Ariyathathu

Life and Realisation

2009-12-15T10:53:00.002Z

When i started to wonder where India has gone wrong in its spiritual path, I realised that we have not gone anywhere than going backwards. Amidst all so called saints, religious temples, rituals and thousands of gods and goddesses, there is no spirituality; there is only fear, fear of everything.

Let me try to list down the kind of fears, this may look like some cinema dialog but it is actually the reality, in that cinema the actor had so many fears but he know that he has those fears, this is the beginning of realisation, We on the other hand have fears but do not realise that we have them.

Fear of Death - Everywhere there is fear of death, this is the primary and root cause for everything and all the priests and so called saints use it against you, to overcome this, we go to doctors, medicine men and to priests. But nothing stops people from death. A Zen story: Once a young person went to a famous Zen master to learn Zen, remember Zen cannot be learned, I consider Zen as something you will become when you unlearn what you call life and when you become no-mind. The young lad went and fell in the feet’s of the master and asked, "I want to learn Zen", the master smiled and said I will give you a Koan find answer for that and I will take you as my disciple. Koan is Zen way of asking a question which can never be answered and the pupil will work on this question for hours, days, months even years to find answer and finally become enlightened or become no-mind. The master said "Find answer for this Koan, What is the sound of the one hand clap?" The young lad was puzzled, but thought he will give it a try, he went home and thought of it for days, then he understood only dead people can hear such soundless sound, so he went back to the Zen master and considering him as a doer who all Zen people are than a just speaker of truth he suddenly fell dead in front of the master, the master took his staff, hit him and said "you fool, dead people cannot hear anything". Dead is dead, nothing more than that dead cannot be defined, it is realised as the birth of consciousness by the real rishis and Zen masters.
Fear of God - God must be realised, must be felt and cannot be seen or heard, whoever saints are there including people like meera or any other alwars or nayanmars in India had reported seeing god, but they have seen them only in their own imagination in a height of estacy, all these images are derived from memory or mind and not from consciousness, thus god had same face and body of a human or animal which human had seen. Have you seen any fictitious characters in any of the fantasy movies or novels having a body or face of something we have not known or defined? Squid face, mermaid (half body as fish), hell boy (horn of a bull). So fearing god is the most stupid concept we have in any religion. God can never be manifested; god never appears in form or speaks in words, whatever words heard by anyone who calls himself mystic are poor mind translations of what they "feel" of the small blink they get of consciousness, I couldn't use the word tells, as consciousness cannot speak.
Rituals - All rituals are stupid, all of them are created either for hygiene, for psychology or due to fear. And some are created for realising the truth, but they are devices for that particular time only. If rituals were created for hygiene reasons then we have come a long way in being hygiene and we are far more hygienic than the older generations. If it is created for psychological reasons they are good, but we do not know how it helps us psychologically due to poor interpretation of scriptures, so we better throw these gibberish scriptures which teaches us meaningless things. If rituals are created for fear, then we have to ask the question why we fear and what do we fear for?. This reminds me of the rituals I carried out for my dead father; they all became absurd when I lost the fear of death. Reciting chants in the ear of dead person? Totally stupidity, but it shattered and removed a great part of my mind. Whatever people say about not doing the rituals or so called Karma for dead people is insane. It gives you fear and that fear creates illusions, then you will begin to go into the world of Karma. Karma as I know now is a greatest finding in old India; we can discuss that later in another post. Once there was a husband and wife in japan. The wife was in death bed and told his husband "Look I don't want you to marry anyone else after my death, if you do so I will become a ghost and haunt you", she died, after few months the man couldn't control himself and fell in love with another women, every night he will see a ghostly women appear after he reached home and tell him what all she spoke with his new love and the ghost said "look I told you I will not leave you and haunt you if you see another women", the man got frightened and was restless. His friends asked him to visit a Zen master in the town to get some clarity; he went to the master and told his situation. The master said, "Next time the ghost appears take a hand full of soy beans and ask how many beans are in your hands, if it can tell it is real otherwise it is your own imagination". He went back home and the ghost appeared again, and told everything he spoke with the Zen master and said even the Zen master cannot help him. He then held a hand full of soy beans and asked "If you really are a ghost, tell me how many beans are in my hands". The ghost vanished and never came back. Thus mind is the most powerful and most innocent utility ever, anyone or anything can manipulate your mind to make you believe and even see and hear it.
Authority of Scriptures - Its more the authority of the person who reads and interprets scripture than the authority of scripture, as there is no authority in any written books, as they are dead. When I read some interpretation of Vedas, I see them as truth spoken by a drunkard. Mostly consisting of talks by seers who are high in some intoxication and telling the truth of that moment, so any truth of that moment will become true for that moment only, not for the eternity. Only thing is eternal, true and ever present is the consciousness (I do not want to call it as God as it is not the right word). One more Zen story, a master was in the death-bed and called his disciple and handed over a book and told “Whatever my predecessors had learnt are in this book, keep this book with you and write your own enlightenment experience in it too so that your pupils will read and understand from it. The pupil told, I do not need the book, the master insisted on having the book. The pupil took the book and threw it away in the fire, the master asked "what are you doing?", the pupil said "What are you saying?", reading this story carefully reveals a great truth, for someone who is in the path of Zen scriptures are waste, and most importantly doing is more realistic than saying, saying goes in the air and words become dead after it is said, doing actually is the reality and is the truth. Every one of us is in the path of realisation and Zen is one way of making us realise.
Temples - Temples are created either to show the fear of people over something that they do not know (which obviously is called God) or due to some other humanly reasons. No god in temple is sacred, no place in the world is sacred, what is sacred is only you the real you, not the egotist you. This reminds me of a Zen story, once a Zen monk was passing by a temple in cold night in Japan, he wanted to rest, so he rested there, he tried to knock on the temple door but everyone was sleeping. He became too cold and wanted some wood to create fire, he couldn't find any other than 100's of wooden Buddha statues, and he took one statue, broke it and made fire out of it. The night passed and in the morning the priest of the temple came and saw the monk and got shocked that he burnt Buddha statue. He became angry and started to shout "what stupidity you have done, do you realised the sin you have committed by burning the great Buddha?", the monk replied calmly, "Sir if you think this Buddha is alive, then I have burnt him, now show me the bones of Buddha".

