Vedic Vortex

•You are blessed. You are pure awareness. This awareness is your very nature; You can forget it but you cannot lose it. It cannot be stolen. It is your very center.

Relax, but go on entering deeper and deeper into yourself. The body remains far away, miles away, the mind remains miles away. You are just a silent watchfulness, a peace that passeth understanding., a bliss that no word can express.

An experience of eternity and immortality which will bring you a great feeling of dance, rejoicings, songs. Even your silence will become a song and your no-movement will become a dance. 

Those who have known this source have become pure love, compassion, consciousness, purity. This is your ultimate nature. Life is only a school to bring you to this ultimate nature•

From Darkness to Light BY **By Nithin Sridhar

**Deepavali or the festival of lights is not only about lighting the external lamps, it is also about an individual’s inner journey from a state of darkness of ignorance to a state of light of knowledge and freedom. **

The correlation between light and knowledge on the one hand, and between darkness and ignorance on the other, is very deep in Hindu consciousness and pervades the entire corpus of Hindu scriptures, starting with the Vedas. Rigveda, for example, begins with a hymn dedicated to Agni, the source of divine illumination on earth. There are a large number of verses in the Vedas, including the Upanishads dedicated to Surya- the very embodiment of light and divine knowledge. Then, we have the famous Sandhya Upasana and Gayatri mantra, which is all about appealing the divine to illuminate our minds with the light of knowledge. The celebration of Deepavali, is thus, a manifestation, an externalization of the inner realization that darkness of ignorance is removed only through the light of knowledge. And hence, it becomes imperative that we make an attempt to understand this inner journey from darkness to light.

Sri Ramana Maharshi ~ Day by Day, 11-1-46.

 

BHAGAVATA PURANA

"O King, renounce the thought that you are going to die; this is a delusion and fit only for animals. For you are not this body, but the Atman (The Self) that has always existed and always shall.

Your true self was never born as a son is from a father, or a tree from a seed. You were never generated by another being, who in turn ever had birth. Rather, your real self is like fire: seen to be burning wood, but itself beyond the fuel it consumes, not the product of the wood but another, transcendent thing.

In a dream you might see yourself being beheaded. In the state of waking, the death of the body is comparable to this. The Atman is not the body, but a witness to the body. Death does not affect the Atman; He has no birth or death.

When a pot is broken the akasa (space) contained in it escapes into the universal akasa. When the body perishes, with gyana (knowledge) the jiva (individual) that dwelt in it unites with the Brahman (Infinite Existence Consciousness) .

The mind creates the illusions that appear to limit the Atman: bodies, gunas, and karma. Maya (Illusion) creates the mind and entangles the jiva in samsara.

A lamp gives off light as long as its wick, oil and a flame combine. The transmigrations of a jiva are similar: they, too, depend upon the combination of countless, complex factors. Samsara is constant flux, since it involves the ceaseless combination of sattva, tamas and rajas.

The self-illumined Atman is never born and does not die, but only the body. The Atman is transcendent, immutable, incomparable, beyond all that is manifest and unmanifest, like akasa, eternal: the foundation of all things.

Fix your mind in dhyana (meditation) upon the Lord Vasudeva (Krishna) , use your intellect with discernment, and discover the truth of the Atman amidst the creations and illusions of the Atman.

**If you grasp the truth of the Atman, the serpent Takshaka, sent by the Rishi’s son, cannot harm you. For death cannot touch one who is united with God who is the Death of death."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.”

SWAMI RAMA TIRTHA VERY EARLY 1900'S

“Sit still, chant Om’ and then think Who is within you. All the Vedanta, nay all the philosophy of the Hindus is simply an exposition of this syllable Om.’ Om’ has a charm about it, an efficiency, a virtue in it which directly brings all feelings and all thoughts into a state of harmony, brings peace and rest to the soul and puts the mind in a state where it is one with God. Science may not be able to explain this, but this is a fact which can be verified by experiment. Woe unto science if it goes against the truth connected with the efficiency of the sacred syllable Om.’ The real Self which is knowledge absolute and power absolute is the only stern Reality, before which the apparent reality of the world melts away! Om’ is the name of this Reality.

YOGANANDA

I cannot show you God or enable you to see God because God is not an object that can be seen. God is the subject. He is the seer. Don't concern yourself with objects that can be seen. Find out who the seer is… You alone are God

MANDUKYA UPANISHAD KARIKA, 3.44–5)

One should wake up the mind merged in sleep; one should bring the dispersed mind into tranquility again; one should know when the mind is tinged with desire; one should not disturb the mind established in equipoise. One should not enjoy happiness in that state; but one should become unattached through discernment. When the mind established in steadiness wants to issue out, one should concentrate it with diligence

Paramahansa Yogananda In the Sanctuary of the Soul

What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul, joyous, eternal. Do not identify your immortality with human habits.Even in the midst of exacting trials, say: “My soul is resurrected. My power to overcome is greater than all my trials, because I am a child of God.”

 Swami Vivekananda Om/AUM

🕉️ is the sacred name of that indescribable One. This word is the holiest of all words. He who knows the secret of this word receives that which he desires."