18.11.2009
IInd Chapter
Janank says:
Aho niranjanah shanto bodhoaham parkrite parah I
Etavantamaham kalam mohenev vidambinah II
Yatha parkashyamieko dehamenam tatha jagat I
Ato mam jagatsarvam athva na cha kinchan II
Sashariramaho vishvam parityaj mayyadhuna I
Kutachitkoushaladev paramatma vilokayte II (2.1-3)
Janaka says:
Oh! I am awareness, really spotless, calm, and serene, beyond material natural calamity. Till now delusion has been affecting me.
As I illuminate this body, so I illumine this universe, so this whole universe is mine or I never existed.
Now abandoning this embodiment and material world, out of some unexplainable divine fortune, I am percepting Lord at this very moment.
On being awakened by Ashtavakar, King Janak express himself after coming to know himself to be only awarwness and not the embodiment which was decorated with crown and clothes of a King.His awareness and awareness of entire univwerse is same.
Lord Krishna awakened Arjun when re declined to fight epic war of Mahabharat.
While facing formidable Kaurav armies Arjun saw his relatives and expressing his hitch to kill his relatives, he refused to fight against them. This was the occasion when Lord Krishna delivered His eternal message to liberate human beings from trnsmigration
This is like the expression given by Arjun in verse 73 of chapter 18 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Nashto moha smiritilabdha twatprasadanmayaachayut I
Sithitoasmi gatsandeha krishsaye vachanam tav II (18.73)
Arjun says: By your grace my delusion has been dispelled and I have gained wisdom. I will do your bidding.
Supreme Self is formless; He appears before in form they devote to him.
King Janank has acquired wisdom and he asserts that he has seen that he is only awareness.
Yatha na toyto bhinnastrangah fenbudbuddah I
Atmano na tatha bhinnam vishwaatamvinirgatam II
Tantumatro bhavedev yadvadvicharatah I
Atamtanmatramevedam tadvadvishvam vicharitam II
Yathaevekshurase kliripta tein vyapteiv sharkra I
Tatha vishvam mayi kliriptam maya vyatam nirantram II (4-6)
As waves, foam and bubbles rising from water don’t differ from water, so the universe emanating from One Supreme self doesn’t differ from Him.
Every cloth when analyzed minutely is virtually threaded only. Same applies to this universe which is pervaded by same Self Spirit.
As sweetness permeated from sugarcane juice, same is applicable to this universe produced out of me is permeated in me.
Invincible Supreme Self creates, maintains destroys this unthinkable universe through its indescribable three evolutes consisting power. Material nature itself is powerless but self soul activates it by identification and attachment.
Supreme Self is in all beings and outside.
Lord Krishna says in Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta :
bahirantashch bhutanam acharamcharamevcha i
suhkshamtvad tad vigeyam durasthamchaanteke ch tat ii (13.15)
It exists without and within all beings and constitutes animate and inanimate creation as well. By reason of its subtlety, it is incomprehensible; it is very near to one just at hand but it stands far too.
Being all and everything, every form, animate, inanimate, self is within all and outside all, very near still far away, he is the same in an ant and mountain, he is in the world and outside it, totally incomprehensible by those who are imbibed by ‘ego’.
Only realized one feels his presence all over and not the one affected by illusion created through inscrutable power of self
Being so near why self cannot be seen?
We have become accustomed of seeing with these present eyes, so we want to see the self with this set of eyes which is not possible. As the things which are seen with these eyes, are unable to see or illuminate their seer, so is the case here, as the self is the illuminator of mind, intellect, senses and body, we can’t see him with the help our eyes.
By meditation and devotion to Lord one can see the self in every particle of dust since there is nothing except that self.
Atamaagyanatjagatbhati atamgyananna bhaste I
Rajjuvagyanatahirbhati tajgyanatnabhaste na hi II (7)
Due to lack of self realization, this creation appears to be true, but when self realization dawns upon self soul, this creation appears to be transient and unreal.
As out of ignorance rope appears to be a snake but on knowing its reality, this suspense withers away on finding that there was no snake.
Lack of self realization makes non-existing transient world to be true. If one tends to look at every sense object, it can be assessed as transient. Even embodiment with which this eternal self soul has identified with is drifting day by day towards end. The end of karmic reaction causes end of body. It is foolishness that one considers itself to be body.
It is ego of being embodiment that leads mind to bondage but when one realizes self soul being consciousness eternal and divine, there is none other than self.
