Shiva Sutras
today is the last installment of the Shiva
Sutras. And
then we'll move on to something else.
I haven't figured out what.
Brahma Sutras.
maybe, rajayana, buddhist techniques, mayomudras...
don't know,
I will need a couple of days of incubation
to think what's next. And you can also give me your ideas if you want.
bhūyaḥ syātpratimīlanam
OK. That's the sanskrit.
But basically,
the direct translation says the
Yogi simultaneously and repeatedly experiences the
revealing state and the concealing state of the objective world.
Let me
use
maybe a slightly different contemporary
interpretaion
of this
Shiva Sutra
so the divine is both concealed
and revealed
in the world appearance.
The world appearance includes all this,
including this body. But also world appearance includes the body, mind because
body and mind go together.
So body, mind and world appearance is
experience and it is also called differentiated experience
right now. As I look at
this world,
look at my own body, look at this computer, look at objects, et cetera.
The eye that looks
is
divine,
nonlocal
being
the I,
when we say I AM
not I am Deepak Chopra.
I AM
because in I AM is the experience of a changing Deepak Chopra
and a changing experience that we call the world,
which is
the activity of I AM as I am this and I'm that
but I AM
is not in the body,
the body is an activity
in I AM. I AM is not in the mind, the mind is an activity
and I AM
I doesn't exist in the world. The world is an activity in I AM. Body, mind and world
are fluctuations of I AM. I AM curves back within itself to create again and again,
this is the expression called
prakṛtim svām avastabhya visrjami punaḥ punaḥ
Curving back within myself, I create again and again
that which I go back to
is not in space time
that which I go back to that which I call I or just I AM
is not in space time
and
it is formless infinite, irreducible fundamental without cause, baseless,
timeless,
infinite and comprehensible formless but is constantly fluctuating
as form and phenomena. But the fundamental direct fluctuation is simply qualia,
qualities of
sensations, images, feelings, thoughts,
that's it.
So
I AM is not in time
and its fluctuations
which are ceaseless
are also not in time.
OK? So the qualia are not in time because
they're constantly
fluctuating.
OK?
And returning back
to the formless form and formless are alternating
in what we call the eternal Now,
the eternal now is both formless
but also the fluctuating forms
like a changing whirlpool, let's examine changing whirlpool. So
the, the whirlpool is made of water,
but it's
activities or currents and changing
forms are
also ceaselessly
fluctuations of water or behaviors of water.
So both the formless and that,
which acquires form
are eternal,
formless and form are eternal,
except that the form is changing. Ok.
But the form never goes away
just like
let's say,
there's an ocean with its currents
and whirl
pools and
and different
patterns of behavior.
But it's all ocean still,
it's water and the water never goes away and the fluctuations don't go away,
but they keep changing
and out of that is born in the ocean, all of
the life of oceans,
all that is we call the life,
you know, fish and marine plants and marine life. And
everything from snails to
octopuses, to whales, to little teeny weenie,
sardines, all that and ultimately dolphins
and mammals, all
a fluctuation
of the ocean itself as form and phenomena.
So form and phenomena
consistently and eternally change,
however, they never go away.
And so does the formless never goes away.
So reality is timeless, eternal and we call it now,
of course, we create a storyline around it,
a beginning and a middle and an ending
which is totally artificial.
So we give beginning
to say this body.
And
let's call it a birth or
depending on what you want, you can give this body a ... anytime.
Is this body conceived at birth?
Was this body...
Did this body
start its journey
at conception
or did this body start its journey when
your father and mother looked at each other with desire
or did this body start
when
primates
and humans took off different lines of
experience.
or did this body start with the,
with
the beginning of evolution, biological evolution
or did this body start
when
the Big Bang occurred or this body's potential, does it exist in the quantum vacuum?
All very arbitrary,
all very arbitrary.
The fact is that the body is just
an internal process
of transformation
in the eternal now
and it changes appearances, it changes appearances during a lifetime and then
when this storyline is over, it incubates and
shows up as other appearances.
Every child that is born a recycling of
qualia and an evolution of
qualia. That's what but the eternal now contains both the formless
and
that which is
constantly transforming
and evolving as form.
And we are THAT we are the eternal now, you are the eternal now
and the eternal now is the source of
what we call body, mind and world appearance
and experience.
So where does time come in?
Time is actually
created in the moment
you start to identify with the selective fluctuations
that you call me and mine.
Not I
I
is the source of me and mine and me and mine is the temporary fluctuation, a storyline
and a bigger storyline.
But I
am always
now
and my fluctuations
as
the experience of the theater of spacetime and causality with
with all these
amazing
world appearances and nature and clouds and sunshine and
moon and sky,
and stars and Galaxies and feelings and emotions and thoughts and ideas.
the
incessant
fluctuating activity of
I AM as I am this and I'm all this
and all that
that
never ceases. So where does time come in
by selectively identifying with some fluctuations and saying that's me
that the moment the self is sacrificed for the self image,
time is born
and time is the consumer and we are its food.
And so if you want to experience a true self,
then all
that is needed
is to be here. Now Be
Be
here,
which is both formless and fluctuating eternal form.
Now
and in that be here now
is
a conquest of time
and the conquest of mortality.
It is a shift in identity.
That's it.
From
the fluctuations to the source of all fluctuations
is the conquest of
death
and the conquest of time.
So
that's it for the Shiva Sutras.
All the best. Now, I'll
start thinking, what should I
explore with you next
...
as it's called, or some Buddhist techniques or Brahma
Sutras.
Let me think
and then
we'll go from there.