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92 Gita Chapter 2 - Verse 20 Na Jayate Mriyate

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95 Chapter 10 - Verse 9 Kartaram ca Kriyam

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96 Chapter 10 - Verse 20 Na Bahyo Nantarah

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151 Panchadasi Chapter 10 - Verse 24 Katham Taddanmaya

15 to 34
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169 Gita Chapter 5 - Verse 8 Naiva Kincitkaromiti

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i) Chapter 13 - Verse 15 i) Sarvendriyagunabhasam
ii) Chapter 9 - Verse 5 ii) Na Ca Matsthani Bhutani
iii) Chapter 9 - Verse 4 iii) Maya tatamidam Sarva
iv) Chapter 10 - Verse 20 iv) Aham Atma Gudakesa
172 Gita v) Chapter 3 - Verse 36 v) Atha kena Prayuktoyam
vi) Chapter 3 - Verse 37 vi) Kama Esa Krodha
39 to 44
vii) Chapter 3 - Verse 41 vii) Tasmat Tvamindriyan
viii) Chapter 3 - Verse 42 viii) Indriyani Paranyahuh
ix) Chapter 3 - Verse 43 ix) Evam Buddheh Param
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174 Keno Upanishad Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Srotrasya Srotram Manas
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176 Taittriya Upanishad i) Chapter 2 - 1 - 1 i) Om Brahmavidapnoti 45 to 46
ii) Chapter 2 - 1 - 2 ii) Tasmadva etasmad
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181 Gita i) Chapter 5 - Verse 3 i) Jneyah Sa Nityasannyasi
ii) Chapter 2 - Verse 50 ii) Traigunyavisaya Vedah
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187 Gita i) Chapter 13 - Verse 30 i) Prakrtyaiva ca Karmani
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189 Panchadasi Chapter 10 - Verse 5 Avicarakro Bandho 52 to 54

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191 Panchadasi Chapter 10 - Verse 6 Ahamityabhimanta yah

Gita Chapter 4 - Verse 18 Karmanyakarma yah

192 Panchadasi Chapter 10 - Verse 7 Antarmukhahamityesa 55 to 62

Keno Upanishad Chapter 2 - Verse 4 Pratibodha Viditam

193 Panchadasi Chapter 10 - Verse 8 Idamo Ye Visesah

194 Chandogyo Upanishad i) Chapter 6 - 2 - 1 i) Sadeva somyedamagra

ii) Chapter 6 - 8 - 7 ii) Sa ya esonimaitad
iii) Chapter 7 - 24 - 1 iii) Yatra Nanyatpasyati

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200 Chandogyo Upanishad Chapter 6 - 5 – 4 Annamayamhi Somya

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206 Taittriya Upanishad Chapter 3 - 1 – 2 Yato Va Imani Bhutani
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Gita Chapter 15 - Verse 3 Na Rupamasyeha tatho
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i) Chapter 2 - Verse 13 i) Dehinosmin yatha Dehe 74 to 75
213 Gita
ii) Chapter 2 - Verse 25 ii) Avyaktoyam Acintyo
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241 Keno Upanishad Chapter 2 - Verse 4 Pratibodha Viditam
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242 Taittriya Upanishad Chapter 2 - 1 – 2 Tasmadva etasmadatmana

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247 Taittriya Upanishad Chapter 2 - 4 – 1 Yato Vaco Nivartante

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i) Chapter 4 - Verse 28 i) Dravyayajnastapoyajnah
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249 Gita ii) Chapter 9 - Verse 5 ii) Na Ca Matsthani
iii) Chapter 9 - Verse 4 iii) Maya Tatamidam
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260 117
261 Vichara Sagara Topic 254 118 to
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Vichara Sagara Topic 255
Kaivalyo Upanishad Verse 19 Mayyeva Sakalam jatam
121 to
262 Gita i) Chapter 15 - Verse 16 i) Dvavimau Purusau Loke 124
ii) Chapter 15 - Verse 17 ii) Uttamah Purusa
iii) Chapter 15 - Verse 18 iii) Yasmat Ksaram atitoha
263 Gita Chapter 2 - Verse 20 Na Jayate Mriyate va 124 to
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265 133
266 Panchadasi Chapter 10 - Verse 11 Nrtyasalasthoti Dipah 133
Gita i) Chapter 2 - Verse 62 i) Dhyayato Visayam 134 to
267 ii) Chapter 8 - Verse 6 Pumsah 136
ii) Yam Yam Vapi Smaran
Isavasya Upanishad Verse 1 Om isavasyam Idagm 136 to
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Dakshinamurthy Verse 3 Yasyaiva Sphuranam
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274 Panchadasi Chapter 1 - Verse 5 Supot thitasya Sauspta 146 to
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Gita Chapter 5 - Verse 15 Nadatte kasyacit papam
Vichara Sagara Topic 108
Katho Upanishad Chapter 1 - 3 – 14 Uttishata Jagrata Prapya
Mundak Upanishad i) Chapter 1 - 1 – 7 i) Yathorna nabhih srjate
ii) Chapter 1 - 2 - 8 ii) Avidyayam antare
iii) Chapter 1 - 2 – 9 iii) Avidyayam Bahudha
149 to
275 Gita Chapter 5 - Verse 15 Nadate kasyacit Papam 162
Uddhava Gita Chapter 8 - Verse 30 Yavan Nanartha Dhih
Katho Upanishad Chapter 1 - 3 – 14 Uttishata Jagrata Prapya
Mundak Upanishad Chapter 1 - 2 – 12 Pariksya Lokan Karma
Kaivalyo Upanishad Verse 14 Punasca Janmantarakarma
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278 Panchadasi Chapter 10 - Verse 21 Desah Kopi na Bhaseta 164
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Mandukya Upanishad ii) Chapter 2 - K – 2 ii) Adirghatvacca Kalasya
iii) Chapter 2 - K – 3 iii) Abhavasca Rathadinam
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Brihadaranyaka Chapter 4 - 3 – 10 Na Tatra Ratha Na 178
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Prasno Upanishad i) Chapter 4 - Verse 6 i) Sa Yadaa Tejasa

ii) Chapter 4 - Verse 7 ii) Sa Yathaa Somya
iii) Chapter 4 - Verse 8 iii) Prithivee cha Prithivee

Kaivalyo Upanishad i) Verse 13 i) Svapne Sa Jivah

ii) Verse 14 ii) Punasca Janmantara

Brihadaranyaka i) Chapter 2 - 1 - 19 i) Atha Yada Susupto 182 to

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Upanishad ii) Chapter 2 - 1 – 20 ii) Sa yathornanabhi 191

Mundak Upanishad Chapter 2 - 1 – 1 Tad Etad Satyam

Kaivalyo Upanishad i) Verse 13 i) Svapne Sa Jivah
ii) Verse 14 ii) Punasca Janma

Mundak Upanishad Chapter 1 - 1 – 7 Yathorna Nabhih Srjate

Brihadaranyaka Chapter 2 - 1 – 1 Drptabalakirhanucano
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296 Kaivalyo Upanishad ii) Verse 10 ii) Sarvabhutasthamatman 194

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 Panchadasi - Chapter 10 - Summary - Swamy Paramatmananda
1) I cannot change what happens to the body and Mind, but I can stop imagining myself to be
the body or Mind
2) I am not the body or Mind, I am aware of the body and Mind
3) Consider the possibility, when I am not the body but the Witness of the body, entire
samsara looses its significance
4) Consciousness, Seer of the mind alone is Paramartika Satyam, Absolute reality.
5) Mind drops world and remains as Sakshi in sleep
6) Om - Cosmic sound helps one to get established in the Pure being, Awareness
7) Connect the silence between 2 Ohms in meditation to the Silence of Sleep state :
• Realize Atma, the Awareness beyond the - Sleep state
8) Rajasic nature of mind makes living in the present almost impossible
9) Learn to be with your real self, nothing more important in life
10) Sport smile in your sadness, with the knowledge of Svarupa Atma, Then you conquer
sadness.
11) You are not Jiva or Jagat, you are the witness who witnesses the Jiva - Jagat all the time
12) Play possible only in the presence of the light illumining the state :
• 3 States of Mind Possible, only if there is Atma’s light illumining the worlds.
13) Be the light of Atma, which illuminates Body, Mind, Don’t be identified with body – Mind.
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13) Identify with Consciousness, worship consciousness, Be conscious of Consciousness.
14) Sakshi Recognises mistakes of ego, not ego
16) You are the knower behind the thinker, not the thinker :
• Higher level of consciousness gets activated
• Step back from the thought and touch that intelligence behind the thought
17) Don’t condemn or Suppress the Mind, Just listen to the Noise Made by the thought as
Sakshi :
• Be the Living presence for the thought, “I am” (for the thought)
18) Just be Present, don’t loose yourself in the Noise of the Mind
19) Sakshi, Atma indiscriminately illumines Presence and Absence of Body, Mind, world like a
Light of a Stage (with - without Dancer)
20) :
Sakshi Chaitanyam illumines

Everything Nothing

Jagrat, Svapna Sushupti

• No Kartrutvam Doership for Sakshi Chaitanyam

21) Establish yourself as a witness, it will free you from all false ideas.
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21) Man is what his ideas are
22) Every Desire is very powerful, prompts an Action, Search for fulfillment Continues.
23) Good, bad desires or actions, I don't want to be swept away, must remain on my feet…
Develop a distance with them
24) Sakshi is the reflection of the reality, Chidabasa in the Buddhi, Antahkaranam
25) Witnessing Awareness, Chidabasa is the window of the truth
26) Ahamkara, ego, person, small self is identification with the body
• Without identification with body there is no Ahamkara in sleep
27) There is body only when you are conscious of the body
28) There is no body unless you look at it as body
29) It is not body, much less my body, it is Panchabuthas
31) Pravilapana Abhyasa :

No Other than
- Prithvi - Apaha
- Apaha - Agni
- Agni - Vayu
- Vayu - Akasha
- Akasha - Atma
• Sequence for you to establish in the oneness of the reality.
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32) :
I am

Bound by Self Consciousness / Ego Free of self Consciousness / Ego

- Bandah - Moksha
- Ego Burden - Ego is an ornament I wear at

33) How do you free yourself from ego?

• By remaining as Sakshi, witness…
34) When Ahamkara (ego), Buddhi, Vishaya are absent in waking state, I am not self conscious,
and I am free (As also in Sushupti)
35) Ego like rope to snarl up the Traffic in toll booth :
• Roll up ego, traffic flows but is just rolled up
• Ego sits in a corner for certain functions
36) When self-conscious, you are father, husband, son, Brother, director :
• When not self conscious pure Sakshi, Sat - chit Atma - Svarupa
37) Timeless is squeezed into time as body - Mind :
• Spaceless has become a speck in the vast expanse of space as body - Mind.
• Infinite has become finite apparently, not factually, due to Maya Shakti of Chaitanyam.4
38) :
Body - Mind identification

Water Waking State

- Ice - Dream State

- Vapour - Sleep State
- Merges into Space - Brahman ← end of Awakening to
self, Turiyam (Ego free State)
39) Ego has all the limitations of the body - Mind
40) You are not old, you are Sakshi for the old body
41) As Ego Every problem of body mind is your problem, it is limited in time - Space
42) Witness, Sakshi is dimensionless Centre, timeless Centre of observation.
43)
Sakshi is

Jnyaptihi Kutastha Bhasa

- Attributeless, - Changeless - illumination

Spaceless, without
Conditioning
- Being
- Subhanta, Bhava Artha 5
44) Surfing on the wave, will never know depth of Ocean :
• looking at yourself as body - Mind, you have entirely lost sight of reality and holding
onto appearances
45) Mind is like a dancer on stage who presents postures one after another :
• Mind proposes different topics for your consideration one after another to dwell on
46) Thought is source of all pain and fear
47) We do not use mind, mind uses us :
• We are slaves of our minds
48) We identify with the body and become slave to the body.
49) False ego stands the basis of identifications with possessions, skills and relationships
50) Once you start identifying yourself with the mind, mind will use you as a slave :
• Instead of mind, start identifying with Sakshi, awareness, you become a master of the
mind
• Mind becomes pure
51) Vedanta :
• Sakshi - Sakshyam difference is unreal, appearance
Sankhya :
• Sakshi - Sakshyam difference is real, Satyam
52) You are the intense presence, Turiya Chaitanyam changeless :
• Waker I, dreamer I, sleeper I, ego I, Ahamkara I keeps on changing.
53) The real presence, Being is more tangible than body and mind. 6
53) Sakshi is the only Real presence, the being, more tangible than body and mind and its 3
States :
• Learn to stay with it as the witnessing awareness instead of identifying with the mind
as the self
• Identifying with the mind makes whole life fickle and fleeting
• No rest, Relaxation when you identify with the Mind
• Step back aside and remain as the intense presence, timeless being
• In the being, there is no time
• In consciousness, awareness, presence, there is no time
• You are timeless Centre of observation, Kutastha, Changeless
54) Law :
• Every change happens in the background of Changeless.
• If mind is changing, what is the immutable Reality in you?
• It is the Changeless witness awareness, Reality.
55)
Illumination 2 types in Creation

Drishya Prakasha Drk Prakasha

- That is seen - That Sees

- Eyes - Mind, Awareness 7
56) You are the intense presence Sakshi :
• Identifying yourself with the deluding Mind, you utterly lose all your glory… Sarva
Prakriti Vanchita.
• One Become a victim of the Mind
• One Lives in utter slavery
• We are utterly at the Mercy of the world and Mind, this is effect of moola avidya,
Maya
57) Discover your own base, anvil, Kootastha Sakshi, then can face all the events of the word
well
58) Knowing is everything, when it comes to mind and self, nothing to do there :
• Know Sarva buddhi Pratyaya Sakshi Aham Asmi
• Perseveringly stay with this idea
• Refuse to identify with the mind as self
59) Consistently watch the mind like a thief, you won’t gain anything but you won't lose what
you have, your true nature
60) Sakshi is a detached Personless awareness
61) If I take myself to be in the world, I can't know the truth of myself or the world
62) I am not in the world, the world is in me, the Chaitanyam, pure awareness :
• I am the source of all illumination within and without
63) I like or dislike an object because I take the object to be real. 8
64) Truth of life :
• Things happen in life, they do not happen to me - Atma, Sakshi
• What happens on stage does not affect the lamp
• Light is changeless, abides in its glory
65) Sakshi is a Centre of timeless, dimensionless, awareness, Observation
66) Whatever you accomplish in life is going to be superficial and transient
67) Ishvara Srishti not a problem for us :
• Jiva Srishti - Mind’s projections of desire, greed, Jealousy, anger is problem for us
• Creation Manifestation of Sat chit Ananda, can't be imperfect
68) Refuse all thoughts except one thought - I am mind
• Mind rebels
69) Tormenter of your life is sitting in your mind
70) We have to win a battle against our own mind :
• Persist with “I am” thought
• Mind will Yield, you will gain Quietude of the Mind
• Come out of Groove thinking, Dismantle it.
71) Discernment Between Sakshi and Mind is bread and butter for Awakening.
72) When the Mind is Quiet, I feel my Presence, Awareness, Very Strongly.
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73) I am the Sakshi is the Only reality in the Changing States of the Mind - Waking Dream,
Sleep.
74) Sakshi, awareness is the Only Tangible, Solid, concrete entity in the fleeting world of names
and forms.
75) It is a habit of the Mind that we feel concerned, attached to the Outside :
• It appears Natural to us
• Atma is naturally Unattached.
76) Just be aware of the mind, not identify with the mind as the self, it is possible
77) Learn to ignore the mind :
• When it is playing tantrums, with strong likes and dislikes
• Remind I am Sakshi Chaitanyam, Atma
• Come out of mind identified lifestyle
• Watch events as they come and go, Accept them
• Raaga - Dvesha is failure of acceptance of events as real
78) Discover that Acceptance of events as they come and go is your True Nature
79) Daily in Sleep, we drop Body, mind and Remain as Sakshi
80) Buddhi does projection and internalization
81) Understand beyond thinking mind, there is Changeless, Non-moving awareness :
• Train the mind like a mother teaching a child.
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82) Train the Mind to understand that experiences happening in the mind alone are real
83) Mind should understand that that awareness consciousness is its source and the only
reality
84) Mind must know that Sakshi is the source, illuminator of its affairs and must respect the
Sakshi
85) No object, Material can touch the Sakshi, Awareness, Consciousness.
86) Cognise Sakshi in every thought, relate to it :
• Sakshi is spaceless, it is origin of space
• When you transcend Mind there is no space, time
• By the time you have notion of space you are at the level of mind
87) Time - Space are mental categories :
• Atma is source of mind, therefore time - Space are in you
• Because of identification with body, I take myself to be in space
• I fail to recognize, space is in me
• If I am the body, I am an event in time
88) Step back from body as the Sakshi and realize Time - Space is not in you the awareness :
• Space - Time is projection of the Mind
• Space - Time are in you and not you in Space - Time
• You will realise you are Poornam, the whole.
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89) Realise you are not in Space - Time, Space - Time is in you the Awareness.
90) Space-time is body identification :
• As body - I am in Space, As mind - I am in time
91) If I am not the body - Mind, I am not in space or time
92) I am not born, I will not die
Gita :

He is not born, nor does He ever die; after having been, He again ceases not to be; unborn,
eternal, changeless and ancient, He is not killed when the body is killed. [Chapter 2 – Verse 20]
• Death loses its capacity to frighten me
• There is no death for me - I was not born
• Strive to know the truth
• As Sakshi, you are the source of Space - Time – Causation. 12
93) In London you feel I am here :
• You go to Singapore, you feel I am here, not I am elsewhere
• Shows “I am“ transcends space
94) In 2021 - You feel I am now :
• In 2022 - You will feel I am now (Not I am in future year)
• At all times, my feeling, “ I am now here”
• Can't add anything to I am, other than now
• I am now and here
• I am is the truth

3 Feelings

I am I am here I am now

- Truth - Identification with Body - Identification with

- Spaceless, Timeless, - Unreal Mind
Reality, Absolute - Changing - Unreal
- Relative - Changing
- Relative

• I am this - That, is contribution of Mind (Father, Daughter, Doctor relative entity)

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95) Panchadasi - Chapter 10 :

That consciousness which reveals at one and the same time the agent, the action and the
external Objects is called ‘witness’ in the Vedanta. [Chapter 10 - Verse 9]
• Sakshi = Chit = No division of here and there, Spaceless.
• Chit illuminates the division, awareness of here and there, now and then
96) Panchadasi - Chapter 10 :

The witness Consciousness can neither be called External nor internal. Both these terms have
reference to the Mind. When the Mind becomes fully tranquil, the witness exists where it
shines. [Chapter 10 - Verse 20]

There is Division

In the illuminated Objects, Bodies, Not in the illuminator light,

things, Minds Awareness
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 • Jnanam - Awareness illuminates Time - Space, itself not Divided by Space - Time
• Sakshi - illuminates division in time, it itself is beyond Space and Time
• Timeless - Spaceless awareness is Sakshi
97) You must have inner moments of peace and the quiet mind
98)
Hit Sword on

Wooden Piece Water Air Space

Division remains for Division for 2 Can’t see division No Division

10 Years Seconds

Lifes impressions / Samskaras

Ajnani Seekers Mahatmas

- Remains for several - Imprint like air, water - Like Space

years, Janmas - Bad feelings remains - Bounces back
- It haunts, they suffer for a few Minutes
- Slave of mind
- Too much likes and
Dislikes 15
 • Win the battle with the mind to remain Quiet internally for a few moments in a day
and abide in space
• This is called Nididhyasanam
99) What is meditation?
• It is an effort to gain an insight about oneself
100) Once you have the moment of quietness, then you can abandon the illusion of being a
particular person :
• Avoid egoic lifestyle of identifying with body and Mind as self - Product of ignorance
101) Sakshi alone please solid Entity, Real, tangible, concrete :
• World is like a mist, appears and disappears
• I am not body - Mind - Material world
• Appreciation of one’s self is Moksha
102) As Sakshi there is no location for you are Spaceless - Timeless, where can be the
location?
• This truth verify to yourself - if you have a quiet Mind and examine the issue and if
you gained the inside for yourself.

