DAILY WISDOM - 14 - 14. Absolute Being is . . . / నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 14 - 14. అత్యున్నత పరిపూర్ణత . . .

🌹. నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 14 / DAILY WISDOM - 14 🌹

🍀 📖 సంపూర్ణమైన సాక్షాత్కారం నుండి 🍀

✍️. ప్రసాద్ భరద్వాజ

🌻 14. అత్యున్నత పరిపూర్ణత కలిగినది సంపూర్ణ జీవి 🌻

సంపూర్ణ జీవే అత్యున్నత పరిపూర్ణత. పరిపూర్ణత అనేదే ఆనందం. స్వయమే సంపూర్ణ ప్రేమకు స్థానం, ఈ ప్రేమ ఒక వస్తువు పట్ల కాదు. ఇది వస్తు సంబంధం లేని ఆనందం, ఎందుకంటే బ్రహ్మానందం విషయం మరియు వస్తువు యొక్క సంపర్కం ద్వారా ఉద్భవించదు. ఇక్కడ, ప్రేమ మరియు ఆనందం అనేది వస్తు సంబంధం లేకుండా ఉనికిలో ఉంటాయి. అంటే, ఇవే చైతన్యం యొక్క ఆనందం, ఇదే జీవుడి యొక్క ఆనందం.

అన్ని ప్రయాసల యొక్క అత్యున్నత లక్ష్యం ఏమిటంటే ప్రస్తుత పరిమిత జీవిత స్థితి నుండి విముక్తి చెంది సంపూర్ణమైన ఆనందాన్ని చేరుకోవడం. సంపూర్ణ జ్ఞానం అయిన సంపూర్ణ ఉనికి కూడా సంపూర్ణ ఆనందమే. అత్యున్నత ఆనందం యొక్క స్పృహ అనేది మనం స్పృహలో ఉన్న జీవితంలో మనం అనుభూతి చెందే ఎదుగుదల మరియు విస్తరణకు అనులోమానుపాతంలో ఉంటుంది. సత్-చిత్-ఆనంద మూడు రెట్లు ఉనికిని సూచించదు, కానీ సంపూర్ణ స్వయాన్ని సూచిస్తుంది.


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🌹 DAILY WISDOM - 14 🌹

🍀 📖 The Realisation of the Absolute 🍀

📝 Swami Krishnananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 14. Absolute Being is the Highest Perfection 🌻

Absolute Being is the highest perfection. Perfection is Bliss. The Self is the seat of Absolute Love, Love without an object outside it. It is Bliss without objectification, for Brahman-Bliss is not derived through contact of subject and object.

Here, Love and Bliss are Existence itself. That which is, is Bliss of Consciousness which is Being. The highest aim of all endeavour is deliverance from the present condition of limited life and the reaching of the Bhuma which is Bliss. Absolute Existence which is Absolute Knowledge is also Absolute Bliss.

The Consciousness of Bliss experienced is in proportion to the growth and expansion that we feel in the conscious being of ourselves. Sat-chit-ananda does not imply a threefold existence, but is Absolute Self-Identity.

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31 Dec 2020

Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 169

🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 169 🌹

✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

161

Guru Ashtakam, Sloka 7:
Na bhoge, na yoge, na vaa vajirajou Na kanta mukhenaiva vittesu chittam | 

Guroranghri padme manaschenna lagnam Tatah kim Tatah kim, Tatah kim Tatah kim ||

So far we discussed that some people feel, “I am prosperous, I have desires”. True. Still, if the mind is not absorbed in the Guru there is no use. Even if you have all the wealth, desires, fame and Karna-like magnanimity and courage (Karna is a character from Mahabharata known for his courage and generosity) , life is worthless if the mind is not absorbed in the Guru’s feet and there is no devotion towards the Guru. They stipulated that if there’s no devotion to the Guru, all these can be dismissed.

Now, they are talking about sacrifice. Lot of people say, “I have no desire at all for pleasures, for Yoga, for karma (action), or for women”. They keep saying this all the time. “What’s there in money? I have no desire for money. All these Yogas – Kriya Yoga, Raja Yoga, whatever, I have no interest. What’s there in them. Sacrifice! I have no interest in luxuries or in Yogas or in karma.

People do a lot of rituals and fire sacrifices. I do not even think of them. I am not interested in women either. I have acquired dispassion. I don’t even believe in Guru”. All this sounds good…they are saying they have no interest in anything. But, it is not enough to say that you have done everything you needed to do.

You will still not attain liberation. Unless you have the Guru’s initiation, your dispassion will not take you anywhere. That is because you do not have the passport called Guru’s initiation. You cannot go to any other world, you cannot attain liberation. Because you do not have the passport of Guru’s initiation.

Some people say, “My father is my Guru, he initiated me”. True. Father and mother are the first Gurus for anyone, but you have a certain leniency with them. Even if they are great Gurus to you, when you see them, you feel the leniency that they are your mother and father.

Once in a while, you will feel, “I am near my father and mother, why should I take their words seriously. They will always forgive me for my mistakes”. That is why you should always follow a Guru. Even if your parents initiate you, even if you consider them your Gurus, you should follow another Guru.

These days, there are many people that will initiate you to a mantra if you give them 10 rupees. Only 10 rupees. It used be 100 rupees in the beginning, it dropped to 50 rupees and now it is 10 rupees. Everything else has increased in price, but the Guru’s initiation has fallen to 10 rupees. It feels like some will even do it in exchange for a cup of coffee.

But, there is no benefit at all from those mantras. First, you must grasp the Guru Principle. Your mind should be absorbed in the Guru. Only then will your dispassion and sacrifice bear fruit.

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31 Dec 2020

నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 13 - 13. ఉనికే సత్యం / DAILY WISDOM - 13 - 13. Being is Truth

🌹. నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 13 / DAILY WISDOM - 13 🌹

🍀 📖 సంపూర్ణమైన సాక్షాత్కారం నుండి 🍀

✍️. ప్రసాద్ భరద్వాజ

🌻 13. ఉనికే సత్యం 🌻

అతీతమైన అర్థం తీసుకుంటే ఉనికే సత్యం. సాపేక్ష చైతన్యం యొక్క పరిమితులను అధిగమించలేడని, సహజంగా సాపేక్ష క్రమం యొక్క విలువను మరియు అర్థాన్ని సత్యంగా తీసుకుంటాడనే మనిషి యొక్క లోపాన్ని ఇది పట్టించుకోదు. సత్యం యొక్క అత్యున్నత విలువ స్వచ్ఛతతో సమానంగా తీసుకోబడుతుంది. ఎందుకంటే ఉనికిలో లేనిదానికి విలువ ఉండదనుకుంటారు కాబట్టి.

చైతన్యం అనేది వాస్తవాలలో అత్యంత సానుకూలమైనది, అన్ని అనుభవాల సారాంశము. ఇది స్థలం, సమయం మరియు కారణం యొక్క అన్ని పరిమితులను అధిగమిస్తుంది. చైతన్యం ఎప్పుడూ పరిమితం కాదు, ఎందుకంటే పరిమితి అనే వాస్తవం యొక్క స్పృహ దాని అపరిమితతకు రుజువు. చైతన్యం అనేది అత్యంత ప్రాథమిక అనుభవం లేదా అవగాహన. అది స్వచ్ఛమైనది మరియు సరళమైనది, స్వీయ-విరుద్ధమైన విభజనలు మరియు ఆలోచన యొక్క హెచ్చుతగ్గులకు లోబడింది కాదు.


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🌹 DAILY WISDOM - 13 🌹

🍀 📖 The Realisation of the Absolute 🍀

📝 Swami Krishnananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 13. Being is Truth 🌻

Being is truth in the transcendent sense without reference to anything else. It does not pay heed to the difficulty of man that he cannot transcend the limitations of relativistic consciousness and so naturally takes the value and meaning of the relative order to be the truth.

The highest value of truth is equated with pure being, for non-being can have no value. Consciousness is the most positive of facts, the datum of all experience. It transcends all limits of space, time and causality.

