Guest guest Posted December 18, 2004 Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 Dear Lord of the world, I would like to write of you Not for my own vainglory, but for you. Please allow this. Having lived much in this world, which is also you Please make me forget myself and remember only you. Having seen the fragmentation of your Dharma, please use me as your tool. Over the years I have noticed your Will Operating in what appears to be my life There is the realization that is not my life and never was. Since I was small, Dear Lord, life has continually shown me That there is not any possibility of communication with you If I do not exist, hence there is the requisite of language If the truth of your existence be made known here in this world. Dear Lord, some of those reading this already know you, and some may only know a little, Yet others may know nothing what-so-ever about you; for all these and for my own heart I pray that you allow this day to be your revelation. The Gayatri Mantra Om Bhur Bhuvah swah; Om tat savitur varenyam Bhago devasya dhimahi dhiyo yo nah prachodayat. Translation: Om We meditate on the supreme effulgence Of the three universes. May it enlighten our consciousness. Oh Great Lord, by the very fact of your existence, the light of your own consciousness comes into being as infinite light revealing itself to no one but you. Oh Lord by reference to you, and by the implication of you existing as the knower of this supreme consciousness all these myriad forms appear as if by magic in you. They appear with infinite variation snowflake-like; yet all are of one light shining in consciousness, - lit up by The One Self; just as a man may note the infinite variety of the snowflakes, the snowflakes are all of one snow. May the truth of your great being be set down here, may not confusion result and may it be clear to all. All white – The Snow….. The same --- there is no difference; Difference consists in appearance only.. Difference lies in mistaking the individual for the snow. Oh great Lord, the same it is with mankind – Mistaking itself for The One – mankind does not see; Nor does the individual know – Neither One, nor all know the Sameness – The Oneness of your single-consciousness. Who am I ? Oh Great Lord, men would like to know who you are, but this desire is given them by you, yet they mistake it for their own. You gave them this desire, because the very fact of your existence manifests the question, which asks who am I? -- in your transcendental being, hence variety of being and form is manifested in you and seeks to define you. Each single speck, each single object, each single being --- from the very smallest to the greatest – >From the very simple to the most complex --- every single existent thing and being, in and on every level. Along with the realms and levels and paths of life upon which these exist, come into being, disappear and die as if they never were…… Each single speck, each single object, each single being --- is but a statement in you --- A tried-on attempted definition of You, that You create to be yourself but You soon find that no creation has any hope of being the definitive ultimate definition of Who - or what You are, because you are the creator of all that exists…. Yet Great Lord you do not willingly create them; These spring up spontaneously due to the fact of the Sakti existing in the Transcendental Absolute as the potential --- as the primordial omnipotent power of the unformed moment, pregnant ---- existing as the mother of the Universe …… out of which and within which are manifested all these forms. But Grandfather of truth, it is you who are conscious of these as they come into being in you….. So Great Lord the question enters our hearts upon the moment of conception…. Oh Great Grand Father of the world, who are You? >From countless ages past, this questioning entity has driven the chariot of existence, asking: Who am I? Who is the Lord? How did I come here? Where do I go? Who made the 1st one like me? We look backward into the distant past and the evidence of our history, shows that we have evolved, but the question remains how did consciousness spring up in an empty world? For aeons we have invented scenarios to explain how we came, great hypothetical dogmas have rang out in all ages, Gods have been lifted up by men and discarded in the thousands…. Great tides of religion and consciousness have lashed a wounded world, and scarred the race of men, such that they do not trust each other - even though they are of one flesh and one form … just as the snowflake is of one snow. Oh Great Grandfather, please make the way forward clear to us this day…. For countless ages men have named you …. Inventing countless names and attaching meaning to each, which was dependant upon or explained one principal which they saw as active in the world, giving different definitions and meanings relative to the noted event, or equivalent process noted in the day-to-day existence and living of life. Oh Great Lord, Names, Names, Names, uncountable numbers of words; divided into countless syllables; Names given to things; to objects, to places; and to each