SOME THOUGHTS ON ATMA--100

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Loving Sai Rams,

 

A man of Perfection is one in whom all desires have dried up. The quantity and quality of desires in a given individual will depend upon the type and bulk of his tendencies (vasanas)

.. A man of realisation is one who has transcended all his Vasanas that constitute the " Causal body " (Avidya), and therefore, after the experience of transcendantal fullness, there is no trace of imperfection left in hm . At the experience of the Inner Self, the Man of Perfection grows out of his ego-centric limitations, and lives as the Self in All. An individual who has risen from the state of the ego into the " fourth " plane of Consciousness (Turiyam),he thereafter lives the experience that the Consciousness in him Itself is the Infinite All-pervading Reality. To him in his divine experience the pluralistic things and beings of the world, which he did perceive in the past as an ego (jiva), are all misinterpretations of the Truth. On awakening from a dream, the dreamer-personality ends and it becomes itself the waker. The dream-world rolls back to become merged with the very substance of the waker`s mind. So too, on awakening into the plane of God-consciouness ,the world of objects, emotions and thoughts, experienced by the ego rolls back to become the Infinite Consciousness. Thereafter, the Self alone exists. All delusory projections of a universe, like a dream, is lifted on awakening to the state of God-hood in the moment of Samadhi. On realising the Self, the entire world of multiplicity experienced now,all these are recognised as only the one Unlimited Eternal Self. " There is nothing other than the self " , as the Scriptures assert.

 

This experience is is called True Knowledge. To experience that the meditator himself is divine in his core, but not to recognise the same Divinity there after around him, is only a partial knowledge. Man of Realisation when he experiences the Eternal Substratum he at once comes to be with the Self, and to him therein is no plurality at all. This total experience of the All-full Supreme, where there is no distinction at all, this state of

at-onement with the Lord, is called True Wisdom, complete Realisation.

(to be continued)

G.Balasubramanian