Parkasho me nij roopam natiriktoasmoaham tatah I
Yada parkashte vishvam tadaahambhas ev hi II (8)
Wisdom is my essential nature, and I am nothing other than that illumination. When the world shines forth, it is only me that is shining forth.
jyotisham api tad jyoti tamsa param uchyate
gyanaam gyan gamayam hridi sarva vishthitam (13.17)
That Supreme Brahman /self /omnipresent is light of all lights and entirely beyond Maya, knowledge itself, only one to know, and worth knowing and attaining through real wisdom, it is particularly seated in the heart of all.
Self Soul is not different from Supreme Self in qualities but when it identifies with mind, body set it appears to contaminate.
Actual perception of self soul is spiritual wisdom.
Self effulgence is the source of all lights but affected by none of them. It is beyond of its all-powerful power of illusion where as the embodied soul tarnishes its eternity by identification with goodness, passion and ignorance and indulges in obtaining happiness by sense gratification.
He is the knowledge, knowledgeable and seated in the core of the hearts of all creatures. All sources of light get light from the self and he is the source of life of all beings and cause of non-beings.
He is finite.
The sun is the source of illumination of all solar systems but the self is the illuminator of this sun, enumerable number of suns and planets, moon, stars but none of them can illuminate it.
It is the self from whom all universes, planets, beings, non-beings get illumination and through his power, they are robbed of it.
He is the knower of his power and none else.
Only human being blessed with intellect can feel its presence in their innermost.
Aho vikalpitam vishavamagyanatmayyi bhaste I
Roopayam shukto pharhi rajjo vari surykare yatha II
Matto vinirgatam vishvam mayyiev layameshayatiI
Mrido kumbho jale bichi kanaka katakam yatha II
Aho aham namo mahiyam vinasho yasy naasti me I
Barhmaadistambparyantam jagannasheapi tishthitah II (9-11)
Out of ignorance this creation is presumed to have sprouted out of me. Surprisingly it seems to be appearing like silver in mother pearl, snake in a rope and water in Sun light.
As pitcher made out of clay dissolves in to clay, wave rising from water dissolves into water, bracelet made of gold dissolves in gold, this creation appearing from me shall dissolve in me.
I am wonderful indeed! Glory to me. The creation even up to Brahma is transitory. I am eternal self soul. I have no end. With the end of all creation I shall be alone there.
With self realization one leaves company of material by detachment. There is no dearth of reality but transitory is untrue. What is eternal shall remain for ever. Had there been no life previous to the life in present embodiment, how could life have traveled in the present embodiment? We are alive, is the ample proof that we existed and after death of this present body we shall certainly get a new body to traverse entire karmic bondage.
Verse 16 and 17 of chapter 2 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta are enlightening on the purport of these verses.
nasato vidayate bhavo nabhavo vidyate satah i
ubhayorapi drishtoantastavanyosyayvadarshibhi ii (2.16)
The unreal has no existence and real never ceases to be; reality of both has been perceived by seers of truth.
Unreal things are merely transposition and they too reflect the self.
Self which is pervading universe is real. The lord is himself divided in material as well as spiritual nature. The nature of self soul is spiritual. Nature of body is transitory. One has to secure spiritual through material by way of scriptural analysis and negation.
Real and unreal both are perceived by a person who sees through the all pervading Lord Krishna.
But ignorant affected by inscrutable power of Lord, see universe different from that of self. The superimposition is like a dream, It is like reality in dream state.
avinashi tu tadvidhi yen sarvamidam tatam I
vinashamavayayayasaya na kashchitkartumarhasi II (2.17)
You know that alone ‘imperishable’, which pervades this universe; for no one has power to destroy the indestructible supreme self.
What is that which is pervading this universe?
Is it something inanimate or animate, visible or invisible, infinite or finite?
That from which, an object is transformed, that abides by at its beginning, middle and at its end,
Remains when these objects return to their cause, is verily real
And ‘Braham’ or self or lord infinite alone is eternal, in ever changing world and it is the cause of all objects.
Self is origin of three ‘evolutes, goodness, passion and ignorance’ causing things which originate, continue and dissolve but self alone existed, exists and will continue to exist.
It cannot be destroyed by any thing because there is nothing except self in all forms, an omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient self.
Aho aham namoh mahyamekoaham dehvanapi I
Kavchigantnaganta vyapya vishvamavasthitah II
Aho aham namo mahyam daksho naasti matsamah I
Asansprashy sharirerh yen vishvam chiram dhritam II
Aho aham namo mahyam yasya me nasti kinchan I
Athva yasy me sarvam yadvangmanasgocharam II
Gyanam geyam tatha gyata triyam nasti vastavam I
Agyabbhati yatredam soahamasmi niranjanah II(12-15)
I am indeed wonderful! I adore myself! Though at the moment I have taken a form but despite being embodied, I have not to go anywhere nor I come from any where, I am one pervading this entire creation.