Comparing all these, I remember what Osho said, the biggest mistake made in India was to separate spirituality from life, considering spirituality of something high in nature and life as something low in nature. We have all forgotten or not interpreted properly or not fully know about the old rishis and seers who had enjoyed good family life. Thus making the whole life a greatest meditation and spiritual journey, In the old days, It must have been like, a person who has only realised Brahman or the consciousness before the age of 25 will be allowed to lead a family life, they earn a lot of wealth and had an excellent family with children, but they remain detached from it all, knowing all wealth are for use only and not for the ego to claim it as his or her own, they know that claiming something to be their own begins the trouble of karma. Once they attain the age of 50 or so they will immediately renounce everything with no attachment and go away to forest.

So Nothing is true, except your real self, you can see and perform any kind of gimmick or magic, but they are not real, what is real is the present moment, the now and what is real and magical is the moment we are all in.

The story of Adam and Eve

2009-07-01T09:36:00.009+01:00

The more man become intelectual the more complex his mind gets. Let us examine what man is made of. Man is flesh, blood and all elements air, water, fire, earth and ether. What are all these five elements? Lets try to define one by one. Air - The breathing, Water - Our body is 70% water, Fire - The heat in the body, if no heat, then the man is dead and ether. Explaining ether is a bit difficult that is where the religiousness comes, i will not go into that as it can be felt and cannot be explained. Let us now keep ether as the electricity that makes your body work, we do have some power similar to electricity in our body, that we will call as ether.
Thus man is made of only known substances. With these he is called just a animal, he eats when he becomes hungry, he sleeps when he becomes tired. You can see the same trait in a new born baby. Its not the baby which has opened its eyes, its the new born which has not opened its eyes fully.
When man starts to see and hear things, he starts to develop language, people around a new born baby start to speak to the baby and starts to interact, slowly slowly the programming of mind starts to happen, thus the brain cells start to create that which has formless called the mind. Mind is something which is capable of doing unimaginable thing. Mind can create a whole world in thin air for you and can destroy the same. Thus the mind starts to grow. The more the mind starts to grow the more the person goes away from the self.
When mind begins to indulge in external pleasures like bodily pleasures of see, touch, taste and smell it slowly knowledge is gained. The knowledge will have its byproduct called the ego. Thus ego becomes the byproduct of an knowledge and mind. Ego is the most powerful aspect of a human, more powerfull than mind. It is the unpregnable castle wall which will not allow one to move towards the center or the self. When someone touches the other person or let us say a man touches his lover, he always wants that touch, lets say adam touches eve for the first time, for the first time the knowledge of pleasure is gained, slowly he will want that pleasure again and again, as mind feels that its the most estatic thing in the world, but the reality is man does not know that which is a knowledge .
Adam and eve were considered to be only two people, so there may not be much ego or work of mind in them, the mind and ego we have from the days of adam and eve are thousands of times more, it is like weed covering the seeds of beautiful flowering plant, without sun and water, the seed wont germinate, but the seed is still in there, it is covered by layers and layers of weed.
Speaking of Adam and Eve, are they real? is that a real story? Biblical stories has its own wisdom in it, most of them were misinterpreted. Adam and Eve are male and female in total, yin and yang in total, when they eat the forbidden fruit of knowledge they will gain shyness and all other unwanted part of mind. With shyness one could see the difference, before that human were not able to see the different, when human started to see a glimse of knowledge everything started to fall apart, the whole oneness is lost and people started to see duality, beginning with man and women.
Speaking of language, we all know the story of tower of bable, people start to build a tower to heaven and they couldnt succeed since they are all speaking in different languages. It is not only language, it is speech too. Anything a human speak can be interpreted in any number of ways, that was what happened with different scriptures and books like bhagvatgita, upanishads and bible. You may ask whether I have read it all. If i read them i will also get correpted as i know only the masses language, i have not realised the silent language which will make me understand the correct meaning of these books. But i got a glimpse of it. The glimpse itself didnt come from whatever i learnt, it came from whatever i unlearnt. The more I unlearned the more i go towards the true self. I am still al long way from it but, want to make sure that i make a journal of it.

In the beginning..

