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Four Varnas explained

Posted on 2nd October 2022 | Comments Off on Four Varnas explained

*भोग यानी शुद्र (देह)*
*तृष्णा यानी वैश्य (मन)*
*संकल्प यानी क्षत्रिय (आत्मा)*
*समर्पण यानी ब्राह्मण ( परमात्मा)*

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तुम यह जानते हो कि इस देश में जो बड़े से बड़े ज्ञानी हुए–सब क्षत्रिय थे।
बुद्ध, जैनों के चौबीस तीर्थंकर, राम, कृष्ण–
सब क्षत्रिय थे! क्यों? होना चाहिए सब ब्राह्मण, मगर थे सब क्षत्रिय। क्योंकि ब्राह्मण होने के पहले क्षत्रिय होना जरूरी है।

जिसने जन्म के साथ अपने को ब्राह्मण समझ लिया, वह चूक गया। उसे पता ही नहीं चलेगा कि बात क्या है!

और जो जन्म से ही अपने को ब्राह्मण समझ लिया और सोच लिया कि पहुंच गया, क्योंकि जन्म उसका ब्राह्मण घर में हुआ है, उसे संकल्प की यात्रा करने का अवसर ही नहीं मिला, चुनौती नहीं मिली।

इस देश के महाज्ञानी क्षत्रिय थे।
हिंदुओं के अवतार, जैनों के तीर्थंकर, बौद्धों के बुद्ध–सब क्षत्रिय थे। इसके पीछे कुछ कारण है।

*सिर्फ एक परशुराम को छोड़कर, कोई ब्राह्मण अवतार नहीं है। और परशुराम बिलकुल ब्राह्मण नहीं हैं। उनसे ज्यादा क्षत्रिय आदमी कहां खोजोगे! उन्होंने क्षत्रियों से खाली कर दिया पृथ्वी को कई दफे काट–काटकर। वे काम ही जिंदगीभर काटने का करते रहे। उनका नाम ही परशुराम पड़ गया, क्योंकि वे फरसा लिए घूमते रहे। हत्या करने के लिए परशु लेकर घूमते रहे। परशु वाले राम–ऐसा उनका नाम है।*

वे क्षत्रिय ही थे। उनको भी ब्राह्मण कहना बिलकुल ठीक नहीं है, जरा भी ठीक नहीं है। उनसे बडा क्षत्रिय खोजना मुश्किल है! जिसने सारे क्षत्रियों को पृथ्वी से कई दफे मार डाला और हटा दिया, अब उससे बड़ा क्षत्रिय और कौन होगा?

संकल्प यानी क्षत्रिय..।

ऐसा समझो कि भोग यानी शूद्र। तृष्णा यानी वैश्य। संकल्प यानी क्षत्रिय। और जब संकल्प पूरा हो जाए, तभी समर्पण की संभावना है। तब समर्पण यानी ब्राह्मण।

जब तुम अपना सब कर लो, तभी तुम झुकोगे। उसी झुकने में असलियत होगी। जब तक तुम्हें लगता है मेरे किए हो जाएगा, तब तक तुम झुक नहीं सकते। तुम्हारा झुकना धोखे का होगा, झूठा होगा, मिथ्या होगा।

अपना सारा दौड़ना दौड़ लिए, अपना करना सब कर लिए और पाया कि नहीं, अंतिम चीज हाथ नहीं आती, नहीं आती, नहीं आती, चूकती चली जाती है। तब एक असहाय अवस्था में आदमी गिर पड़ता है। जब तुम घुटने टेककर प्रार्थना करते हो, तब असली प्रार्थना नहीं है। जब एक दिन ऐसा आता है कि तुम अचानक पाते हो कि घुटने टिके जा रहे हैं पृथ्वी पर। अपने टिका रहे हो–ऐसा नहीं, झुक रहे हो–ऐसा नहीं, झुके जा रहे हो। अब कोई और उपाय नहीं रहा। जिस दिन झुकना सहज फलित होता है, उस दिन समर्पण।

समर्पण यानी ब्राह्मण। समर्पण यानी ब्रह्म।
जो मिटा, उसने ब्रह्म को जाना।

*ये चारों पर्तें तुम्हारे भीतर हैं।*
यह तुम्हारे ऊपर है कि तुम किस पर ध्यान देते हो। ऐसा ही समझो कि जैसे तुम्हारे रेडियो में चार स्टेशन हैं। तुम कहां अपने रेडियो की कुंजी को लगा देते हो, किस स्टेशन पर रेडियो के कांटे को ठहरा देते हो, यह तुम पर निर्भर है।

