श्रीशङ्कराचार्यविरचितदक्षिणामूर्तिस्तोत्रम्
THE
UNMANIFEST MANIFEST BRAHMAN
of
SHREE SHANKARAACHAARYA
श्रीशङ्कराचार्यविरचितदक्षिणामूर्तिस्तोत्रम्
DAKSHINAAMOORTI – THE UNMANIFEST MANIFEST
INTRODUCTION
Snow
had spread out like a white covering all over the land wherever eyes could
reach.
Sky
was also completely white in hue filled with snow clouds. A light drizzle of
white rain slowly covered everything that was there. The whole world was white.
The sun was buried behind the clouds. A dull darkness covered the whole of
Earth. Yet the snow had its own glare and the whole landscape was clearly
visible. There was no dividing line between sky and the land.
It
was quite early in the morning when Shankara the young philosopher treaded his
steps slowly on the snow filled path.
No
one was with him. He was clothed very sparsely. The cold freezing weather did
not have any effect on him. The imprints of his wooden footwear were instantly
covered with the falling snow as soon as he moved away. He did not mind the
biting cold. He wanted to reach the peak of the tallest mount there and see the
view of the world from it. He never ever had faltered in his path whether it was
a snow covered mountain path as of now or the journey of his life in search of
Truth. He had taken Sannyas (asceticism) even as a child forcing his doting
mother to agree to it some how and had mastered all the texts that were
considered as sacred in those days. He very easily attained the contemplative
state of the Self at the lotus feet of his Guru Govinda BhagavatPaada and was
appointed by him to carry on his work as his next heir. He was always in the
state of Self whether his eyes were open or not. A few Vaasanaas of Brahminic
arrogance were also now not there by the grace of Shiva. He had fought the
masters of Buddhism and Dvaita adherents tooth and nail and had established
centers of Advaitic philosophy all over his country. He had taught his disciples
all that he knew and was satisfied that his work will be carried out by them in
the future without any problem. He had proved that the very Godhead of
Vaishnavites was a staunch advocate of Advaita by writing treatise on
Bhagavad-Gita. Failure was not a word in his dictionary. Now also he climbed
that tall mountain alone without any mountaineering gear. Soon he was on top of
the mountain. The white drizzle was more intense there. As he sat there in
contemplation, his body was soon covered by the white icy powder. He closed his
eyes and was in Nirvikalpa Samadhi immediately. His body was in no time deeply
buried under the heap of snow that fell on the ground without a moment’s break.
His yogic power helped retain the body heat and his body was not affected by
the freezing surroundings. A few minutes passed by; now his body was not seen
at all; just a mound of snow appeared freshly formed. He withdrew himself into
his subtle body and walked out of the physical body by the power of Siddhi he
had acquired. He had attained that Siddhi when he wanted to learn the secrets
of married life and with that newly acquired knowledge had defeated the wise
lady Shaarada, the wife of MandanaMishra.
Now
he came out of his gross body and looked all around as a formless entity. His
own gross body was buried deep under the snow and was one with the nature. He
was still in the Samadhi state and had lost the identity of his Earth identity
as Shankara. He was no more the Shankara the Advaitic Master. He was now the
Para Brahman looking at his own creation.
He
felt he himself was the white world all around, inside outside, the one
undifferentiated Supreme Reality. All the shapes were there buried inside the
white Para Brahman but not manifest yet. When the ego, the scorched identity of
the witness state (Sun) appears, all the forms will manifest one by one.
But
as yet he was in the Unmanifest state of white world; pure, untainted, without
any differentiation. He looked at his own Para Brahman state and saluted
himself! He felt himself learning the truth from himself in the majestic
silence that pervaded there.
He
was in the ‘North’! Not the north of the geographical map, but in the UTTARA,
the ascent state of Reality. DAKSHINA was the myriad world of forms where all
objects continuously changed their shapes disappearing and reforming again and
again.
He
was himself the DakshinaaMoorthi; the Supreme state of Para Brahman, the
UNMANIFEST which contained within it all the potentialities and all possible
states of the entire manifested world. The Manifest Brahman was
DakshinaaMoorti; the Unmanifest Supreme Reality in the ‘ascent state’
descending down to the next state of MANIFEST BRAHMAN with form; the ‘Moorti’
facing ‘Dakshina’; the manifest form of the world with changes and differentiations.
Shankara
was lost to himself in that Supreme
Blissful State
एकमेवद्वितीयं ब्रह्म; नेह नानास्ति किञ्चन!
One non-dual Brahman
alone is there; there is no differentiation at all here, not in the least!
-
Shankara
Brahman
is not the name of the God; it is the word used to denote the Supreme Reality
which is beyond the grasp of words and mind. PARA means that which transcends;
BRAHMAN means the Greatest, Biggest, and Supreme State
Shankara
was the Para Brahman now. His body stayed buried inside the snow like a statue;
his mind was withdrawn; only Brahman was there!
In
the Earth life many days passed. The disciples got worried about the Guru who
had gone for a solitary walk and never returned. They felt anxious and went in
search of their Guru. The mountains were dark and cold. Somehow hoping that the
Guru might have gone to the peak of the mountain, the disciples ascended the
top of the hill. A mound of snow freshly formed attracted their attention.
Feeling apprehensive, they dug the snow quickly and found the body of the Guru
in the state of contemplation. They saluted him and prayed to him to descend
down to their level and not discard the body to die and disappear. Shankara’s
eyes slowly opened like two early morning lotuses. His eyes were red. Tears
flowed from his eyes incessantly. His body was shivering not by the cold but by
the overflowing bliss. The disciples asked him what had happened.