Consciousness is never limited, for the very consciousness of the fact of limitation is proof of its transcendental unlimitedness. The most fundamental experience is consciousness or awareness, pure and simple, free from the self-contradictory divisions and fluctuations of thought.

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30 Dec 2020

Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 168

🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 168 🌹

✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

160

Guru Ashtakam, Sloka 5:
Kshma mandale bhoopa bhoopala vrundai Sada sevitam yasya padaravindam | 

Guroranghri padme manaschenna lagnam Tatah kim Tatah kim, Tatah kim Tatah kim ||

The kings and emperors on earth serve at your feet everyday. So, what is the use? You may think, “All the important people on earth are coming to me, they are worshipping my feet, what do you think of me? My word is gospel, it’s final”. So, what is the use? Some boast egoistically, “Everybody on the planet has to come to me.

They have to hover around my house. I know everyone personally. Actually, they don’t do anything without asking me first”. They may say, “If the phone rings, it has to be them, the important people. They will not leave the house until I ask them to. It is me that has to even select their car.

It is me who needs to tell them the direction they need to face while eating. It is me who needs to tell them whether or not they should have a shower today. It is me who has to instruct them on the color they need to wear to achieve victory. It is me that tells them what color pen they need to carry today.

It is me that has to tell them to eat exactly 22 morsels, that they cannot eat the 23rd morsel”. This is wonderful. You have so much control. Wow! Some people even tell others that they need to count the grains in each morsel of food.

That’s the kind of orders they give. There are many who gloat, “The government runs because I decide the date for the swearing-in ceremony, otherwise the government won’t run”. That’s good. Let there be such people. Let them achieve respect. Let their words come true.

That’s fine. But, there are missing the crown of all these attributes – devotion to Guru. It is being said in this sloka that regardless of how important you are, if you cannot focus your mind on the Guru, what’s the use, what’s the use? They are asking us to keep our mind always focused on the Guru.

Guru Ashtakam, Sloka 6:
Yaso me gatam diksu dana pratapat Jagadvastu sarvam kare yat prasadat | 

Guroranghri padme manaschenna lagnam Tatah kim Tatah kim, Tatah kim Tatah kim ||

They have done a lot of charities. Their fame and charity has spread to all corners of the world. They are well known in all countries. They are on television around the world. So, what is the use? There is reference in our scriptures to many who cut off parts of their bodies to donate to others.

They did not attain salvation. Why? Because, they were unable to focus on the Guru. Those who have the Guru’s grace will attain anything in the world. That is why, without Guru’s grace, what’s the use of such charity? What’s the use of fame and reputation? What’s the use of having all this?

They donated, they helped others, people even compared their generosity to Karna’s (a character from Mahabharata known for his courage and generosity). Some of you may have heard this story from the scriptures. A pigeon captured by a hunter cries, “He’s eating me, please save me”.

The king who hears this talks to the hunger and gives him flesh equivalent to the pigeon’s weight from his thighs. Such a great sacrifice. The Gods appeared in front of him. He attained great fame, but he did not attain liberation. Why? He did not have devotion to Guru.

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30 Dec 2020

Seeds Of Consciousness - 260

🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 260 🌹
✍️ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nisargadatta Gita
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 109. The sequence is 'I am' the witness to the whole manifestation, it occurs simultaneously. The 'I am' subsiding, what remains? You are 'That'.. 🌻

The moment you wake up you have the feeling 'I am a witness to the world', it occurs so swiftly that you never give any thought to the question 'to whom did the witnessing occur?'

Was it not to something prior to the 'I am'? Actually, the 'I am' and space go together and you instantly see the world or this manifestation.

After this, your personality linked to your day to day life takes over and equally instantly the 'I am' is also lost and forgotten. As you come back to the wordless 'I am' and abide in it for a reasonable amount of time, one day it subsides, then whatever remains, you are 'That'.

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30 Dec 2020

DAILY WISDOM - 12 - 12. Pre-existing Link . . . / నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 12 - విషయం మరియు వస్తువు మధ్య ముందే . . .

🌹. నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 12 / DAILY WISDOM - 12 🌹

🍀 📖 సంపూర్ణమైన సాక్షాత్కారం నుండి 🍀

✍️. ప్రసాద్ భరద్వాజ

🌻 12. విషయం మరియు వస్తువు మధ్య ముందే వున్న అంతర్గత సంబంధం 🌻

ప్రతి వ్యక్తి యొక్క జీవితం వాస్తవికత యొక్క అవగాహన స్థాయికి అనుగుణంగా వివిధ మార్గాల్లో ఇతర వ్యక్తుల జీవితాలతో సంబంధాన్ని కలిగి ఉంటుంది. ప్రతి ఆలోచన ఉనికి యొక్క ఉపరితలం లో ఒక కంపనాన్ని సృష్తించి, ఇతర వ్యక్తుల మనస్సును తాకుతుంది. ఎంత బలంగా తాకుతుందనేది ఆలోచించే మనస్సు యొక్క సామర్థ్యం మీద ఆధారపడి ఉంటుంది.

ఒక దానితో ఒకటి పూర్తిగా సంబంధం లేకుండా ఉన్న వస్తువులు మధ్యలో ఎటువంటి స్పందన ఉండదు. ఇంద్రియ-గ్రహణశక్తి మరియు అవగాహన లాంటివి వస్తువుల మధ్య, ఒక నిరంతరమైన, శాశ్వతమైన చైతన్యం ఉనికిలో ఉందనే కనీస వాస్తవాన్ని నిరూపిస్తాయి. విషయం మరియు వస్తువు మధ్య అంతర్లీనంగా సంబంధం లేకుండా జ్ఞానం అసాధ్యం.


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🌹 DAILY WISDOM - 12 🌹

🍀 📖 The Realisation of the Absolute 🍀

📝 Swami Krishnananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 12. Pre-existing Link Between the Subject and the Object 🌻

The life of every individual bears connections with the lives of other individuals in varieties of ways, in accordance with the degree of its awareness of Reality.

Every thought sets the surface of existence in vibration and touches the psychic life of other individuals with a creative force the capability of this action which is dependent on the intensity of the affirmation of the mind generating that thought. Objects entirely cut off from one another can have no relation among themselves.

Sense-perception, cogitation and understanding are messengers of the fact that there exists a fundamental substratum of a uniform and enduring Consciousness. Cognition is impossible without a pre-existent link between the subject and the object.

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29 Dec 2020

Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 167

🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 167 🌹

✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

159


Guru Ashtakam, Sloka 3: 

Shadangadi vedo mukhe sastra vidya Kavitwadi gadyam supadyam karoti |

Guroranghri padme manaschenna lagnam Tatah kim Tatah kim, Tatah kim Tatah kim ||

He is well versed in Vedas, holy scriptures and all knowledge. He can give discourses without a break. He can do poetry. He won many awards and titles in the past and will continue to win in the future. So what? “He’s so great”. Okay, so what? Such a person cannot focus his mind on the Guru’s feet.

Then, what’s the use? All these are worthless. What’s the use of the number of awards won, the ability to speak eloquently without a break, the spontaneity of the mind and the intellect to create poetry and winning innumerable awards and titles if the mind does not get stabilized on the Guru’s feet? It is being said here that all these are worthless if the mind cannot be absorbed in the Guru’s feet.

Guru Ashtakam, Sloka 4:

Videseshu manyah swadeseshu danyah Sadachara vrutteshu matto na ca anyah | 

Guroranghri padme manaschenna lagnam Tatah kim Tatah kim, Tatah kim Tatah kim ||

“Highly knowledgeable man, treated with great respect in any country he goes to, has great fame and reputation in his own country too, is leading a well-disciplined and good life, is a straight shooter, brought up his kids with a lot of discipline, he’s got such great titles”.

This is what we talk about in this worldly life (samsara). “Did he bring up his kids with discipline? Does he have the ability to go to foreign countries?” This is all we talk about. These are the validations and certifications we use to indicate success.