2009-06-11T11:50:00.003+01:00

Being born as one made me to enquire further into the rituals and rights carried out by Brahmins. Being a critic of my own community for whatever they are doing, i had the opportunity to come out of the vail of Brahmanism and look at it with a fresh mind. I was able to find the astonishing fact that the current Brahmanism is not the real one, which most of us will agree. I would like to point out my experience and my findings on what Brahmanism is and who Brahmins are.
Going back ages, Brahmins are considered to be wise men who have a great knowledge. The knowledge they possess are not outward but inward, the knowledge of Brahmin is nothing but the knowledge about Brahman. That’s why I believe they are called as Brahmins or one who know what Brahman is.
Let me not go deeper into what Brahman is but would definitely want to define my understanding of why we require the knowledge of Brahman in few lines. Even though these few lines are not enough to define it, and it requires help from great master, I will put in words whatever I have understood.
When we look at the cause of how Brahmanism came into existence, we may need to go into varuna or the cast system. This is not the cast system that was defined by Manu in his Manu Smrithi. Smrithi as I understand is what someone hears or has his own understanding and tries to put in words, so manu's manu smrithi has been heard by someone and written according to their own understanding, this has lead to so many issues with the Indian cast system and that’s why Brahmins pay for what has been miss-interpreted in the manu smrithi by being subdued and reduced to nothing in the India.
If we go back and back to where the humans started to emerge from Darwin’s theory, no one was born as Brahmins, everyone was born from ape as a human as a similar human being with something more than the monkeys called mind.
The mind is the most powerful tool, which was not used much, so everyone knows what Brahman is since their mind is not working. I believe at this moment emerged the saptha rishis or the rishis who are considered to be the first level of ancestors of Brahmins, they saw that they can use their mind to achieve things that was not achieved before, so they started to put it in words, in Sanskrit which was the language at that time, then they started to teach others what they know, remember there is no cast system at this time, whoever is capable or removing their mind and intellect and see the real Brahman was initiated into Brahmanism, so there was no issue of castes.
Later on when mind and intellect started to work as well as the environment and surrounding demanded, everyone started to take their own kind of job, some became warriors who protected the clans from animals, yes only animals not other human being at this time, because greed has not come into human mind yet.
The vegetation provided everything the clan wanted, so each clan had their own pace in the earth and they are happy with what they had. The human mind slowly wanted to explore around and they started to explore the surroundings, thus they saw that the clans nearby had some food and things which they have never before, so some became businessmen. With business stated a little greed.
When the greed went on high a group of people started to become more greedy and uncontrollable, they must have become cheats, molesters and must have been forced by the law makers to do low level jobs as a punishment. Thus must have come the cast who does low level jobs.
As you can see all the casts came when people started to use their mind and intellect. I believe that anyone from any of such casts were allowed to renounce their ego which is a by-product of mind and intellect and become a Brahmin. Thus Brahmin is really one with no ego, no mind and no intellect, in fact this person is called as insane or mad these days, but they are the real humans they are the one who experienced Brahman, they are the reality not what we are now. So born in a Brahmin family will never make someone as a knower of Brahman, being a tradition of Brahmin the person must be initiated into the tradition properly and must have attained the Brahman before his marriage. That is the person who is called Brahmin.
