Samsara
Consciousness is a continuous flow of chitshakti, energy and its all pervading nature. It moves in all directions and pervades everything and activates every thing. It is free and vast and expansive; it is also bounded and limited as individualized consciousness in us, the jivas. Since it is subject to expansion and/or contraction it can occupy the entire space, the whole universe as also the micron of space in the sub-atomic pales. the problem lies with the individuals who find themselves with the limitations (of time, space and causality and the mind, senses, and the buddhi). The jiva work between two boundaries- one of facts (of the world) and the idea, image, imagination, dream and desires (of the mind). struggling as such between these two bounds the jiva gets tired, bored, frustrated and seeks new boundaries. This tiresome movement within limitations is samsara. No body is bound by the samsara unless he thinks he is bound. a person sitting alone may think he is bound by samsara- his nagging wife, troubling children, and taunting friends. But nobody is sitting on his shoulders! He thinks he is bound! Once he realizes the fact that it is his own mindset, thoughts and ideas, that he thinks he is bound he will be free instantly. Thus, it is the mind the mischief-monger not the people or the world at large, the Samsara.
"The facts of the world stimulate, and the individual's response is guided by the sense-impressions and the mind. The individual has little control over the sense-functions or over the mind, and much less over the facts outside him. His actions is non-deliberate, involuntary and inescapable. This is Samsara- the transitory, transitional, 'ma' 'ya' or 'niyati' that which has come under limitations. This is the characteristic of the phenomena involving the individual consciousness that goes round and round the self-same fads and never gets beyond them; it gets stuck at the level of ideas and feelings, and never goes deeper than that. Boredom, misery, frustration, anxiety, tension and stress mark the individual who is thus bound inextricably to the facts over which he has no control."(SKR: Tantra, Mantra, Yantra pp.73-74)
The only solution lies in yoga and tantra. The tantra are techniques, methodology to overcome the limitations- through mantra japa, dhyana and antaryaga. The yoga helps to transcend the limitations imposed by our own vibrant mind, the chittavrutti. Calming the mind and establishing one self in a state of equilibrium will help overcome the illusory life.
Pancharatra has clearly stated that a jiva is bound by illusion. Telling lies, cheating, running after that which is not there (like the golden deer, gagan kusuma) and finally disillusionment are the essential nature of the jiva.
We are thus destined to be disillusioned! The embodied soul is covered by five koshas- anna, prana, manas, jnyana and ananda and the thre gunas- tamas, rajas and sattva. As such, we feel we have reached ananda but forget the fact the three gunas are yet to be transcended! nistraigunyobhavaarjunaa, says Krishna. We are fooling ourselves that we know everything and we have reached "the point of no return", the end of the road. But still there is a long long road to travel. Brahm is not that easy to reach since the eembodied soul has to discard what all it has accumulated by way of desire, attachment, etc. Enlightenment (En 'lighten' ment) will not come unless the jiva attains purity to the core- Hydrogen!
Consciousness is a continuous flow of chitshakti, energy and its all pervading nature. It moves in all directions and pervades everything and activates every thing. It is free and vast and expansive; it is also bounded and limited as individualized consciousness in us, the jivas. Since it is subject to expansion and/or contraction it can occupy the entire space, the whole universe as also the micron of space in the sub-atomic pales. the problem lies with the individuals who find themselves with the limitations (of time, space and causality and the mind, senses, and the buddhi). The jiva work between two boundaries- one of facts (of the world) and the idea, image, imagination, dream and desires (of the mind). struggling as such between these two bounds the jiva gets tired, bored, frustrated and seeks new boundaries. This tiresome movement within limitations is samsara. No body is bound by the samsara unless he thinks he is bound. a person sitting alone may think he is bound by samsara- his nagging wife, troubling children, and taunting friends. But nobody is sitting on his shoulders! He thinks he is bound! Once he realizes the fact that it is his own mindset, thoughts and ideas, that he thinks he is bound he will be free instantly. Thus, it is the mind the mischief-monger not the people or the world at large, the Samsara.
"The facts of the world stimulate, and the individual's response is guided by the sense-impressions and the mind. The individual has little control over the sense-functions or over the mind, and much less over the facts outside him. His actions is non-deliberate, involuntary and inescapable. This is Samsara- the transitory, transitional, 'ma' 'ya' or 'niyati' that which has come under limitations. This is the characteristic of the phenomena involving the individual consciousness that goes round and round the self-same fads and never gets beyond them; it gets stuck at the level of ideas and feelings, and never goes deeper than that. Boredom, misery, frustration, anxiety, tension and stress mark the individual who is thus bound inextricably to the facts over which he has no control."(SKR: Tantra, Mantra, Yantra pp.73-74)
The only solution lies in yoga and tantra. The tantra are techniques, methodology to overcome the limitations- through mantra japa, dhyana and antaryaga. The yoga helps to transcend the limitations imposed by our own vibrant mind, the chittavrutti. Calming the mind and establishing one self in a state of equilibrium will help overcome the illusory life.
Pancharatra has clearly stated that a jiva is bound by illusion. Telling lies, cheating, running after that which is not there (like the golden deer, gagan kusuma) and finally disillusionment are the essential nature of the jiva.
We are thus destined to be disillusioned! The embodied soul is covered by five koshas- anna, prana, manas, jnyana and ananda and the thre gunas- tamas, rajas and sattva. As such, we feel we have reached ananda but forget the fact the three gunas are yet to be transcended! nistraigunyobhavaarjunaa, says Krishna. We are fooling ourselves that we know everything and we have reached "the point of no return", the end of the road. But still there is a long long road to travel. Brahm is not that easy to reach since the eembodied soul has to discard what all it has accumulated by way of desire, attachment, etc. Enlightenment (En 'lighten' ment) will not come unless the jiva attains purity to the core- Hydrogen!
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