SwamiSuvijnanananda

Swami Suvijnanananda: From the Swamiji!

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Self realisation is not an experience. It is the awareness of the core person that we are. Self knowledge is what one needs.

Trekers at the start of an adventure.

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Treking leisurely in the Annamalai hills

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Annamalai, a different angle.

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Serene Countenance of the Sage

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Inner Girivalam and Annamalai hills in the background.

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Treking in the inner Girivalam

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Prominent camp members in front of Annamalai

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A view of the Karthikai deepam hills in the Background.

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Camp members on a stroll!

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A Hillock which appears like a Toad

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Cottage hall entrance!

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Camp members return after the Girivalam

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Moksha

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Moksha is not an event.

Moksha is to know that what exists is Brahman only.

To know that, that Brahman is me is knowledge.

Me is not the transactor that I am.

Here 'me' is the basis of all transactions.

It is the ever present I which cannot be sublated.

That Brahman is I . This is knowledge.

That I am Brahman , that I am everything, that nothing is apart from me is Moksha.

Success

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When effort, Time and Daiva work together there is success.

Effort is in your hands.

Every endeavor has a time span. Have the patience to wait for the span to get completed.
Daiva is not in your hands. It is in God's hands. By prayer you gain the grace of God.

Grace comes as hope.

Pour all your enthusiasm, expertise, talent, tact and knowledge into your effort. Commit yourself to your effort.

Every seed has its own time span to sprout.

Give a reasonable time span for your efforts to fructify.

Pray fervently to God and heartily seek His help.

Surrender

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Thy will be done, not mine.
Let me not resist God who expresses Himself as the order of Creation.
Whatever happens is in harmony with God. To accept totally the past , the living and moving present , without any demur or resistance is surrender.
God is the lord of the law of KARMA. He gives us our deserts as per the chart of Karma. He is called the Karma Phala data. What we do brings a result. Where we do works on the result. The forces in creation affect our results. The resolution of all these three is what we get as our deserts. The inexorable law that governs the entire process is called God (Iswara). As we sow we reap. Depending on several factors what we sow germinates and gradually bears fruit. Just as the growth of the seed depends on the nature of the seed, the nature of the soil, the atmosphere, the sunlight, the moonlight, the irrigation we do, so too what we do, where we do, how we do, with whom we do, with what intentions we do decides our deserts.
To know that there is a power unseen which shapes our ends, rough hue them how we will, is surrender.
In Him we live, by His behest which is beneficial to one and all in all periods of time should we do.
O Lord let Thy will be done not mine.
Grant not what I ask, grant what is good and noble. If what I ask is in harmony with Thine will please do grant. This is my prayer.

The GAYATRI mantra!

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Gayatri is otherwise called savitri. It is a synonym for the sun god surya.
With this mantra we recharge our intellects and pray for clarity and wisdom at the intellectual level.

The mantra translated will be:

O ADORABLE GOD OF LIGHT THAT ILLUMINES THE THE ENTIRE CREATION AS THE OBJECTLESS CONSCIOUSNESS,

I SEEK YOUR BLESSINGS BY MEDITATING ON YOUR EFFULGENCE.YOU ARE THE ONE THAT ENLIGHTENS ALL THE GODS.

MAY YOU INSPIRE OUR INTELLECTS AND MAKE US SEE CLEARLY, JUDGE PROPERLY, DISCRIMINATE WISELY AND HELP US TAKE DECISIONS CORRECTLY.

HELP US BE AT THE RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME WITH ALL OUR INSTRUMENTS IN PERFECT CONDITION.YOU ARE THE ONE PERVADING ALL THE THREE PLANES OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

In Sanskrit the text reads:

OM BHUR BHUVAH SUVAH

TAT SAT SAVITUR VAREENYAM

BARGO DEVASYA DHIMAHE

DHIYO YO NAH PRACHODAYAT...

