What does He accept, what time, color or what shape: Karabhajan Yohishwarji

To the above inquiry of King Nimi plus additional supplement as to what should men do to worship HIM, what name and what process, Chamas Yogishwar asks the King to do away with all the dualities and the classifications attending to that. There should be no distinction.
Sole and only feeling, Ananya Bhava, should be his concentration. Do away with secondary feelings, perceptions, thoughts and intuition; Leave them all away, dismiss them in the sky, so to say literally. Always remain steadfast in His prayers. There will be no sin, even if it occured, Hari will wash away all of them. Take pure conscience into your Being.

Mind and senses not yet calmed down

In the process of earning meta-physical knowledge, King Nimi continues enquiring the nine Yogishwaris: the eighth question regarding taming up  of the mind and the senses is taken by Chamasji. What will happen/befall upon those persons whose wishes have not yet been calmed; whose worldly and para-worldly lust for enjoyment have not yet been fulfilled; hankering after enjoyment in the world beyond paramountly exists; mind and related senses are not under control; don't' perform prayers and meditation. A long list is forwarded to Chamas Rishiji.
The Rishi explains to the King that The Virat Purusha, The Macro-cosmic person is the lord, soul and determinate of men/women's fate. He is Niyanta, Swami and Atma. From his mouth was created the sattva pradhan Bramhan, From His hands came the mixed sattva and raja pradhan Kshatriyas, from His thigh came, raja mixed tama pradhan vaishya and grihastha ashram, the householders in the present nomenclature; from feet, tama pradhan shudra and from heart came bramhacharya, abstinence, from chest came vanprastha, the forest-dwellers and from head/brain came the sanyas asram.
Ashram and Pradhan relate to life styles of the then era, while the attributes of triguna,i.e., the sattvic, rajasic and tamasic were explained in detail in my previous blog under the same title/headings. Loosely explaining, sattvic is pure, rajasic is active performer while tamasic is dull, idle or something not good. A combination of these three attributes run our life and there is a mixture of these attributes, while we perform. Thus there could be plethora of combinations but Pradhan connotes, which attribute is a major one,or which attribute commands.
The Rishi further explains: we do not know the mystery of Karma, work; Study of Vedas from birth, wearing of sacred thread with a vow, near  the feet of Lord, etc does not mean that one is ascetic or god-friendly; not understanding the exact meaning or significance of Veda, but nevertheless, explaining them by words only. the arthavada, meaning, the conservatives.Explaining the purport of words, without its real significance.
Ego and attachment, longing women, always indulging and limiting oneself in sex with women, as if they provide satisfaction the Jiva, wealth and prosperity, lineage, education, donation, elegance, etc., all these together with strength and ego of work, men become blind and insult the saints and sages.
The Rishi further delves into the significance of Soutramni Yagna, whose intent is to establish selflessness, dignity or self-respect, and control of vulgar nature. He states that the result of wealth is to conduct piousness, from pious emanates knowledge of supreme reality and furthermost is the belief in religion. From there results the accomplishment of direct experience. Belief leads to maximum peace.
Self destructive people take ignorance as knowledge and for them, peace will never be attained. They are helpless and become helpless.

INFINITISM

The last post was unceremoniously cut short. What I did not mention was that following severe Titiksha, power to tolerate, whoever worships Shree Hari in the form of Fire, the Sun, Water, Guests  and own  inner conscience, the paramount soul as Shree Hari, he is liberated immediately.
King Nimi's Seventh question to Sage Drumil relates to the gospel and appearances of Infinity; all past, present and future appearances  of the Supreme Reality, which we call God in the absence of proper words, for he is wordless, as He performs such gospels independently but under the spell of infuence of His followers, the religious-oriented.
God is Infinite. Perhaps, one can count all the dust particles of the Universe, but nobody can illustrate, let explain or describe Him, the Formless. His countless attributes, the source/refuge of all Powers, emantes on His own as He creates Five Mahabhoot e.g., Earth, Water, Air, Light, Sky: His Manifold Virat form as inner conscience, the Antaryami, is his part of the whole,  we as Amsa. This Antaryami enters into and a being is created and that jiva becomes enjoyer, Bhokta; The owner of this manifold body, the Sariri is the beginningless doer Narayana.
From His Rajoguna part Brahma is created; from Sattvic part Dharma- Religion; from Tamoguna part He became Rudra. His first appearnce, Avatar, is Virat Purusha, Narayana. Then from daughter Moorti of Daksha Prajapati, son of Brahma, was born Nara-Narayana. He practiced Naiskarmya, unattched work, having no greed of outcome. He lives in Badri Ashram.  Fearful of his ascetic meditative power, Indra attempted a false start to disturb him by sending angels like Urvashi, luring them into worldly carnal desires. Nara-Narayana was furious but were not avengeful. Because they were beyond Maya  and socalled Pure, Nirvikar, Changeless. Many of the Ascetics seem to control their senses, hunger-thirst, heat-cold and tolerate the turbulence, lightning-rains; can control  the wild waves of their lust for food and sex which are compared to oceanic upheavals; they tolerate this, cross them but somehow remain under the influence of anger and lose their wisdom. They get swept away, drowned by the  torrent size of a cow footsteps:  Self-destructive, they thus lose thier hard earned Tapasya, meditation.
Many of God's appearances- Swan, Datrateya, Sanak-Sanandan-Sanatan-Sanatkumar and coming down to earthly appearnces as  our father Rishav, and many such Avatars like Fish, Hayagriv, Tortoise, Narasimha, Vaman,  Parsuram, Rama, Krishna, Buddha have all been deeds/gospels of God to serve mankind, His faithful devotees and as was said earlier comes down to earth under their inflence.