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103) :
As

Body Mind Atma

- You are engulfed by the - You objectify the - You are the origin of
Universe Universe the Universe
• You are the Centre of Cosmos
• You are not in Space and Time
104) Thought, Mind, is source of Time, Space, Object :
105) Atma is source of thought, mind ,timeless spaceless :
• Timeless means Atma transcends the illusion of time - Space
• World is an Illusion of Time - Space - Causation
106) Sakshi with reference to Sakshyam :
• Without Sakshyam reality of the it is absolute, called awareness
107) Shruti negates the world not its experience
108 ) As Brahman, Nirguna Chaitanyam, I am projector, experiencer, supporter, as though
sufferer of the world :
• I exist beyond the universe
• Negation means understanding that existence of the world is borrowed. 17
109)Brahman exists eternally, world only an appearance on it, has no know origination
110)World is mysterious experience, Mithya, Borrowing existence from Brahman
111)Mahavakya reveals eka Chaitanyam, and Anatma negated by Sruti :
• Aham Satyam, Jagan Mithya
• Mukti is instantaneous
112) Brahman is Advaitam in spite of the Dvaita Anubhava
113) Drishti Srishti Vada :
• No world other than I the observer, Chaitanyam, Atma
114)Bodies, senses, Minds are different but life in them is same, universal :
• Sakshi, witnessing awareness, is same in all the bodies (Kshetrajna)
115)Abide in Atma, you are abiding in Universal peace
116)Abide as being, I am, Space, time, Divisions will be Absent in that.
117) We all have Similarities :
• Bodies made of 5 Elements
• All Human
• Manifestation of one Life, Awareness, reality
• Differences are name, form, function, Mithya, appearances.
118) As I Abide as witnessing Awareness there is no concept of Space - Time
• A thought should arise, then Category of time Rises. 18
119) :
3 Things appear = Disappear together

Body World Ego in the Mind

120) Atma pervades body, Mind, World :
• Satta, Sphurti of Body, Mind, world, derived from Atma
• Idam Va idagum Sarvam
• Within (Body, Mind, Sense Complex), without world
• Atma by itself spaceless
121)Space and time are bondages and In the core of your being, you are Spaceless, Timeless,
ever free
122)Buta Akasha and Chitta Akasha (Space in Mind) Exists in Sakshi - Akasha - Chid - Akasha
• Ever shining substratum is substratum for Buta and Chitta akasha
123)You are not in the world, world is in you Chidabasa
124) In sleep, world resolved into Chid Akasha :
• Why should the world resolve in you?
• In the first place, it has come from you, Chit Akasha
• Everyday Nithya Srishti (Creation), Everyday Nithya Pralayam (Resolve)
• Know you are spaceless. 19
125)I was born in India live in America, Singapore, will go to heaven is Mental Delusion
126)Yoga is binding the outer to the inner
127)You are not Atma in a Particular body mind complex :
• You will never know the truth
128) What is the truth?
• Body is the mind
• Mind is movement in awareness
129)I am not separated, isolated ego in a Body - Mind Complex :
• I am the Sakshi ,which pervades all the egos and all the bodies
130) When I am ignorant of my real being I am engulfed in space :
• I being insignificant event in the flow of time
131)We impart reality to images on the screen because of our attachments and aversions :
• We fail to recognize that the whole thing is a big Appearance, on the screen of Atma
Chaitanyam
132)You are not experience or the experiencer :
• You are the awareness in between the experience and experiencer, and beyond the
two
133)Don’t be immersed in your experiences :
• Our experiences are Short loved and Insignificant.
• There is nothing called experience, in Reality. 20
134) When we give reality to the pictures on the screen, the true reality case is hidden :
• Our experiences or insignificant, unreal and transient
• Don't be immersed in, overwhelmed by experiences
• Ignore the experience, don't be the experiencer
• Try to be the source of both
135) What you see is not real, the fact that you see alone is a real, (Chaitanyam, Awareness) :
• When you see dream, dream is unreal
• Fact of seeing dream is real
136) What is heard is unreal :
• The fact that you hear is real
137) Stop getting immersed in experiences :
• Start seeing the signal it provides for the reality underlying it
• Taking appearances to be a real is a grievious mistake
138) In the innermost substratum, Shabda, Sparsha, Rupa, Rasa, Gandha is all Jnanam,
awareness :
• Jnanam = Sakshi, Awareness with reference to Shabda, Sparsha, Rupa, Rasa, Gandha
• You not only hear, Taste, Smell, Think, Feel but you are also aware that you hear, taste
smell, think, feel
• Changeless awareness Sakshi is always there for you to Recognize. 21
 • Yad Yad Budhyandhi Kalpata (Shabda, Sparsha, Rupa, Rasa, Gandha) Buddhi imagines,
projects.
Tad - Tad Prakashayan :
• illumined by Sakshi
• Sakshi can't be illuminated by buddhi and Vag Indriyam
139) What is the ignorance or error?
• I perceive a thing and I take what I perceive as myself (Body - Mind)
• How the perceived can become the Perceiver?
• What I perceive - Sakshyam is not me
140) Thoughts, words, can never objectify the reality :
• They can signal (Manifest) the awareness Consciousness (Manifest)
• It is not necessary to describe, objectify the truth, because you happen to be the truth
141) Atma when it is reflected in the body - Mind complex is viewed as Sakshi :
• You can relate to Atma only as Sakshi in a medium
142) Description is never described in words :
• Vak (What is spoken) has origin in Buddhi (Sankalpa)
• Sankalpa first, Vak (Speech) later, not Simultaneous
• Power of speech (Energy) Originates in the navel, aquires shape of words by
association with Buddhi, by the time it arrives at the heart. 22
Sankalpa - Vritti is in the heart :
• Gives shape to energy power in the navel
• Power manifests as voice through voice box
• Atma is source of perception and conception, 2 Faculties of the mind
143) Ajnani leads a life of becoming where as Jnani leads a life of being :
144) As Atma, I am never connected to Samsara :
• Asangoham hi Ayam Purusha
• I am Poorna Atma
145)Jnani called Parama Hamsa, can separate real Atma from unreal Universe
146)In Karya - Karana Mimamsa, Drk seer left out
147)What all you perceive or conceive is not Atman :
• Ego is the false subject
148) To know Atma it is enough to know that :
• You are not with reference to the world
• You need not know, and can not know what you are
• You will ever remain the unknown and unknowable reality
• you are ever the Atman
149) As long as you think, being and knowing are different you will not know the truth :
• Being (Sat) is knowing (Chit). 23
150) Pot does not exist outside consciousness of pot :
• Pot’s existence is in the consciousness.

Pots locus in one Place Knowledge of the Pot in other Place

Illumination 2 types in Creation

151) Atma can be described only as total negation (Neti Neti) :

• To know atman you should unlearn
Panchadasi - Chapter 10 :

If you object ‘How such a Self could be grasped by me?’, our answer is : Let it not be grasped.
When the duality of the Knower and the known comes to an end, what remains is the Self.
[Chapter 10 - Verse 24]
• When all process of knowing with the mind comes to an end
• Svayam Eva Avasishyate - What remains is Atma
152) With reference to everything perceived, Cognized, you abide as awareness, pure :
• If you are conscious of gender, you can't know Atman. 24
153) Don't take yourself to be the ego, limited to a body :
• I am being, existence absolute in which all existences appear and disappear
• Atma is self evident existence, no need for a means to know it.
154) Aham Asmi, Sada Bhami :
• I Exist always, I shine always, I am timeless existence, self-evident Atma.
• Svata Siddha, Svata Sphuranam - I am, I shine independently.
• There is only one direct knowledge, you know, you are
• Atma is Aprameya, not Available for Pramanams
• Clean mirror, it shines by its own glory.
155) Stop searching for happiness, then you will be happy :
• If you are searching for happiness you are deprived of happiness
156) Teaching is about a sentient being and teacher is a sentient being :
• Hence learn Shruti from a teacher
157) Abhimana = Ego = Judging person :
= Vikshepa Abhimana, Vikshepa Shantihi
= Resolution of projection of I thought, ego thought
158) Meditate :
• This body - Mind complex is an instrument controlled by universal power
• Body / Mind / Intellect - Complex is like a bamboo in a forest, with holes of 5 Senses.25
 • When universal power like the wind blows through the bamboo, gets reflected,
sounds are created, knowledge happens.
• Let Krishna blow the Body / Mind / Intellect - Flute with his agenda and not yours,
then see the melody coming out (without the ego)
• Rise above your personal definitions about yourself
159) If you give up all definitions, of the self, you are liberated here and now
160) :
Karmas

Done with wrong attitude Done with Right attitude

Binds us Purify the Mind

• Can't give moksha
• Sruti, Atma Jnanam alone gives Moksha
• Take refuge in the knowledge of Atman
161) Sense organs present picture of division :
• Eyes - within, without
• Behind sense organs is within and other than is without.

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162) :
Buddhi

Gross - Sthula Subtle Sukshma

- Sees what eyes show outside - Sees behind eyes

- Sees Pot as Satyam - Sees pot as Mithya
- Clay is Satyam
• As mind gets illuminated, it becomes transparent.
• Ignorant Mind is an Opaque Mind.
Mind

Sattvic Tamasic

- Transparent - Opaque
- illumines - Waste
• Inner, outer Division is caused by Senses and Mind.
163) Power of Ishvara, Maya is reflecting in the Eyes, ears, Senses, Antahkarana Buddhi :
• Then only they are eyes, senses, Buddhi.
• They are not independently shining
• Sun outside shines because of Ishwara’s power. 27
 Look

Within Without
• Its all one power of Chaitanyam Awareness alone
164) Meditate :
• Universal Power of Ishvara is here in the heart, making it to throb.
• In the eyes to see, ears to hear, mind to feel…
165) :
As witness of thought Identifying with the thought
You are a Master Become a Slave
• “I” has a Choice to be a Sakshi or Ego.
Pratasmarani Stotram :
166) Process of Perception :
• Mind Acquires shape of object it knows
• Mind’s thinking = Knowing
• Thinker - Thought, Subject - Object, both are creation of the Mind.
• Atma is illuminator of Mind not subject or object, not dipole
• We identity Atma, Real I, with subject, product of mind, ego, small self, person. 28
• Ego is piles of experiences in the waking state
• Atma not ego, person.
Mind

Appears as

Subject Object

• Division is apparent, not real, only at level of Mind

• Atma is Substratum, on which movement of Mind takes place.

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 Summary
i) Atma not thinker or thought :
• Atma not perceiver or perceived
ii) Atma is knower Kshetrajna, behind the thinker - Perceiver - Ego
iii) Knower is witnessing, illuminating awareness, with respect to subject - Object division in
waking, Dream, Sleep state.
iv) Appreciate this Atma - Anatma (Mind) division
v) I - identify with the mind and become thinker or perceiver
vi) I am not body or Mind which is Kshetram
vii) 3 States not possible without body- mind-complex
viii) Waking body mind belongs to same order
ix) :
Body – Mind World
Not Atma Anatma
• Both Anatma
x) :
Atma illuminates

- Waking world / Dream world - Body / Mind

- Sukham, Dukham 30
 • Am I waking - Dream Subject?
xi) I am the one who gives its existence to subject - Object in Waking and Dream
xii) Subject - Object is unreal, it appears in real Atma, Awareness
xiii) :
I Screen
- Atma not Split into Subject Object - Not Split into hero and villain
- I Remain changeless and Yet makes - Screen remains Changeless and yet
division appear on it makes all Divisions appear on it
xiv) World Sukham - Dukham appear and resolve in awareness (Manifest and unmanifest) :
• Atma sustains, holds - waking and dream world
• Illuminates (Immanent) and remains Asanga (Transcendental)
• Not contaminated, affected by opposites in the world
x) Truth has Relevance to all individuals here and now
xi) Come out of ignorance and imagination of waking world :
• You are not the experiencer or the experienced of the waking or dream world
• You are not the ego - waker I, dreamer I, sleeper I
• I live whole life as waker I, ego I
• Waking experiences are apparent, not real, only temporary appearances in a fleeting
world phenomenon. 31
 • Don't get absorbed in the stories of waking and suffer
• Events appear real in Jagrat, Svapna or while seeing them in movies
• We experience waking or dream in the screen of the mind
• There is an inner Space between Atma and the Mind
• Discover and be free from identifications.
• Be your Natural Self, in a higher Platform of Reality, Paramartika Satyam.
xii) Tremendous inner Space of Sakshi is there between you and Mind Screen
xiii) Know you are not Jagrat Avastha and its experiences :
• Jagrat Like Svapna appears but not real
xiv) Law :
• What appears in Time - Disappears in time
• Don’t take your Mind Seriously, what it projects is unreal.
• Only 2 States in Vedanta, waking and Dream, both Pratibhasikam.
• Person comes as a Reflux in Every State by habit, Automatically.
• Person = Me, mine
• I am impersonal Reality
• Body is Nature around Atma, not me, not Mine, ideas in the Mind are me is the
problem.
• I wake up in Awareness because of Sattva Guna Pradhana Mind. 32
 • We are under way of Vasanas soon
• Morning, Vasanas in dormant condition
• We have a chance to be in communion with reality
• Reality is not Empherical
167) If you understand you are consciousness, then all that you experience is experienced in
Consciousness :
• All experiences have no reality of their own, apart from me the experiencing
consciousness
168) Sruti Reveals :
i) I am Atma, Turiya Chaitanyam
ii) Abandons body, mind, world, all experiences of Mind as appearance, unreal
iii) World experienced never separate from experiencing consciousness
• Can experience world separate from consciousness
iv) My consciousness is illumining, witnessing a world
v) Body, mind, world always experienced in Consciousness, awareness.

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 Relationship

World Consciousness

Superimposition Substratum

Example : Chain, Bangle, Ring Example : Goal

• Consciousness are world are Connected in some way world not independent
existences.
Substance Name, form, function
i) Wood i) Table
ii) Consciousness ii) World
• Consciousness through power of Maya is appearing as the universe
• No 2nd thing apart from consciousness
• Maya depends on Brahman for existence but it projects itself as existence.
Example :
• Rope and ignorance of rope cause of projection of snake
• Brahman and ignorance of Brahman is cause of projection of world
• I don't know, ignorance can’t exist by itself.
• When we stand apart from the mind, it behaves well
• If we join or identify with the mind, it takes is for a ride. 34
169) Why I am not the Subtle body?
i) Anekam :
• Subtle body = 17 Parts
• Parts belong to subtle body, gross body
• I - Self - Seem to be one, not divided
• Ekam can't be Anekam
• I clearly feel I am one being
• I am the operator of the instruments of knowledge, Action, Antahkaranam, Pranas
• I am operator of eyes, Ears, Mind, Intellect (body / Mind / Intellect)

Mind I Pure Being

Anekam One
ii) Chalam - Moving :
2 Explanations

Mind is Fickle Mind travels to other

I am the Unchanging Observer Atma, all Pervading, Does not Move

• Changing mind and the changeless Atma can't be same.
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III) Drishyatvam :
• Breath, mind’s emotion, are objects of awareness
• I am knower of breath, mind, thoughts, emotions
• Who remembers - I - the consciousness.
Gita :

I do nothing at all, thus would the harmonised knower of Truth think – seeing, hearing,
touching, smelling, eating, going, sleeping, breathing... [Chapter 5 – Verse 8]
iv) Nir-vikaritvam :
• Subject to change - Breath faster, Slower
• I am unchanged observer
• I am Aware of eyes seeing, not seeing, Ears hearing, Non-hearing.
• Observer of three states of mind, Waking, dream, sleep.
• Subtle body changes - Alert, healthy, Sick, Tired, Drowsy
• I am the observer. 36
V) Avyapakam :
• Subtle body in gross body
• I am all pervasive in deep sleep, I am without gross and subtle body
• Sleeper I - Ego, experiences, Blankness, Darkness
• Subtle body not experienced in deep sleep
• I - Consciousness, Awareness reveals blankness, Absence of functions of subtle body
• Dreamer I - Experience functioning of subtle mind
• I - Consciousness experiences both absence and presence of functioning of subtle
body
• I - Consciousness can exist independently without Subtle and causal body
VI) Asat Rupakam :
• Subtle body = False appearance
• I the observer am the reality
False :
• Means, it has no existence of its own.
170) When secret of Jiva, Jagat, Ishvara being one entity :
• Brahman is known, then one attains Sthiraprajna.