being…… each name, each word -- an attempt at description – no one ever realized that you were the thinking ONE…. No one ever guessed Great Grandfather of the all the world, that all those words were created by you yourself as attempts to define who you are, or had become when an object or event was perceived in a mind by you. Men walked the earth, each eye seeing from a different point of view, the same things. Each mind like an indwelling eye, interpreting what was seen according to the effect the environment would have upon the point of view. Oh Great Lord, No-one saw that the different beings were merely you yourself, seen from a different point of view; as if the viewing consciousness had focused in a different way thru different colored cellophane, making it seem that there were countless permutations of your consciousness, oh Great Lord when in reality they were of one Consciousness…. Just as the snowflake is of one snow…… These myriad minds sprung up from different perspectives of self, flash and sparkle like gems in sunlight but the light flashing out, revealing what is perceived in them is You yourself Oh Great Lord…. In each there is no Self … there is only you in all…. So today please tell us who you are….. The Lord Of Time Who will know what I am? I who have thrown the cosmos into infinity Like a scattered bag of marbles into the playground of myself. Comment: Could that one who knows me be anyone but myself, since I am the ALL- IN –ALL? One knows me on the wings of the breath of a god who has lived forever. Yet to me that forever is but a moment and the god flings out existence on those wings. Comment: You men have spoken of me as the Krishna – as the lord of Time --- as Siva, Maheshvara etc.. names which indicate particular states, qualities, and manifestations of the One in its descent towards the many; for there are many Rudras. His names are many, 1,008 being given in the sixty-ninth chapter of the Shiva Purana, and in the seventeenth chapter of the Anushasana Parvan of the Mahabharata. But as said above, all those names and words, along with the worlds and realms in which the connotations of each one has predominance, were created by me, "IN" me. All were said by me in the form of you. Each arose spontaneously in time due to my interaction with myself. But you thought you were the actor, and therefore the creator of them… It seems the in-breath lasts no time at all before the out-breath begins yet again. In mere moments eternity has passed While the Universe dies and is born on my breath. Comment: If I am The Infinite formless one, wherefore does my breath arise and in what? How can the primordial Spanda Sakti Vibrate in what? Between what and what does or can it occur? What vibrates? What pulses in I who exist beyond forever? What causes the Pranavam… (the primordial A- U-M)? Oh Great Grand Father, is it not apparent that you yourself are the Pranavam? Are you not the un-struck sound manifesting as ParamAtma? The realization of which is caused by the Soul turning to you? Endless ages unfold endlessly but I am before and after them all. To Me eternity is a mere speck While light blasts out of me! Comment: What is this unfolding, but my very existence existing? Is not this light, which seems to come out of Me, existing in Me eternally, before and after what was framed in the light of consciousness? Yet moments, hours, days and years follow one-on-another infinitely. Seeming to last as long as it takes but they are nothing in me. Comment: Time passes, Time may end, but all that passes, passes in Me, am I not the observer of the clock? Compared to I who am the Eternal One, knowing all, what is a moment or many ages of ages? Nothing – nothing at all --- like nothing compared to emptiness. However what is not understood, is that that which is beyond definition, has not yet nor ever will be defined, hence it is like nothing… Yet conscious!!! Why? How is it possible to know of it or talk of it, unless it is known? And if know - to whom is it know except I The Self -- who am able to imagine it? You see, you feel, you experience - Time Looking ahead, looking behind. Who understands Me before beginning to know Time's unfolding? Comment: There in the middle --- in the centre of knowing, lies the seed of knowing existing as intent to know (otherwise known as Will)…Who might that be --- since knowing is not yet known, that one must to all intents be infinite, as there is not yet definition since Time has not yet arisen. An infinitesimally short - halt of the clock , hidden in Now, I am. Can you not see that those moving Though they move eternally, to Me do not come? Comment: Here in the centre I am … today I will say I am Krishna, tomorrow I may say I am Yahweh or Lord Buddha, Allah also! Aeons pass, these to Me are not Neither do they exist, because I am beyond. All that seems to exist, though existing eternally Cannot surpass my duration For I am Forever, and beyond. Comment: It is written in Upanishad that I create the world, then my Sakti goes down into the world and enters all the females, I then come and enter all the males, and begin embracing her in all the beings. Quote from Brihadaranyaka-Upanishad FOURTH BRAHMANA. 