CONTEMPLATION ON UNDERSTANDING

Happy New Year 2015 to all my dgf Blog visitors.
  Let's welcome 2015, January 1st, with a solemn declaration that I shall make an untiring effort, steady and undeterred effort to "Realize my Self"- to know "Who am I" (naan yaar?). This needs a clear understanding about my ability to understand and also what understanding is since not all have the same ability to understand. A primary school child, a Higher Secondary school student and a College student have different capacities (developed over the years?) to grasp and truly realize what comes within its hold. A Post-Doctoral Research student's capacity is also limited in this sense of the terms! Sama Veda gives us an idea about understanding as follows:

   “Understanding is, verily, greater than meditation. Understanding makes one understand the Rks, the Rk Veda, the Yajur Veda, the Sama Veda, the Atharva Veda, the epics and the ancient lores as the fifth- the Upanishads- Veda of the Vedas, the rules of sacrifices by which the Manes are gratified, the science of numbers, the science of portents, the science of time, logic, ethics, etymology, Brahma-vidya, the science of elemental spirits, the science of weapons, astronomy, the science of serpents and the fine arts; heaven, earth, air, water, fire, gods, men, cattle, birds, herbs, trees; animals, together with worms, flies and ants; and also righteousness and unrighteousness, the true and the false, the good and the bad, the pleasant and the unpleasant, food and taste, this world and yonder world.

   Meditate on understanding.

    Narada said: Venerable Sir, is there anything greater than understanding?

   Of course there is something greater than understanding.

Please tell that to me, venerable Sir.”  

   “He who meditates on understanding as Brahman attains the worlds of understanding and knowledge and can, of his own free will, reach as far as understanding reaches- he who meditates on understanding as Brahman.”     [Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad VII, VII – Understanding as Brahman 1-2]

       Om || BrahmAdEvAnAm prathamah sambhabhuva |

      vishvasyakartA bhuvanasya goptA sa brahmavidyAm |

      sarvavidyApratishtAm AtharvAya jyEshtaputrAya prAha ||

      (Gopatha Brahmana of Atharva Veda, Mundakopanishad 1.1)

  Now, the verse quoted above from Atharva Veda, Mundaka Upanishad says there is only one Veda. But, everybody repeats like a parrot there are 4 vedas?

Second, This verse says, Brahma imparted Veda to his First son Atharvan. Is it ever possible Brahma to have a son and can there be a Saraswati/Vak Devi to him as wife when there are no physical entities at such a primordial beginning when not even the Stars and Planets were born? Why don't we understand that these are simple  stories told to children by Teachers in Gurukula?

  Then what is the truth? The Truth is very simple that everything is mental images, thoughts or creation; it is the Mind as a very powerful tool of creation that presents a world we wish to us in our self, on our own mind screen and nothing ever exists outside of it? Think it over....

  What ever see or visualize is due to our focused attention and the Mind like a mirror reflects what ever that comes in from of it. Nothing smears to it. However, the mind has a nasty habit of remembering everything? This is the problem. We carry lots of trash, unwanted memories, instructions, dictates and suffer.   Forget all you have learnt as memory, dead, trash and have clean mind and see!