Normal and Eccentric

When you imitate others, then others will call you normal and natural.

When you are spontaneous and natural, world calls you eccentric and mad man.

Just see that world is not apart from you and then world disappears. Then who cares about what?

Sixth Sense

Intuition without intention is sixth sense.

That which is said without an intention is bound to happen.

It is not about predicting what is going to happen but it is about happening of what is being said.

I am not saying this to create interest in such things. I am just listing one of the properties of maya that lures you.

Focus on that which is beyond senses. Sixth sense is also a sense, what a waste!

Urge to Discuss Spirituality Should Go

Urge to discuss spirituality should go.

That urge should not be a bondage for you.

Spirit which is you, is all. So there is nothing special you have when compared to others.

Don't fall for this trap.

Not discussing it unnecessarily is great spiritual practice in itself, because when you do that, you are asserting the truth of one spirit in all.

Even if you discuss unnecessarily, you should be clear within you that you did something extremely foolish and disown your action.

Gods in Me

This moment is my mother Parameshwari

My deep sleep and my great silence is Shiva

My wakefulness is Vishnu

Objects that I create when I am awake is Brahma

My ability to witness my 'I'-ness is Ganesha

My ability to fight my doer-ship and my senses is Murugan

My everlasting freedom while I hold this body and mind is Dattatreya

My story of bondage and liberation is Shiva Linga

My secret key to liberation is Ananta Padmanabha

My willingness to teach myself about freedom is innumerable Rishis

Ashta Siddhis:

Anima: My ability to shrink my ego to nothingness whenever needed,
Garima: My ability to accommodate others by eliminating myself as and when needed
Mahima: My ability to grow infinitely heavy so that events that come and go does not affect me
Lagima: My ability to become almost weightless by holding on to no desires
Prapti: My ability to become completely aware of myself by becoming everything in this entire existence
Ishtva: I am Self, the supreme lord of myself, and I am source of everything with and without
Vashtva: Being subject and beyond, I control all my objects

I bow to my gods, I bow to Self, Soham

Shiva Linga -- Story of Bondage and Liberation

Ocean gives birth to innumerable number of waves. Reality is that, wave cannot be separated from ocean as such, but if wave claims its individuality then that's an illusion and wave is bonded in its own illusory assumption. In this analogy, ocean is infinite consciousness and wave is a Jiva. Jiva assuming individuality, creates and imagines material that it owns and struggles to acquire and protect it throughout it's imaginary lifetime.

You might have seen Shiva Linga. Ellipsoid structure of the linga represents infinite consciousness. Surrounding boundary represents Maya, primal illusion that has no starting and no ending. When Maya seem to surround infinite consciousness then Jiva comes into being. Ash and other materials such as butter, milk, sugar, turmeric, flowers etc etc applied on Linga (can be seen Figure left and center) represents materials that Jiva assumed as its own. On top of Linga, container filled with water is tied which drips water drop by drop (as seen in top right Figure), this water washes away slowly and steadily the materials that is stuck to Linga. Here container filled with water represents wisdom, using wisdom and discrimination slowly and steadily Jiva gets detached to material that it created from nowhere and assumed to be its own. Once Jiva clears all the material attachments to itself, Jiva becomes free and liberates itself. That is, Jiva becomes Shiva.

This is the beautiful story of bonded Jiva meeting its beloved to become eternally free and unite with Supreme.

This lore of bondage and liberation of Jiva is encoded in our daily ritual of worshiping of Shiva Linga.

Ananta Padmanabha - Secret Key to Liberation

Ananta is the lord of snakes, that you see in the above picture. Ananta means infinite. Ananta has infinite heads, representing infinite perspectives. Mind always points to only one perspective, and gets trapped. When mind is trapped it creates external world and looks outside always reasoning about or searching something in one direction at a time. As you can see in the above picture, Ananta is looking inwards towards it's body, which represents Mind looking inwards. Infinite heads represent a Mind with infinite perspectives.

