Aditya Hridayam

November 13, 2023

Table of Contents

01: Verses 1-2

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Glory of India is that has given two epics to the world. Two more are Iliad and Odyssey.
First Vedas, then Ramayana then Mahabharata then came Puranas (mythology).
In Vedic religion they worshipped gods in the form of nature forces. E.g. Sun is the god (aditya hrdayam). Moon. Earth. Waters, Fire, Wind. Rain (Indra). Rivers.
Religion that is practices is mostly (99%) based on mythological books - Puranas. Rama is there, not replaced but all Vedic gods are replaced. Nobody worships Indra nowadays.
Religion is based mostly on belief but has a philosophic base. This makes it meaningful. If it is not there, it becomes mechanical and superstition. Without bhakti religion becomes very worldly and does not inspire anybody.
Therefore jnanam and bhakti (upasana) save the religion. Without them the popular religion based on belief becomes entire dogmatic and superstitious.
Ramayana leans more to the Vedas and less to the puranas. Mahabharata leans more towards puranas and less towards Vedas.
Tulasi Ramayana - a very joyous journey. Top purana, even before Bhagavatam.
Ramayana is considered the very first poem. Adikavyam.
Vedas are humankind’s original poetry. They are not religious texts. Got converted into religion.
The amount of misconceptions people have about Rama and Ramayana is mind blowing.
Epic is an poem.
Ramayana is a love story, not a religions text.
There are two kinds of love stories. The sentiment (rasa) is either:
- shrungara - there are obstacles in the progress of love between hero and heroin. Obstacles are overcome and the whole thing ends in a comedy.
- karuna - pathos, pity is the sentiment. The thing still ends as comedy. This is the sentiment of Ramayana.
Due to Shakespeare people connect sentiment of karuna with tragedy. In Indian literature there are no tragedies. They are tabu.
Uttarakanda is not part of the original Ramayana. A bad addition.
Ramayana is a historic story. If an epic is not historic, it becomes a purana (mythological story).
The purpose of Ramayana is to glorify Dharma (righteousness) in people’s life. People generally have the excuses that nobody else follows.
Rama’s message to the world. Dharma is the soul of life. Not artha and kama. Those are needed for social life. Dharma for spiritual. And in Ramayana they are wonderfully united.
Rama is also ideal son, ideal brother, ideal king.
Bhagavan is not god. Bhagavan means “very revered”. In Ramayana Rama is not a god, he’s a human being.
Avatara idea of a god descending is entirely alien to the Vedas. Avatara word doesn’t exist in Vedas, in Ramayana neither in Mahabharata (Gita). Neither in Shankarabhasya.
The idea of God descending is alien to Shankara’s vision. It started to appear in 6th CE and got popular from 11 century CE onwards. In the Vedic vision god is not above. It is among us, around us and within us.
In the upanishadic wisdom you’re a human being and have two options. There is an animal within you and there is divinity in you. Go downward or uplift yourself and rise into divinity which is already by you. That is Rama - superhuman. Hanuman are subhuman, humanoid (not animals). Ravanna is anti-human.
Superhuman because he follows dharma unconditionally. Because of his qualities of head and heart. Rama as most ideal human being, having here and there some weakness also. Now you need not justify an error, because he’s a human being. To err is human.

02: Verses 1-3

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Fatigue is physical, nervous, emotional, intellectual. First and last one are very useful. You’d say by the end of the day I’m physically tired. So is intellectual that you get by studying (classical literature, sciences, languages). As long as you have the two you’ll be in good health.
Nervous fatigue - being anxious. Nervous system and the mind are closely connected. Nervous system has sympathetic and parasympathetic component. Whenever there is a goal to be reached, you have to run away … Sympathetic nervous system kicks in. Corresponds to rajoguna. Excitement, heat. Avoid it.
Parasympathetic is the opposite of sympathetic. It neutralizes, cools down, the troubles caused by the sympathetic.
When you’re thinking and thinking, the NVS gets fatigued. Replace thinking with awareness. The NVS will cool down. When somebody is telling something unfavourite, listen to him coolly. Not with anxiety. That makes you fatigued. With awareness the right response will come at the right time.
Also avoid emotional fatigue. People tend to give to emotions.
What you think in your head is samsara. What you contemplate in your heart is upasana.
Ramana Maharshi: you need not come up. You better descend from your head.
Cave is always a secret place. Heart is compared to a cave. It’s very precious.
Innocence is heart. Logic is head.
Don’t live a life of logic. Better live a life of love. Don’t be illogical but don’t allow logic to dictate life or you’ll be very harsh demanding person. That’s the formula for samsara. Spirituality is reversing the journey.
Meekness. Let me not dictate, let the higher power take over.
Karma comes from head and it should be balanced with the love that originates from heart.
Movement of the braincells produce thought process and in that process there is time. Love is timeless.
Upasana literally means to make the mind sit close to god. Head is seat of jiva, heart is seat of deva.
Rama is the ideal enemy to Ravana.
Making Rama into god defeats the very purpose of the epic.
Upasana is the state of mind in which the vision of god penetrates every pore of the body. You’re saturated with the divine nectar.

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Provisional division. That is how upasana begins because that’s what you experience.
Aditya hrdayam, the word, contains the whole vision of vedantic cosmonogy.
Whatever happens at the level here, is happening at the level of cosmos.
Sleep is nothing, experience of nothingness.
Waking up means becoming aware. Intelligence. And then life, prana. You start moving. And with that comes matter and come to the body. Intelligence -> power -> matter.
The universe has its origin in brahman, which is intelligence (chetanam brahman). From that intelligence arises universal power (shakti), which is again brahman (like ornament that comes from gold). And then from this power comes universe. That universal power, origin of the entire universe, is called aditihi (see kathopanishad).
The entire universe is display of power that is manifested - aditihi. And the power is manifested in its diversity - devatamayi, hence omnipresent. That’s why vedic seers manifested this power as parvati or shaktihi.
Brahman is parvata. And the manifest form of it, that which comes out of parvata, is parvati, associated with the changeless.
Primary manifestation of the universal power is the solar orb.
Some people started worshiping the power as wealth - Lakshmi. Some as wisdom - Saraswati.
Goddesses quarrelling - projection of human life.
Agnihi is the most potent and very tangible, readily relatable form of the universal power. That’s why rshi’s started worshipping that brahman, aditih (they are the same) as fire god.
Adityah - that which has originated from aditihi.
Seeing is knowing.
Kashyapaha reversed is sa:pashyakah = intelligence. Rshi kashyapah was married to two women. Shaktihi is one (aditihi) - advaita. And also many (ditihi) - dvaita. All the children of aditi are devatas. All the children of ditihi were rakshasah.
Sun also has a brother. That brother is Indra, god of rains, upon which all the social life in India depends. Whenever there is a prediction that there will be a good monsoon, the ruling party wins and the stock market goes up.
Sun makes rain possible, that’s why they are brothers.
If you focus on the forms and see multiplicity and variety and take it as real then you’re a samsari. But if you see forms and rise above them and arrive at the one real aditi manifesting in multiple forms then you’re a jnani.
Space is gravitational energy out of which all other forms of energy have originated. Space has also originated from aditi.
Rise above your fears and desires and start doing upasana of one god. Let it be aditi - the universal power. Best altar for that is the rising and setting sun.
The cosmic power not only manifests in the universe but also in your heart - aditya hrdayam. You need not search for it in the outside.
First worship God mentally in your own heart. Ritual worship means mostly head. Because you had to follow the sequence properly.
Gayatri mantra is not sun-worship like pharaohs did. We worship the universal power in the alter of the sun and at the same time in the heart as aware-full being.
Be like children, be terrestrial (walk barefoot) instead of head in the clouds and reconnect with the earth. Pay attention to the feet and the earth. Make that walk for a few minutes in the morning and evening.
When walking in the forest feel that you’re breathing the oxygen exhaled from the plants and are connected to it.
Masses practice religion as belief. You’d practice is as direct experience. This is the true religion.
Learn to rise above name and forms. You see them and then see through them. Be in communion with reality behind all names and forms. This is called God consciousness.
You begin with the person. But allow the persona to merge into the cosmic self.
Worldly people are all through the day, from morning till evening ego consciousness.
There is only happiness in life. There is never my happiness. When you become egoistic the happiness comes to an end.
In the popular religion the ego is asserted again and again. In true religion, you stop asserting the ego.
Sanyasis are allowed an ego only at the time of biksha and for basic things related to dehayatra (living of the body).
Ego is the only obstacle between the truth and yourself.
What is punya? Change of thought from egoism to ego-less awareness. Punya is the true religion.