I am indeed wonderful! I adore myself! How great my power is? There is none smart than me. I don’t touch the body but still holding this universe from the time immemorial and shall hold this universe till end of time
How wonderful I am! Glory to me! I own nothing yet everything that comes through mind, speech and senses, is mine.
Knowledge, objects of knowledge and the knower don’t exist in reality.These transient perception appearing in me out of ignorance.
It has been declared by Lord Krishna in Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta that Knowledge, knower and object of knowledge are motivator of action whereas the self soul is not doer but with identification with mind it appears to be a doer.
Gyanam geyam parigyata trivadha karamchodna I
Karrham karam karteti trividhah karamsangara II (18.18)
The knowledge, objects of knowledge and knower, these are the motivator of action. Doer, the organs and activity- are three constituent of action.
Knowledge, knower and objects of knowledge are instruments of motivation to know.
Knowledge and objects of knowledge exist due to material nature but the knower has fallen into an ignorance trap.
Becoming doer of activity of senses, mind and intellect and organs of senses with sense objects, the SELF has created this entire universe by mindset.
So knowledge, knower and objects of knowledge are motivator and the doer, organ and activity are constituent of action. But this is transitory appearance like all activities in a dream.
What a great expression of enlightened one!
Dveitmoolamaho dukham nanayattasyasti bjashjam I
Drishyametanmrisha sarvamekoaham chidrasoamalah II
Bodhmatroahamagyanupadhi kalpito mayya I
Evam vimrishyato nityam nirvikalpe sithiti mam II
Aho mayyi sithitam vishwam vastuto na mayyi sithitam I
Na me bandhoasti moksho va bhrantee shantanirishraya II
Sashariramidam vishavam na kinchititti nishchitam I
Shudhchinmatram aatma ch tatkasminkalpanaadhuna II (16-19)
All suffering emanates from duality. There is no other remedy for it than the self realization. What one sees is unreal and I am the one pure reality, consisting of consciousness.
I am pure and serene awareness. It is through ignorance that I have assumed myself a material body I have no other attributes than awareness. By continuous reflecting my pure self I cannot imagine a particular place of my dwelling,
This entire universe exists in me but still not exist in me. For me there is neither bondage nor liberation.
Surely this universe including my embodiment is nothing except that all is pervaded by pure Consciousness. How is that this can be imagined as such.
Supreme self is all pervading; self soul is a fragment having all qualities of Supreme. Lord Krishna says in chapter 10 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Aham sarvasva parbhavo mattah sarvam parvartate I
Iti mattva bhajante mam budha bhavsamanvittah II (10.8)
I am the ultimate source of all creation and every thing in the world moves because of me; knowing thus, the wise, constantly worship Me.
Lord Krishna is the creator of all. Brahma creator of universe was born from the Lotus emanating from the Lord, He has created this entire universe by the power of Lord. Universe created by Brahma is material and Lord Himself has entered the universe to make it conscious. This entire universe has taken shape. All Gods, Demi gods are born of Lord Krishna. This is not a material process of creation. Lord Krishna can create lots of universe from a part of himself (verse 39 of chapter 10)
Whatever happens in this universe, it is all because of inscrutable power of lord
Knowing this the wise person constantly worships all mighty Lord Krishna, with unflinching devotion.
Shariram swargnarko bandhmoksho bhayam tatha I
Kalpanamatramevetatkim mei karye chitatmnah II
Aho jansamooheapi na dveit pashyato mam I
Ararhayamiv sanvritam kav ratim karvarhiyiaham II
Naaham deho na me deho jeevo naaham hi chitt I
Ayamev hi me bandh assidyya jeevate me spriha II (20-22)
Embodiment, Heaven, Hell, Bondage, Liberation and fear are mere imagination. I am Self Soul, what is there for me to act.
I don’t see any duality even in these entire odd gatherings of different sets of crowd, all this appears like wilderness of a forest, to whom I attach?
I am neither this body nor this body is in me nor I am living entity I am only consciousness. It was my desire to live that has bonded me in this embodiment.
This is the height of self realization by an ignorant. This is illumination.
The self soul is eternal. Its identification with mind body set and its activities coming as reactions of previous bondage in past so many embodiments of living entity with which this eternal consciousness has identified as its facets, is real cause for bondage. Living entity is nothing but mind, intellect and set of senses.