“How nobly is he leading his life. He’s very strict person. Look at his children, they are being brought up according to our culture and tradition, he’s won much fame and respect”. What’s the use of all this? “Moreover, he doesn’t even take dowry. He’s very famous”.

Still, what’s the use? If his mind is not absorbed in the Guru’s feet, what’s the use of having all these things? You cannot grasp the supreme reality. Remember that if you don’t have devotion towards the Guru’s feet, all these good qualities will at some point fly away from your mind.

They will not last forever. The egoistic feeling that you are such a good man will take over. That is why, you should combine good behavior with devotion to the Guru.

Without devotion to the Guru, there’s no use. Regardless of how strict you are, how important you are, how disciplined you and your children are, even if you keep doing a lot of rituals and worship, there is no use.

Despite these great qualities, if your mind cannot be absorbed in the Guru and on the Guru’s feet, if you don’t have devotion, if you don’t even have devotion towards the concept of Guru, all this recognition and good attributes that we talked about are worthless.

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29 Dec 2020

DAILY WISDOM - 11. The Network of Diverse Consciousness / నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 11. విభిన్న చైతన్యముల . . .

🌹. నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 11 / DAILY WISDOM - 11 🌹

🍀 📖 సంపూర్ణమైన సాక్షాత్కారం నుండి 🍀

✍️. ప్రసాద్ భరద్వాజ

🌻 11. విభిన్న చైతన్యముల యొక్క సమాహారం 🌻

ప్రపంచం అనేది ఉనికిలో ఒక వైరుధ్యం, సంపూర్ణత్వం యొక్క విచ్ఛిన్న రూపం, అనంతం యొక్క పరిమిత రూపం, పూర్ణచైతన్యం యొక్క అంశమాత్రం, నిరంతరమైన శాశ్వతత్వం యొక్క చెదిరిపోయిన వ్యక్తీకరణ. ఇటువంటి అనేక అభివ్యక్తులు తమను తాము సర్వ స్వాతంత్రత కలిగినవిగా పరిగణించుకుని ఇతర మానవాళి తాము కాదు అనే భ్రమలో ఉంటాయి.

అస్వయం అనేది ఎల్లప్పుడూ స్వయానికి పూర్తిగా విరుద్ధమైనదిగా పరిగణించబడుతుంది. కనీసం స్వయం నుంచి వేరుగా చూడబడుతుంది. లోకంలో తనకు(స్వయానికి), ఇతరులకు( అస్వయానికి) గల వేర్పాటువాదం వల్ల ఆ రెండింటికీ మధ్య ఒక సంబంధం ఏర్పడుతుంది. ఇదే ఈ చైతన్య సమాహారాన్ని పోషిస్తుంది.


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🌹 DAILY WISDOM - 11 🌹

🍀 📖 The Realisation of the Absolute 🍀

📝 Swami Krishnananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 11. The Network of Diverse Consciousness 🌻

The world is a presentation of outward variety and seeming contradiction in existence. It is a disintegrated appearance of the Absolute, a limited expression of Infinitude, a degeneration of the majesty of immortal Consciousness, a diffused form of the spiritual Completeness, a dissipated manifestation of changeless Eternity.

Each of such separated entities of the world claims for itself an absolutely independent existence and regards all objective individuals as the not-Self. The not-Self is always considered to be in absolute contradiction to or at least absolutely distinguished from the self’s own localised being.

The exclusion of other limited objective bodies from one’s own subjective self involves a relation between the two, and this relation is the force that keeps intact the network of diverse consciousness.

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28 Dec 2020

Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 166

🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 166 🌹

✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

158

Guru Ashtakam, Sloka 2:

Kalatram dhanam putrapautradi sarvam Gruham bandhava sarvametaddhi jatam | 

Guroranghri padme manaschenna lagnam Tatah kim tatah kim tatah kim tatah kim ||

The house is abuzz with joyous activity like Nanda Gokulam (where Lord Krishna grew up) with wife, wealth, children, grandsons, granddaughters. Hearing the grand child call him “grand father” is a source of so much joy. That his wife will not eat till he comes back home is a source of so much joy.

Aha! Why do they have so much love for him? The crux of the matter is “Dhanam meru tulyam” (from Sloka 1 in Guru Ashtakam, meaning wealth as big as Mount Meru). The reason is hidden in money.

A man has a big diamond necklace. The heirs are waiting for him to die. The diamonds are very big. This man is always wearing it. All these people around him pretend to love him a lot. The love is not for him, it’s for the necklace.

Once in a while, they keep wishing that he dies. In their minds, they are waiting for him to pass away. And then there are relatives. Where there is jaggery, won’t there be house flies? Your relatives are flocking to you because you have wealth, mansions, education, power, influence and much more just as house flies surround a piece of jaggery.

If you didn’t have these possessions, would any relative even look at you? Place an announcement in the newspaper one day that you’ve lost all your wealth and have become a pauper. Even your wife will not treat your properly thereafter. Take off the diamond necklace and place the announcement in the newspaper and see the events unfold.

There is no unselfish love in worldly life (samsara). It is always selfish. Each one is intertwined with the other due to desire and selfishness. To pass on the sweetness from one piece of sugarcane to another, God has intertwined so. It is strange.

There is no use of all of this because your mind is not absorbed in the Guru. That is why, first, focus your mind on the Guru. When your mind is absorbed in the Guru, all these will seem even more beautiful to you. They will cause more joy. Not only that, renunciation will also become easy.

When necessary, such a person can drop everything and leave. Such dispassion will arise in you. Generosity will fill your being. Such a person will withstand all difficulties without getting dejected. A lot of people develop a lot of fear and lose sleep over little things.

They struggle a lot because they have too much attachment. That is why they are saying here that when you want to share your wealth, when you want it to be useful to other people, when you want it to be of service to Guru, renunciation will come to you automatically.

No amount of praise or discussion on the Guru Principle is enough. For every instance, for every minute, Sankara Bhagavadpada (who composed this hymn) has specific advice for each person. Depending on the ego of each person, depending on their personal values, he described what each person can and cannot attain.

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28 Dec 2020

Seeds Of Consciousness - 259

🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 259 🌹
✍️ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nisargadatta Gita
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 108. Once you stabilize in the 'I am', you will realize that it is not the eternal state, but 'you' are eternal and ancient. 🌻

You must have observed that although everyday you see people around you die, you yourself feel that you are going to continue as you are. Deep down, sub-consciously, you believe that things will remain as they are, nothing will change.

Strangely though, in retrospect, you find that things have changed quite dramatically from what they were several years back, especially your notions, ideas and most of all priorities. It is this sub-conscious urge for eternity or immortality that has dragged you into spirituality. In a way you were not wrong, except that you mistakenly believed that you as a body, a person or as the 'I am so-and-so' are going to continue.

Following the teaching of the Guru, when you stabilize in the wordless 'I am', you will realize that it is not eternal. You stand apart from the 'I am' as the true formless Absolute which is a witness to the 'I am' which has appeared on it. This true being of yours is eternal and ancient.

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27 Dec 2020

DAILY WISDOM - 10 - 10. The Liberated One . . . / నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 10 - 10. విముక్తి పొందిన . . .

🌹. నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 10 / DAILY WISDOM - 10 🌹

🍀 📖 సంపూర్ణమైన సాక్షాత్కారం నుండి 🍀

✍️. ప్రసాద్ భరద్వాజ

🌻 10. విముక్తి పొందిన వ్యక్తికి విశ్వంతో సంబంధం లేదు 🌻

సంపూర్ణత్వంలో బాహ్యానికి అంతరానికి అంతర్గత సంబంధం లేనట్లైతే, విముక్తి పొందిన వ్యక్తి కూడా విశ్వంతో అలాంటి సంబంధాన్ని కలిగి ఉండడు, ఎందుకంటే వ్యక్తి మరియు విశ్వం యొక్క భేదం సంపూర్ణత్వంలో చెరిపివేయబడుతుంది. అలాగే, 'విముక్తి అంటే సంపూర్ణత్వం యొక్క అనుభవం' అని మరియు 'విముక్తి పొందిన ఆత్మ ఇతరులను విమోచించే పనిపై శ్రద్ధ వహిస్తుంది అని, విముక్తి పొందిన తర్వాత కూడా తన వ్యక్తిత్వాన్ని నిలుపుకుంటుంది' అని చెప్పడం అశాస్త్రీయం.