IDENTITY

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IDENTITY

What a wonder.Am I important or my identity.?
Everywhere you are asked to identify yourself.
I am is a fact . I exist is a fact. I am alive is a fact.
who I am is a notion built by me on the findings of a net work of transactions I went through. This notion is ephemeral, subject to change and hence is not me . It is about me. the Truth is I exist .If this is so, one is made to ask why I should identify myself ? Is it because society wants me to differentiate myself from others? My very very presence which is gross and tangible will make others recognize me, for no two are alike.
We talk of freedom , but every where we are asked to identify ourselves. Can't one live in tne world unidentified. Only human beings are asked to identify themselves. The other living and non living ones pass of peacefully in this planet of ours.
A non demanding person should be allowed to pass through life without proving himself to others.That I exist needs no proof when I am there alive.

This was not the case a decade ago. Now fictitious identities have grown like fungus or mushrooms every where . Should this be so ?

Think. ponder, reflect and comment

Your IDENTITY,

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Often we are asked, "Who are you?".
The answer we give is riddled with several choices. There is the real I, the Truth of ourselves and the transactional "I". This transactional one alone has several choices. Depending on what we identify with we create an identity, the which becomes an answer for the question, "who are you ? ". For example if I identify with my body I say I am fair complexioned, tall, handsome etc. If I identify with my mind and the several thoughts that pass through the mind, then there are several identities. for example, I am not feeling well, I am sick, I am angry, I am worried, agitated, I am very clear etc. When I identify with my birth and lineage I say I am blue blooded, I am a Brahmin, a Kshatriya, vaisya etc. Identity with the country makes me say I am an Indian, American, British, Chinese, Japanese etc. When I identify with my senses, I say I am blind, I am deaf, I am dumb,etc. Identity with the organs of action makes me take the identity "I" am lame, halt etc.
As these identities are organ or instrument, or idea - oriented they don't invoke the real " I ". The truth is I am not these, but the one with these possessions or titles.

THE REAL 'I' IS UNIDENTIFIABLE for it is free from all relationships.

So we conclude that Identity is relation -oriented.
So the answer to the question "Who are YOU?" from the absolute stand point will be:

I AM THAT I AM.

( Discussion on this is welcome )

Freedom and Bondage

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Living life entirely in the Known breeds endless conflict and misery.
FEAR OF FACTS LEADS TO BONDAGE.
Awareness of fact is Freedom.
Meditation frees you from narrowness and limitation.

Knowing is not learning. Knowing is accumulation and recognition.
Accumulation prevents learning, distorts and puts an end to Learning.
EVERY MOMENT WE LEARN.

WHEN MIND LOSES ITS SLAVERY TO WORDS AND ITS REACTIONS, MEDITATION GETS FULFILLED.

Thought should not shape the mind.
Mind should cease to be the framework of ideas.
Free yourself from idea and relationship and go deep in Meditation.

Time really does not exist, it is a concept of the mind.
Pleasure measures time quickly and pain does it slowly.
Waking time does not agree with dreaming time or sleeping time.
Beyond the pale of Time is Aananda which is not bliss but eternity.

Please post your comments on this!

The Goal of Life!

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The goal of life is discover oneself. That which we call as our self is a confused self. "I am That I am " is the goal of life.
When some one asks you who you are, your answer is your name, your parentage, tradition, religion, education, marital status, position which are all roles you have assumed.
The real "I" is other than all these. These gain validity because of your association with the body, senses, mind, memory etc.
The "I" that I am or the I that you are is undefinable for it is not an object of your thought. It is the "I" on which the fabric of thought is oven. Think, ponder on this.

A Vedic prayer to Lord Ganapathi

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A Soulful Prayer:
Gananam tva ganapatigm havamahe
Kavim kavinam upamasravastamam
jyestarajam brahmanam brahmanaspata
Anassrinvanutibhissida sadanam.

We adore and worship you. May you the Lord of the vedas deign to take a seat in our hearts with all your powers of protection. Are'nt you the leader of leaders of assemblies of deities. You are the seer of all seers. You have been eulogised in all similies and classic metaphors as the most famous and unparallelled knower of Brahman.
You ever shine in the hearts of your devotees. May you listen to our prayers and grace us with felicity.

Ganapati is a kavi, a seer who is far-sighted having the knowledge of the past present and future.All kavis (poets)look up to you for guidance and understanding. You are the uncaused cause the brought into being all the kavis ( Seers or poets ).
None can ever approximate you.

Devotees divinise their hearts as altars of fire ritual and offer oblations to Ganapati seated in their hearts as the Lord of the ritual.

