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- Pranam Captain Sir, sorry if the question is in bad taste. Rajiv Dixit says that Ganesh Festival was started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who as you mentioned was a Chitpawan agent of the British, so is there any spiritual benifit of celebrating Ganesh Festival this pompous way? If Ganesha is a cosmic allegory then there must be some other way to seek his blessings than dhol baaja, my apologies in advance for such taboo question..
Greetings to you and Ma’am,
_/\_ Anukul
- RN Murthy August 22, 2020 at 1:55 PM
Dear Capt Ajit sir,
This is where Francois Gautier is breaking up Sanatana Dharma from within....in the mask of Hindu warrior/protector....showing Pondicherry Mother Mirra Alfassa replacing Parvati... with Ganesha on her lap !!!
What does he think ?
https://www.facebook.com/francoisgautierofficial/posts/3162636040501925
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JEWESS MIRRA ALFASSA WAS A DISCIPLE OF JEW MAX THÉON..
MIRRA ALFASSA WORKED IN CAHOOTS WITH BENGALIS RABINDRANATH TAGORE AND AUROBINDO (WHO A PLEA BARGAINED BY THE WHITE INVADER) AND VIVEKANANDA – ALL AGENTS OF JEW ROTHSCHILD..
IT WAS AUROBINDO WHO DID PROPAGANDA THAT MIRRA ALFASSA IS AN INCARNATION OF SHIVA’ WIFE DURGA.
MIRRA ALFASSA,S FATHER WAS A TURKISH JEW AND HER MOTHER WWAS A EGYPTIAN JEWESS.
ROTHSCHILD’ AGENT JEW MAX THÉON WHO CREATED THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY TO DESTROY SANATANA DHARMA.
BOTH JEW UG KRISHNAMURTI AND J KRISHNAMURTI WERE BOTH AGENTS OF THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.. THEY TRIED TO DESTROY SANATANA DHARMA ..
JEWESS MIRRA ALFASSA WAS A CHARLATAN AND A CONWOMAN LIKE JEWESS MADAME BLAVATSKY..
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2012/12/madame-helena-petrovna-blavatsky-con.html
JEWESS MIRRA ALFASSAGOT HER POISON INPUTS TO INJECT INTO SANATANA DHARMA FROM JEWESS ALEXANDRA DAVID-NÉELTHE DAUGHTER OF ROTHCHILD’ AGENT JEW LOUIS DAVID
ROTHSCHILD’S AGENT JE HYDER ALI, THE NIZAM OF HYDERABAD TOOK CARE OF FINANCE AND SECURITY OF THE AUROBINDO ASHRAM.. LOCATED IN PONDICHERRY..
AUROBINDO AND JEWESS MIRRA ALFASSA GAVE PUBLIC DARSHANS AS IF THEY ARE DIVINITY..
KAYASTHA AUROBINDO GHOSE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE BASICS OF SANATANA DHARMA
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2019/07/we-never-heard-words-kayastha-and.html
IN 1888 WHEN KATHIWARI JEW GANDHI WAS DOING HIS SECOND YEAR OF STUDIES AT ENGLAND, HE WAS HANDPICKED BY ROTHSCHILD TO HAVE A TETE E TETE WITH MADAMA BLAVATSKY AND HER DISCIPLE ANNIE BESANT.
ANNIE BESANT AND ALLAN OCTAVIAN HUME WERE MEMBERS OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF ADYAR MADRAS ( NOW CHENNAI ) AND ALSO MEMBERS OF THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS .
BOTH HUME AND ANNIE BESANT WERE DOUBLE AGENTS OF ROTHSCHILD , WHO PRETENDED TO BE INDIA LOVERS AND FREEDOM FIGHTERS.
A GRATEFUL ROTHSCHILD WOULD ALLOW ANNIE BESANT TO START HER OWN "FEMALE" FREEMASON LODGES THOUGH FEMALES ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE FREEMASONS.
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2011/08/freemason-lodge-of-calicut-capt-ajit.html
IN 2017, GAUTIER CLAIMED OVER A BLOG AT THE TIMES OF INDIA TO HAVE COME ACROSS A HITHERTO-HIDDEN MANUSCRIPT OF NOSTRADAMUS IN A TRUNK, THAT SUCCESSFULLY PROPHESIED THE STATESMANSHIP OF NARENDRA MODI.
LISTEN IT WAS I WHO FIRST GAVE THIS BULLSHIT IN MARCH 2014.
IT IS ON RECORD BELOW-.
IT WAS A BACKSWING TO GARNER PUBLIC INTEREST ON THE FAKE NOSTRADAMUS..
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QUOTE: Quatrain 50, Century L --Nostradamus ( French Jew )
From the peninsula where three seas meet,
Comes the ruler to whom Thursday is holy,
His wisdom and might all nations will greet,
To oppose him in Asia will be folly.
Kanyakumari of Kerala, is the only peninsula in the entire globe where three seas meet a point and stretch away. The great leader who will wipe out our enemies will hence be a Hindu who offers worship on Thursdays. It is only Hindus who consider Thursday sacred. Moslems pray on Friday; Jews bow before God on Saturday; Christians go to church on Sunday at church. Nostradamus is making it clear here that the conqueror will be a Hindu from India
UNQUOTE
Now a lot of people are claiming on the Internet , the EXCLUSIVE rights for this Nostradamus prediction discovery about a HINDU RULER !!
TEEEE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!
I had again put this as a comment in my post on INTERLINKING RIVERS OF INDIA VADAKAYIL – as a comment on May 19th 2014 –AGAIN –after Narendra Modi won the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and became PM !!!
Capt ajit vadakayil
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AND THEN I TORE DOWN FAKE NOSTRADAMUS TO A ZILLION PIECES
CONTINUED TO 2 --
SOMEBODY CALLED ME UP AND CRIED
CAPTAIN
WHY DOES ISKCON THROW MUD ON ADI SHANKARACHARYA..
LISTEN
ISKCON IS NOT PART OF SANATAN DHARMA.
ISKCON WAS A CULT CREATED BY JEW ROTHSCHILDs AGENT SRILA PRABHUPADA..
ISKCON PROPAGATES THE BHAKTI MOVEMENT OF CHAITANYA MAHAPRABHU WHO WAS COOKED UP AND BACK DATE BY JEW ROTHSCHILD..
THE WHOLE IDEA WAS TO DESTROY HINDUISM FROM WITHIN..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z67qL21pUuo
ALL HINDU GODS ARE COSMIC ALLEGORIES, EXCEPT VISHNU AVATARS RAMA/ KRISHNA/ AYYAPPA WHO WERE SUBJECTED TO LAWS OF KARMA.
THE CHANT OF "HARE RAMA HARE KRISHNA" IS THE MANTRA OF ISKCON..
RAMA IS NOT LORD RAMA BUT " RADHA RAMANA" THE FAKE MISTRESS OF LORD KRISHNA COOKED UP BY JEW ROTHCHILD..
SRILA PRABHUPADA WAS POISONED AND ISKCON HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY WHITE MEN WHO GIVE THEMSELVES "DASA" NAMES...
EVERY DASA ( KABIRDAS/ SURDAS/ TULSIDAS/ KALIDAS ETC ) OF THE FAKE BHAKTI MOVEMENT WAS COOKED UP AND BACKDATED BY JEW ROTHSCHILD..
SANATANA DHARMA ALLOWS ONLY SHRADDA ( CONSCIENCE / SELF VERIFICATION BASED ON OWN EXPERIENCE ) , NEVER EVER BHAKTI ( BLIND DOGMA DEVOTION BASED ON SOME MAD MESSIAHs EXPERIENCE )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhakti_movement
SANATANA DHARMA IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT ALL THREE TEMPLATES..OF ADVAITA/ DVAITA / SANKHYA..
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2018/09/sanatana-dharma-hinduism-exhumed-and.html
AAA- FIRST AND BASE TEMPLATE--- ADVAITA VEDANTA / BRAHMAN THE MORPHOGENETIC FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS..
BBB- SECOND TEMPLATE -- DVAITA VEDANTA/ TRINITY OF BRAHMA ( CREATOR )/ VISHNU ( PRESERVER- MEDIATOR) / SHIVA ( DESTROYER ) ..
CCC- THIRD TEMPLATE -- SANKHYA VEDANTA / PURUSHA AS CONSCIOUSNESS / PRAKRITI AS PURE ENERGY..
KRISHNA IS A MORTAL VISHNU AVATAR..
ISKCON PROVIDES FREE MEALS IN OUR SCHOOLS DEPRIVING OUR CHILDREN OF ONION AND GARLIC..
