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.Know Thou art That. O aspirants bold! Say Om Tat Sat; Om-Sat-Chit-Ananda-rupah, Sivoham,Sivoham; Sat-Chit-Ananda-Svarupoham."MESSAGE OF GITAThe Atma is not born nor does He ever die.He is unborn, eternal, changeless, ancient andinexhaustible.He is not killed when the body is killed.He slays not, nor is he slain.A Sthitaprajna or Jivanmukta is free from desires, longings, fears, mineness,  I-ness andattachment.He is satisfied in his own self.He is indifferent amidst sensual pleasures.He is notelated by getting desirable objects.He has a poised mind at all times and under all conditions.He iscentred in his own self.Work incessantly without egoism and without expectation of fruits.Have a balanced mindin success and failure.You will not be bound by Karmas or actions.The senses move among sense-objects.Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going,sleeping, breathing, speaking, sneezing, opening and closing the eyes are the functions or Dharmasof the organs only.In reality thou art the silent witness of the activities of the senses and themodifications of the mind.Prakriti or Svabhava does everything.The Atma is actionless(Nishkriya).In essence, thou-art the Atma.With the mind harmonised in Yoga, he who sees the Self in all beings and all beings in theSelf sees the same everywhere.He who hates no creature, who is friendly and compassionate to all, who is free fromattachment and egoism, balanced in pleasure and pain, forgiving, ever-content, steady inmeditation, self-controlled, possessed of firm conviction with mind and intellect dedicated to theLord, who neither rejoices nor hates, neither grieves nor desires, who is full of devotion, who is thesame to a foe and a friend in honour and dishonour, who is the same in cold and heat, in pleasure andpain, who is balanced in censure and praise, is a great devotee or Gunatita.He is very dear to theLord.Doubtless the mind is fleeting like the air, impetuous and restless.It is hard to be controlled.But by practice (Abhyasa) and dispassion (Vairagya) it can be controlled.Fix your mind on the Lord.Become His devotee.Sacrifice everything unto the Lord.Bowdown to Him.Surely you will attain Him.Abandon the fruits of all works.Take refuge in the Lordalone.He will liberate you from all sins.Wherever is Krishna, the Lord of Yoga; wherever is Partha, the archer; there is prosperity,victory, happiness and sound policy.59ESSENCE OF YOGAESSENCE OF YOGA-VASISHTHAIf the four sentinels that wait at the gates of Moksha (salvation), viz., Santi (peace), Vichara(Atmic enquiry), Santosha (contentment), and Satsanga (association with the wise), are befriended,then there will be no obstacle in the attainment of the final emancipation.Even if one of them isbefriended, then he will introduce you to the rest of his companions.If you attain knowledge of the Self or Brahma Jnana, you will be freed from the trammels ofbirths and deaths.All doubts will vanish; all Karmas will perish.It is through one s own effortsalone that the immortal, all-blissful Brahmic seat can be attained.The slayer of Atma is the mind only.The form of the mind is Sankalpas.The true nature ofthe mind consists in the Vasanas.The actions of the mind alone are truly termed Karmas or actions.The universe is nothing but the mind, manifesting as such only through the potency of Brahman.The mind contemplating on the body becomes the body itself and then enmeshed in it, is afflicted byit.The mind manifests itself as the external world in the shape of pains or pleasures.The mindsubjectively is consciousness; objectively it is this universe.The mind attains, through its enemy ofdiscrimination, the quiescent state of Para-Brahman.The real bliss is that one which arises when themind, diverted of all desires through the eternal Jnana, destroys its subtle form.The Sankalpas andVasanas (subtle desires), which you generate, enmesh you as in a net.The self-light ofPara-Brahman alone is appearing as the mind or this universe.Persons without Atmic enquiry will see as real this world which is nothing but of the natureof Sankalpa.The expansion of this mind alone is Sankalpa.Sankalpa, through its power ofdifferentiation, generates this universe.Extinction of Sankalpas alone is Moksha.The enemy of Atma is this impure mind only which is filled with excessive delusion andhosts of worldly thoughts.There is no other vessel of this earth to wade through the ocean of rebirththan the mastery of the antagonistic mind.The original sprout of the painful Ahamkara (egoism) with its tender stem of rebirths atlength ramifies itself everywhere with its long branches of  mine and  thine and yields its unripefruits of death, disease, old age, pains and sorrows.This tree can be destroyed to its root by the fireof Jnana only.All the heterogeneous visibles perceived through the organs of sense are only unreal but thatwhich is real is Para Brahman or the Supreme Soul.If all objects which have an enchanting appearance become eye-sores and present the veryreverse of the former feelings, then the mind is destroyed.All your properties are useless.Allwealth land you in dangers.Desirelessness will take you to the eternal blissful abode.60PHILOSOPHY AND VEDANTADestroy Vasanas and Sankalpas.Kill egoism.Annihilate this mind.Equip yourself with thefour means.Meditate on the pure, immortal, all-pervading Self or Atma.Get knowledge of the Selfand attain immortality, everlasting peace, eternal bliss, freedom and perfection.MESSAGE OF WISDOMThe desire to know the Brahman springs only in the person whose mind is pure, who is freefrom desires and who is free from the deeds done in this birth and in the previous ones, becomesdisgusted with the external, ephemeral perishable objects.Even when Brahman is explained, those who have not been purged of their faults andimpurities, either disbelieve or misbelieve it as was the case with Indra, Virochana, etc.Therefore,knowledge as inculcated arises only in him who has, by Tapas, etc., performed either in this birth orin many previous births purified himself.The Sruti says:  To that high-souled man whose devotionto the Lord is great and whose devotion to his preceptor is as great as that to the Lord, these secretsexplained become illuminated.Just as the coloured water penetrates freely and nicely a piece of cloth when it is pure white,so also, the instructions of a sage can penetrate and settle down in the hearts of aspirants only whentheir minds are calm, when there are no desires for enjoyments and when the impurities of theirminds are destroyed. But I assure you, on the authority of my own intuitional knowledge as well as that of otherillumined souls, that the Reality can be realised by man.But one who has known it cannotcommunicate it to others for want of means. Sage Vasishtha.Even the knowledge acquired by the five senses which are common to all cannot becommunicated to others.You cannot tell the taste of butter to a man who has never tasted it or evencommunicate the idea of colour to one born blind.All that a teacher can do is to tell his disciple the method of knowing the Truth or the paththat leads to the disclosure of intuitional faculty.Hold the magnificent torch of faith.Fly high the unique banner of peace.Wear themagnificent shield of dispassion.Put on the marvellous coat-of-arms of discrimination [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]