In this juncture I must say that all the time I am talking about men only, not about women, because women needs no extra effort to understand and become aware of Brahman as they know it from their birth.

Evolution

2009-02-01T21:51:00.002Z

Those who dare, evolves, those who renounce what they were and start to strip off their skins and ready to take the challenge evolves into the next, evolves into the self

Self

2008-12-24T10:44:00.003Z

I take some of me and shape to anything i want, give it a part of me and it becomes me...

Anything i see and hear are me, taken from me manifests as something that was not heard or seen by the mind..But they aer all me..

I am the self.. I am everything.. everything is me.. Everything is inside me..

Yoga Vasisht laghu

2008-09-30T16:40:00.002+01:00

"Rishi Vashisht to Rama: Patience, Atmic Inquiry, Contentment and Association with the Wise are the 4 ways of realising the self, if we get one then other 3 will follow automatically"

Realisation one more step

2008-09-30T16:30:00.005+01:00

There is no I who is reborn, its the ego that gets reborn, i am birthless and deathless, I am that.. I am hollow.. rebirth is true but a person is never re-born, a person is brahman which is there everywhere.. Its only the ego of ones mind that gets rebirth..
Yoga.. is just a tool to realise the self..

Raja Yoga - makes sure that your mind gets focused so that you start to see the brahman or the soul or the self
Hatha Yoga - Makes sure that your body is fit so that it wont come in the way of your mind which will concentrate on realisation
Karma Yoga - Doing good karma makes sure that bad things will not come in your way of realisation
Gnana Yoga - Paves the first step in ralising the self, helps in understanding what self is.

Running Thoughts

2008-08-20T15:23:00.002+01:00

I am not silent, I speak with only a few people in my life, see few things and do my dutyas what i am as a husband and a worker, which are the present. I dont wan tto speak about anyone else or comment on anyone. I wish to keep silence and stopped gossiping about others. I was reading spiritual books, that also stopped after believing that there is more beyond those books. I use to fall for marketing spree even that got reduced now, i was thinking if i were like before, i would have got an iPhone for me now, but now i think why i need that, all i want to do is to communicate with few people, for that why i need some big stuff which is of no use? When thinking about future, infact i stopped thinking about future too, whatever comes into my mind i do, if it doesnt work out i dont care, do something else. I want be more consious, go more nearer to the consiousness and understanding of the real self, as of now everything around seems to be unreal except existance of love, I started to see love in people i love. The language i speak also becomes nothing, because they are mere words, nothing but words, my body is slowly becoming nothing as it is just a body, nothing beyond that, i started to feel less heat when i cook, could slowly lift hot vessels from the stove with my hands, initially i am feeling like this body is getting hurt, now slowly thats vanishing the heat must not do anything to me, the cold must not do anything to me, so as bad air must not do anything to me, people will not do anything to me. Later i realised that we are influenced by other peoples thoughts and words, ignore them you are getting yourself free from all the problems in life. I started to observe myself, I started to see myself from inside and started to see the inside, want to go deeper in and in, i feel like i may discover another world where i am a part of something infinite which is not far, just on the other side like flipping a tshirt inside out..