THIS IS A DIRTY CONSPIRACY FOR WHICH PEOPLE MUST BE JAILED..
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2017/12/testosterone-boosted-by-onion-and.html
WHAT YOU SEE IN THE MIRROR IS NOT YOU.. IT IS JUST A TEMPORARY HOME ( LIKE CLOTHES ) FOR YOU , THE SOUL WITHIN..
SOUL IS PART OF BRAHMAN THE MOTHER FIELD, ALBEIT AT LOWER FREQUENCY..
WHEN THE SOUL ( YOU ) AFTER SEVERAL REBIRTHS RAISES THE FREQUENCY TO MATCH THE HIGHEST FREQUENCY OF BRAHMAN, YOU MERGE WITH THE MOTHER FIELD..
THIS IS HOME COMING OR MOKSHA ..
ISKCON KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT SANATANA DHARMA..
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2019/04/330-millions-god-of-hindus-sorry-think.html
SANATANA DHARMA DOES NOT ALLOW HINDUS TO BEAT DHOLAKS AND DANCE ON THE STREETS LIKE IDIOTS..
capt ajit vadakayil
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ADI SANKARACHARYA SUMS UP THE ENTIRE MESSAGE OF VEDANTA IN THREE CRISP APHORISM LIKE SENTENCES 4000 YEARS AGO.
THEY ARE :
(A) BRAHMA SATYAM, (B) JAGAT MITHYA, AND (C) JIVO BRAHMAIVA NAPARAH.
TRANSLATION: BRAHMAN IS THE ONLY TRUTH, THE WORLD IS UNREAL, AND THERE IS ULTIMATELY NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BRAHMAN ( THE FIELD ) AND INDIVIDUAL SELF ( SOUL ) ..
IT IS THE 20TH VERSE OF ‘VIVEKA CHUDAMANI ‘ WRITTEN BY ADI SANKARACHARYA 4000 YEAR AGO..
BRAHMAN IS REAL, WORLD IS "MITHYA" (APPARENT);
BRAHMAN AND JIVA ARE NOT DIFFERENT.
THE INDIVIDUAL IS NONE OTHER THAN GOD.
THIS IS WHY HINDUS DO NAMASTE EVEN BEFORE KILLING AN OPPONENT IN WAR
THERE IS ONLY ONE ABSOLUTE BRAHMAN AND HE ALONE IS TRUE (SATYA). THE MATERIALISTIC WORLD WE LIVE IN IS NOT REAL (ASAT), OR IT IS ONLY VYAVAHARIKA SATYA.
BRAHMAN IS THE ALL PERVASIVE LIFE PRINCIPLE, THE MORPHOGENETIC FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS. BRAHMAN IS THE HINDU GOD WHICH CANNOT BE PICKED UP BY THE FIVE SENSES..
ISLAM LIFTED ALLAH FROM BRAHMAN AND MUSLIMS RIDICULE HINDUS OF BEING IDOLATORS..
AHAM BRAHMASMI /I AM BRAHMAN
TAT TWAM ASI /THAT THOU ART
AYAM ATMANE /BRAHMA SELF IS BRAHMAN
PRAJNANAM BRAHMA /CONSCIOUSNESS IS BRAHMAN
BRAHMA SATYAM--
CONSCIOUSNESS ALONE HAS TO BE THE FIRST AND ETERNAL REALITY. REST IS CREATED, AND IS THUS PERISHABLE. THAT IS WHAT THIS SUTRA BRAHMA SATYAM REVEALS.
THE WORD SATYA MEANS THAT WHICH EXISTS IN ALL THE THREE PERIODS OF TIME. PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. THAT WHICH TRANSCENDS TIME, AND IS THUS TIMELESS. THAT WHICH EXISTS AT ALL TIMES, THAT WHICH CANNOT BE EFFACED BY TIME.
CONSCIOUSNESS IS THAT WHICH NOT ONLY EXISTS AT ALL TIMES BUT ALSO AT ALL PLACES. IT EXISTS AS THE VERY TRUTH OF ALL THAT IS. IT IS THE ATMA OF EVERYTHING - LIVING OR NON-LIVING THINGS. IT IS OUR BASIC ESSENCE, OUR TRUTH TOO.
THAT IS THE GOD ( THE FIELD OF BRAHMAN ) WHICH WE HINDUS WORSHIP.
JAGAT MITHYA
MITHYA MEANS ASSARA OR WITHOUT ESSENCE.
THE WORLD CANNOT BE FALSE BECAUSE WE ALL CLEARLY SEE AND PERCEIVE IT.
ADI SHANKARACHARYA SAYS THAT THE WORLD IS NOT TRUE EITHER, BECAUSE IT IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING AND EVERYTHING THAT THE WORLD HAS TO OFFER IS TEMPORARY, TRANSIENT AND IMPERMANENT.
HE CALLS THIS WORLD AS MITHYA WHICH MEANS ANYTHING IN THIS WORLD CAN ONLY GIVE TEMPORARY HAPPINESS AND NOT PERMANENT HAPPINESS.
JAGAT INCLUDES THIS WORLD, THE BODY, THE MIND, THE EGO-SELF AND THE THOUGHTS. ALL THE OBSERVABLE, KNOWABLE, UNDERSTANDABLE, COGNIZABLE THINGS ARE JAGAT.
ADVAITA CALLS THIS JAGAT AS ANATMAN (NOT-SELF). THE OBSERVER OR THE KNOWER IS ATMAN (SELF).
TODAY'S THOUGHTS ABOUT CERTAIN THINGS CAN BE DIFFERENT THAN YESTERDAY'S ONE. YOUR OPINIONS ABOUT PEOPLE KEEP CHANGING. YOUR CONCEPTS ABOUT CERTAIN THINGS CAN BE BROKEN.
HENCE THESE ARE MITHYA WE CALL THOSE PAST EVENTS AS MEMORIES. THEY OCCUR TO YOU AS IF THEY WERE A DREAM. IN FUTURE TOO THIS MOMENT IS GOING TO BE A DREAM. WHICH DOESN'T EXIST NOW.
HENCE THIS IS AGAIN A MITHYA IF YOU PONDER UPON ON THIS ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE, YOU WILL REALISE THAT PEOPLE ALSO CHANGE WITH TIME.
SOMETIMES YOUR GOOD FRIEND TURNS INTO AN ENEMY OR AN ENEMY TURNS INTO A GOOD FRIEND.
YOU EXPERIENCE A CHANGE IN BOND WITH DIFFERENT RELATION WITH A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME. HENCE THIS IS A MITHYA.
SO THIS JAGAT IS MADE UP OF NOTHING BUT ALL THE SIMILAR FACTORS LISTED ABOVE. AND EACH ONE OF THEM WILL NOT STAND AGAINST A DEFINATION OF TRUTH. HENCE JAGAT IS MITHYA.
“BRAHMA SATYAM JAGAT MITHYA” HAS BEEN INTERPRETED IN SEVERAL OTHER WAYS BY THE FAKE MUTTS OF JEW ROTHCHILD LEADING TO DIFFERENT FAKE CULTS (SAMPRADAYAS) AS ‘VISISTADVAITA’ OF RAMANUJA, ‘DVAITAVADA’ OF MADHVA, ‘SHUDDHADVAITA’ OF VALLABHA, AND ‘DVAITADVAITA’( DUALISTIC NON-DUALISM ) OF NIMBARKA.
ALL THESE COOKED UP ( BY JEW ROTHSCHILD ) AND FAKE VEDANTINS LIVED AFTER ADI SANKARACHARYA ( 2000 BC ), AND ESTABLISHED THEIR NAME BY CRITICIZING ADI SHANKARACHARYA.
FAKE MADHAVACHARYA’S CONCEPT OF “ SATYAM JAGAT “ AND “ PANCHA BHEDA “ ARE RADICALLY OPPOSED TO ADI SHANKARACHARYA ’S TEACHINGS.
THIS IS WHY ADI SHANKARACHARYA WROTE THAT BRAHMAN ( ULTIMATE REALITY) IS THE ONLY TRUTH, THE WORLD IS ILLUSORY, AND THERE IS ULTIMATELY NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL AND THE BRAHMAN.
WHATEVER WE HAVE SOUGHT IN THIS WORLD MAY HAVE HELPED OUR LIFE TO GET COMFORTABLE AND ORGANISED, BUT HAS CERTAINLY NOT HELPED US IN ELIMINATING THE FUNDAMENTAL DESIRE 'TO SEEK' SOMETHING MORE.
LIKE HUNGER THE SEEKING STILL REMAINS AS IT IS. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT IT NOW MANIFESTS DIFFERENTLY.
