Realization of the Self

   The Lord says, “Arjuna, I shall reveal the utmost secrets to you”. If this knowledge revealed by the Lord is the most secret of the ‘vidyas’ how can the mortals understand it? Moreover, what is that most ‘secret vidya’? He, the Lord, reveals that this knowledge is the supreme, ‘brahma vidya’, and a ‘yoga shastra that redeems the embedded jiva’! Hence, here are the secrets of creation, sustenance, and dissolution revealed to vivasvan, the Sun God, 4.56 billion years ago, even before the earth and all its living beings appeared! Hence it must be construed that the supreme Lord, Parabrahmn was contemplating upon creation in his meditative trance, yoganidra, about creation. Since Lord Krishna transcends time, rather, He being omnipotent and ‘kaal’ (Time) by Himself, nothing prevents Him from this. The secrets are known to Him only, He is imparting this to Vivasvan, who in turn imparted it to the first manu and then it came to King Ikshvaku a descendant of Vivasvan (suryavamshi). This has been repeated time and again as and when it was lost due to dissolution, adharma, floods and devastation, and other reasons. This is the secret yoga of creation; it is the lila; srushti, sthiti, laya, vilaya, anugraha, and mukti patha, the path of renunciation and emancipation of the embedded souls.

  The fundamental principle (mahat tattva) is “‘I am”’ (so’ ham); the term I refers to the Lord. The term ‘am’ is His manifest forms, the principle of ‘sat’, existence. The one Supreme Soul paramatman is reflected in the myriads of individual souls as the one sun or moon is reflected in myriads of glass pieces!

 The Soul Atman is ‘cit-shakti’. It is ‘Energy’ particle, a photon- the eternal, unborn, immutable brahmn. As it is Energy, it goes without saying that it is the support of all that exists, as paramatman. Paramatman is “the Supreme Soul, supreme energy”. The soul is thus a charged particle of an ‘ion’ of this ocean of consciousness, ‘chit-shakti; it is a particle of radiant energy, a particle of star dust; stellar dust, full of knowledge, intellect, creative power. This ‘Consciousness’- an individualised unit as ‘Jivatman’, has come within the limitations, ‘niyati’, of time, space, and causality, as in contrast to the ‘supreme soul’ – the unlimited, vast, immutable, unchanging, and eternal ‘paramatman’. Shiva, the unlimited, is thus reducing Himself to jiva, a limited entity. This is ‘kanchuki’, limitation.