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171) Consciousness is the reality on which the mind appears, Asat Rupam :
Example :
• Wave appears in water
• Consciousness uses subtle body as instrument, organ.
Bahya Karanam Antahkaranam
Contacts world of Objects Mind experiences inputs from
ears, eyes, nose, tongue, Skin
• I - Consciousness am the wielder of the Instrument by the very Presence,
Consciousness makes Systems work.
Gita :

He sees, who sees that all actions are performed by Prakirti alone, and that the self is
actionless. [Chapter 13 - Verse 30]
• Nature does everything, thinking, willing… Self not doer, agent, of action. 38
 • Everything done by nature, You are known, doing witness of all this, just
consciousness.
• We are taking some of the functions upon ourselves and say I am speaking, singing,
thinking.
172) Atma not Mind - 7 Arguments :
Atma Mind
i) Ekam i)Anekam, 17 Parts
ii) Achalam ii)Fickle, Travels
iii) Drishyam, Seer, knower iii)Object of knowledge
iv) Changeless Observer iv) Subtle Body healthy, with
- “Avyaya” witness of Ego energy, tired
v) Vyapakam, I exist without v) Parichinnaha Limited, depends
Subtle body on Atma to Appear, disappear
vi) I am Satyam vi) Mithya
vii) User of Instrument vii) Instrument
Vivekananda :
• Only God I worship, is sum of all human souls.
• Consciousness apart from Body - Mind is god because it is Sarvatma Atma
• Consciousness is transcendental.

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Gita :

Shining by the functions of all the senses, yet without the senses; unattached, yet supporting
all; devoid of qualities, yet their experiencer… [Chapter 13 - Verse 15]
Gita :

Nor do beings exist (in reality) in Me, behold My divine Yoga supporting all beings, but not
dwelling in them, I am My Self, the efficient cause of all beings. [Chapter 9 – Verse 5]
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Immanent - Gita :

All this world (universe) is pervaded by Me in My unmanifest form (aspect); all beings exist in
Me, but I do not dwell in them. [Chapter 9 – Verse 4]
• You are one Consciousness appearing as the Entire Universe.
• Aham, Consciousness, Say I in the Mind.
Gita :

I am the self, O Gudakesa, seated in the hearts of all beings; I am the beginning, the middle
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and also the end of all beings. [Chapter 10 - Verse 20]
 • In which light do I experience the feeling I
• God, Sarvatma, soul of all, Rupa, Sarvarupa and Sarva Ateeta
• I am Brahman happens within Mind project or veils Atma
• Every mind is revealed by same light
• Clouds don’t Cover, only Obstruct
• Thoughts don’t Cover, only Obstruct
Gita :

Arjuna said : But, impelled by what does man commit sin, though against his wishes, O
Varsneya, constrained, as it were, by force? [Chapter 3 – Verse 36]

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The blessed Lord said : It is desire, it is anger born of the active, all-devouring, all-sinful; know
this as the foe here in this world). [Chapter 3 – Verse 37]
Gita :

Therefore, O best of the Bharatas, controlling first the senses, kill this sinful thing, the
destroyer of knowledge and wisdom. [Chapter 3 – Verse 41]

They say that the senses are superior (to the body); superior to the senses is the mind;
superior to the mind is the intellect; one who is even superior to the intellect is He, (the
Atman). [Chapter 3 – Verse 42]
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Gita :

Thus knowing Him, who is superior to intellect, and restraining the self by the Self, slay you, O
mighty-armed, the enemy in the form of desire, no doubt, hard indeed to conquer.
[Chapter 3 – Verse 43]
• Uncontrolled anger, Desire, destroys life
173) All dependency for happiness in the objective perishable world is delusion :
• External the world is dependent on awareness consciousness for it illumination
174) Expression of life changes in all of us, moment to moment :
Keno Upanishad :

Preceptor : It is the Ear of the Ear, the Mind of the Mind, the Tongue of the Tongue (Speech of the Speech)
and also the Life of the Life and the Eye of the Eye. Having abandoned the sense of Self or I-ness in these
and rising above sense-life, the wise become Immortal. [Chapter 1 - Verse 2] 44
175) :
Brahma Sutra

Samanvaya Avirodha Sadhana Phalam

• One life force Brahman in the Universe repealed.
176) Panchadasi :
• Jagrat is Karyam, an effect, Does not Stay eternally like that, time bound.
• Body is an effect, timebound, Karyam.
Cause Effect
Brahman Jagat
• Status of being the cause is also Superimposition.
• From its own Standpoint Brahman not cause.
Use Negate
- Cause - Effect Relationship - Relationship
- Adhyaropa - Apavada
Cause :
• Sat - Para Brahman / Bhuma.

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Taittriya Upanishad :

Om, the knower of Brahman attains the Supreme. With reference to that, is the following
hymn recited: Brahman is the truth, knowledge and infinity. He who knows it as existing in the
cave of the heart in the transcendent Akasa, realises all his desires along with omniscient
Brahman. [2 - 1 - 1]

From that (Which is ) this Atman, is space born; from Akasa, air; from air, Fire; from fire, water;
from water, earth; from earth, herbs; from herbs, food; and from food, man. [2 - 1 - 2]
Brahman Atma
Reality of Universe Reality of Your self 46
 I

Not Ego Pure Awareness

Which is identified with Body Mind

177) Asakti, attachment to the body, mind or world is the main reason for pain :
• Do Japam to overcome attachment
• It gets diluted
• understand, your mind is your tormentor, external object - Being could be your
medium.
178) :
Maya - 2 meanings

Total Individual

- Material cause of Universe - Ignorance of Self, Avidya

- Power of creation, Sustenance, - Veils Satchit Ananda Svarupa
withdrawn of creation
- Trigunatmika Maya

179) Person is already liberated, Nithya Mukta, Atma Jnanam removes the covering of truth :
• Dirt removed, mirror of mind shines. 47
180) Your true nature is one without the second, Advaitam :
• Tendency of mind is to divide and particularize
• Underlying reality of man is one Chaitanyam, hidden by many unreal appearances of
Mind’s projections
• Existence absolute alone real, Nama rupa world, unreal
181) Eliminate habit of taking plurality in the world as real :
Gita :

He should be known as a perpetual sannyasi who neither hates nor desire; for, free from the
pairs of opposites, O mighty-armed, he is easily set free from bondage. [Chapter 5 – Verse 3]

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The Vedas deal with the three attributes; be you above these three attributes (gunas), O
Arjuna, free yourself from the pairs of opposites, and ever remain in the sattva (goodness),
freed from all thoughts of acquisition and preservation, and be established in the Self.
[Chapter 2 – Verse 45]
• When Plurality resolves, become one with the truth, that is where you are in
happiness.
182)
Advaya Reality

Can’t know the truth Can only be the truth

• You stop being the reality when your Mind splints into Triputi
• When there is Non-dual knowledge, Atma, Awareness alone is there.
• No Split of knower known or Triputi.
183) Non-dual awareness is the essential content of a person :
• In that Awareness there is fullness and joy
• Triputi is incidental nature, unreal
• Take all divisions to be incidental

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 Subject - Object Division if taken

As Real As unreal

Binds Does not Bind

• Because of likes and Dislikes, you isolate yourself from the whole in the desire of to
process object and beings, and end in sorrow.
184) Mind, shadow, causes divisions, incidental remaining in true nature is Moksha
185) Can't retain world and Advayanada :
• Dump desires causing pain and be happy
186) There is a Universal being that upholds existence :
• Individual existence is as though isolated from everything else
• Rise above the level of Mind, go to Sakshat Chaitanyam which gives shining and
existence to mind’s modifications.
187) Pragyanam Brahma :
• Atma Chaitanyam = Pure being = Chaitanyam = Niranjanam
• Seer-hood, Hearer-hood is incidental in time space, not real
• In the Pure being, there is no fear, attachment, No doing, walking, thinking.
• It is not a Vastu.
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Gita :

He sees, who sees that all actions are performed by Prakirti alone, and that the self is
actionless. [Chapter 13 - Verse 30]

He, who recognises inaction in action and action in inaction is wise among men; he is a yogi
and a true performer of all actions. [Chapter 4 – Verse 18]

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188) Pragyanam Brahma :
• I Define myself w.r.t. Upadhi - Body - Mind = Adhyasa
• Never derive sense of self from what you do
• For worldly transactions, you say - you are doer
• Don't believe it to be your true nature, It is Ajnanam
• Negate all distinctions with object, subject can't stand
• In sleep, one with our being, Non- verbal, “I am“
• Atma Chaitanyam - when it reflects in a body mind complex, is called a human being.
• Chaitanyam alone is Param Brahma
• Existence, outside waking consciousness, is not accepted, either known or unknown.
189) Panchadasi - Chapter 10 :

Bondage is caused by want of discrimination, and is negated by discrimination. Hence one

should discriminate about the Individual and Supreme Self. [Chapter 10 - Verse 5]
• Freedom from bondage to desire is through Viveka and Vairagyam
• What is emptiness centered in me? Investigate
• Is my desire worth it? 52
 • I take myself to be a person in ignorance
• Duality comes to an end in knowledge of Advaita Atma
• I am not a separate ego in a body, a person
• What is in me is Awareness, Consciousness
• What is around me is Awareness, Consciousness
• God or Awareness is unity between me and nature
I am Awareness (not ego I in a Body) World is also in Awareness

There is one Non-dual Awareness Expressing as

Individual and Total
• World consciousness - Binds
• God consciousness - Frees
• It is in my hands to stop imagining, I am the body
• We are too much conscious of the world, not conscious of the reality
• God has to be understood as within me, as me
190) Am I a person? is this person a shadow?

Person You are there in Sleep

Not in Sleep Not as a Person 53
 When Ego is

Active its called waking, Dream Absent

- Dreamer Ego waker ego, - You are called Awareness

Sleeper ego all together not a
Different Person any more
- Awareness is Svarupam

• In Sleep, no Ego is there

• You are Sakshi, witness to ego less State
• Sleep is an Experience without ego, Unmanifest condition of ego I
Ego I - 2 conditions

Manifest Unmanifest

Waking, Dream Sleep

Sakshi :
• Ever present, in all 3 States
• Clearly present in sleep as Sakshi of egoless State, causal Body.
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 Is the World

An Appearance? Reality?

• Ego I comes and goes

• Understand what is Ishvara not what is the world
191) Panchadasi - Chapter 10 :

He who thinks ‘I am’ is the agent. Mind is his instrument of action, and the actions of the Mind
are two types of Modifications in Succession, internal and external. [Chapter 10 – Verse 6]
• Who is a Jiva?
• Who takes himself to be the ego, coming out of Sleep.

When Mind window

Is open Is closed

I - Ego - is there I - Ego - not there 55

• Ego is child of the of the mind
• Emotions, feelings, belong to mind not in the core of the being
• Sensations of body, sense impulses of the world belong to the mind.

World

Objective Reality Subjective Reality

Awareness
• Ego, emotions, feelings, sensations of the world, Body, Mind, Felt by the subjective
reality = Awareness
• I Aham Vritti = Source, existence.
Sakshi Mind
- illumines the Mind - Manifests Existing Consciousness
- Sentiency - Matter
- In Pure I, no body identification - I am this Body in this room, in this
world
- Space Times comes with body
• There is need for Vichara, enquiry into truth about my “Self”
• Wrong notions = ignorance, hides the Awareness.
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 Tyaga Vairagya
Renouncing the world Getting Detached from the world and
attaching to Awareness, Consciousness
• Everyone takes himself to be a person
• You imagine yourself to be a person
• In sleep, experience nothingness, no person
• When you are not self conscious, you are not a person
• When self conscious, you are limited, bound person
• Identified with body, Mind, thoughts makes you a person.
Person Reality
Time - Space - Body - Mind - Timeless, whole, Limitless,
Causation Bound Chaitanyam, Awareness
Gita - Chapter 4 :

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He, who recognises inaction in action and action in inaction is wise among men; he is a yogi
and a true performer of all actions. [Chapter 4 – Verse 18]
• Mind not quite because we hold a delusion, I am the Doer
Viveka :
• Body - Mind is an instrument for cognition and action
• Use instrument, don't identify with it as the self
• Best way to know the mind, is to know - That there is no mind
• Flow of thought gives us a false impression that there is something there
• Impression of continuity of thoughts is called the mind
192) Panchadasi - Chapter 10 :

The internal Modification of the Mind takes the form of ‘I’. It makes him an agent. The external
modification assumes the form of ‘this’. It reveals to him the external things.
[Chapter 10 - Verse 7]

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 Modification of Mind

Internal External

- ‘I’ Aham Ego - This idam

- Agent, only a thought - Reveals External things
- No thought in Sleep, no person
- Skin is the boundary
- Ego is Shadow of the reality,
Consciousness, the Pure being
Meditation :
• Be familiar with the being, by being the being, no other way.
Being Thought
- Source - Person
- without ‘I’ thought - Thought is Movement
Originating in the Being
- Thought Manifests, reveals the
Being

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Keno Upanishad :

Indeed, he attains immortality, who intuits It in and through every modification of the mind.
Through the Atman he obtains real strength, and through Knowledge, immortality.
[Chapter 2 - Verse 4]
• Mind is not real, it is an appearance
• Develop a Distance, Space with the Mind, Shadow, Movement in the Self.
Mind window

To External world body / Mind /

To Pure Reality
Intellect

- World thoughts come and go - “I am Chaitanya Svarupam”

- Superficial knower (Shadow, - Aham remains ever
Chaya, Reflection) - Real knower
- I see, I hear, I think, I - know Idam - Origin of all thinking
thought, Changing continuously

• Thoughts happen in me, I do nothing, this is the Truth.

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 Sattva Guna Rajo Guna
Gives me Space with the Mind Makes me one with Body -
Mind
• Identifying with organs of knowledge, and action, I become Pramata (Knower), Karta
(Doer), Bokta (Enjoyer)
Identification of Sakshi :
• With Body - Mind = Ego, Doer, subject
• Inner Vritti
• Movement of Mind establishes objects of the world
• Deeper movement establishes the ego, Person
• In consciousness, where movement is taking place, there is no division
• Outer everything is the world - Idam Vritti
• Pot Vritti - is pot consciousness
193) Panchadasi :

The External things (That are cognized by the Mind in a general way, their special qualities
having been Jumbled up) are cognized by the five Sense-organs quite distinctly as sound,
touch, colour, taste and Smell. [Chapter 10 - Verse 8] 61
 o External Vrittis
o Belong to 5 Sense organs
• All Perceptions are Re-cognitions of already knowledge in the Mind
• One must know flower, to see flower.
Idealist Realist
- Being only within - Being only outside not within
- Subjective - Objective
• Idam - This is name of universe
• This is outside you
o Body = Idam
o Mind = Idam
• I am Deha - Manaha - Vilkshanam ‘Aham’
• I am known by human mind which recognizes it
• World is as real as your sensations are…

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194) Chandogyo Upanishad :

Somya, before this world was manifest there was only existence, one without a second. On this
subject, some maintain that before this world was manifest there was only non-existence, one
without a second. Out of that non-existence, existence emerged. [6 - 2 - 1]

‘That which is the subtlest of all is the Self of all this. It is the Truth. It is the Self. That thou art,
O Śvetaketu.’ [Śvetaketu then said,] ‘Sir, please explain this to me again.’ ‘Yes, Somya, I will
explain again,’ replied his father. [6 - 8 - 7]
• Knowledge and ignorance experienced in the changeless reality, the pure being,
Chaitanyam.
• The locus of entire universe is the core of my Personality, the pure being.
• Origin of universe is Vivartam, changeless reality
• Perceive the infinite while perceiving the limited. 63
 • Mahatmas see the core of the universe, as the being
• In universe, being = Sat = Constant factor, changeless
o Sat Buddhi inside you and outside not divorced, one and same being
o Sat Buddhi of world and sat buddhi of me is same being
• I am the being which is appearing as all this
• Vivarta and Parinama = Universe
• Sat and Name and form = Universe
• I am not Samsari but Sat, ever existing reality
• Ego I, unreal person, shadow
Chandogyo Upanishad :