THAT WHICH IS MITHYA DOES NOT HAVE ANY INDEPENDENT EXISTENCE, THUS IT IS NOT REALLY DEPENDABLE, FOR THE SIMPLE REASON THAT IT ITSELF IS PERISHABLE.
WHAT EVER OUR HEART BASICALLY SEEKS WILL NEVER BE GOT FROM THIS JAGAT. THAT IS THE IMPLICATION OF THIS SUTRA.
IT IS SOMETHING TO BE SEEN IN A DETACHED WAY AND NOT TAKING TOO SERIOUSLY. WHATEVER HAPPENS IN THE WORLD NEVER REALLY MATTERS, KNOWING THIS A PERSON SHOULD NOT PLAN TO AGGRANDIZE .
THIS PHILOSOPHICAL TENET, WHICH IS A FACT OF LIFE PROVIDES US A LOGIC AND BASIS FOR OUR RELIGIOUS VALUES, CULTURE AND EVEN THE REAL GOAL OF LIFE.
ALL OUR ANCIENT HINDU KINGS GAVE AWAY THEIR THRONES TO THEIR SUCCESSOR AND TOOK SANNYASA.
THE WORD JAGAT EMBRACES IN ITSELF THIS ENTIRE WORLD, THIS COSMOS. ALL THAT WHICH IS OR CAN BE AN 'OBJECT' OF OUR KNOWLEDGE. IT INCLUDES NOT ONLY THE GROSS BUT ALSO THE SUBTLE 'OBJECTS'. THE THOUGHTS, EMOTIONS, THE ENERGY ALL COME UNDER THIS WORD 'JAGAT'.
THAT WHICH IS NEAR OR FAR, INSIDE OR OUTSIDE, NOW OR LATER, GOOD OR BAD EVERYTHING IS PART OF THIS JAGAT. THIS WORD HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS REFFERING TO THAT WHICH IS 'JAYATE GACHATI ITI JAGAT', I.E. THAT WHICH IS BORN & DIES IS JAGAT.
BIRTH & DEATH ARE MOVEMENTS IN TIME. THAT WHICH IS IN TIME CONSTANTLY CHANGES, THERE IS A CONSTANT FLUX. SOMETHING STARTS THIS PROCESS OF ACTIVATION AND MANIFESTATION OF TIME AND THUS WE SEE THIS DYNAMIC FLUX.
A REALM OF EXPERIENCE PRESENTS ITSELF IN FRONT OF US. WHAT IS BROUGHT ABOUT IS ULTIMATELY TRANSIENT, IS NOT ULTIMATELY THERE. IT IS COMPARABLE TO BEING IN A DREAM WORLD.
SOMETHING ACTIVATES THE PROCESS OF DREAMING, AND WHEN IT DOES GET ACTIVATED WE SEE A REALM OF EXPERIENCE WHICH IS NOT ULTIMATELY THERE. MITHYA IS THAT WHICH IS NOT THERE IN ALL THREE PERIODS OF TIME. THAT WHICH HAD A BIRTH AT A PARTICULAR TIME AND THAT WHICH WILL CERTAINLY DIE AT SOME POINT OF TIME.
IT IS THERE IN THIS PRESENT MOMENT, BECAUSE OF SOME REASON - KNOWN OR UNKNOWN. THE ABOVE APHORISM OF 'JAGAT MITHYA' THUS IMPLIES THAT ALL WHAT IS AVAILABLE FOR EXPERIENCE IS TRANSIENT.
MITHYA IMPLIES THAT WHICH DOES NOT HAVE THE CAPACITY TO GIVE US THAT WHICH WE BASICALLY SEEK. IT IS CERTAINLY BEAUTIFUL,IN FACT VERY BEAUTIFUL, IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT 'OBJECTS' OF THE WORLD ALONE ARE USEFUL FOR OUR WORLDLY NEEDS AND URPOSES, BUT AT THE SAME TIME THIS IS ALSO A FACT THAT WE BASICALLY REMAIN WHERE WE WERE
WHEN WE WATCH SUNSET FROM THE SHORE, IT APPEARS AS IF THE SUN IS PLUNGING IN THE SEA, BUT BY KNOWLEDGE WE PERCEIVE THAT IT IS AN OPTICAL ILLUSION AND THE REALITY IS THAT THE EARTH IS MOVING. WHEN WE KNOW THE TRUTH WE DO NOT TAKE THE ILLUSION SERIOUSLY.
LIKEWISE, THE IDENTIFICATION EXISTS, BUT THE IGNORANCE IS DESTROYED BY KNOWLEDGE AND WE PERCEIVE THAT THE AHANKARA IS NOT THE REALITY. THIS CONCEPT IS EXPLAINED BY ADI SANKARACHARYA AS ‘BRAHMA SATYA JAGAD MITYA‘, WHICH MEANS THAT ‘BRAHMAN IS THE REALITY AND THE WORLD IS A MERE ILLUSION’.
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A TRIP TO A NICE RESORT IS HIGHLY RELAXING. AFTER JUST A FEW DAYS THE CHARM OF THE PLACE WEARS OUT. EAGERLY AWAITED VACATION TRIP TO SOMEPLACE, AFTER HECTIC RUNNING AROUND AND VISITING VARIOUS TOURIST SITES FOR DAYS, FINALLY THE HEART CRIES “HOME! SWEET HOME!!” AND LONGS FOR THE SECURITY, COMFORT AND PEACE OF THE HOME.
THIS TEMPORARINESS, IRRELEVANCE, IMPERMANENCE OF EVERYTHING RELATED TO THE OUTER WORLD AND THE SIMILARITY OF THE EXPERIENCE WITH THE DREAM WORLD IS WHAT MADE ADI SHANKARACHARYA TERM THE WORLD AS NEITHER FALSE NOR REAL, BUT ILLUSORY AND NEED NOT BE GIVEN ANY IMPORTANCE APART FROM WHAT IS REQUIRED PRACTICALLY TO TRANSACT.
JIVO BRAHMAIVA NAPARAH :
EVERY SOUL IS PART OF BRAHMAN
THE WORD ATMAN IS FOUND IN RIG VEDA (RV X.97.11) DOWNLOADED 400 CENTURIES AGO AND PENNED DOWN 70 CENTURIES AGO
7800 YEARS AGO YĀSKA, THE ANCIENT KERALA MAHARISHI WROTE THAT ATMAN IS THE SOUL WITHIN – THE REAL INNERMOST ESSENTIAL BEING.
IN HYMN 4.4.5, BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD DESCRIBES ATMAN ( SOUL ) AS BRAHMAN ( FIELD OF CONSCIOUNESS ),
THE UPANISHAD ASSERTS THAT THIS KNOWLEDGE OF "I AM BRAHMAN", AND THAT THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "I" AND "YOU", OR "I" AND "HIM" IS A SOURCE OF LIBERATION, AND NOT EVEN GODS CAN PREVAIL OVER SUCH A LIBERATED MAN ( JIVAN MUKT ).
ANYTHING WHICH LIVES AND GROWS HAS A SOUL WITHIN..
THE KATHA UPANISHAD, FOR EXAMPLE, EXPLAINS ATMAN AS IMMANENT AND TRANSCENDENT INNERMOST ESSENCE OF EACH HUMAN BEING AND LIVING CREATURE, THAT THIS IS ONE, EVEN THOUGH THE EXTERNAL FORMS OF LIVING CREATURES MANIFEST IN DIFFERENT FORMS
THE KATHA UPANISHAD THEN DECLARES THAT "WHEN THE SELF [ĀTMAN] UNDERSTANDS THIS AND IS UNIFIED, INTEGRATED WITH BODY, SENSES AND MIND, IS VIRTUOUS, MINDFUL AND PURE, HE REACHES BLISS, FREEDOM AND LIBERATION"
THE CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD EXPLAINS ĀTMAN AS THAT WHICH APPEARS TO BE SEPARATE BETWEEN TWO LIVING BEINGS BUT ISN'T, THAT ESSENCE AND INNERMOST, TRUE, RADIANT SELF OF ALL INDIVIDUALS WHICH CONNECTS AND UNIFIES ALL.
IN HYMN 4.10.1 THROUGH 4.10.3, FOR EXAMPLE, IT EXPLAINS IT WITH EXAMPLE OF RIVERS, SOME OF WHICH FLOW TO THE EAST AND SOME TO THE WEST, BUT ULTIMATELY ALL MERGE INTO THE OCEAN AND BECOME ONE.
IN THE SAME WAY, THE INDIVIDUAL SOULS ARE PURE BEING, STATES THE CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD; AN INDIVIDUAL SOUL IS PURE TRUTH, AND AN INDIVIDUAL SOUL IS A MANIFESTATION OF THE OCEAN OF ONE UNIVERSAL SOUL.
