Upadesa Saram/Upadesa Undiyar 10

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Upadesa Saram Verse number 10:

 

hrtsthalemanah svasthatAkriyA /

bhaktiyogabodhAScaniScitam //

 

'The act (kriyA) of abiding in one's natural state, the mind set in the

Heart, is without doubt, Devotion, Yoga, and Knowledge.'

 

 

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Here, kriyA (action) is the one truly continuous act. This is the eternal

Being, the Self. Where the mind finds this place, i.e. its place of birth,

there is the culmination of Bhakti, Yoga, and Jnana. For the purified mind,

this takes the form of constant remembrance, also called nididhyAsana. This

is realisation of one's natural state.

 

In practice this may take the form of, daily attention to the silent murmur

of the Self, pulling the mind back through Self-Enquiry (the pulsation...

'I', 'I', 'I' ..., at times even becoming physically manifest on the right

side of the chest), the abolition of viyoga through work/actions attended to

selflessly, without desire for the fruits, or, the setting up of and

perpetual remembrance of Sri Bhagavan in the temple of the Heart. The

devotee, by Sri Bhagavan's Grace, often finds all of these in his/her life.

 

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Upadesa Undiyar Verse number 10:

 

uditta vidatti lodungi yirutta

ladukanmam battiyu mumn*dIpar^a

vaduyOga GnyAnamu mun*dIpar^a

 

(The mind) Remaining merged (without rising again) in the place from where

it rose, is Karma (Desireless action), Bhakti (Devotion), Yoga (Union) and

Gnana (Knowledge).

 

The verse can also be understood as - Merging (the Ego) into the source of

its birth, is Karma, Bhakti, Yoga and Gnana.

 

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>From Talks:

'Swa swarupanusandhanam bhaktirityabhidheeyate (Reflection on one's own Self

is called bhakti). Bhakti and Self-Enquiry are one and the same. The Self

of the Advaitins is the God of the bhaktas.'

(Talk; 274)

 

'D. : What is Jnana Marga?

M. : Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and

Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality.

This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

 

Therefore the Path of Knowledge tries to find out how viyoga (separation)

came about. The separation is from the Reality only.'

(Talks; 17)

 

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