Sanatkumāra said: ‘Bhūmā [the infinite] is that in which one sees nothing else, hears nothing
else, and knows [i.e., finds] nothing else. But alpa [the finite] is that in which one sees
something else, hears something else, and knows something else. That which is infinite is
immortal, and that which is finite is mortal.’ Nārada asked, ‘Sir, what does bhūmā rest on?’
Sanatkumāra replied, ‘It rests on its own power—or not even on that power [i.e., it depends
on nothing else]’. [7 - 24 - 1] 64
 • In sensing the pot, sensing of the being is the reality
• Atma = One’s Self = being, which upholds the entire Universe of 3 states of
consciousness.
• When relating to world, only relating to name and form
• Empty name and form from any object, being, what remains is the pure being, Sat.
• Stand utterly undesignated, undifferentiated, Non-verbal being not a person.
• I am not revealed by perception, inference, emotion or thought.
• Non-verbal, I am neither good, bad, Singaporean, American not single, family person.
• I am pure sense of being
• Let content of waking Consciousness = Shabda, Sparsha, Rupa, Rasa, Gandha - Merge
into consciousness.
• Vedanta gives you God which is your innermost self
• In Vedanta - God = not which is other
• Pragyanam = God, awareness
• All universe in Pragyanam - Vedanta offers you a living God
• Feel within, abide within… Sit close to Sat, Upa - Ni - Shad
• Immortal God in you = Pragyanam.
195) :
• Don’t transfer plurality of attributes of body, Mind, senses to plurality of Atma.
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 Asti Bhati Priyam Nama Rupa
Atma Body, Mind, Senses
196) Negating Appearances of thoughts is called Vairagyam :
• Hold to content of thought, Ishvara
197) Consciousness, which reveals the agent, the action, and the external object is called
witness in Vedanta :
• I am Karta (Doer), Shadow of the reality (ego I), Ego - I is false
• When the mind is quiet ,you can recognize yourself to be pure witness
• Recognize yourself to be pure Sakshi, instead of ego, Person, Bokta, Karta
• As ego, you are bound to be enjoyer, doer
198) Every desire has fear :
• I am not doer, ego, I am Sakshi
• You are not a thought in mind
• You are Sarva buddhi Pratyaya Sakshi
• I am the source of all thoughts, the reality, behind All thoughts
• Mind is a bridge between body and Atma
• As ego, constituted of body - 5 Elements
• What is common between 2 Experiences is witness consciousness
• If totally identified with experience, you are ego, experiencer 66
 • Recognize yourself Distinct from duality - Consistently, stop identifying with the ego
• Subject - Object duality is an object of awareness
• Ego masquerades as subject
• True subject is consciousness alone
Ego - I - waker Sakshi Ultimate Reality - Brahman

Bridge
• Sakshi is status, Bridge, between the ego I - Waker I and the ultimate reality, ever free
Atma.
199) There is no ego or person, without identification with a physical body :
• You need to persistently refuse to identify with this ego
• Understand what you are not, that is enough
• You can be only what you are
200) Chandogyo Upanishad :

‘O Somya, the mind is nourished by food, prāṇa by water, and speech by fire.’ [Śvetaketu then
said,] ‘Sir, will you please explain this to me again?’ ‘Yes, Somya, I will explain again,’ replied his
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father. [6 - 5 - 4]
 Mind Prana Speech
Nourished by food Nourished by water Nourished by fire
201) Once space between Atma and person, mind is created, ego continues only as a part of
the objective world :
• Ego’s identification with Awareness snaps
• Identify with the light behind the mind, ego
• Do not identify with the mind itself.
202) Mind becomes opaque with tamas - Fear, desires, incessant mental noise :
• Can’t be the inner reality with Sattva Guna
• Ego becomes Karta, Bogta
• In Awareful being, there is movement of the mind
• Don’t equate existence with thinking
• I am existent being first
• Drop commitments of the ego and be Atma, pure existent being
• Mind is connected to the being and resolves in it, it acquires the quality of calmness
and strength.
203) I cannot change what happens to the body and Mind, but I can stop imagining myself to
be the body/mind.
204) I am the witness of subject (Mind) - Object, all the time
• Inside as Chit, Outside as sat. 68
205) Sankhya :
• Atma Bokta, has transferred attributes, Sukhi, Dukhi, Raagi, Dveshi
• Hence Atma is Plural
Advaitin :
• Seeming Bokta, really Abokta, Akarta, Raagi, Dveshi (All Buddhi Dharmas
Superimposed), Atma Ekam.
Common features Accepted :
Atma Anatma
i) Consciousness - Matter
ii) Akarta - Karta
iii) Nirguna - Saguna
iv) Independent - Dependent
v) Asanga - Sasanga
206)
Jiva

Born and Dies Anaadi not birth, Death

- w.r.t Body - w.r.t Atma

Taittriya Upanishad : Gita :
- Chapter 3 - 1 - 2 - Yatho va Imani…. - Chapter 15 - Verse 3 (Na Rupam
Asye) 69
Taittriya Upanishad :

To him (Bhrgu) he (Varuna) Again said: “That from which these beings are born; that by which,
having been born, these beings live and continue to exist; and that into which, when
departing, they all enter; That sleekest thou to know. That is Brahman”. He, (Bhgru) Performed
Penance; and after having done Penance….. [3 - 1 - 2]
Gita :

Its form is not perceived here as such, neither its end, or its foundation, nor its resting place;
having cut asunder this firm-rooted Asvattha-tree with the strong axe of non-
attachment…[Chapter 15 - Verse 3] 70
207 :
Understand Kshetrajna - Kshetram

Real I Assumed I

- Original Chaitanyam Turiyam - Unreal I

- Birthless, deathless - Shadow
- Aparoksha - Ego I, not I
- Satyam - Waker, dreamer, Sleeper
- Existence, Consciousness, - Paroksha
eternal, Timeless - Mithya
- Owning up is moksha, freedom - Appearance
- Kshetrajna - Temporary
- Aham - Incidental
- Purusha - Identification causes Bondage
- Kshetram
- Idam
- Prakriti
- illumined
- Changing
• Real I - Embedded in Assumed I, error I
• Effort need to Extract real Atma
• Stop Obsession with bodily Comfort. 71
208) Don’t Derive Sense of I from Body :
• All definition of oneself = Kshetram.
Derive Sense of Self

- Body - World - Atma

- False - Real
- Anatma, Possessions

209) :
Awareness

Manifests Unmanifest

- Universal Life reflects in - Seed Stage

Body, Mind - No Pleasure or pain
- Avyakta and field (Body
Mind) = Manifest
- Pleasure, pain

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210) :
Knowing

Svabavika Shastriya

- Without Discrimination - Upadhi rahita Atma

- with ignorance of Atma, Anatma - Undifferentiated Consciousness
- Object of Consciousness = Body, - Nameless reality
known
211) :
Kshetrajna

Manifests Divine
Consciousness

Reflected Consciousness
212) :
Steps for Knowledge of truth

Know what you are not Know you are everything

Atma - Anatma Viveka Sarvatma Bhava 73

213) :
Idam

Many Kshetrams Bodies, Minds Plural

• Jiva not Shariram or Antahkaranam.

Atma

Singular

Non-dual
Gita :

Just as in this body the embodied (soul) passes into childhood, youth and old age, so also does
he pass into another body; the firm man does not grieve at it.[Chapter 2 - Verse 13] 74
This (Self) is said to be unmanifest, unthinkable and unchangeble. Therefore, knowing This to
be such, you should not grieve. [ Chapter 2 - Verse 25]
Aham

Not Person Chaitanyam

- Ego identified with body - Existence

• Person and world replaced Daily.
• With Aham, Mama, I identify with Body - Mind
Individual Person
- Dehi - Deha
- Changeless - Changing
- Self conscious - I am this, that (Biography)
- Isolated
- Aham, I am 75
214)Identify with consciousness, worship consciousness, Be conscious of the consciousness,
awareness, Sat chit Ananda Svarupa :
• Don’t identify the physical body, manage the physical body
• Body can’t be taken care of, by the Small ego
• Body taken care by a higher Power, Ishvara
• Mysterious power which, makes the cosmos function and resolve.
• Body follows laws of higher Power, not my laws.
• Body runs by Ishvaras intelligence, I can only remain as a Witness in this Powerful
creation, is the Ultimate truth.

Don’t identify with ego Remain as Sakshi, Nritya Shalastha Deepa Vatu
• Cosmic will - Alone acts, not the human will
215 - Brahma Sutra :
Adhyasa - Error - Maya - Avidya

Sankhya Baudha Vedanta

- Satya - Satya Mithuni - Mithya - Mithya - Satya - Anrute Mithuni

Karanam Mithuni Karanam Karanam
- Real - Real - Unreal - Unreal - Real - Unreal
- Consciousness - Matter - Matter - Matter - Consciousness - Matter
- Satyam beyond
Adhyasa, Maya, Avidya 76
 Realists Idealists
- Artha Adhyasa - Jnana Adhyasa
- Only Arthas, Objects exist, no - Only Jnanam, Exists, Real
Subject - Outside Objects, unreal
- Srishti - Drishti Vada appearance
- Charvakas - Vedantin
- Sat karya vada - Drishti Srishti Vada
- Asat karya Vada
216) Attributes of Place, (Dirty, Clean) Transferred to content Space :
• Attributes of thoughts - Mind - Dirty, Pure - Transferred to content All pervading
eternal Awareness.
Thoughts Awareness
- Temporary Kshanikam - Changeless
- Waking / Dream / Sleep States of - Ekam
mind for a Certain time Duration - Eternal
exists in Timeless Awareness - Timeless
- Shift focus to ever existent Atma,
Awareness, and be free here and
now
217) Al Vyavahara Due to :
• Adhyasa with Body - Mind on ever existing Satchit Atma Tattvam, reality. 77
218)

Yoga Sutra

5 Klesha’s binding factors

in a Jiva, makes life
unbearable

Avidya Asmita Raaga

- Ignorance of self - Identification with - Attraction towards

Buddhi, Ego I, Body / things and beings which
Mind / Intellect, Person give me happiness
- I am Rich

Abhinivesa Dvesha

- Fear of death, failure - Aversion towards thing

- Smarana baya and beings
- Afraied to hurt ego unfavourable
- Can’t Speak in meeting
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219) True nature of Individual :
• Sakshi of Mind not Body - Mind - intellect Equipment
Individual World

Nama Rupa Satchit Ananda Nama Rupa Satchit Ananda

Perishable - Body / Reality Perishable Reality

Mind / Intellect

220) If I think, what I desire is real, then can never rise above the Desire :
• When you discern, step aside, Abide in Atma, Anatma will not stand opposite to you,
but will merge in you
Example :
• When you take yourself to be yourself, then you need discernment, discrimination.
• Image created by Upadhi of mirror, not real
• You are the real person, Upadhi gone, only you remain, image gone
• When you discriminate Brahman and creation, only Satyam Brahman remains
• Similarly only Atma remains
• Viveka has very big importance in understanding One’s true nature
• If Viveka is clear, Sarvatma bava happens automatically.
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 2 Steps / 2 Wings of Freedom

Atma - Anatma Viveka Sarvatma Bhava

• Sakshi recognises mistakes of ego, that it can’t become Angry, Jealous, Raagi, Dveshi,
Abhiniveshi (Fear of Death), Pancha Kleshas.
Ego Sakshi
- Becomes angry - Knows it is wrong to become angry
- Will never know that it is wrong to - Sakshi Recognises Mistake of ego
be angry
• Take Sakshi’s Viveka to the next level
221) There is a thought :
• You are not the thinker
• You are knower behind the thinker
• I am aware - I am writing, speaking, talking, Seeing, hearing
• I am the knower, Awarer, experiencer behind all instruments of knowledge
• We ignore the knower and fall in the Rut of identification with the instrument as me
• You start watching the thinker
• When you understand yourself to be the Knower behind the thinker, higher level of
Consciousness gets activated. 80
 • There is an intelligence from which thought is originating
• Thought is a tiny aspect of intelligence, not intellect
• Every thought is a product of past history
• Listen to the noise made by the thought as Sakshi
• Be the living presence, I am, for the thought.
I am Thought Process
i) Pure witnessing presence i) Belongs to Mind
ii) Not Doer, Enjoyer ii) Doer, enjoyer
• Just be present, don’t lose yourself in the Noises of the Mind
• Abide as I am, the witnessing presence, like the Nrithya Shala Deepa
• Let thoughts, perceptions, emotions themselves play out
• Just be the witnessing presence
• Try to be just be - Then you will begin to Awaken
222) When the dancer, audience, king Move away, light still continues to illumine the hall :
• When 3 states of the mind Move away, Sakshi remains as Nirguna Chaitanyam without
any Sakshyam, objectless Awareness.
• I have to establish myself as witness awareness
• Witness does not get involved
• Witnessing essential to separate self from Non-self. 81
 • Establish yourself as witnessing presence in life
• It will free you from all false ideas
• Have Space with reference to Silly ideas in the mind
• Sakshi is a Reflection of the reality, awareness in the Buddhi, Chidabasa
• Chidabasa is the witness, Sakshi of all Sakshyam
• Kutastha Chaitanyam remains intact.
• Chidabasa witnesses Mind, which includes Body, Senses, world
223)
i) When we come out of Sleep, the window of Mind Opens and world seen outside :
ii) :
Sakshi Sakshyam
Atma Ego, Mind, Senses, Body, world
• Witness illuminates and identifies.
iii) Sakshi gets identified with what it witnesses and now we have a person
iv) If there is no identification, there is no person, individuality
• Witnessing Awareness is the window of the truth.
Sunlight illumines

Empty Room Room full of Objects 82

 Atma illuminates

Agitated Mind Empty, Peaceful mind

Ego present Ego Absent

224) :
Sakshi illumines

Ahamkara Asmita Raaga

- Ego - Objects - Nartaki

- King of Body - Shabda, Sparsha, Rupa, - Dancer
- Me and mine complex Rasah, Gandah - Buddhi with thoughts
- Prabhu - Sensations
- Sabhyam
- Audience
• Ego is the tenant, Came after Ishvara Builds the Body
• When ego, Buddhi, Vishayas not there, no Sakshyam.
225) Body is a thought :
• When you think of Body, it is there
• When you don’t think of Body, it is not there
• There is wealth, House, relations when you think of them. 83
 Sakshi Projects

Artha Adhyasa Jnana Adhyasa

Outside Objects Minds Projections

While waking, you get up with a thought :

• I am reflection of pure existence
• Sense organs, sense object, prakriti establish oneness of reality
• Ego cheats the pure Jiva
• When 3 - Ahamkara, Buddhi, Vishaya are absent, there is absence of self
consciousness, even in waking state
• In Sushupti - 3 Absent, I am free
• When not self conscious, ego rolled back, contracts, no longer person
• When self conscious, ego shoots forward, expands in every area, person active.

Person

Director in office No Office

Not a Person 84
 I am

Pure Awareness With mind, Become a Person

Consciousness
• Ego Dominant in Adharmic Vyavahara
• Sakshi will not come in way of Dharmic Vyavahara.
When Ego

Active Inactive

Sakshi Shines Sakshi Continues to Shine

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226) :
Person at 2 levels

Ego Level Witness Level

- Changing - Changeless
- Lower - Higher
- Witnessed entity - Witnessing entity
- Called Ishvara
- Shadow - Reality
- Samsari - Unmanifest
- With desire and fear - Window to truth
- Points to reality - Abide as unidentified witness
Example : Example :
- Water in the pot - Water Evaporates
- Identifying with Pot Upadhi - Ego merges
- Ego one with body - Disidentify in meditation
- Never derive sense of self from - Inner Space Developed
body - Derive Sense of Self from Atma
- Lead meaningful life of values,
maintains self
- Brahman State, very powerful

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 Person at 2 levels

Ego Level Witness Level

- Stop identifying self with the ego, - Abide in the being not on other
person extension of the being, the ego
- Jiva Sukhi, Dukhi - As Kshetrajna not in the world
- Body identified ego = Kshetram
Gita : Chapter 15 - Verse 7 :
- Part of Atma, not Part of World

227) :
Knowledge

2 Levels

- Atma - Anatma, world

- Real - Incidental, unreal
- Unmanifest - Sun, real, worship Manifest
Consciousness

228) Don’t use world to bring Ishvara :

• Drop world and go to Ishvara. 87
229) Be in the world, not of the world, without Ego :
Be

Of the world In the world

- Ego - Kshetrajna, Ekam

- Every Ego is a person, the world - Manifest Consciousness illumines
- Kshetram = Limiting Upadhi ego’s and their worlds

• Life in tree, insects, me is one Universal Principle

• Drishyam can’t exist without Drk and Drk is Non-dual, Advaitam.
230)
Stop identifying with Ego

In Space - As Body In Time - As the Mind

• I am timeless, Spaceless being, now and here.
231) Samsari = One who has Birth, Death :
• Be impersonal with the content of the mind
• Manifest consciousness = Uninvolved witness
• Waking state = Manifest consciousness
• Sleep = Unmanifest consciousness 88
 • Kshetrajna - Not person, life universal
• Mental noise should not limit me to this body
232) Sakshi does not come in the way of Dharmic Vyavahara :
• Ego is dominant in adharmic Vyavahara
• In the absence of self consciousness, Ego, Sakshi continues to shine

We have 3 things

Body Ego Sakshi, Witness,

Consciousness, Awareness
• Sakshi is invariable factor in 3 States, Self conscious - Ego states
• Sakshi is immanent transcendental in and through and beyond
• Timeless is Squeezed in time as Body - Mind
• Stand apart as witness, Crystallization of ego starts melting down.
• Identification with Body - Mind comes down, you realise your true nature is timeless,
spaceless, Turiyam Brahman.
• You are Sakshi of an old body, you are not old
• Body functions as per laws of Panchabutas and will merge in them, witness Sakshi is a
dimensionless Centre of Observation - a very powerful state
• When you look at yourself as Body - Mind, you have entirely lost sight of realty and
holding on to appearances. 89
233) Thought is Source of all pain and fear :
• We are Slaves of our Minds - Mind uses us.

We identify with

- The Body - The Mind

- Become the Body - Become the Mind
• Buddhi, Dancer is Projecting thought after thought, which is the Dance.
• Thought is Possible only when there is a Sakshi to bless the thought.
234) How Sakshi blesses thought?
By Lending

Satta Sphurti

Thoughts Existence is Known Thought Shines

I Sakshi

- Without Mind - With Mind

- Sakshi Veiled - Buddhi Projects 90
235) Sakshi Exists Always :
• Mind wakes up
• Awareness Reflects in the mind
• Knowledge - I am, takes Place = Reflected Consciousness
• Reflected Consciousness and Mind = Ahamkara
• Lend Awareness to Sense organs
• They wake up, world seen.
• Knowledge owes its existence to the Awareness in the Background of Mind which is
Sakshi.
Sakshi Always shining Nirantaram Basamane

Satta Sphurti
• Sense of Self, entity, Live life is Limited.
Ajnani Jnani
- Sense of self Dependent on the Mind - Sense of Self dependent on Sakshi in
- Egoic mind Runs life for us the background of the Mind

• Ego Stands as ego only on the Basis of identifications, Possessions, relationships.