Shankara
was not still fully awake to the world of forms. He was slowly descending down
to the Dakshina state of forms and names. But he was able to remember his own
state as the Unmanifest manifest Brahman as DakshinaaMoorti. He saluted
silently his own Self which was Para Brahman and uttered hymns of Advaita
explaining the whole mystery of Creation.
On
the topmost section of the White Mountain , in
the incessantly falling snow the disciples sat surrounding their Guru. And
Shankara taught them the secrets of the Para Brahman state as he himself
experienced it a while ago.
He
was now ‘Para Brahman’ as the ‘Mind of Shankara’ explaining about himself as
‘DakshinaaMoorti’ to his own Self listening to him as the ‘Minds of the
disciples’.
BRAHMAN ALONE IS
THERE; NOTHING ELSE WHATSOEVER
SALUTATIONS TO SRI
DAKSHINAAMOORTI,
THE STATE OF
UNMANIFEST MANIFEST BRAHMAN!
श्रीशङ्करविरचितदक्षिणामूर्तिस्तोत्रम्
[1]
विश्वं दर्पणदृश्यमाननगरीतुल्यं निजान्तर्गतं
पश्यन्नात्मनि बहिरिवोद्भूतं
यथा निद्रया
यः साक्षात्कुरुते प्रबोधसमये
आत्मानमेवाद्वयं
तस्मै श्री गुरुमूर्तये
नम इदं श्री दक्षिणामूर्तये [1]
VISHVAM DARPANADRSHYAMAANANAGAREETULYAM
NIJAANTARGATAM
PASHYANNAATMANI BAHIRIVODBHOOTAM YATHAA NIDRAYAA
YAH SAAKSHAAT KURUTE PRABODHASAMAYE ATMAANAMEVAADVAYAM
TASMAI SHREE GURUMOORTAYE NAMA IDAM SHREE DAKSHINAAMOORTAYE
[1]
विश्वं-दर्पण-दृश्यमान-नगरी-तुल्यं-निज-अन्त:-गतं
पश्यन्-आत्मनि-बहि:-इव-उद्भूतं-यथा-निद्रया
यः-साक्षात्-कुरुते-प्रबोध-समये-स्व-आत्मानं-एव-अद्वयं
तस्मै-श्री-गुरु-मूर्तये-नमः -इदं-श्री-दक्षिणामूर्तये [1]
GENERAL TRANSLATION
He who perceives the entire world like a
‘city inside a mirror’ inside himself,
seeing it as if it is outside of himself
as in the sleep state;
he who directly perceives his own undivided
Self at the time of complete awakening;
to that Great Guru, Dakshinaa Moorti, I offer
this salutation.
VISHVAM- VI+SHVAM
VI - prefix meaning division
SHVA means change/movement.
All around you is manifold
changing perception.
VISHVA does not mean the
solid world.
It is conceived by the mind.
Science also says the same
thing; world is not solid; solidity is felt because the opposite charges inside
atoms repel each other. Every atom is a whizzing cloud of electrons. Solidity
is an electronic illusion.
VISHVA means the same thing;
there is no solid world out there; just a change, a movement.
DARPANA - mirror - that which
raises your vanity.
The first time you saw the
mirror as a child, you were frightened of the form inside the mirror. But
repeatedly trained by your elders, you went on repeating that the form in the
mirror is you and the ‘I’ ghost rose up from nowhere.
NA- no; GA-
NAGA – Mountain
NAGAREE - That which does not
move/well situated/that which contains buildings equal to Mountains.
NIJA- one’s own
BHOOTAM- occurrence,
happening,
UDBHOOTAM - a newly rising
occurrence
NIDRAA- Sleep
AATMA- Essence
AKSHA - sense
SA+AKSHA-With senses
SAAKSHAAT - Direct Experience
PRA- intense; BODHA -
Intelligence/Understanding/wisdom
PRABODHA - Complete
enlightenment.
DVAYAM- two
A+DVAYAM-Not Two/ not divided
GURU – Biggest/Greatest
DAKSHINA - South- Descent as
opposed to UTTARA (Ascent)
MOORTY -Limitation/ bound by
space time conceptions.
AA- Entire/Abundant/Complete
AAMOORTI - All forms whatever
they are -bound by space and time.
- All perceptions in entirety.
DAKSHINAAMOORTI - That State
of Para Brahman
MEANINGFUL TRANSLATION
Salutations to that Great Manifestation;
that Manifestation towards the descent!
Salutations to THAT STATE
which sees the entire world of changes
like a city seen in a mirror inside Itself;
perceiving it as if it was outside
Itself as in the state of sleep;
which at the instance of complete
enlightenment
sees Its own nature as undivided.
DAKSHINAAMOORTI!
At the mention of the name a
popular picture comes to your view; a Shiva sitting silently under a tree and
aged Rishis sitting around him!
Whoever be that
DakshinaaMoorti, we salute Him also.
But the DakshinaaMoorti
mentioned in these verses of Adi Shankara is not the Godhead Shiva but the
‘State of Para Brahman
Shankara himself has composed
many hymns praising Godheads like Naaraayana, Annapurna Devi, Shiva and others.
His purpose in authoring these works of devotion was to help the minds which
were not able to cross over the conceptions of God with form.
Herein are presented the nine
verses which describe the non-dual state of Self realization. The embodied Para
Brahman is the Purusha who resides in the city of nine doors. This collection
of nine verses is also the embodiment symbol of the Para Brahman who manifests
as the Purusha. These verses are not going to bestow merits by just reciting
them daily as a prayer. They are meant to be understood intellectually, meaning
contemplated upon and the Self realized as per the guidance offered by
Shankara!
