Isavasya 1 Translation Fantasia

1.

ishavasyam idam sarvam yat 

kincha jagatyaam jagat

tena tyaktena bhunjitha ma

gridhah kasya svid dhanam.

That Supreme Being pervades everything here.

That which moves and That which does not move.

Therefore, let go and rejoice!

Whose wealth is this anyway?

The Upanishad says, ‘Ishavasyam idam sarvam’ – ‘that Supreme Being pervades everything here.’ Yat kincha jagatyam jagat – ‘That which moves and That which does not move.’ Actually, the word jagat, which we call the world, comes from the root, ‘to move.’ Tena tyaktena bhunjitha – ‘therefore, let go and rejoice! Let go!’ Don’t get caught up in this circus. Let go and enjoy yourself – rejoice! Ma gridhah kasya svid dhanam – Whose wealth is this anyway?

~Sri M

All this, whatever moves in this universe, including those that move not, is indwelt or pervaded or enveloped or clothed by the Lord. That renounced, thou shouldst enjoy. Covet not anybody’s wealth. 

The word vāsyam is a pregnant sound in Sanskrit with unlimited suggestiveness and innumerable meanings. It may be used to mean ‘to be clothed’, ‘to be worn as garment’, ‘to be inhabited’, ‘to be enveloped,’ or ‘to be pervaded.’ And here in this context, all these meanings are applicable. The great ṛṣi exclaims that ‘all this’ that we are perceiving through our sense organs or by the intervention of our mind and intellect – all this – is indwelt by the Spirit which is the Lord of the world of perception. 

‘That renounced’ (tena tyaktena) – This is the effective part, the technique to experience the Lord that ‘envelopes all this’ (īśāvāsyam idagṁ sarvam). Identified with the beauty of a sculpture, many a time, we fail to notice the material with which it is made. Very rarely are you recognising the paper on which these words are printed – you are seeing the ideas through the word meanings, and not the colour of the white paper. And yet, you know that these printed words are impossible to be read if the paper were black in colour! To see the colour of the paper is to ignore the words. To renounce the enchantments of and hunger for the names and forms is to recognise the Lord, the Infinite. ~

~Chinmayananda

ALL THIS-whatever exists in this changing universe-should be covered by the Lord. Protect the Self by renunciation. Lust not after any man's wealth. 

This universe, from the standpoint of Absolute Reality, is nothing but the Lord. That it is perceived as a material entity is due to ignorance. One should view the universe, through the knowledge of nonduality, as Atman alone.

~Nikhilananda

SR15: That's

1. Aum/Ohm

In Maya, Brahman is two-faced. In reality, Brahman is one without a second.

Saguna Brahman and Nirguna Brahman are the two sides of That in nonduality.

The truth of Turiyam is beyond Brahman and Atman as quantum physics is to classical mechanics. 

2. On High and Lo

The lower cause is transformational.

The higher cause is apparitional.

Thinking is the lower cause.

Pure consciousness is the highest.

Dreaming is the lowest state. 

Self-awareness is the highest.

3. Ten Revelations

Seeing through a glass wall

isn't bad for the eyes.

There is no snake.

The rope is a vehicle.

That's Maya, Jack.

DNA is the stuff of karma.

Time is like a family tree.

Space is forgiveness.

The god of atheism is theism.

Atma of Brahma is Brahman.

4. What's Apparitional?

The last step

of any particular stage 

is caused by the first step

of the very next stage. 

That's apparitional.

~sr15

Ten Revelations

Seeing through a glass wall
isn't bad for the eyes.
There is no snake.
The rope is a vehicle.
That's Maya, Jack.
DNA is the stuff of karma.
Time is like a family tree.
Space is forgiveness.
The god of atheism is theism.
Atma of Brahma is Brahman.

~rj31

On High and Lo

The lower cause is transformational.

The higher cause is apparitional.

Thinking is the lower cause.

Pure consciousness is the highest.

Dreaming is the lowest state. 

Self-awareness is the highest.

~rj30

Aum/Ohm

In Maya, Brahman is two-faced. In reality, Brahman is one without a second.

Saguna Brahman and Nirguna Brahman are the two sides of That in nonduality.

The truth of Turiyam is beyond Brahman and Atman as quantum physics is to classical mechanics. 

~rj29

Surrender Awareness

1. My Valentine's Day Ananda

Consciousness is the absolute truth.

Consciousness is such a hard problem thinks science.

Even the highest wave of consciousness studies can never know that sea.

I love I know I am

2. Good News Om

Duality thinks. Nonduality knows.

Our personal default is sadness.

Hallelujah the good news isn't personal. Om.

3. Truly Yours

See through your point of view.

Awareness is pointless.