Desire validated in vedanta

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DESIRE to entertain or not.

Desire is a privilege given to the human being by god.Bhagavat Gita says that Desire not opposed to Dharma is an expression of God. Chamakam in Rudram and Chamakam validates several desires. Desire opposed to Dharma is the root cause of evil.
There is a wrong understanding in the modern world that all desires are to be eschewed.
This is against the tenets of Vedanta. The one who advocates that all desires are to be rooted out, has a desire to talk and advise. All transactions are born out of desire only. Desire is harmless as long as it conforms to Dharma. The traditional teacher also has a desire to teach. All desire to live. All desire health, wealth , fame, prosperity and peace. They are valid. Desires erupt in the mind. Dharma based desires are valid and get manifested in actions. Kama -desire -is mental and Dharma manifests only at the level of actions.Veda talks about Dharma. Taittreya upanishad talks of Dharma in the seeksha Valli. All should read and assimilate them .

JAGAT - The world of manifestation.

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The indescribable power of Iswara is called Maya. Iswara with his power called Maya manifests thia world. Maya is otherwise called Prakriti. Tigunatmika Maya- maya is made up of three gunas ( modes, preponderences, modalities). They are Satwa, rajas and tamas. Satwa mode makes one seek knowledge. Such a one seeks purity. illumination, clarity. He persues pleasures. Such a one is bound by knowledge and pleasure. A person in the rajas mode is a workaholic. He has a passioon for work. He develops deep attachments and goes to extremes in love, hatred, envy, jealousy etc. By these modes he is bound . A person of tamas mode is lethargic, is given to procrastination, becomes indifferent to priorities in life,is stubborn, refractor yand adament. His mind is always confused.

These modes alternate in the mind and create a pall of thicknes preventing one from recognising the atma, the awareness that he is. These modes find expression in yajna(sacrificial acts) dana (charitable acts), tapas- austerities and in acts that need decisions. Gunas also act in the field of sraddha -faith-beleif systems.

The whole world of transactions come under the sway of these gunas.

The unique power of Maya is reversal. Reversal is to make a noun an adjective and adjective a noun.Maya hides the real and projects the unreal. It makes as it were the anatma as atma and atma as anatma, the attribute of the concrete as concrete and concrete as its adjective. viz: gold chain. Here the concrete is gold and attribute is chain But in the word, chain is the noun and gold is the adjective. this is the reversal.In Sanskrit this reversal is called 'vyatyayaha' . maya gives substantiality to things that don't have substantiality. Maya makes adjectives pull down the noun and make adjectives occupy the throne of the noun. Sat- existence is noun and objects in jagat are adjectives. Maya's pravritti does the reversal.Maya brings out the 'anyonya mithuni karanam ' intermixture. Tne projective power (vikshepa) of Maya is wonderful, this power is the one that manifested the surge called creation. This projective power uses the modes satwa,rajas and tamas and projects the plurality and the variegated variety.

Vedanta a pragmatic approach (continued.....)

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With regard to the 'I' , the transactor there is a confusion. In transaction there is a subject part and an object part. The subject part is the Objectless awareness (The Atma). The object part is Atma becoming a transactor.The transactor is attributeless I along with the object transacted. "Aham vritti -the akhandaakara vritii- + buddhi vritti. eg. I see a pot. This is I the observer and the pot that is seen by me. Aham vritti+ Ghata (pot) vritti formed inthe buddhi.In the recognition of this there is the kshetrajna and the Kshetra. The awarer( Pure consciousnes ) and the awared the rocogniser with the recognition of the object -the pot. Here the seer is awareness affected by the object ,pot.To distinctively recognise the awareness and the awarer of the object is called viveka (discrimination- this word does not convey the full content of viveka. So a teacher is necessary to make us understand what exactly Viveka is.In normal transaction we recognise the awarer of thew object but not the subject, the awarer-pure consciousness.Let us look at the mix upwe have made.I am lean. What you mean here is your body is lean and you are trustee of the body. Your are not the body .You are the user of the body.So How can I be thin? We have to say my body is lean.I am not allright. This really means I am the one with a mind or a body that is not allright.To stay as the consciousness unaffected by the recognition ia jnana, liberation from limitations.

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