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Sharing the enlightened wisdom

Divya Jyothi Sharing the enlightened Wisdom

Jun 2015

Contents

Prabhuji Speaks 3

Panchadasi 4

Sanatana Dharma 6

Soundarya Lahari 8

Sri Lalitha Sahasranama 9

Holistic Action 10

Prayer 11

What to pray?

So you ask a question what to pray? What is prayer actually?

The prayer is a communication between God and you. So in a

communication between God and you who speaks most?

You have lot to speak and God has less to speak. You have lot

of things to tell to God but God has very little to tell you. Do

you listen to God? How do you listen to God? If you have to

listen to God you have to speak less and listen to what god

says, right? But most of the time we have so much to com‐

municate that we miss out what is God is telling. So medita‐

tion is the process where you are attentively listening to God.

In our entire life we never listen to God, we only talk to God, we tell god and that is

called prayer. We go on educating God, as if God is uneducated, “See God my son is

giving an exam. Please make sure that he passes the exam”, as if God does not know

how to take care. You please look at your prayers; all your prayer is about educating

god and nothing else. We want to communicate, educate Him. Meditation is a pro‐

cess of listening in deep silence, what God communicates is called meditation and

that's called inspiration. In inspiration there are no words, deep inside you feel so in‐

spired, in‐spired, so that is what it means – ‘within you’, when you become silent you

listen attentively to existence. Then God speaks to you. So the question is whether

you want to speak to God or God wants to speak to you or you want to listen to God.

In prayer what we do is we keep on outpouring our thoughts and most of it is any‐

ways junk.

Prabhuji

Prabhuji Speaks

Panchadasi - Tattva Viveka 33

syaat pa~nchiikRita bhuut ottho dehaH sthuulo .anna sa.nj~nakaH .

li~Nge tu raajasaiH praaNaiH praaNaH karmendriyaiH saha .. (34)

The gross body made up of the grossified elements is called the anna‐maya kosa (food sheath). The pranamaya kosa is the rajoguna aspect of subtle body consisting of the karmendriyas and five pranas – (34)

The anna‐maya kosa consists of the gross body which is born out of the grossified five great elements.

Prana – The prana‐maya kosa is made out of the rajoguna aspect of the linga sharira namely five karmendriyas and five pranas.

There are five layers of the body, the Annamaya Kosha (gross body), Praanamaya Kosha (vital body), Manomaya Kosha (mental body), Vijnanamaya Kosha (intellectual body) and Anandamaya Kosha (blissful body). Vitarka Samadhi is re‐lated to the awareness of the Manomaya Kosha or so called lower mental body. Vichara involves the awareness of the intellectual body or the Vijnanamaya kosha. This is called the causal body in theosophical literature and in Vedanta it is called Vijnanamaya Kosha. Then, the awareness gets shifted to the blissful sheath called Anandamaya Kosha, the sheath of bliss and in theosophical literature it is called the ‘Buddhi plane’. Finally the awareness gets rooted in the feeling of ‘I am’, called the plane of the Self, the ‘Aatmik plane’. This is where Sasmitha Samadhi happens.

Prana – ‘Prana’, the life energy and life force. There is only one Prana, the Universal Energy that functions in various ways in beings. It has five different functional as‐pects in human beings together called Pancha Prana or five Pranas. The five Pranas are but one whole Prana operating or forming five different functions. These five pranas together form the pranic body of every human being.

Those five Pranas are called: Prana, Apana, Vyana, Udana and Samana.

Prana: functions and activates the organs between the throat and heart region in‐cluding heart and lungs.

Apana: functions in the lower part of the body, below the navel and is responsible for activating the organs in that part of the body which includes the sexual glands and excretion organs.

Udana: operates from larynx upwards, it activates the organs in that part of the body.

Samana: operates between the heart and the navel; it is responsible for digestion and functioning of all digestive organs.

Vyana: is spread throughout the body and it distributes energy throughout.

We have understood that there are five layers of human body, the physical, vital, mental, intellect and bliss which are the Annamaya, Pranamaya, Manomaya, Vijnanamaya and the Anandamaya Kosha. The pranas form the pranic body, the Pranamaya Kosha. Understanding the prana operating on the pranic body is vital for stabilization and silencing of individual consciousness or chitta so that it can experi‐ence oneness with Universal Consciousness.