సాపేక్ష కార్యాచరణ మరియు సంపూర్ణత్వం రెండూ ఒకే సిద్ధాంతంలో భాగం కాలేవు. ఈ రెండూ ఒకేసారి ఉంటాయని వాదిస్తే, ఆ సిద్ధాంతంలో శాస్త్రీయత లోపిస్తుంది. సంపూర్ణత్వానికి రెండవది ఏమీ లేదు, అందువల్ల అక్కడ కోరిక మరియు చర్య లేదు. సంపూర్ణత్వం కంటే తక్కువగా ఉన్న ఏదైనా ముక్త స్థితిగా పరిగణించబడదు.


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🌹 DAILY WISDOM - 10 🌹

🍀 📖 The Realisation of the Absolute 🍀

📝 Swami Krishnananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 10. The Liberated One has No Relation to the Universe 🌻

If the Absolute does not have any external or internal relation to itself, the liberated one cannot have any such relation to the universe, because the distinction of the individual and the universe is negated in the Absolute.

It is illogical to say, at the same time, that “liberation means Absolute-Experience” and that “the liberated soul is concerned with the work of redeeming others, and even on getting liberated, retains its individuality.”

Relative activity and Absolute Being are not consistent with each other. If it is argued that both these are compatible, it is done at the expense of consistency. The Absolute has nothing second to it, and hence no desire and no action. Anything that falls short of the Absolute cannot be regarded as the state of Liberation.

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27 Dec 2020

Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 165

🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 165 🌹

✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

157

We discussed that some people are never satisfied with the wealth they accumulate. Their goal is to just keep earning. They accumulate wealth equivalent to Mount Meru (enormous mountain considered the abode of many Gods). They don’t even know what to do with all the money they saved. Finally, the money falls into the hands of the government or the thieves.

We also discussed that some people adopt a child and hand over all the wealth to him. When that adopted son wastes all their wealth, all they can do is grieve over it. But since it is God that gave you all this wealth, how wonderful would it be if you adopted that God.

If we spend the money on meditating on God, on spiritual resolutions, on spiritual programs for the society, that would be equivalent to giving money to God, because we are considering God as our own child. There is so much joy when we are able to, in turn, give back to God what he gave us.

Always remember that whatever you offer to God or to Guru is like a bank deposit. Offering to the Guru or to God is like savings in a bank account. Even if you don’t enjoy the interest from this account, it’ll go to your children, or to your near and dear relatives who need it. But, we do not feel like giving any money.

We should remember that even for us to have the mindset to donate to worthy causes, we need merit from our previous births. If we don’t have merit from previous births, we can’t even think of donating. If we have merit from previous births, our mind gets absorbed in the Guru. If the mind is not absorbed in the Guru, there is no use of such wealth.

If your mind is not absorbed in the feet of the Guru, if you are unable to meditate on the Guru, if you don’t serve the Guru, if you don’t grasp the Guru Principle, if you are unable to offer to the Guru’s feet the fruits of the actions undertaken per the Guru’s command, if you don’t receive the Guru’s initiation, your beauty, your wealth and your fame are of no use.

Not only are they of no use, but remember that the pride from your beauty, the pride from your wealth, the pride from your knowledge etc will get to your head. Such a person will be consigned to the nether worlds just like King Bali was.

Knowledge has value only when there’s humility. Money has value only when there’s sacrifice. When service does not involve physical labor, beauty has no value, just as beautiful flowers without aroma have no value for worship. What’s the use of a money lender who has no generosity. There’s no redemption for that money.

Some trees grow magnificently. But, you cannot even fell and use as firewood, they emit too much smoke, cause burning sensation in the eyes and are completely worthless. They don’t even burn well.

What is the use of such a big tree? Only when the mind is completely absorbed in service to the Guru, when the mind is absorbed in the Guru, all these will bear fruit, they will definitely bear fruit. You should use whatever you earn towards service to the Guru. Your mind should be absorbed in the Guru Principle. Only then will it bear fruit.

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27 Dec 2020

Seeds Of Consciousness - 258

🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 258 🌹
✍️ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nisargadatta Gita
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻107. Having acquired and understood the knowledge 'I am', stay there in seclusion and don't wander around here and there. 🌻

Getting stabilized in the knowledge 'I am', even after having understood it, is extremely difficult. Your identification with the body is one thing that gets in the way and the other is the mind, which, although it has understood the teaching, is sub-consciously not prepared to accept it.

The mind keeps prompting you 'This can't be it, it's too simple', 'Try this', 'Try that', 'It must be very complex, search more' and so on.

Thus the wandering continues endlessly and you remain where you are. The Guru perceives this difficulty and hence advises you to stay in seclusion - not from society - but from thoughts, just in the sense of 'being' or 'I am' and never wandering away from it.

Remember that not wandering through physical seclusion maybe helpful but is quite secondary to the not wandering of thoughts when you seclude the 'I am' from the rest.

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26 Dec 2020

Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 164

🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 164 🌹

✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

156

As discussed earlier, right in the beginning of this hymn, we are being cautioned, “You have a beautiful body, but what is the use?” Let’s recall the sloka.

Sankaracharya’s Guru Ashtakam,

sloka 1: 

Sareeram suroopam thatha va kalathram, Yasascharu chithram dhanam meru thulyam, Guroranghri padme manaschenna lagnam, Thathah kim thatha kim, thatha kim thatha kim

What is the use of that beauty? The sculptor sculpts according to the Agama scriptures (these scriptures talk about the architectural principles for temple construction, creation of idols and much more), yet the sculpture doesn’t look like it has life in it.

Similarly, it is hard to say that the body, by itself, is beautiful. Even though that sculptor has sculpted beautifully, it needs “Drishti Pradhanam”. There is a procedure called “Drishti Pradhanam” (giving the power of vision or conscious awareness to the image). Only when this is applied does the sculpture look like it has life in it, otherwise it doesn’t.

The sculptor who gave this power of vision to the sculpture then offers salutations to that very sculpture he worked on. Similarly, the creator is pleased to see the various forms of life he created. So, just as the creator himself is pleased with the forms he creates, the sculptor, after he has applied “Drishti Pradhanam”, is also pleased with the sculpture and offers his salutations to it.

Now tell me, did the body get its beauty because of you? Why are you so proud of your beauty? What benefit does it give you? You are so proud. You stand in front of the mirror and keep admiring yourself. If your own beauty has no use for you, what is the use of the beauty of your wife and children? Similarly, what is the use of your fame?

Some people are never satisfied with how much wealth they accumulate. They want to keep earning more and more. Their goal is to just keep earning. A lot of people accumulate wealth equivalent to Mount Meru (enormous mountain considered the abode of many Gods).

Their bank account has loads and loads of money. What’s the use? They don’t even know what to do with all the money they saved. They only care about hoarding wealth. They are hoarding all their life. I don’t know when they enjoy that wealth or put it to good use. Finally, the money falls into the hands of the government or the thieves.

What’s the use of that wealth with which you do nothing? The government takes it over or the thieves break in and take it away. The thieves will enjoy the money. That is why, it is said that whatever you earn, you should spend it in this life itself and put it to good use.

Some people adopt a child. When that adopted child wastes all their wealth, they grieve over it. Why this karma? Just because you have no children, you adopt a child, perhaps a relative’s child and hand over your wealth to him. You cry when he wastes all the money. What is the point of doing this? That is why, treat orphans as your own children and help them. Help even orphaned animals.