Identifying the consiousness

2008-08-19T17:15:00.002+01:00

How to identify if you are going towards consiousness?

Will slowly be free from fear, finally ending up in fear for nothing even the word god.
Word you speak will always be right for others sense

Reality

2008-08-14T09:40:00.001+01:00

Whatever is time bound is momentary and has no reality.

I am that

2008-08-14T09:18:00.001+01:00

I am not Venkatesh
I am not born
I am not Brown skinned
I am not human
I am not a friend
I am not a enemy
I am not real
I am not what i see in the mirror
I am not Money
I am not food
I am not people
I am not Indian
I am not animal
I am not what you see
I am not what i feel
I am not what i hear
I am not what i do
I am not what i see
I am not what i breath
I am not what i think
I am not my knowledge
I am not intelligent
I am not language
I am not color
I am not lust
I am not greed
I am not happiness
I am not sorrow
I am not a software professional
I am not a architect
I am not what i was
I am not what i will be
I am not what i am
I am not plants
I am not flowers
I am not water
I am not wind
I am not Earth
I am not fire
I am not what is described in words here
I am only love pure love that is a link to this body
I am being loved
I am loving the love
I am in love
I know only love
I fill what i see and hear with love
I fill what i touch with love
I fill what i do with love
I am filling everything with love
I am filling everything with me
because I am that..

The Beginning

2008-08-11T15:21:00.002+01:00

In the beginning, the consiousness was given a huge rock, a dynamite and infinite space..
The consiousness set the dynamite and created the big bang..
Leading to creation of the universe and everything in it..
Including your body and mine..
Everything thus created are in constant change and in constant motion..
Everything thus created is created from the one huge rock.. The one huge rock called consiousness itself..
Everything thus created is created due to the dynamite's big bang.. The dynamite called consiousness itself..
Everything thus created is created in the infinite space, the infinite space called consiousness..

Soul and the Thousand Fold Petal

2008-07-29T12:04:00.003+01:00

The following are Kahlil Gibran's words in his book 'The Prophet' on Self-Knowledge

" the soul walks upon all paths.
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals."

This is what the Veda's say about the 1000 petaled leaf in the head or the sahasrahara (sahasrara). When one identifies the soul the soul unfolds itself like a lotus of countless petals by which one knows the self..

Its so amazing to see that how the self is identified by so many beautiful beings from the Sages of Vedic age to the recent Kahlil Gibran.

M-Theory and God

2008-07-21T12:12:00.004+01:00

The M-Theory:
1. A atom vibrates like a string in a guitar or violine (String theory)
2. All such strings vibrate, thus through the vibration we see what we are and what other things are
3. The strings are connected in the 11th dimension (10 previous dimensions are 3 directions, time, space etc) to give a thin invisible and infinitely sized membrane (M).

The Vedas:
1. God is what is present from a smallest to the biggest object
2. God is present everywhere inside you, you, outside you and everywhere and is infinite (omnipresence)

Any similarities between M-Theory and what was found by big rishi's thousands of years back?

I believe M-theory (membrane theory) defines god..Thus god has no form but is there everywhere, these membranes (M-Theory) are moving in waves if which manipulated can create butterfly effects. Yogi's could manipulate it. How you can manipulate it? i believe that thoughts can manipulate, it is difficult to manipulate it using positive thoughts but negative thoughts flows through the membrane easily. Thus to manipulate it in a positive way, we must be pure in body and mind, which will bring us closer to this membrane and makes it easy for us to manipulate the membrane to work positively for us. This is what the great yogi's and siddhar's can do.

