BRAHMA BRAHMAVIDO JANAH
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Kṛṣṇa says brahma brahmavido janāḥ. He means that if we have always lived with our attention focused towards higher consciousness, we will travel in that path and disappear into Brahman. We will become enlightened.
So be very clear, these conditions are not chronological. They are psychological. Bhīśma waited until his mind settled, until he felt completely peaceful, till he was able to forgive and complete with everybody and himself, and till he was able to reach conscious awareness. Then he entered enlightenment.
Next, Kṛṣṇa says that the person who passes away from this world during smoke, the night, the fortnight of the waning moon or those six months when the Sun travels in the south, referred to as Dakṣiṇāyaṇam, reaches the Moon but comes back again. Again, this is psychological. They can’t say that in these six months nobody can become enlightened. They can’t say, ‘During the six months of dakṣiṇāyaṇam, the Enlightenment gates are locked, no entry. Only at uttarāyaṇam time, the gates are open. Come at that time.’ No! They can’t say, ‘Dakṣiṇāyaṇam time is non-working hours and only uttarāyaṇam time is working hours.’ There are no working hours for enlightenment. It is purely because of the conscious choice of one’s being.
LIGHT &
DARKNESS
Kṛṣṇa says that according to the
Vedas, there are two ways to pass
from this world: one in light and
one in darkness—śukla-kṛṣṇa gatī
hy ete jagataḥ śāśvate mate. When
one passes in light, he does not
return, but when one passes in
darkness, he comes back again—
ekayā yāty anāvṛttim ananyāvartate
punaḥ (8.26). What does Kṛṣṇa
mean by light and darkness, śukla-
kṛṣṇa? They refer to the levels of
consciousness one has reached. If a
person leaves the body without
knowing what drove him all
along—his saṃskāras, his desires,
fears, guilt, etc., which we call root
thought patterns—then this
ignorance is what He refers to as
darkness.
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BREAK YOUR
ROOT THOUGHT PATTERN
If you look inside, the reason for your low inner space, powerless inner space will be some root thought pattern. Break that! Reclaim your freedom! Declare your freedom! Raise your inner space to the peak joy, fulfillment, and excitement.
Please understand, when Śwetaketu, a young seeker mentioned in Upaniṣads, was initiated by his Guru, his Guru said only nine times — ‘Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi!’ (thou are that), and Śweta-ketu became enlightened. Why then, even if you listen to ‘Tat Tvam Asi’ nine-thousand times, you don’t become enlightened? Carry the right inner space! On the rock, seed can not sprout as a tree.
In the right fertile ground only, the seed can become a tree. In the right inner space only, the teachings can become reality. Right inner space means where all the root thought patterns of suffering are destroyed. Listen! All root thought patterns are destroyed where your inner space is fertile for experiencing the higher ideals and ideas.
When we become aware of these root thought patterns and are free from them, we leave the body and become liberated. This is what He means by light. He says that when this happens, the being does not return to the body.
© 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved
GOALS:
Impress upon the students that we need to have the right inner space where all our root thought patterns of suffering are destroyed and where your inner space is fertile for experiencing the higher ideals and ideas.