Or, help destitute students. There are plenty of opportunities to help others. It’s wonderful if you are able to spend your wealth thinking of others as your own children. One should not just hoard wealth. This wealth is given to you by God.

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26 Dec 2020

DAILY WISDOM - 09 - 9. The Experience of the Jivanmukta / నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 09 - 9. జీవన్ముక్త అనుభవం

🌹. నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 09 / DAILY WISDOM - 09 🌹

🍀 📖 సంపూర్ణమైన సాక్షాత్కారం నుండి 🍀

✍️. ప్రసాద్ భరద్వాజ

🌻 9. జీవన్ముక్త అనుభవం 🌻

జీవన్ముక్తుడు తాను అందరికి ప్రభువుగా, సర్వజ్ఞుడుగా, అన్నింటిని ఆనందించేవాడిగా తనని తాను తెలుసుకుంటాడు. అస్తిత్వమంతా అతనిదే; సమస్త విశ్వం అతని శరీరం. అతను ఎవరికీ ఆజ్ఞాపించడు, ఎవరిచేత ఆజ్ఞాపించబడడు. అతను ఎల్లలు లేని జగత్సాక్షిగా తనని తాను తెలుసుకుంటాడు. ఈ స్థితి వర్ణించనలవి కానిది.

అతను ఏకకాలంలో 'నేను మాత్రమే ఉన్నాను' లేదా 'నేనే సర్వం' అనే భావనతో ఉనికిలో లోతుగా మునిగిపోతున్నట్లు అనిపిస్తుంది. అతను చైతన్యం యొక్క సరిహద్దులను విచ్ఛిన్నం చేస్తాడు. అనంతం లోకి అడుగుపెడతాడు. కొన్ని సమయాల్లో అతను అసంపూర్తిగా వ్యక్తిగత అనుభవం ద్వారా తెచ్చిన జ్ఞాపకంగా సాపేక్షత యొక్క స్పృహను లీలామత్రంగా కలిగి ఉంటాడు.


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🌹 DAILY WISDOM - 9 🌹

🍀 📖 The Realisation of the Absolute 🍀

📝 Swami Krishnananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 9. The Experience of the Jivanmukta 🌻

The Jivanmukta experiences his being the lord of all, the knower of all, the enjoyer of everything. The whole existence belongs to him; the entire universe is his body.

He neither commands anybody, nor is he commanded by anybody. He is the absolute witness of his own glory, without terms to express it. He seems to simultaneously sink deep into and float on the ocean of the essence of being, with the feeling “I alone am”, or “I am all”.

He breaks the boundaries of consciousness and steps into the bosom of Infinity. At times he seems to have a consciousness of relativity as a faint remembrance brought about by unfinished individualistic experience.

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26 Dec 2020

DAILY WISDOM - 08 - 8. The Great Root . . . / నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 08 - 8. జీవితం యొక్క . . .

🌹. నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 08 / DAILY WISDOM - 08 🌹

🍀 📖 సంపూర్ణమైన సాక్షాత్కారం నుండి 🍀

✍️. ప్రసాద్ భరద్వాజ

🌻 8. జీవితం యొక్క ఉన్నతమైన మూలం 🌻

ఏ సత్యాన్ని తెలుసుకోవడం ద్వారా ప్రతిదీ తెలుస్తుందో ఆ సత్యం ఉపనిషత్తులలో విచారణ మరియు అన్వేషణ యొక్క అంశం. దార్శనికులు ఉనికి యొక్క లోతుల్లో మునిగి, అనంతమైన జీవశక్తి యొక్క స్వభావాన్ని రుచి చూశారు. వారు విశ్వం యొక్క మూలంలోకి ప్రవేశించారు. ఆ మూలం యొక్క అంతర్గత పనితీరును అర్థం చేసుకోవడం ద్వారా ఆ మూలం యొక్క శాఖల పనితీరును కూడా అర్థం చేసుకోగలిగారు. వేరుకు నీరు పోసినప్పుడు, శాఖలకు సైతం నీరు అందుతుంది.

బంగారం యొక్క గుణం తెలుసుకున్నప్పుడు, అన్ని ఆభరణాల యొక్క గుణం కూడా తెలియ బడుతుంది; అలాగే సత్యాన్ని గ్రహించినప్పుడు, ప్రతిదీ గ్రహించ బడుతుంది; ఎందుకంటే, సత్యం ఒక్కటే. ఉపనిషత్తుల నుండి తత్వశాస్త్రం యొక్క ఏ వ్యవస్థ ఉద్భవించినప్పటికీ, సత్యం ఏమిటంటే అన్ని వ్యవస్థలు అవిభాజ్యమైన, విషయ వస్తువులకు అతీతమైన, ఉన్నతమైన వాస్తవాన్ని ప్రతిపాదిస్తాయి.


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🌹 DAILY WISDOM - 8 🌹

🍀 📖 The Realisation of the Absolute 🍀

📝 Swami Krishnananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 8. The Great Root of Life 🌻

The Truth, “knowing which everything becomes known” is the subject of enquiry and the object of quest in the Upanishads. The Seers dived into the very depth of Existence and tasted the nature of the Limitless Life. 

They entered into the Root of the universe and the branches could easily realise their inner being through an investigation into the essential workings of the Great Root of Life. When the root is watered, the branches are automatically watered; when gold is known, all the ornaments also are known; when Truth is realised, everything is realised; for, Truth is One. 

Whatever system of philosophy may be derived from the Upanishads, the obvious truth goes without saying that they propound a theory that holds Reality to be indivisible, objectless and transcendent. 

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25 Dec 2020

Seeds Of Consciousness - 257

🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 257 🌹
✍️ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nisargadatta Gita
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj


🌻106. The highest type of rest is when 'I am' and 'I am not' are both forgotten. It is called 'Param Vishranti', which also means total rest, complete relaxation or utter quietude in the highest state. 🌻

The word 'rest' has to be understood in its highest sense where you don't have rest for a certain period of time, but are eternally at rest.

This state has been called as 'Param Vishranti', or the highest and final rest. In this state both the 'I am' and 'I am not' are forgotten. They are, in fact, aspects of the consciousness and you are neither of them.

The meaning of the expression 'Param Vishranti' has been given as the highest type of rest. (In Marathi, 'param'=highest, 'vishranti'= rest. To clarify even further, the word 'vishranti' maybe split into 'visra'=forget, 'anti'=in the end).

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26 Dec 2020

Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 163

🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 163 🌹

✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

155

Sloka:
Yasya prasadadahameva vishnuh mayyeva sarvam parikalpitam ca | 

Ittham vijanami sadatma tattvam tasyanghri padmam pranatosmi nityam ||

Obeisance to the lotus feet of Sachchidananda Sadguru whose grace has enabled me to grasp the principle of Supreme Truth and attain knowledge that I am Vishnu, that I am the all-pervasive soul and that the whole universe is conceived in me.

Sloka:
Iti sri skanda purane uttara khande umamahesvara samvade sri guru gita samapta ||

Everybody should remember that the Sadguru is as essential as one’s own breath. We may say, “We read the Guru Gita, we all heard the Guru Gita, we discussed it in the form of short stories, I read it 10 times, I studied it 20 times, I did 7 Saptahas” (1 Saptaha = reading for 7 days), but we need the Guru every step of our lives, not just during the study of Guru Gita or during the Saptaha.

It is only when we study the Guru Gita, undertake Saptaha or 7 Saptahas, chant the Guru’s name, study the Guru Gita, understand the Guru Principle, follow the Guru, stay in the presence of the Guru as much as possible in one’s life, with a view to strengthening our desire for a Guru that we attain liberation.

Guru is like our breath. Giving up your Guru is like giving up your breath. It will not matter then whether we breathe or not at that point. A Guru is must in one’s life. Everybody should know that the Sadguru is as essential as one’s own breath.