• Remove all threads, no Bundle, have Vairagyam, Discard all identifications.
• Mind connected to Sakshi which is vast intelligence. 91
 Mind Sakshi
- Dancer - Light
- illuminates world
• Mind can dance only in the Presence of Sakshi.
• Stop taking Mind seriously.
Minds Dance Based on

Earlier Samskaras Orientations Habit

• There is no Gross body other than the Mind
• Body is an Abstraction of the Mind.
In Ignorance In Wisdom
- You are Body mind ego - I am witnessing Awareness
- World Centric Life - Yoga centric Life
- Bend inner to outer - Bend outer to inner
• Mind uses you and you become Slave to the mind
• There is appearance of movement in the mind
• In Vedantic Viveka, Sakshi alone remains
• Subject - Object appearance not real. 92
 • Reality = Light, that makes Mind and world appear
= Kutastha
• Anvil, only changeless object in the family
• You are the intense presence, Sakshi = being
• This witness is very tangible
• Identifying with mind makes life fickle and fleeting
• Being is timeless
• Time only w.r.t. thought
• Projections of mind comes in the background of a screen.
• See figure, thoughts in the background of screen only
• Thought is the womb of Time-space network, Chitta Akasha
• In witnessing Awareness, there is no time

Pot Pot thought Sakshi

Buta Akasha Chitta Akasha Chid akasha

• Experientially, Timeless is intrinsic with you.

236) Refuse all thoughts in the mind, Except one thought - I am

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237) Tormentor of your life is sitting in your mind as thoughts which falls groove of sadness
again and again :
• We have to win a battle against our own mind, the Self
• Just stay with one thought, I am Sakshi
• Real being not restless, when it reflects in the mind, it appears restless.
• Restlessness of mind superimposed on the real being.
Example :
• Reflection of moon in the water
• When water (Mind) Stirred, there is movement in water and dirt is brought out.
• When desires stir the mind, the dirt of Vasanas, Samskaras, come up and the
reflection of Atma in the Mind appears restless.
• Notion of agitations, pleasures, pain, sadness, stir the mind and makes Sakshi as
though Restless.
• Sakshi ever is untainted, uninfluenced, unconcerned, Utterly aloof like the moonlight.
• Asakti, attachment in the mind ,not real, not strong
• You take Shadow to be real
• Attachments to objects, beings outside, holds me, the Sakshi
• Power to the mind given by Sakshi
• Discern Sakshi from the unsteady mind.
• When gloomy, we are looking at our own self in the Mind mirror with thoughts of
Sadness. 94
 Mind Sakshi
- Minds Projection
- Vikshepa Shakti
Experiences
Sadness,
Thought of
internalizes
Missing
Sadness, as its
something in the
Svarupam
world
• World experienced only in the Surface of the Mind as ripples
• If mind is Quiet, you the Atma experience Quietitude.
• It is not Sakshi which Projects
• It is Minds projection and internalization
• I am Sakshi is the Only Concrete, Entity, Reality
238)

X 2X = Y Z = 2Y 2Z
Learn Reflect Implement Share
Visualization Association Practice, Implementation
• Spend 2 times more time on reflection than on Listening.
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239) :
Sleep Waking - Dream
- Ignorance is there - Agyanam and Branti Jnanam
- Agyanam is there (Adhyasa)
- No Samsara - Samsara is there
Example : Brihadaranyaka Upanishad : - Branti Jnanam Adhyasa alone cause
- Chapter 4 - Svayam Jyoti Bramanam of Samsara not Pure ignorance
- Sushupti Example for Moksha
- Satchit Ananda alone exists
• If you can sleep continuously, Vedanta not required.
• Have to come to Jagrat as per Prarabda, come to Vedanta to get Sleep like Moksha.
240) Naishkarmya Siddhi - Chapter 1 :
Introduction and Vichara Sagara - Chapter 6 : Cause of Samsara :
i) Moola Ajnanam (ignorance of Brahman)
ii) Branti Jnanam (False knowledge, Adhyasa)
iii) Raaga - Dvesha (Likes Dislikes)
iv) Pravritti - Nivritti
v) Punya - Papam
vi) Sharira Sambandha
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241) Keno Upanishad :

Indeed, he attains immortality, who intuits It in and through every modification of the mind.
Through the Atman he obtains real strength, and through Knowledge, immortality.
(Chapter 2 - Verse 4)
• Intuit Atma in every modification of the mind
• Through Atman he attains real strength
• Through knowledge attain immortality.
242) Atma va Idagum Sarvam means :
• Satta and Sphurti of body, Mind, world are derived from Atma
• I am not father really, Sakshi, only w.r.t. Sakshyam, being
• In the core of your being, you are Timeless, Spaceless
• Space - Time - Binds us only as body - Mind, not as Atma.

Atma w.r.t Imagined all

Sarvagatatvam Sarva Sakshitvam

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 Mind Divides

Antaha Bahihi

Inside Mouth, Brain, heart Outside Skin of Body

lungs

• Buddhi imagines Division in Space by habit.

Space

Buta Akasha Chitta Akasha Chid Akasha

- All living beings, things - World recognized in the - Exists in its own Space
live in Physical Space Mind in vritti form - Sakshi, Chaitanyam
- Memory

• Buta akasha and Chitta akasha have origin in Chid Akasha

• Ever shining substratum chid Akasha (Spaceless) Contains buta akasha and Chitta
akasha
• You are not in the world, world is in you, Chaitanyam, subtlest in creation.
• In sleep, world resolved into you Chid Akasha
• World has come from Chid Akasha 98
 • Next day morning it will come from you
• Chid akasha not another space, but it is spaceless Sakshi
• There is Nitya Srishti, Pralayam w.r.t. Chid akasha
• w.r.t. body, Mind - Born in India now in Singapore, all imagination in the mind, not
reality.
• I will go after death to some other place, imagination
• From its own standpoint, Atma is spaceless Advayam.
Taittriya Upanishad :

From that (Which is ) this Atman, is space born; from Akasa, air; from air, Fire; from fire, water;
from water, earth; from earth, herbs; from herbs, food; and from food, man. [2 - 1 - 2]
• Atma = father of Akasha
• Recognise world in my True self - Yoga, not imagination.
243) You are not experienced or the Experience :
• You are the Awareness in between the Experience and experiencer and Beyond the
two. 99
244) What we see is not real, the fact that you see alone is real
245) You can relate to Atma only as Sakshi in a Medium :
246) :
Mind

2 Powers

Perception Conceptualization

Draws inference from Data

• Atma is Source of Perception and conception
247) Taittriya Upanishad :

Whence all the speech turns back with the mind without reaching it (The eternal Truth, the
Brahman), He who knows the bliss of eternal truth, the Brahman, fears not at any time. This
mind is the embodied soul of the Pranamaya. Of this (Pranamaya) the Manomaya is the self.
[2 - 4 - 1]
• What you perceive and conceive is not Atman. 100
 • Atman is pure subject
• Ego is false subject
• Pure Subjectivity is Atman
• You are the eternal Atman
248) It is enough to know what you are not :
• As long as you think - Being and knowing are different, you will not know the truth.
• Being Sat, is the knowing chit
• Sat - Chit is one and the same
• You can’t know the Atma, you can only be the Atma
• Atma can’t be described except as total negation
• Positive knowledge is unreal
• When all the process of knowing with the mind comes to an end, what remains is
Atma
249) Understand paradoxes correctly : Gita :

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Others again offer wealth, austerity and yoga as sacrifice, while the ascetics of self-restraint
and rigid vows offer study of scriptures and knowledge as sacrifice. [Chapter 4 – Verse 28]
Gita :

Nor do beings exist (in reality) in Me, behold My divine Yoga supporting all beings, but not
dwelling in them, I am My Self, the efficient cause of all beings. [Chapter 9 – Verse 5]

All this world (universe) is pervaded by Me in My unmanifest form (aspect); all beings exist in
Me, but I do not dwell in them. [Chapter 9 – Verse 4]
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250) Chit and Chidabhasa self evident awareness :
• Chit and Chidabhasa mixture alone is available as Aham
• From mixture of Chid and Chidabhasa, I negate Chidabhasa component Waker I,
Dreamer I, Sleeper I, retain Turiyam I and Claim as my Svarupa for Moksha.
• When Adhyasa goes, Jeeva bhavana goes, misconception goes
251 :

Stages Who am I
I - Mind and Senses organs illumined by - Perception of Objects,
Consciousness feelings, thoughts, happens
- I am aware of Body - Mind
II - Senses closed only Physically thoughts - Dream
in memory Reflected
III - No light of Consciousness in senses - Dream
- Light only in the Active movement of - Chidabhasa
Mind
IV - Deep Sleep… Timeless - Spaceless - I do not know anything
ignorance
V - Ohm, I am Timeless, Satchit Ananda, - Pure Chit, Consciousness
Turiyam shines alone, Light of
Universe
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 Waker I Dreamer I Sleeper I Avabhasa = Adhyasa = Superimposition
o Body experience = ‘Space’
o Mind experience = ‘Time’
o Timeless, Spaceless
• Universe = Play, Trick of time Space, Birth, death, growth, all Adhyasa, Error, notions of
the Mind
• Satchit Ananda - Pure Sakshi - 3 Ego States of the Mind
Law of Karma Governs 3 Pairs :
o Virat - Vishwa
o Teijasa - Hiranyagarbha
o Pragnya - Antaryami
3 Pairs - 3 Realms of illumination :
• Physical world - Physical gross Body - By one Consciousness
• Subtle world - Subtle Mind
• Causal world - Causal Body
• Consciousness is one.. Bodies, Minds, objects, beings, appearances, Adhyasa, many,
gives Vision of Pluralistic world.
Mixture in 3 States :
• Chit and Chidabhasa.
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• Carefully extract chit finally in the waking state by Studying one’s experience of 3
states.
• Defferentiate Pure knowledge and knowledge of…
• Pure knowledge = Jnanam, Pure bliss = Limitless - No limitation of time (Now and
Then), Space (Here and there), Objects (This and that)
• Physical body - House born… an appearance in Pure Consciousness… Reflection of
Spiritual Light.
• Waker I = Reflection in the Mirror of Mind
Jivas Mind exists

Body born / Dies,

appearance, comes and Goes
in waking / Deep Sleep

• Srishti - Layam is daily event in light of Consciousness

• I am that pure immortal light.
• Body - Mortal
• Mind - Always invisible
- Expressions felt, Experienced in the body
• Light of consciousness ever exists.
105
 • Ego I - Chidabhasa - Realizes - Turns the direction of sense organs inward… Sees the
mind as its Origin… Objectless awareness.
• Realizes its nature is pure, immortal, pure Awareness, which is called Moksha,
Adhyasa nivritti
• Sukham of Atma always exists, Never changes, I have now the knowledge of it by
applying the words of the scriptures
Mandukya Upanishad :

It is not that which is conscious of the internal subjective world, nor that which is conscious of
the external world, nor that which is conscious of both, nor that which is a mass of
consciousness, nor that which is simple consciousness, nor is it unconsciousness: it is unseen
by any sense-organ, beyond empirical dealings, incomprehensible by the mind, uninferable,
unthinkable, indescribable, essentially by of the self alone, negation of all phenomena, the
peaceful, the auspicious and the non-dual. This is what is considered as the fourth (Turiya).
This is the Atman and this is to be realised. [Mantra 7] 106
 Pure Awareness Turiyam

Not Aware of external Not Aware of Internal Not Aware of

Universe Universe Undifferentiated Universe

Waking Dream Sleep

Shantam Shivam Advaitam

Original Chit can Appears → In the mind :
• Feelings
• Thoughts
• Memory Attributes of Mind
• Determination
• Ego

Thought Atma

Being beyond knowledge

Sound - In waking / Dream Silence of sleep
and ignorance
Knowledge Ignorance
Divine Being
Human being 107
 • Man governed by Likes and Dislikes Vasanas, tendencies = Animal…
Ayam Brahman
- Individual - Total
- Poornam Idam - Poornam Adaha
• Solidified, Grossified Mind will not be able to go deeper into Subtler Realms of
Consciousness.
• Hence best time to Understand and realise the Self is immediately after waking up or
in Meditation before Sunrise.
252)
Nyaya / Tarqa Vedanta
Moksha :
- Dukha Nivritti - Dukha Nivritti and Sukha Prapti
- Atma = Jadam - Atma = Ananda Svarupa
253)
Mind Divides

Upahitam, Substratum Upadhi - Adhyastham Nir-upadhika Adhyasa

- Rope - Snake
- Atma - Anatma
- Shell - Silver
- Vishayi - Vishaya
- Sun - Clouds
- Subject Object Adhyasa
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- Vishayi - Adhyasa, Vishaya
254) I am = Reflected consciousness in mind :
• I = Pratyag Atma = Brahman
• I am - Reflection of time in time, Acknowledging
• I - Exist without mind, timeless
• 1st Neti = Body - Annamaya kosha
• Last Neti = Anandamaya kosha
• When Mind not dividing or particularizing by habit It is simply I am - Reflected
consciousness, Natural state, not seer, hearer…
• Once vrittis gone, Reflected Consciousness has identification with the Modifications of
mind, vritti rupaha…
• Chidabhasa expresses as = Waker I, dreamer I, Sleeper I
= Knower I
= Basic mind and Consciousness = Jiva

Jiva = Chit Chidabhasa

Ultimately With 5 Koshas are expressions of Atma
255) Adhyasa Nivritti :
• Raaga Dvesha Nivritti
• Karma Nivritti
• Punya Papa Nivritti 109
 • Sharira Sambandha Nivritti
• Dukham eliminated by Atma Jnanam.
256)
Jnanam

Cognitive Knowledge Atma Jnanam

- Indriya Janya Sambandha - Svarupa Jnanam
- Anubhava Vritti Jnanam - Timeless
- In time - Nityam
- Anityam, worldly Pleasures
- Dukham when Sukham goes
away
257)
Pratyaksham

Pramata Sakshi

- Indriya - Sukham, Dukham vritti in the

- I - Includes Mind Mind
- Mind - Upadhi - I Excludes Mind
- Mind Viseshanam
- Mind is Sakshi Basyam 110
 Pratyaksham

Pramata Sakshi

- Mind and Chidabhasa - Mind is intimate object not

integral part of ourself
- it is Instrument not Subject

• Mind is known when I Sakshi Chaitanyam give Chid Abhasa to the Mind
• Original Consciousness enclosed within the Mind becomes Subject for the External
world of Objects (Pramata)
• Mind Plays Dual Role of Instrument and Object for Sakshi
• Sakshi reveals the mind with the Mind.

2 Parallel Vrittis in the Mind

Vishaya Rupa Manaha Karana, Pramana Rupa Manaha

• Pleasure, Pain illumined by Sakshi different than Vishaya vrittis.
• Pure Consciousness can’t reveal anything by itself without the Mind
• Without Mind, no Objects, no Sakshi
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 In the Presence of Mind

Sakshi Revealed Objects Revealed

- Through Sukha / Dukha vrittis - Mind is clearly an Instrument

- Sakshi is Pramata when Mind is
Object Cum Instrument

One Consciousness called

Sakshi Pramata / Subject

- Mind = Instrument and Object - Mind is Object and Instrument

- Exclude mind in I - Include mind in Subject I
- Mind not Subject

• Anything illumined by Sakshi will require the Relevant Vritti

• Brahman can be known only in the form of Sakshi
• In dream, I Sakshi reveal the Mind with the help of Mind.

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 Sakshi Uses

Sukshma Sharira vritti Karana Shariram Avidya Vritti

- Dream and waking - Sleep

- With Sense organs - Without sense organs

3 Types of Pratyaksham

Indriya Pratyaksham Shabda Pratyaksham Sakshi Pratyaksham

- See book - Requires literacy and - Karana Sharira Avidya

- Vritti generated by eyes Ears Vritti
- Vyavaharika Satyam - Words generate Vritti - Antahkaranam Sukshma
- You are 10th Man Vrittis
- Emotions
- Pratibhasika Satyam
• Karana Shariram = Avidya, Nir-vikalpa Rupa = without Sense organs.
258) :
Adhishtanam (For Adhyasa) Adharam
- 3 States in Brahman - Earth for Chair
- Atma = Locus of Error - No Adhyasa
- Locus for Sitting 113
259) You can never know the Truth, you can only be the truth :
• When you Split yourself into you and the world, you Stop being the Reality.
• You take Division to be Real and happiness ends
• Non-dual Awareness is essential content of a Person - Pure I - Sakshi I
• When world enters the Mind, Split happens in the Mind as Ego I, you take that to be
Real and Suffer.
• Throughout waking State, Mind Splits into Subject - Object - interactions - Duality -
Giving the Picture of unreality on the Screen of Consciousness, Awareness.
• Train Mind to remain as Non-dual Awareness.
Awareness Subject - Object - wakers World
Does not Bind Binds
• Advayatvam is the Only Source of happiness
• Achieve it through Viveka and Vairagyam

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260) How knowledge arises in the Mind? End Portion of Vichara Sagara - Chapter 4 :

Sakshi Pratyaksha Vrittis Generated by

Sukshma Shariram Karana Shariram

- Vidya Vritti - Avidya vritti

- Emotions - Rope snake
- Vyavaharika Satyam - Pratibhasika Satyam
- No Adhyasa - Shell Silver
- Rope - Adhyasa
- Indriya (Sense organs) - Artha Adhyasa revealed through
Pratyaksham Jnana Adhyasa
- No Adhyasa - Anirvachaniya
• Sakshi can’t illumine emotions or the world Directly
• It Just is, Existence.