After realizing, the
individual Self knows itself as DakshinaaMoorti, the Unmanifest Manifest
Brahman!
तस्मै श्री गुरुमूर्तये
This DakshinaaMoorti is not
the Guru of modern vocabulary; but the Guru of ancient Sanskrit – Greatest;
Biggest!
Who else can be bigger than
Him who contains all bigger things within himself as a vibration!
नम इदं श्री दक्षिणामूर्तये
Who salutes whom? I salute my
own Self!
DakshinaaMoorti! State of Para
What is it like to be the
‘State of Para Brahman
What is it like to be the
Unmanifest Manifest Brahman?
Para Brahman just took a
mirror and saw ITSELF in the mirror!
That is the DakshinaaMoorti –
the Unmanifest Manifest Brahman!
His reflection inside the
mirror was the entire array of created Worlds- VISHVA- the various continuous
ever changing patterns!
But the amazing thing here is
that the mirror, the reflection and the Seer and also the Unseeing Brahman were
all One!
He was the Unmanifest of the
Upanishads with all the possibilities of perceptions as his very nature.
He was the perceptions; he
was the perceiver; he was the perceiving process also.
VI+SHVA the manifold change -
was HE himself.
How does the ‘State of the
Unmanifest Manifest Brahman’ see the ‘manifest world’ as Itself?
It is as if the entire
created world is just a reflection of one’s own Self in the mirror! But the
mirror was not outside but inside him only – ‘निजान्तर्गतं’
‘दर्पण दृश्यमान नगरी
तुल्यं’ – equal to a city seen in the
mirror!
Here the mirror was the
Unmanifest Brahman; the reflection was he himself as the Manifest Brahman! HE
was the Creator and the created too!
Look at the whole Universe
around you; the house, family members, furniture, people, road everything; how
big is your world?
Ask an ant: it is aware of
nothing; but it just knows how to chase a smell and follow the line; it
understands only food and enormous distances to cross in search of food. Para
Brahman as an ant can see only that much.
Ask a mosquito: it also
understands only food; or a poisonous stink (All-out) or dark hiding places;
its intelligence level equals flush tank comments a physicist!
Para Brahman as a mosquito
sees only that much.
HE sees the world as a
chimpanzee; as a man; as a God; as a Shiva; as a Vishnu; as a Brahma: as every
existing thing.
As a rock HE sees nothing; as
a tree HE just enjoys being alive; as a worm he crawls on creepers; as Rama HE
kills Raavana; as Raavana HE gets killed; as Kamsa HE plans to kill the nephew;
as Krishna HE drives the chariot of Arjuna.
What HE is what HE is not?
HE is everything and not
anything too.
HE is the Unmanifest; the
Hunger; all potentialities and possibilities in totality;
Unmanifest Vaasanaas in
totality.
HE alone becomes the
DakshinaaMoorthi when - (the word does not denote any particular time) these
manifest worlds, bound by ‘time and space’ come into existence.
We cannot understand such a
state through our intellects.
Our brains cannot conceive of
anything that does not have space time co-ordinates.
Para Brahman is unconfined by
space and time.
When all Vaasanaas manifest,
all words come into existence.
All the past, present, future
events exist simultaneously in That Supremacy.
It is as if all the possible
films are screened at the same instant.
Who is the audience? Para Brahman! The Manifest Brahman!
HE sees them all; HE is all; HE
is the very state of all manifested worlds and unmanifest potentialities. HE is
the infinite Energy flux.
HE is like the Singularity of
the Science but He is a conscious non-inert source of not one universe but all
perceptions ever possible.
He is the Para Brahman of the
Scriptures.
HE exists not in space. But
space exists in HIM.
HE is not a He or She but THAT.
We do not have words to
describe that state; so we denote it as THAT! (TAT)
HE cannot be denoted by any
name; he cannot be understood by any particular characteristic.
HE cannot be seen by us with
our eyes.
HE cannot be perceived by our
senses.
HE cannot be thought in our
minds.
HE cannot be understood by
out intellects.
We can only ‘remember’ HIM as
our true nature.
We are all HE actually.
We are all waves in THAT.
There is no second person.
THAT ALONE IS THERE!
विश्वं दर्पणदृश्यमाननगरीतुल्यं
The manifest world is like
the mirrored Para Brahman; like the reflection of the Para Brahman.
It is both the Manifested
state of Vaasanaas and the Unmanifest Vaasanaas.
All possibilities, all
potentialities, all quantum possibilities, all co-ordinates of space and time;
all thoughts; all existences; all vibrations; all energy forms; all that is and
is not; all that is, was and will be; all that we experience and do not
experience – is THAT!
But all are just reflections
only; appearances only; not real!
The mirror is not affected by
the reflections. SAT is not affected by ASAT!
The mirror reflecting ‘its
own nature’ ‘in itself’ ‘as reflections’ is - THAT.
What is this ever changing
state called VISHVA?
It is like the city inside a
mirror.
Infinite space and time
possibilities as a reflected city exist in the mirror.
But mirror remains only as
the support of all; unaffected by any thing that happens in the manifest world.
The mirror is not affected by the reflections contained in it.
It exists simultaneously as
the non-reflecting mirror and reflecting mirror; that state is known as THAT.
Our intellect stops at the
threshold of ‘this CHIT’ unable to comprehend its true nature.
Our mind becomes silent in
its presence.
Senses cease to go after
appearances.
We are all the unreal
appearances.
We are all just the Vaasanaa
manifestations.
We have no identities as
limited egos.
We and our life experiences
alone are the cities seen in the mirror.
