Wednesday, July 18, 2018

The Whole or the Fullness is not concerned with religions

The Whole or the Fullness is not
concerned with  religions


From one religion's perspective, it could be true
that everyone should follow or convert to their religion
in order to establish their God's order in this world.
From another religion's perspective, it could be true
that everyone should be allowed to follow their own religion
in order to establish their God's order in this world.

For God's sake, how could both of these conflicting
positions can be true from their own perspectives?
How could Dvaitam, Vishishtadvaitam and Advaitam
can all be true in their own perspectives?
Either, they all could be true or all could be false
There cannot be in between unless I take a certain position

In a dream, all the characters or events are totally false
and immaterial and this attitude sets me (I AM) free
For a toddler who is listening to a fantasy story, all the
characters and events are totally true, no matter how
illogical the plot or content of the story is and this attitude
gives me (I AM) immense happiness listening to the story

Either totally false or totally true is possible only when
You consider dream or fantasy story as one single entity
If you dissect and divide the dream or fantasy story, then
the division of right and wrong, truth and false are inevitable
By looking at the dream or fantasy story as one single entity
I have an option to either totally accept it or totally renounce it

The truth is, you are the reality, in which all these dreams
and imaginations appear and disappear in the matrix of your
consciousness.  The appearances shines, thanks to the light
from your consciousness, you simply witness them and either
totally renounce all of them as false, the fleeting appearances
or accept all of them as the truth (as nothing but God)

The conflict arises only when some of them are considered
as the truth and the others as the false.  Remember, you cannot
consider certain portions of the dream or the fantasy story
as false and other portions as the truth and the divisions only
appears in the dream or in the fantasy and not outside of it
Therefore, it is either all or nothing and no in between.

Based on the vasanas, time to time, the thought, speech
and the action may continue to take a position and attempt to
divide the cosmos into truth and false, right and wrong, but
remember that too is nothing but appearance in your consciousness
You are the whole in which vasanas and its projections - thought,
speech and action are shined by the light of your consciousness

Bottomline, you either take all of them as the truth (as God) or take
all of them as the false (just an appearance you cannot hold on to)
It cannot be either partially true or partially false.  It is all or nothing
In either case, you stand as the whole for all (all creations)
or the whole for nothing (no creation at all), simply put, you
are the whole in which all the apparent divisions seem to exist. 

All the things, concepts, religions & interpretations - Dvaitam,
Vishishtadvaitam and Advaitam, can be taken as the truth,
as the same fullness is present as the substratum and pervades
all of them.  On the other hand, even if one or some of these are added
or removed, the fullness the Existence-consciousness principle (I AM)
remains as it is without any change, thus rest of them can be taken as false

This is beautifully explained in the following mantra on the fullness (Purnam),
Then there is no conflict about the things, concepts, religions and their
interpretations within oneself (Adhyatma), with the universe of objects
(Adhibhuta) and with the superintending Divinity (Adhideva).  The peace
(shanti three times) exists with all of them, by the attitude of appreciating
the presence of fullness in all of them or just taking only the fullness alone

Om poornamadah poornamidam poornaat poornamudachyate
Poornasya poornamaadaaya poornamevaavashishá¹£yate
Om shaantih shaantih shaantih

Types of Minds and their Freedom

Types of Minds and their Freedom

****Reactive Mind****
In a reactive mind, the experiences
are accumulated and categorized
The expectation is, to repeat the pleasant experiences
and avoid or eliminate the unpleasant ones
In that process, the mind curtails
itself to a limited boundary
The confined mind, struggles to cope up
with the ups and downs of life
It can only redefine or expand the boundaries
but cannot find a way to break
away from the strong barriers
built by the memorable experiences

***Lonely Despondent Mind***
In the lonely despondent mind, the
experiences are avoided and rejected
The expectation is to desist the boundary formations
from the pleasant and the unpleasant experiences
In that process the mind pushes
itself to build a vacuum boundary
Due to fear of losing control, this disowning
mind, tries to suppress all aspects of life
It can only engage in rejecting experiences 
but cannot find a way to free itself
from the very experience that attempts to 
empty out all other experiences

****Open Mind*****
In an open mind the experiences flow
naturally without judgement and rejection
It remains as the witness both in
pleasant and the unpleasant experiences
In that process the mind remains
equanimous free from all boundaries
Just acknowledging the experiences that show up
naturally, the meaning of life is self-revealed
It recognizes, the experiences come and go
in its abode, yet untouched by any experience
It remains free as the substratum of all
and revels in the boundless peace