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What happens to the wiseman now? :) |TB-75|

तथा चात्मवित्संसारं तीर्त्वा ब्रह्मानन्दमिहैव प्राप्नोति |TB-75|

तथा tathA = In this manner

चात्मवित्संसारं तीर्त्वा Atmavit samsAram tIrtvA = the knower of AtmA crosses the ocean of samsAra

प्राप्नोति prApnoti = gains

ब्रह्मानन्दमिहैव bramha Anandam iha eva = here and itself bramha Anandam

This statement alone has created any number of "profitable business vedAntic centers" all around the globe..



Now many start a pseudo-vedAntic institution and start preaching and teaching indian scriptures to the unsuspecting masses.. and charges so much money for so much reading material, class room experience, ArmA work shops.. etc.. it is really amazing how the simple and lofty upanishadic message can get distorted in the hands of profit oriented sick minds..!

So please stay clear off such promises and read on wiht shraddhA..

Here is a wiseman.. He most likely was born as unwise as any one of us.. lead a normal life.. and something triggered his search for "Who Am I?".. and has landed in the spiritual forest.. there he escapes all modern vedAntins and ends up in the lap of a guru like SDS who has started an institution names as ArSha vidyA gurukulam..

This unwiseman then hears from the guru "aham bramha asmi".. that upadesha suddenly rings a loud bell inside his mind.. then by systematic study (IF NECESSARY) removes all the doubts that can hamper ownership of that mahAvAkyam.. The veDAntic study has been completed as needes AS HE MAY HAVE BEEN READY ALL ALONG BASED ON HIS KARMA OF PRIOR BIRTHS.

Now as time goes on he ages, his back hurts, his business fails, loved ones die of cancer unexpectedly.. health fails.. people cheat him.. trust crubles.. the list is endless. Allof these are vipareeta bhAvanA or experiences that most likely hamper the progress of many a mumukshu or seekers.. so nididhyAsanam or reflections on what has been learnt continues AS LONG AS IT IS NEEDED.. NOW THE ATMA GNYANAM IS FIRM. NOW ALONE he has owned up to it. His gain IS infinite..


What is this bramha Anandam of a gnyAni?

It is important to get some erroneous notions about this "bramhan bliss" as most commonly translated by many AchAryas and gurus..

AS I have said many a time, there is ice cream bliss, chocolte bliss, spouse-bliss, chidren-bliss, friends-bliss, svarga-bliss.

All these "bliss" belongs to VOR only.. so as they begin, after enjoyment they go away.

So what is this bramha Anandam gained by the gnyAni..? It can NEVER be a vaisheeyika sukham or Objec-based enjoyment, be it sentient object or an insentient object that is being enjoyed..

Both of these vyAvahAric objects change and as they change the sukha anubhavam or the pleasure experienced by their enjoyment also increases or decreases..

Here taitreeya upanishat gives a beautiful Ananda calculation..

Imagine a young man, good-natured, exemplary conduct, incredibly strong and healthy, extremely handsome, and the owner of all of the wealth found on earth, under the earth, and the ocean.. ahh.. what a bliss he must have.. just unimaginable, right?

Now if that Anandam of this young man is "ONE human Anandam", multiply that by 100, and that is the manushya gandhava Anandam.. times 100 is deva gandharva Anandam, times 100 is the Anandam of manes, times 100 is the Anandam of a temporary svarga loka resident, times 100 is the svarga loka servant Anandam, times 100 is the deva Anandam, times 100 is indra Anandam, times 100 is bRhaspati, the deva guru Anandam, time 100 is bramhAji's Anandam, times 100 is brmahan's Ananda,,

Get it? When even one unit of manushya Anandam is beyond our imagination, what to talk of manushya gandahrva Ananda etc?

But every one of those units pales in comparison to the Anandam of the one simple property-less beggar-like, loin clothed gnyAni, sitting or sleeping under a tree, WITHOUT A CARE IN THE WORLD.. YET BY HIS VERY PRESENCE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IS BLESSED.. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO DO ANYTHING, YET LIKE THE JOY OF SUN RISE, people find joy in his very association.

That is bramha Anandam or svarUpa Anandam, or Atma Anandam!


Continuing the moksha journey..

That bramha Anandam, which is NOT an experiential Anandam, sustains every single pleasurable experiences we have on planet earth.. be it the happiness enjoyed by a dog eating a biscuit or humans enjoying a candle light dinner or the svarga residents enjoying the dance by rambA and Urvasi and menakA..

These sAmsArika sukha anubhavas are called viShya sukham..and are classified as a trace of bramha Anandam..

Okay.. the bramha Anandam is not an experiential sukham.. it is not expressible in words.. it is just the shAnta bhAvam that resides in our buddhi..

We apparently lose it when we go to sleep.. just like a gnyAni also..

But agnyAnis wake up as a agnyAni.. fully awake only to the mithyA universe and MISTAKING IT AS SATYMA..

A gnyAni wakes up to the same universe and due to his sarvAtma bhAva.. he claims in his buddhi of course.."aham manu: abhavam.. I am the manu who was there before me.. aham Aditya; I am the very sun that sustains the creation.. I am everything.. "

This is RShi vAmdeva declaring it in shruti after bramha gnyAnam..

I am dwelling on this bramha Anandam portion a little bit longer than I had intended simply because, as I study more and more vedAntic texts, its magnificience keeps growing steadily in my own mind..!

As this is EXACTLY the trouble spot for all yogis, upAsakAs, bhaktAs and afflicted ones, and jignyAsus, the mistaken notion that bramha Anandam is an experience.. like viShaya anubhavam. That is why I very strongly urge the SDS community members to go through swamiji's recap of kenopanishat by vrushali.. with a few comments here and there by me.

There I was not adding anything new to what SDS taught me and I am simply incapable of doing it.. yet, the confusion I had and the clarifications that SDS provided alone have been added by me..

In a few more posts TB will be over.. and this TB train is reaching its destination.. all of the familiar land marks can be seen.. The moksha destination is NOT far away..

Let us all travel with the gnyAni.!

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