THE ATMAN IS THE BRAHMAN, THE BRAHMAN IS THE ATMAN, EACH SELF IS NON-DIFFERENT FROM THE INFINITE.
BELOW: ADI SHANKARACHARYA MEDITATED IN THIS CHITRAMOOLA CAVE 4000 YEARS AGO..( 5.37 )
BELOW: DURING HEAVY RAIN ADI SHANKARACHARYA MEDITATED HERE..
BELOW: ADI SHANKARACHARYA CONSECRATED MOOKAMBIKA TEMPLE 4000 YEARS AGO.. MY WIFE LOVES TO COME HERE..
KERALA NAMBOODIRI ADI SHANKARACHARYA WAS THE LAST OF THE 12 STRAND DNA MAHARISHIS.
THE AWAKENING OF LIMITED JIVA TO THE REALM OF LIMITLESS BRAHMAN IS NOT A JOURNEY IN THE REALM OF TIME, BUT IT IS BY TRANSCENDING THE VERY TIME
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2013/06/6000-year-old-kedarnath-temple-highest.html
MUSLIMS OPENLY GO TO KEDARNATH TO WORSHIP THE REAL SHIVA LINGAM, NOT THE FAKE PUMICE STONES OF KAABA MECCA..
ADI SHANKARACHARYA DIED AT THE AGE OF 32 AT KEDARNATH TEMPLE
ISLAMIC INVADERS TRIED THEIR LEVEL BEST TO STEAL THE SOMNATH SHIVA LINGAM ( BLACK METEORITE TONE ) TO INSTALL IT AT KAABA MECCA, TO REPLACE THE FAKE BLACK PUMICE STONES CEMENTED TOGETHER .
THEY FAILED
VRITTI MEANS LITERALLY SPIRAL VORTEX (OF CONSCIOUSNESS)
CITTA IS THE MIND. VRITTI ARE THE THOUGHT WAVES AND THEY ARE PRONE TO MISCONCEPTIONS.
EGO NEEDS VRITTIS FOR ITS EXISTENCE.
ACCORDING TO ADI SANKARACHARYA, THE VRITTIS ARE DISTINGUISHED AS EGO AND MIND. “MANIFEST IN THE MIND, CONSCIOUSNESS SHINES BEING REFLECTED. MIND IS TWO-FOLD: ONE ASPECT IS AHANKARA-EGO, THE OTHER IS ANTAHKARANA-MIND” (DRIG-DRISHYA VIVEKA, VERSE 6).
VEDANTA REPEATEDLY EMPHASIZES THE FACT THAT AHANKARA IS A VRITTI AND NOT THE REAL SELF. IT IS A COMMON MISTAKE TO CONSIDER AHANKARA AS THE REAL SELF. IF IT IS A VRITTI, IT CAN BE IGNORED AS ANY OTHER VRITTI.
AHANKARA OR THE I-VRITTI IS A MODIFICATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE FORM OF ‘ I ‘. LIKE ANY OTHER VRITTI, AHANKARA APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS IN THE MIND. iN DEEP SLEEP, AHANKARA DISAPPEARS, AND THE BODY BECOMES INSENTIENT. IN DREAM, THE AHANKARA IS HALF-MANIFEST. IN WAKING, IT IS FULLY MANIFEST”, (DRIG-DRISHYA VIVEKA, VERSE 10).
THIS PROVES THAT AHANKARA IS NOT PERMANENTLY PRESENT. FOR EXAMPLE WHEN WE DEEPLY ENJOY OUR FAVOURITE MUSIC, THE AHANKARA DISAPPEARS FOR A FEW SECONDS AND IN THAT MOMENT CONSCIOUSNESS ILLUMINES WITHOUT ANY DISTRACTION.
WHEN WE COME OUT OF THAT MOMENT, AHANKARA APPEARS AGAIN. THIS PROVES THAT LIKE ANY OTHER VRITTI, AHANKARA APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS IN THE MIND, AND IT IS NOT PERMANENT.
WHEN WE COME OUT OF THAT MOMENT, AHANKARA APPEARS AGAIN. THIS PROVES THAT LIKE ANY OTHER VRITTI, AHANKARA APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS IN THE MIND, AND IT IS NOT PERMANENT.
OUR FIRST NEED, IS TO NEUTRALIZE THOSE FEELINGS: OUR EMOTIONAL REACTIONS; OUR LIKES AND DISLIKES; OUR ATTRACTIONS AND AVERSIONS; OUR ATTACHMENTS AND REPULSIONS. HENCE PATANJALI’S DEFINITION OF YOGA AS CHITTA VRITTI NIRODHA — THE NEUTRALIZATION OF THE VORTICES OF FEELING.
VRITTI, LITERALLY "WHIRLPOOL", IS A TECHNICAL TERM IN YOGA MEANT TO INDICATE THAT THE CONTENTS OF MENTAL AWARENESS ARE DISTURBANCES IN THE MEDIUM OF CONSCIOUSNESS. .
OUR SUBTLEST AND MOST INTIMATE FEELINGS, PERTAIN DIRECTLY TO THE EGO ITSELF, AND ACT AS CONSTANT EGO-REMINDERS: EGO-BOOSTERS, EGO-DEFLATORS. THESE TENDENCIES MUST BE COMPLETELY ELIMINATED BEFORE WE CAN ACHIEVE LIBERATION.
EACH VORTEX OF FEELING DRAWS ENERGY INWARD TO ITS CENTER IN EGOIC AWARENESS. THE EGO ITSELF FORMS THE SUPREME VORTEX.
CHITTA THROUGH THE VRITTIS GIVES US EXPERIENCES OF VARIED TYPES. IT PROJECTS DIFFERENT IMAGES WITHIN ITS CONFINES-- IN ITS OWN SPACE, MENTAL SPACE, EVEN THOUGH THE PROJECTIONS APPEAR TO BE IN THE OUTSIDE REAL SPACE.
FOR THE SAKE OF CONVENIENCE SEVERAL WORKS DIVIDE FUNCTIONALLY THE CHITTA INTO MANAS (MIND), BUDDHI (INTELLECT), AHAMKARA(EGO) AND SMRITI/CITTA(MEMORY).
I RECEIVE INFORMATION FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD THROUGH MY SENSES, EYES, EARS, ETC., DUE TO THE VRITTIS OF THE INDRIYAS. THEN THE MANAS OR MIND WHICH IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE 11TH INDRIYA COLLATES AND COORDINATES AND PRESENTS TO ANOTHER FACULTY OF THE CHITTA CALLED BUDDHI.
BUDDHI ANALYZES ALL THE INFORMATION AND MAKES A JUDGMENT AND THEN THE EGO OR AHANKARA ASPECT OF CHITTA COMES INTO PLAY. IF IT LIKES THE PRESENTATION, IT IS HAPPY BUT IF NOT IT SHOWS ITS UNHAPPINESS AND PRODUCES VARIOUS REACTIONS.
WHEN THE BUDDHI OR INTELLECT IS ACTIVE THEN THE CHITTA VRITTI IS ALSO KNOWN AS BUDDHI VRITTI BUT WHEN IT IS DOMINATED BY AHANKARA ASPECT OF CHITTA THE CHITTA VRITTI IS KNOWN AS AHAMKARA VRITTI.
THE CHITTA VRITTI IS THE TOTALITY OF MY EXPERIENCE AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT. THE ONE THAT EXPERIENCES OR OBSERVES ALL THESE SUCCESSIVE CHITTA VRITTIES IS THE REAL “I”, THE PURUSHA, THE DRASHTA OR OBSERVER OR THE NON-CHANGING AND HENCE ETERNAL PURE CONSCIOUSNESS.
PATANJALI SAYS THE CHITTA IS CAPABLE OF TRANSCENDING ALL THE VRITTIS AND REMAINING OBLIVIOUS TO ALL THE VRITTIS. WHILE ORDINARILY THE CHITTA WALLOWS IN THESE VRITTIS, PATANJALI TALKS ABOUT A STATE IN WHICH THE CHITTA TRANSCENDS ALL THE VRITTIS MENTIONED ABOVE AND REMAINS IN THAT STATE. THAT IS THE STATE OF YOGA.
IT HAPPENS WHEN THE CHITTA USES ALL ITS FACULTIES AND YOGIC TRAINING TO CONCENTRATE AND KNOWS FOR SURE THE TRUE NATURE OF THE OBSERVING SELF/SOUL, THE NON-CHANGING, HENCE ETERNAL CONSCIOUSNESS.
