Raised eyebrows and the Golden yellow flowers

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Dear Members,

 

I find this word " self-righteous " to be misleading. Many people

think it means a good thing.

 

But in English language it has a bad connotation. It means this

according to New English Oxford Dictionary

 

 

self-righteous

 

adj : excessively or hypocritically pious; " a sickening

sanctimonious smile " [syn: holier-than-thou, pietistic, pietistical,

pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious]

 

I particularly like the words " a sickening sanctimonious

smile " ...This is what describes the " pious " people who wear all

sorts of dresses and do all sorts of things in the name of

spirituality.They just raise their eyebrows when someone is doing

something creatively as if they know everything

 

There is a basic need in man to egotise at the slightest

opportunity. If you watch people in a community worship each one

tries to outdo the other in his show of worship. But it is just what

it is...just a show.

 

That is why Jesus adviced his disciples to lock themselves in a room

and pray to God almighty in Solitaire.

 

The same principle goes with Srividya puja and it's upasana.

 

And it is not good on the part of some upasakas to intellectualise

Devi worship solely for the aggrandisement of their egoes.

 

They try to ferret out unknown meanings into seemingly simple things

to bamboozle people about Devi. They act highly pious and as if they

are highly oriented toward Devi.

 

Such people consider Devi to be a lunkhead,nescient of these

charlatans' attitudes and inner thoughts.

 

In the name of rituals and worship modologies these people beguile

people into their web. They might not do it for money ,infact money

is not needed for many in these days of growing affluence. What is

needed is a satiation of their weak egos.

 

Ego cannot be totally annihilated. If it is done so the body will

drop dead. As long as there is body,as long as there is a form there

will be ego of the minutest kind.

 

This is shown in the matrukabheda Nirupanam also. I abominate the

use of shastras and sanskrit to prove myself. I do not need such

crutches to voice my views here or in any platform. What comes in

the heart comes in the pen,they say. But still, this text gives a

pertinent forceful statement which tells that Ego cannot be totally

displaced.

 

Some people experience nirvikalpa samdhi and maybe then the ego

vanishes. Even then there exists a form in the turiya and Atituriya

states of existence and so there will be a subtle ego.

 

Ego is onething but arrogance is something to be loathed eternally.

 

Arrogance is what flows from a self-righteous person who in the name

of divinty cares aught for humanity. When the real nature of Brahman

is to permeate every strata and cell of existence be it human or

super human or supra human.

 

Kulakundalini is closesly connected with Kaula margis. Here the

immanent Goddess above the sahsradala padma forces them to create a

personality of their own after they have reached the nirvikalpa

niraakara state and force them to the lower three chakras. This too

is echoed in other tantric texts which I had the pleasure to read in

Connemera Library,Chennai.But more than reading I had experienced

certain things fueled by a burning desire to reval my inner persona

to myself. Revelling in an attitude of a Mahayogi despite professing

a mortal sheath.I burnt my fingers(read nerves) badly doing certain

things and suffering unbearable agony but in the process learnt many

things. Every failure has a an equivalent seed of success sown. This

seed sprouted and has known no turning back since then under the

tutelage of my Divine mentor.

 

In this context I would like to quote Chanukaya neeti here.This

comes in Chapter 16 of the text. kautilya says

 

Pustakeshu cha yaa vidyaa parahastheshu yaddhanam

Utpanneshu cha kaaryeshu na saa vidyaa na tatdhanam!

 

The knowledge which is in the tomes and the money which is in the

hands of others is of no use. In the hour of need such knowledge and

money doesn't help.

 

The real knowledge is one which has been transeferred from the mind

of the Guru to the mind of the disciple. This is the true paravidya

which srividya saramsakosha talks about.

 

In my " nirvanic-days " (The term i use during my days of dalliance

with the oriental religions like Budhhism,Shintoism,Zen buddhism and

confusianism,not to mention my eternal favourite Taoism) I used to

love reading stories of Buddha than the dhammapada. The dhammapad

(the very word is a corrupted version of Dharmapada) is highly

corrupt and edited version of the origin al teachings of the Buddha

so I did not hed much to it though I read that occasionaly. I was

more interested in the man than the message. The man is always

important than the message when it comes to spirituality. BECAUSE

WORDS FAIL AFTER SOME TIME.They simply wont do.The need is great and

the calling for at-oneness is greater.Love too fails after a certain

time. In those spaces...one just absorbs and stays put. That is all

there neds to be done.

 

Once Buddha was asked to give a sermon on the transmission of

knoweldge. He was presented Two Golden yellow flowers by one

merchant who had eagerly come to listen to the then famous lectures

of Buddha.

Buddha smiled and took the flower and went up the raised platform

below a Swarita Tree and showed the golden yellow flower to all and

smiled. Not one in the corwd understood. Only ananda understood and

he smiled back. The rest sat there dumbfounded at the imbecilic

lecture of Buddha.

 

The merchant later went and asked Ananda why he smiled and what he

understood.

 

Ananda replied back, " Buddha,My dear Master! Could not explain how a

knoweldge transfer can happen from a master's mind to the disciple's

mind. It can happen only in silence.The flower which blloms just

spreads its fragrance even if it is crushed under the shoes of an

obtuse passerby. Tne guru emnates the fragrance of knowledge

thus.There is a mind to mind transmission where silence is the only

language. All these words which I say now was eloquently said by the

great Sakhymuni! What more can I say when even tears fail me at the

compassion and knowledge of my great master "

 

In Buddhism the stage before pari nirvana(maha parinirvana was not

revealed by buddha to any of his disciples so buddhism remains

deficient there) is called the 'descent of the great silence'. Now,

The words of Ananda is not some mushy or poetic talk about the

nature of a master but the real fact of a transmission modology

adopted by Gurus of ancient lore. They just transmitted a particular

type of silence to his/her disciple. This silence has a sound. And

this is what srividya upasana is all about ...to receive this 'nada'

from a 'guru spanda karika'.I cannot reval anything further here as

it cannot be revealed and it has to be experienced. Things

experiential when revealed in words makes me gulity of

 

Raising my eyebrows

Instead of showing two golden flowers to you!

 

Yours yogically,

 

Shreeram Balijepalli