May be cursing someone or using black magic can easily manipulate the Membrane and create bad butterfly effects for a person, may be if the person can create enough bigger positive waves in the Membrane the he could counter it and the bad waves cannot hurt him/her. The positive waves can be created using various forms, we could create the waves through sound that is mantra, tantra that is through deeds and daily karma's like kriya, pranayama and sandyavandana or through realising the self and the membrane and through yentra different metal and structural combinations. The mantra, tantra and yantra can be used both for positive and negative forces. The disadvantage of negative force is it is created easily but it is weak, so once any positive force encounter it, then it becomes more weaker and cannot hurt the person.

It has also been found that there is no beginning and end to the universe (through mathematical equations), it was discussed in the physics community that there are infinite number of these membranes which are different in dimensions, and when two such membranes collided it started the big bang and what came after big bang is the universe, you and me.. Thus big bang is happening again and again somewhere in a different dimension.. When will our dimension collide with another to create big bang? That is a very complex calculation, may be Veda had done such calculations with how long a yuga and how long a day in Brahma's life is, and Veda has also defined that Brahma or the god will dissolve this world and will create another one after so many billions of years.

Veda says there is no beginning or end for god.. Thus defining that what existed before big bang is another dimension and which already exists. When describing god, it says Indra (or our brain) could see only the feet of the god thus only a infinite part of the infinite membrane, thus brain has the capacity to realise god, our sages used various disciplines like yoga to train the body so that it will not be a hindrance to the realisation process and then trained the brain to realisation.

Brahmin

2008-06-29T09:05:00.002+01:00

"What else remains to be desired by him, who has attained the state of Brahmin - a state completely omnisense and non-duality, which is without beginning, middle or end?"

-- Upanishad

Thus a brahmin is a person who has attained brahman, not the one who wears the sacred thread as a status symbol. A brahmin becomes knowledgable of the brahman which is everything and teaches about brahman to everyone by sharing his knowledge on brahman. Most of the brahmin i know misunderstands this and consideres themselves as people who knows everything, everything does not mean things that are material, everything is brahman, because the truth is no one knows anything..

The supreme Truth

2008-06-29T08:35:00.003+01:00

"The Supreme truth is that, there is no birth".

-- Upanishad

Thus everything is taken from here and created from here itself, nothing comes from just thin air.. A child created in a woumb is due to the sperm and the egg of the father and mother.. The child then grows in the woumb by the food that is taken from here and not by itself or by energy from some thin air..

Thus newton found what already exists that is "energy can neither be created nor be destroyed.".

Existence

2008-06-27T12:56:00.002+01:00

That which did not exist in the past and will not exist in the future also has no existence of its own for the period of its duration.

- Srimath Bhagavatham, Upanishads

A real sanysaan

2008-06-26T13:15:00.002+01:00

The Illuminated Sanyasin does not praise any daity, does not
salute any superior an does not perform rights to propitiate
departed ancestors. Regarding both body and athamn as his
abode, he remains satisfied with what comes by chance

- Mandukya Upanishad

Thus a self realised person understands that what is there is also inside him, he never have to workship god separately or his ancestors as gods, he knows they are all same as him and they are all in him..

Who will realise Atman or Realise self?

2008-06-25T16:19:00.002+01:00

This Atman cannot be attained by the Study of Vedas or by Intelligence or by much hearing of sacred books..
It is attained by him alone whom it chooses.. To such a one the Atman reveals its form..

-- Katha Upanishad

Thus, we doing so much of asana's, yoga's, meditation is nothing and is just a way of calming our mind and body. The real realisation will not be attained by one self, but it comes to the person whom is chosen to be received. This is like a mathematics where the one who need to realise the atman is chosen on a chaotic or random basis or based on the happenids and effects around the person..