WITH THAT KNOWLEDGE, WITH THAT DIRECT EXPERIENCE, THE CHITTA REMAINS IN A STATE OF RESOLUTION, ON REALIZING THE NATURE OF THE THE SELF IN ITS TRUE FORM (SVARUPA).
WITH THAT KNOWLEDGE, WITH THAT DIRECT EXPERIENCE, THE CHITTA REMAINS IN A STATE OF RESOLUTION, ON REALIZING THE NATURE OF THE THE SELF IN ITS TRUE FORM (SVARUPA).
WHEN THERE IS REALIZATION IN THE CHITTA THAT NOTHING, NONE OF THE VRITTIS CHANGES THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF THE PURE PURUSHA, IT BECOMES QUIET-- COMPLETELY QUIET. IN THAT STATE THE CHITTA DOES NOT HAVE ANY OF THE VRITTIS MENTIONED ABOVE.
AHAMKARA OR EGOISM IS THE SELF-ARROGATING PRINCIPLE IN MAN. IT IS A VRITTI OR MODIFICATION THAT ARISES IN THE MIND. PATANJALI CALLS THIS BY THE NAME 'ASMITA'. THE SAME MIND ASSUMES THE FORM OF EGOISM WHEN MAN SELF-ARROGATES HIMSELF.
AHAMKARA IS A VERITABLE DISEASE. PRIDE, LUST, ANGER, DELUSION, GREED, JEALOUSY, LOVE AND HATRED ARE THE ATTENDANTS OF AHAMKARA. AHAMKARA DESTROYS OUR VIRTUES AND PEACE OF MIND. IT SPREADS THE SNARE OF AFFECTION TO ENTRAP US.
HE WHO IS FREE FROM EGOISM IS VERY HAPPY AND PEACEFUL. DESIRES MULTIPLY AND EXPAND ON ACCOUNT OF EGOISM. OUR INVETERATE ENEMY, EGOISM, HAS SPREAD ABOUT US THE ENCHANTMENTS OF OUR WIVES, FRIENDS, CHILDREN, ETC., WHOSE SPELLS IT IS HARD TO BREAK. THERE IS NO ENEMY GREATER THAN EGOISM.
AHAMKARA MEANS ‘I-MAKER’, IT IS THE SENSE OF ‘I-NESS’ WITHIN YOU. IT IS NOT THE SELF IN SELF-AWARENESS, BUT IT IS A VRITTI AND THINKS IT IS THE ‘SELF’. IT MASQUERADES AS THE SELF AND AHAMKARA IS JUST A MENTAL A WAVE FORM, ‘I’ OR ’SELF’.
IF AHAMKARA WAS THE SELF, IT WOULD NEVER FEEL INCOMPLETE, INADEQUATE AND GET ONLY MOMENTARY DOSES OF BLISS AND HAPPINESS – IT WOULD ALWAYS FEEL COMPLETE AND HAVE CONTINUOUS ANANDA.( BLISS)
THE VRITTIS, FROM THE 5 SENSES AND ALSO THE CITTA, THE MEMORY BANK OF PAST EVENTS, IS PRESENTED TO THE AHAMKARA. YOU HAVE OBJECT VRITTIS COMING IN FROM YOUR SENSES. THE AHAMKARA NOW HAS TO INTERACT WITH THESE VRITTIS.
BUDDHI COULD HANDLE PARALLEL PROCESSING BY HANDLING MULTIPLE INPUTS AT THE SAME TIME. THE INTERACTION BETWEEN AHAMKARA AND THESE WIDE RANGE OF OBJECT VRITTIS HAPPENS ONLY ONE AT A TIME.
YOU CAN ONLY HAVE ONE EXPERIENCE AT A TIME. THE AHAMKARA INTERACTS ONLY WITH ONE VRITTI AT A TIME AND IT GIVES ‘MY-NESS’ TO THE VRITTI .
HOW DOES AHAMKARA CHOOSE BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT VRITTIS WHICH ARE AVAILABLE. THERE ARE TWO WAYS THIS CAN HAPPEN
AHAMKARA CHOOSES A VRITTI
A VRITTI CHOOSES AHAMKARA
WHENEVER AHAMKARA INTERACTS WITH AN OBJECT VRITTI, IT WILL MODIFY THE OBJECT VRITTI ACCORDING TO ITS LIKES AND DISLIKES. IN VEDANTA THIS IS CALLED RAGA AND DVESHA.
AHAMKARA IS ALSO A MENTAL WAVEFORM AND WHEN IT INTERACTS OR SUPERIMPOSES WITH THE OBJECT VRITTI THE RESULTANT VRITTI IS A VRITTI MODIFIED BY RAGA AND DVESHA. IF YOU LIKE SOMETHING YOU WILL MODIFY THE VRITTI DIFFERENTLY THAN WHEN YOU DISLIKE SOMETHING.
रागद्वेषवियुक्तैस्तुविषयानिन्द्रियैश्चरन् |
आत्मवश्यैर्विधेयात्माप्रसादमधिगच्छति || 64||
rāga-dveṣha-viyuktais tu viṣhayān indriyaiśh charan
ātma-vaśhyair-vidheyātmā prasādam adhigachchhati
Translation
BG 2.64: But one who controls the mind, and is free from attachment and aversion, even while using the objects of the senses, attains the Grace of God.
RAGA-DVESHA, IS THE CAUSE OF BONDAGE
RAGA (ATTRACTION), DVESHA (REPULSION) AND TATASTHA VRITTI (INDIFFERENCE) ARE THE THREE IMPORTANT VRITTIS OF THE MIND.
RAGA AND DVESHA (LIKE AND DISLIKE OR LOVE AND HATRED OR ATTRACTION AND REPULSION) ARE THE TWO CURRENTS IN THE MIND WHICH BIND A MAN TO THE SAMSARIC WHEEL OF BIRTH AND DEATH.
RAGA AND DVESHA ARE THE TWO DOSHAS OR FAULTS IN THE MIND THAT HAVE BROUGHT YOU TO THIS WORLD. THE SVARUPA OF BANDHA (BONDAGE) IS RAGA AND DVESHA. THE SVARUPA OF AJNANA IS RAGA AND DVESHA.
ALL THE EMOTIONS COME UNDER THE CATEGORY OF RAGA-DVESHA. THESE TWO CURRENTS ARE THE DHARMA (CHARACTERISTICS) OF THE MIND AND NOT OF THE SPIRIT. PLEASURE AND PAIN, HARSHA AND SOKA, EXHILARATION AND DEPRESSION ARE DUE TO RAGA-DVESHA. IF RAGA AND DVESHA VANISH FROM THE MIND, HARSHA-SHOKA ALSO WILL DISAPPEAR.
THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT THE AHAMKARA MODIFIES THE INCOMING VRITTI ACCORDING TO ITS OWN DISPOSITION. IF AHAMKARA IS FEELING ANGRY, IT WILL REACT TO THE VRITTI DIFFERENTLY THAN IT WOULD IF IT IS FEELING HAPPY AND PEACEFUL.
AHAMKARA OR EGO ADDS A PERSONAL TOUCH TO THE INTERACTING OBJECT VRITTI. IN FACT, IT ALSO ADDS THE ‘I-NESS’ TO THE VRITTI.
AHAMKARA CAN BECOME ATTACHED OR ADDICTED TO CERTAIN VRITTIS BECAUSE THEY GIVE IT MOMENTARY HAPPINESS AND IT WANTS TO REPEAT THESE MOMENT OF HAPPINESS.
THE SANSKRIT TERM ‘AHANKARA’ LITERALLY MEANS EGO. AHANKARA HAS DEEP IMPORTANCE IN A PERSON’S LIFE. IT IS THE AHANKARA WHICH MAKES A PERSON TO INVOLVE IN THE WORLDLY ACTIVITIES, AT THE SAME TIME IT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY OF OUR PROBLEMS IN LIFE.
VEDANTA TEACHES TO BALANCE THIS DIFFERENCE. AHANKARA ACCORDING TO VEDANTA IS ‘THE THOUGHT WHICH CREATES THE CONCEPT OF I-SENSE’.
THE FUNDAMENTAL AHANKARA, THE I-SENSE IS PURE. HOWEVER, GRADUALLY THE AHANKARA TURNS INTO A BUNDLE OF THOUGHTS AND CONCEPTS ABOUT OUR OWN SELF. WHEN A CHILD IS BORN IT HAS PURE AHANKARA.