We as reflections cannot
comprehend the mirror which is reflecting us all.
If we cease to think of us-
the little egos as real and withdraw into the mirror-ness which is our true
nature, then - we as little identities disappear and exist as mirror alone; as
Para Brahman alone.
In our worlds, when we place
some object before the mirror we see its reflection.
There is an outside and
inside for the mirror.
But here the mirror is
reflecting ‘its own’ unmanifest state and manifesting ‘as’ all of us.
It is निजान्तर्गतं – within itself; there is no inside or outside.
Nothing is outside the mirror
seeing its reflection.
This present perception
itself is the huge three dimensional mirror; we are all the reflections of Para
Brahman.
Maybe next time we look into
the mirror we should see it as Para Brahman looking at his reflection as you!
We ‘are’ the manifest Brahman
superimposing on the Unmanifest Brahman.
We are THAT! That alone is us
all!
अहं ब्रह्मास्मि ! I AM THAT!
There is nothing else but THAT.
We are THAT!
We are the Manifest Brahman.
We are the Shiva, Vishnu.
Brahma, Vyaasa, Vaalmiki, Rama, Krishna, crow, dog, elephant, cockroach, flies,
mud, sand, oil, cars, bikes, computers, TVs, everything; we are all that;
everything is THAT.
All this is the manifest
Brahman.
When you realize the Truth
and are able to directly experience this Truth, you may sing like the ancient
Sages-
आआ ऊऊ आआ – (Just a
sound describing the bliss of Brahman state) –
I am ALL; I am ALL!
Worlds fail to express that
bliss; only this sound comes out - AAAA UUUU AAAA – say the Upanishads.
The bliss of THAT state is not equal to any bliss the brain can imagine. All
happiness the brain can experience as a human or a God is not even equal to a
fraction of
that Supreme Bliss!
PASHYAN - THAT alone
perceives all this.
AATMANI- in its own Self
BAHIR IVA UDBHOOTAM - as if
everything is outside itself.
WE are the PARABRAHMAN - seeing
the world outside ourselves.
YATHAA NIDRAYAA - as if in a
dream
In the dream-state we create
the whole world out of our own thoughts inside our minds and see it as if it is
outside.
Here in the waking-state also
we see the world as existing outside ourselves.
This waking-state is just
another kind of dream, looking more stable because the memories that are stored
in the brain before we sleep and after we rise up are the same memories. So we
think we are in the same world where we slept last night.
What would happen if some
evil demon erased our memories after we slept? Could we feel the continuity
after waking up?
What is memory? Memory is
just a recorded ‘molecular pattern’ in the neural network according to
Neuroscience. Suppose those memory patterns from our brains are copied by a
computer and printed on any other brain randomly, will that brain also continue
as our identities?
What is our identity? Name?
Body?
Body is just a collection of
cells; a cellular colony controlled by neural cells.
What is a name?
A label provided to a shape
to avoid confusion in the society!
If you analyze the names of
the ancient world, you will see that the names were kept according to their
characters; not like modern days where sounds patterns are used as names.
Coming to our own identities,
body or form is our identification.
If the body of a mother is
cosmetically altered can a child recognize its mother?
If all get changed into
perfect bodies and look identical, we will be no better than the herd of
bleating sheep.
Our names can be changed;
bodies can be altered.
Genes are our identification
now; DNA is our identification now. Soon we will carry our DNA pattern as our
‘ID’ cards.
But even DNA can be altered
in few more decades.
We can plan the physical
characters of future generation and may be able to get babies ordered to our
expectations.
Even criminals can be changed
into saints through chemical alterations in the brain.
Maybe ‘dacoit turned
Vaalmiki’ stories may be repeated all over by the improving technology.
But what again is the answer
for the question- what is our identification?
Bank balance? That is not a
stable pattern as everyone knows.
Houses? They also can crumble
if the Earth shivers once.
Our children? Parents? All
are gene-based relationships; remove the genes and you are a stranger! If the
same chromosome was not there in your child, he would have thrown you out, the
moment you retired!
Thoughts? They change too!
Desires? They too get
finished off when fulfilled or turn into anger if unfulfilled.
Knowledge?
How many have true Knowledge?
What everyone knows is the
biography of film stars, and the systems of politics running the country; or
the complete data of sports stars!
Education? It is just to get
a certificate to get you your job!
You need not have Knowledge
to get certificates; it is enough if you vomit out the wrong or right
statements given in the printed books within the span of an hour inside a room
once every year. Till the next year session you can do whatever you want except
seeking Knowledge!
So nothing is our identity!
If we realize this Truth, we
can produce this no-identity card and get permitted to enter the Sanctum
Sanctorum of Para Brahman!
What are we actually?
We were aware of a world
around us when we were born; we collected data of our environment slowly;
believed or disbelieved what the already-born adults taught us; we learnt to
call the person seen in the mirror as ourselves. We wasted all our precious
times in front of a mirror so that others could see our beautiful faces.
Unfortunately we do not have a mirror hanging in front of our faces all the
time. Only others can look at our faces and make a remark of admiration in a
falsetto voice. May be if the same trend
of mirror- love continues, future homo sapiens will evolve with an inbuilt
mirror in front of their eyes.
What are our bodies?
Just some groups of cells
working together unaware of their own existence!
We feed this cellular colony
thinking it is us; we decorate the cellular shape thinking it is us; then one
fine day, the cells rest in peace and – we? We are no more!
We identified with just the
inert cell structure and we disappear into oblivion once the cells die out.
We live only as long as the
cells are alive.
The atoms which made those
cells float away to form other shapes.
All our dreams, desires, possessions,
evaporate into nothing.
