Wednesday, May 31, 2023

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Om! Addictive to pleasures ~ Atman Nityananda

 


It is a fact that we have a great addiction to pleasure and, therefore, if we give it up we will become depressed.

“Know thou Rajas to be of the nature of passion, the source of thirst (for sensual enjoyment) and attachment; it binds fast, O Arjuna, the embodied one by attachment to action”
~ Bhagavad Gita Ch.XIV V.7

The cause of pain is pleasure. The cause of death is love for sensual life. Give up all sensual pleasures, if you do not want pain. Give up sensual life, if you do not want death.
 ~ Swami Sivananda

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

The Four means of Liberation - Sadhana Chatustaya ¬ Swami Sivananda

 


The Four means of Liberation - Sadhana Chatustaya 

The pre-requisites of the aspirants in the path of Jnana Yoga (Advaita Vedanta) 
- Swami Sivananda
Extract from Swami Sivananda book  Sadhana Chatustaya

BRAHMA-VIDYA or the Science of the Self is not a subject that can be understood and realised by mere intellectual study, reasoning or ratiocination or even by discussions or arguments. It is the most difficult of all sciences. Mere scholarly erudition and vast study with a high degree of intelligence alone cannot help one in the practical realisation of the Ti.uth inculcated by this Science. 
It demands perfect discipline, a discipline that is not to be found in our universities and colleges, and solid Sadhana for the achievement of the goal that is indicated by this Para-Vidya (Highest Science or knoeledge). One has to reach a realm where there is neither light nor darkness, neither East nor West, neither gain nor loss-a realm which can never be reached by either the mind or the senses.
Sadhana Chatushtaya or the fourfold means for salvation or the four kinds of spiritual practices, is a pre-requisite to the aspirantj in the path of Jnana Yoga (Vedanta), or, for that matter, in any system of evolution towards Godhead. The four means are:

1. Viveka-discrimination between Sat (real) and Asat (unreal).

2. Vairagya-dispassion or indifference to sensual enjoyments herein and hereafter.

3. Shad Sampat (6 virtues):
(a) Sama-peace of mind through eradication of Vasanas.
(b) Dana-control of sense organs.
(c) Uparati-satiety, renunciation of all works (Sannyasa).
(d) Titiksha - forbearance.
(e) Sraddha-faith in scriptures and the Guru's words.
(f) Samadhana-concentration of mind, balance of mind.

4. Mumukshutva-Intense longing for liberation.

The importance of the fourfold qualifications

A student who treads the path of Truth must equip himself with these four means. OnIy then can he march quite fearlessly on the path. Not an iota of spiritual progress is ever polsible unless one is really endowed with these fourfold qualifications. These four means are as old as the Vedas or even this world itself. Every religion prescribed these four essential requisites for the aspirant. Only ignorant people resort to lingual warfare and raise unnecessary questions. This has become an ignobie habit in them. You should not mind this. It is your duty to try to eat the fruit instead of wasting time in counting the leaves of the tree. Try now to know what these four means are.

 Analysis of  the fourfold qualifications
1. Viveka-discrimination between Sat (real) and Asat (unreal)
Read these essays

2. Vairagya-dispassion or indifference to sensual enjoyments herein and hereafter.
 
 Read these essays
Baghavad Gita  Swami Sivananda   

3. Shad Sampat (6 virtues):
(a) Sama-peace of mind through eradication of Vasanas.
(b) Dana-control of sense organs.
(c) Uparati-satiety, renunciation of all works (Sannyasa).
(d) Titiksha - forbearance.
(e) Sraddha-faith in scriptures and the Guru's words.
(f) Samadhana-concentration of mind, balance of mind.
  Read here babout Shad Sampat (6 virtues)
  
