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Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 24.05.2017, Advait BodhSthal, Noida, India
Context:
As a lump of salt has neither inside nor outside and is altogether
a homogeneous mass of taste, even so this Self, my dear, has neither inside
nor outside and is altogether a homogeneous mass of Intelligence.
(~Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Verse 13)
सयथासैन्धवधनोऽनन्तरोऽबाह्यः कृत्स्नोरसघनएवेवंवा अरेऽयमात्मानन्तरोऽबाह्यःकृत्स्नःप्रज्ञानघ
नएवैतेभ्योभूतेभ्यः समुत्थायतान्येवानुविनश्यतिनपेत्यसंज्ञास्तीत्यरेब्रविमीतिहोवाचयाज्ञवल्क्यः॥
(~ बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद, श्लोक १३)
This Self comes out as a separate entity from the elements and with their destruction
this separate existence is also destroyed. After attaining this oneness it has no more consciousness. This is what I say, my dear. So said Yajnavalkya.
(~Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Verse 13)
सयथासैन्धवधनोऽनन्तरोऽबाह्यः कृत्स्नोरसघनएवेवंवा अरेऽयमात्मानन्तरोऽबाह्यः कृत्स्नः प्रज्ञानघ
अरेऽयमात्मानन्तरोऽबाह्यःकृत्स्नःप्रज्ञानघ नएवैतेभ्योभूतेभ्यः समुत्थायतान्येवानुविनश्यतिनपेत्यसंज्ञास्तीत्यरेब्रविमीतिहोवाचयाज्ञवल्क्यः॥
(~ बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद, श्लोक १३)
~ What do these verses mean?
~ What is importance?
~ What is important in life?
~ Is anything, anybody so important?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 24.05.2017, Advait BodhSthal, Noida, India
Context:
As a lump of salt has neither inside nor outside and is altogether
a homogeneous mass of taste, even so this Self, my dear, has neither inside
nor outside and is altogether a homogeneous mass of Intelligence.
(~Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Verse 13)
सयथासैन्धवधनोऽनन्तरोऽबाह्यः कृत्स्नोरसघनएवेवंवा अरेऽयमात्मानन्तरोऽबाह्यःकृत्स्नःप्रज्ञानघ
नएवैतेभ्योभूतेभ्यः समुत्थायतान्येवानुविनश्यतिनपेत्यसंज्ञास्तीत्यरेब्रविमीतिहोवाचयाज्ञवल्क्यः॥
(~ बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद, श्लोक १३)
This Self comes out as a separate entity from the elements and with their destruction
this separate existence is also destroyed. After attaining this oneness it has no more consciousness. This is what I say, my dear. So said Yajnavalkya.
(~Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Verse 13)
सयथासैन्धवधनोऽनन्तरोऽबाह्यः कृत्स्नोरसघनएवेवंवा अरेऽयमात्मानन्तरोऽबाह्यः कृत्स्नः प्रज्ञानघ
अरेऽयमात्मानन्तरोऽबाह्यःकृत्स्नःप्रज्ञानघ नएवैतेभ्योभूतेभ्यः समुत्थायतान्येवानुविनश्यतिनपेत्यसंज्ञास्तीत्यरेब्रविमीतिहोवाचयाज्ञवल्क्यः॥
(~ बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद, श्लोक १३)
~ What do these verses mean?
~ What is importance?
~ What is important in life?
~ Is anything, anybody so important?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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00:00As a lump of salt has neither inside nor outside, and is altogether a homogeneous mass of taste,
00:12even so this self, my dear, has neither inside nor outside, and is altogether a homogeneous
00:16mass of intelligence.
00:18This self comes out as a separate entity from the elements, and with their destruction,
00:23this separate existence is also destroyed.
00:26After attaining this oneness, it has no more consciousness.
00:30This is what I say, my dear, so said Yagyavalkya.
00:38The self is neither inside nor outside, it is free of all distinctions.
00:46Inside and outside appear only when there is duality, only when there is you who is
00:51perceiving and something that is being perceived.
00:56You take this skin bag as real, and then you say that which lies to this side of this skin
01:06bag is inside, and that which lies to this side of this skin is outside, external, and
01:16that is duality.