This type of tragic ending
occurs in our life-stories because we identify with the covering than the stuff
inside.
We are identifying ourselves
with the reflections and not with the mirror.
If our memories are erased
every night, we won’t even know the date or day or house we wake up into.
We dream a different world
every second.
If our identities changed
every second we won’t know it at all.
We live as experiences only.
We dream, dream, dream; that
is all.
But suppose we wake up?
Not inside a dream world; but
suppose we wake up outside this reflection dream and see ourselves ‘as’ the
mirror..?
प्रबोधसमये
When we wake up with PRA-BODHA
Complete Knowledge of our true nature as Para Brahman...; like waking up from a
dream…
साक्षात्कुरुते
Not the realization as
understood by the intellect by reading books; but suppose we fully wake up to
our reality as a real experience…
आत्मानं एव
We remain as our true selves;
remain as the ‘Self’; for there is only one Self!
अद्वयं
We remain as the ONE,
undivided Self!
There is no difference
between the mirror and the reflection.
Mirror itself is the reflected
world of space and time; the reflected world has no separate existence other
than as the mirror.
There are not two things-
mirror and reflection.
The mirror alone exists AS
reflections; the unmanifest AS the manifest; ADVAYA- not two. Why not then use
the word ONE?
As long you see the
reflection or as long as you identify yourself with the reflection, the word
‘non-dual’ has to be used; if you wake up to your true nature, the reflections
cease to exist for you and you can be the ONE – EKAM!
To that DakshinaaMoorti the
salutation is offered.
Not to a God Shiva; we are
the DakshinaaMoorthis; we are the Unmanifest Brahman who manifests as all this.
Remember here the word ‘we’
does not mean the little identities of ‘I’ and ‘You’ with forms and names. We
are the formless nameless THAT!
The reflection which knows
itself as the mirror is the DakshinaaMoorti.
We are the DakshinaaMoorthis;
One DakshinaaMoorti manifests as all these little identities called you and me.
It is the very nature of the
Unmanifest Manifest Brahman to be a mirror reflecting itself in a variety of
ways in itself.
“SALUTATIONS
to THAT DAKSHINAAMOORTI
who
dreams the dream of this world
and wakes up to the reality of his own Self!
Salutations
to my own Self!
Salutations to all the perceived forms around
me
who are
my own Self!
Salutations
to me,
the
Supreme DakshinaaMoorti,
the
Unmanifest Manifest Brahman”
[2]
बीजस्यान्तरिवाङ्कुरो
जगदिदं प्राङ्निर्विकल्पं पुन:
मायाकल्पितदेशकालकलना
वैचित्र्यचित्रीकृतं
मायावीव विजृम्भयत्यपि महायोगीव यः स्वेच्छया
तस्मै श्री गुरुमूर्तये
नम इदं श्री दक्षिणामूर्तये [2]
BEEJASYAANTARIVAANKURO JAGADIDAM PRAANGNIRVIKALPAM
PUNAHA
MAAYAAKALPITADESHAKAALAKALANAA VAICHITRYACHITREEKRTAM
MAYAAVEEVA VIJRMBHAYATYAPI MAHAAYOGEEVAYAH SVECCHAYAA
TASMAI SHREE GURUMOORTAYE NAMA IDAM SHREE DAKSHINAAMOORTAYE
[2]
बीजस्य-अन्तः-इव-अङ्कुर:-जगत्-इदं-प्राक्-निर्विकल्पं-पुन:
माया-कल्पित-देश-काल-कलना-वैचित्र्य-चित्री-कृतं
मायावी-इव-विजृम्भयति-अपि-महा-योगी-इव-यः -स्व-इच्छया
तस्मै-श्री-गुरु-मूर्तये-नम-इदं-श्री-दक्षिणामूर्तये [2]
GENERAL TRANSLATION
Before, this world was like the sprout
inside the seed without any perturbation.
Again it was wondrously made as myriad
varieties
as the effectuations of space and time
conceived by the power of delusion.
Though He appears like a great magician,
he does everything by his own will like
a Great Yogi.
To that Great Guru, Dakshinaa Moorti, I
offer this salutation.
BEEJA - seed
ANKURA- sprout
JAGAT - Moving - World
NIRVIKALPAM - the state
devoid of perturbations.
MAAYAA- Deluding power
MAAYAAVI- Magician
CHITREEKARANAM – creating
wonder
VAICHITRYAM - manifoldness
KALANAA - effecting, doing
YOGI - one who remains in his
own true Self even in the midst of worldly existence; one who is in union with
the Supreme Self.
MAHAAYOGI - Para Brahman is
the greatest ascetic; though he is all the individual souls in all modes of
time, he remains as his own true Self!
MEANINGFUL TRANSLATION
Salutations to that Great Manifestation;
that Manifestation towards the descent!
Salutations to the Great Yogi who by his
own will
acting like a magician
brings forth again the manifold wonders
by creating time and space boundaries
which previously existed within himself
in the ‘perturbation-less state’ like
the sprouts in a seed.
How big is this Universe?
Look around you; the Earth
stretches beyond the horizons.
Look up above the sky;
countless stars twinkle. Look at the farthest star; it may not even exist now.
It is said that it took millions of years for the light ray originating from
that star to reach our eyes. We are seeing only the star as it appeared a few
million years ago. What would be its state now, we will know only after
millions of years transpire.
The sky above is the past of
the Earth. Anyone if present in the farthest star looking at our solar system
now will be seeing its state as it was millions of years in the past; maybe
like gaseous chaos. We are seeing the Sun as it was eight minutes back.
