THE UNIMIGINABLE PARABRAHMAN: LAKSHMANA GITA - IV
LAKSHMANA GITA: I II III IV V VI
Swami:
True, Maya has beginning, since
Brahman existed alone before creation
But, once the cinema started, it never ends
If it ends, Brahman gets again bored.
The word Maya means wonderful as per its root word
The power of Brahman and product of power, the world
Both are wonderful, it means both power and world,
See the building and imagine the wonderful architect.
Some say that Maya means that which does not exist
Maya reversed is Yaamaa, meaning that which is not true
A drop of ocean evaporated is the world, so minute
So negligible before Brahman, almost nil.
World is almost nil only for that Brahman
Not for Jiiva, who is a drop in the world-sea
The world is a drop in the ocean of Ishwara
Brahman hides always in Ishwara.
Brahman, beyond imagination, existed and exists always
For entertainment, bored Brahman created space
Now the space-based ocean of consciousness is created
Such ocean is Ishwara in whom Brahman was hidden.
Ishwara also becomes beyond space by His power
Power belongs to the internal Brahman only
The consciousness is space based and is external body
A drop of this ocean vaporized to become world
This vaporization is due to power of Brahman only.
You can’t say that consciousness is beyond space
Since you cannot imagine anything beyond space
How can you call that by a name like consciousness?
Which we understand here as a property of living beings.
Understood is always space based
Not understood means beyond space
Brahman means greatest, by this word
Nothing is understood, what is that greatest.
But by the word consciousness we understand
That it is a quality of living beings
That does not exist in non-living things
We say that it is here and it is not there.
Awareness of awareness is only awareness
Light of light is only light
Everyone easily understands awareness
Brahman cannot be understood by anyone.
Ishwara creates rules and destroys this world
Again and again I say that Ishwara is Brahman
Ishwara is huge iron structure electrified
Electricity pervading all the iron is Brahman.
An iron wire electrified is human incarnation
Ishwara and incarnation are one and the same
In both the pervading Brahman is common
Don’t forget that Brahman is beyond space
And so it is not affected by the special size.
Space creates small and big sizes
Brahman is beyond these two sizes
Hence Brahman is same in both
The external bodies only differ in sizes
Same person wears a small shirt
Or covered by a big shirt, person is same
Person is not small in small shirt
Person is not big in big shirt.
The human incarnation is Ishwara
Every human being is not Ishwara
Krishna alone became huge Vishwarupa
Same Brahman in small Krishna and in big Vishwarupa.
Every Jiiva cannot show Vishwarupa
The Veda says that Brahman entered this world
As a Jiiva but not as every Jiiva
As Krishna but not as every Yadava.
Brahman is not in any Jiiva
Brahman is only the base of Jiivas and world
That too Brahman is not touching the world
For, the changes in the world cannot touch Brahman.
As a daydreamer imagines a city
Brahman imagines this entire world
He is the base of the city, not touching it
Even if the city burns the dreamer is not burnt.
World means inert objects and living Jiivas
Even if the Jiiva weeps, Brahman is not pained
The city of the daydreamer has men moving
The men may be cut the dreamer is not pained.
Brahman is not anything or anybody in the world
Brahman is not in anything or in anybody in world
Brahman is not touching anything or anybody in world
Nothing and nobody can affect Brahman in any way.
The ordinary wire is neither electricity
Nor electricity flows in that wire
Not that wire even touches the electricity
“I am the electricity” the wire claims!
“I am the electricity” the electric wire can say
Since electric shock is given throughout the wire
Same can be send by the electric iron structure
Therefore, only Avatara and Ishwara can say
“I am Brahman”, not every Tom, Dick and Harry.
Hundred water molecules in small space is water
Hundred water molecules in large space is vapor
Water and water vapor are one and the same but due to space
Water is water and vapor is vapor.
Can you drink a cup of water vapor?
Can water diffuse by itself as vapor
Both are different due to this space
You have to talk anything standing in the space.
You are in space and you will be in space
Even if the creation is destroyed, space exists
All the creation also is condensed as a pulse
And is hidden in the mind of Ishwara after dissolution.
Just like in a computer, the pulse chip
Comes out exhibited, the world goes
As Avyakta into the mind of Ishwara
The Veda says “He created again as it existed”.
(DhÄtÄ yathÄpÅ«rva makalpayat- Veda)
Unless this space disappears, how can you say
That world made of five elements is destroyed?
How do you say that Narayana sleeps
On the banana leaf after destruction?
The show may be stopped the film exists
In destruction world goes from Vyakta to Avyakta
Yes, the cinema was not there before production
But once produced, it is eternal in the film.
Water vapor is nil for the ocean
It is not nil for the particle of the vapor
World is almost nil for Ishwara only
And also, for the incarnation, since both are same.
You are a drop in the ocean of the world
The world is a drop in the ocean-Ishwara
You and the world are in one vapor phase
Ishwara is in a different water-phase.
All the matter is energy, no doubt then
Excretory product and food are same energy
Pig eats the former and man eats the latter
Pig and man are also forms of same matter
But pig and man are quite different.
The king and peon are the same one man
What is the use of this similarity?
What is that peon has achieved by this?
It makes the peon become lazy.
