chapter 8 Living Advaita, the Main Theme of Upaniṣads
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Having all the necessary intellectual understandings to Live Advaita is Jñana. Having all the necessary feeling-connection strength to Live Advaita is Bhakti. Having all the necessary cognitions to Live Advaita is Vijñāna.
Having all the intellectual understandings which are necessary to Live Advaita! Living Advaita means radiating all-powerful, all-knowledge, always blissful, Satcitānandamaya. Satcitānanda (truth-knowledge-bliss) is not a fantasy of the Hindu brain. It is not a fairy tale from some old Ṛṣis of Tāraka Vana or Naimiṣaraṇya. Satcitānanda is a reality!
Upaniṣads. Upaniṣads are the most powerful expansion on Living Advaita. The way Upaniṣads explain Jñāna, the Sacred Knowledge, that is required for you to Live Advaita! Such brilliant brains cannot have fantasies or delusions. Somebody who can grasp, understand and poetically present such high Truths, in no way can you accuse him of having fantasies or delusions. That is why, Satcitānanda is not a delusion. It is as true as your breakfast and good night's sleep. If you come and tell me that you had your breakfast just now, I am not going to accuse you of delusion, illusion. I know it is a reality. Because breakfast is possible, you can eat it. It is that simple! If you tell me that you had a peaceful, good night's sleep, I am not going to accuse you of being in delusion of having a good night's sleep. A good night's sleep is simple possibility!
Satcitānanda, the all-knowing, all-powerful, always blissful, is such a simple possibility.
It is pathetic to deny the Existence of your higher possibility. Denying your higher possibility is denying your future! If you deny that you can ever become rich, happy, comfortable, you are denying your whole future. Same way, denying your possibility of Satcitānanda is denying your spiritual future. It is spiritual suicide! Do not allow people to force you to commit spiritual suicide. And, there are countless people who are forcing you to commit spiritual suicide through their direct, indirect teachings and preachings. Through the TV, cinemas, books, entertainment shows, media, internet, people are constantly forcing you to deny your future spiritual possibility.
Guru is the death bell for all of this ignorance. Guru is the powerful wake-up call towards your spiritual possibility. Waking you to your spiritual future, waking you to your spiritual possibility is the job of the Guru!
Satcitānanda is not delusion or illusion or imagination. Satcitananda, living Satcitānanda is possible.
That is the first statement I want to give about Living Advaita.
Second: The understandings you need for that spiritual possibility is Jñāna, Sacred Knowledge.
Next, when you start Living Advaita, you need certain kind of emotional strength when you go through the transformation. Bhakti, Sacred Sentiments, the intensity of the passion and emotion can be used to explode into Living Advaita to take you to the next, next levels.
Never has a person taken a decision to live Sannyāsa (renounced order) after intellectual analysis and conclusion; anybody who did so, was never successful. Your emotion is a pure power which can just transmit you from one space to another space. Only the people who use that power, that strength, the power of pure emotion and devotion to take the decision of Sannyāsa, are successful. Only they are successful Sannyāsis, never those who do intellectual analysis. If you are ready to live Advaita, that really is the strength of your pure devotion! That can happen only if you use your emotional and devotional strength. That is Life.
Understand, the necessary Sacred Sentiments for you to experience Living Advaita is Bhakti. And the necessary Sacred Cognitions, meaning the basic understandings beyond any doubt, for you to experience Living Advaita, is Vijñāna.
Reading spiritual books or listening to the satsangs is allowing the possibility of having spiritual cognition. If you listen to ten ideas from the Master’s mouth, you may be debating on two ideas, but suddenly four or five ideas will just go inside and sit in your cognition and become unshakeable cognition! Even you will forget to question them. Raising your spiritual cognition higher and higher every day, beyond your self-doubt, self-hatred, self-denial, is the purpose of Satsang.
The main theme of Upaniṣads is to make you Live Advaita by giving you Jñāna–Sacred Knowledge, understandings, Bhakti–Sacred Sentiments, emotional strength, Vijñāna–Sacred Cognition. Truths, Sacred Sentiments, Sacred Cognitions. Gathering these cognitions into your being is Living Advaita.
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