04: Verses 4-5

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Your body (mind) will be your worst enemy if you don’t have any control over it.
These enemies are eliminated by aditya hridayam. What is it? By the time the sun is rising you’re up and active. You go to the upon and face the rising sun. Your heart becomes pure, because you’re in communion with the higher power that is present before of you in the form of rising sun.
You’re what you feel, you’re what you think.
Rising sun represents the infinite power of aditihi.
Feel the body. Do two surya namaskara and after each see how light the body feels. This will keep your body healthy. This will wash away negative emotions.
Negative emotions are mostly greed (ambition) and anger.
Can you live a life without comparing your self with other?
An ambitious person is the most self-centered person. For him wife and children, wealth, god are all only for his ambition. That generates so much stress that the person becomes sick.
Constant struggle to become something else what you already are is very destructive. The becomer is a machine, not a human being. He’ll never know what real joy is. There will be joy when you eat light food, go to bed early and rise up early to greet the sun.
Sun is called atitih - guest. Guest for the human race. Be ready to invite the guest with a prayer in your heart.
Prayer should not reflect your inner poverty. I’m a sinner, give me this or that. It should reflect your divinity, sensitivity, humility.
There is no righteous anger. Never ever justify the anger.
How to get rid of anger? 1. recognize there is no righteous anger. 2. look at it very objectively. Don’t justify and don’t condemn it. Anger is movement of mind and when you’re aware of it (when you’re alert), it becomes quiet.
Don’t use sharp words with a person. That is violence. Rather talk with the person later.
When you separate yourself from the other (saying I’m brahmana, the others are sudra) - that is violence only.
There is no other. That’s against the truth. There is only one self. No my self, no yourself. Just one self of all.
Division creates fear. Fear leads to violence.
What is victory? When you’re forgotten, neglected or purposely sidelined. We become enormously hurt. OTOH you don not feel hurt, you smile inwardly. That is victory.
I complain, I become frustrated, I am angry - I lost the game. I smile inwardly, that’s victory.
Enduring patiently all the insensitivity from the people with a loving silence, that’s victory. Practice these things!
You’ll get that victory with aditya hrdayam.
People don’t want to understand because of their sentimentality.
Whatever makes your heart feel quiet, peaceful and joyous that is auspicious. Whatever eliminates the agitation from the mind an ill-health from the body. In that sense aditya hrdayam is the most auspicious.
Religious mind: in is what doesn’t immediately hurt you but will hurt in in future.
Masses take the outward to be real.
It’s is a unfortunate thing that a great stress is laid upon things like rituals, social customs, ceremonies, religious leaders, beliefs. That’s popular religion. By giving importance to that you remain where you’re. Convert that into a change of heart in yourself. That’s the only thing that matters in true religion.
Vedantic religion: in the place of ego is put divinity.
Learn to live in the present. That will be no worry, no anxiety, no fear. jo
It is the time that makes you anxious. Time is the bondage.
There is no time in the sun. There is time only on the surface of time.
You can step out of the net of time as you commune with the rising sun.

05: Verses 5-6

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We have three words. Brahman (nirguna), aditi, brahman associated with aditi (ishvara). Aditi manifested as cosmic intelligence and brahman associated with it hiranyagarbha. All are same, it is the same brahman.
Aditya hrdayam helps to overcome chinta (worry - about future) and shoka (sorrow - about past).
Don’t depend too much on scriptural explanations. Look at the whole thing from your inner own feeling and experience point of view. Be a guide to yourself.
Normally people rely upon what others say. And books. As long as you rely on those and ignoring your inner life you’ll remain in doubt only.
Quantum entanglement: it cannot be if the particles, objects etc. are different. Quantum entablement is possible only if those differently appearing things are one.
Reality is beyond thought. Truth is formless. Form is not the truth. Form is at best symbol for the truth.
When you put away your memory, you become creative.
IQ doesn’t matter because it has to be put aside in an case. Don’t differentiate into manda, madhyama, uttama. What matters is earnestness.
The earnestness to know yourself becomes yourself.
In Vedic times the word “avatara” was only used when somebody jumped into a well.
Purana time is the Christian era (600 CE). Ramayana time is 7000 years before CE.
There is suffering in everybody’s life. And the real cause for suffering is the self-identification with the limited and transient.
Identify with the effulgence of the solar orb. Then you’re identifying with the infinite. Meaning you’re infinite. Aham brahma asmi.
Because of wrong ideas and identification people live in constant fear of laws. They’re worried that they’ll lose. What is there to lose?
Not to know and not to know that one doesn’t know is the cause of endless suffering.
Whenever there is fear, anxiety, worry (it is human, the things will be there). First thin you do is separate yourself from the anxiety. Externalize it. Step back - I’m here and there is the worry.
The one who eliminates fear, worry, sorrow from its heart is harihi.
Do it, don’t ask how! As you do it you’ll get it.
Hrim went to middle east and came back as rahi. Brahma went to middle east and came back as Abraham. Isha went to middle east and came back as Jesus. ‘I’ and ‘j’ are interchangeable.
Same as separating from anxiety separate yourself from pain. Watch it to externalize it. Tablets should be only a second option.
Length of the life is determined by the higher power. Not a second less, not more. That’s the full life-span.
There is no feeling in the head. There is feeling only in the hart.
With reference to aditi always mental worship. You might offer gayatri if it is right time and place (sunset/sunrise).