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2008-06-20T13:10:00.002+01:00

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My understanding of Hinduism

2008-06-19T14:11:00.005+01:00

The above provides my understanding of hinduism as religion. Its pure imagination from my side, the reason is everything starts from veda and everything is in it, fighting and speaking of human form of some god may not yield anything, its all the same, all gods are same, they all came from same, peoples mind, their imagination, and that lead to the basic root of the one god and the oneness.

Brahma Samhita explaining the Oneness

2008-06-19T13:57:00.001+01:00

The following text is from Brahma Samhita, the Vaishnavite's oldest text this explains the 7 elements which are related to the 7 chakra's of human being, one who realises them will become one with brahman or visnu or krishna or govinda..

TEXT 51
agnir mahi gaganam ambu marud disas ca
kalas tathatma-manasiti jagat-trayani
yasmad bhavanti vibhavanti visanti yam ca
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami

agnih--fire; mahi--earth; gaganam--ether; ambu--water; marut--air; disah--directions; ca--also;
kalah--time; tatha--as well as; atma--soul; manasi--and mind; iti--thus; jagat-trayani--the three
worlds; yasmat--from whom; bhavanti-- they originate; vibhavanti--they exist; visanti;--they
enter: yam--whom; ca--also; govindam--Govinda; adi-purusam--the original person; tam--Him;
aham--I; bhajami--worship.

The three worlds are composed of the nine elements, viz., fire, earth, ether, water, air,
direction, time, soul and mind. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda from whom they
originate, in whom they exist and into whom they enter at the time of the universal
cataclysm.

Gayathri Manthra

2008-06-19T12:18:00.004+01:00

A Brahmin is suppose to learn gayathri mantra properly and recite it properly.
The below text provides some translation of gayathri manthra. It may be called as the the Brahmobathesam or the secret of brahman which is handed over from father to son through the guidance of a guru for generations in brahmin community in India.
The translation suggests a different meaning for me, that is the realisation of self. The whole mantra talks about the the 7 stages of human being described in my previous post and raises the kundalini by chanting the words and the vibration produced by the words.

AUM - Supreme Lord
BHUR - Protector of the earth, the material sheath, The Life breath of the Universe.
From the feet to the navel center.
BHUVAH - One of the meanings is the sky. The Lord who pervades and eliminates all
miseries. From the navel to the throat center.
SVAHAH - One of the meanings is the heavens. He is all Bliss and blesses His
devotees with happiness. From above the throat center to the thousand
petaled lotus.
TAT - (That Thou Art)
SAVITUR - The SUN, Creator, Preserver and Self Luminous, the central mantra of the
Solar Science.
VARENYAM - Most fit to be worshipped. Most choice worthy.
BHARGO - The burning splendor of the Sun that dispels ignorance, and therefore
sorrows and miseries.
DEVASYA - The 'Deva', The God, He who is All Bliss, The Joyful One, The Shining
One, The Revealer of All Glory
DHEEMAHI - We meditate upon Him
DHEEYO YO NA - Who our intelligence and Wisdom
PRACHODAYAAT - Inspires

This basically seems like a introduction of the self to a person (a brahmin in brahminism) and how to continue realise the self, this i can say is the basic and the powerful manthra ever produced and is the basis of everything, all other manthras are just vibration creators.

When elder people request brahmin kids or students ro recite this manthra 108 times a day means, they are asked to invoke the 7 chakras through this manthra. The elders also say that you can get good marks in the exam by reciting this so many times, infact this mantra helps to invoke the chakras and increase the intellect, thus increasing the recollection power and grasping power. People must be taught of the science behind it, thus they will follow it properly.

The person who tells this manthra must tell it in proper way, must tell it loud with correct gasping, i believe none teaches it right nowadays on how to tell the manthra correctly. Telling the manthra in mind will not yield any result.

Also chanting this manthra is not the only way to realise self, many realise self from their birth as their brain must have had the potential to do so (you can call them freaks or mutants cos their brain must have had that minor chemical modification for realising self from birth, how does that happen? that must be due to the natural equation gone wrong for producing the particular cell and atom which composes it), many realised through gnana or knowlege seeking and many through yoga or the combination of all.

