THE THEERTHA OR SACRED WATER IN THE ATHARVASIRAS UPANISHAD

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THE THEERTHA OR SACRED WATER IN THE ATHARVASIRAS UPANISHAD

SWAMIJI'S EASTER SERMON: ULTIMATE MINGLING OF ALL SACRED WATERS

The Atharvasiras Upanishad, Translated by P. R. Ramachander

Published by celextel.org

http://www.shastras.com/108upanishads/atharvasiras.html

http://www.salvationscience.com/v223.htm

 

He (God) is called " theertha (sacred water) " because he is the ULTIMATE MINGLING

OF ALL SACRED WATERS which are sought after... (This " mingling " of waters

implies Rasa Tantra.)

 

Deeply drinking the Somapana (Soma Pavamana, a holy drink, pani is water) of

your grace we have become deathless (physically immortal). We have reached the

ultimate. We have seen the devas (by Higher Consciousness). Who can cause any

harm to us? We humans do not have any shortage of that nectar. 3-2

 

You (Androgynous Divine Body of Higher Consciousness) who are primeval are older

than the sun (male) and the moon (female). 3-3

 

For the sake of this world, this deathless primeval being, catches hold of this

world which is created by Prajapathi and which is minute and peaceful, without

touching it and attracts its shape of things by shape, peacefulness by peace,

minuteness by minuteness and airy nature by its airy nature and swallows it.

Salutations and salutations to that great swallower. 3-4

 

Those gods who reside in the heart reside in the soul of the heart. And you who

live in that heart are beyond the triad nature. 3-5

 

The head of " the sound of Om " is on your left side. Its feet are on your right

side. That " Sound of Om " is the Pranava(primeval sound). That Pranava is spread

everywhere. That which is everywhere is the greatest. That which is limitless,

shines like a white star. That which is also called Shuklam (seminal fluid - the

basic unit of life, sperm) is very very minute. That which is minute (DNA

molecule) is like a lightning power. That which is like lightning power is the

ultimate Brahman. That Brahman is one and only one. That one and only one is

Rudra (the ancient name for Siva), it is also Eeshana (the form of Lord Shiva

with tuft and riding on a bull), it is also the ultimate God and it is also the

lord of all things. 3-6

 

Rudra is called the personification of Pranva Prana) because he sends the souls

towards heaven, at the time of death (dissolution, OOBE's, exiting the body from

the God Chakra).

 

He is called the " one who has the shape of Pranava " , because the Brahmins read

and propagate the Rik, Yajur, Sama and Atharva Vedas only after reading " om " .

 

He is called " all pervading " because like oil in gingili (Til), he peacefully

pervades all over the world and its beings, from top to bottom and from right to

left. (Subjectively, all those with Prana in Shushuman and Kundalini Shakti in

the God Chakra, will literally experience an expansion of consciousness as the

Union of subject and object. The Hindu mantra, Tat Vam Asi means " That art

thou. " This is the basis of Sankaracharya's Advaita, which is Non-Separation of

male and female and subject and object.)

 

He is called " Anantha (endless) " , because his end is neither at the top nor

bottom, nor right nor left (nadis or channels - male and female).

 

He is called " thara (protector) " because he protects one from the fear of life

which consists of the fear of staying in the womb, fear at time of birth, fear

from diseases, fear from old age and fear from death.

 

He is called " Shukla (shukra, white, seminal fluid), because by " pronouncing his

name " (by the DNA or seed of a couple) we get rid of all pains.

 

He is called " sookshma (minute) " , because he pervades in a minute form all over

the body without touching any of the organs.

 

He is called " vaidhyutha (electric) " because as soon as " his name is pronounced "

(i.e. one attains Advaitamrita or Androgynous Bioplasma), in the state of

darkness where nothing is visible, the holy knowledge comes like a ray of

lightning. (Jesus said: " When thine eye is single, thy whole body will be filled

with Light. My Light shines from East to West. " )

 

He is called " Para Brahmam (God, the ultimate reality) " , because, though he is

inside every thing, he is in and out of everything, he is the refuge of every

thing and bigger than the big, he is inside every thing. (The Yogi tries to

convey the experience of Higher Consciousness.)

 

He is called " Eka (single) " because he singly destroys everything (i.e. the

degenerating body) and recreates everything (by the Biblical " Washing of

Regeneration " ).

 

He is called " theertha (sacred water) " because he is the ultimate mingling of

all sacred waters which are sought after, in the east, south, north ad west.

 

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