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Sun is not only outside, it is also inside you. Outside it is illuminating all the objects of the world. Sun is inside illuminating the eyesight. Sun is paramatma.
Visualize a miner in a coal mine. There is a headlamp. Where he looks, the entire mine remains in darkness but the one part he’s facing is brilliantly illuminated. You’re the miner and the headlight is your eyesight. And the light behind that eyesight is the paramatma atma chaitanyam.
The ever present temple: eastern horizon. The god is hiranyagarbha who’s the creator in the form of the sun before us.
Before 10th century AD people were worshipping God in all forces of nature. At about this time idolatry started.
What is the way to worship? It is all mental worship. Make a namaskara. If you need a physical offering, do it like people did when they lived in villages and all the man bathed in the morning, even before at the well. So they were in the water when the sun rose. You don’t need no naivedyam. No food, no flowers.
People have the idea that good and bad are absolute. To injure another person is bad, a sin. In the battlefield it is good, it’s a virtue.
Absolutism in good and evil is the pain of popular religions. A very wrong idea. It’s the hallmark of Abrahamic faiths and it’s also very much present in the puranic faith.
Gita/Upanishads and Ramayana vision is beyond auspicious and inauspicious. The question is not “who loves the rising sun?” but “who doesn’t love rising sun”?
Devotion ~ devata. Deity ~ devata
Asuras - go out, eat and drink heavily, party. Not somebody with two horns. For a given evening, many devatas become asuras.
Devatas and asuras, both love the sun. Who does not? As far as the sun is concerned, there is no distinction between good and evil.
Even non vegetarian people eat sunlight only. Plants -> Animals. Everybody is eating sunlight.
Each calorie is sunlight. All the food is canned sunlight.
We’re not producing coal. We’re digging it out. Sun is producing it.
All heavy elements are produced in the core of the sun. A piece of sun has come out of the sun and started going around and around the sun and started cooling. And becomes the earth. And there is gold in the crust of the earth. And we dig it out and make ornaments. Your gold ornament, all metals, have come from the core of the sun.
Wealth doesn’t belong to humans, it belongs to paramatma who is in the form of sun before us.
sa:bhaha is the light.
You the person is not the light behind the eyes, thought process, respiration etc. You’re nothing.
bhuvana - overlord.
Ishvara is translated as higher/highest power. Ish - power, vara - higher.
We’ve hardcoded a cause-effect relationship. You’re looking for a cause of your happiness/unhappiness in the world. This principle of causality is the bondage.
Human bondage: space, time, causality.
We believe we’re the buckets and we’re pulling the ropes. No. There is higher power who is pulling the ropes of all the buckets. By the higher power called buvaneshvaram. Smallest to the biggest is called only by one power. Same for the death of a star and a birth of an ant.
Learn to acknowledge the real power. World powers are fake powers. Don’t take refuge in the arms of a powerful hman, but in the real power - the godhead.
Look at me. The eyes are the sun god, hands are the god indra. The nose is prthividevata. The ears are dig-devata. The legs are vishnudevata. The tummy, the organ of speech is agnidevata. Grhaspati is the intellect. Am I not the conglomerate of all gods? I’m sarvadevAtmakah. You name the god and he’s in me. This is the microcosm.
Ashvinau - medicine and surgery. In vedic times they knew surgery.
Purusha or hiranyagarbha is the macrocosm. Where is he? Before you, in the solar orb.
Wherever sun could penetrate, there is life. That’s what sun is - the creator. Hiranyagarbha. And he embodies all the devatas - ashvinau, rudra, indra, agni … all their are his limbs.
Tejas is light and heat put together.

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Vedic rshis were all the time saying that all the gods (Agni, Vayu, Indra, …) worshipped are like the limbs of a cosmic person.
Neither Krishna nor Rama were worshipped like gods during their lifetime.
Do you experience yourself as single (and simple) or as a composite? In spite of having multiple limbs with a variety of functions.
All the lifeforms are eating canned-sunlight.
Sun is protecting all the lifeforms.
The manifestation of brahman always happens in the form of opposites. Sva <-> para (my person, the other).
The sun is beyond the opposites.
In Veda ganapati is not the elephant-god. In this form he came after 14th, 15th century.
In vedic literature ganapati is agni devata. In one story it is said that agni took the form of a mouse. Therefore mouse becomes the vehicle for vigneshwara (genesha).
Good and evil are entirely contextual and if you rise above this division it collapses. In the (inner) space of good-bad division you don’t find god.
In the puranas they try to combine Shiva and Rudra. Don’t do that. Shiva is the parambrahma. Rudra is the destroyer, the cosmic ahamkara.
Vaishnava literature puts Shiva as destroyer, but this doesn’t agree with the word. It agrees with Rudra. Vaishnava acharyas have an inferior feeling about Shiva. Devotees do you want to worship the god who destroys?
Vaishnavism has originated in Tamil Nadu. In madhva philosophy from Karnataka.
Creator, sustainer and destroyer are not three different gods. Those are three roles.
Consciousness of the present moment is the present. There is only consciousness. Like consciousness of the pot you call pot.
Jesus Christ doesn’t use the language of mythology nor theology.
Reality associated with rajoguna becomes the creator. With sattvaguna it becomes the vishnu, the protector. Associated with tamoguna it becomes rudra, the destroyer. Shiva is nirguna. Sun is not only brahma, vishnu and rudra but also shiva.
Anything extravagant is bad.
skandaha - omnipotent.
If God is father and mother, then he’s formless. He cannot be one of the too at the same time!
God is only referred to simply as father. That’s why the (human) grandfather is his child, the father is, the son is. That’s the meaning of prajapati. The generational gap (time) doesn’t apply to god.
It’s not my son or my daughter. It’s god’s children.
Another name for hiranyagarbha is prajapati.
Looking at a pregnant being is looking at the glory of hiranyagarbha.
There is so much technological and scientifical discoveries. How can you call this a bad period? How can you call it kaliyuga? There can be nothing more unholy than that.
Thinking of the theology - god is not around and might or not come down. Philosophy - god is all around.
What is called Brahman in Upanishads, God in various religions, Vishnu in Vaishnavism, Shiva in shaivism, Shakti … that is nothing but Indra in Rigveda. God Vishnu in Rigveda is surya. And supreme god in Rig Veda, the Brahman, is Indra. See aitareya upanishad.
The sun becomes (manifests as) the rain-bearing cloud, then the rain, then the food, then the life-form. The same god is manifested in all the forms and his name is Mahendra.
In almost all mantras of Rigveda there is Indra. And that Indra is the raingod. Looks like Rigveda originated from a human consciousness that is agrarian, depending on rain. Rainbow in sanskrit is called indra dhanuh.
Puranic and cinema Indra became not so good, almost a demigod.
sa:hala = plough