Bhakti ‐ Love for Consciousness is called Bhakti. Our Sanatana Dharma says that the Bhakti promotes the belief in people that through Bhakti Marga everyone can attain Moksha. Bhakti is the personal expression of devotion to God and the way to become one with Him. Bhakti means Love for the Supreme Reality. Love that pervades this whole Universe is nothing but Divine Mother. Everything in the Universe is held to‐gether by Love. The pure love expresses itself in many many ways. It is Sun’s love that is expressed as sunlight in the whole Universe, for all the living beings. Love is giving, and is an expression. It is out of pure love that Sun gives sunlight, moon is expressing the delightful light in the form of love, wind blows out of love, river flows, and every‐thing in nature is an expression of pure love. This love is called Divine Mother.

Now this love when it expresses through human being, it narrows down. Infinite love becomes finite. Mother says, “This is my child.” Love gets restricted and expresses as love for “my child”. When love comes through the human mind, it narrows down. Now there is a possibility that we can experience that infinite love when our mind becomes purified. That infinite love is Divine Mother. We can experience this Divine Mother in this lifetime with this human body mind complex by a pure mind. A pure mind does not say “me” or “mine” as it narrows down the love. It is like this ‐ there is sunlight, sunlight gets reflected maximum or fully in the mirror, reflected partially in the river and reflected very minimal in the stone. Similarly divine love expresses completely in the pure mind and pure heart. Mata Amritanandamayi is an expression of pure love. When mind becomes purified divine love expresses itself in full form, like infinite

Sanatana Dharma: Bhakti

waves through a human being who has purified the mind and offered the mind to di‐vine. That is what realization is about, experiencing of divine love is the peak of hu‐man evolution.

We experience love in small ways and love in greater ways called Bhakti or devotion, love in the highest form is called Para Bhakti ‐ where the lover and the beloved have become one and you become the Divine LOVE. You 'Fall' in Love with some body but 'Rise' in Love with consciousness, Love for consciousness is called devotion – Bhakti. That is called realization. Amma is an example of Para Bhakti or highest form of devo‐tion. There are many many human beings who have attained the highest and purest form of love by purifying their mind. That is why Jesus Christ said, “Kingdom of God is in your heart”. With a purified heart we can experience that kingdom of God which is actually Divine Love, Supreme Love. That Supreme Love is called Mother.

Please find the article ‘Jivatma in Pancha Koshas’ by Shri Prabhuji in Bho‐divruksh Newspaper (Times of India Group)

http://www.bodhivrukshaepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=1382&boxid=131117463

Bhavani tvam daase mayi vitara drishtim sakarunam Iti sthotum vanchan kadhayati Bhavani tvam iti yah; Tadaiva tvam tasmai disasi nija‐sayujya‐padavim Mukunda‐brahmendra‐sphuta‐makuta‐nirajita‐padam. If any one has wish in his mind to pray. “You , Bhavani , my mother, Please shower on me, a part of your merciful look”, Even before he says, “You Bhavani”, You my goddess, Would give to him the water, Falling from the crowns , Of Vishnu, Rudra and Brahma, At your feet, And grant him, the eternal life in your world. Getting of all powers- Grace Due to the spiritual practices, individual opens up for the Grace. Without the Grace there is no possibility of liberation or enlightenment. Any amount of self‐effort won’t be sufficient. It is said that the flow of Grace of Lord Shiva is unconditional and acasu‐al. It is the Grace, which awakens the desire for liberation in jiva. It is the Grace, which shows him the path. It is the Grace, which liberates. But individual has to prepare himself to receive grace. He has to make himself empty vessel to receive the Grace through all the practices. It is like saying there is abundant water in sea. But what you can bring home from sea is dependent on your vessel you carry. One who takes a cup gets a cup of water from sea. One who takes a bucket will get one bucketful. Grace is something similar. If one desires more grace, he has to prepare himself fully through spiritual practices. If any one has wish in his mind to pray, the Divine Mother Bha‐vani , showers her grace on him/herby just a part of her merciful look. Even before they say, “You Bhavani”, the Divine Goddess, Would give to him/her the water, Falling from the crowns , Of Vishnu, Rudra and Brahma, at their feet, and grant them, the eternal life in the Divine Mother Bhavani’s world.

