Tajjayath Pragnyallokaha
With practice of Samyama i.e. Dharana - concentration, Dhyana - meditation and Samadhi - the culmination of the mind in state of cosmic consciousness, the person attains to a steady wisdom with certainty. I narrate here a dream that I had this morning of Thursday, January 12. I was preparing to write an exam in Tamil grammar (may be because the previous night I read about the Sage Agastya and his writing a text on Tamil Grammar!). Till after an hour of the examination, I was filling ink in my pen and the ink was mushy. I spent one hour writing nothing. When I saw the first question for the exam I hadn't prepared much for, it said - "Explain the grammatical expression for the word Siva." I began writing - Va is for Vasanas and Si is for Chit. The moment I wrote Chit, I woke up from the dream. I knew it was a dream! Same way I thought, when you are surrounded by thoughts of self-realisation and realised beings, there is the awakening of Chit or consciousness in you. That awakening shows to you that this world is a dream. After I knew that the dream was a dream, it made it meaningless to continue writing the exam. Likewise, when you know this world you live in is a dream, life becomes meaningless, but yet you play on as it is not a dream for the other players in the game! - Swahilya Shambhavi.
7 comments:
Great post.
Welcome Rakesh. Hope to keep them coming this year!
Thank you for making Pathanjali's Yoga sutras available for us in simple and easy to understand language (unfortunately i cannot read or understand Sanskrit).
Your series of articles on this in the sunday edition of Indian Express was instrumental in my visiting this blogspot - and opened the wonderful treasure world of 'bamboo wisdom' and 'aham' and 'thirmandiram'. Thank you.It very much brought a new perspective and influenced a new way of looking at life.
I like the clarity and simplicity in the explanation that you bring so even youngsters grasp the idea. thank you.
Hope you or indian express would publish the articles as a book (along with shinod's apropriate and beautiful line drawings) as my collection of the sunday paper articles are turning yellow.
Thank you once again and hope that 'bamboo wisdom' and 'aham' continues and to enrich us.
hello! thank you for simplifying pathanjali's yoga sutras and krishna's gita verses.
the blog site seems to be at a pause from january 2012. or have i missed any communication to readers?
hope that 'aham' and 'bamboo wisdom' will be back in action and proceed towards completion.
thanks!
Welome Anonymous: I have begun it again! Let me see!
glad to see the revival again. thanks for responding so promptly.
been thinking that - if u are extremely busy /engaged in other pursuits - i hope this does not drag you away from them.
You might be hard pressed for time so can understand why fresh entries can't come regularly.
Looking forward as and when they arrive! no more demands henceforth. thanks.
interesting post..
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