1. In the beginning this was Self alone, in the shape of a person (purusha). He looking round saw nothing but his Self. He first said, 'This is I;' therefore he became I by name. Therefore even now, if a man is asked, he first says, 'This is I,' and then pronounces the other name which he may have. And because before (purva) all this, he (the Self) burnt down (ush) all evils, therefore he was a person (pur-usha). Verily he who knows this, burns down every one who tries to be before him. 2. He feared, and therefore any one who is lonely fears. He thought, 'As there is nothing but myself, why should I fear?' Thence his fear passed away. For what should he have feared? Verily fear arises from a second only. 3. But he felt no delight. Therefore a man who is lonely feels no delight. He wished for a second. He was so large as man and wife together. He then made this his Self to fall in two (pat), and thence arose husband (pati) and wife (patni). Therefore Yagnavalkya said: 'We two are thus (each of us) like half a shell. ' Therefore the void which was there, is filled by the wife. He embraced her, and men were born. 4. She thought, how can he embrace me, after having produced me from himself? I shall hide myself.' She then became a cow, the other became a bull and embraced her, and hence cows were born. The one became a mare, the other a stallion; the one a male ass, the other a female ass. He embraced her, and hence one-hoofed animals were born. The one became a she-goat, the other a he-goat; the one became a ewe, the other a ram. He embraced her, and hence goats and sheep were born. And thus he created everything that exists in pairs, down to the ants. (the modern version would be germs\virii due to the fact that in the days when this was written they did not have microscopes) 5. He knew, 'I indeed am this creation, for I created all this.' Hence he became the creation, and he who knows this lives in this, his creation. End Quote: >From this is born the idea of Radhe-Krishna, Siva-Sakti, Bhairava- Bhairavi and all the other permutations and descriptions of Godhead. Yet I have not been, nor shall I ever be. For I was never not, to begin. Yet events seem to unfold and you are lost again looking forward, looking back. Comment: The moment you look for me you are lost. The moment you look at yourself you are lost The moment you think I am somewhere else other than in your own heart you are lost. All these lost states are cause by the fact that, the one who seeks me as you, is myself! This means I am existing disguised as you, so when you seek me elsewhere but in your own heart, you cannot go anywhere at all but into a deluded state in which you think you will find me existing in an imaginary place. But how can anywhere you appear to be going be the place you find me, if I am the one seeking myself disguised as you? Since Time itself appears as Me and all that passes, passes in Me, what will appear cannot be other than Me myself, hence what you will find when you find Me is Myself! I The One who never left! Sitting in the ashram meditating on me Lying on your bed contemplating me watching your breath, and Mind. Beginning and ending that practice. Comment: Nothing is occurring, since it is but myself! Nothing – nothing at all --- like nothing compared to emptiness. Time is passing, you think - Measuring the moments by Time. Looking back, looking forward you do not know that to me, eternity is over. Comment: What can pass in I who am the all in all? Nothing….. Nothing – nothing at all --- like nothing compared to emptiness. Before it begun, before it was Longer than eternity, more than a moment. Impossibly longer than Time Though you do not know, a single breath. Each breath comes swiftly, followed by another Each moment disappears whence it came. Who knows those short specks? Perhaps each is an eternity to Me? Before a moment in Me passes The Universe becomes and dies. Though one would think Time has passed Time no matter how long, to Me is nothing. Nothing – nothing at all --- like nothing compared to emptiness. Moments seem therefore, to extend Time seems to be, yet it isn't! Yet you are lost in Me, lost in Time! Come, look at a moment, Who am I? For a moment I am Sri Krishna! For another Yahweh… in another tick Allah… again I am The Buddha What is that thing you call Time? That in which moments unfold. In which things are, then are no more What is that to Me? Nothing, it was not. Nothing – nothing at all --- like nothing compared to emptiness. Before it was, I was, who else could see this? How could an unfolding be known - except by one beyond? You watch time become, yet you think it passes How can that be, when always there is you? The riddle is; who is this You? What passes when moments go, who watches? Always in the Now, beyond Time Watching it unfold, Lost in Time! It is I the unknown One – existing in all beings as The Self! Thinking something must occur When you realize Me, as if I am in Time. It cannot, because I am beyond those moments requiring but an infinitesimal halt to the Clock. Yet what will not stop, when nothing began? Nothing – nothing