Spiritual Wisdom from Gita - Part 3

Spiritual Wisdom 3

True Sanyasa

A sanyasi is who leaves all factors that cause bonds or attachments in life. Truly, attachments is not because of family or wealth or other vishaya. Its reason is the feeling of  raaga and dwesha towards them that develops in mind. A person with raaga and dwesha, even if he leaves vishaya, the bonds with vishaya remains. So he does not become a sanyasi. A person without raaga and dwesha, even if he engages in vishaya, he is not bonded with vishaya. He becomes a sanyasi. The basic reason for raaga and dwesha is the feeling of duality. By athma vichara one should imagine that here is only one thing and here are no duality. This is athma jnana. Through this all bonds can be overcome. Even though one leaves worldly life or continues in life, that doesn't matter. Through either of these, if one becomes free from raaga and dwesha, that is the deciding factor for a true sanyasa.

Paramaathma and Jivaathma

Maaya is the sakthi(energy) of Paramaathma or consciousness. The vibration of sakthi(maaya) is called prana spandana(energy vibration). Prana spandana happens as maaya or illusion on conscious Brahma. Consciousness is present in every prana spandana. Jiva is the combination of consciousness and prana. So, formation of jiva is an illusory phenomena. So it is called maaya. Consciousness is reflected on every jiva as the 'I". After this, each jiva by its imagination(sankalpa) by maaya, gives shape to its own life. Everything in universe is working according to its own imagination(sankalpa). Consciousness remains as substratum for all objects and all karma.

Forgetting the truth

Consciousness or Brahma is the truth. Matters are maaya or illusion. This is the athma jnana. Because of identification with body or matter, reality about consciousness is obstructed. Jivas forget about its true nature as soul and imagine as impermanent body. This is the ajnana(ignorance) happned to all jivas. Because of this, jiva begins to imagine as I and You(feelings of duality). There forms the feelings of raaga and dwesha. These thoughts become the reason for all evil and virtuous karmas.

How to overcome ajnana

Solution for ajnana definitly is jnana! Remind and teach to remember the truth. Fix mind with thought that I am not body, I am eternal soul. Through vichara marga(thought process of remembering soul) one should remember and see soul or Brahma everywhere and every time. As this thought become strong, the ultimate cause of universe,the Brahma, begins to experience.

The intellect of realized persons see Brahma in everything outside. They realize themselves internally as Brahma. They always find ananda on the experience of Brahma. Their main goal of life is fixed as attaining Brahma. Finally, such a yogi becomes Brahma itself.

Conquering the feeling of creation, existence and ruin.
Brahma is the one and only object that truly exists. The different things that are seen in universe are just appearing on Brahma as illusion. Creation(shrishti) is felt when mind gets dual feeling of existence by seeing different things on Brahma. When mind becomes free from this feeling of duality by realizing the truth then there is no 'creation' felt. When there is a feeling of many things on singular Brahma then that is 'creation'. As long as this feeling persists that will be felt as 'existence'(sthithi). As soon as the feeling of existence of things gone, then that is 'ruin'(samhara). For those who realize that there is no existence of many things and there is only one object that really exists, have no feelings of shrishti, sthithi and samhara.