way of reaching Siva;

I smote Karmas with the sharp sword of mind,

I stood ego lost;

And now I hasten toward the City of God.

2962: Sweetness of Namasivaya Fruit

One the God for worlds all,

One is He, the life of worlds all,

Lovely indeed is Namasivaya Fruit,

Sweet it is to them

Who of it tasted.

If renouncing all,

Jiva There appears,

And empties its thoughts,

No more birth in carnal body will be.

Long back had I sundered Karma,

To birth leads;

Who can stand against Thought,

Of intense devotion born?

2969: They are in Nada and Bindu

Their thoughts are Siva-filled;

They have destroyed Malas three

Suddha Siva they have become;

To Mala's bondage they return not;

Shouts, confusion and fights (of this world),

They indulge not in;

Immersed are they in Nada and Para Bindu.

2972: Meek and Intense Prayer Leads to Siva

Him I adored, the Param, the Primal Lord,

Determined I stood, nothing else I seek;

In my body I held Him in union, the First One;

Meek in prayer I stood and I saw my Siva's Being.

2973: In the Presence of Siva

The Lord filled my thoughts,

His Feet I beseeched;

As I thus entered His Presence,

He ended my birth's whirl;

-He the Lord that has Thoughts none;

My Fate He fragmented,

My bonds He sundered.

2974: He Resolved My Contradictions

My contradictions He resolved;

Disease, age and life's reckoning He ended;

Thus He accepted me in His service,

He my Nandi;

My contradictions resolved,

My life's sorrows, I laid low;

And Siva, of Himself appeared.

2976: Bodily Pleasures Ceased to Interest

In this body of pleasures

Unto sugarcane and honey mixed,

Sprouted the Fragrance of Siva Bliss;

In eagerness my heart sought it

And I visioned the Void;

Then did the cane taste bitter

And honey sour.

2981: Mind Blossomed into Mukti

The mind blossomed and converged in tapas great;

The mind blossomed and converged in yoga breath;

The mind blossomed and converged for the Jiva;

When the mind blosso- beyond words to describe,

Then is Mukti Finale.

2986: He is Seen in the Mind-Mirror

He appears not in the glasses of the fleshly eye;

He is in the Lotus of the Heart;

He appears in the glass of Vedic Jnana;

He is in the mind-glass of the righteous that think of Him,

Him I saw in the glass of songs

Listening to that Divine Music,

I enraptured stand.

2987: Chant "Aum" Incessantly

Chant, the Lord's name, a thousand times,

A thousand blessings shall yours be;

They who chant the lovely "Aum" a thousand times,

Are rid of a thousand thousand passions, away.

2989: Practise Yoga

In ways diverse, do seek Nandi;

Penetrating the Lotus within and going beyond,

You shall reach the Celestial world,

Having drunk of the nectar there, you shall return;

Sweet, sweet exceeding indeed, it is.

2990: Devotees More Rewarded Than Celestials

He came and stood before His devotees,

He the Rare Truth;

Even if the Celestials and their King Indra ask

What will they get, but the music of lovely damsels?

But that which devotees get is beyond all their heaven.

2991: Still Your Thoughts and Be Purified

Unto muddied water these men's minds are,

Unclear in vision,

They see not and say, "This is Lord;"

From the heart's lake within,

Draw a pitcherful,

And keep it in stillness apart;

When you thus purify it,

You shall become Siva.

2992: Yearn For Him

He of the Penance Pure;

Transparent as amla fruit

On palm of those who yearn for Him;

He the Pure One,

Whom Celestials seek in ways righteous;

Him, my Lord, I sought;

And thus ever remained.

2993: The Bounteous One

Thus remaining,

Limitless Jnana I attained;

No more wavering there is;

And as I reach the Holy One,

In the Land where Kundalini Fire burns,

The Bounteous One,

His choicest blessings gives.

3002: He Confers Blessings According to Degree of Jnana Attainment

In Fire and Sun He pervades,

In Wind He pervades,

In Moon He pervades,

Pervading all,

He gifts the Land True

To their Jnana according.

3025: Fruit of Jnana

The shoot of tiny banyan seed,

As a mighty tree within foul body grew,

And rich ripe fruit it bore;

They who ate, forever remained to be;

The fools who did not,

Remained in body,

Tossed about from birth to birth.

3030: Jiva Becomes a Flaming Light

Entangled in crusted Karma;

That with their birth came;

They in the end realized Him,

And golden became;

He is the Spark within the spark of light,

The Being Divine,

If you reach Him,

A flaming Light you shall be.