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eshaha - the solar rob. As an alter stands for hiranyagarbha. The cosmic person.
Vishnu is the virtue, Lakshmi is the wealth. Kubera is like accountant devata, he won’t give money to you. He’s also limb of hiranyagarbha.
Who gives money etc. to others is devata, who consumes is an asura.
Real wealth is knowledge. Wealth in the form of money and resources is not wealth at all, it will go away. You struggle to acquire it and you’ll lose it. If you understand it’s not yours and give away, you’ll be blessed.
Work hard, eat well, don’t get caught in the web of medicine.
Health and knowledge are real wealth.
Time is defined by the movement related to the sun. Time is connected to the sun. Samvatsara prajapatih - creator, who’s worshipped in the solar orb is indeed the same as the unit of time called year.
In sun itself, in Ishvara itself, there is no time. Isvarah - kahaha (time and dead). If Ishvara is life it death also.
Don’t try to cheat the death. Develop a dialogue with death.
He’s seeking an escape from death and in doing so he’s fixing the way he dies.
Inhale life and exhale death. God is death as much as he’s life. Don’t separate. Life is now and death is tomorrow. And between life and death he introduces time. But time itself is death. Life is now, death is now. Life is precious, death is precious.
Don’t worship god as life only, worship it also as death. The moment you separate them and see only one you’ll be afraid and you’ll by trying to escape from death and you’ll die in the process.
There are rituals because you’ve fears and desires.
People who know the truth don’t have death. Atma is deathless.
Puranic yama is governor of health. Upanishadic yama is antaryami. This corresponds to Darwinism and we’re very much OK with that, while it’s not acceptable to Christians. Antaryami is Isvhara.
Glory of the moon is glory of the sun only.
Moon is not a planet. Navagraha are 9 planets, moons belongs there too but sun is not a graha. It’s a satellite - upagraha. Sun is a star, not a graha. Earth is not counted… People who invented it were following the wrong, geocentric model.
In Vedic times rshis worshipped God in different aspects in forces of nature. There was no need for temples. Another as important part was worshipping the ancestors.
In the Vedic culture the ancestors (pitarah) are considered as devatas who’re invariably limb of the cosmic person - Isvarah.
Worship of cow by giving it some food it likes. Don’t scare it.
Protect yourself by jnanam, no need to protect any tradition.
Don’t fall into the group mentality.
Two kinds of doctors. Physicians and surgeons. Ashvinau.
As far as possible, you’d not go for the surgery. Only visit a surgeon after medicine fails and with a recommendation from a physician.
Marutah. 7 kinds of winds with 7 subdivisions. All are indeed one wind which is a limb of Parameshvarah.
Manuh. Every human being is also a limb of paramatma.
Science if names and forms. Atmajnanam is science of the self. Where the science ends there the science of self, the philosophy begins.
Open mind, perceptivity, creative understanding are major inputs for both scientific inquiry and self knowledge.
Quantum entanglement is the vision of oneness.
A scientist doesn’t have any preformulation about what he’s going to find. If he has, he won’t be able to discover anything. He’ll only repeat what others have done.

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In all theological religions the god that they worship is Hiranyagarbha only. They don’t go beyond Hiranyagarbha. Once you go beyond, you enter into advaita.
All the devatas, which are forces of nature, are none other than Hiranyagarbha. So is vayu - wind, gas.
What emerges out of big-bang is a huge gaseous cloud. It starts falling together with gravitation into galaxies, starts. Then from the starts, take one medium sized of them, which is sun, emerge all the planets. One of the planets is the earth and we’re living on it.
Agni. The entire universe is simply display of energy. And the energy manifest in diverse forms.
You never encounter power without chaytanyam. That’s how vedic rshis looked at it. Energy is also symbol of Hiranyagarbha in the universe.
All forms of energy ends up in heat.
Of all forms of energy, heat is the most condensed form of energy.
Rigveda begins with “Agni ide” - I praise the glory of. Agni has to meanings: 1. the fire and 2. the god of which agni is the symbol (the real). In Agni the rshis worshipped Hiranyagarbha.
Knowledge has no boundaries.
Energy is secondary only to god, nothing else. Matter is secondary to energy. Therefore energy in front of us in form of fire is considered the great altar of god.
sa:praja -> progeny
Whatever is born is praja. God is in each one. Like one sun reflecting in a billion dew-drops.
If you desire freedom and happiness, you have to do away with dualism.
God creates and devil organizes.
People come with good intention but soon they’re sucked into the system and serve maya.
Fell unhappy and unsecure? Sit down and tell yourself that all the divisions and differentiations are unreal. God alone is real and world is unreal. God is in myself and each living being. See how you feel.
It is the same god reflecting in all different upadhis.
Planets are opaque, not luminous. They don’t shine. It’s the sun that fills entire planetary system with light.
Vedanta - I’m a wheat merchant. I don’t deal with chapatis, idlis, bread … Names and forms are only appearance.
There is only vastness which is the truth. The light that you see in the entire planetary system is the aditya which happens to be the alter of hiranyagarbha.
As the earth came out of the sun it started rolling around itself and around the sun. While rolling around itself it creates time while rolling around the self the seasons. Because of seasons there are crops, food and we can survive…
Sun is the medium through which we worship Hiranyagarbha the creator of the universe. Some of the names stop at the level of sun, some cross the barrier of nama rupa and go to Hiranyagarbha.
All the primary gods (Vishnu, Shiva, Brahma) are married because they are supposed to be connected to creation. As persons need mother and father the gods are married. That’s puranic thinking. Hiranyagarbha need not be married.
Child has it’s origin that mother and father eat, not in mother and father. And food originates in photosynthesis, even non veg-food. And photosynthesis has it’s origin in the sun. Sun is hiranyagarbha. Now you know why hiranyagarbha is the creator of all lifeforms - savita.
Hiranyagarbha is the cosmic kriyashakti (sutram) and vignanashakti (mahat).
When you meet somebody you’re interested in tattvam (how are you doing?) Not how much you earn and other personal details. Nama-rupa. Do the same when dealing with god.
Humanization: when all the fish of ocean will decide to worship a god and create a temple, the god they put there will be a big fish.
Surya means one who moves from the east to west. But it’s only an appearance based on visual perception. It’s not the final truth. Sun is not actually moving.
Pusha is another name for surya. Comes from “pushnati” - it nourishes all lifeforms. When you look at food, think of “pusha”.
Sheep in Christianity, buffaloes for Buddha, cows for Krishna stand for jiva.
We’re focused in the small picture - the me and mine syndrome. That makes us blind to the reality. Therefore you have to transfer yourself from the small picture to the bigger picture.
Diamond doesn’t shine by itself. Sunlight has to fall upon it and it has to be reflected. What about the sun? It has billion times more glory. You feel diamond is mine and sun is not. No, sun is yours and diamond is not.
People have to reorganize their consciousness and put the rights things into it.

