Let's do a self-exploration meditation on Atma Darshan Chapter 1,
Advaitam.
For this self-exploration,
You will need to sit in front of a mirror or bring a hand-held mirror and place it in front of you.
Let's sit comfortably and let's look at the reflection in the mirror.
Look carefully at the form.
The form of the reflection has an outline,
A border,
A shape and a size.
Observe the form carefully.
This finite form is known as the Jeeva.
Look at the reflection of the Jeeva and look at the reflection of the Jeeva's world behind the Jeeva's reflection in the mirror.
The Jeeva's world has a form,
An outline,
A border,
A shape and a size.
This finite world is called the Jeeva's world.
Notice that you are aware of both the Jeeva and the Jeeva's reflection.
Notice that you are aware of both the Jeeva's world and the reflection of the Jeeva's world.
Do you recognize that you are beyond the reflection of the Jeeva as well as the reflected Jeeva?
Do you recognize that you are beyond the reflection of the Jeeva's world as well as the reflected Jeeva's world?
Do you realize that you are that which is aware of both the reflection as well as the reflected?
Do you realize that you are beyond?
Let's close the eyes and turn inwards towards the true self that is beyond.
Keep the focus inwards towards that knowingness field.
This field of knowingness is the one that knows the Jeeva and the Jeeva's world.
This field of knowingness is the one that knows the reflection of the Jeeva and the Jeeva's world.
This knowingness field is the Lord.
The Lord,
When curled into itself,
Is devoid of any desire.
It is Sath,
Chit,
Anand,
Beingness,
Consciousness,
Bliss.
The Lord is awareness itself,
The infinite field of awareness.
And what it projects is also awareness.
The existence is nothing but made of a stuff called awareness.
Sath means the existence itself is awareness,
Is beingness.
Chit means consciousness,
The infinite field of knowingness.
The Lord is alive,
Is conscious.
It is like electricity that imparts energy to anything and everything.
It is the source of that electricity.
The source of everything that appears to be conscious is the consciousness itself,
Chit.
Ananda means equanimity,
Devoid of the excitement of happiness or the depression of sorrow,
Devoid of ups and downs.
Bliss is equal to equanimity,
Ananda.
The Lord itself is Sath,
Chit,
Ananda.
Everything that is projected from the Lord,
Thought,
Feeling,
Sensations,
Perceptions are all simply Sath,
Chit,
Ananda.
The Lord is content.
The Lord is complete.
The Lord is Sath,
Chit,
Ananda.
Abide there in the softness of Sath,
Chit,
Ananda.
Notice that the soft field of Sath,
Chit,
Ananda forgets itself.
It has the desire to experience,
The desire to become,
The desire to exist.
And it takes on the subtle form of the sense of I am.
Do you recognize this phenomena?
The false I attaches to a thought,
To a feeling,
To a sensation or perception.
Thus the Jeeva and the Jeeva's world is born.
When it withdraws from the idea of the Jeeva and the Jeeva's world,
It curls back into its soft space of Sath,
Chit,
Ananda.
This is the death of the Jeeva and the Jeeva's world.
Only silence ensues.
Again,
The soft field of knowingness itself has the desire to know itself,
To experience itself,
To become,
To exist.
And again it takes on the form of the sense of I am.
The false I again attaches to a thought,
Feeling,
Sensation or perception.
And again the Jeeva and the Jeeva's world is born.
And again it gets tired and withdraws from the ideas of the Jeeva and the Jeeva's world.
It curls back into its soft space of Sath,
Chit,
Ananda.
That is the death of the Jeeva and the Jeeva's world.
Thus the Jeeva's are born in the Lord,
They play in the Lord and they die in the Lord.
The ocean is water and it can project a wave that is also made of water.
Similarly,
The Jeeva's that are born in the Lord are made up of the Lord.
They play in the Lord and they die in the Lord.
Knowingness,
Awareness,
Consciousness is the Lord itself.
It projects the Jeeva and the Jeeva's world which are made up of knowingness,
Consciousness,
Awareness itself.
When one wave realises that it is made of water and the other wave that it craves for is also simply water,
It recognises the futility of its desire.
When one wave realises that it is water and the wave that it is averse to is also water,
It realises the futility of its aversion.
All cravings and aversions seem futile and as the fight was only for cravings or against aversions,
All fight ceases.
When all Jeeva's are recognised as nothing but the Lord itself,
All fight ceases.
All cravings shatter.
All aversions crumble.
Only silence remains.
Only Satchidananda ensues.
Ask yourself this question.
Has your fight ceased yet?
Even if the fight has ceased,
Remember this is not the end.
Nothing has been really achieved yet.
More work lies ahead.
Recognising that the Jeeva is the Lord itself is not sufficient.
Recognising that the Jeeva's world is the Lord itself is not sufficient.
Recognising that the Lord and the Jeeva and the world are all made of Satchidananda is not sufficient.
Why?
Because the ultimate truth is attained only when you are able to abide in Satchidananda moment to moment such that all duality ceases.
Only Advaitam remains.
In order to attain the ultimate truth,
Stay with the direct path.
Simply stay with Satchidananda and start your outward journey.
Start with the most important point.
There is no Jeeva.
There is no world.
There is simply Satchidananda.
Satchidananda.
Satchidananda.
