Showing posts with label Dream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dream. Show all posts

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

Sunday, August 7, 2016

Can there be two selves? Asks the Guru!

Can there be two selves? Asks the Guru!


I love myself; I hate myself;

I have to change myself; I have to realize myself!

Says the person, as if there are two selves (I and myself).

Can there be two selves? Asks the Guru!

Can there be a direct and simple question than this one?



The question is so direct that

It is not concerning anything but the self (I)

The question is so simple that

It is neither I need to have prior knowledge of any external things

Nor it has anything do with what I possess

The knowledge includes the language, math, science, all the ‘-logies’,

Relationships, scriptures, testaments and revelations.

The possessions include materials, concepts and philosophies



Thus, the question is applicable to anyone, without any exceptions

Let us contemplate and enquire!


Let us contemplate on our many selves.

There appears many selves claiming I am the male, I am the son,

I am the brother, I am the Employee and I am the father.

The list goes on and on and there is no end to it.

Acting as the basis of all these selves

There appears the body & mind identified self (Ego)

All other selves are derived from this Egoic self


Now, let us enquire if this ego is my true self?

The body identified self appears in the waking state and

The mind identified self appears both in the waking and the dream states

Egoic self and its derived selves are absent during the deep sleep state

But there is a continuity of self at all times

So, which self remains in all the three states?

Who am I then?


During the waking state, we need to ceaselessly enquire this egoic self

Enquiry comprises of paying complete attention to:

The egoic self’s emergence, movement, transformation and subsidence;

And the effects of this egoic self.

Let us enquire into the egoic self, its appearance and disappearance

And discover the substratum / the Self, from which the egoic self appears


Can there be two selves? Asks the Guru!

Can there be a direct and simple question than this one?

The most important question that can root out all the other questions

Yet, the mind that is habituated with the external knowledge and possessions

Doesn’t find this question as interesting, appealing and important

And does not want to pay attention to the self.


If this question is that of the life itself

And has the potential of discovering that we are already free

Let us contemplate and enquire!

Can there be two selves? Asks the Guru!


Can there be a direct and simple question than this one?