the state of bliss

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Hare krishna, Namaskarams,

 

Part 2: Sat Darshan, Verse 5:

 

" Your arguments as to whether the world is real or unreal, whether it

is sentient or insentient, whether it is full of happiness or

unhappiness, are useless, serving no purpose whatsoever.

The state where the world is not seen, where the ego disintegrates

completely and where there are no thoughts or vibrations, is most

pleasing, fully satisfying and supremely blissful. "

 

The ego, the primary offshoot of the Atman, is nothing but a wave or

vibration of pure consciousness. From the ego, emanates the mind and

the world. The mind expecting to get unalloyed happiness from the

world, is sadly disappointed. It finds that any joy it derives from

the world is quickly followed by misery. The ordinary man not

recognizing this is in pursuit all his life of the ever –eluding joy

from the external world.

 

But a person, who has had the transcendental bhakthi experience, knows

that real bliss is not outside, but within oneself. It is experienced

in that state where the world is not experienced, when mind is free of

thoughts and the ego which hankers after outside happiness itself is

dead, disintegrated. This is the supreme state dear to all persons

alike. Here the mind remains " avikalpa " thoughtless.

The term " avikalpa " also means " without doubts " . Such a state is one

and one alone. Duality can be only in the mental level where alone one

can have doubts as to what is real and unreal When you transcend the

mental level, there is nothing to see, no seer and no seeing. There is

no subject- object relationship. This transcendental state is aptly

called Sat-Chit-Ananda, Pure Being, Pure consciousness and Pure Bliss.

But even this term is inadequate for describing what is indescribable.

Without realizing this transcendental state, is it not utter folly to

engage in seemingly learned discussions as to whether the world is

real or unreal? Any system of philosophy which does not recognize this

supreme spiritual path to truth is utterly useless. It can at best be

a confusing intellectual drill.

 

Baskaran.

 

P.S. this post is not as an answer to any of the posts of the group

but sent only as an interesting article for those who are interested

to read it, just as I enjoyed reading it.