To grasp these phenomena of living entity, one has to go to chapter fifteenth of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Mamevansho jeevloke jeevbhutah sanatanah I
Manahshashthaniindriyarhi parkritsathani karshayati II (15.7)
Self soul, my eternal fragment in form of living entity, situated in material nature, struggles with six senses including mind.
Here is the secret of life. Eternal reflection of Lord Krishna has, in company of nature in shape of mind, intellect and senses has embodied itself in shape living entity which transmigrates from one body to another till its realization its being pure blissful awareness. Self soul is the eternal fragment of Lord Krishna. The consciousness in this embodied self is the part of supreme consciousness, infinite Lord. This infinitesimal has all qualities of Supreme Self with its independent existence. Making stupid misuse of this independence, this self soul identifies with material nature.
Verse 22 above is testimony given on realization of reality.
Lord Krishna says in chapter seven:
Daivi heaisha gurhmayi mam maya durtayaya I
mamev ye parpadayante mayametam taranti te II (7.14)
This divine energy of mine consisting of three modes is difficult to over come, those who constantly devote unto me, they easily cross this divine power.
What happens when this eternal consciousness as living entity passes body from body?
Shariram yadavapnoti yachchutkramati ishwarahI
Grihitvaetani sanyati vayurgandhanivashayat II
Kshotram chakshuh saparshanam
ch rasnam ghrarhamev ch I
adhishthay manashchayam
vishyananupsevate II ( 15-8.9)
As the air takes away fragrance from its source, living entity while obtaining a new body or leaving a particular embodiment, or while staying in a body, it carries these (senses and mind).
Living entity obtains Ear, eyes, the organ of touch, taste and smell as well as mind and enjoys the sense objects through them in new body.
This is the perception of a living entity. When it devotes itself to Lord it goes to Lord, when it devotes itself to material nature it remains in embodiment. This is divine play. He is the player, he is play, he is playing in every form.
Desire is the key to this bondage and desire less ness is liberation. See verse 71 of chapter 2 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta
Vihaye Kamanayah sarvanpumanshcharti nisprihah I
nirmamo nirahankarah sa shantimadhigachhati II (2.71)
Leaving all desires, a person acts selflessly, without any sense of possession, egoless, he attains perfect peace.
Subject mentioned in this verse is the goal of Human form. It is not meant for attaining material prosperity as human beings generally understand. This wrong notion too has been created by our deep attachment with transient material nature.
This verse is the crux of this entire Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta but instead of becoming desire less we go on satisfying waves of desires till life in present embodiment. How one can become desire less. As stated by Lord Krishna, when one tries to force desire less ness, he rather entangles himself in mere frustration. But when attachment and identification to actions are diverted to Lord Krishna, one tends to liberate himself from the bondage of transmigration as the actions when surrendered to Lord cannot be taken back. This makes self soul free from reactions. When a person frees himself from desires, he loses sense of proprietorship of material belongings, body, mind, intellect, senses and sense objects; he feels the peace of mind within himself.Aho bhuwankalloleivichiterdrak samupasthitam I
Mayyianantmahaambhodho chitwate samudayate II
Mayyianantmahaambhodho chitvate parshayamayati i
Abhagyajjeevvarhijo jagatpoto vinashawarah II
Mayyianantmahaambhodhavaashyacharyas jeevvichayah I
Udyanti ghananti khelanti parvishanti sawbhavatah II (23-25)
It is truly an ocean of me wherein mind flows like wind creating waves of transient perceptible objects. Everything suddenly arises in the wind of consciousness.
I am truly an infinite ocean of myself, this living entity is the merchants and the transitory world is the ship carrying this merchant but due to their bad luck when this mind attains peace by desire less ness, then this transient world is no more.
How wonderful is this that in the infinite ocean of me waves of self souls in form of living beings arise, collide, play and disappear with their nature.
King Janak has realized himself as self of himself as well self of all, he now understands that with the departure of body, one transient figure leaves the scene of this world but the eternal soul never departs. In chapter 10 Lord Krishna says that ignorant souls don’t know ME in reality.
He further stresses in verse 2:
Na me vidu surgarhah parbhavam na maharshayah I
Ahamadirih devanam maharshirrham ch sarvashah II (10.2)
Demigods and great sages don’t know my origin and opulence, for in every respect, I am the ultimate source of Demigods and sages.
Even creator of this universe, ‘Brahma’ was not able to locate the origin of Lord. He could not trace his own origin. He tried to locate it for thousand of years and ultimately he had to resort to penance for another hundred of thousand years. Then he could know his origin from the lord seated in his heart.
So for demigods affected by mode of goodness (satvica Bhava) remain alluded to their specific realms allotted to them by Lord. They can not, in any way know his origin. Great sages have been trying to find out the origin of Lord but they have been inscribing their experiences in ‘Upanishads.