IT EXPRESSES ONLY ITS INDIVIDUALITY AND IT IS OF PURE NATURE. WHEN THE CHILD GRADUALLY MATURES IN TO DIFFERENT STAGES,( BY THE AGE OF 27 MONTHS ) THE PURE AHANKARA ASSOCIATES ITSELF WITH DIFFERENT CONCEPTS AND EXPERIENCES, THEN THE PURE AHANKARA BECOMES A COLLECTION OF LABELS AND CONCEPTS LIKE ‘I AM RICH, I AM FAT, I AM EDUCATED AND SO ON’.
AT THIS STAGE AHANKARA INVOLVES IN COMPARISON AND IT BECOMES A PROBLEM.. AHANKARA IS A GREAT OBSTACLE FOR A PERSON’S SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL EVOLVEMENT.
SPIRITUALITY HELPS TO UNDERSTAND THIS PROFOUND CONCEPT AND WHEN UNDERSTOOD PROPERLY, IT TRANSFORMS A PERSON IN TO A FREE PERSON.
IN SANSKRIT, THOUGHTS ARE CALLED VRITTIS. MIND ITSELF IS A POOL OF VRITTIS. MIND IS THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SUPREME CONSCIOUSNESS AND SO ARE THE THOUGHTS. MIND EXISTS IN CONSCIOUSNESS. VRITTIS CAN BE OTHERWISE SAID AS THE FORM OF CONSCIOUSNESS. CONSCIOUSNESS IS LIMITED BY THE FORM OF VRITTI.
JUST AS THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE REFLECTED SUNLIGHT DEPENDS ON THE MEDIUM (WAVES AND PURITY OF THE WATER), THE REFLECTED CONSCIOUSNESS DEPENDS ON THE VRITTIS OF THE MIND. WHEN THE VRITTIS ARE FEWER AND PURE, THE REFLECTED CONSCIOUSNESS IS BRIGHTER.
THIS BRIGHT REFLECTION IS SEEN IN JNANIS AND SPIRITUALLY EVOLVED PERSONS. THEY REPRESENT THE PURE FORM OF CONSCIOUSNESS. THE VRITTIS OF THEIR MIND ARE FEWER AND PURE AND THEY DO NOT DISTRACT THE REFLECTED CONSCIOUSNESS.
REFLECTED CONSCIOUSNESS IS SAID AS AN EXPERIENCE AND EVERY EXPERIENCE IS A CONDITIONED CONSCIOUSNESS. WHEN THE CONSCIOUSNESS ILLUMINES THE MIND FULL OF WORLDLY VRITTIS, THE REFLECTED CONSCIOUSNESS MINGLE WITH WORLDLY VRITTIS, AND HENCE THE REFLECTED CONSCIOUSNESS IS SAID AS EXPERIENCE.
CONSCIOUSNESS IS ALL PERVASIVE, BUT EXPERIENCE MAKES IT APPEAR AS LIMITED. EACH OF OUR EXPERIENCE IS CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE FORM OF VRITTI. VRITTIS ARE SUPERIMPOSED ON CONSCIOUSNESS. FOR INSTANCE, A WAVE IS NOTHING BUT WATER IN THE FORM OF A WAVE. LIKEWISE, EXPERIENCE OR REFLECTED CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOTHING, BUT CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE FORM OF VRITTI.
WORLDLY MATTERS OCCUR BETWEEN THE SUBJECT (I-SENSE) AND THE OBJECT (WORLDLY ACTIVITIES). ALL THE WORLDLY EXPERIENCES APPEAR AS VRITTIS IN THE MIND. EVERY INDIVIDUAL HAS A BASIC CONCEPT OF THEIR OWN AND THIS IS AHANKARA, THE SUBJECT.
THE LIFE FULL OF KARMAS (ACTIONS) AND EXPERIENCES ARE BASED ON THIS AHANKARA AND THEY ARE CONSIDERED AS OBJECTS. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN I SAY, “I AM WRITING”, THE ‘ I ‘ REPRESENTS THE AHANKARA (SUBJECT), AND ‘WRITING’ IS AN EXPERIENCE (OBJECT).
THE AHANKARA ‘ I ‘ IS IDENTIFIED WITH THE DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES. ALL OUR EXPERIENCES ARE THE COMBINATION OF THE SUBJECT AND THE OBJECT. WHEN THE AHANKARA GETS IDENTIFIED WITH THE BODY, MIND, EMOTIONS, FEELINGS ETC, IT IS DEFINED ACCORDINGLY. WHEN ‘ I ‘ SAY, ‘I AM A WOMAN’, THE AHANKARA GETS IDENTIFIED WITH THE BODY.
WHEN I SAY, ‘I AM SAD’, THE AHANKARA GETS IDENTIFIED WITH THE EMOTIONS. THUS THE MIND HAS ONLY TWO TYPES OF VRITTIS, THE AHANKARA VRITTI AND THE VIRTTIS OF DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES.
FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE AHANKARA AS A VRITTI IS THE CAUSE FOR ALL KINDS OF SUFFERING. AHANKARA IS AN ASSUMED CONCEPT AND IT KEEPS ON CHANGING ACCORDING TO EXPERIENCES AND SITUATIONS, WE IGNORANTLY CONSIDER IT AS THE REAL SELF.
AHANKARA IS A VRITTI, AND THE SELF, THE SUPREME CONSCIOUSNESS ILLUMINES THAT VRITTI. A BEING IS MUCH MORE THAN A MERE VRITTI, VRITTI KEEPS ON CHANGING, WHEREAS THE SELF IS OMNIPRESENT AND OMNISCIENT.
WHEN I SAY, ‘I AM TALENTED’, THE ‘ I ‘ BELONGS TO THE AHANKARA AND THE ‘TALENT’ BELONGS TO THE BUDDHI. THEY BOTH ARE MERE VRITTIS. AN IGNORANT PERSON UNNECESSARILY ASSOCIATES BOTH WITH THE ATMAN, THE SELF.
THIS IS THE ROOT CAUSE FOR SAMSARA AND IT IS THE REAL PROBLEM IN LIFE. WHEN THE BODY IS ILL, THEN IT IS A FACT, BUT WHEN THE AHANKARA ASSOCIATES WITH THE BODY DEEPLY, THEN IT IS SUFFERING.
SUFFERING IS A VRITTI, IT CAN BE MADE TO DISAPPEAR BY DIVERTING THE ATTENTION. CONSIDERING A VRITTI AS PERMANENT IS THE NEXT PROBLEM. THE SUFFERING AND EXCITEMENT ARE VRITTIS AND THEY SHOULD NOT BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE REAL SELF.
“IDENTIFICATION OF EGO WITH REFLECTED CONSCIOUSNESS IS LIKE A GLOWING HOT IRON BALL. DUE TO IDENTIFICATION OF EGO WITH THAT (REFLECTION) THE BODY GAINS SENTIENCY” (DRIG-DRISHYA VIVEKA, VERSE 7).
WHEN AN IRON BALL IS PLACED IN FIRE, THE HEAT OF THE FIRE IS SUPERIMPOSED ON THE IRON BALL, AND THE IRON BALL GLOWS LIKE A FIRE BALL. SIMILARLY, THE EXPERIENCES ARE SUPERIMPOSED ON EGO AND THE EGO ALSO IDENTIFIES WITH THE EXPERIENCES.
BY THIS SUPERIMPOSITION, THE EGO FEELS THAT, ‘I HAVE THIS EXPERIENCE’. WHEN AHANKARA IDENTIFIES ITSELF WITH OTHER VRITTIS, IT LIMITS ITSELF. ONLY WHEN THE AHANKARA IDENTIFIES WITH THE BODY, THE BODY GAINS SENTIENCY. THE AHANKARA IDENTIFIES WITH THE OTHER VRITTIS AND THUS IT INVOLVES IN THE WORLDLY ACTIVITIES.
“IDENTIFICATION OF THE AHANKARA WITH REFLECTED CONSCIOUSNESS, BODY AND WITNESS IS NATURAL, DUE TO KARMA AND DUE TO IGNORANCE – EACH OF THESE THREE RESPECTIVELY”, (DRIG-DRISHYA VIVEKA, VERSE 8).
IDENTIFICATION OF AHANKARA IS ANALYZED IN THREE FUNDAMENTAL WAYS.
1. IDENTIFICATION WITH THE REFLECTED CONSCIOUSNESS – IT IS NATURAL
2. IDENTIFICATION WITH THE DEHA (STHULA AND SUKSMA SARIRA) – DUE TO KARMA
3. IDENTIFICATION AS THE SAKSHI (WITNESS-CONSCIOUSNESS) – DUE TO IGNORANCE
THE IDENTIFICATION OF AHANKARA WITH THE REFLECTED CONSCIOUSNESS GIVES US VARIOUS EXPERIENCES. ADI SANKARACHARYA SAYS THAT THIS IDENTIFICATION IS NATURAL. IT CANNOT BE DESTROYED BUT CAN BE IGNORED.