Siddhi

Those whose ignorance have not been fully emancipated, whose senses are not under control and if he unilaterally casts away the actions defined by the VEDA to be performed, then he, as a result of not acting accordingly, falls into reverse actions which is contrary to religious acts. Therefore, those who are unattached to the results of action, karma, surrenders everything to the God, Lord of the Universe, he attains knowledge-oriented perfection, Siddhi, which is action-accomplished. Here the word may convey some other meaning but whose purport is different. Those who want their knots of heart be unbridled, they should carefully follow the process: get instructions from Gurudev after rendering unselfish service;learn the process of divine worship; worship the statute of Lord he loves from his heart; clean/purify the body after bath, then cleanse the inner conscience from satisfaction; sitting before the image of God, conduct breathing exercises, Pranayama, purify past deeds, bhoot siddhi, cleanse arteries, vein and inner organs, nadi sodhan, and then chant sacred hymn, and pledge prayers. An ascetic obtains salvation obtained by abstraction, conduct sixteen process of Hari's worship in his heart as his own, as himself as self.

Karma Akarma and Bikarma

Instructing King Nimi on performance of actions by which people become pure, Yogishwar Aabirhotra , sixth of the nine Yogishwaris - who gave sincere words to King Nimi on self-realization - propounds the theory of Naiskarmya i.e., inactivity or exemption from the fruits of actions, deliberately. It is essential to understand the enjoyment of freedom from the results of action.
As per Scriptures, there are three kinds of Karma: Action, Inaction and reverse Action i.e., violation of required actions. A thorough knowledge and understandings of which can be attained by VEDA only, and not by worldly manners. VEDA is of divine origin; it is Superhuman. It is indeed very difficult to determine the purpose or significance of action. It determines actions for being, sort of, free from it. It is derived in one's absence, in one's living out of sight. To be free from Karma is becoming an accomplished, attained man.
You do work not for its fruits/outcome. It is akarma, inaction when you are totally unattached in accomplishing a work.

Severe Devotion

Pralaya, Stithti and Srishti or Universal destruction of Matter, Maintenance/Sustenance of them and creation/existence of Properties are the instrumental or efficient cause - Nimitta and Upadan karana  of Narayana - His form and formless Feature is so described in Bhagvat Purana. This dialogue is a continuation of conversation between Nine Yogishwaris and King Nimi on the highest meaning of Vedanta.
We are made by Him, all the matter elements are created by Narayana, but Narayana himself is without cause.
When pointedly asked as to the swarup of narayana, Pippalayan maharshiji, responds that narayana is the witness/observer, sakshi, of our waking, Sleep and Dream state. On the 4th state, Turiya, same is he as in absorption mode, Samadhi..the highest form of concentration/Meditation.
By the cause of His existence, body, senses, life, conscience - all of them are able to work, perform but without Him, ears don’t hear, tongue don’t speak, legs wont walk. etc., Remember that the name of Narayana is that highest Reality, Tattva Gyan, the supreme truth.
In that highest realization, there is no flight of mind and speed of speech; Eyes cant see Him, Intellect fails to think, let alone vital life - Prana - and senses seem to work. One can not go even nearer. Nisedh, Neti, neti.. Distinction, differences or association - Vyatirek and Anyaya helps but does not get there; what gets there is your Soul, existence of your soul and self-realization….
When there was no beginning, He alone was. To ascertain/investigate and understand the beginning, three nature of Guna, sattva, raja and tama are said to be responsible; and was explained. They are the true state.
Further explained was  Gain, the acquisition of Knowledge. The knowledge of Kutastha- that I was asleep. Kutastha is the supreme soul, the unchangeable, remaining same perpetually…..the master of the state of sleep, dream and  awakening. That I talked in waking state, in memory, that I saw a dream and that I slept so well…..The Kutastha is the supreme knower, so is the knowledge of soul…It is immortal, indivisible very solid, so to say…Perhaps your accumulated thoughts, the mental power, the Chitta, as such.
However, Narayana is not the subject of gain. Achievement, gain is when gained is other than you. He is you.
It needs a lot of severe devotion; severe devotion alone, like Fire, destroys all the accumulated sins of Chitta, such as our likes and dislikes, the mala, the dirt that has not been cleaned from your conscience. Devotion, nevertheless, cleans all the attached debris of  your conscience which were the product of Guna and Karma… the nature and work that you did, attached with your body, senses, intellect, etc.,
When conscience, the inner observer of the mind gets cleaned, the soul is realized, otherwise not. We only crave with a guna, and we never find it.
When we are able to logically connect the cause and effect of Hetu and sadhya, then we become our true self.
So said Pippalayan Maharshi ji.