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Hiranya is not gold. Hiranya is effulgence, the heat, the light. Then life, because whatever is in the solar orb is in the heart. In the heart it is life and consciousness, in the solar orb heat and light. That effulgence is the seed of this universe.
Big bang is not a chaotic but a cosmic explosion. There are rules. The intelligence associated with it is the cosmic consciousness - hiranyagarbha. It is the intelligence that pervades the brain but is not of the brain.
Gayatri is the greatest mantra because it sees the oneness of the sun and of the consciousness. What is shining brilliantly in the solar orb is shining brilliantly in the heart as the innermost self, making the waking state possible.
Aditi is the power of Ishvara, which manifests as this universe. It is also called Maya. But Maya is used in two context. That of god - as creation. That of individual - as avidya.
Brahman associated with power of manifestation is called Ishvara. Brahman associated with cosmic intelligence is called hiranyagarbha.
Asvah (ash vayptau) is now here and in a very short time it’s there. It pervades the space. That’s what sun is doing at the cosmic level. That’s why you’ll find a horse in every description of the sun. It’s symbolic, not the animal with four legs.
Not knowing is not a crime. Namo namah. But when you tell and they resist, that is a crime.
Sahasra is not thousand. Sahasra is infinite. Infinite because all our heads, eyes, mouths … are god’s. God has both infinite and zero.
We push the child into “local” consciousness. Mother is the first teacher. Then the father. Then primary school teacher… Now you have to make similar effort to bring yourself from local consciousness to god-consciousness.
Gradually close the gap between local consciousness and god-consciousness.
It’s not physical effort. It’s shifting the focus of attention.
The path is open through understanding and love.
You’ve to die to local and move to god consciousness.
Fastest - ray of light. Fastest animal you can ride - horse.
There are seven colors in one ray of light in the sky, therefore the sun has seven horses for rshis of the Rig Veda.
By knowing brahman, you become immortal. By being world-conscious you ware waiting to die.
Sunlight (rays of seven colors) pervades everywhere. Brahman is everywhere.
The ego in you is animal. The love in you is divine. Therefore sacrifice the ego - crucifixion. Therefore what they do in popular religion - sacrifice an animal.
Why there is so much cruelty in religion. Because you sacrifice the spirit and go by the letter. Literality vs. spirituality.
For sun and moon you don’t need a temple.
Mind is not shining by itself. It borrows the light of awareness from atma.
Every living being is a ray of light of god.
Any human body is no different from a dead egg. But life is infused into it by the sun on the horizon and also the sun of atma inside. Similar to electricity.

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Upasana - take the focus of attention away from worldliness and focus it on the higher reality. Look at the creation and think of the creator. Look at the creation and get ensnared in the creation itself, that is bondage.
Upasana - literally means make the mind sit close to god. To hiranyagarbha the creator, who’s not a person.
Person means religion. When you question that is not religion.
Universe is manifestation of power. And hiranya is intelligent power, unlike the power of an explosion.
Go and personify the creator - that is religion.
Go to the creator and don’t personify - that is philosophical vision and includes upasana. And there is one step higher, seeing the creation and creator as unreal. And you reach reality where there is second anymore.
Comfort at the physical level is divine and discomfort is also divine. Pleasure is divine and suffering also. The idea is you don’t seek one and not the other.
Wanting only comfort or no discomfort is a formula for disaster. It comes at 50:50.
Morning at 5:00am I hear birds at the window when meditating after wakeup. All the birds are expressing the joy of sun coming. They’re welcoming the sun.
When you’re not exercising your personal will, the will of the higher power operates.
Choiceless awareness. There is nothing more to meditation than that.
agnigarbah is the most appropriate name for sun. Core of sun is fire.
Shankah - shira nashanah. Shamkah is synonym for chit-akasha. Sham is ananda, which is chit, which is sat. kah is akashah. Samka, chitakasha is the divinity in you. Literal meaning of shanka is conch. Therefore in all worship you find conches.
Body is 2/3 water. Earth is 2/3 water.
If you blow conch, the sound of it is OM.
Sun eliminates tamoguna. Sattvaguna means being alert.
Illness is enhancement of rajo and tamoguna. Health is sattvaguna. Great the sun and illness will be already less.
Absorb sunlight and face the life with courage. Whatever obstacles are there face that, take them as a challenge of higher power.
Space is gravitational power. God is the master, originator cosmic space. The sun is the altar.
Why mediate is semi-darkness? Because light, similar like the sound, is a distraction.
People are very comfortable with ignorance. How do you know your guru knows? You’d feel the pain of ignorance. When you’re very uncomfortable with ajnana, that is when the inner light starts shining.
A student who’s alright with his ignorance is not a student at all.
Vedas are three (prose, hymns and songs). Forth one, atharva veda is like a miscellaneous.
Upanishad’s concern is with human beings. Not even a gender division is there. Upanishads talk of innate divinity of the man.
Upanishads do not forge laws and rules for the conduct of our daily lives. You find not “you shall” or “you shall not do”. That is done by religion systems.
Rules and laws nourish one age but became outdated and can choke one age.
Upanishads - live your life like you like it. Know yourself. Your conduct and speech and thought should reflect the truth.
Theme of Upanishads is freedom. The freedom where you can say no. Saying no to calories for an obese man, drugs, smoking etc.

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Nowadays very rarely Vedic rituals are performed. Mostly of the society performs rituals from smrutis, puranas.
Upasana is to visualize divinity, brahman everywhere. What you see, hear etc. are only names and forms. You’ve to make an effort to rise above them.
When a food is served to you, your focus should not be how it looks like, how it tastes. But what is it and how many calories it has. That’s the underlying reality.
Everywhere, the nama rupa you’d overcome. Don’t look at people in terms of caste, creed, religion. Look at them as human beings.
Human being is the most beautiful word. It is the being, sat. The sat, which is brahman, conditioned as the human.
There is no east there is no west. They are very arbitrary. What is ahead of you is east, what is behind you is west. Towards left, right, above, below … everywhere is brahman.
Water should always flow. Water takes a lot of energy to evaporate, even more for salt water. Sun makes the water cycle on earth possible. Ganavrstih - one who produces enormous amounts of rain.
sa:mitrah - masculine (pumlinga) it is the sun, neutrum (napumsakalinga) it is the friend.
People, look how sun looks at all of us in the same way. Look too at all in the same way.
If you focus on the material things, you’re a worldly person. If you focus on the space, you’re a spiritual person.
In this creation, the volume occupied by matter is less than 0.1%. Same for the atom and it’s nucleus. It is like a football in a football field.
Atomic level and planetary level are very similar.
Now where is your focus? This is the space meditation. First begin with out space (bhutakasha). The meditate upon inner awareness (chitakasha) - mental space. Then the space of awareness (chidakasha).
You’ve to become familiar with the vastness. First of physical space, then the inner light of awareness.
Body is insignificant. Eyesight is not insignificant, it can cover big distances. As eyesight you pervade, you’re vast. Move from eyesight to the mind and your vastness increases.
When you’re one with the mind, you can understand the entire universe.
Now go from mind to atma and you’re the one who creates, sustains and annihilates this entire universe.
The power upasana is that you become what you think. Be careful of what you chose to do upasana of.
You don’t need any other alter than the sun disc.
God is life and god is death. Sun is life and sun is death.
Fire, wind, sun, moon is death.
All lifeforms are going through the intense suffering caused by the sun.
You’re all-knowing. Do you know all? All is relative. You’re in the home. You know all. How would you otherwise cook food?
God is not only all-knowing but also all-being. Do you exist? God is in the form of five elements. Are you?