*ये चारों तुम्हारे भीतर हैं।*
देह तुम्हारे भीतर है।
मन तुम्हारे भीतर है।
आत्मा तुम्हारे भीतर।
परमात्मा तुम्हारे भीतर।

अगर तुमने अपने ध्यान को देह पर लगा दिया, तो तुम शूद्र हो गए।

स्वभावत:, बच्चे सभी शूद्र होते हैं।
क्योंकि बच्चों से यह आशा नहीं की जा सकती कि वे देह से ज्यादा गहरे में जा सकेंगे। मगर के अगर शूद्र हों, तो अपमानजनक है। बच्चों के लिए स्वाभाविक है। अभी जिंदगी जानी नहीं, तो जो पहली पर्त है, उसी को पहचानते हैं। लेकिन का अगर शूद्र की तरह मर जाए, तो निंदा-योग्य है। सब शूद्र की तरह पैदा होते हैं, लेकिन किसी को शूद्र की तरह मरने की आवश्यकता नहीं है।

अगर तुमने अपने रेडियो को वैश्य के स्टेशन पर लगा दिया; तुमने अपने ध्यान को वासना-तृष्णा में लगा दिया, लोभ में लगा दिया, तो तुम वैश्य हो जाओगे।

तुमने अगर अपने ध्यान को संकल्प पर लगा दिया, तो क्षत्रिय हो जाओगे।

*तुमने अपने ध्यान को अगर समर्पण में डुबा दिया, तो तुम ब्राह्मण हो जाओगे।*

~ ओशो
ऐस धम्मो सनतनो–
प्रवचन-118

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AVADHUTA !!

Posted on 13th December 2021 | Comments Off on AVADHUTA !!

THE AVADHUT

The Avadhut has no ideal,
neither strives after the attainment of an ideal.
Having lost his identity in the Self,
free from the limitations of the illusory world,
free also from the perfections of Yoga,
thus walks the Avadhut.
He argues with no one,
he is not concerned with any object or person.

Free from the snares of expectations and hopes, he has cast off the worn-out garments of purity, righteousness, and all ideals.

His path is free from any such consideration. It can only be said about him that he is purity absolute, and is far, far above the clouds of maya and ignorance.

He has no such thoughts as
“I am not in the body,” or
“I am not the body.”

He has no aversion, attachment or infatuation towards any object or person. Pure as space he walks, immersed in the immaculate bliss of his natural state.

The Avadhut may be compared to immeasurable space.
He is Eternity.
In him is neither purity nor impurity.
There is no variety nor unity in him;
no bondage nor absence of bondage.

Free from separation and union,
free from enjoyment or absence of enjoyment, he moves calm and unhurried through the world.

Having given up all activity of the mind, he is in his normal state of indescribable bliss.

– AVADHUTA GITA.
Chapter VI. Verses 25 -29.

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What is GOD ??

Posted on 21st June 2021 | Comments Off on What is GOD ??

What is God?

God is not a person. That is one of the greatest misunderstandings, and it has prevailed so long that it has become almost a fact. Even if a lie is repeated continuously for centuries it is bound to appear as if it is a truth.

God is a presence, not a person. Hence all worshipping is sheer stupidity. Prayerfulness is needed, not prayer. There is nobody to pray to; there is no possibility of any dialogue between you and God. Dialogue is possible only between two persons, and God is not a person but a presence – like beauty, like joy.

God simply means godliness. It is because of this fact that Buddha denied the existence of God. He wanted to emphasize that God is a quality, an experience – like love. You cannot talk to love, you can live it. You need not create temples of love, you need not make statues of love, and bowing down to those statues will be just nonsense. And that’s what has been happening in the churches, in the temples, in the mosques.

Man has lived under this impression of God as a person, and then two calamities have happened through it. One is the so-called religious man, who thinks God is somewhere above in the sky and you have to praise him to persuade him to confer favors on you, to help you to fulfill your desires, to make your ambitions succeed, to give you the wealth of this world and of the other world. And this is sheer wastage of time and energy.

And on the opposite pole the people who saw the stupidity of it all became atheists; they started denying the existence of God. They were right in a sense, but they were also wrong. They started denying not only the personality of God, they started to deny even the experience of God.

The theist is wrong, the atheist is wrong, and man needs a new vision so that he can be freed from both the prisons.

God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration. Once you start looking at God as godliness there will be a radical change in your approach. Then prayer is no more valid; meditation becomes valid.