 and also these essays

4. Mumukshutva-Intense longing for liberation. 
Lastly, we come to the fourth of the main qualifications, Mumukshutva. Mumukshutva is aspiration or burning desire to attain God-realisation or Self-realisation. God is the one true aim of all human aspirations. Aspiration is earnest longing or an earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach or attainment, especially for what is noble, pure and spiritual. To aspire is to rise or reach upward. To aspire is to have an earnest desire, wish or longing for something high and good not yet attained, and is usually accompanied by endeavor to attain it. 
  Mumukshutva is intense desire for liberation or deliverance from the wheel of birth and death with its concomitant evils of old age, disease, delusion and sorrow.
If one is equipped with the previous three qualifications, -Viveka, Vairagya and Shad Sampat-, Mumukshutva will come by itself. The mind moves towards the source of its own accord, because it has lost its hold on external objects. It has no resting place in this objective universe.
Purification of the mind and mental discipline is the rock-bottom foundation of yoga. When this is effected, the longing for liberation dawns by itselt.

Mumukshutva must be of a burning type. If burning Mumukshutva is coupled with burning Vairagya , Self-realization will come within the twinkling of an eye.
Generally the vast majority of people have got a dull type of Vairagya and Mumukshutva so they do not succeed in their attempts.
If one finds that he has not got burning Mumukshutva he must practice the other three Sadhanas vigorously till he acquires intense longing for attaining salvation or immortality.
To cite an analogy: suppose some dust falls in one's eyes, he will hurry up to wash his eyes and get rid of the dust. He will feel great unrest till the dust is removed, forgetting everything of this world. His sole concern will be the removal of the dust from his eyes. Similarly should one's aspiration be to attain God-realization. He should forget everything else. He should feel extremely restless and should pine for God-realization. 
Another analogy for Mumulshutva is that of the man under water. Suppose you keep the head of a person immersed in water. He will be struggling for breath. He will intensely desire to get out of the water, so that he can breathe. Such intense desire for God-realisation is called Mumukshutva. 

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Monday, May 1, 2023

Om! The Question of Happiness by Atman Nityanada

 


The Question of Happiness – Ego & Consciousness by Atman Nityanada


The two fundamental factors or life elements of the human being are Ego and Consciousness.


The ego is the centre of the mind. All activity, functions and formations of the mind and ourselves as body-mind-personality are centred in the ego. Everything revolves around our egoic Identity identified principally with the body and the mind.


Ego is conditioned by the qualities of life, (gunas in Sanskrit, -sattva, rajas, tamas), and because of it, impermanent, limited, and dependent. The ego is essentially desiring and the factor of identifications, projections, imaginations, illusions, separation and dualities.


The ego moves between like-dislike, attraction-repulsion or aversion, pleasure-pain, joy-grief, love-hatred, satisfaction-dissatisfaction, etc. and its lower aspect is the creator of all kinds of misery, pain and suffering, as well as perversions, destructive and self-destructive impulses and tendencies.

Separation, fear, insecurity, dissatisfaction, lack, incompleteness, insufficiency, self-doubt, low self-worth, distress, unhappiness, depression, and uneasiness, all are expressions of the lowest ego itself.

However, the core of our mind and our existence is Consciousness, not the ego.


Consciousness is the source and the foundation from which the body, mind and ego arise, appear, live and dissolve.

Consciousness is the eternal existence from which all forms borrow their existence and upon which all forms exist.

And it is the light that illumines the mind and makes all experiences (sensory and psychological) possible. Without consciousness, there is no experience.


Finally, Consciousness is indestructible, immortal and, by nature, eternally free, whole, peaceful and blissful. Consequently, the only inexhaustible source or foundation of eternal peace and happiness.


Thus, the only way to find and establish ourselves in freedom, peace, bliss and plenitude is to realize that Consciousness is our true and essential Identity and abide firmly in Consciousness through incessant meditation and Self-enquiry and finally through the complete dissolution of the ego.


Our true nature, Consciousness, is indestructible, immortal and, by nature, eternally free, whole, peaceful and blissful. , Thus, the only inexhaustible source or foundation of eternal peace and happiness.


 Peace, Love, Harmony

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