Soundarya Lahari - Verse 22

Chinthamani grihanthastha Pancha brahmasana sthitha

She who lives in the all wish full filling house. She who sits on the five Brahmas viz., Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Esana and Sa‐dashiva. Wish full filling house are Vedas and the Universal Mother lives in Vedas. There is only one truth, which is the Di‐vine Mother Sri Lalitambika. She is beyond your thoughts, memory, body, mind, intellect! Only the Shakshi, the Witness is the truth.., the Shakshi of the universe and the Shakshi in you are one and the same! If you can’t find Shakshi in you, how will you find Shakshi of the universe (God, Supreme)? That is why there are many mantras in the Vedas, Vedas are like Kalpavrikshas, Kamadenu, Kalpavriksha means a tree, which will give all that you, desire, Vedas is like that. What you ask it will give that, what do we ask? We seek something for the world and for ourselves. A good life when we are alive and heaven when we die, or another good life. For all these we have mantras in Vedas, do Vedas have that power? Yes mantras have that potency of yielding the results but you should have faith. There is a requisite way of chanting it; there is required set of pro‐cedures to achieve that. It is simple, skill and shraddha is required. I want to become successful; there are mantras to become successful in life. I want a child, now they go to doctors for artificial insemination, in the time of Vedas, they had Veda mantras for getting a child, for health there are mantras, each of them have potency to give what‐ever you want, that is why Vedas are called Kalpavriksha, means a tree which gives whatever you desire! And that tree or Vedas is the place where the Divine Mother re‐sides. She who sits on the five Brahmas viz., Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Esana and Sa‐dashiva.

Five represents Na, Ma, Shi, Va, Ya ‐ Five Aksharas of Panchakshari Mantra repre‐sents ‐

Pancha Bhutas ‐ Pancha tanmatras, Pachendriyas all aspects of creation. It repre‐sents the five aspects of Dance of Shiva ‐ Sristhi, sthiti, Samhara, Tirodhana and Moksha ‐ Five facets of Shiva ‐ Sadyojata, Vamadeva, Ishana, Aghora, Tatpurusha.

Shiva means ‐ that which is not. Emptiness is the womb of creation. Tiny galaxies float in this vast emptiness. Namaha means jeeva surrendering to Shiva. Aya means oneness. Om Namaha Shivaya = Jiva is nothing but Shiva. = Tatwamasi.

Sri Lalitha Sahasranama (23)

Student: Guruji, is the idea of taking revenge on

the person who hurt me stupid?

Guruji: I am not saying revenge is stupid. I am say‐

ing revenge is a reaction. You can take much more

holistic action. Why am I teaching you people to‐

day? Is it because that I am jobless guy on week‐

ends and I am spending my time in some enter‐

tainment? See, I am educating you, so that if you

understand what I say and if you remove your hurt

from your body‐mind complex, you will under‐

stand that how many girls get affected with this. So,

you will help another 10 girls, 50 girls or 100 girls,

and 1% becomes 2% and that becomes 3% and then

to 10% and that becomes 100%. So, that is how we

do not take revenge, but we solve the problem. We

improve the society by transmission of knowledge.

I am not doing this unconsciously; I know what I

am doing and why I am doing. When I started teaching, there were just one or two

people. Now, my students are teaching hundreds of people because they understand

the benefit of this. They go and teach and these hundreds will become thousands and

that will become lakhs and it will grow on.

Please understand that You are Shiva, you have the ability to change the world, why

are you bothered about taking revenge on that fellow? Why do you want to focus on

that fellow? You have the ability to bring a change, but do not go and change the

world. Change one or two people. They become bearers of the change and they will

change another four people and like that world will go.

~ Prabhuji

Holistic Action

What to pray?

So you ask a question what to pray? What is prayer

actually? The prayer is a communication between

God and you. So in a communication between God

and you who speaks most? You have lot to speak

and God has less to speak. You have lot of things to

tell to God but God has very little to tell you. Do

you listen to God? How do you listen to God? If

you have to listen to God you have to speak less

and listen to what god says, right? But most of the

time we have so much to communicate that we

miss out what is God is telling. So meditation is the

process where you are attentively listening to God.

In our entire life we never listen to God, we only

talk to God, we tell god and that is called prayer.

We go on educating God, as if God is uneducated,

“See God my son is giving an exam. Please make sure that he passes the exam”, as if

God does not know how to take care. You please look at your prayers; all your prayer

is about educating god and nothing else. We want to communicate, educate Him.

Meditation is a process of listening in deep silence, what God communicates is called

meditation and that's called inspiration. In inspiration there are no words, deep in‐

side you feel so inspired, in‐spired, so that is what it means – ‘within you’, when you

become silent you listen attentively to existence. Then God speaks to you. So the

question is whether you want to speak to God or God wants to speak to you or you

want to listen to God. In prayer what we do is we keep on outpouring our thoughts

and most of it is anyways junk.

~ Prabhuji

Prayer

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