ADVENT OF THE SOUL

A New Book in the offing....
  Before continuing the spiritual Essence of the Bhagavad-Gita in these blogs, it is of much interest  to our readers i suppose) to introduce a new fantastic work on our Sol, the Atma and the nature of our existence on this earth as humans.

About the Book

  “The Advent of the Soul” presented here is mainly addressed to senior people who are mature enough to understand the intricacies of life after experiencing it, that too, if they wish to attain to moksha, the aim of all. The goal of life, purushartha, is to live a sane and sensible life based on dharma (righteousness), engage in karma to fulfil kamanas and attain moksha. Mosksha is to get liberated oneself from bhavasagaara, be free, happy and peaceful. It is to also seek Lord’s intervention in order to redeem the soul that has somehow got entangled in this earthly existence, suffering hunger, thirst, unending desires (kaamana), sickness, old age and death, only to repeat the cycle again and again.

    This book deals with the Self, the Atma, which is the core of the substance. This knowledge of the Self, Atmajnyan, may need some basic knowledge of the ancient Indian scriptures. Unless this is imparted by a learned person in its proper perspectives, that also will be a waste! In fact, no body can teach or make me know who i am. If the teacher himself has not realized his self he cannot teach the subject (Atma) to others. It is in short a narration of the entire history of the universe dated back to several Billions of years. It is the life history of the jiva that arrived on our Planet Earth as a micron of stellar dust and got itself embodied in diverse life forms. The first one in this order is Manu- the First Person, purusha, who is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, and self-effulgent; as clairvoyant, He manifests in different forms and resides in all jivas as the pratyagatman or the tathagata, and the Soul, Atman, the core of the substance. The Brahmanda (the multiverse), the pindanda (the physica entity), and the andanda- its biological cells (jivakosha), are indeed a magnificent miniature universe replicated at there different levels- the macro, the meso, and the micro (subtler) levels. It (the Avyakta or the unmanifest) is a storehouse of secrets that hold key to the mystery of creation, sustenance, development, and dissolution. Alas, we are born with it, live with it, and die without ever knowing it!

   “The Seer(s), our forefather(s), once offered all these worlds in oblation, assuming a priestly role, and sought to gain riches by the power of prayer of Rk Veda; He himself (they themselves) entered later creations as manu(s), while shrouding in mystery the first creative moment.”

  “What was the primival matter, what the substance? How could it be discerned, how was it made? From which the Designer of all things, beholding all, fashioned the Earth and shaped the glory of the Heavens?”  “A myriad eyes are his, a myriad faces, a myriad arms and feet, turning each way! When he, sole God, creates the Earth and Heavens, he welds them together with whirring of arms and wings.”

   “What was the timber and what the tree from which the Heavens and also the Earth were chiselled forth? Ponder over it, O wise Men! Question these in your hearts. On what did he rely when he formed these worlds?” “The haunts where you dwell, O Designer ever true to your laws, on high, in the depths, and in every region between, disclose to your friends at the hour of oblation. Willingly offer your body in sacrifice, thus enhancing its vigour.” [Rk Veda X, 81, 1- 5].

    The ignorant people never grow up to be mature enough to distinguish between the reality and the myth, maya, the make-believe world. They still go by their family belief-systems, customs and traditions, and practise rituals that are outmoded; they blindly follow others and carry lots of dead-load. They cannot unload what all they have loaded in their petty small mind! Having born the humans, they are facing the problems of ignorance, hunger, disease, old age and death. There are no suitable answers to most of our questions and, even if some answer is given, we are not ready to believe! The predicament of the jiva knows no bounds. It works just like a robot on the basis of a pre-programmed software that drives the life in a certain direction to deluge! And, we cannot create a new one. It (the life) moves in a grove, as it were, bound by customs, traditions, blind faith, and ignorance and run behind everybody in search of what is not there! Inwardly, it (the blemished soul) is groaning, suffering, and struggling to get rid of the entanglements; and, it clamours for release from the self-imposed bondage. The ignorant self is bondage and the redeemed soul is brahman!

STATUTORY WARNING

   It is hereby explicitly stated that the ‘Spiritual Laws’ preclude all those who are not yet ripe for the return journey, those who are still interested in sensuous life, and all those still engaged in worldly pursuits, from entering this untread path of adhyatmic journey. Nobody knows where those went by this route have reached. Hence, it is harmful to their worldly interests. Only those who are desirous of enjoying deeper peace, greater joy and immense Bliss without any external support are welcome here. It guarantees unbounded joy and immortality, provided they are keen in undertaking this arduous journey sincerely with devotion, trust, and faith and steadfastness. It is also warned here that it may also lead to total disillusionment all those who are still attached to their ego, perverted intelligence, and love the mortal physical body and sensual enjoyments. Unless and until one completely gives up all that he / she acquired from birth- as qualities, guna, affixes and prefixes there will be no progress in this undertaking. So, one should not be under the impression that this is a very easy way to escape from sansar, the drudgery of life. In spite of the warning given here, if one dares take up this spiritual path, it is definitely beneficial and highly rewarding; this does not preclude anybody from living an ordinary homely life and still devote some extra time to this adventure like a serious student of Vedanta. Ultimately, the jiva is liberated from eternal bondage, in the sense that the jiva realizes the fact that the Atman is essentially an imperishable, immortal, omniscient and eternal being that needs no special effort to become free!

    This book tries to find out how the omniscient soul (embodied Jivatman that knows all) got itself entangled here in mundane existence and finally finds out ways and means to liberate itself- with the help of the sage wisdom (yogashastra).   

TNAR