Martin Buber says prayer is a dialogue; then between you and God there is an “I-thou” relationship – the duality persists. Buddha is far closer to the truth: you simply drop all chattering of the mind, you slip out of the mind like a snake slipping out of the old skin. You become profoundly silent. There is no question of any dialogue, no question of any monologue either. Words have disappeared from your consciousness. There is no desire for which favors have to be asked, no ambition to be fulfilled.

One is now and here. In that tranquility, in that calmness, you become aware of a luminous quality to existence. Then the trees and the mountains and the rivers and the people are all surrounded with a subtle aura. They are all radiating life, and it is one life in different forms. The flowering of one existence in millions of forms, in millions of flowers.

THIS experience is God. And it is everybody’s birthright, because whether you know it or not you are already part of it. The only possibility is you may not recognize it or you may recognize it. The difference between the enlightened person and the unenlightened person is not of quality – they both are absolutely alike. There is only one small difference: that the enlightened person is aware; he recognizes the ultimate pervading the whole, permeating the whole, vibrating, pulsating. He recognizes the heartbeat of the universe. He recognizes that the universe is not dead, it is alive.

This aliveness is God!

The unenlightened person is asleep, asleep and full of dreams. Those dreams function as a barrier; they don’t allow him to see the truth of his own reality. And, of course, when you are not even aware of your own reality, how can you be aware of the reality of others? The first experience has to happen within you. Once you have seen the light within you will be able to see it everywhere.

God has to be freed from all concepts of personality. Personality is a prison. God has to be freed from any particular form; only then he can have all the forms. He has to be freed from any particular name so that all the names become his.

Then a person lives in prayer – he does not pray, he does not go to the temple, to the church. Wherever he sits he is prayerful, whatsoever he is doing is prayerful, and in that prayerfulness he creates his temple. He is always moving with his temple surrounding him. Wherever he sits the place becomes sacred, whatsoever he touches becomes gold. If he is silent then his silence is golden; if he speaks then his song is golden. If he is alone his aloneness is divine; if he relates then his relating is divine.

The basic, the most fundamental thing is to be aware of your own innermost core, because that is the secret of the whole existence. That’s where the Upanishads are tremendously important. They don’t talk about a God, they talk about godliness. They don t bother about prayer. their whole emphasis is on meditation.

Meditation has two parts: the beginning and the end. The beginning is called dhyana and the end is called samadhi. Dhyana is the seed, samadhi is the flowering. Dhyana means becoming aware of all workings of your mind, all the layers of your mind – your memories, your desires, your thoughts, dreams – becoming aware of all that goes on inside you.

Dhyana is awareness, and samadhi is when the awareness has become so deep, so profound, so total that it is like a fire and it consumes the whole mind and all its functionings. It consumes thoughts, desires, ambitions, hopes, dreams. It consumes the whole stuff the mind is full of.

Samadhi is the state when awareness is there, but there is nothing to be aware inside you; the witness is there, but there is nothing to be witnessed.

Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is.

It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to live it – that is the only way to know it.

~ OSHO

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Shiva Parvati Ganesha story decoded

Posted on 6th December 2020 | Comments Off on Shiva Parvati Ganesha story decoded

The stories in the Puranas contain many incredible and hard-to-believe occurences. But they should not be interpreted as a nursery rhyme. Their language is Shakespearean and laden with great depth and meaning. We need to interpret these stories with a very refined state of mind.

The story goes that Parvati created a boy out of dirt from her body and appointed him to guard the doorstep. The first question that comes is how could Parvati, the Goddess Herself, have so much dirt? Parvati symbolizes the triguna – sattva, rajas and tamas. The entire creation is made up of trigunas. The dosha or imperfections that originate out of the triguna is an obstruction for the functioning of Prakriti. That was the boy that Parvati created to stand guard at the door. Shiva is Shuddha Chaitanya, pure consciousness. Like the sun does not recognize darkness and cuts through it, Shiva does not recognize dosha and slays the impurity. But Prakriti cannot stay without impurity. So Shiva replaces the dosha with the head of an elephant, which symbolizes knowledge. Through knowledge, all the doshas or obstructions of Prakriti can be taken care of. This is the spiritual and metaphysical meaning of Ganpati being slain. So worshipping Ganpati as the remover of obstacles and the giver of gyana, knowledge is the most amazing depiction of the nature of consciousness.

Going a step further, even this difference between Prakriti and Purusha is done away with. That is why, the Ganpati Upanishad says,

ajam nirvikalpam niraakaaram-ekam
niraanandam aanandam advaita poornam
param nirgunam nirvishesham nireeham
para brahma roopam ganesham bhajema ||

Ganesha is the only One unborn unmanifest Reality. He is nirvikalpa and advaita – the formless, undivided One. This is the play and display of consciousness within itself.