We are even seeing the object
in front of us in a slightly past state only; the time it takes for the light
to reach our eyes decides the distance from the object and the time it takes
for the brain to cognize it through
neural processes decides the time factor.
‘Is what we see only past
thing? Is there no reality out there?’ - Many a Neuroscientist wonders
nowadays.
Leave out the Earth and its
sky. This entire Universe is supposed to be a quantum measurement (the least
measure that we can calculate) at a ‘point’ (Singularity) which is beyond space
and time. Space and time do not exist there.
The description almost suits
our Para Brahman; but our Para Brahman is a conscious Principle!
According to science such
singularities are countless; Universes are endless.
Time and space can extend
infinitely.
YogaVaasishta speaks of the
tri world of Bhooloka/Devaloka and Paataala lokas as just one dust particle in
the hosts of ever-arising and disappearing dust atoms in the sunlight of CHIT.
Vyaasas are many; Ramas are countless; Shivas rise and vanish like bubbles;
Naaraayanas are innumerable.
The possibilities in the
Unmanifest are beyond the counting system of mathematics.
Every possibility exists.
Anything and everything happen.
Ghosts or devils or aliens;
just conceive and they will arise; after all our Para Brahman is the greatest
Graphic designer! Order and it will be there! If Naaraayana in bluish hue
exists in one Devaloka, he might exist as a red-hued God in other worlds as a
possibility manifestation of CHIT!
If you start on your evening
walk, every other step you would have taken becomes another existence of yours
and arises as a Universe there itself.
Every moment every
possibility becomes a Universe with its own past, present and future.
Even beyond the horizon
exists another ‘you’ says Science.
Beyond the horizon of that
horizon another ‘you’ exists seeing another sky with billion stars; beyond that
horizon another ‘you’ and so on and on!
All these exist at one single
point which is not in space and not in time, but in the Supreme CHIT; like
sprouts in a seed.
Take a banyan seed in you
hand and look at it.
Just visualize how many
banyan trees are contained inside that tiny seed as possibilities.
First the seed grows into a
huge tree producing countless seeds; those seeds again sprout into trees; each
again produces innumerable trees.
If an ordinary seed contains
infinite possibilities of the trees, imagine the ‘Seeds of Vaasanaas’; how they
can make infinite Universes.
Let us pick out randomly just
one Vaasanaa from the Para Brahman seed-packet and see what happens. Let it be
the simplest; say we choose the ‘to live’ Vaasanaa; take it out; and pass your
magic wand over it (after all you are ‘The Para Brahman’!).
The Vaasanaa now appears as a
primordial cell; it just eats the cell next to it and ‘lives’. It has now two
Vaasanaas; ‘to live’ and ‘to survive’; it starts making copies of itself and
starts passing it on to its bifurcated cell partner. As these cells die out ,
new cells survive as the continuation of the dead cells and live; they divide
again; two into four, four into eight and so on; each Vaasanaa becomes
thickened by repetition; the system improves by producing different varieties
of cells; modifications occur; failures occur; mistakes happen; undaunted the
system fights –to live and to survive, and of course ‘to reproduce’;
reproductive system arises as a chance modification; sexual bifurcation occurs;
one to make egg and one to care for it; new beings arise; new shapes arise;
slowly the system evolves; and we are standing now here as the civilized homo
sapiens wondering whether we can change the DNA structure and survive, whether
we as the brains can outlive this body as a single living person and become immortal.
The survival Vaasanaa is still surviving. The living Vaasanaa is still living;
the reproductive Vaasanaa is accompanied by the pleasure Vaasanaa; and to
survive we need to be selfish too. So genes have developed a new character as
their inbuilt Vaasanaa – ‘selfishness’. Same group of genes group together and
try to outlive others; new names for relationships have been invented to
enhance the gene survival– mother, father, son etc etc.
Ask Sage Yaajnavalkya. He
will tell you how selfish everyone is:
“The wife is loved not for
the sake of the wife but for the sake of one’s own Self,
O Maitreyi”, he instructs his
dispassionate wife. He discerns every relationship as maintained for the sake
of the Self only; because Self alone exists; unconsciously we learn to love our
own selves.
Self is eternal; so we
struggle to exist forever. Self is the Bliss supreme; we unconsciously run
after happiness; for that is the indirect chasing of our own blissful Self in
the wrong direction Self is of the nature of Knowledge; so we seek Knowledge in
everything. We want to learn to cook; to read and write; to paint; to compute;
all are just another expression of the same Self we are all waves of.
We now saw how one Vaasanaa
of ‘to live’ has now filled the entire planet Earth with crawling Homo sapiens
like some fungus spread on the bread slice.
And this Earth is just a tiny
– very very tiny ‘pale blue dot’ in the infinitely expanding space all around
us. The sky above us may abound with such Earths and some fungus might be
spreading on their surfaces also.
There is no ‘up above’ the
sky; all ‘up’s and ‘downs’ are just ideas created by our brains ‘to survive’;
in reality there are no directions in space. And this vast space all around us
might hide within it countless solar systems and Earths with highly civilized
communities. How many civilizations have appeared and gone in the vast arena of
this Universe we do not know.
Our sun is a tiny star in a
galaxy; which is a tiny light in the host of galaxies; which again is tiny
light in hosts of galaxies going round galaxies going round galaxies….. (?)
As we feel smug in the one
small Universe solidly appearing around
us, we have another discovery announced by Scientists- ‘Parallel Universes’ –
‘the possibility Universes’; where if I
drink tea one Universe arises and if I drink coffee another Universe appears as
the next possible Universe; so appear Bourn vita, Horlicks and alcohol
Universes too. What all possibilities could have occurred in your life become
Universes with another ‘you’ experiencing it without ‘your’ Knowledge! So do
not worry if you miss the bus or lottery; another ‘you’ would have got it and
must be happily living in another Universe; after all it is ‘you’ in another
Universe! That much for your greatness as ‘I’! ‘You’ are just dime a dozen!
