Hello, my friends
today is my last installment
of the Shiva
Sutras
as commented upon
by Lakshmanjoo
and my
slightly
updated modern interpretation.
And I have come to the end of this series,
if you want, I can start a new series on the Brahma
Sutras
as explained by Adi
Shankara
in a more contemporary fashion.
We do know that all these Sutras point us in the same direction,
how to liberate ourselves
from suffering and find our true self.
So there's some redundancy but also looking at it from the knowledge from
different points of view, different angles, different commentators
our both knowledge and our experience deepens. So you have to tell me whether
I should start this
series on Brahma sutras.
I'll take a day or two to incubate and then based on your feedback,
I will or will not do
the Brahma Sutras.
So our final
Shiva Sutra
today.
bhūtakañcukī tadā vimukto bhūyaḥ patisamaḥ paraḥ
For the self
realized Yogi, the five elements are only coverings
knowing this,
the Yogi is absolutely liberated
and
becomes supreme being
just like Shiva
just like pure consciousness.
So
conclusion, knowing
the five elements as
only coverings,
the Yogi is liberated
into its supreme state.
So
a little bit from what
Lakshmanjoo says in this
sutra
what is being said is that Bhutan
Bhuta
Noki
covering of the five elements is a projection.
Therefore, the Yogi maintains
his or her physical frame externally and not in his or her internal consciousness.
From the point of view of the internal consciousness,
the Yogi is above the physical body or beyond the physical body
or does not identify necessarily with the physical body internally.
The Yogi does not insert ego or eye consciousness into the
physical body nor does the Yogi say I am this body.
The Yogi thinks
this body is the frame
and let it
be as it is and let it fulfill its karmic destiny.
So the Yogi understand that the five elements are projections
of the five senses and the tanmātras,
they are projected as a construct
of mind, intellect, and ego, which is also
a construct.
So
this is
a deep understanding
of identity
free from the constructs of mind, body,
intellect, ego,
chronic body,
physical body, and the physical world,
all this projections
of
the pure consciousness.
I AM, before I am this or that
I know we've said this many times. But now let's actually do a little experiment. OK.
And the experiment is a kind of reflective meditation. So
first ask yourself, who am I?
Look around
everything that you're seeing and
say to yourself,
this physical world
is a perceptual activity
in
me.
And this perceptual activity
is a continuum of perceptual snapshots
which I call the world.
OK. So
that's it.
Now look at your own body and say the same thing.
This physical body is a changing, perceptual activity, perceptual snapshots.
But
I construct the idea the concept of a physical body
with this
perceptual activity. Or look at the body, touch it, feel it
look at the colors, shapes,
but
that which I call my body is a continuum of perceptual snapshots
all the way from
fertilized egg
all the way to dusty death. This is
an activity
that I'm projecting.
OK.
So now close your eyes
and the physical world and the physical body have disappeared.
So what remains?
well sound of my voice remains.
Sensations in your body remain
thoughts and images and feelings in your
mind remain.
OK?
So now slowly
withdraw your awareness from the sensations in
your body and put your awareness only
on whatever thoughts or feelings, sensations,
mental sensations, images
are
floating across the screen of your awareness.
Know that's your own
activity.
Those thoughts, those feelings, those images
are
going on and off
in the Self.
So now withdraw
your awareness from
those thoughts, images, feelings,
questions,
ideas
and simply sink into
I AM awareness.
So
at this point, nothing should be left.
I mean, I'm just giving you the instructions right now.
But when you actually practice this form of yoga and
and then transcendence,
then nothing should be left.
All that's left is awareness
and that awareness
is timeless and eternal. And we also call it now. So now
is timeless and when is timeless. But the fluctuations of now that appear as knowers,
modes of knowing, objects known
are also eternally
fluctuating
just like consciousness
as the source of all the experience is timeless and eternal.
Even though the fluctuations
cause the experience of time because of misidentification,
subject-object split.
Then
of course, we have the experience of time. Time is the continuity of memory using
our ego identity as the internal reference point.
It's basically
identifying with this body mind and
which is a particular set of fluctuation; qualia,
and then separating this particular qualia from that qualia,
OK,
the world, the universe, everything in the universe.
But as you can see, the subject object split is artificial
and is created by misidentification.
As soon as we correct the misidentification, go beyond the subject object split.
Then immediately you realize
time
doesn't exist, there's only the eternal now
and actually even
that which we call the body and mind and universe
is
an ongoing
eternal fluctuation in the eternal now.
And that's all there is.
And we are that
the eternal timeless now.
and knowing this one is liberated one does not need to
be fearful of the
transiency of perceptual activity, including
that which we call the body of the world.
Because that too is eternal,
that too is eternal.
The activity is eternal. You are eternal
and timeless and acausal and
constantly recycling yourself and evolving into
higher levels of abstraction. Creativity,
manifestation,
eternally,
and always now.
So slowly the experience should evolve. There's only the eternal now
and its fluctuations which are also eternal in the eternal now
and now
there is total freedom,
Moksha, liberation.
So
not only are you tasting
with this experience,
the nectar of immortality,
but at some point, you drink
the nectar of immortality
and then you know
that you
are
important.
This is the secret to your immortal self.
OK.
End of series. Goodbye. And thank you and let me know if you want me to do
the Brahma
Sutras.