WHEN THE AHANKARA FAILS TO IDENTIFY WITH THE WORLDLY EXPERIENCES, IT CANNOT DO ANY KARMA AND IT IS DIFFICULT TO SURVIVE IN THE WORLD. AT THE SAME TIME, WHEN IT IDENTIFIES WITH THE WORLDLY EXPERIENCES, IT IS SUFFERING AND EXCITEMENT.
THEREFORE, THERE MUST BE SOME FUNCTIONAL IDENTIFICATION TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. SINCE THE VRITTIS AND ITS MUTUAL IDENTIFICATION ARE NATURAL, VEDANTA TELLS TO DESTROY THE IGNORANCE ASSOCIATED WITH THE VRITTIS AND NOT THE VRITTIS ITSELF.
DUE TO IGNORANCE WE THINK THAT THE VRITTIS ARE THE REALITY. BY KNOWLEDGE ONE MUST TREAT THE VRITTI AS THE MERE APPEARANCE.
DUE TO IGNORANCE WE THINK THAT THE VRITTIS ARE THE REALITY. BY KNOWLEDGE ONE MUST TREAT THE VRITTI AS THE MERE APPEARANCE.
.YOGA IS CONTROL OF THE MIND, RESTRAINT OF THE MIND-STUFF. YOGA IS CHITTA-VRITTI-NIRODHAH. AS A WORD, VRITTI MEANS LITERALLY VORTEX (OF CONSCIOUSNESS), OR "CIRCULAR ACTIVITY WITH NO BEGINNING AND NO END".
TRAINING IN YOGA IN THE LARGER SENSE – NAMELY, CONCENTRATION, ATTENTION, AND MEDITATION – CAN HELP STOP THESE FLUCTUATIONS AND QUIET THE CHATTER, SO THAT YOU CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH A TRUER SENSE OF SELF, AND A MORE PEACEFUL, WATCHFUL SORT OF AWARENESS.
IN THE CONTEXT OF HINDUISM AND YOGA, VRITTIS REFER TO DIFFERENT TENDENCIES, OR PSYCHO-PHYSICAL PROPENSITIES, WHICH GIVE SCOPE FOR THE MIND TO EXPRESS A VARIETY OF FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS.
HINDU TEXTS DESCRIBE SAMSKARAS TO BE A RESULT OF PAST ACTIONS AND EXPERIENCES THAT HAVE LEFT AN IMPRINT ON THE MIND. THE EXPRESSION OF SAMSKARAS GIVES RISE TO VRITTIS, WHICH COLLECTIVELY REPRESENT THE BEHAVIOUR THAT MAKES EACH PERSON UNIQUE: THEIR DESIRES AND REPULSIONS, THEIR PREDISPOSITIONS AND COMPLEXES
IN THE CONTEXT OF YOGA, THE PRESENCE OF VRITTIS IN CONSCIOUSNESS IS REGARDED AS IMPEDIMENTS TO ENLIGHTENMENT.
THE GOAL OF YOGA TO "STILL" OR "SILENCE' THE MODIFICATIONS IN CONSCIOUSNESS, THE VRITTIS, AND THEREBY SET THE STAGE TO LEARN THE TECHNIQUE OF SAMADHI, AN ADVANCED MENTAL METHOD FOR ACHIEVING ENLIGHTENMENT.
THE GOAL OF THE YOGI IS THUS NOT TO SUPPRESS, OR ANNUL THEIR VRITTIES, RATHER IT IS TO FIND A HARMONIOUS BALANCE, AND ULTIMATELY, TO CHANNELIZE THESE TENDENCIES INWARD MIND GAINS GREAT STRENGTH WHEN THE VRITTIS ARE HARNESSED.
WHEN THE SEER IS PERCEIVED AS DISTINCT FROM THE "I" THAT CLAIMS, THE YOGIN THEN LOSES INTEREST IN THE GENERATION OF COMPULSIVE CITTA-VRITTIS (MIND CHATTER )..
RAGA (ATTRACTION) IN THE MIND IS AS MUCH DANGEROUS AS DVESHA (HATRED OR REPULSION). WHENEVER THERE IS RAGA, THERE IS DVESHA ALSO.
NOT ONLY THE DVESHA-VRITTI (THE MODIFICATION OF DISLIKE), BUT ALSO THE VRITTI OF RAGA GIVES PAIN TO MAN. IF AN OBJECT GIVES PLEASURE, YOU GET RAGA FOR THE OBJECT. BUT WHEN THERE IS VIYOGA (SEPARATION) FROM THE OBJECT, AS IN THE CASE OF DEATH OF YOUR DEAR WIFE OR SON, YOU GET IMMENSE PAIN WHICH IS INDESCRIBABLE.
RAGA-DVESHA HAS FOUR AVASTHAS, VIZ., DAGDHA (BURNT UP), TANU (ATTENUATED OR THINNED OUT), VICCHINNA (CONCEALED) AND UDARA (FULLY EXPANDED). THE FIRST TWO STATES PERTAIN TO A YOGIN; THE LAST TWO TO WORLDLINGS. IN A FULLY DEVELOPED YOGIN, THE VRITTIS OF RAGA-DVESHA ARE BURNT UP BY NIRVIKALPA SAMADHI.
THEY ARE DAGDHA (LIKE BURNT-UP SEEDS). IN A YOGIN WHO IS PRACTISING, THE IMPRESSIONS OF RAGA-DVESHA ARE TENUOUS. THEY ARE IN A FINE STATE. HE HAS CONTROL OVER THESE TWO VRITTIS.
IN THOSE WHO ARE GIVEN TO ENJOYMENTS (ORDINARY MORTALS), THEY ARE CONCEALED AND FULLY EXPANDED. IN THE VICCHINNA STATE, THEY ARE CONCEALED.
WHEN THE WIFE SHOWS AFFECTION TO HER HUSBAND, WHEN THE RAGA-VRITTI IS IN OPERATION, HER ANGER AND HATRED REMAIN CONCEALED FOR THE TIME BEING. THE MOMENT SHE GETS DISPLEASED WITH HIM FOR SOME REASON OR OTHER, THE DVESHA-VRITTI MANIFESTS ITSELF.
IN THE LAST (EXPANDED) STATE, THE SAMSKARAS OF RAGA-DVESHA, HAVING FAVOURABLE SURROUNDINGS, ATTAIN TO GREAT ACTIVITY. A WORLDLY-MINDED MAN IS A MERE SLAVE OF RAGA-DVESHA CURRENTS. HE IS TOSSED ABOUT HITHER AND THITHER BY THESE TWO CURRENTS OF ATTRACTION AND REPULSION. THAT YOGIN OR JNANIN WHO HAS DESTROYED THESE TWO VRITTIS OF RAGA AND DVESHA IS THE HIGHEST MAN IN THE THREE WORLDS.
HE IS THE REAL KING OF KINGS, EMPEROR OF EMPERORS. THE CHIEF LINGA OR DISTINGUISHING MARK OF A JIVANMUKTA OR A LIBERATED SOUL IS FREEDOM FROM RAGA-DVESHA.
EVEN IF A JNANIN OR YOGIN SOMETIMES EXHIBITS TRACES OF ANGER, IT IS ABHASAMATRA (MERE APPEARANCE). JUST AS THE IMPRESSION MADE IN WATER WITH A STICK PASSES AWAY SOON, AS ALSO THE ANGER WILL DISAPPEAR IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, EVEN THOUGH IT MANIFESTS IN A JNANIN. THIS CAN HARDLY BE UNDERSTOOD BY WORLDLY PEOPLE.
AMONGST THE SEVERAL VRITTIS IN THE MIND, RAGA-DVESHA AND MOHA ARE VERY DEEP-ROOTED. THEY DEMAND STRENUOUS AND PERSISTENT EFFORTS FOR THEIR ERADICATION.
IN YOUR MENTAL LIVES, YOU CAN EITHER KEEP HOLD OF THE RUDDER AND SO DETERMINE EXACTLY WHAT COURSE YOU TAKE, WHAT POINTS YOU TOUCH OR YOU CAN FAIL TO DO THIS AND, FAILING, YOU DRIFT AND ARE BLOWN HITHER AND THITHER BY EVERY PASSING BREEZE, BY EVERY EMOTION, BY PETTY RAGA-DVESHA CURRENTS.
IN YOUR MENTAL LIVES, YOU CAN EITHER KEEP HOLD OF THE RUDDER AND SO DETERMINE EXACTLY WHAT COURSE YOU TAKE, WHAT POINTS YOU TOUCH OR YOU CAN FAIL TO DO THIS AND, FAILING, YOU DRIFT AND ARE BLOWN HITHER AND THITHER BY EVERY PASSING BREEZE, BY EVERY EMOTION, BY PETTY RAGA-DVESHA CURRENTS.