Life of spirituality

Those Saints who have directly realized the Supreme Spirit Lord Krishna as his God, Soul and Master, One should endeavor to learn from those saints the love and service of both kinds of being – stationary and moving, and especially of those beings who are providing services to others without any attachment, and of them too the God-loving saints.

Learn to talk with each other about God’s Fame and Glory only, learn to love each other by assembling such type of worshippers, be happy with each other and learn to experience spiritual peace by refraining from worldly paraphernalia.

O King Nimi! Shree Krishna destroys lots and lots of sin in no moment. Let all of us remember Him and make all out efforts to recollect Him with each and all of us all together. By performing such ritual efforts, love springs up and we start living a life of love of spiritual progress.

Yagna daan tapa japa

Learn to give whatever subjects/objects you have such as your likes viz., your wife, son, home, own life, your vital life, your religious exercises, your donation and your penance, your reiteration of sacred words - all of these be submitted to the feet of God. Learn to live life as such.

Gospel

Supernatural, awesome, wonderful and marvelous are some words that help understand the gospel of Almighty; His birth, actions and attributes as a human are divine. One should always listen, chant and meditate/tell, recite, narrate, reflect upon His Fame and Glory.

Finetune your mind

Speak Truth

Control your Senses and Organs

Learn to tune Mind to go nowhere

Controlling mind, senses and intellect

Everywhere, in every country, time and in every objects, Prabuddhaji commands disciples to feel, realize and see the Self/Soul and The Almighty God as ‘Niyanta”, the destiny maker; Give up the feeling that ‘this is my home”- if one is a householder, a order of the second stage in the religious life of a Brahman; wear pure dresses and wear  torn down old patchy sewn dresses if one is a ascetic and be satisfied with whatever you receive/achieve through ‘prarabdha’, a form of destiny.

One should be consistently devoted to Holy Scriptures and have faith/belief in them in that they lead to the path of attaining God and not to undermine others’ religious practices by:

            Controlling the mind by deep breathing, ‘pranayam consisting of kumbhak, purak and rechak, restraining and suspending and releasing the breath during the mental recitation of ‘nitya karma’, a daily chore of works/actions, ‘karma’;

            Control of speech by silencing the mind, senses and intellect;

            Restraining through the exercise of’ vasanahinata’- particularly the impression unconsciously left on the mind by past good or bad actions which produces either pleasure or pain, the knowledge derived from the memory of past actions.

Disciplines and attributes of a would be Ascetic

With the accomplishment of devotion, the inquisitive student realizes the real nature of the human soul or the material world as being identical with the supreme spirit pervading the universe. The hitherto unknown soul is realized, and the devotee understands the metaphysical aspect of the universe, which is his knowledge and instrument to delve further into the mysticism. Lord Prabuddha continues imparting secret knowledge to try learn tame the mind to get unattached with the body, family; then learn how to love with other devotees and fellow beings. Following that compassion, sympathy and friendship with living beings develops without any reservations/conditioning, without deceit, with a sense of propriety, decorum and polite.

Certain disciplines help attain a pure atmosphere such as cleaning or purifying the outer layer of body with soil, water; inner cleaning of  mind from non-deceit and ill-  maneuverings, practicing own religious exercises, patience, silence and taciturnity,  silencing mind and senses, study and discussions on rare scriptures, simplicity, celibacy, and non-violence. They should try not being attached to happiness or sorrows, joy or grief, conflicts of happiness and disappointment, confusion and bewilderment. The inquisitor should practice such attributes with deep reflection, inquiry, examination and investigation.

The Abstract of World beyond and metaphysics governing the Real

The next world, the world beyond is also full of ruins or destruction-prone. Because, that world also is the outcome of our limited good works of the current life. There also, competition takes its toll, jealousy mounts with those people who have more happiness and properties, hatred against those who have less or are inferior. Point is, in the world beyond also, life is; and fall is imminent once our time is completed. Ruin is certain. Free from fear also lasts and continues there.

