Guest guest Posted November 1, 2007 Report Share Posted November 1, 2007 Here are the two very helpful verses from VC of Jagadguru Shankaracharya. (As given in the book of Swami Chinmayanada). GHATODAKE BIMBITAMARKBIMB-MAALOKYA MUDHO RAVIMEV MANYATE !TATHAA CHIDAABHAASMUPAADHISANSTHAMBHRAANTYAHMITYEV JADOBHIMANYATE !! (218) 218 : The fool, on seeing the reflection of the sun in the water in a jar, considers it to be the sun itself. so too, the fool through delusion, identifies himself with the reflection of the Chit caught in the Intellect and considers it to be the "I"---his own identity. Anyone who cries out, "The sun has fallen into a bucket of water on the verandah", is indeed, a fool. Those who considers themselves fallen into the PFT (Perceiver, Feeler, Thinker) are equally foolish. In both cases it is only the reflection. The sun is reflected in the water, and consciousness plays upon the thoughts in the mind. This "reflections" of Reality upon the thoughts is called Chitabhasa. It is the consciousness playing upon the thoughts, and dancing to the rhythm, just as the reflected sun in the bucket dances when the water are disturbed. I say, "I am agitated", "I am bad", "I am good". What is this "I"? It is the Chitabhas , the "reflected consciousness" ---this is the PFT, the Consciousness functioning through my BMI (Boay, Mind, Intellect) equipments. Once you understand that the sun is in the heavens, then let the sun in the bucket be broken in to a thousand pieces, you are not worried about the future existence of the sun. Only an insentient fool, who considers the reflected sun to be the real one, will worry about its safety when he actually "sees" the sun in the bucket shattered to a thousand pieces. I was looking into a lake and admiring my charming form when suddenly my reflection broke into pieces. Will i be foolish enough to weep and die, saying, "I am broken"? I understand that it is my reflection only. If I have not forgotten myself, I can watch the reflection and enjoy whenever the waters are rippled by the breeze and my reflection consequently gets corrugated. I shall laugh at the ugliness of my reflection and still remain unaffected. But if a fool has forgotten himself, and has identified himself with his own reflection, he will suffer when he directly perceives himself to be squeezed out of shape in the restless waters by some cruel breeze, created by an unmerciful and blind God. GHATAM JALAM TADGATMARKBIMBAM VIHAAY SARVAM VINIRIKSHYATERKAH ! TATSTHA ETATTRITAYAAVABHASAKH SWAYAMPRAKASHO VIDUSHAA YATHAA TATHAA !! (219) 219: The Intelligent man leaves aside the jar, the water and the reflection of the sun in it and sees the self-luminous sun. So too, the wise realize the self-luminous Reality which illumines "these three" and recognize It as independent of them all. When we perceive the reflected sun in a jar of a water, there are three things—the Jar, the water in the jar and the reflection of the sun in it. As long as our attention is on the reflection, the real sun is not perceivable. In order to see the sun, we will have to life our eyes high up from the jar, the water and the reflection. In the sun there is no jar, no water and no reflection. These three are symbolic examples to help us understand the play of the self. This is called Tatastha-lakshana. You know the sun to be without the jar, the water and the reflection. If you are told, "The house on which the crow is sitting is Sri Gopal's residence", then every time you pass by, you don't look for the crow, do you? Once you know the house, the crow becomes dispensable. In the case, the crow is only a convenient, temporary, extraneous factor which helped in the first instance to distinguish Gopal's house from the array of all other houses. This method is called "Tatastha-lakshana"; the crow is no part of the house, but it helps us to distinguish a particular house. The crow is tatastha. Once you know the sun, you will understand that it is the illuminator of the jar, the water and the reflection. Nobody need illumine the sun. it is self-effulgent. It is its own light. In the light of the sun all other things are illumined. Similarly, the wise man realizes the self. Apply the analogy subjectively to your own life and contemplate. Jar: the body, Water: the thoughts, the reflected sun: the ego. The sun in the heavens: the supreme Reality which illumines all these. Om Tat Sat utpal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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