Only a person who is desirous of learning more and more about the fame of the Guru and about the Guru principle regardless of how much he’s already learned, will actually realize the Guru Principle. One who thinks, “I have understood, that is enough, I read the Guru Gita several times, I learned the Guru Principle many times, that’s good enough” will never attain the Guru Principle, or anything else.

A lot of people have described the Guru Principle in several different ways. Sri Sankara Bhagavatpada (Sri Adi Sankaracharya) was the first to expound on it. Swamiji is giving you only as much as you need from this hymn composed by Sri Adi Sankaracharya

Sloka (from Sankaracharya’s Guru Ashtakam): Sareeram suroopam thatha va kalathram, Yasascharu chithram dhanam meru thulyam, Guroranghri padme manaschenna lagnam, Thathah kim Thatha kim, Thatha kim Thatha kim

Right in the beginning of this hymn, we are being cautioned, “You have a beautiful body, but what is the use?” The sculptor sculpts according to the Agama scriptures (these scriptures talk about the architectural principles for temple construction, creation of idols and much more), yet the sculpture doesn’t look like it has life in it.

There is a procedure called “Drishti Pradanam”. Only when this is completed does the sculpture come alive with conscious awareness. “Drishti Pradanam” is a procedure done to sculptures after the yantra is installed and the sculpture is put in place.

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25 Dec 2020

Seeds Of Consciousness - 256

🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 256 🌹
✍️ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nisargadatta Gita
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻105. To do away with body-mind sense or identity, imbibe or dwell in the 'I am'. Later the 'I am' will merge into the ultimate nature. 🌻

When the 'I am' dawned on you, in its very early stages it did not identify with the body. You will have to apply your mind, go back, and try to recollect that phase when only the pure 'I am' existed with no adjuncts. It is much later and very gradually that the 'I am' starts identifying with the body initially, and mind also, together with time.

All this occurs with you yourself being quite unaware of it; parents, teachers, friends, relatives and surroundings contribute to the process and strengthen the verbal 'I am'- resulting in a well developed, so-called 'personality'. If you are lucky enough, at some stage of your life, you will come across the right Guru who will point out the fallacy of this mistaken identity.

He now explains this knowledge 'I am' to you and asks you to abide in it, to do away with the body-mind sense or your present identity. By and by a moment will come when the 'I am' will merge into your true ultimate nature.

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24 Dec 2020

DAILY WISDOM - 07 - 7. Change is . . . / నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 07 - 7. మార్పు అనేది . . .

🌹. నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 07 / DAILY WISDOM - 07 🌹

🍀 📖 సంపూర్ణమైన సాక్షాత్కారం నుండి 🍀

✍️. ప్రసాద్ భరద్వాజ

🌻 7. మార్పు అనేది అసత్యం యొక్క లక్షణం 🌻

మార్పు అనేది అసత్యం యొక్క లక్షణం. సత్యం అనేది స్వీయ-సంతృప్తి కలిగివున్నది, స్వయం-అస్తిత్వం కలిగివున్నది, నిర్ద్వంద్వమైనది, ప్రశాంతత మరియు పూర్తిగా పరిపూర్ణమైనది అని ఉపనిషత్తులు నొక్కి చెబుతున్నాయి. ఉపనిషత్తులు చైతన్యం అంతర్ముఖం అయ్యి అనంతానికి విస్తరించడానికి దోహదపడతాయి.

ఈ విషయంలో ఉపనిషత్తులు చాలా మార్మికమైనవి. మార్మికత అంటే అహెతుకత కలిగివుంటుందని లేదా విపరీత భావనలు కలిగి ఉంటాయని అని అపార్థం చేసుకోకూడదు. ఉపనిషత్తుల యొక్క మార్మికత ఏంటంటే అవి మీలో కేవలం ఒక భావోద్వేగానికి దారితీయకుండా మీ చైతన్యాన్ని అంచెలంచెలుగా మీ మనస్సును, బుద్ధిని దాటించి ఉన్నత చైతన్యంతో ఏకీకృతం చేయడం.


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🌹 DAILY WISDOM - 7 🌹

🍀 📖 The Realisation of the Absolute 🍀

📝 Swami Krishnananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 7. Change is the Quality of Untruth 🌻

Change is the quality of untruth and the Upanishads assert that Reality is Self-satisfied, Self-existent, non-dual, tranquil and utterly perfect. An appeal to the inwardness of consciousness expanded into limitlessness is the burden of the song of the Upanishads.

In this respect the Upanishads are extremely mystic, if mysticism does not carry with it an idea of irrationalism or a madness of spirit.

The transcendental mysticism of the Upanishads is not the effect of an emotional outburst, but a calm transcendence of intellect and reason through a development into the integral consciousness.

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24 Dec 2020

Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 162

🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 162 🌹

✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

154

Sri Maha Ganapataye Namah Sri Sarasvatyai Namah Sri Pada Vallabha Narasimha Sarasvati Sri Guru Dattatreyaya Namah

Sloka:
Svayam taritu maksamah parannistarayet katham | 

Dure tam varjayet prajno dhirameva samasrayet ||

If he doesn’t get salvation for himself, how can he get it for others? It is also said that if he cannot climb up to the pot of curd hanging from the ceiling, how can he climb up to heaven? How will such a person uplift you? A wise man should keep away from such people and approach only a Sadguru who is courageous.

A lot of people don’t understand many spiritual truths. Many of them don’t want to admit that they don’t know, so they provide baseless explanations for those concepts. They don’t know anything. And they pass on these ignorant explanations to their disciples.

Once again, saluting the Guru who is of the form of Knowledge, Existence and Bliss, they are concluding this scripture in 3 slokas.

Sloka:
Saccidananda rupaya vyapine paramatmane | 

Namassri gurunathaya prakasananda murtaye ||

Obeisance to the Guru who is All Pervasive, the embodiment of the Absolute, the embodiment of Knowledge and the embodiment of Bliss.

Sloka:
Sacchidananda rupaya krsnaya klesaharine |

Namo vedanta vedyaya gurave buddhi saksine ||

Obeisance to Sadguru, the image of Sachchidananda, who is an embodiment of Lord Vishnu, destroyer of all sorrows and miseries, and who is revealed through Upanishads, a witness to all the actions of the mind and intellect.

Sloka:
Yasya prasadadahameva vishnuh mayyeva sarvam parikalpitam ca | 

Ittham vijanami sadatma tattvam tasyanghri padmam pranatosmi nityam ||

Obeisance to the lotus feet of Sachchidananda Sadguru whose grace has enabled me to grasp the principle of Supreme Truth and attain knowledge that I am Vishnu, that I am the all-pervasive soul and that the whole universe is conceived in me.

Sloka: 

Iti sri skanda purane uttara khande umamahesvara samvade sri guru gita samapta ||



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24 Dec 2020

Seeds Of Consciousness - 255

🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 255 🌹
✍️ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nisargadatta Gita
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻104. This 'I am' or Balkrishna state has great potential. Here 'Bal' means the child food body and 'Krishna' means 'non-knowing'. 🌻

The Guru further goes on to explain this ignorant-child principle or the Balkrishna state, which is nothing else but the 'I am', as having great potential. Why so? Because it is the primary concept or illusion on which is constructed everything else about you and your life.

And, not only you, but this 'I am' has created the entire universe or cosmos. In its absence none of these exist. 'Bal' means the child food body, which also implies strength or power and 'Krishna' means 'non-knowing', which implies not knowing its own strength.

This Balkrishna is very powerful and its potential for creation is enormous, just like the small seed that is quite unaware of its potential for creating a large banyan tree.

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23 Dec 2020

Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 161

🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 161 🌹

✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

153

Some people want to chant the Guru Gita just to fulfill their desires. That’s tantamount to buying the Guru Gita for money. Just because you want to always feed the hungry, you should not wish for everyone to become poor. Just because you want to donate money, you can’t wish that people become penniless. That means that even though there is no need, you want to feel great doing these donations.

