Master key to all Ills
Kriya - Vol II
Continuing my previous post, we will delve into some of the dialogues featured in Volume II.
Within the innermost chambers of your heart shines the divine light. It is the glorious, self-luminous Atman. Turn your gaze within. Turn away from the world. That Supreme Light will clarify your path, lighten your burden and make you Divine.
The fundamental goal of life is God's realization to achieve tremendous joy. Blessed and calm is that Absolute Peace, where sun and moon are but lamps without oil; thither that go, will not return.
The law of karma is one of the fundamental doctrines, not only in Hinduism but also in Buddhism and Jainism. As a man sows, so shall he reap. The law of karma is inexorable. You are the master of your fate; you are the architect of your fortune. You are responsible for your present state. If you are unhappy, it has been your making. Understand the law and live wisely. Entertain noble thoughts.
Righteousness is kalpa vriksha on which fruits of peace, happiness and prosperity grow in abundance. They enjoy the satisfaction of having lived a life by the divine law of dharma. Therefore, be righteous, and you will enjoy both bukti (prosperity, happiness) and mukti (liberation).
Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached Realize that Vedanta is the end of Veda. Identify yourself with Atman and you will attain self-realization: this is the gist of Vedantic Sadhana. Equip yourself with the four means: practice, hearing, reflection and meditation.
I am the all-blissful
I am the indivisible soul
I am pure consciousness
I am sacchidananda svarupa
At the beginning and end of all our scriptures is the word AUM. It has the meaning of Self-acknowledge of Truth, it is the breath of Eternal. (SOHAM - SO - Inhale & HUM - Exhale, watch the breath). It is said that 21,600 times a day SOHAM is sung.
AUM is the sound symbol of Ishvara. The body is the form and the mind (antakara) is the name. All our senses are nothing but a form, the vibration of the primal energy, Prakriti, has the eternal inexpressible sound symbol, which is AUM.
The four aspects of Brahman (supreme consciousness) are 1)the awakened state; 2) the dream state; 3) the dreamless deep sleep state and 4) the superconscious state. Brahman is realised by withdrawing the mind from the external objects of the senses and thus focusing on Brahman alone. The mind should be made free of modifications or breaking into vrittis to the attain state of ekagrata.
The shruti says “Having made one’s self the bottom arani and the prana the upper arani, by the practice of rubbing together through meditation, one sees the Lord in his hidden identity.
What is divinity? Think of the origin. All history specifies that spiritual values are the ultimate source of every right, every privilege, for that matter, every material advantage we enjoy in the world.
We need sleep to refresh our life. Similarly, we need silence to refresh our wisdom.
Analyze your thoughts, scrutinize your motives and thus cleanse the dross of impurity. That is realizing God Himself. God is within you. He is your constant companion. Know him through service, discipline, devotion and meditation. Let the light of reason, the light of sacchidananda be your guide, friend and philosopher.
Educated people are deluded to believe more in noise than in silence and so miss the subtler, finer, more substantial aspects of life. Silence is an unseen power and a miracle of life, whereas the noise of the world exhibits itself as some little play of the imagination, exalting the ego.
Shake off the scales of the vague vision of matter from your eyes and realize that all is divine. It is a ray of your ideal, of perfect beauty alone that is reflected to you in the manifestation of every beauty alone that is reflected to you in the manifestation of every beauty.
One who has discovered his ever-abiding self, the chief characteristic of which is sat chit ananda then he rises above all fear of death. The fruit of realization is freedom from fear of death. Because the real man is truly deathless.
There are three planes of consciousness, namely, the conscious, the sub-conscious and the unconscious planes. In shusupti (deep sleep), the ordinary consciousness remains active and comes in close touch with the absolute consciousness for a brief space of time to renew its vigor and vitality. The seed of mind in shusupti retains the capability of manifesting itself in the state of jagrath on its coming back to that state.
The universal library of the world is within us. The wave of bliss is the consciousness of the one whole, true life, helped by our intelligence, devotion and penetration.
The doctrine of Maya is a difficult aspect of the system to understand. Reality is the non-dual spirit. Maya is neither absolute zero nor non-existence. In Vedanta, it is anirvachaniya or inexpressible. “ It is a headache without a head!”. Maya is not a theory but a statement of facts, whose soul is in contradiction,
What is Maya ? Is it identical with or different from Brahman? If maya was real the non-duality of Brahman would be destroyed. That means maya is not real.
Fear, doubt and worry are not big things in the beginning. They are just little seeds in a corner of our mind, just as dropping a burning match in a forest is, after all, a small thing. Yet it starts a fire, which burns for a thousand miles, burning a whole forest before the flames die down.
Take hold of the brushes and paint a constructive picture, where they would paint a destructive one. Let them be divested of tools to work with and canvas to paint upon.
A rescuer on the edge of a pond has to bend and assume a stooping posture to pull out a person struggling in the mire. (think Yoga as same)
Let us think like a “live wire” and lead an electrified spiritual life, like the butterfly that faces the freedom of the sky rather than remain in the shelter of the cocoon.
Remove finite conceptions about the self and know it to be undifferentiated like the sky with no interior or exterior.
Censor every thought of a faulty nature and avoid its reactions. Give no room for musty thoughts. Practice right thinking and prove to be a mirror reflecting the illumination of soul sunshine. Make your words winning, giving them power and grace.
Make the motto “simple living and high thinking”. He who feels the Lamp of Wisdom shining within perceives everything in an explicable and incomprehensible manner.
Just as camphor is sublimated by fire, and ice by water, so also is the devotee by the Lord.
A deer has to run 40 or 50 miles a day, as it is filled with fear on all sides, whereas a lion shares quite a different fate.
A star never talks, but is ever calm. A flower never sings, but is ever sweet in beauty and gentle in fragrance. Be like a star in your brightness, radiating peace and joy through you, as from it the steady boom shoots down continually out of the sky.
Desire is a great obstacle, a great barrier in the path of self-realization. The elimination of egoism is the sole condition of self-realization.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Do not boast or make a show of your abilities. Be simple and humble.
Four important factors that shatter your peace of mind are: sound, touch, sight and thought.
The multi-petaled lotus symbolizes the mystical chakras through which Kundalini passes to unite with Shiva in the shasrara chakra, in deep meditation.
Man is manacled only by himself. Thought and action are the jailers of fate for they imprison, being base. But they are also the angles of freedom, they liberate being noble.
Believe you can’t have a perfect mastery over a whole unless you have a mastery over the smallest piece, the atoms.
The strength of the bhakta lies in the pure and sincere tears he sheds. Spiritual heroism unfolds life to its fullest and reveals the whole truth of the cosmic energy of life.