8.12.2009
Sixth Chapter
Ashtavakar Uvach:
Akashvadanantoaham ghatvadprakritam jagat I
Itti gyanam tathetasya na tyoga na graho laya II (1)
I am endless like that of space and this creation appears like pitcher. This is wisdom. So there is neither renouncement nor acceptance.
Ashtavakar is not enunciating any new wisdom but he is blank and fearless in making one to accept a naked truth. It is fact that the self soul has out of mere identification created this universe. Eternal self soul is the real enactor of this divine drama.
Lord Krishna says in chapter 9 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
matsthani sarvbhutani na chaaham,am tesguavashtita II
na ch matsthani bhutani pashya me yogameishvaram I
bhutbhrin bh bhutastho mamatma bhutbhavnah II
yathaakashsithito nityam vayu sarvatrgo mahan I
tatha sarvarhi bhutani matsthaniitiiupdharyae II (9.4-6)
The whole of this universe is permeated by Me as un manifest divinity, all embodiments rest on the idea within me. Therefore, as really speaking, I am not present in them.
All the being abides in me but see wonderful power of divine yoga; though creator and sustainer of all beings, Myself do not dwell in those beings.
Air borne out of ether moving everywhere, born out of ether ever remains in ether, like wise all beings originate from my thought abide in Me.
These three verses explain how this universe emanates from one Almighty self/lord.
If we think about the unlimited vastness of space above, then there is no relevancy to the space in pitcher. This anology has been given just as to make one understand the spectrum of almighty self imbibing entire creation.
So for the self soul neither it is case of renouncing or accepatance. This rejection and acceptance of modes of material nature has caused the bondage. Acquiring this wisdom, onecan transgress the cycle of birth and death
Mahodadhiirvahaham sa parpancho veechi sannibhah I
Itti gyanam tathetasya na tyoga na graho laya II (2)
I am vast ocean. Multiplicity of creations is comparable to waves rising in oceans. Waves are not different from water in oceans. As such there is neither renouncement nor acceptance.
This entire universe is pervaded by Lord Krishna. He is self soul of entire universe.
Lord Krishna in chapter 10 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta says:
Ahamatma gudakesh sarvbutashyesatyhitah I
Ahamadishch madhye ch bhutanamant eiv ch II (20)
I am the self of all seated in their heart, I am their beginning, end and middle too.
He is the beginning, middle and end of the entire creations. At another place he says:
Mirityuh sarvharashchahamudbhavashch bhavishtatam Ikirtih shrirvakch narirham smiritimedha dhritih kshamaII (10.34)
I am all devouring death, I am cause of beginning of every thing, among feminine I am fame, fortune, speech, memory, intelligence, steadfastness, patience.
The Lord is gives message to all beings. The ego of embodiment is useless as body itself is transient. Human beings are intelligent to understand as to what they have to do to attain self realization. Lord’s omnipotence is apparent. Lord is the death and destroyer of all. He is the cause of all beings and non-beings
From the moment of conception of body in a womb, all devouring death starts working. Span of particular body is limited, with the advancement of age; every being nears its death without knowing as to how it is coming, where this will occur and when it may come. This is mystery enveloping every living being.
But it is certain.
This certainty is expression of Lord’s immense power to control the entire universe.
He is the beginning of all objects but the foolish embodied soul commits sin of being doer and owner. You are only trusty. It belongs to Lord Krishna. Even the body with you have identified with, is not yours.
beejam mam sarvabhutanam vidhi parth sanatanam I (7.10)
I am the eternal seed of all beings.
Self soul is like ocean and entire universe is waves rising from this ocean. Every embodied soul has same quality. Every embodiment consists of same basic elements. There is neither obtaining any thing nor leaving.
Aham sa mukrtisankasho roopvadvishvakalpana I
Itti gyanam tathetasya na tyoga na graho laya II (3)
Self soul is like mother pearl and this universe is like silver appearing in mother pearl so there is neither renouncement nor there is an acceptance.
My consciousness is part of Super Consciousness. Part is not separate from its whole. Every thing has come from Super Being. Superimposition in mother pearl is transient as it is only appearance. This creation is also an appearance and it is being consumed by all devouring time power of Lord Krishna. I am eternal life. I have traveled a long way I have to go to my home in the eternal service of Lord Krishna. I have no desire to remain in cycle of transmigration. This embodiment is not mine. This is only appearance like mirage. It is like a image in mirror.
Aham vaa sarbhuteshu sarvbhutanianyatho mayyi I
Itti gyanam tathetasya na tyoga na graho laya II (4)
I am in all beings and all beings are in me. This is wisdom like wisdom of knowing silver in mother pearl. There is neither acceptance nor rejection.
This has been very aptly clarified Lord Krishna in verse 29 to32 in chapter 6 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Sarvbhutasthatamanm sarvbhutani chatmani I
ikshyate yogyuktatma sarvatra samdarshanh II
Yo mam paashayati savatra sarvam ch mayi pashayati I
Tasyaham na parhashyami sa ch me na parhshayati II
Sarvbhutsithitam yo mam bhajtiekatvamasithitah I
sarvatha vartamano sa yogi mayi vartate II
atamoupmyen sarvatra samam pashayati yoarjun I
sukham va yadi va dukham sa yogi parmo matah II (29-32)
The Yogi who is united with all pervading infinite Consciousness, sees same self every where, all beings in self and Self in all beings.
He who sees Me in all beings and beings existing in Me, never loses my sight and I never lose his sight.
Yogi who is established in union with Me and worships Me as residing in all beings abides in Me, no matter what he does.
Arjun! who looks on all as one, like one self in him, looks upon the joy and sorrow of all with a similar eye- such Yogi is deemed to be highest of all.
Supreme self is one supreme consciousness all pervading.
That is same self seated in all beings.
How to know and feel it?
He who waking state enjoys, through all organs, objects with ever changing attributes in the outside world, who in dream has experience similar to them in his heart, and who withdraws from them in profound sleep, are one and same atman/self/ consciousness- the witness – of all three states and ruler of organs. This is proved from memory of all these states.
The witness of all these states is one, since a man remembers his experiences in waking and dream states and also his ignorance in dreamless sleep, the unchanging witness of these is atman/self.
Three qualities of nature and self soul’s association and quantum of attachment with them is the root cause of different embodiments of self soul but self /consciousness in all beings is same, elements forming embodiments are same, so all beings are in one self and one self is in all embodiments. Individual percepting sees only one self in all beings inanimate and animate. yogi seeing this is always imbibed to Lord.
In such state self is always with him and he is always in sight of self as self alone exists, prevails in all modifications what ever may be the form.
Yogi who has attained this state, what ever acts he does acts in self/ Lord as all activities are also caused in self.
This yogi sees self being cause of all pleasure and pain in all being and does not differentiate his pleasure or pain from that of other beings.
(Here ends chapter six)
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