A Mind with infinite perspectives is no mind, it is actually void. When you look inwards at your real Self you are actually looking at God. Similarly, Ananta with infinite heads turns inwards and is looking at God in the above picture.

When one finds his real Self, he is said to be at complete rest. That state is an effortless state. It is pure consciousness and that has no movement at all and is in absolute rest. Lord Padmanabha resting in the above picture represent that completely effortless state.

Animate and in-animate take birth from pure consciousness alone. That means creator of world takes birth from pure consciousness. Brahma connected to Lord Padmanabha by an umbellical cord represents creator and creation taking birth from pure consciousness alone.

Therefore

Because we do not know that we are free, therefore we are free.

Miracles are Obstacles

Keep away from miracles. Especially when you think it is working through you. Why?

Miracle is something that which you do not understand. If you think that you are capable of doing miracles, that means that you are capable of something which you do not understand. Which in-turn means that, that which you do not understand can bind you and you won't even know because you don't understand anything in this process.

Claiming miracles is simple an obstacle for you. Do not claim any miracles, do not give them importance. Let world praise you, let loved ones encourage you, but do not move. Let world enjoy useless miracles, you stay silent.

Guilt is like Dust on the Mirror

What happens when there is dust on the mirror surface? You cannot see yourself clearly, sometimes you see something else, illusion of a black spot on your face may appear and you may be worried because of that.

Similar thing happens when you have guilt. Guilt is one of the greatest enemies of seeker of truth. It is certainly like dust on the mirror and does not let you see yourself properly.

If you want to see yourself clearly in the mirror known as spirituality, then there should be no guilt whatsoever in you.

How to remove that guilt is your problem, not mine.

Clarity and Confusion

What you call clarity is confusion for me

What you call confusion is clarity for me

My confusion is complete and now you cannot ask me, how to achieve clarity?

Happiness not greater than Sorrow

Everyone hates sorrow

I must tell you that, happiness is equally dreadful

Both are same

Detaching with sorrow and attaching to happiness is like, enjoying the pleasure of scratching an infected wound. It feels so good when you scratch it, but because of that, wound gets bigger and then it feels ugly and start to pain.

Therefore, both should be treated a like. It is not required to express as if you treat them alike, but within it must be clear that you are dealing with equally treacherous entity when you are happy.

Bliss is not happiness. Don't keep mixing these concepts. Bliss doesn't depend on both happiness or sorrow, even in extreme sorrow, firm realization that this is something that is not happening to you is the bed of blissfulness where you rest while your body seem to be reacting, shedding tears.

Hypothetical Situations

By all means try to avoid hypothetical situations.

These situations are just distractions, nothing else. Focus on what is here and now.

Gross and Subtle

Gross depends on assumptions. Assumption about 'I', assumption about the reality of the unreal, so on so forth.

Subtle doesn't depend on assumptions. In subtle, very basis of both gross and subtle is seen.

For the same reason gross cannot help you in knowing about your real nature, because assumption about 'I' becomes the hurdle and keeps you in ignorance.

Gross is the goal of an ignorant.

Subtle is the goal of the seeker. Seeker is cautious about assumption of 'I' and tries to find out and ofcourse succeeds.

Seeking knows no failure. By all means question everything, not externally (gross) but internally (subtle).

Roller Coaster

Senses try to take you on a roller coaster by fueling judgements, opinions, interpretations, emotions and so on so forth.

See that you are the space in which roller coaster moves, and not the crazy, super scared or momentary excited passenger/rider.

Just keep quiet to avoid being a rider.

When Observer is Observed

When observer is observed

-- experiencer becomes the experience

-- mind becomes still, although there are thoughts, they don't seem to be yours

-- there is only a pure perception, which is prior to knowledge, and for the same reason there is no knowledge of perception either

-- body and mind are not seen, although they are seen at once, like waves are seen but far from your sight, waves are not seen and only ocean in its completeness is seen