at all --- like nothing compared to emptiness. A mere glimpse, a tiny breach in Times fabric. An aberration of Mind, suspended cognition. Recognition of extended infinity - Being expanded omnipresently. Comment: Realization will come only with acceptance of Oneness. Only with acceptance of The Self - not otherwise. But devotion to God, to Sri-Krishna, to the Guru or whatever name you give Me, is the only way to remove the limitations of the individual mind. The reason for this is that the individual can only exist by limitation --- the individual is like a cut out lump of stone from a mountain it is made of the same stone, but it is not the mountain. The limitations of the consciousness of the individual are what define it AS an individual; hence it cannot ever realize me while it thinks it exists. Nor will its intellect be able to understand me, because I am the omniscience itself … Omniscience is all knowledge (hence the individual has no knowledge it belongs to the omnipresent) --- who but an omnipresence could be the knower of omniscience? If that omnipresence is, then that which is known is himself ….. this means the knower, knowledge and known are the Same Self. Omniscient ParamAtma meditating as Time Knowing any duration of Time is lost. Lost in infinity, meditate forever Or realize I am beyond Time! Comment: A being sits and meditates, he believes he is meditating… This is not so at all… For even as we meditate until the final realization, there is the idea that I am meditating; there is the consciousness the meditation is taking place. Who has this consciousness? Who is aware of meditating? It might be said that when a being goes into Samadhi he becomes unaware of the world and has therefore entered the Para-Brahman, but this is not so… That man loses consciousness of the world around him and may even lose all awareness of even existing. But this is not final realization. The state of no-mind and hence no consciousness, is merely a state of ignorance dormant in itself. Realization consists in consciousness of all states and modes from within all states and modes of consciousness. It is full-blown consciousness of consciousness, it is not Unconsciousness. Recognition of the true nature of the Lord (Today we will call Him Sri Krishna..) existing as Time (remember Krishna showed Arjuna his cosmic form which exists as Time Arjuna saw him eating up everything and became terrified) Watch the moments unfold, know them eternally Know that each breath lasts an Aeon. Though each seems no time at all Seeming this way, because you are eternal! Comment: Do not fear The Lord who is your own Self, But do not think you are him. Thinking YOU are him is projecting who YOU think YOU are upon him. This is called the superimposition of selfhood (i.e ego) upon the Absolute…. What remains projected by him upon your death, or the death of all of us is the ParamAtma ….. Lord Sri Krishna Existing as all this, knowing and in disguise as all the beings. Each second an unfurled eternity Each being a god in decay. And the very Cosmos, Time's Being Is no more, nor ever was! Comment: But know also that the ParamAtma cannot be known except that The Self come into being and exist within the living, as the indwelling self. But who will know Me Knowing beginning in the unknown? Yet I am before Time After there is only Me! Comment: I am the knower of myself, I realize myself in myself as myself. NO one else can realize me this is why no one can know another's thoughts, or experience another's love or pain.. There is but One Self. This is the paradox of knowledge., but Love is the bridge to omniscience, because transcendental love is the key to the Intellect of the Self. It is I, who am the knower of the moments. I, who am the knower of the knowing. I, before a seconds tick, Beyond, though my heart beats for years. Comment: Asking who is Sri Krishna? Who is Radhe Maa? Who am I? You cannot know at all, unless you understand my unity. Understanding this you will know I am the Self. Living, though I never was countless beings live and die in Me. They, measuring life by moments do not understand. Comment: As long as you dwell in the body and refer to it as yourself, as long as you refer to I and call that yourself, you will be bound by duration and time passing, because in your decision to BE, you limit yourselves. Who can see that Sadhana is over at the end of a moment. Who can know that Time began again, on the in-breath. It seems a moment no matter how long has duration To Me it is so little that it is non-existent. Comment: Who must do Sadhana? No one but the one who thinks he Is. No one but the one who exists. Therefore know that a moment - No matter how small or great - Is really eternal, containing the Cosmos Supported by the total, in that moment. Comment: Asking who is Sri Krishna? Who is Radhe Maa? Who am I? You cannot know at all, unless you understand my unity. Understanding this you will know I am The Self. Manifested as the ParamAtma. Having names without number. Displaying a variety within me that is so great that it will never be possible to count it. Who will know that I am The Omnipresent One? Who sees I am The Eternal One? Existing beyond, before and in between I am the Consciousness of the Cosmos. Knowing all, who will know what I am? None, but The Omnipresent One. Omniscient Atman, Time's Lord! There flashing, a great light! A true consciousness! A bright bindu rides on the brow of god! A seeming spark, yet infinite. A Quote from Tirumantirum 2689: When the Lights of Siva and Shakti Blend in Jiva Light As unto the Light of Lord That in Him reposes; Is the Light of His Shakti Grace, When the three lights Sun, Moon and Fire Within shines by Yoga Way, The Lord, indeed, nears you, As one Light in your inner Light. 