Upanishads. I’ll continue to expand on the Shanti Mantra. So let’s start with the Shanti Mantra: Om Poornamadah Poornamidam Poornat Poornamudashyate Poornasya Poornamadaya Poornamevavasishyate Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi Completion, this is Completion, that is Completion. If this is removed from that, both remains, continue, as Completion. When the Completion merges into Completion, Completion alone remains. If the Completion is removed or perceived to be removed from Completion, again, Completion alone remains as Completion. Vivekananda says, “Forget about all you know as religion; go back to Upanishads, the Source! Drink from the Source which will strengthen you.” Listen - drink from the source which will strengthen you. Many time, the achara, the every-day practices you observe, gets the status of ‘religion,’ and, sometime, the achara starts even contradicting the main core truth of religion, and you continue to practice the achara, leaving the religion. It’s like a story: in one mutt, they had a cat, that cat used to jump around the sanidhanam when he does pooja, create a big ruckus, so the sanidhanam said, “hey- first tie the cat before I do pooja so I don’t get disturbance.” They tied the cat, and he did pooja, second day, they tied the cat and he did the pooja, third day, they tied the cat and he did the pooja... Since then, it became a habit that before pooja, they tied the cat. One fine day, the cat died, and they don’t know what to do without the cat to start pooja! They had to go find a cat, Sanidhanam didn’t do pooja because cat was not there to be tied! See, the acharas unfortunately get into the state of religion when the reason, context, is lost in course of time. There are thousands of stories where achara becomes, anushtana becomes a religion. Achara and anushtana is way of living religion only if you know the context of the achara and anushtana. Once in a while, you have to review yourself, all the achara and anushtana you are doing, are you in the right context and doing it? Based on which you can measure, scale, are you in the right context? How to align yourself to the right context? The scale to align you to the right context is Upanishads. Again, and again, and again, go back to the Source, Upanishads. Upanishads will give you the clarity, setting the right context for the achara and anushtana you are following, and, making you live! Making you live the context in your every day life. See, achara and anushtana means habits and lifestyle. The everyday habits and lifestyle you are supposed to follow. Neither you should give up the ahcara and anushtanas, nor you should be without knowing the context. You should do it, knowing the context. Doing it by knowing the context. People who give up lose spiritual strength and people who don’t know the context become superstitious. If you give up a and a you will lose spiritual strength; if you don’t know the context and continue to do, you will become superstitious, so for both disease, who don’t know and are living superstitious life, for both, the greatest medicine is Upanishads. It is like extracting out of mud, see the gold ore, they collect the gold ore, process it, boil it, acid wash it, finally the gold comes out. Did the gold come from somewhere out of nowhere? No! It came only from itself. But, was the mud there in the gold in the beginning? No! It came only from itself. An enlightened being out of you, it is there inside you, only if it is there it can come out, otherwise it can’t come out. Whatever need to be added in you for you to become an enlightened being is completion; whatever need to be removed from you is the idea you have incompletion. There is no incompletion itself; if something is there, it will continue to be there. Listen. If something is there it’ll continue to be there. From the gold ore, if all the dirt can be removed, and gold finally remains, how can you say there was a time this dirt was part of gold? Anything which can be removed, how can you say it was part of it? You were insensitive to see both of them separate in the beginning, now they have become separated to the level you are able to sense, that’s all. Listen. If the dirt is inside the gold, can it be separated? No. Because it was never inside, it can be separated. If the incompletions are part of your programming, it can never be separated, because it is already out of you, it can be taken out. Understand, now they’re out of you but not to the level you can sense it. Once they are out of you to the level you can sense it you declare Poornamadah Poornamidam Poornat Poornamudashyate Poornasya Poornamadaya Poornamevavashishyate! Bhagwan Paramahamsa Nithyananda, from Upanishads Series Satsangs, 25th January 2015
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 11:16:51 +0000
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