01:19You see how flimsy and how skin deep is our definition of the I?
01:28Do you see how superficial is the ego?
01:30You say that which is contained within this skin is me, and all that which is outside
01:36this skin is the universe, the world.
01:41As long as you live in this dualistic consciousness, Yagyavalkya is saying, for you there is no
01:46Brahman.
01:50You have to see that there is no nose without the air that is outside.
01:59You have to see that you have risen from the soil itself.
02:07You have to see that you and the universe are one integrated whole.
02:13Only consciousness gives you the illusion of separate existence.
02:21Otherwise just as there is air, so are you.
02:29Except in your thoughts, you do not exist as an isolated entity.
02:35I repeat, except in your thoughts, you do not exist as an isolated entity.
02:46Remove the universe and show me where are you.
02:49Change anything in the universe and you change.
02:56Change any parameter of the universe and see whether you remain as you are.
03:02At the same time, change a little bit of yourself and see whether the universe remains
03:06as it is.
03:07You and universe are one integrated whole.
03:13There is no inside and no outside, really.
03:17But this inside and outside is the business in which man spends his entire life.
03:23You know what this one on the inside is always trying to do?
03:27Negotiate this expanse that is on the outside.
03:33What else are we always trying to do?
03:34We are trying to deal with the world.
03:38This sense of dealing, this sense of having the obligation to make one's way through the
03:44world is our curse.
03:48Are you getting it?
03:52How does one live then?
03:56Let not the world be too important.
04:03Do not think of things as if they really matter.
04:11If that really matters, then do you know who really matters?
04:19You really matter.
04:25All of these are subtle ways of the ego.
04:29By making anything in the universe important for yourself, you have just made yourself
04:34very important.
04:39And in making the universe important and in making yourself important, do you know what
04:44you have made important?
04:46You have made the distinction between yourself and the universe very important.
04:52You have made your skin very important.
04:56And that is why man lives all his life just saving his skin, both literally and figuratively.
05:07Why is man born?
05:09To save his skin.
05:16That is the way of duality.
05:18Save your skin.
05:19If the skin is not there, then duality perishes.
05:28You require division.
05:29Skin means division, boundary.
05:32And that is why man loves conflict, because conflict is division.
05:37That is why man must fight, because the skin is boundary, division.
05:43And that is why you must always have things that are limited by boundaries.
05:53Because wherever there are limits, there you get a chance to prosper.
05:58The ego flourishes there.
06:02We all want the skin, we all want boundaries.
06:11That is why we must have walls.
06:19What is a house without walls?
06:24In the name of houses, what do we have?
06:26Walls.
06:27Of course, no architect creates space.
06:31Space is anyway there.
06:32What do you create in the name of a house?
06:35You raise walls.
06:38We need that.
06:41That is why we need skins upon skins.
06:42That is why we need faces upon faces.
06:45That is why we need multiple layers of clothing, of armors.
06:54When these armors are gone, when these distinctions are gone, when this dualistic consciousness
06:58is gone, when the world is no more so much material, when you can be a little light,
07:05a little free, a little silent when you are home, then you don't just walk under the influence
07:17of gravity, you kind of fly, like you.
07:26Your feet are bound to the earth, you are not.
07:56And then Mathuri gives a parting gift.
08:02She says, here you have completely bewildered me, venerable sir, indeed, I do not at all
08:08understand this.
08:09It's beautiful.
08:10I do not at all understand this.
08:12Obviously, as long as there is I, there is no understanding.
08:17Look at the little game of love the wife is playing with the husband.
08:28Just as you are playing a game by walking away, I too know how to play games for now.
08:37The chapter is concluding and we both are one.
08:40If we both are one, we both know how to play games.
08:45Oh dear husband, you have foxed me.
08:52So smart are you.
08:53Obviously, I do not know any of what you are telling me.
08:55Obviously, I do not know.
08:58I just don't understand what you are saying.
09:07That must be the attitude of the spiritual mind, both humble and playful, humble enough
09:15to say, I do not know and playful enough to say, I do not know, even when it does know.
09:29The devotee has God in his heart and still is always crying.