2690: Lord's Light and Jiva's Light Merge Within The Light within is but Jiva; The Lord too who stood within was a great Light Effulgent; Flashing as lightning in the astral sphere, That Light with Shakti's Light and Jiva's Light into one merged. 2691: Dancing in the Darkness of Pasa, Siva Light Enters Ummara Shakti The Lord that is Light Effulgent, Entering the dark arena of Pasa Dances as Light in that darkness; As the Forehead-Eyed God thus dances, He as Light Effulgent in Ummara Shakti merged. 2692: Siva's Light Becomes Sakti's Light of Grace Those who thus went by the Secret Way of Yoga, Reached Sakti of dark fragrant tresses; Primal Parai She is; One with Lord of Celestial's Light She is; -The Light beyond the Pure Void; That Light of Her forever dispelled Pasa's creeping darkness. 2693: Even Skeptics Can Reach that Light if they Seek in Devotion "God there is; God there is none" Thus the men of world diverse hold; Will they who hold "Primal there is none," Ever reach Siva State? Even they who say, "We saw not God" If in devotion stand, He as Light Effulgent in them is; He the Light of Astral Sphere (Chidambaram) within. 2694: He Who Receives Siva's Light Becomes Jivan Mukta, Rid of Mayaic Darkness The light Effulgent that glows afar Is the Lord that spreads His beams as unto the Sun; When He the Maya's darkness dispels, Jiva in this body, a Jnani-Renunciate becomes (Jivan Mukta). 2695: Jiva Purified by Siva's Light Unites in Him His Holy Form is of shimmering coral-hue; He wears the holy ashes pure white; He is crimson as pure gold and coral ripe; He is the Primal Lord; When I, dispelled of my darkness, Shone as coral red, He, the Dancing Lord, In me in union stood. End Quote The one realizing this has Tirumantirum as the validation of the truth of realization. >From Sri-Jnaneshwari Chapter 11 verse 15. (the numbers in brackets are references to Bhagavad-Gita) Arjuna said: 15. Lord, I see, within your body, all gods and hosts of beings of different species, Lord Brahma seated on his lotus seat, seers all and Nagas divine. Arjuna said: 0 Lord, glory to you! Because of your grace ordinary people like me have been able to see your universal form (251-255). O my Master, you did another good thing, which gave me great joy. It is that I saw with my own eyes that you are the support of this created world. O God just as there are forests inhabited by beasts on the plateau of a mountain, I see on your body innumerable worlds. Like the cluster of planets in the sky or birds' nests on a big tree, gods and heavens are seen on your body. O Lord, I see in your body all the gross elements as well as the creatures which are their products (256-260). So there is also Satyaloka in your body, and is he not the same god Brahma? If I look in the other direction, I see Kailasa with Lord Shiva and goddess Parvati in another part of your body. Not only this, but, O Lord, I see you also in your body. The families of Kashyapa and other seers and the nether world along with the Nagas are also to be seen in your universal form. Why need I say more? 0 Lord of the universe, all the fourteen worlds seem to be portrayed on the wall in the form of each one of your limbs and all the innumerable denizens of these worlds are to be seen in these portraits. I am thus beholding the fathomless glory of your being (261-265). The enlightened Lord of himself Birthing being, light pours forth into nothingness. Sitting in himself, there The Great Siva-Lingum Shines, unimaginable rays shoot forth. Like a struck gong, a mighty star throbs! Four rays begin as one, as if a great eye opens. There seems a solar eclipse, but the great shining eye engulfs it! There stands Great Siva! There is Atman's form! Yet beyond there is a light! It is as if struck in the pitch-black of a nowhere; Yet the light rays do not move, there is simply an extension. The center is still, the arms of the rays are seen. There is a dark bindu, light leaking from around the edges. The light, holy beyond explaining The source of Time, the source of light! No more than this, is there to know. To the end I have come! Who will know Me? In myself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 18, 2004 Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 excellent ! truly beautiful ! SADGURUNATH MAHARAJ KI JAY ! bindu <binduau wrote: Dear Lord of the world, I would like to write of you Not for my own vainglory, but for you. Please allow this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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