A SELF-REALISED ATMAN
यस्मिन्सर्वाणि भूतानि आत्मैवाभूद विजानतः।
तत्र को मोहः कः शोकः एकत्वमनुपश्यतः ॥7॥
Yasmin sarvanibhutaniatmaiva-bhudvijanatah,
tatra ko mohah kah soka ekatva-manu-pasyatah(7)
"When, to the knower,all beings have become one in his own Self(Atman),how shall he feel deluded thereafter? What grief can there be to him who sees oneness everywhere?"(7)
(Swami Chinmayananda)
In the previous Mantra,the Rsi explained to us the glory of Self-realisation in a language of negative assertions. We were only told that the individual will have no more any repulsion against or hatred for anything in life. But here, the same idea hasbeen explained to us with more emphasis and practical assertions. A man of Self-relisation, who has understood in his own vital experience that he is not a separate individual living as opposed to others,but in his/her essential nature,he/she is nothing but the harmony or unity,that underlines all seeming discord or plurality(which are considered asa scum upon the Reality). He, who has thus relised his oneness with the entire,can no longer have the ordinary tossings of the mind arising out of the ordinary psychological tensions created through delusion (moha)orgrief(soka).
According to Swami Chinmayananda, "grief is the lanaguageofdelusion.The amount of grief in an individual'slifeis directly proportional to the amount of delusion in him/her. In his essential nature, he is All-Bliss. Unity or Harmony is Bliss. But in delusion, when he cognizes plurality and discord, there arises in him, the experience of grief This delusion creates grief,and more the delusion,more the grief.
To get away from grief is the goal of life sought by every living creature, whether man or animal.Moksha or liberation is the transcendence of the individualbeyond the frontiers of sorrow. This Mantra exhorts that beyond the shores ofsighs and sobs,lies the land of realisation whence the Knower experiences in his own Self, the entire universe to be one, which is nothing but his own Real Nature.
The pot-space can disard all his sense of limitations,imperfections and sorrows only when it rediscovers itself to be nothing but the universal space. Each individual wave will have its ownsorrows ofbirth, growth, decayand death only when it considers itself separate fromothers'but,on its realisation that it is nothing but the ocean in its essential nature, all its sorrows end,an nomore shallit have its own delusory ideathat it is separatefrom others. Where there is no delusion,there is no grief, as the grief is the expression of delusion.
Thus, to conclude, such a man/woman( Saint )of Realisation,experiencing his own Self shining out through every name and form,expressing Its own dynamism through every circumstance,happy or sorrowful, is eternally in unison with harmony and rhythm amidst the discordant noise of life. To him are the greatest potencies,the greatest joys,and the amplest successes in life.Even the heaviest sorrow cannot shake him eveen a wee-bit.(Cf. Yasmin sthito na duhkhena gurunapi vicalyate(wherein established,he is notshakenevenby the heaviest sorrow- Bhagvad Gita VI-22).
(This research-based endeavour is based on Swami Chinmayananda's Discourses on Isha Upanisada)
Vedprakash
http://www.ethicalvaluesinishopanisad.blogspot.com/
यस्मिन्सर्वाणि भूतानि आत्मैवाभूद विजानतः।
तत्र को मोहः कः शोकः एकत्वमनुपश्यतः ॥7॥
Yasmin sarvanibhutaniatmaiva-bhudvijanatah,
tatra ko mohah kah soka ekatva-manu-pasyatah(7)
"When, to the knower,all beings have become one in his own Self(Atman),how shall he feel deluded thereafter? What grief can there be to him who sees oneness everywhere?"(7)
(Swami Chinmayananda)
In the previous Mantra,the Rsi explained to us the glory of Self-realisation in a language of negative assertions. We were only told that the individual will have no more any repulsion against or hatred for anything in life. But here, the same idea hasbeen explained to us with more emphasis and practical assertions. A man of Self-relisation, who has understood in his own vital experience that he is not a separate individual living as opposed to others,but in his/her essential nature,he/she is nothing but the harmony or unity,that underlines all seeming discord or plurality(which are considered asa scum upon the Reality). He, who has thus relised his oneness with the entire,can no longer have the ordinary tossings of the mind arising out of the ordinary psychological tensions created through delusion (moha)orgrief(soka).
According to Swami Chinmayananda, "grief is the lanaguageofdelusion.The amount of grief in an individual'slifeis directly proportional to the amount of delusion in him/her. In his essential nature, he is All-Bliss. Unity or Harmony is Bliss. But in delusion, when he cognizes plurality and discord, there arises in him, the experience of grief This delusion creates grief,and more the delusion,more the grief.
To get away from grief is the goal of life sought by every living creature, whether man or animal.Moksha or liberation is the transcendence of the individualbeyond the frontiers of sorrow. This Mantra exhorts that beyond the shores ofsighs and sobs,lies the land of realisation whence the Knower experiences in his own Self, the entire universe to be one, which is nothing but his own Real Nature.
The pot-space can disard all his sense of limitations,imperfections and sorrows only when it rediscovers itself to be nothing but the universal space. Each individual wave will have its ownsorrows ofbirth, growth, decayand death only when it considers itself separate fromothers'but,on its realisation that it is nothing but the ocean in its essential nature, all its sorrows end,an nomore shallit have its own delusory ideathat it is separatefrom others. Where there is no delusion,there is no grief, as the grief is the expression of delusion.
Thus, to conclude, such a man/woman( Saint )of Realisation,experiencing his own Self shining out through every name and form,expressing Its own dynamism through every circumstance,happy or sorrowful, is eternally in unison with harmony and rhythm amidst the discordant noise of life. To him are the greatest potencies,the greatest joys,and the amplest successes in life.Even the heaviest sorrow cannot shake him eveen a wee-bit.(Cf. Yasmin sthito na duhkhena gurunapi vicalyate(wherein established,he is notshakenevenby the heaviest sorrow- Bhagvad Gita VI-22).
(This research-based endeavour is based on Swami Chinmayananda's Discourses on Isha Upanisada)
Vedprakash
http://www.ethicalvaluesinishopanisad.blogspot.com/
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