While Ganpati is certainly the Nirakara Parabrahman, he is invoked and worshipped in the mud idol for a period of time for the joy of the devotees. Then the Ganpati is asked to merge back into our heart and the idol is immersed in water. This ritual is observed for the sake of devotees, not for the sake of Ganpati. He who is without form is invoked in a form and then his spirit is invoked back into one’s heart as the idol is immersed.

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Mathru Panchakam

Posted on 6th December 2020 | Comments Off on Mathru Panchakam

🌹A Salutation To Mother Mathru Panchakam
By ~ Adi Shankara

Adi Sankaracharya was born at Kalady in Kerala in a Namboodiri Family. His mother was Aryamba. His father had died at a very early age when he was born. At the age of 4 he wanted to take up sanyasa, his mother was very much against it. Finally Adi Guru played a trick wherein his leg was caught by a Crocodile and he forced his mother to choose between his Sanyasa or Death & finally she agreed with a condition, that He should be present near her death bed and also he should perform her Karmas. Sankara agreed for this and took up Sanyasa. When he was at Sringeri, he realized that his mother was nearing death and he reached there immediately. He was near his mother at the time of her death and also performed the funeral ceremonies. It was at this time he wrote this five slokas which came out deep from his mind. This was possibly the only poem he wrote, which is not extolling any God and also not explaining his philosophy.

💐❤️ Here is the Mathrupanchakam with its translation.

aasthaam tavaddeyam prasoothi samaye durvara soola vyadha,
nairuchyam thanu soshanam malamayee sayya cha samvatsaree,
ekasyapi na garbha bara bharana klesasya yasya kshmo dhathum,
nishkruthi munnathopi thanaya tasya janyai nama.

🌹Oh my mother,
With clenched teeth thou bore the excruciating pain of delivery,
When I was born to you,
Shared the bed with me, which was made dirty by me for an year,
During those nine months that you bore me,
Your body became thin and tired,
For all these, Oh mother dearest,
I can never compensate,
Even by my becoming great.🌹

gurukulamupasruthya swapnakaale thu drushtwa,
yathi samuchitha vesham praarudho maam twamuchai
gurukulamadha sarva prarudathe samaksham
sapadhi charanayosthe mathurasthu pranaama.

🌹Clad in a dress of a sanyasin,
You saw me to my school,
In your dream you wept,
But smothered, embraced and encouraged me, Oh mother mine,
And all the teachers and students wept with you dear,
What could I do,
Except falling at your feet,
And offering my salutations.🌹

ambethi thathethi shivethi tasmin,
prasoothikale yadavocha uchai,
krishnethi govinda hare mukunde tyaho,
janye rachito ayamanjali.

🌹Oh my mother,
Crying, you shouted in pain,
During the hard labour,
“Oh mother, Oh father,
Oh God Shiva,
Oh Lord Krishna,
Oh Lord of all, Govinda,
Oh Hari and Oh God Mukunda,”
But in return,
Oh my mother dearest.
I can give you but humble prostrations.🌹

na dattam mathasthe marana samaye thoyamapi vaa,
swadhaa vaa no dheyaa maranadivase sraadha vidhina
na japtho mathasthe marana samaye tharaka manu,
akale samprapthe mayi kuru dhayaam matharathulaam.

🌹Neither did I give you water at the time of death,
Neither did I offer oblations to the to help the journey of death,
And neither did I chant the name of Rama in your ear,
Oh Mother supreme, pardon me for these lapses with compassion,
For I have arrived here late to attend to those.🌹

mukthaa manisthvam, nayanam mamethi,
rajethi jeevethi chiram sthutha thwam,
ithyuktha vathya vaachi mathaa,
dadamyaham thandulamesh shulkam.

🌹Long live,
Oh, pearl mine,
Oh jewel mine,
Oh my dearest eyes,
Oh mine prince dearest,
And oh my soul of soul,
These were the songs you sang to me,
But in return all the above,
Oh my mother dearest.
I give you but dry rice in your mouth.🌹

In simple words,

My mom carried me in her womb for nine months…
She felt sick for months with nausea, then she watched her feet swell & her skin stretch & tear;
She struggled to climb stairs, she got breathless quick; she suffered many sleepless nights.
She then went through excruciating pain to bring me into this world.
Then, she became my nurse, my chef, my maid, my chauffeur, my biggest fan, my teacher, & my best friend.
She’s struggled for me, cried over me, hoped the best for me, & prayed for me.

~ Speaking Tree

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