The one desirous of attaining Atma should live with the help of Atma alone.

 The one desirous of attaining Atma should live in this world with the help of Atma alone.

Says Narada Parivrajika upanishad.

How do you analyse the sentence?

Is it practical to live that way?

Was it a typo?

Did someone misinterpret the original meaning?

Was a mistake made in translation?

You will find many who shall come up with their own meanings.

Obviously meanings that suit their own ideas and plans.

However narada bhakti sutra clearly states between verses 46-50:

yo yogakshemam tyajati.

Which means one who gives up the roof over his head.

Gives up all ideas of security, safety and 'insurance'.

For a sansari, it is 'yogakshemam vahamyaham'.

LIC policy.

For a 'sari', it is 'yogakshemam tyajati'.

You cannot have the cake and eat it too.

You cannot claim to be a sanyasi and make sure you are well taken care of financially, medically till the end of your life.

Wouldn't that defeat the purpose?

Morsoeover, then you shouldn't have any authority to preach others about 'tyajati', doing 'tyaga' of financial stability.

Verses 46-50 also say, nirmamo bhavati.

na mama.

na ma.

not mine.

because there is no 'me.'

That is now well understood at my current stage of life,

so in that clear awareness, in that brilliance shines the wisdom of 'nothing is mine,

because there is no 'me.'

There was never an 'entity'.

I have long given up ideas of shape and form, which I clung to all these millions of lives.

But now my understanding is not as weak as before.

I do not cling to objects, ideas, people who will eventually lead to my downfall.

Ideas of a sense of security shall not take me 'beyond'.

But here I crave to go yonder.

These set of verses 46 to 50 mention the 11 points for, 'kastarti kastarti maya'?

How to cross maya?

or the ocean of suffering?

or the mirage of 'asat'

The 11 points:

1. Yaha sangaha tyajati

gives up company of unawakened people who have no choice but to be materially minded.

2. Yo mahanubhav sevate

Stays with the mahatma who has crossed maya.

Or lives in the company of his teachings 24/7

3. Nirmamo bhavati.

Gives up ideas, 'this belongs to me.'

Why?

Because there is no 'me.'

4. Yo vivikta sthanam sevate?

Lives alone.

Literally?

Yes.

Do not fall for convenient explanations that say, 'he can enjoy all pleasures by being extroverted, but he is not attached to them.'

Why does he allow himself to get extroverted then?

Another misleading explanation goes by, ' he socialises just like others, but in his mind he knows those things are not worth cherishing.'

If you are not awakened you can come up with a hundred such misleading explanations yourself.

If you are serious, the literal meaning would suffice.

Or in fact it would poke its urgency in your psyche.

If it hasn't, then continue with the explanations you can strike a tune with.

What else could you do?

5. Yo loka bandham unmulayati

Gives up company of unawakened individuals.

It only stresses point 4 once again.

He wants to reach 'sat'.

He should have got to do nothing with 'asat.'

Neither with people who dwell in 'asat,'

6. nistraya gunyo bhavati

Goes beyond the 3 gunas.

Goes beyond sattva too?

Yes.

For those who find the word confusing, you may read it as 'trigunatit'

7. yo yogakshemam tyajati.

Gives up ideas of a sense of security, financial or otherwise.

He 'learns' to live with the help of 'Atma' alone!

He knows only 'Atma' exists.

What is coursing through his veins is the power of atma alone.

What is coursing through each and every atom of the Universe is the power of atma alone

Prarabdha is but a gift of God.

If it is ordained he shall be fed.

If it is ordained in his prarabdha, by the grace of God, he shall be preserved.

Meaning the body which he is carrying.

A dnyani as it is finds very difficult to take care of his body, since the idea of connection with it is diminished.

Ramana quotes 4 avasthas from yogavashishtha:

bramhavid, bramhavidvara, bramhavidvariya, bramha vidvarishtha.

The first 2 have body consciousness.

bramha vidvariya needs to be reminded he has a body. Then he is aware of it.

Bramha vidvarishtha cannot be compelled to be made aware of his body despite efforts.

Which means when Grace takes over, you move out of the picture and let Grace take care of you.

Wouldn't grace take better care of you than you?

Just stop resisting.

So he stops taking care of himself.

But grace takes care of him.

During kevala kumbhaka, you stop breathing.

Some power breathes for you.

A subtle pranic current does continue to sustain the body.

Could you say, grace breathes for you?

What do you think?

Could we say 'why not?'

8. karmaphala tyajati. karma tyajati.

Gives up fruits of karma. 

Eventually gives up karma too.

'Naishkaramya siddhi' would explain this in detail.

Yes for a common  man, living without 'karma' is a big no-no.

9th verse of 'Bhaja Govidam' might also help.

A nirmohi avastha leads to nischalatvam, which is tantamount to Jivanmukti.

Also, doesn't this point 8 once more stresses point 6, about giving up sattvic karma as well?

If you want to go to the other shore, you shouldn't have any kartavyas left to be done on a shore which doesn't exist.

Else, your concepts of 'beyond' and 'sat' are immature.

And an immature plant doesn't give fruit.

A 10 year old girl cannot give birth to a baby.

Narada bhakti sutra is for the 'ultimate' sadhak, a 'mumukshu' who has no desire to do anything in a world which doesn't exist.

If he still has something to be done here, he is neither a dnyani nor a mumukshu.

9. nir dvandvo bhavati

A holy state where the dualities of heat, cold; praise, insult etc. do not bother him.

Are these the states of dnayni or yogi?

They are both the same.

10. Yo vedanapi sanyasati.

He gives up vedas.

Gita says a dnyani doesn't need the vedas in as much as a well is of no use when the flood waters have submerged the entire town.

The dnyani is submerged in the flood of grace.

What can scriptures teach him?

Reasoning, intellect, shastrartha all these trifle things, quickly give way to a surging tsunami of relentless, overpowering, all encompassing flood of Bhakti, vairagya and Grace of Atma.

That surge of emotions, the gush of the vital energies towards the one and one Atma alone. 

The one who submerges you in 'Love ' alone.

Makes you love, teaches you how to love. 

Mooka swadanavat.

Waves of bliss like tsunamis hitting you one after another.

You revel in bliss and Bliss alone

Yajnyatva matto bhavati, atmaramo bhavati, stabdho bhavati.

Doesn't care a thing about rain or Sun when overwhelmed with bhakti. unmad.  unmatta. masta. matto.

Mastan swami used to go in samadhi for 8 hours just touching the gates of Ramana ashram, rain or shine.

Ramana said , it was not possible for him to have seen Him, since He used to be inside.

He was offered a shaiva siddha's samadhi.

It only confirms that in the last life of a jivanmukta, these waves of bliss gush forth paralysing you, erasing entirely the concept of care and concern for your body.

Just like a drunk person who stays up all night in rain or in scorching sunlight, but is unaware of the consequences due to his 'unmada'.

This wild 'unmada' stills his nerve currents. The prana retreats in his 'sushumna'. He dwells in 'atma'; 'rama' is dwelling in atma, the Self.

And he literally becomes 'stabdha'.

As the power of grace engulfs him.

11. Avicchinna Anurag labhate

He gets uninterrupted, gushing forth like a tsunami kind of love, prema for his beloved 'atma', the Self.

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