Seven Principels of Existence: Rig Veda

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The below are the 7 principels of existence, they are not different worlds, but the worlds inside us, the word ends with "loka" roughly translates to different worlds, its us who through self realisation start to live in different lokas at the same place.
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No.	The 7 Principles of Existence	The Corresponding 7 Principle Worlds of Existence
1.	Pure Existence--Sat	World of the highest truth of being (Satyaloka)
2.	Pure Consciousness -- Chit	World of infinite Will or conscious force (Tapoloka)
3.	Pure Bliss -- Ananda	World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka)
4.	Knowledge or Truth -- Vijnana	World of the Vastness (Maharloka)
5.	Mind	World of light (Swar)
6.	Life (nervous being)	World of various becoming (Bhuvar)
7.	Matter	The material world (Bhur)

As you see above a human starts from stage 7 and goes to attain the god stage in stage 1.
We all exist in stage 7 only, sometimes go to 6 and 5 which are life and mind, we all linger around Matter or material aroundus.
Maharloka or the light is seen when you slowly start to forget stages 7, 6 and 5.

Only siddhar or yogi might have attained stage 6 which is pure consiousness and attaining stage 1 which is pure existence is not possible by anyone in this yuga, may be yogi's like Kriya babaji or vallalar might have attaied the stage 1 and are with us always as form of astral being and present everywhere.

The Self: Rig Veda

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Rig Veda, A Translation in English:

(Here Purusa means the one whos everythwere in the universe, not a MAN)

HYMN XC. Purusa.
1. A THOUSAND heads hath Purusa, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet.
On every side pervading earth he fills a space ten fingers wide.
2 This Purusa is all that yet hath been and all that is to be;
The Lord of Immortality which waxes greater still by food.
3 So mighty is his greatness; yea, greater than this is Purusa.
All creatures are one-fourth of him, three-fourths eternal life in heaven.
4 With three-fourths Purusa went up: onefourth of him again was here.
Thence he strode out to every side over what cats not and what cats.
5 From him Viraj was born; again Purusa from Viraj was born.
As soon as he was born he spread eastward and westward o'er the earth.
6 When Gods prepared the sacrifice with Purusa as their offering,
Its oil was spring, the holy gift was autumn; summer was the wood.
7 They balmed as victim on the grass Purusa born in earliest time.
With him the Deities and all Sadhyas and Rsis sacrificed.
8 From that great general sacrifice the dripping fat was gathered up.
He formed the creatures of-the air, and animals both wild and tame.
9 From that great general sacrifice Rcas and Sama-hymns were born:
Therefrom were spells and charms produced; the Yajus had its birth from it.
10 From it were horses born, from it all cattle with two rows of teeth:
From it were generated kine, from it the goats and sheep were born.
11 When they divided Purusa how many portions did they make?
What do they call his mouth, his arms? What do they call his thighs and feet?
12 The Brahman was his mouth, of both his arms was the Rajanya made.
His thighs became the Vaisya, from his feet the Sudra was produced.
13 The Moon was gendered from his mind, and from his eye the Sun had birth;
Indra and Agni from his mouth were born, and Vayu from his breath.
14 Forth from his navel came mid-air the sky was fashioned from his head
Earth from his feet, and from his car the regions. Thus they formed the worlds.
15 Seven fencing-sticks had he, thrice seven layers of fuel were prepared,
When the Gods, offering sacrifice, bound, as their victim, Purusa.
16 Gods, sacrificing, sacrificed the victim these were the carliest holy ordinances.
The Mighty Ones attained the height of heaven, there where the Sidhyas, Gods of old, are dwelling.

As it says, everything comes from the SELF which pervades the unverse we are all made of self, different animals comes from self, moon and sun comes from self,
Its not from Vishnu everything came, its from SELF this is what the Vedas tell and it was so much changed by human for their own selfishness.
And sudhras who are considered now to do lower form of jobs come from the FEET of the SELF and not from the Anus of Vishnu.

Believe in only what Vedas says, its the ultimate and the one and believe that it all talks about various manifestation of SELF the one which is there everywhere.