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Vishva is the universe before you. Like when looking at the world of ornaments. What are you really looking at? Gold. It is always nama rupa vs. the real.
Generally (worldly) people are conscious about nama rupa but not about the underlying reality. They don’t know they’re looking at the god all the time.
You’re looking at god when you look at the world. In a jewelers shop, relying upon eyesight and mind, what you see are ornaments only. What you understand is gold.
Beyond world there is nothing like seeing god. There is only being god. That is the meaning of vishva.
What you call sarvam is not really sarvam. Sarvam is unreal. What you call the multifarious world is not really multifarious world. It is brahman. All of it is brahman.
Upasana: you’re looking at a form but then you transcend the form in your understanding. Experiencing light and heat of the sun you become conscious of brahman, the surpreme reality, shining in the form of the sun - that is called god consciousness. That is upasana and that you have to grow into.
Mahateja: sun is not only source of all light but also of all heat in the universe.
Rakta: rising and setting sun is preferred altar of mental worship. During that time sun is not mahateja.
Sarvabhavobhavah: stuff from which all has originated.
All the ideas where god is the efficient cause come from middle-east. In the soil of India god is the material cause. But god is not inert, god is sentient. Q: How chit can be material cause of anything? A: What is the material cause of dream world?
When matter is the material cause of the world then world becomes real. When awareness is the material cause of the world then world is only an appearance.
Now if god (awareness) is the material cause of the universe then what you are can you be separate from god? It doesn’t matter how you look at yourself. You’re not small. The body is small. You’re and god are essentially the same, chit. Just like a drop and ocean.
sa:dravyam = matter
Energy is coming from carbon-hydrogen bonds. When they get separated the energy that kept them together is released.
Stars are self-shinning. Sun is the brightest and nearest thus lord of all the stars.
We’re not against mythology. Every culture has its myths and they are beautiful. Sometimes they can become a pointer to the truth.
Prison of three walls. Mind - time. Space - body. World - causality. You take yourself as the cause or effect for many things.
God protecting the universe is the best possible upasana. It helps you to come out of the causality. There is only one cause - the universal one. Everything from the smallest and biggest, pain and pleasure, everything comes from the will of god. Vishvabhavana. Story: everything happens by the grace of Lord Rama.
Gurus behave like as they’re agents, middle man to God.
In the past a year has taken 10 months. Later they added two months: July and August.
namaha - na-me. Not mine. Giving up wrongly assumed ownership. “My prostration unto” is brief translation.
camakam - ca-me. For me.
Namakam for sanyasis, camakam for family people. Hold on to namaha, don’t bother with ca-me.
Whatever shines is called jyotih. Sun is the overlord of all of them. In every living being, you see the glory of this atmajoyti.
Simplest form of worshiping Isvhara - stand before the rising sun and you’re looking at god. Want to offer physically? Offer water. More than that is mental worship - do upasana.
Truth is very simple. Whatever is complex, that is not the truth.

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The day outside is presided by the sun. Similarly the waking state is presided by the atma.
The world that you’re aware of, that is known to you is in you only. It is entirely subjective.
People create the world like a cocoon for them. My this, my that. A very petty world and almost entirely subjective. We’re caught in the issues of the small person.
Move as much possible into the big picture - god consciousness. That contains solutions to the problems also.
The small picture presents a lot problems and within the same world consciousness you’re looking for solutions. You might not get them.
Live in the aditya consciousness and you’ll find solutions to the problems not found in the world consciousness.
Sometimes the solution is the very denial of a problem. A problem is a problem only when you accept it as such.
Sun is all light. Having dispelled all darkness. In the fight against darkness aditya is ever victorious. The name itself aditya is victory. And it is also auspicious - jayaya jayabhadraya.
When you’re content with any food - victory against temptation.
Be content with the climate. Just because it’s summer we don’t run away. That’s victory.
Don’t be greedy. You don’t need that many clothes.
You’re greedy because you’re psychologically dependent on physical objects. In contentment you’re free. That’s the victory.
Be OK with any society. India: we cannot chose our neighbours (Pakistan). Don’t have attitude of hostility towards the neighbour. You can live with a bad neighbour with the right attitude. Love your neighbour. Entire humanity is your neighbour.
If you cannot be alone, that means you suffer from loneliness. Meaning you do not any command over yourself. Convert the loneliness into aloneness which is very blissful, nectar-like. That is victory.
I’ll be doing something in the waking time. You can come any time. You’re welcome. There is no disturbance, there is no interruption. These ideas of disturbance, interruptions are the weaknesses of mind. Mind wants to have its way all the time.
Like sun dispels darkness similar victory is inside, with intelligence and understanding you dispel all the problems that the mind creates for you.
sa:ashu - pervading
Sun pervades all the directions. Who pervades all the directions is called haryasvaha, also haridashvaha.
When you can bend your heat it means you’re surrendering to the glory of Isvhara. That’s the idea of namaha.
Sahasramsho: every nama is illuminated by ray of light of knowingness. Every sound is illuminated by every sound of knowingness. There is a sun above horizon and there is a sun in your heart.
Silver is 95% of silver and 5% lead. At best. Lead is poisonous and leads to gastric problems. For what do you want silver?
Upasana has only one goal. To discover the divinity in you. In life, without self-knowledge you do not gain anything. Everything will come to ashes. Self-knowledge is divinity because the self is divine.
Idol is made by human hand but it came from a human thought.
In upasana external object is only name and form but it can be a portal, a pointer to divinity.
Viraya: sun moves very fast from east to west like to defeat an enemy.
Knowledge is the essence (sara) of human being. The essence of the eastern horizon is the sun. The essence of the universe is the sun - saraga (go to the essence).
Inhalation/exhalation - life - is the kriyashakti. The awareness is the vijnanashakti. Combine the two. Consciously deeply inhale, while exhale superimpose the sound OM on that exhalation. That is how omkara is worshiped. OM is brahman and the essence of the vedas. Hold on to that essence, OM, and it will take you to divinity.
OM should be combined with exhalation only.
You’re the knowledge. Veda is in you.
Asangata - while lotus lives in murky waters it remains pure.
Pay your taxes don’t say you’ll when the others will.
Do not allow the world to live in your heart. Padma remains clean living in murky waters. Be like a boat. It is in waters, waters is not in the boat.
Padma the lotus is symbol of beauty. Beauty is not physical beauty. People only know physical beauty. You should not go after physical beauty.
Physical beauty once acquired will become part of monotonous life. Then it will start putting the regret in your mind “the effort was not worth it”.
You’re aggrandizing your false self through physical beauty.
Real beauty is when the mind is sattva, free from rajas and tamas.
When mind is angry, it is tamas. When it is desirous, greedy, highly agitated. That is rajoguna.
When mind is more or less quiet, sensitive, insight, seeking knowledge, creative, abiding in itself, always loving that is sattva. That is a beautiful mind, shining with wisdom. That’s inner, spiritual beauty. That’s the significance of comparing the hart with lotus.
Lotus blooms in the sunlight, inner lotus blooms when world-consciousness gets converted into divine consciousness - brahma drsthih.