How many copies of you exist?
Innumerable!
So any Vaasanaa you develop
starts appearing as another Universe with its own space and time boundaries;
any thought you randomly think becomes a reality in another part of the
Universe or in another Universe! Nothing goes waste! Be careful of what you
think too! Thought is a tiny bacteria like thing you produce which also acts
‘to live’, ‘to survive’; it even goes from one brain to other through ‘memes’
replicating itself! Any negative thought, you not only harm yourself but other
Universes too!
Just imagine this scene; you
are standing in front of some ticket counter, and your mind is oscillating
continuously – ‘Will I get it?’ ‘Will I not? -’ you have created two Universes
already; whether you will be the ‘you who got the ticket’ or the ‘you who
missed the ticket’ is a random occurrence; some unpredictable quantum level
beyond our measurements - decides it!
You would be better off if
you only believed in the positive outcome only –‘ ticket or no ticket, I am
happy’; surely you have created only one possibility – ‘I will be happy’; and
‘you’ as only ‘you’ walk out whistling a favorite tune of yours. There is some
scientific background in Krishna’s statements in Gita – be equal minded in pain
and pleasure. When Patanjali advises ‘Control the quivering of the mind’ it is
quite sensible. When Upanishads tell you to recite with feeling – ‘Let the
entire Creation be happy’ - it is for your own good!
Every thought is a
potentiality; a possible Universe lurking inside it; at some point in time and
in some space it will fructify surely, like a seed buried in soil for hundreds
of years can sprout suddenly if exposed to water and sunlight.
So do not blame the fate or
God when you encounter difficulties; your own anxiety thoughts have created
your tragic world for you; and surely the happy world you live is also not a
special gift of God but your own making.
We are all tiny packages of
unmanifest Vaasanaas; we are tiny Para Brahmans creating universes at every
step. We are tiny seeds with potential Universes hiding inside us ready grow
into trees any time.
And we never die; death is a
myth like fate. We will never stop existing. Our thoughts , desires,
attachments, wants will again and again create new universes for us and we will
go on experiencing innumerable worlds as Jeevas; this is what is known as Bhava
Saagara- the ocean of worldly existences- the Wheel of Samsaara!
Like a water drop appearing
in some one corner of the ocean for a fraction of a second we appear with some
‘shape and label’ in this vast arena of creations; again disappear into the
ocean after a fraction of a second of life experience, and rise again elsewhere
in another space time network, in another corner of the ocean; we may take the
same form and same life again and again as long as our wants for such a life
exists. We rotate in the same experiences again and again as if chained to a
perpetual torture machine.
Any thought of hatred towards
a person recreates another life with the same copy of the person in your
Universe; any undue attachment towards anybody also brings copies of same life;
the problem is that you may not always be a human being every time; after all
you are just a collection of Vaasanaas; so if you love basket ball too much,
instead of a player you may have an existence as a basket ball; if you love
your makeup kit too much, you may appear as a lipstick tube next time till the
Vaasanaa dies out. Human birth is a rare appearance indeed!
The world around you is just
a stage for all types of Vaasanaas to dance about. The wall, the house, tree,
bird, etc etc. from the lowest worm to the highest God - is just a dance of
Vaasanaas; or the dance of Para Brahman; CHIT-AMBARA NRTYAM -the Cosmic Dance
of Para Brahman!
As long as we are attached to
our own form and family how can we die? When others see us dying, we may be
seeing a similar world in the Xerox copy of the previous life.
There need not occur a
successive birth. Time and space are not absolute; every moment we might be
experiencing another world completely different from the one we experienced a
moment ago! How can we tell the difference? Only the neural configurations in
the brains decide our perceptions. If the same neural configurations randomly float
elsewhere, we will re-exist with the same life, same form and same family, say
even after billions of years; may be even in another star!
Atoms form and reform; cells
form and reform; nothing becomes less or more; everything exists the same in
totality; we, the brain configurations also appear and disappear repeatedly.
We are all deathless; because
we are the waves existing in CHIT. There is no difference between the ocean and
the waves; when we are the very water drops of the ocean of immortality how can
we die? We are deathless as individual souls; we are deathless as
DakshinaaMoorthis!
This vastness; all these
modes of space and time; all the Universes that exist in all types of
mathematical calculations - exist in that ‘one point’ of Chit - as its very
nature.
CHIT is the AADI BEEJA! The
First Seed!
प्राक् निर्विकल्पं
What was there before the
First Seed started sprouting?
What was there before all
this began? What was before ‘before’?
There existed only the
‘vibration-less state’; silent; without any perturbation.
Before ‘what’?
Before the ‘before and after’
appeared.
Since there was no ‘before’
before, we can only describe that state as
NIRVIKALPAM - Silent
unperturbed state of Para Brahman where there were no creations; no
perceptions; no thoughts; no ‘I’; no ‘you’; nothing whatsoever existed; only
the Hunger was there! Only the potentialities were there in the unmanifest
state!
Para Brahman was not the
DakshinaaMoorthi before ‘before’; Only the Unmanifest existed before the
manifested perceptions appeared!
It was like a seed with all
potentialities; rather it is a seed with all potentialities ready to sprout.
The two terms- ‘before’ and ‘after’ refer only to the two levels of the same
Reality; two angles of the Same Reality.
In an ordinary seed it needs
time to sprout.
