ADVAYA TARAKA UPANISHAD: LIGHT OF SHUSHUMNA FORGIVES ALL SINS

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ADVAYA TARAKA UPANISHAD: LIGHT OF SHUSHUMNA FORGIVES ALL SINS

The Advaya Taraka Upanishad Translated by P. R. Ramachander

Published by celextel.org

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

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

 

One who sees constant light in the top portion of his, in the middle of his

forehead has attained mastery of yoga. In the middle of body there exists the

Sushumna Nadi (Middle Channel)which is as bright as the sun (male) and as cool

as the moon (female) (contains both sexes). It starts from Mooladhara (the

groin) and goes up to Brahmarandra (Sahasrara, the God Chakra) which is in the

top middle of the skull. It is well known that in the middle of it there exists

Kundalini which is as bright as crores of suns and as thin as the lotus thread.

The man who sees that with his mind's eye attains Salvation (from suffering) by

getting rid of all sins. (If you no longer " pay the dues " of bad karma, such as

is experienced in the Eight Sufferings, have you not been Saved from it? Jesus

cured a man of a disease, and then said: " Your sins are forgiven. " )

 

That which helps you cross from the fear of birth, aging and death is called

Tharakam (Tharayathi means Crosses). Understanding the appearance of the living

being and God as separate entities is due to illusion and then examining and

understanding the differences which exist in the world by the method of, " It is

not this " , " It is not this " and at last what remains at last is the Adhvaya

Brahman (which does not have two forms). To get it we have to practice three

aims. 1

 

In the middle of body there exists the Sushumna Nadi which is as bright as the

sun and as cool as the moon. It starts from Mooladhara and goes up to

Brahmarandra which is in the top middle of the skull. It is well known that in

the middle of it there exists Kundalini which is as bright as crores of suns and

as thin as the lotus thread. The man who sees that with his mind's eye attains

salvation by getting rid of all sins. 2

 

One who sees constant light in the top portion of his, in the middle of his

forehead has attained mastery of yoga. 3

 

Wherever it is, if there is light above the head of a one, he is a yogi. 4

 

The yoga within is of two types viz Poorva (pre) and Uthara (post). The pre yoga

is tharaka and the post yoga is amanaska (beyond mind). 5

 

That which can be realized by sensory organs is one which has a form. That which

is in between the eye lids is without form. Always for understanding the things

within, practice with deep application of mind is necessary. In Tharaka yoga,

the concepts like Daharakasa are understood only by the mind's eye. The Uthara

(post) yoga is without form. It is beyond the mind. 6

 

Without batting the eye lids to see inside and outside, what we are aiming to

see is called Sambhavi Mudra. The place where an expert in that type of mudra

lives becomes very holy. 7

 

By the help of a great teacher one tries to find the Thuriya state hidden in

either the sahasrara (thousand petal lotus) or the cave of the heart or end of

the 12 Nadis. Ability to see it is only through the help of a great teacher. 8

 

If the teacher, who is a scholar in Vedas, who is a devotee of Lord Vishnu, who

does not have jealousy in his mind, who is a great expert in yoga, who practices

Yoga and who is the personification of Yoga blesses us, all the ties imposed by

birth will vanish. At that moment all the sins committed in all the births will

be destroyed. The Upanishad tells that he will achieve all the Purusharthas. 9

 

Here ends the Advaya-Tarakopanishad belonging to the Sukla-Yajur-Veda.

 

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