YOUR TRUE NATURE iS PūRṆA BEYOND TRiGUṆA.
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Our center is our true nature. Our
true nature is divine. We are one
with the universal energy, God,
Parāśakti or whatever we want to call
it. We cannot describe it. We can
just experience it. We experience
bliss when our focus is in that
central core and not out at the edges
of our personality. Throughout life
we run away from that center, that
core of bliss, that space of
completion.
Completion is removing the
delusion of incompletion, which
makes you cognize the other is
separate from you; the delusive
cognizance, the delusive cognition.
Our senses lead us towards the
periphery where incompletions are,
where material objects are. Our
inner core is empty: it is śūṇya. But
it is also pūrṇa, complete by itself
with nothing else needed to top off
the bliss. However, the outer
periphery of incompletions is
forever changing. Nothing is eternal
about it. Even when objects are the
same, our perceptions keep
changing. This periphery is māyā,
illusion, tamas, ignorance.
Understand, incompletion has no
existence. Incompletion is the
delusive cognition that stands
between you and the Whole.
Complete with everything
Our rājasic nature, the restless
activity that strives to introduce
purpose into something that is
essentially without purpose, keeps
driving us away from the center of
completion into this peripheral
darkness of incompletions, tamas
and māyā. Rajas always drives us
into tamas. Aggression, passion,
attachment and aversion eventually
take us into delusion and ignorance.