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surI - jnani.
adhi - about.
The infinite can be “divided” into three realms: adhiatma, adhibhuta, adhidaiva. Yet it is the same brahman that manifests as three.
There is always some kind of abuse on any good thing.
Sarvaatmabhava - do not disregard even the inanimate or inert things. All existence is atma. Have love for all.
You have to start the journey from where you are.
All around you is not the world, it is god appearing as the world.
SarvabhakshAya - one who devours everything. That is what the sun is. Sun is death. Bhaksha is food. All lifeforms are food to brahman.
Buffalo as vahana of yama embodies tamoguna. It doesn’t react to anything.
Adhiatma, adhibhuta, adhidavia. What you consider “all” can be reduced to three and then further reduced to brahman.
hana means himsa - violence. ghna means the one who destroys.
Atma reveals itself when you’re ready. You’re ready when all the ignorance is dispelled. You don’t need to invite the sun, just clean the window.
You’d not be sitting for more than 30 minutes. Sitting legs depend temporarily diabetic.
You’d not have centralized AC.
Overcome the physical laziness by constant movement.
People are intellectually very lazy. They don’t want to question anything. As long as you retain intellectual laziness, you’ll never know the truth.
Belief is imitation. And we end up giving a name to belief as knowledge.
To dispel intellectual laziness you need upasana.
Outside hima is cold, inside hima is laziness.
Locus of the enemies are the indriyas and the mind.
Complain is anger only.
Desires are like bacterial colonies. They spread very fast. You fulfill one and half a dozen new ones pop up.
People are doing all-right in every aspect but live in perpetual dissatisfaction and unhappiness. They covet something and don’t get. That’s the inside enemy and it is dispelled by the lord sun and also the inner sun - atma.
If you remain as pure awareness you can experience that you’ve no boundaries. Only body and mind have.
Silence is same as spaciousness. Spaciousness is brahman. Outside as well inside.
deva - shining.

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Ishvara praptih - to gain Ishvara.
It is not god becoming man. It is man becoming god.
See good in others. Speak good about others. Put the bad aside.
hari = hara = hrIm = rahIm = hrt. Synonyms that mean “one who eliminates sorrow from the heart” that have originated from the same verb. In Sanskrit multiple different verbs with same meaning can come.
sa:kapala -> he:kabala
Sun is doing all the hard work of creation. We enjoy the benefits. God is Vishvakarmana. That’s god consciousness.
You learn swimming by swimming. Walking by walking. You learn by doing. You learn loving god by loving god. Become an apprentice of god consciousness. Whenever you can.
Even in nighttime the sun shines, only we have turned back to it.
There is no my awareness. It is myself. Richihi, richaye - sun is shining.
Whatever you do, sun is watching over you.
Popular religion is not bhakti, it’s mechanical routine.
You’ll know yourself as the witnessing awareness only when the mind is quiet. When you watch it, it becomes quiet.
Personality is based on self-identification.
Historic self is born out of identification with time.
Witnessing is essential for the separation of the self from non-self.
As sakshi you’re no different from aditya, from bhagavan.
Sun is the sakshi, that is upasana. Atma is the sakshi, that is jnanam.
Religious man says process is here, intelligence is in heaven. Darwin says I don’t know about intelligence in heaven, I see intelligence here itself. Spiritualist says intelligence is god.
God in the form of sun creates all life, sustains all life through photosynthesis and destroys the world.
In India, there is a lot of malpractice. Yet nobody seeks accountability for the death. Nobody kills the other person. Who does? Bhagavan. Nayam hanti na hanyate.
How do you make a line, without touching it, small? Draw a bigger line next to it. Be always conscious of the bigger picture.
Mental worship is there only for saguna. Nirguna is jnanam.
When people are doing a puja, don’t disturb them. When they come to class themselves, you might, but don’t disturb them outside.
Nirguna manasa puja - supreme iconoclast.

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An expression has the power to guide you to the real. You do need a good word. In English God is a good word. In sanskrit Ishvara. Or Truth. Real.
Religious minded people given to blind belief will use every single expression to their advantage and to mislead the people.
The thought creates space around me - me and mine.
Sun never sleeps. Only we people sleep. The inner sun also doesn’t sleep.
Mechanism of knowing - mine and five sense organs. That’s how the waking state is created.
Waking experience is made possible by inner awareness. So is dream experience. And so is sleep experience - the absence of experience is also an experience. And you’re the witness of this very unique experience.
Sleep is like entering dark room and saying “I see nothing”. You see that you do not see objects.
The knower, the witness knows there is knowing and there is no knowing.
Don’t expect acharya and his followers on the same level.
Deep sleep is the lapse of memory, not of atma. Lapse is due to specific memories.
Stress is created by straining. Therefore you lose all the stress in deep-sleep.
Another name for mind is memory.
When two people are sleeping. Peter and Paul. You call one by name. Only one will respond. Therefore a tiny (potential) mind is present even in deep sleep.
In deep sleep there is a general sense of well-being. That’s why when you wake up somebody he comes a little and then wants to continue sleeping.
Deep sleep != sunya.
In the deep sleep there is not me, not the jiva. There is god. Before going to sleep therefore tell yourself - I’m going to the embrace of Ishvara. And when you come back say pratah smarami.
You sleep but Isvhara does not. He keeps awake that’s why you wake up alive. Ishvara is in the heart of all living beings.
Ritual is the manifestation of prana shakti, of vital power. And where from you get your vital power? Food. And food is canned solar energy.
Most important yagna of the Vedas is agnihotram. Now substitute agnihotra with sun worship.
How you die depends on how you live. You can decide it.
There is only god, no karma. Karma and karmaphala are both bhagavan.
Suppose you do a job well. Do you become happy? Happiness is the karmaphalam.
One who thinks that happiness is in the bonus is a samsari. One who knows that happiness is in the karma is liberated. Phalam is always happiness.
When the persons sleeps thought is no more. And the space “me and mine”, which separates you from god, is no more.
If karma is business, karmaphala can never be profit or loss. It can be only suhka and duhka.
Humanism seems to be a phenomenon of about last 1000 years.

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An act which is entirely selfless is called yagna.
Selfish motive binds you.
Any action originating from the self-less space is yagna and won’t bind you.
Cosmic person creates the world out of his mind, which is the upadana karana. He fills the world with his consciousness, therefore he’s the nimitta karana.
Share your joy with others and keep your sorrow to yourself.
The answer is contained in the problem. If you understand the problem, the answer is there. When you understand a problem, it is no more a problem, it ceases.
Instead of looking at the problem, understanding it people want a solution. Solution is the phalam. Solution is an escape.
The moment you ask how to solve a problem you’ve stopped studying, understanding the problem. You’re escaping from it and therefore you won’t get a solution. When you study the problem it will reveal the solution.
To look for an answer is not to understand a problem. If you don’t understand a problem there is no answer to it.
How a third person can have the solution?
The mind constantly avoids facing the problem.
The boy is not disabled. He’s differently abled. Society will find a way how to integrate him. There is no blueprint for life.
Problems people have and solutions swami has. That thinking is wrong or not? You’ve problem therefore you’ve solution for you. You don’t see it because you don’t examine the problem properly.
Physician has only understanding of the problem. Not solution. You’re the solution.
Every problem is created by the mind.
The mind and is mistakes and wrong values put inplace by the mind are source of all kinds of problems.
People misuse the mind, don’t use it properly.
Physiological problem is related to psychological and both are related to spiritual problem. E.g. you divide people, you pursue divisive thinking -> hatred.
A problem is a problem only when you’re searching for a solution.
You should never pursue wrong means even if the end is right.
If you lose yourself in the forest just be alert. You’ll find the way out.
Kirtayan is recollecting saying verses with understanding.
Once you move from world consciousness to god consciousness, you become free from all kind of (imaged) responsibilities.
If you feel that you’re responsible you’re stuck with anxiety, fear.
Thought is the origin of fear. You’d not try to peep into the future. There is no such thing as future in this creation.