Lakshman:
In deep sleep the happiness is experienced
By the “I”, when all disappear which is Brahman.
Swami:
This Advaita ghost catches innocent
Let them remember that great Hanuman
Ghosts run away by His name
Even He never told that He is Brahman.
He has all the eight powers, greatest yogi
A scholar in nine grammars of Sanskrit
No one on this earth can have more knowledge
No one is a better devotee, He is the greatest Jiiva
Common tell Me, Is there any Advaita scholar
Greater than the greatest Hanuman?
He has all the miraculous powers
His Master Rama never showed any miracle.
Hanuman never told that He is Brahman
He always told Himself as servant of Rama
Rama was an ordinary human being
Whom Hanuman worshipped as Ishwara
In deep sleep you are not aware
Does it mean your body disappeared?
Your friend who awoke is seeing your body
If you are not aware does it mean your body is absent?
You are a scholar in an Indian language
You are not aware of even the existence of a foreign language
Does it mean that the foreign language does not exist?
You are not aware but everything exists.
You gained happiness in the deep sleep
Because you seized to work by body and mind
You took food, energy is released from food
Which is stored and you feel energetic, as it is not spent.
This energetic state is the happiness you have
That happiness is the characteristic of Jiiva
Happiness and sorrow are the two wings of Jiiva
Happiness is not the bliss, bliss is eternal.
After deep sleep you are happy for a minute
Shocking news comes to you, you weep
Bliss cannot be shaken by anything
Even animal gets happiness after deep sleep.
In deep sleep the awareness exists
Awareness itself is the work, which receives happiness
It stores all that happiness, a form of energy
You awake and feel the concentrated happiness.
Your “I” is only your soul that is Jiivatma
The life energy that is consciousness is happy
Your self-knowledge remains in deep sleep
You get knowledge of yourself
That is not the knowledge of Brahman.
Self-knowledge of a dog is that
It knows that it is a dog
Self-knowledge of a lion is that
It knows that it is a lion
This is the awareness in awakening stage.
Since the word self-knowledge is common in both
Dog is not lion and lion is not dog
District collector and Bill Collector are not same
For, the word “Collector” is common.
A small shirt and a big shirt are there
In the big shirt the person is present
Even if the small shirt equates with big shirt
Neglecting the quantitative aspect
What is the use? In the small shirt, person is not present.
Even if Jiiva, a drop of awareness
Becomes equal to Ishwara, ocean of awareness
What is the use? Ishwara contains Brahman
Jiiva is not having Brahman internally.
An ocean of milk with dissolved sugar is Ishwara
A cup of milk with dissolved sugar is human incarnation
A cup of milk without sugar is Jiiva
Milk is awareness, cup is body and sugar is Brahman.
Since Brahman is beyond space with all miraculous powers
Ishwara is pervading all over world though not seen
For such miraculous state of Ishwara, Brahman is the cause
Ishwara is also embedded in incarnation, ocean in cup
Awareness by itself is not all pervading
Due to Brahman only it pervades all world as Ishwara.
Living beings are discontinuous items
Awareness is limited to the limited living being
Hence, awareness without Brahman in it
Can be a limited part of the creation only.
Drop of awareness is zero, common in you and Krishna
But in Krishna, the number one is behind the zero
Krishna is ten, you are only zero
Due to common zero, zero is not ten
That number one is Brahman.
Awareness in both the bodies is one and the same
The same three qualities are existing in both
Dead bodies of both are equal
Thus, these three zeros are common in both Krishna and a man.
In Krishna the number one that is Brahman
Stands behind the three zeros associated
Krishna is thousand and the man is zero only
The three common zeros are equal to a big zero.
What is the use of searching a common item?
You have to search for the differentiating item
It you want to become equal to Krishna
Achieve that number one by effort.
Without any effort, the Advaitin sits silent, satisfied
Seeing the common item zero
The entire world including awareness is zero
Before Brahman, since it is negligible.
It is like a lazy student seeing
The common human body in a merit student
Stops studying, thinking that he is also meritorious
Yes, he can be meritorious if he recognizes
That very merit which is the differentiating item.
When the lazy student says with jealousy
That the merit and merit student do not exist
Shankara wanted this lazy student accept the merit
He told, “You are that merit student”.
Similarly, Buddhist was that jealous student
Who denied the very existence of Brahman.
Shankara told him “You are that Brahman”
He accepted and said “Brahman exists, since He exists”
He mistook Brahman for Ishwara
And told “I am Ishwara”.
Don’t behave like that Buddhist kid, an atheist
You are a grown-up student, the theist
You should concentrate on that differentiating item only
Which is the miraculous Brahman.
Awareness of body is awakened state
Awareness of dream is dream state
Only awareness is the state of deep sleep
Awareness is the life energy.
Awareness is work and always is in working state
Energy, a radiation is always vibrating in brain
In deep sleep, this awareness exists as inert energy
As the body and outer world exists.
The miraculous Brahman has come to you
In Human form to preach you everything
Listen and follow Him with full devotion
Prove your devotion by your selfless service.
Then only that differentiating item, the Brahman
Pleased with your practical selfless service
Blesses you with all things you need here and there
It can even enter you to make you the incarnation.
To be continued...