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 3 Levels

Vyavaharikam Pratibhasikam Paramartikam

Indriya / Words Sakshi Pratyaksham Karana Sharira

- No Vritti
Pratyaksham
- No Mind
- Emotions - Sukshma Sharira - It alone is
- Objects
- Eyes open and - Sukshma Sharira - Dream
turn towards wall vritti
- Mind behind - No Sense organs
eyes or words
involved
- Jnana Vritti
- Avidya

Sakshi Pratyaksham

Generated by Generated by Karana Shariram

- Sukshma Shariram - Rope Snake

- Vyavaharika Vishaya
- Emotions 116
 Knowledge

Pratyaksha Jnanam Paroksha Jnanam

Indriya Pratyaksham Shabda Pratyaksham Sakshi Pratyaksham

- Knowing generated by - Knowing generated by - Not by Indriya or Shabda

sense organs words
- 10th Man
Aham Brahma Asmi :
• Upanishad Vakya - Janya Jnanam
• Shabda Aparoksha Jnanam
• No Satta Bheda - Don’t ask Vyavaharikam or Pratibhasikam
• Paroksha or Pratyaksham not used in Aham Brahma Asmi Jnanam
• Without Mahavakya Vichara, Aham Brahma Asmi can never be generated
• It is Shabda Pratyaksham - Pratyaksha Jnanam
• Whenever knowing thought and knowing object have direct contact, it is Pratyaksha
Jnanam.
• When such a contact is missing, it is Paroksha Jnanam
• There is eternal, independent Sakshi, observer, Mahavakya reveals that. 117
 • Vritti Vishaya Sambandha is there, hence it is Pratyaksha Jnanam, Akhanda kara vritti
Jnanam
• Brahman evident in every experience
• Aham Brahma Asmi vritti removes the Avaranam, Vritti vyapti takes place
• Brahman called Nir-avarnam Brahman
• Brahman shines all the time
• Svataha shines, not Phala Vyapti
• Nir-avarnam through Vyapti Avarna Nivritti
• When vritti vyapti takes place, Brahman already evident as Sakshi.
• Akhandakara - No Khandam, division between Jivatma and Paramatma
• Technical name to understand I am Brahman.
261) Vichara Sagara - Topic 254 :

• Dukham = Mithya
• 5 Khyatis - Error
For Senior Students :
• My own Avidya projects world.
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 Avidya Shakti Projects

Dream Waking

Anatma Agyanam Atma Agyanam

• I can confront the Mithya world, I am Satyam
• I alone exists, I alone as Brahman can be known
• I am Chaitanyam principle, knowing Principle, world is Jadam
• Without ignorance, Maya, Shakti, Creator can’t come into Existence
• Maya Dependent on Consciousness.
• In Brahman - No Division of Jiva, Jagrat, Ishvara, eternally existing.
• In Shuddha Chaitanyam, waking Chaitanyam is not there

Maya - Karanam

Jiva Ishvara

Rajo Pradhana Sattva Pradhana

• Maya is Superimposed on Brahman.
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 4 Goals

Dharma, Artha, Kama Moksha

- Anityam - Nityam
- Unreal - Real
- Incidental - Svarupam
- Perishable - Immortal
• World has no Origination, only an Appearance like Dream.
Example :

Maya Rope-snake
- Superimposed on Brahman - Superimposed on Rope
- Only one
- Negated by Jnanam of
Brahman
- Mithya, appearance

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262) Vichara Sagara - Topic 255 :

I Chaitanyam - Brahman

Project through Vikshepa Shakti called Maya

Jagrat Avastha Svapna Avastha

- Body - Mind of waker - Body - Mind of Dreamer

- Vishwa - Virat - Jagrat - Teijasa - Hiranyagarbha
- Projecting Power called Maya - Projecting power called Avidya 121
 • Jiva’s Vikshepa shakti experienced during Jagrat - When he projects different inner
worlds of worldly events, Situations, memories
• Drop body - Mind into Jagat
• Waker not affected by dream projection
• I - Brahman not affected by waking world projection = Drishti Srishti Vada
• I am free, no event in Jagrat Swapna can touch me
• No separate creator Ishvara for senior students
• I am Consciousness, Adhishtanam, I project Jagrat and Swapna Prapancha
• This is meaning of ”I am Turiyam“
• For Junior Student, indirect method through Ishvara - Vasanas, Law of Karma, I
Project Svapna, Ishvara projects Jagrat.

Sr Student - 4th Chapter - Vichara Sagara Jr. Student - 5th Chapter - Vichara Sagara
- Binary format - No Ishvara - Jiva has Vikshepa and Avarna Shakti
- Paramartika Vyavaharika, Pratibhasika - Triangle format
- I am Creator, projector, Sustainer, Dissolver of Gita - Chapter 15 :
Universe - Verse 16, 17, 18
Kaivalyo Upanishad : - Karma yoga, Upasana Yoga, Bhakti yoga
- Mei Eva (Verse 19) - Dvaitam
- Advaitam
- Subtlest of all, Self, truth
- Appearance, no creation, hence Advaitam, understand
Khyati error clearly 122
Kaivalyo Upanishad :

In me alone everything is born ; in me alone does everything exist and in me alone gets
everything dissolved. I am That non-dual Brahman. [Verse 19]
Gita :

Two Purusas are there in this world, the perishable and the imperishable. All beings are the
perishable and the Kutastha is called the imperishable. [Chapter 15 - Verse 16]

123
But, distinct is the supreme Purusa called the highest self, the indestructible lord, who,
pervading the three worlds (Waking, dream and deep sleep), sustains them.
[Chapter 15 - Verse 17]

As I transcend the perishable and I am even higher than the imperishable, I am declared as the
Purusottama (The highest Purusa), in the world and in the Vedas. [Chapter 15 - Verse 18]
263) Panchadasi - 10th Chapter - Tatvavidhananda :
• I am witness of the body mind, entire Samsara loses its significance
• Consciousness, seer of mind alone is Paramartika Satyam
• Mind drops world and remains as Sakshi in sleep
• Connect the silence between 2 Ohms to the peace experienced in sleep state
• Realise Atma, the awareness beyond the sleep state
• Learn to be with your real self
• Rajasic nature of the mind, makes living in the present, now, almost impossible
• You are not Jiva or Jagat, but one who witnesses the Jeeva - Jagat all the time. 124
• 3 States of mind possible only if there is Atma’s light illumining the world.
• Be the light illumining the body mind
• Withdraw awareness, identification with Body - Mind
• Sakshi recognizes mistakes of ego
• You are the knower behind the Thinker
• Touch the intelligence Behind every thought
• As Sakshi, listen to the noise of ego inside
• Be the living Presence for the thought, “I am”
• Sakshi illumines Presence, and Absence of Body - Mind - World like the light illumines
the Stage with the Dancer (Buddhi) and without the Dancer (As in Sushupti)
I Sakshi illumine

Everything in Jagrat, Svapna Nothing in Sushupti

• No Doership, enjoyership Status for Sakshi Chaitanyam
• Establish your Self as the witness and it will free you from all wrong notions.
• Develop Distance with Desires in Mind
• Man is what his ideas are
• Sakshi is the Reflection of the reality, Chid - Abhasa in the Buddhi
• Witnessing Awareness is the window of the truth. 125
 • Ahamkara ego is the one who identifies with the Body
• Without identification with Body, as in Sleep, there is no Ahamkara, one abides in
Sakshi.
• There is body only when you are Conscious of the Body
• There is no body unless you look at it as Body.
Pravilapanam :
• Prithvi - Apaha
• Apaha - Agni
• Agni - Vayu
• Vayu - Akasha
• Akasha - Atma
• Remain as Sakshi, be free from Ego

When

Self Conscious Not self Conscious

- Father, boss, Son - Sakshi

- In Time - Timeless
- Dimensionless
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 Sakshi

Jnaptihi Kutastha Bhasa Mana

- Spaceless being - Changeless - Illumination

- Mind like Dancer on
Stage
• False ego is basis for identification with skills, possessions, relationships.
• Identify with Sakshi and become master of your mind
• Mind becomes pure
• Sakshi - Sakshyam is unreal, appearance
• You are intense presence Turiya Chaitanyam, changeless
• Sakshi
• The only being, Presence, truth
• More tangible than body - Mind
• Identifying with the mind Makes life fickle, fleeting
• Stay back as the intense presence, timeless being
• There is no time in the being
• You are timeless Centre of observation.
• When I am not aware of the presence, the being, I am at the mercy of the body, Mind,
world. 127
 • Discover Kutastha anvil - Sakshi
• Consistently watch the Mind like a thief
• Sakshi is detached, Personless awareness
• I am not in the world
• The world is in me, the Chaitanyam, pure awareness
• I am the source of all illumination within and without
• Objects not real, don't have likes and dislikes
Truth of life:
• Things happen in life, not to me Atma, Sakshi
• What happens in the stage does not affect the lamp
Srishti

Ishvara Jiva

- No Problem - Problem
- Desire, Greed, jealousy,
Anger, Aversion
• Tormenter of your life is Sitting in your own Mind
• Persist with I am thought, not I am Body, Mind…
• Discerning between, Sakshi and Mind is the bread and Butter of Vedanta Shastra. 128
 Atma Anatma Mind, body world
Naturally, unattached Naturally Attached
• Learn to ignore mind when if plays tantrums, strong, likes and dislikes
• Watch events as they unfold in life and go away
• Raaga - Dvesha is failure of acceptance of events as real
• Acceptance is my true nature
• Refuting, fighting is unnatural behavior
• Daily in sleep, I effortlessly drop identification with the body and mind and remain as
Sakshi.
• Buddhi does projection and internalization
• Mind should understand that consciousness its source is alone real.
• Mind should respect Sakshi
• Cognize Sakshi in every thought.
• Sakshi is origin of Space
• Atma is Source of Mind, therefore Time and Space are in me.
• Understand Space time are is you and not you in Space time.
• As Body, I am in Space, as Mind I am in time
• I am not born and will not Die.
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Gita :

He is not born, nor does He ever die; after having been, He again ceases not to be; unborn,
eternal, changeless and ancient, He is not killed when the body is killed. [Chapter 2 – Verse 20]
• I am source of Space - Time Causation
• No death for me, Sakshi “I am”, transcends Space - Time
• In London, in Singapore, “I am” here
• At all times I feel “I am now here”
• There is Division in illumined Objects, Bodies, things, Minds, not in the illuminator
Spiritual light of Awareness.
• Once you have the Inner Oneness of the being, you can Abandon the illusion of the
individuality, the person behind the body.
• As Sakshi I have no location
• As Atma you are the origin of the Universe.
130
• Sakshi w.r.t Sakshyam, ego I, without Sakshyam, it is absolute, called Awareness,
Chaitanyam, Turiyam.
• Shruti negates the Reality of the world, not its experience.
• Brahma Chaitanyam, I am projector, experiencer, Supporter, Discover of the Universe.
• I exist beyond the Universe, negation means existence of the world is Borrowed.
o Brahman exists eternally
o World = Appears on it
o World is mysterious experience, Anirvachaniya, Mithya, Borrowing existence
from Brahman
• Mukti is instantaneous for me
• Drishti - Srishti Vada, no world other than I the Observer, Chaitanyam, Atma
• Bodies, Minds, senses different but life in them is same, Universal.
• Sakshi, witness awareness is the same in all Bodies (Kshetrajna)
• Abide as Pure being, Space - Time, Causation Divisions will be absent in that
• This is freedom premised by the Scriptures
• When thought arrives, then Category of time Space Arrives.

3 Things appear and Disappear

Body World Ego in the Mind 131

 • Satta - Sphurti of body, Mind, world derived from Atma
• Buta Akasha, Chitta Akasha exists in Sakshi Akasha - Chid akasha
• You are not in the world
• World is in you, Chidabhasa
• In sleep, world resolved in Chid - Akasha
• In the first place, world has come from you Chit Akasha
• Nithya Srishti, Pralayam cycle
• Mind is movement in awareness
• World is big appearance on the screen of Brahma Chaitanyam
• You are not the experienced or experiencer
• You are the awareness beyond the Two
264) Sarvavyapakatvam :
Vedanta :
• Sajatiya, Vijatiya, Svagata Bheda Rahitam, Sarvavyapakatvam, Alpatvam = Finite
Nyaya :
• What has connection with every Body, Object in creation is all Pervading
265) Traditional View :
• Agyanam Avidya ignorance of Atma is cause of Superimposition of Anatma - Body /
Mind / Intelligent - Universe on Atma. 132
 Study Do enquiry
Atma thoroughly from the Upanishad Of Anatmas Superimposition in Mananam,
Nididhyasanam
Claim - Moksha :
• Ignorance of Rope as cause of Superimposition of Rope Snake
• Throw light on Rope, Understand Rope, error goes - I am free
• Anatma = Avidya = ignorance, Atma = Vidya = Substratum
• Explain - All experiences by law of Karma.
266) Panchadasi :

The light in the dancing hall uniformly reveals the Patron, the Audience and the dancer. Even
when they are absent, the light continues to Shine. [Chapter 10 - Verse 11]

Atma / Light

illumines

Knowledge Ignorance

- Waking, Dream (Dancing Buddhi) - Sushupti - Stage Empty 133

 Sakshi illumines
Simultaneously, uniformly

Triputi Absence of Triputi

267)
Mahat

Ahamkara - Desire - I waking

Sattva Guna Rajo Guna and 5 Prana Tamas Guna

Created

- Mind created - Enjoy Body - Passive State

- Devatas Presiding - Be away from god
Srishti :
• Due to desire to be away from God
• Forgot, we were so happy.

Adhyatmic Jeeva Sorrows of life

- Grows inside into Atma - Comes out
- Bhautik Jeeva 134
Gita :

When a man thinks of objects, attachment for them arises; from attachment desire is born;
from desire arises anger… [Chapter 2 – Verse 62]

Desires

Not Fulfilled Fulfilled

- Krodha / Sad - Bavanas have frequency

- Smruti Gone - Hold to them
Intelligence gone : - Ichha and Bavana have
- Adhyatmik connections
- Bautik

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Gita :

Whosoever at the end, leaves the body, thinking of any being, to that being only he goes, O
Kaunteya, because of his constant thought of that being. [Chapter 8 – Verse 6]
• Release desire and Bavanas and get Mukti
268) Lecture 10 - Adhyasa Bhashyam :
• Do 100% Viveka of Atma Definition w.r.t 3 States
• Not 5% Study Vayu, Matsya, Shiva, Vishnu, Bhagawad
• Vayu Puranam definition of Atma.
i) Yad Apnoti :
• That which pervades all Mithya Vishayas
• Vyapnoti Pervades, applies to waking State
• Being and knowingness, Satta, Sphurti
• As Satta, Sphurti, Atma pervades Body, Mind, Sense organs, world. 136
 • All exist, all shine - isness and Shiningness (Knowness) - Does not belong to Anatma
but to Atma.
• If Atma Does not pervade, you can’t have experience of Body - Mind isness, Body -
Mind shines.
• Atma pervades entire Jagrat.
Isavasya Upanishad :

All this, whatsoever moves in this universe, including the universe, itself moving, is indwelt or
pervaded or enveloped or clothed by the Lord. That renounced, thou shouldst enjoy. Covet not
anybody’s wealth. [Verse 1]
• Without Atma pervading, no pot, no world, world is Jadam.
Vastu Avastu
- Atma - Pot, Body, Mind, Jagat
- Pure I - I and Objects

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Dakshinamurthy Stotram :

(Salutations to Sri Dakshinamurthy Who Awakens the Glory of the Atman within us through His
Profound Silence) By This Throb Alone which is of the Nature of Eternal Underlying Awareness,
the Unreal Forms get their Meanings and Appear over the Mind, This Knowledge of the Atman
Spoken of in the Vedas as "Tat-Tvam-Asi" is Imparted by Our Inner Guru as a Direct Experience
when we Surrender Whole-Heartedly to Him, By Direct Experience of this Knowledge, the
Delusion of being tossed within an unending Ocean of Worldly Existence will Not Appear
Again, Salutations to Him, the Personification of Our Inner Guru Who Awakens This Knowledge
through His Profound Silence; Salutation to Sri Dakshinamurthy. [Verse 3]
• Kalpa = Similar, appears, no existence
• World appears to be, appears to shine
• World comes from Atma, goes back into Atma (Gam)
• In waking State you sense isness of Atma, Apnoti iti Atma.