EGO IS A VRITTI OR MODIFICATION OF THE MIND. FIRST AHAM VRITTI MANIFESTS AND THEN ALL OTHER VRITTIS CLING TO THIS AHAM VRITTI. FROM EGO IS BORN MIND. REFLECTION OF INTELLIGENCE THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH EGO IS JIVA. IT MAKES THE JIVA IDENTIFY HIMSELF WITH THE PHYSICAL BODY. THEN THE NOTION OF 'I' IN THE BODY ARISES. THIS IS THE CAUSE FOR HUMAN SUFFERINGS AND MISERIES.
EGOISM IS THE SELF-ARROGATING PRINCIPLE IN MAN. IT IS A VRITTI OR MODIFICATION THAT ARISES IN THE MIND. PATANJALI MAHARSHI CALLS IT BY THE NAME, ASMITA. THE SAME MIND ASSUMES THE FORM OF EGOISM WHEN MAN BEGINS TO SELF-ARROGATE. AHANKARA MANIFESTS FIRST AND THEN COMES MAMATA OR ATTACHMENT.
THE LITERAL MEANING OR VACHYA ARTHA OF 'AHAM' PADA IS THE AHAM VRITTI THAT ARISES IN THE MIND, THE LITTLE 'I' WHICH IDENTIFIES ITSELF WITH THE PHYSICAL BODY. THE INDICATIVE MEANING OR LAKSHYA ARTHA OF 'AHAM' PADA IS ATMAN OR BRAHMAN OR THE INFINITE 'I'.
MERE ILLUSION OR MAYA IS THE CAUSE OF EGOISM. KNOWLEDGE IS THE CAUSE OF EGOISM. KNOWLEDGE IS PRODUCED THROUGH THE ILLUSORY OBJECTS SUCH AS, THE BODY, TREE, RIVER, MOUNTAIN, ANIMALS, ETC. IF THE OBJECTS DO NOT EXIST, WE CAN NEITHER THINK OF, NOR KNOW ANYTHING.
IF THERE ARE NO OBJECTS, WE WILL HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF OBJECTS AT ALL. THEN EGOISM, THE SEED OF MANAS WILL BE ABSORBED.
THE IDEA OF 'I' WHICH IS THE NEST, CONTAINING ALL FRAILTIES IS THE SEED OF THE TREE OF MIND. THE SPROUT WHICH AT FIRST GERMINATES FROM THE SEED OF AHANKARA IS BUDDHI OR INTELLECT. FROM THIS SPROUT, THE RAMIFYING BRANCHES CALLED SANKALPAS TAKE THEIR ORIGIN.
THROUGH SUCH A DIFFERENTIATION, THE MIND, CHITTA AND BUDDHI ARE BUT THE DIFFERENT NAMES OR QUALITIES OF THE ONE AHANKARA. THE BRANCHES OF VASANAS WILL NATURALLY PRODUCE INNUMERABLE CROPS OF KARMAS, BUT IF, WITH THE SWORD OF JNANA, YOU SEVER THEM FROM THE HEART'S CORE, THEY WILL BE DESTROYED.
CUT THE BRANCHES OF THE DIRE TREE OF MIND AND EVENTUALLY DESTROY THE TREE AT ITS ROOT COMPLETELY. CUTTING THE BRANCHES IS ONLY A SECONDARY THING-THE PRIMARY BEING THE ERADICATION OF THE TREE AT ITS ROOT.
IF YOU THROUGH VIRTUOUS ACTIONS DESTROY THE IDEA OF 'I' AT THE ROOT OF THE TREE (MIND), THEN IT WILL NOT SPRING UP. ATMA JNANA OR KNOWLEDGE OF THE SELF IS THE FIRE WHICH DESTROYS THE CONCEPTION OF THE AHANKARA, THE SEED OF THE TREE (MIND).
THE ULTIMATE AIM OF YOGA IS COMPLETE FREEDOM FROM THE MIND AND ITS MODIFICATIONS (VRITTIS).
WHILE BRAHMACHARYA AND GRIHASTA SHOW THE ' PRAVRITTI MARGA ' (TOWARDS THE
WORLD) , VANAPRASTA AND SANNYASA INDICATE THE ' NIVRITTI MARGA' (AWAY FROM THE
WORLD) THROUGH INTROSPECTION AND RENUNCIATION.
“AHIMSA PARAMO DHARMAH” “NON-VIOLENCE IS THE SUPREME DHARMA.” THIS IS APPLICABLE ONLY IN THE SANNYASA STAGE.. NOT IN BRAHMACHARYA / GRISHASTA / VANAPRASTA STAGES WHEN YOU MUST FIGHT EVIL AND ELIMINATE IT TO SUSTAIN DHARMA.. GANDDHI WAS ROTHSCHILDS AGENT..
AHIMSA CANNOT BE STRICTLY PRACTICED BY HOUSEHOLDERS . IT CAN BE PRACTICED BY SANNYASINS WHO TREAD THE NIVRITTI MARGA. REAL SANNYASINS DO NOT DEFEND THEMSELVES EVEN WHEN THEIR LIVES ARE IN DANGER, BECAUSE, THEY KNOW THAT EXISTENCE IS IN REALITY CHANGELESS. A SANNYASIN IS ONE WHO HAS NO BODY, AND WHO IDENTIFIES HIMSELF WITH BRAHMAN OR THE ATMAN.
ANNIHILATION OF LUST, ANGER, ETC., LEADS TO THINNING OF EGOISM.
THROUGH REPETITION OF ACTS, LUST, ANGER AND PRIDE ARE STRENGTHENED. THEY BECOME DEEP-ROOTED OR INVETERATE. YOU MUST STRUGGLE VERY HARD WITH GREAT PATIENCE AND INDOMITABLE WILL TO ERADICATE THESE EVIL VRITTIS.
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WHEREVER THERE IS EGO, THERE ARE SELFISHNESS, LIKES, DISLIKES, ARROGANCE, CONCEIT, IMPERTINENCE, VASANAS, TRISHNAS OR CRAVINGS, VRITTIS AND SANKALPAS, CLINGING TO EARTHLY LIFE OF HYPOCRISY AND THE IDEA OF AGENCY AND DOERSHIP.
YOU MUST HAVE A VERY CLEAR UNDERSTANDING IF YOU WISH TO ANNIHILATE THIS EGO. ONLY PATIENT AND SUSTAINED EFFORTS CAN GIVE YOU SUCCESS.
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LIKE HAGIA SOPHIA , CHORA CHURCH WAS A HINDU TEMPLE 4000 YEARS BEFORE CHRISTIANITY AND BIBLE AND JESUS WERE COOKED UP AT THE FIRST COUNCIL OF NICEA IN 325 AD..
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I HAVE SEEN BOTH CHORA CHURCH AND HAGIA SOPHIA AT ISTANBUL..
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http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2019/08/secrets-of-roman-pantheon-inaugurated.html
IN BETWEEN THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS USURPED BY A PRETENDER JEWISH KING AEMILIANUS WHO MURDERED HINDU EMPEROR VOLUSIANUS..
AS SOON AS AEMILIANUS TOOK OVER POWER HE RTIED TO LOOT THE GOLD IN THE VAULTS OF CHORA CHURCH ISTANBUL ( A GRAND HINDU TEMPLE ) .
THE HINDU SAGE FROM ANTIOCH BABYLAS BLOCKED JEW KING AEMILIANUS WHO HAD MURDERED THE RIGHTFUL HINDU EMPEROR VOLUSIANUS WHO FUNDED THE HINDU TEMPLE AND ITS LIBRARY AT ANTIOCH....
THE CREMATED ASHES OF MARTYR HINDU SAGE BABYLAS IS INTERNNED IN CHORA CHURCH..
HINDU EMPEROR VALERIAN TOOK OVER A ROMAN EMPEROR AFTER USURPER JEW AEMILIANUS WAS KILLED..
HINDU EMPEROR VALERIAN TOOK OVER AFTER USURPER JEW AEMILIANUS WAS KILLED
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE WAS DONE BY JEWS NOT MUSLIMS..
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2015/04/lawrence-of-arabia-part-two-capt-ajit.html
THE LAST 70% OF OTTOMAN SULTAN WERE JEWS.. SULTAN MEHMED IIs MOTHER HUMA HATUN WAS A JEWESS.
ERDOGAN AND MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATIRK ARE JEWS..
LIES WONT WORK..
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