You may think, “Everybody should become utterly poor, they should all get hungry, so that I can donate food”. You should never wish for such things. Similarly, just for you to become Guru, you should not give initiation to just anyone. People keep giving initiation to whoever they like. That is also wrong. But, your Swamiji doesn’t let go of anyone, he even takes the ineligible ones, makes them eligible and gives them initiation.

Sloka:
Atyanta pkava cittasya sraddha bhakti yutasya ca | 

Pravaktavya prayatnena mamatma priyate tada ||

A man with a fully mature mind and a man with dedication and devotion should definitely be taught this. Siva says to Parvati that he’s very happy when this happens.

Earlier they said that you should not pine to become a Guru. In the next 3 slokas, they are instructing us not to seek refuge in unqualified and rogue Gurus.

Sloka:
Guravo bahavassanti sisya vittapa harakah | 

Durlabhassa gururloke sisya santapa harakah ||

There are many Gurus in the world who rob the disciples of their money. But it is very difficult to get a Guru who robs the disciples of their sins.

Sloka:
Jnanahino gurum manyo mithyavadi vidamabakah | 

Svavistrantim na janati parasantim karoti kim ||

A man without knowledge who calls himself Guru, uttering falsehood, and moving about with fanfare doesn’t get any peace of mind. Can he give any peace of mind to others?

Generally, we make our bed a little soft. If we make our bed a little hard, it may take a little longer, but we will eventually fall asleep. It means that we got accustomed to that hard bed. Similarly, based on the situation at hand, how God should be worshiped is to be understood, and followed accordingly.

This verse is specifically telling us that one should not accept as Guru one who can neither do good to others, nor to himself and one who is greedy for others’ sake and greedy for his own sake as well.

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23 Dec 2020

DAILY WISDOM - 06 - 6. The Love for the Eternal / నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 06 - 6. శాశ్వతత్వం పట్ల ప్రేమ

🌹. నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 06 / DAILY WISDOM - 06 🌹

🍀 📖 సంపూర్ణమైన సాక్షాత్కారం నుండి 🍀

✍️. ప్రసాద్ భరద్వాజ

🌻 6. శాశ్వతత్వం పట్ల ప్రేమ 🌻

శాశ్వతత్వం పట్ల ప్రేమ అనేది అందరి హృదయాల్లో తీవ్రంగా ఉంటుంది. జీవులకు అది తెలియదు, అందువలన అవి బాధపడతాయి. ఈ ఒక్క వాస్తవికత నుండి మనం విముఖులైనపుడు, మనం స్వయం నిర్బంధానికి తలుపులు తెరుస్తాము. భూలోకంలో గాని, స్వర్గంలో గాని ఏ సాఫల్యమైనా, ప్రపంచానికి సంబంధించిన ఏ గొప్పతనమైనా, అంత విలువైనది కాదు.

జీవిత పట్ల ప్రేమ స్వయం పట్ల మనకున్న ప్రేమపై ఆధారపడి ఉంటుంది. అన్ని చర్యలు స్వయం కోసమే జరుగుతాయి, బాహ్య వ్యక్తులు మరియు వస్తువుల కోసం కాదు. “అందరినీ ప్రేమించడం అందరికీ ప్రియమైనది కాదు, కానీ స్వయం పట్ల ప్రేమ అందరికీ ప్రియమైనది. బృహదారణ్యకోపనిషత్తు II-4.5

అన్ని చర్యలు స్వయం కోసమే జరుగుతాయి, బాహ్య వ్యక్తులు మరియు వస్తువుల కోసం కాదు.


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🌹 DAILY WISDOM - 6 🌹

🍀 📖 The Realisation of the Absolute 🍀

📝 Swami Krishnananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 6. The Love for the Eternal 🌻

The love for the Eternal is the essential passion that burns in the heart of all things. Beings know it not, and so they suffer. When we turn our face away from this one Reality, we open the door to self-imprisonment. No achievement, either on earth or in heaven, no greatness pertaining to the world of name and form, is worth considering.

The love of life is based on the love of the Self. All actions are done for the sake of the Self, not for external persons and things. “Not, verily, for the love of the all is the all dear, but for the love of the Self is the all dear."—Brih. Up., II. 4. 5.

All actions are done for the sake of the Self, not for external persons and things.

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23 Dec 2020

Seeds Of Consciousness - 254

🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 254 🌹
✍️ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nisargadatta Gita
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 103. This knowingness 'I am' which came spontaneously and you felt gradually, is the ignorant-child-principle, the 'Balkrishna' state. 🌻

The Guru now calls the 'I am', which spontaneously appeared on you, the ignorant-child principle or 'Balkrishna' state.

This adds more to your understanding of the 'I am'. Indeed, when the knowledge 'I am' dawned on you it was a state complete ignorance.

You did not know what this sense of 'being' was and what to make of it. You knew only two states, those of 'I am' and 'I am not', which alternated on their own.

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22 Dec 2020

DAILY WISDOM - 05 - 5. The Supreme Silence / నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 05 - 5. సంపూర్ణ నిశ్శబ్దం

🌹. నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 05 / DAILY WISDOM - 05 🌹

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✍️. ప్రసాద్ భరద్వాజ

🌻 5. సంపూర్ణ నిశ్శబ్దం 🌻

ఆత్మ యొక్క ఆనందమే జీవుడు యొక్క ఆనందం. ఇది అత్యున్నత చైతన్యం యొక్క ఆనందం. చైతన్యంలో జీవించడం అంటే శాశ్వతమైన ఆనందంలో జీవించడం. ఇది సాధించడంలో ఉండదు. సాక్షాత్కారం మరియు అనుభవంలో ఉంటుంది. నూతనావిష్కరణలో ఉండదు కానీ ఉన్నది కనుక్కోవడంలో ఉంటుంది. వ్యక్తిగత సత్యము, విశ్వసత్యము మధ్య ఏకత్వము పెరిగే కొద్దీ చైతన్యం మరింతగా వ్యక్తమవుతుంది.

అవి రెండూ ఒకటే అయినప్పుడు చైతన్యం మాత్రమే వ్యక్తమవుతుంది. ఈ పూర్ణ చైతన్యమే అనంతమైన ఆనందం. ఇదే సర్వ శక్తులకు మూలం. ఇదే అనంతమైన స్వేచ్ఛ. ఇక్కడ జీవుడు ఉనికిలో ఒక అవిభాజ్య భాగమైపోతాడు. ఇక్కడే జీవుడు సత్యం యొక్క గంభీరమైన, సంపూర్ణమైన నిశ్శబ్దాన్ని అనుభూతి చెందుతాడు.

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🌹 DAILY WISDOM - 5 🌹

🍀 📖 The Realisation of the Absolute 🍀

📝 Swami Krishnananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 5. The Supreme Silence 🌻

The delight of the Self is the delight of Being. It is the Bliss of Consciousness-Absolute. The Being of Consciousness is the Being of Bliss, Eternal. It does not lie in achievement but realisation and experience, not invention but discovery.

The Consciousness is more intense when the objective existence is presented near the subject, still more complete when the subjective and the objective beings are more intimately related, and fully perfected and extended to Absoluteness in the identification of the subject and the object.

This Pure Consciousness is the same as Pure Bliss, the source of Power and the height of Freedom. This is the supreme Silence of the splendid Plenitude of the Real, where the individual is drowned in the ocean of Being.

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22 Dec 2020

Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 160

🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 160 🌹

✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

152

Sloka:
Guru bhakto bhavecchighram guru gita japena tu | 

Dhanya mata pita dhanyo dhanya vamsya jana api | 

Dhanya ca vasudha yatra guru bhaktah prajayate ||

One who chants the Guru Gita becomes a disciple of Guru quickly. Such disciples, their parents, their lineage and the people of their country are blessed. For people with a wavering mind, the chanting of Guru Gita is very useful.

Sloka:
Idam rahasyam no vacyam yasmai kasmaicana priye | 

Abhakte vancake dhurte pasande nastike tatha | 

Manasapi na vaktavya gurugita kadacana ||

Siva says to Parvati that Guru Gita should not be revealed to all and sundry particularly to non-devotees, impostors, the wicked, the fallen and the atheists. The very thought of giving them the Guru Gita should not come up.