09:36When will you come to me?
09:38As if he does not already have Him.
09:42Look at Meera, always singing for Krishna, as if she is not already Krishna, both devotion
09:49and playfulness going together, because otherwise devotion will become a little boring.
09:56How long and how many times can you just keep saying, I am that, I am that, obviously you
10:04are that.
10:06You are something else.
10:07So you say, oh, I am probably not that, when will I get that?
10:14My dear husband, I do not understand what you are saying and Yagyavalt too must play
10:19his part.
10:20So what does he say?
10:24Am I saying anything that is bewildering, my dear?
10:29Only the self is immutable and indestructible, obviously, verily.
10:36He does not want to spoil the fun, he does not say, dumb woman, do you really not get
10:45what I am saying or are you just playing games?
10:55He participates in the game.
11:00That is the greatest respect you can offer to your loved one, when he plays a game with
11:07you, participate, don't run away.
11:17Non-intelligent eye will think that Yagyavalt is walking away.
11:24The eye that really sees will see that Yagyavalt is involved at this moment in the most intimate
11:31of embraces with his wife.
11:36When only bodies meet, then nothing has met anything.
11:44Here it is union of another kind, in another dimension.
11:58For when there is duality, as it were, then one sees another, one smells another, one
12:03tastes another, one speaks to another, one hears another, one thinks of another, one
12:06touches another, one knows another.
12:10But when to the knower of Brahm, everything has become the self, then what should he see
12:15and through what, what should he smell and through what, what should he taste and through
12:19what, what should he speak and through what, what should he hear and through what, what
12:22should he think and through what, what should he touch and through what, what should he
12:26know and through what, through what should one know that owing to which all this is known.
12:32This self is that which has been described as not this, not this, it is imperceptible
12:38for it is never perceived undecaying, for it never decays unattached, for it never attaches
12:42itself unfettered, for it never feels pain and never suffers injury.
12:46Through what, O Maitreya, should one know the knower?
12:50Thus, thus you have the instruction given to you.
12:55This much indeed is the means to immortality.
12:58A old man is tired, nothing else and he is fed up of playing the game.
13:10The wife has probably just dropped a subtle hint, come on, it appears that you are thinking
13:15that I really do not know.
13:20Such a long monologue, are you talking to yourself?
13:27I know for the Brahm, there is no second, no other, but that does not mean that you
13:31will just soliloquize.
13:38Having said this, Yagyavalkya renounced home, that's a joke, Yagyavalkya never renounced
13:49anything, Yagyavalkya are always home, are you getting it, do you still see a man and
14:02woman?
14:09If you are a man, you will see a man and a woman.
14:14The Upanishad starts with talking of men and women, because the readers are men and women.
14:22When the Upanishad concludes, you must see neither men nor women, because you must remain
14:29neither men nor women, Yagyavalkya has ended by talking.
14:44about the falseness of otherness, where is the other one?
14:54If there is no other one, who has been talking to whom?
15:00If there is no other place, where am I going, O Macrae?
15:06If there is no other one, whom am I quitting, O Macrae?
15:20An occasion that could have been an occasion of misery, tears, disappointment, frustration
15:32is now an occasion of the greatest celebration, a celebration that reverberates through the ages.
15:40Yagyavalkya and Macrae are here and see that there is no mention of Katyayani, she is faded
15:48into the background, who wants to talk of her, she is no more, and they are here, they
15:53will remain here, who says that Yagyavalkya has walked away, Yagyavalkya never walk away
15:59into the sunset, they are the sun itself and Yagyavalkya and Macrae are never separated
16:09because they are one, indivisible.
16:39Love does not appear even once in this discourse.
17:09Now, you know that you don't have to have a word for love, the elaborate chapter, the
17:34entire discussion is a profound I love you from both sides, yet the word love never appears.
17:51For the word love to appear, there must be I on one side of it and you on another side
17:55of it.
17:56When I and you come too close together, then even love does not find any space, love is
18:08a kind of separation.
18:14That is why the Upanishads do not talk too much of love, where there is absolute unity,
18:23who wants to talk of love and that absolute unity is itself ultimate love.
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