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ii) Yat Adatte iti Atma :
• Mind receives and Projects
• Atma projects thoughts in the Mind
• Samskaras pervaded by isness and Knowingness of Atma
• Refers to dream State
• At end of Svapna, dream withdrawn into Turiya Atma
iii) Atti iti Atma :
• Bhakshati Devours in waking and Sushupti if you abide as Sakshi, it devours everything
itself and just Stays.
• Ata Santato Bavaha… Pervades all 3 States
• Experiences of Senses and Mind are pervaded by Atma
• Mind alone without senses = Dream pervaded by Atma
• Absence of all experiences in Sushupti is also an experience, it is, it is known.
• Sushupti is pervaded by Sakshi Chaitanyam
• All 3 States pervaded by Sakshi = Immanent.
iv) Yatcha Santato :
• Bavaha : Experience = Mithya
• Atma transcends world = Transcendental.
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 • Do Viveka of Atma from all attributes of Jagrat Avastha, Svapna Avastha and Sushupti
Avastha.
• Then you get to Pure Atma.
Every experience has

Guna Dosha
• Unless opposites exist, contrast, knowledge not possible
o Dharma - Adharma
o Hot - Cold
o Birth - Death
o Jagrat - Sushupti
Law :
• All experiences only possible by contrast
• If all one colour, one sound, No colour, no sound experienced
• Different colours, decibels = Experience
• All perceptions, conceptions by contrast, Guna, dosha
• Do Viveka of nothingness as Dosha
• Attributes of Anatma Does not affect Atma
• As Atma I alone Am, Non-dual Advaita Atma 140
269) Understand maya in real life :
• In a dream, full of problems, when you wake up, what happens? Lessons learnt.
a) Cause of dream problems :
• ignorance of waker I
b) My own mind’s Projection
c) Shake off all problems in a Jiffy, once you wake up to the reality of waker
d) We say dream is unreal
e) In what light - Did I see the dream - Light of consciousness - My true self
Waking World :
a) Cause :
• Ignorance of Pure Consciousness
b) Ishvaras minds projection for every Jiva to Realise his true Nature
c) Shake off all waking problems in a Jiffy by realizing mind is Maya Karya - Effect of Maya
d) We will say waking is unreal
e) In what light did I see my waking?
• Light of Turiyam I
• Waking world has Novelty, usefulness, appears solid, but it is all Nature of Mayas
creation.
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270)
I Sakshi Mind
- Pure Being - Like a wave gets a vritti form
- Timeless, exists, awareness when consciousness reflects
on it
- Mind wakes up Due to
Prarabda
- Vritti formation, wave
formation
- Due to law of Karma
• Reflection of Sakshi forms according to law of - Prakriti - Purusha
• Mind and Chidabhasa = Jiva
• Jiva drops mind, understands his original nature of Sakshi, and realizes it is Nitya
Mukta status
• Brahman is Jagat Karanam - Tatastha Lakshana
• Swaroopa Lakshana = Sat chit Ananda.
Vichara Sagara – Topic No. 358 :

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271) Vyapakatvam - Advaita Definition :
• Sajatiya, Vijatiya, Svagata Bheda Rahitatvam = Vyapakatvam
• Only Non-dual entity can be all pervasive
272) Nyaya Definition - All pervasiveness :
• Sarva Alpa Samyogatvam, Vyapakatvam
• That which is endowed with contact of every object in creation is an all pervading
entity.
4 All Pervading

Atma Desha (Dik) Kala Akasha

Sat Asat Mithya

- Exists in Past, Present, - Does not exist in 3 Periods of - Appears with
Future time Borrowed existence
- Satchit Ananda Brahman - Can’t become Sat, or Mithya - Doesn’t come under
- Can’t become Asat or Sat or Asat category
Mithya - Waking, dream sleep
- Remains unchanged
• Existence in Maya is borrowed from me Chaitanyam
• Maya, world is Sat or Asat Vilakshanam.
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 • Chaitanyam alone comes in existent category
• No 2nd thing having existence of its own.

Maya / World

Before Jnanam After Jnanam

- Has existence of its own - Has no existence of its own

- Appears self existent - Waking projected with Material
- Dream projected with Material Cause of ignorance of Brahman
cause of ignorance of waker

• To experience Maya, Karana Prapancha, Mind not required

• Blankness in Sleep is everything in Potential condition = maya
• Sushupti is Agyana Anubhava, self ignorance is there
• Maya in the form of self ignorance is experienced in all 3 Avasthas
• Maya is appearing Principle, not Asat
• After Jnanam only Sat taken away from Maya, not appearance.
Therefore, self ignorance is Mithya :
• Brahman not cause of creation - it is Karya - Karana Vilakshana
• Mithya always exists by Borrowing existence.
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 Rope Snake appears Moonlight Appears
Borrows existence from Rope Borrows existence from Sun

• Mithya has experimentality, utility, transactability (ETU)

• Maya Definition = Atma agyanam
= Moola avidya
• Maya Karyam = whole universe
Vichara Sagara : Topic No. 255 :

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Vichara Sagara : Topic No. 256 :

274) What is Pramanam to say I exist in Sleep?

• Artha Patti = Re-collection
• I Re-collect, Agyana Anubhava, I did not experience anything, on waking up
• Witness of Non-knowledge, ignorance exists in Sleep.
Panchadasi :

A person awaking from deep sleep consciously remembers his lack of perception during that
state. Remembrance consists of objects experienced earlier. It is therefore clear that even in
deep sleep “Want of knowledge” is perceived. [Chapter 1 – Verse 5]
• Want of knowledge perceived even in Sleep
• Desire to know.
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 In Sleep

No World I Atma alone exist

- World in unmanifest condition - Only Atma Ajnanam Natu Anatma

- Anatma Abhava Ajnanam in Sleep
• Atma alone exists in 3 periods without Triputi
• Mithya 3 Avasthas Appearances come and go
• Maya, not there after Jnanam, no Triputi
• Atma Ajnanam also is Mithya
Sushupti :
• Atma Ajnana Rupaha Maya Asti
• Maya ignorance does not come under experienceable category
• Creation is Product of Agyanam, inert Maya, Material cause of Universe
• Parinami Upadana Karanam of Universe.

Brahman Maya
- Satyam - Sad - Asad Vilakshanam
- Reflection in Mirror
• We are born from Sleep condition in womb to waking world of Maya. 147
 • No Asad in Vedanta, hence Advaitam
• World is product of sat - Asad Vilakshana Maya, Anirvachaniyam, Seemingly existent.
• Anitya Mithya can’t be counted along with Satyam
• All have ETU only way to negate sorrow, is to Convert the whole world to Mithya
Prapancha, uncountable like Dream.
• Maya not Bhava, Abhava Rupam, Anirvachaniyam
• Maya is located (Ashraya) in Atma.

Rope ignorance

Rope Conditioned ignorance Rope Conditioned Sakshi Agyanam

I Consciousness, Awareness alone

Create Jagrat by Maya Shakti Create Svapna by Nidra Shakti

This is Drishti - Srishti - Vada :
• After creation I enter the Prapancha
• While experiencing, I look at both Prapancha’s as outside me
• But actually world is inside me, awareness
• Cause of division is located in undivided Brahman. 148
 • Maya being located in Brahman, it covers, conceals, Shuddha Brahman
• Brahman is object of ignorance
• No Srishti Vedanta, explain word with Anirvachaniya Khyati
Example :
• Rope Snake, Svapna, shell silver
• Ajati Vada known - Non-origination of world.
275) Dream Analysis :
i) Dreamer ignorant of the fact that the Dream world is unreal (Including his thoughts)
ii) Ignorant that the waker has projected the unreal dream world
iii) Ignorant of the fact that the dreamer himself is the waker
• Dreamer is Technically in Agyana Avastha.
2 Status of dream world

Unreal Appears Real

- After waking-up - Ajnana Avastha

- Jnana Avastha - Even though it is Mistake it is
taken as Real
• Dream world has experiencability, transactability, utility
• Have Sraddha in Veda. 149
 3 Facts of ignorance

World is unreal Super waker Aham - which I am the Super waker

has projected this world
Brahman
Gita - Chapter 5 :

The Lord takes neither the demerit nor even the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by
ignorance, thereby beings are deluded. [Chapter 5 – Verse 15]
Uddhava Gita : Chapter 8 : Hamsa Gita :
• All waking beings are in Dream
• All in Ajnana Avastha
• For 3 Purusharthas can remain in Ajnana State
• For Moksha, wake-up to Jnana Avastha. 150
Vichara Sagara - Topic 108 :

Katho Upanishad :

Arise, awake ; having reached the great (teachers) learn (realize that Atman). Like the sharp
edge of a razor is that path, difficult to cross and hard to tread – thus say the wise. [1 - 3 - 14]
• Title for Dream world and Waking world = Mithya.

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 See

Sa Dharmyam Vaishamyam

- Both Mithya i) Dreamer wakes up without doing

- In Agyana Avastha, both trouble us anything :
- Happens in Time
- Natural Switch from Ajnana to Jnana
Avastha as Per Prarabda
ii) Waking :
- Karma Perpetuates
- Maha effort required

Major differences :
Dream world Waking world
i) can’t go back to same world : i) Come back to same world after spiritual
- Prarabda Karma brings one out of Awakening :
dream - Require effort
ii) Spiritual awakening requires change of ii) In waking State itself, can know higher State :
state : - Self knowledge requires active, functioning
- Avastha parinama required mind, possible only in waking State
• Poornima = full moon.
152
Conclusion :
i) Brahma Satyam Jagan Mithya :
• Brahman : Alone is the ultimate reality
• Jagat : Mithya - unreal
• Jiva : Individual is factually none other than Brahman
ii)
Darshtanta Drishtanta
Original Topic Example
iii)
Similarities Dissimilarities
- Focus on them with - ignore them
Sraddha - Vaidharmyam
- Sadharmyam
iv) Mundak Upanishad :

As the spider projects and withdraws (unto itself) the web, as the herbs and plants sprout out
from the earth, as hairs grow on the head and body of man, so from the Imperishable Being
comes out the universe. [I – I – 7] 153
 • Bhagawan = Spider
Similarity :
• Spider weaves its Silken thread by taking raw material out of itself without Depending
on outside raw Material
• It can Swallow the web when it comes down from the Ceiling.
Spider / Bhagawan

- Material Cause of web / World - Intelligent cause of web / World

- Upadana Karanam - Intelligent Cause

Dissimilarity : Vaidharmyam :

Spider Bhagawan Durga Devi

8 Legs 2 Legs 8 Hands
v) Features of a Dream :
a) Dream is unreal, disappears to Nothing
b)
Dream

Unreal on waking up when waker is Real in Dream, when waker absent

Present 154
c)
Dreamer ignorant of 3 Facts

Dream world is unreal Waker has projected the Dreamer himself is the
unreal dream world waker

d)
Dream world has 2 Statuses

Ajnana Avastha Jnana Avastha

- Ignorant of 3 facts - Jnana Avasthayam Asatyena

- Ajnana Avasthayam Satvena Baddhi Avagamyate
- During dream appears Real - Dream understood as unreal
- Compatible with his ignorance
e)
Dream world has ETU

Experiencability Transactability utility

• Therefore Real.
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vi)
Waker has

Ajnana Avastha Jnana Avastha

3 Facts of waking - I am
ignorant

- Ignorant of super waker - I am ignorant - I am the Super waker

Brahman - It can be discovered if I
- Projected unreal waking choose to wake-up
world
vii)
Waking up to Super Waker means going

From Ajnana Avastha of waker To Jnana Avastha of waker

a) Mundak Upanishad :

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Ignorant beings existing (gloating) in the midst of ignorance, but fancying themselves to be
wise and learned, go round and round oppressed and miserable, as blind people when led by
the blind. [I – II – 8]

Engrossed in the many ways of the ignorant, these people childishly think that they have
gained the ends (goal) of life. But being subject to passions and attachment, they never attain
knowledge, and, therefore, they fall down wretched, when the fruits of their good deeds are
exhausted. [I – II – 9]
• We are steeped in ignorance.
b) Gita :

The Lord takes neither the demerit nor even the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by
ignorance, thereby beings are deluded. [Chapter 5 – Verse 15]
157
c) Uddhava Gita :

Till a man’s notion of multiplicity is put a stop to by reasoning, he is as good as asleep even
though awake for he is ignorant as one fancies oneself awake in dream.[Chapter 8 - Verse 30]
• 3 Pramanams to prove wakers are in a dream State.

Waking State

Dreamer Waker
• Both in Ajnana Avastha
• Dreamer will never Accept he is in dream, Steeped in ignorance of Waker Status.
• Waker will never accept he is in Dream, Steeped in ignorance
• We Say real because of ETU
viii) To gain Moksha, we have to wake-up to Jnana Avastha, Turiyam :
Ajnana Avastha Jnana Avastha
- 3 Goals - One Goal
- Dharma, Artha, Kama - Moksha
- wake-up 158
Vivekchudamani :
• Verse 49 to 108… Ajnana Yogat Paramanastha…
• To have Moksha, must wake-up
Katho Upanishad :

Arise, awake ; having reached the great (teachers) learn (realize that Atman). Like the sharp
edge of a razor is that path, difficult to cross and hard to tread – thus say the wise. [1 - 3 - 14]
Guru :
• Has woken up by Disciplining sense organs and Mind.
Mundak Upanishad :

Let a brahmana (an aspirant), after he has examined the worlds gained by Karma, acquire freedom
from all desires, reflecting that nothing that is eternal can be gained by Karma. Let him, in order to
obtain the knowledge of the eternal, take sacrificial fuel (Samit) in his hands and approach that
preceptor alone who is well-versed in the Veda-s and is established in Brahman. [I – II – 12]
• Wake-up from Ajnana Avastha to Jnana Avastha. 159
ix)
Realize

Waking world has 2 fold Status

Jnana Avastha Ajnana Avastha

- Satvena Avagamyate - Satvena Bhadhi

- During knowledge world is - During ignorance, world
understood as unreal appears real
- World is Mithya - World is Satyam
Sadharmyam :
• Because of Mithyatvam, dream and waking are Similar
x) Dissimilarities between dream and waking :
• Vaidharmyam

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a)
Dreamer Waker
a) Wakes up without special Sadhana : a) Wakes up after Sadhanas :
- Prarabda karma sends person to - Karma Perpetuates, long effort required
dream, waking and bring, them out to wake-up
also - Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Upasana Yoga
Kaivalyo Upanishad : - Sravanam / Mananam / Nididhyasanam
- Punashcha Janmantara Karmayogath
Sa Eva Jiva Svapithi Prabhudaha
- Karma wakes-up
- Ajnana Avastha to Jnana Avastha
natural
- State of ignorance to knowledge
automatic
b) Unreal dream world disappears on b) Unreal waking world does not disappear
coming to Jnana Avastha : in Jnana Avastha :
- World solidly available in Jnana Avastha
- This is Advantage because, only then
Jnanis are able to Teach Ajnanis
- Otherwise whoever teaches will be
Ajnani
- Waking to Jagrat is a blessing after
Spiritual Awakening
- Jivan Mukta is a blessing 161
 Dreamer Waker
Chandogyo Upanishad :
- Brahma Va Idam Agre Asit,
tadatmanam Ahama Brahma Asmiti
- Waker does not require a different
State to know I am the seer
Kaivalyo Upanishad :

Again due to its connection with the deeds done in its previous births, that very same individuality (Jiva)
comes back to the dream or the waking-state. The being, who sports thus in three cities – from whom
verily have sprung up all diversities, He is the substratum, the indivisible Bliss-Consciousness and in Him
alone the three “Cities” go into dissolution. [Verse 14]
Katho Upanishad :

This Atman hidden in all beings reveals (itself) not (to all), but is seen (only) by Seers of the
subtle through sharp and subtle intellect. [1 - 3 - 12] 162
xi) Purnima full moon is given a lot of important in Vedanta :
Experientially Fact
- See Moon waking in Shukla Paksha - Moon is full throughout
(fortnight) - Waking, waning only an appearance
- Pratyaksha Anubhava Pramanam - I am ever full Paramatma always,
- I am waking waning Jivatma never wanes, waves
276) Prayers of Gurupurnima :
i) Om Purnamadaha
ii) Ohm Sadashiva Samarambam :

Salutation to the lineage starting with lord Sadasiva, with Adi Sankara in the middle and
continuing up to my immediate teacher. [Verse 1]
iii) Ohm :
• Narayanam Padmabhavam Vasishtham Shaktim cha….

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iv) Sruti Smrti :

I bow at the feet of the Lord in the form Sri Sankaracharya, who is the blessing for the
humanity, who is the shrine for the sruti, the smrti and the purana, and, who is the abode of
compassion. [Verse 1]
277) Abide as Atma, you will abide in Universal peace, you will be aware when mind moves :
• Abide as being, space, time division will be absent in that
278) Panchadasi - Chapter 10 :

If it be Said that (When all mental operations Cease) there is no Space at all, we reply : let it
have no Space. It is called all Pervasive, because of the Mind’s Creation of Space
[Chapter 10 - Verse 21]
• In Awareness, no concept of Time, Space, Objects
• Space, time, Objects born when thought is born
• I truly transcend thought and can be alert, watchful of the thief called ‘Thought’
164
279)
Sleep Waking, Dream
- No Adhyasa - Have Adhyasa with Body, mind,
- Can claim Sakshi I as intrinsic time, Space, causation, world
nature - In Samsara
• Body and world is Anchor for ego I to Masquerade as real self
• Ego I - is Limited in Space time, not Sakshi I, Awareness
280)
Chaitanyam

Buta Akasha Chitta Akasha Chid Akasha

Space of Objects and Beings Memory and thoughts World in Chid Akasha
281) You are not in the world, world is in You :
• You are not the experienced Object or Experiencer Subject
• You are in between Sakshi of both and also beyond them
• What you see is not real, the fact you see alone is real
282) Shabda, Rupa, Rasa, gandha, in the innermost Essence are all Jnanam, Awareness :
• You not only hear, taste, Smell but also are Aware you hear, Taste, Smell
• Changeless Awareness, Sakshi, is always there for you to Re-cognize. 165
 • All imaginations, Divisions Projects by intellect are illumined by Sakshi
283) Atma, when it reflects on body mind complex is viewed as a Sakshi :
• You can relate to Atma only as Sakshi in a medium
284) Ego is the false subject :
• I am the eternal subject, Substratum of Universe
285) Non-knowing you, without knower status, you in silence are the Sakshi
286) Whatever is accepted, without requiring proof is called Swayam Prakasha
287) There is only one direct knowledge in the world :
• I know I am = Atma
• Atma is Aprameya, not available for Pramanas
• Sruti only negates layers of ignorance
288) You stop searching for happiness, then you will be happy
289) Lecture 13 :
• Adhyasa Bashyam : Self knowledge is only knowing what you are not
• I (Karta, Knower) can’t say I know Atma (Known)
• Then not Advaitam
Example :
• Single person can’t Play cards
• Can’t lift yourself up by Pulling your own Show Lace. 166
 • Atma Jnanam is knowing what you are not = Viveka Prakriya
• What you disidentify with does not exist independently
• Being an appearance, it comes and merges in you, existence, hence you are Poornam
• When Viveka rejects Kama, desire, it will disappear
• All thoughts get resolved in you, they do not have separate existence
• When desire comes, ignore desire, Nivritti Marga
• It will disappear in you Atma, therefore, Desire is only an appearance
290) I thought Ego :
• Superimposed on Pratyagatma
• Knowingness of Atma Superimposed on “I” thought of the Mind
• Knowingness is Raw material of knowledge = Atma

Atma

Svarupa Adhyasa Samsarga Dharma Adhyasa

- Isness - Knowingness attributed

to Body Mind

• Pratyagatma can be known only as sarva Sakshi.