In the previous sloka, they said that even people with wavering minds can study the Guru Gita. But, here, they are specifying clearly who the Guru Gita should not be given to. The kind of people that Guru Gita should not be given to are specially being mentioned.

This is an ethical rule for knowledge, it’s also the rule for the world. For instance, food should not be given to one who is not hungry. Some people may just be interested in learning to play musical instruments. If you forcibly give them knowledge, they will not be able to absorb it.

Similarly, some people are only interested in food, some in just money and some in just clothes, they don’t aspire for good knowledge. Some people want to chant the Guru Gita just to fulfill their desires. That’s tantamount to buying the Guru Gita for money.

Just because you want to always feed the hungry, you should not wish for everyone to become poor. Just because you want to donate money, you can’t wish that people become penniless. That means that even though there is no need, you want to feel great doing these donations. You may think, “Everybody should become utterly poor, they should all get hungry, so that I can donate food”. You should never wish for such things.

Similarly, just for you to become Guru, you should not give initiation to just anyone. People keep giving initiation to whoever they like. That is also wrong. But, your Swamiji doesn’t let go of anyone, he even takes the ineligible ones, makes them eligible and gives them initiation.

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22 Dec 2020

Seeds Of Consciousness - 253

🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 253 🌹
✍️ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nisargadatta Gita - 102
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 102. Identify yourself with the highest principle in you which is the knowledge 'I am'. This will elevate you to the status of 'Brihaspati' - the guru of gods.🌻

Become completely one with the indwelling knowledge 'I am', it is the highest possible principle in you. First you must be able to see very clearly that there something called the knowledge 'I am' in you - that is, you have not only to spot it, but understand it in its totality.

Then comes 'Sadhana' (practice), where you begin abiding in the 'I am', and this, in its acute phase, results in your becoming one with the 'I am', then only the 'I am' remains and nothing else.

The Guru says that this will elevate you to the highest possible status, which he calls 'Brihaspati', meaning the greatest Guru, the Guru of Gods.

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21 Dec 2020

DAILY WISDOM - 04 - 04. The Heroic Leap . . . / నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 04 - 04. అపరిచతంలోకి . . .

🌹. నిత్య ప్రజ్ఞా సందేశములు - 04 / DAILY WISDOM - 04 🌹

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🌻 04. అపరిచతంలోకి వ్యక్తి వీరోచిత దూకుడు 🌻

అపరిచితం లోకి వీరోచితంగా దూకడం అనేది ఉన్నతమైన ఆనందము అందుకోవడానికి గల సంసిద్ధతను తెలియజేస్తుంది. జీవితంలో పరిమితికి సంబంధించిన అసంతృప్తి వల్ల ఆత్మ తన వ్యక్తిత్వ పరిధి అందుకోలేని పరిపూర్ణతను పట్టుకోవడానికి పూనుకుంటుంది. అందువల్ల, విశ్వచలనము మరియు వ్యక్తిగత ప్రయత్నం, ప్రకృతి పట్ల వారి వైఖరి భిన్నంగా ఉన్నట్లు అనిపిస్తున్నా, జీవుడు తన పరిపూర్ణత అందుకునే ప్రక్రియలోని భిన్న పార్శ్వాలు.

సర్వత్రా సత్యమే అయి ఉన్న చైతన్యం యొక్క ఒత్తిడి వ్యక్తులను వారి పరిమితులను అధిగమించడానికి, ఆ అపరిమితంలో వారి శాశ్వతమైన విశ్రాంతిని కనుగొనడానికి ప్రేరేపించే శక్తికి మూలం. ఈ శాశ్వత సత్యం అనేది సృష్టిలో విశ్వప్రయత్నం ద్వారా అన్వేషించబడే అత్యున్నత వస్తువు, ఇందులో మాత్రమే శక్తుల బాహ్యీకరణకు సంబంధించిన అన్ని ప్రేరణలు అంతం చేయబడతాయి. సర్వం తానకే కావాలనే కోరిక అనంతం యొక్క అనుభవంలో ముగుస్తుంది.


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🌹 DAILY WISDOM - 4 🌹

🍀 📖 The Realisation of the Absolute 🍀

📝 Swami Krishnananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 4. The Heroic Leap of the Individual Into the Unknown 🌻

The heroic leap of the individual into the unknown is the expression of the want of a superior joy. The dissatisfaction with limitedness in life directs the soul to catch the fullness of perfection in the truth of its Integrality, with which the individualised condition is not endowed.

Hence, universal movement and individual effort, though differing in their altruism of nature, can be understood as a reflection of the tendency to Self-Perfection of Being. The pressure of the truth of the absoluteness of consciousness is the source of the force that compels individuals to transcend their finitude and find their eternal repose in it alone.

This permanent Verity is the supreme object of quest through the cosmical endeavour in creation, wherein alone all further impulses for externalisation of forces are put an end to. The desire to become the All terminates in the experience of Infinitude.

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21 Dec 2020

Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 159

🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 159 🌹

✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

151

Sloka:
Akamata stri vidhava japenmoksamavapnuyat Avaidhavyam sakama cet labhate canya janmani

If a widow studies the Guru Gita without any desires, she will attain liberation. If she chants with desire, she will be blessed with a happy married life in her next birth.

Why are they specifically talking about widows here? Some people believe that one should not look at a window or touch a widow. But, if the widow is wealthy or in a position of power, the same people would give her a lot of respect.

This is not right. One should always have compassion and respect for widows. Advise them on paths for spiritual practice. That is why Lord Siva himself said this sloka. He is promising these positive outcomes in the presence of the Divine Mother. Here too, we are being advised right upfront that worship without any desires is better than worship with desires.

Sloka:
Japecchaktasca saurasca ganapatyasca vaisnavah | 

Saivasca siddhidametam sarvadeva swarupinim ||

The Guru Gita is the embodiment of all Gods and the source of all fulfillment. So all practicants of Devi or the Mother Goddess, the Sun, Lord Ganapathy, the Vaishnavaites (devotees of Lord Vishnu) and the Saivaites (devotees of Lord Siva) should chant this.

Next, they are describing the places that are good for chanting of Guru Gita at.

Sloka:
Tirthe bilavatarormule vatamule sarittate | 

Devalaye ca gosthe ca mathe brindavane tatha | 

Pavitre nirmale sthane japassighra phalapradah ||

Worship or meditation at pure and serene places such as a pilgrim center, at the foot of a Bilva tree or a Banyan tree, on the river bank, in a temple or cow-shed or a Mutt (monastery) or a grove of Tulasi brings in quicker results.

The kinds of accomplishments from the Guru Gita are described next.

Sloka:
Santyartham dharayecchuklam vastram vasyetha raktimam | 

Abhicare nilavarnam pitavarnam dhanagame ||

If the Guru Gita is chanted for peace and salvation, it should be done wearing a white cloth, if it is for getting something into one’s grip (Vasikaranam), one should wear red cloth; for wealth yellow cloth is prescribed. Lot of people think of Vasikaranam negatively here, they think it is to get another person into one’s grip.

That is not the case. This is to get our sense organs into our grip. One should wear red for Vasikaranam. For wealth, chanting should be done wearing a turmeric yellow cloth. For those who do not contemplate on the Principle of Truth, such slokas show the right path.

So, Vasikaranam is actually getting the sense organs under control. Abhicara indicates desire infested with lustful actions. Chanting wearing a black cloth destroys Abhicara. One should understand that wealth here indicates the wealth of knowledge.

Guru bhakto bhavecchighram guru gita japena tu | 

Dhanya mata pita dhanyo dhanya vamsya jana api | 

Dhanya ca vasudha yatra guru bhaktah prajayate ||

One who chants the Guru Gita becomes a disciple of Guru quickly. Such disciples, their parents, lineage and also the people of their country are blessed.

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21 Dec 2020