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Fear kills creative thinking which you need to solve problems of life.
As long as there is self-interest in life, there will be fear. A sense of me. I’m this, I’m that.
Fear is always understood in terms of time. Once you’re afraid you’re caught in time.
There is nothing to be afraid of. Your mind will make you think there is a variety things to be afraid of.
Real freedom is freedom from worry.
Do you best to perform your duty but cannot influence the results thereof. You’re responsible only for your duty, not for the results. Higher power controls the results.
Once you’re busy with duty you will not have time to think about the results.
As long as you pursue security, you’ll not be free from fear.
You cannot bend the higher power to your will. Learn to surrender and it takes away the fear.
3 reasons for fear: 1. constantly thinking about the future. 2. superstition. 3. pleasure seeking.
There is no tomorrow. Cash today, credit tomorrow - means I won’t give credit to you.
Pleasure and fear you cannot separate.
You’re not able to surrender because of ego. Then life with all its contradictions and challenges breaks down our ego.
I’m bringing up my children is the same delusion as “I’m growing that plant”.
Swami: if my students understand it is their glory.
I teach, I’m a teacher, I’m a sanyasi is a delusion.
Dismiss all what you think you’re and what you think you’re doing. Things happen, you do not make them happen.
In the Upanishad there is as much emphasis on self-negation as on self-realization. The former is door to the later.
You cannot surrender to your equal. You’re surrendering to the highest power of this universe. Devadevamjagatpatim.
You should not hesitate to surrender and cheat.
This is the divine madness. You surrender all responsibility to the higher power.
Having done your duty, the well-fare of your grown-up children you have to surrender to the higher-power.
Ideologs want to control the society. Feel that they have to protect their religion, culture etc.
Generally people won’t give up responsibility. I’ve done so much work, how can I give up control?
As long as you feel that you’re controlling the result you feel responsible for the result. Give up false sense of responsibility and learn surrender.
You do not have control. You only have the illusion of control. Same for responsibility.
Doctor gives the medicine and leaves it to the god.
As long as you do have sense of limitation, feel helpless or in control of things? Do upasana.
In jnanam it’s oneness and in upasana sense of division/limitation.
Upasana provides the best way to get the triumph over the small self.
Mahatmas do not wait to collect. They have nothing to collect.
When you face a difficulty you have to become alert and ask “what is my duty”. And then think. That will tell you what is your duty. Next thing is surrender. What you have to give up is the illusion of control and responsibility.
Do your duty, don’t be in an undue hurry to get the result.
Don’t prepare a blueprint of life.
Life is ever fresh. Suppose it will be according to the blueprint. You’ll be tired of your life.
Suppose I desire something and get it. There is no joy.
Suppose you don’t have any desire. You feel very vital and alive.

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Unless you’re cheerful you cannot be strong.
The more you interact with the world, the less and less cheerful you’d become.
(Listening to Vedanta) when you’re pleased your inner conscious tells you this is the path to go.
Entire philosophy in one world: self-reliance.
Outer situations won’t change.
When you help yourself, the nature, the god will help you.
If you believe that you’re weak, you’re condemned to be weak. Work hard and believe in yourself.
If you really believe in god you’ll not be afraid.
Why don’t you believe in god? Because you don’t believe in yourself. In spite of outer appearances.
Don’t put faith in myths and fables. Put your faith in yourself.
A slave is a slave because he’s free to be a slave. Means he doesn’t mind being a slave. The moment he’s not willing to be slave he’ll die but he won’t be a slave.
Before me there was no creation. The world is my creation. It was I who raised the sun from the sea and put it into western horizon.
Rama mahatejas but it was covered by sorrow, depression.
How to uplift yourself? Don’t worry about the result. Commit yourself to the duty. You’ve to be ready to put in all the required effort. But at the same time you’ve to surrender the result to the higher power. With this spirit you’ve to do it.
Take up only that much work that you can easily perform. Don’t stretch yourself.
Do your own prayer. Why do you need somebody else. By the time you finish it you’d feel enthusiastic, not tired nor bored.
Water has the power to make you enthusiastic.
Rama’s bow stands for the tool. For a IT guy it’s the notebook, for a speaker the mic.
The person might as well die, it should not throw away the tool. There are other ways to express your protest. It is a sin.
Dharma - wake up early, take bath, stand before the earning sun, take your breakfast and do your work enthusiastically.
How US become a superpower? Everybody performs his duty well. Rama is victorious because he loves his duty. While doing it, he’s surrendered the result to the higher power.
Results of your effort are connected with the me and mine.
If you’re not cheerful examine why.
What is victory? When you stand face to face with evil, waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility and endure it all. Bhagavan endures it all, incl. corruption. You don’t do but endure them.
Ravana (name) means one who gives sorrow. Rama means who makes you happy. No surprise rama defeats ravana.
Prayer to get things in our favour shows a weakness of mind. It must be like a student - I’ve worked hard, I’ve done my best effort and I’m ready, god please bless me.
Devote yourself totally to the work. That work blesses you.
People don’t have love for karma but always are focused on result. That’s why they’re perpetually dissatisfied.
Because of the uttara kanda hindu’s dharma received very bad name.
Creator creates through light - savita.
Love all, work hard because you do not covet the desire for the results. That is upasana. Surrender of the small self to the higher power.
Anything you seek which is already with you is not a desire.
A custom that is meaningful don’t rationalize too much.

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Essentially upasana is feeling and jnanam is the understanding, in the heart not in the head.
What you think is emotion, what you know is intellect.
Avoid too much rationalization when it comes to upasana.
You speak to god then god speaks to you. You feel the god then god reciprocates.
There is no difference between the self and the god. You look at the god, god looks at you. You speak with the god, god speaks to you. All in the heart. Are you not doing the same with the world? Looking at a pet/child and projecting a response.
If you’re satisfied (with your prayer), god is also satisfied. Aditya the creator is very happy with Rama because he prays with total love.
When you worship the light, dispelling the darkness is not very far.
Vision of god becomes entirely a belief for us. And then you handover the responsibility of worship to a priest.
You love god, god will love you. You cry before god, god will bless you.
You’d learn to cry also. That is the intensity of the feeling of love. That is upasana. I’m not promoting emotionalism.
Not only hiranyagarbha is surrounded by devatas. You’re too. You’re love is god. Your intellect brhaspatih. Your eyes agni…
All blessing come from within. Happiness, peace doesn’t come from outside - it comes from within. Good health as well.
If you’re spiritually bankrupt your psychological and physiological dimensions will be messed up.
When you proceed to work hard and with cheerfulness, don’t complain. Once you do that the outcome will be all joy and fulfillment.
Once you have the blessings of sun, the outer and the inner, you’ve the blessings of all devatas.
Convert the poetry of epic into miracles and mysteries of purana is effort done by somebody. All of that come from medieval period.
No ego is advaita. Don’t bother about dvaita surrender.
Upasana means bhakti, love.
Anger is the byproduct of desire. Kama esha krodha eshah. Rajogunasamudbavah. Unless you’re a very worldly person (=rajoguna), you will not become angry.
There is no anger that is justifiable.
Jnanam without love is not advaita. Begin with bhakti end with jnanam. Having gained jnanam, make it enjoyable with love.