Ultimate spectrum of Lord still evaded them. They concluded that Lord is every where and in every form. Every thing has come out of self and merges in self when disappearing from the scene enacted by self soul in company of mother material energy.
Yo mamajamanadim ch veti lokmaheshvaram I
Asamudhah sa marteyeshu sarvpapaih parmuchayate II (3)
He who knows Me unborn and beginning less, and as Supreme Lord of all the worlds he undiluted among men, he is freed from sins.
Lord is unborn and Self Soul is the eternal part of Lord, so the self soul too is eternal but it has identified itself with material body, mind, intellect, senses, and forms of transitory material nature. So it has acquired a label of nature and presumes the body to be eternal. Body and connected relative subjects are transitory. With detachment from nature, the self soul stands free as it is.
So the person who knows lord to be omniscient, unborn and beginning less, Lord of all Lords. Demi gods, sages and entire universe and beyond, becomes free from sins.
Verse 4 and 5
Budhirgyanasanmoha kshama satyam damah shamah I
Sukham dukham bhavoabhavo bhayamabhayamev ch II
Ahinsa samata tushtistapo danam yashoashah I
Bhavanti bhava bhutanam mattev prathakvadhah II (4-5)
Intelligence, knowledge, freedom from doubt, forgiveness, truthfulness, control of senses, control of mind, happiness, distress, birth, death, fear, fearlessness, and also
Non- violence, balance, satisfaction, penance, charity, fame, infamy- all these qualities of living beings are created because of me
Now Lord has opens a vista to see ‘him’ all around you, in yourself and other beings.
In chapter seven he has said that he is life in all
Jivanam sarvbhuteshu (7.9)
Presence of ‘life’ factor in all creatures is the sign of presence of Lord Krishna in them. Without that ‘life’ the body is dead. Body minus life is always dead. If life is there, it is because of Lord’s presence in all.
Attributes of intelligence, knowledge, freedom from doubts and delusion, forgiving, speaking truth, controlling senses and mind, happiness, distress, coming into being, death, fear, fearlessness, non- violence, equanimity, satisfaction, penance, charity, fame and infamy, all these qualities of living beings are because of ‘life’ which further means because the presence of Lord.
So there is nothing which belongs to the self soul. It is due to non existing attachment that self soul has embarked upon ‘ego’ of self being an embodiment. The different qualities of beings are created by Lord himself but he is beyond those qualities. It is only the self soul who has identified itself with those qualities and caused a trouble for itself.
Good or bad actions, qualities, when all surrendered to Lord, become meditation and liberate the self soul from the cycle of birth and death.
If the creatures are not alive or conscious then an embodiment and qualities have no relevance. A conscious body can act and perform functions related to above qualities, not a dead body.
Feel the presence of Lord Krishna in your self in the form of these qualities. These are not the qualities of dead wood that are your body. Even the cohabitation with your spouse, you are supposed to enjoy, is because of the presence of Lord himself in your body.
Dharamavirudho bhuteshu kamoasmi bhararshabh (7.11)
This phenomenon is meant for propagation and not for mental satisfaction which never comes in real terms.
So whatever the form of quality the embodiment has, it represents the presence of all mighty in this body. What one self has to do is, that he has to shun the ‘ego’ completely. The self soul is not the doer.
What ever is done from the mind, body and senses are all resultant from the infinite called life- consciousness-self- supreme self-God- soul-almighty.
The body has been created by his grace and it will merge in that source.
Maharshyah sapt purve chatvaro manavastatha I
Madbhava mansa jata yesham lok emah parjah II (10.6)
Seven sages and before them four Manus come from Me, born from My mind, and all the living beings in this universe and other planets descent from them.
Lord is supreme and the entire universe and planets have emanated from him alone. But the equilibrium of universe has been maintained in symmetry.
The beings populating the universe have not born in a day. When lord thought of creating it, first of all seven sages were thought of, before that four manus were created by thought of Lord Krishna. It was an eternal thought. It precipitated in forms, Lord imbibing them all. Four sages’ Sanak, Sananda, Santana and Sanat Kumar, seven Saptrishis, four manus also came into existence by the divine will of lord.
All the creatures are their off-springs.
Ettam vibhutim yogam ch mam yo veti tatvatah I
So avikampen yogen yunjayati naatra sanshaya II (10.7)
He, who knows the reality of this supreme glory and supernatural power of mine, gets established in Me through unflinching devotion; there is no doubt in it.
Expression of King Janank represents self realization.
(Here ends chapter 2)
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