In spacetime but of nonduality.

4. Satcitananda

ananda cit sat

asi tvam tat

i am that

~sr14

My Valentine's Day Ananda

Consciousness is the absolute truth.

Consciousness is such a hard problem thinks science.

Even the highest wave of consciousness studies can never know that sea.

I love I know I am.

~rj28~

Dayananda on Bhagavad Gita 9:22 - the best form of worship

Dayananda:

ananyāścintayanto māṁ ye janāḥ paryupāsate teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁ yogakṣemaṁ vahāmyaham (22)

ye janāḥ – those people who; ananyāḥ – (see themselves as) non-separate from me; māṁ cintayantaḥ – recognising me; (mām) paryupāsate – gain me; teṣāṁ nitya-abhiyuktānām – for these who are always one with me; yoga-kṣemam – what they want to acquire and protect; ahaṁ vahāmi – I take care of those people

Those people who (see themselves as) non-separate from me, recognising me, gain me. For those who are always one with me, I take care of what they want to acquire and protect.

This is a very famous and often quoted verse. It has an important location. It is about the middle of the ninth chapter, which is in the middle of the eighteen chapters.

These are individuals, and how can they be non-separate from Īśvara, the Lord? Śaṅkara says that it is possible due to the fact that the Lord is the ātmā of all of them. When this is so, naturally those who recognise the ātmā as Parameśvara are non-separate from him.

The ātmā of Īśvara is the ātmā of jīva, and it is caitanya, eka, one, advitīya, non-dual, and which is satyam jñānam anantam brahma. Those who recognise themselves as such are called ananyas.

It is because of the word ananya that Śaṅkara has said in his introduction that these are people of clear vision, samyag-darśīs. The others are also non-separate from Īśvara but they do not recognise it. The only difference between samyag-darśīs and others is recognition and non-recognition, knowledge and ignorance. And that is a vast difference.

The mind cannot go away from Parameśvara because the mind itself is Parameśvara. It is like someone who wants to get away from space. Where will the person go? There is no such place. This is the way in which these people recognise Īśvara.

Look at this. Cintayantaḥ mām, enquiring into me, māṁ paryupāsate, they also seek Īśvara. Then what do they get? Let us consider a mumukṣu who wants liberation. He also prays to the Lord, but what is the object of his prayer? It is Īśvara. He wants nothing else but to know Īśvara. He says, ‘My object is only to find you and so I pray to know where you are, what you are.’

After finding Īśvara what does he want? He says, ‘Nothing; only to know that I am one with you.’ Such mumukṣus do not look upon Īśvara as really separate from themselves. There is a sense of separation for the time being because of ignorance. To resolve it, they are constantly enquiring into the svarūpa of Īśvara.

They also have doubts, ‘If he is non-dual, he is one with me. How can it be? I am such an insignificant being. How can I be Parameśvara, the Lord?’ These doubts are there because there is no knowledge, only śraddhā. So they seek, paryupāsate. How? By śravaṇa, manana, and nididhyāsana, with devotion and commitment.

Mokṣa is only through knowledge of ātmā being Brahman, which is the cause of the world. To know this you must enquire and to enquire you must have an appropriate pramāṇa, means of knowledge. How are you going to enquire into Īśvara?

Through the pramāṇa which is in the form of words. Therefore, enquiring into Bhagavān is enquiring into the words of the śāstra. Thus they seek me, they worship me by enquiring into who I am. That is the best form of worship.

From the standpoint of māyā-upādhi, there is Īśvara. But the ātmā of Īśvara is nothing but the truth of the jīva, the caitanya ātmā. And the jīva’s ātmā is nothing but Īśvara. There is only one aham, the limitless ātmā, which is the truth of both the Lord and the individual.

~edited from BG6 9:22

Electric Gita

In America, homelessness is the guru. It’s your metaparadigm, stupid.

The direct path is formed by ten thousand indirect paths.

Pay attention to the signs. The direct path is pure consciousness.

Reflected consciousness is ten thousand indirect paths.

Cause and effect is the stuff of dreams. Everything always is.

Electricity is the infinite contained in the finite.

In America, homelessness is the guru. It’s your metaparadigm, stupid. The direct path is formed by ten thousand indirect paths.

Pay attention to the signs. The direct path is pure consciousness. Reflected consciousness is ten thousand indirect paths.

Cause and effect is the stuff of dreams. Everything always is. Electricity is the infinite contained in the finite.

Universe without a Second

In the world, in samsara, the absolute nondual satcitananda

Parabrahman appears to be two-faced.

Saguna and Nirguna Brahman are like two faces of a nondual coin.

Breathe in like Nirguna, breathe out like Saguna, resting on Turiyam. Om.