Therefore, those who are inquisitive, or desirous of getting absolution, should surrender with Guruji. Guruji – the teacher-should be such who has mastered spiritual knowledge consisting in words, who has the verbal authority and to explain metaphysical scriptures (Sabda Bramha) in a transparent way, who is also the converser and intellect of Vedas, and from which he could deliver the right knowledge to his students. He should be a wise learned man of philosophy, philosophy based on the Supreme Spirit (Para Bramha). The Guru, therefore, is such an experienced person who is able to teach the mystery of Absolute Knowledge. His mind should be calm, not interested and involved in paraphernalia of this illusive world. The curious student should take him as his most loved inner self and consider him to be his favorite God, sort of his tutelary supreme. He should serve the Guru without deceit or contempt and try learn from him the holy, the divine religion and accept the ascetic education of means of being a true devotee to attain Godhood.

The World Beyond is also temporary

Lord Prabuddha continues:

Following the dialogues about conquering Maya, the discussion revolves  on:henceforth, those who want to pass over to the other shore of  Maya, they should also understand that the next world where we go after this bodily death - the next world, the world beyond is also ruin oriented or destruction-prone. Because, like this world, that world also is the fruit of our limited good works of the current life. There also, competition takes its toll, jealousy mounts with those people who have more happiness and properties, hatred against those who have less or are inferior. Point is, in the world beyond also, life is temporary and fall is imminent once our time is completed. Ruin is certain. Freedom from fear is nowhere to be found.

Therefore, those who are inquisitive, or desirous of getting absolution, should surrender with Guruji. Guruji - the teacher should be capable, who has mastered spiritual knowledge consisting in words, who has the verbal authority and to explain metaphysical scriptures (Sabda Bramha) in a transparent way, who is also the intellect of Vedas, and from which knowledge he could deliver the right knowledge to his students. He should be a wise learned man of philosophy, philosophy based on the Supreme Spirit (Para Bramha). The Guru, therefore, is such an experienced person who is able to teach the mystery of Absolute Knowledge. His mind should be calm, not interested and involved in paraphernalia of this illusive world. The curious student should take him as his most loved inner self and consider him to be his favorite God, sort of his tutelary supreme. He should serve the Guru without deceit or contempt and try learn from him the holy, the divine religion and accept the ascetic education of means of being a true devotee to attain Godhood.

What is temporay

THOSE who cannot control their mind, men who consider body to be their self/soul, those whose intellect is rather dull- for them it is very difficult to cross over to other shore of MAYA. Easily, Yogishwar Prabuddha tells King Nimi.

Wordly folks are bound by their gender relationship as wife/husbands perform big activities to attain happiness  and get out of sorrows, but instead they get trouble/sorrow in their life.

Those who want go beyond MAYA, they should consider as to how the fruits/outcome of his work goes opposite. For example, let us take ‘riches’. Getting rich makes us anxieties-prone, day by day. In life, it is so difficult to get rich, however even if one becomes rich by hook or crook, his soul gets deadly as he delves in its complexity, he tends to forget himself as he is blinded by his own riches. With richness, he tends to forget that it is a temporary phenomenon like his wealth, his home, his son, his properties. They are all ANITYA, temporary, hence false and NASHVAN tending to ruin, not permanent, hence not true.

Pancha mahabhoot continues

So then, after the fire dissolves into air, the sky takes away the touch power of air and then the air dissolves into sky. Thereafter, TIME kidnaps the word/hear power of sky and then the sky goes into tamas ahankar, the ego.
Senses, Intellect dissolves in Rajas Ahankar, the mind dissolves in sattvic ahankar and the ahankar - the ego - dissolves into Mahatttava, the mahattava into Nature and the Nature into Bramha,
The reverse way starts while creation is to start, i,e,. Bramha unfolds  to Nature, nature to mahatttava, mahattva into three forms of ego, sattvic, rajasic and tamasic.
For all these intricacies of Maya, one has to submerge into a different level of contemplation and put these theories in practice by dissolving all these pancha mahat ttava in the body as our body consists of all these elements - Sky, Air, Light, Water and Earth.

Five great elements - Pancha Mahabhoot

Air withdraws the power of smell from the earth, which makes the earth transform to element of water; when the air again takes the power of liquidness of water, it becomes fire. When darkness, the black hole takes into or swallows that fire, it transforms into or vanishes and merges with the Air . And when the space oriented sky usurps the power of touch from the air, then that air eclipses the sound power of sky, and the sky merges into dark (tamas) ego.
 Thus said the rishi Antariksha when King Nimi asked him to tell as to how to recognize and understand Maya. Besides  Maya is indescribable; even then it could be known through its action or attributes.

Transitory stay

Again and again it is doing the same thing and yet we do not seem to heed. Life is perhaps made so. Always a loved and dear ones passes away, we weep and forget that that the same fate is following us. That is life. Perhaps, death is lfe too.