But in Para Brahman the seed
is also the sprouted tree! Time and space also are seeds which sprout along
with other Vaasanaas!
Seed ready to sprout into
infinite varieties and all infinite varieties already sprouted, exist
simultaneously with various space and time measures providing the boundaries.
SAVIKALPAM- With
perturbations – Manifest Brahman
NIRVIKALPAM- Without
perturbations – Unmanifest Brahman
Since there is no particular
moment when the world appeared and a particular moment when it did not appear
(Time does not exist in the CHIT level) we have to conclude that SAVIKALPA
Brahman ‘is’ the NIRVIKALAPA Brahman.
If two types of Brahman are
supposed to exist as Nirvikalpa and Savikalpa, then the very definition of
Brahman as ADVAYAM- undivided will become meaningless.
The ‘idea’ in the Para
Brahman is a reality; the perturbation in CHIT ‘is’ the world we perceive; Seed
exists along with the sprouted tree!
How? Because of the magic
wand the Para Brahman holds!
He is the MAAYAAVI – the
Magician!
The vibrations form the very
nature of Para Brahman and exist as a ‘reality’ in the space time canvas.
The untainted pure mirror
exists as the reflecting mirror too.
Mirror is unaffected by
reflections; Para Brahman is unaffected by the manifested worlds!
Nirvikalpa Brahman is the
Savikalpa Brahman!
Who is there as a second
person to see it as different?
If you stand at the tip of
the North Pole and step any side, it will be north only; there is no south
there; you have to imagine a south there as opposed to the north!
In Nirvikalpa Brahman, there
is no DakshinaaMoorthi! Yet the conceived world of perceptions exists as a part
of the unperturbed Para Brahman. DakshinaaMoorthi, the entire totality of all
forms is the very nature of Para Brahman. It is his Power of manifestation!
Mirror’s very nature is to reflect! You cannot separate the reflecting power
from the mirror; then it will cease to be a mirror!
You cannot separate the
DakshinaaMoorthi as a separate existence un-connected to Nirvikalpa Brahman!
DakshinaaMoorti is the character which makes Para Brahman, the Para Brahman!
Here Character does not refer to the GUNA or superimposed quality as in
a God with form.
You cannot superimpose the
character of reflection to a mirror.
A mirror means the reflecting
mechanism.
So also Unmanifest Brahman
means the Manifest Brahman also.
Nirvikalpa state also
suggests Savikalpa state.
That is why the word ADVAYA
is used.
Not two; but One appearing as
two!
The moment a second identity
appears in a space time boundary as you or me, the apparent differentiation
arises as Savikalpa and Nirvikalpa states.
We are the Savikalpa state of
Para Brahman!
In our limited level we
differentiate through language the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of the Creations;
whereas in the ‘Para Brahman level’ it is itself the un-sprouted state and also
the sprouted state.
How does it all happen- the
magic of one appearing as two?
Because of Maaya- delusory
power of Para Brahman!
We are the Para Brahman in
the deluded state.
(For example, take the Necker Cube:
a wire frame cube with no depth cues.
Be staring at it; you will see the
cube turned towards you.
Continue staring; you will see the
cube facing the other way.
The cube did not change its nature;
our brains see it in two angles.
MAAYAA- Deluding Power!
What is the nature of this MAAYA?
It produces the space time conception;
space time reckoning; and there arises instantly all these varieties of
existences.
Para Brahman is the magician
who moves his magic wand over himself in the seed form and instantly exists as
the countless sprouted trees and presents the grand show of the world.
Nowadays with the progressing
technology we are able to have experiences in a virtual world. We can run,
race, climb Mountains; fight wars; kill and get killed; yet we do not get
affected by what stories run in our virtual worlds. We have fun with every
comic or tragic situation. We are both identities at the same time – the
virtual and the real; yet we remain in our true identities all the time.
Suppose we progress so much
in technology that we create virtual universes in the lab and play the
characters there..!?
Suppose the virtual character
in the virtual world develops self-awareness and starts feeling all the
experiences as his and suffers; then what will you do? May be send him a
virtual message about all the science facts and assure him that his identity is
not real;
explain to him that you -
existing outside his Universe - are the actual player and if he gets out of his
limited identity, he will be yourself acting there.
Or, you may not bother at
all! After all the virtual character is a programmed binary character; his
tears and laughter are also binary products!
You may feel compassionate
also and connect to a random character in the virtual world and explain the
whole thing directly to that suffering soul as an avatar, a descent of God!
Maybe he will worship you
daily and recite hymns to please you and beg for miracles. You are the God for
the virtual world character, because you programmed his existence; you control
his Universe by tapping your keyboard; but in your heart of hearts you know
that he does not have a real existence at all!
We are unaffected when
playing virtual games because we are continuously aware of our own identities;
we know that the virtual world is unreal; we never for a moment lose our
self-awareness; yet we play the virtual world games as if our own life and
death depends on winning the game.
We with our limited
technology can play very few games; but Para Brahman has the potentiality to
become anything; experience anything! He is not affected by any happenings in
his magically created worlds.
Why would a happy Para
Brahman want to delude himself; become unhappy; and realize oneself? It is his
game; to just have all these experiences and yet remain without experiencing.
That is the magic of this Great Yogi.
He is the unmanifest manifest
Brahman.
“SALUTATIONS
to THAT DAKSHINAAMOORTI
who
dreams the dream of this world
and wakes up to the reality of his own Self!
Salutations
to my own Self!
Salutations to all the perceived forms around
me
who are
my own Self!
Salutations
to me,
the
Supreme DakshinaaMoorti,
the
Unmanifest Manifest Brahman”
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