167
Example :
• Electricity moves machines, shines but does not know itself or others
• Antahkaranam can move but does not know itself
• When Atma reflects in it, it knows
• Atma Chaitanyam does not appear, distinct from mind, Don't try to see mind
separately, Atma Separately
• Atma appears as the mind itself
• Mind parades as ultimate knower, subject
• Mind like pot, always known
291) Lecture 14 : Adhyasa Bhashyam :
i) Super imposition of Pratyag Atma in the mind = I - thought :
• I thought is due to Adhyasa from Atma
o Adhyasa on Karana Shariram
o Adhyasa on Sukshma Shariram
o Adhyasa on Sthula Shariram
Ratna Prabhakara Tikakara :
ii) Waking Up :
• Alertness, undifferentiated
• No Sense of Space - Time, otherness (Desha - Kala - Vastu) 168
iii) Apparent division comes = Unreal
iv) Time divides, yesterday, today, tomorrow :
• In Sleep no Division
• In Divisionless Atma, Division is brought in by Adhyasa
• Division is fundamental Adhyasa
• When you wake up, you are undivided Pure Awareness, free from Raaga Dvesha,
undifferentiated, free from Opposites of likes, dislikes
• Aham - I - Appears immediately (I thought)
• Sarva Prathama Karya Adhyasa gives birth to an isolated entity
• Sense of limitation is inbuilt in Aham
• Without sense of Limitation, no I - Sense, only Pure Awareness
• Sometimes in waking I sense absent, alertness is there
• Fundamental ignorance - Moola avidya - I am - Unlimited by space, time, objects.
• Ajnana continues throughout waking State
• Ajnana, Dormant in sleep state, Blossoms in waking
• Blossoming of Ajnana in substratum of awareness is called waking state
• Aham Adhyasa of Atma in Ajnana
• Pure awareness, being, now appears limited
• As Aham, I - sense, wrenches itself outside unlimited Atma and appears Limited.
• Like bubble emerging on surface of ocean. 169
 Bubble Ocean
Limited Unlimited

• Individual - I - Sense has ignorance of ones own unlimited nature.

• Person has Limited himself in Space - Time Very Strongly forgetting his own timeless
nature
• Limitation is inbuilt as Character, Intrinsic
• Agyana is always there in I – sense
• Ajnana is illumined by Reflection of Atma Chaitanyam in Sleep State = Adhyasa
• It brings out sense of I = Limited being
= Prathama Adhyasa in Karana Shariram
• I - Sense is soaked in Atma - Awareness
• I - Sense is the beginning of Mind - Sukshma Shariram
• Content of mind comes to light
• Atma superimposition on I - Now reflects on thoughts - Antahkaranam
• Reflection of Atma in the form of I - in Antahkaranam = Sukshma Sharira Adhyasa,
Dvitiya Adhyasa.
• Now Sukshma Shariram is soaked in awareness
• Superimposition = Reflection, identification.
• Antahkaranam is soaked in Atma Chaitanyam, it reflects in the body, pervades the
body. 170
 • Body is outcome of such a superimposition
• Atma - Awareness is superimposed on the Sthula Shariram
• Body becomes Atma by Adhyasa - Tritiya Adhyasa
• Things related to body - Relations, wealth, position is 4th Adhyasa since body has
become Atma
• Life = Ever changing dream.
292)
Brahman Divides into

Anaadi Jiva Anaadi Maya

With Anaadi

Avidya Jivas Karma Maya

- Avarna Shakti Pradhana - Avidya - Vikshepa Shakti

- Jiva Pradhana
- Ishvara
- Holds Karana Shariram
of Jivas
• Adhyaropa = Pada Trayam / Jiva - Ishvara - Jagat
• Turiyam = Adhishtanam. 171
293) Why dream is false?
• Mandukya Upanishad - Chapter 2 :

The wise declare all Objects of the dream as illusory, they all being located within the body and
also because of their being in a confined space. [2 - K - 1]

On account of the shortness of time, it is not possible for the dreamer to go and see the dream
Objects. Nor does the dreamer, when he wakes up, indeed find himself in all the Places seen in
his dream. [2 - K - 2]

Strictly conforming to reason and logic, Sruti also declares the non-existence of the chariots,
etc., perceived in his dream by the dreamer. Moreover it is said by the seers that Sruti herself
declares the illusory nature of dream-experiences, and establishes the same through logic and
reason. [2 - K - 3]
172
i) Objects within the Mind not outside in the world :
• No Space inside for elephants and mountains
• Dream Seen within the Nadi
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad :

There are no chariots, nor animals to be yoked to them, nor roads there, but he creates the
chariots, animals and roads. There are no pleasures, joys, or delights there, but he creates the
pleasures, joys and delights. There are no pools, tanks, or rivers there, but he creates the
pools, tanks and rivers. For he is the agent. [4 - 3 - 10] 173
ii) Mandukya Upanishad :
• Chapter 2 - Verse 4 to 11
Why waking unreal?
• Anumana Process of Nyaya
a) Pratijna :
• Proposition to be established, proved
b) Hetu :
• Reason to test the Proposition
c) Drishtanta :
• Example
d) Hetu Upanaya :
• Relationship between reason, Example, Proposition
e) Nigamanam :
• Conclusion that the Proposition is true
Example :
a) Pratijna :
• Fire in the mountain
b) Reason :
• See Smoke, infer fire. 174
c) Example :
• Saw smoke and fire together in kitchen cooking
d) Relationship :
• Where there is fire there is smoke
e) Conclusion :
• Fire is in the mountains
Waking State :
a) Pratijna :
• Objects seen are unreal
b) Reason :
• Objects are perceived by senses and mind
c) Example :
• Objects in dream perceived by mind
d) Relationship :
• Waking objects - Seen
• Dream objects - Seen
• Dream objects unreal, waking objects unreal
Conclusion :
• Objects in waking unreal 175
Drk Drishya Viveka :

Indeed, maya has two powers of the nature of projecting and viling. The projecting power
creates the world, beginning from the subtle body (the experiencer) to the total universe (the
experienced). [Verse 13]
a) Seer always different than seen :
Seer Seen
- Chaitanyam - Jadam
- Inside - Outside
- Higher Status - Lower Status
- One - Many
- Depends on Seer for its
existence
b)
Seen Seer
Objects Senses Senses Mind

Mind Chaitanyam
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 • Witness, Atman, Chaitanya ultimate Seer
• Normally we are taking mind to be the Seer, not aware of Chaitanyam
Main point :
• Seen objects Unreal
• Seer the only reality
a) Pratijna :
• Waking state Unreal
b) Hetu :
• Perceived, seen
c) Example :
• Like object seen in dream
d) Relationship :
• Like objects seen in dream are false, Waking objects also false
e) Nigamana :
• Waking state also false
Differences :

Waking Dream
Objects outside Mind Objects inside Mind 177
Main Point :
• Both perceived
• Hence Unreal
Similarity :
• Objects have Diversity
• Reality can only be one
Samsara :
• Diversity of sense objects and Thrills to sense organs
• Can't extricate ourselves
• Waking state itself comes and goes
• Objects also come and go - Unreal
• We are ignorant of the reality
• Ignorance causes projections in the mind
294) Sattva, Rajas, Tamas are three strands, Avyava, ingredients, of maya in Panchabhutas :
• Attributes are Shabda, Sparsha, Rasa, Gandha of five elements
• Akasha, Vayu, Agni, Jalam, Prithvi has Guna Trayam
• Sattva Guna of Samashti = Combination of 5 Elements together form the
Antahkaranam. 178
Connections :
Indriyam Elements Creator Parental attribute of
recognized Object
i) Ears - Akasha Guna - Shabda
ii) Tvak - Vayu Guna - Sparsha
iii) Chakshu - Agni Guna - Rupa
iv) Jinvah - Jala Guna - Rasa
v) Granah - Prithvi Guna - Gandha
• Srotra Indriyum recognizes Sound - Shabda
• Vayu produces Tvak Indriyum - Vayu Guna = Sparsham
• Indriyum recognizes Attribute of Parent element.
Mind Prana
- Supports all Jnana Indriyams - Supports all karma Indriyams
- Hence produced by - Hence produced by Rajas of all
combination of all Sattva of 5 5 elements
Elements - Karyam
- Karyam
• Origination of 5 Subtle elements from Ishvara.

179
Order :
i) Antahkaranam
ii) Prana
iii) Jnana Indriyas
iv) Karma Indriyas :
• Mind perishes during Pralayam
• Resolves into Karana Shariram
• Mind takes different shapes in Vrittis
• Vrittis = Antahkarana Parinama
• Modified state of internal organ, mind = Vritti

Vrittis

4 Groups

Buddhi Manaha Chitta Ahamkara

Ascertaining Vrittis Considers Pro - Cons Past memory, Chidabhasa

thinking facility
• Object of Ahamkara Vritti = Individuality
• When vritti Reflects oneself, its called Aham Vritti. 180
 Vritti

Aham Idam

- Changeless - Agama - Pahi

- Always its there - World generates idam Vritti
- Manifest, unmanifest - Kshanika Vritti Pravaha
- If no Aham Vritti, no holder of
knowledge

• In this I - Ahamkara alone, Anatma Part is there

I

Vachyartha Lakshyartha

Anatma / Body, Mind, complex Atma is there

Aham is always there

Vritti Rupena Vishaya Rupena

• In Aham Turiyam is Sitting.
181
295)
Ajnani

Atruptikaratvam Bandahkatvam Dukha Mishritatvam

Popular Vedanta

- I see Dream therefore it exists - Jagrat it exists therefore I see it

- Pratibhasikam - Vyavaharikam
- Drishti Srishti Vada (DSV) - Srishti Drishti Vada (SDV)

DSV

Paramartika Jagrat and Svapna

I - Satyam Mithya

Mistake

Not Existent Not Non-existent Seemingly Existent

182
 Cause Effect
Moola Avidya Jagrat and Svapna
Khyati - Means experience :
• Rope snake exists only when it is experienced
• World exists only when it is experienced
Agyana Satta Nasti :
• When world not experienced, it does not have existence
• Final conclusion of Vedanta
Sruti :
• Proof for Atman.
i) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad :

183
That it does not see in that state is because, although seeing then, it does not see; for the
vision of the witness can never be lost, because it is immortal. But there is not that second
thing separate from it which it can see. [4 - 3 - 23]

Sakshi sees

In Sleep In Waking, dream

No Objects With Objects

• Vision of real seer is Never lost
• Seeing with eyes = Ego I - Mind involved.
Ii, iii, iv) Prasno Upanishad :

When a mind is overpowered by light, that mind sees no dream. At that time bliss arises in
body. [IV - 6]

184
Just as, O beloved, birds retire to a tree roost, so indeed do all these rest in the supreme
Atman. [IV – 7]

The Earth and its subtle elements, the water and its subtle elements, the Akasa and is subtle
elements, the eye and what can be seen, the ear and what can be heard, the nose and what
can be smelt, taste and its objects, the hands and what can be grasped, the feet and what can
be walked on, the organs of generation and what is to be enjoyed, the organs of excretion and
what must be excreted, the mind and what must be thought of, the intellect and what must be
determined, the egoism and its objects ; citta and its objects, the light and its objects, the
Prana and everything supported by it – all these rest in the state of sleep like birds in their
nest. [IV – 8] 185
v, vi) Kaivalyo Upanishad :

The very same individualised ego in the “dream state” experiences its pleasure and pain – in a
field of existence created by its own Maya (Misapprehension of Reality). During the “State of
profound sleep” when everything is merged (into their causal state), it is overpowerd by Tamas
(non-apprehension) and comes to exist in its form of Bliss. [Verse 13]

Again due to its connection with the deeds done in its previous births, that very same
individuality (Jiva) comes back to the dream or the waking-state. The being, who sports thus in
three cities – from whom verily have sprung up all diversities, He is the substratum, the
indivisible Bliss-Consciousness and in Him alone the three “Cities” go into dissolution.
[Verse 14]

186
 Ego I Creates by its own Shakti

Nidra Shakti Maya Shakti Rests

- Dream world - Waking World - In its original form Bliss

- Substratum
- Invisible
- Goes to Causal State in
Sleep
- Over Powered by tamas
Vii, viii) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad :

187
Again when it becomes fast asleep— when it does not know anything—it comes back along
the seventy-two thousand nerves called Hitā, which extend from the heart to the pericardium
(the whole body), and remains in the body. As a baby, or an emperor, or a noble Brāhmaṇa
lives, having attained the acme of bliss, so does it remain. [2 - 1 - 19]

As a spider moves along the thread (it produces), and as from a fire tiny sparks fly in all
directions, so from this Self emanate all organs, all worlds, all gods and all beings. Its secret
name (Upaniṣad) is ‘the Truth of truth.’ The vital force is truth, and It is the truth of that.
[2 - 1 - 20]
• In sleep, Jagrat and Svapna Prapancha Artha and Jnana Adhyasa resolves
• I Body - Am Non-different from Ishvara - Jagat in whom entire Prapancha resolves
automatically daily
• From Prajnya entire Prapancha Rises and Resolves. 188
Mundak Upanishad :

This is the truth : as from the flaming fire thousands of sparks, similar to its form (nature) issue
forth ; so from the Immortal (Brahman) O! my beloved youth, diverse (manifold) beings (Jiva-s)
originate and they find their way back into it. [II – I – 1]
• I Atma with Moola Avidya Maya Shakti Project Desha, kala, 14 Lokas
Ix and X) Kaivalyo Upanishad :

The very same individualised ego in the “dream state” experiences its pleasure and pain – in a
field of existence created by its own Maya (Misapprehension of Reality). During the “State of
profound sleep” when everything is merged (into their causal state), it is overpowerd by Tamas
(non-apprehension) and comes to exist in its form of Bliss. [Verse 13]

189
Again due to its connection with the deeds done in its previous births, that very same individuality (Jiva)
comes back to the dream or the waking-state. The being, who sports thus in three cities – from whom
verily have sprung up all diversities, He is the substratum, the indivisible Bliss-Consciousness and in Him
alone the three “Cities” go into dissolution. [Verse 14]
• Rajas of Maya is misapprehension of reality
• Active in dream and waking
• In sleep state Jiva overpowered by tamas of Maya Non-apprehension of reality.
xi) Mundak Upanishad :

As the spider projects and withdraws (unto itself) the web, as the herbs and plants sprout out
from the earth, as hairs grow on the head and body of man, so from the Imperishable Being
comes out the universe. [I – I – 7]
x) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad :

190
Om. There was a man of the Garga family called Proud Bālāki, who was a speaker. He said to
Ajātaśatru, the King of Benares, ‘I will tell you about Brahman.’ Ajātaśatru said, ‘For this
proposal I give you a thousand (cows). People indeed rush saying, “Janaka, Janaka.” (I too have
some of his qualities.)’ [2 - 1 - 1]
• From Sleeping Jiva (Moola Avidya) Creation comes.
• Drishti = Projection of Moola Avidya Vritti.

Avidya Vritti Vishaya Utpatti

Jnana Adhyasa Vishaya Utpatti

Satta

Pure Atma Satta - Existence Jnana Satta - Existence

Absolute State Relative Principle

• The DSV there is Ajnyata Satta Abhava

Sakshi Moola Avidhya

- Has no Utpatti and Pralayam - Jagrat Prapancha artha and Jnana
Adhyasa are Instantaneous projection of
Moola Avidya
- Anirvachania Khyati vada 191
 Sakshi Moola Avidhya
- Vrittis required to Reveal the world
- Vritti have rise and fall
- Without Ahamkara, no time or Location
- New Ahamkara generated Based on
Samskaras
296) Kaivalyo Upanishad :

The very same individualised ego in the “dream state” experiences its pleasure and pain – in a
field of existence created by its own Maya (Misapprehension of Reality). During the “State of
profound sleep” when everything is merged (into their causal state), it is overpowerd by Tamas
(non-apprehension) and comes to exist in its form of Bliss. [Verse 13]
• 3 States well Analyzed
i) Reality :
• Ego exists beyond 3 States
• “Tat Tvam Asi” not within realm of 5 Elements
• Jiva = Brahman.
192
ii)
Deep Sleep State

“Tamo Gunas Active” Causal State of

ego where it rests in its Unmanifest
form (Prakirti), Tamo covers Nature
of reality, experiences Non-
apprehension only

Sattva Active Rajas Active

- Waking State - Dream State

- Experiences Misapprehension of - Experiences Misapprehension of
Reality Reality
- Vikshepa Shakti of Maya Active - Vikshepa Shakti of Maya Active
with Sense organs and Mind with mind Alive

Kaivalyo Upanishad :

Experiencing one’s own Self in all beings and all beings in the Self, one attains the Highest
Brahman – and not by any other means. [Verse 10] 193
 Reality - All beings

Own Self in Brahman All beings in Brahman

2 Selves Exist

False ego Self Real Self

3 Superimpositions

Dream Waking Sleep

- Have existed for several

Experienced in every Body Janmas without
knowledge of Brahman,
Reality
• One Ray of Brahman in the Jiva….

194
297) Vichara Sagara : Topic 365 :

Question :
Attributes of Joy, Sorrow, Punyam Papam, belongs to

Atma Anatma

Answer :
2 Answers

Simple Detailed

Gita : - Doesn’t belong to either Atma

- Chapter 13 - Verse 1 Anatma
- Belongs to Kshetram Mind, - Superimposed on Atma the
Anatma Conscious entity in creation by
- Reflection in the Mind error
- Reflection theory - Superimposition theory

• Attributes Don’t belong to Real I - Me, Atma, its only Appearance due to moola
Avidya. 195
Gita - Chapter 13 :

Desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, aggregate (Body), intelligence, fortitude - This Ksetra has been
thus, briefly described with its modifications. [Chapter 13 - Verse 7]
Explanation of Anatma :
Moola Avidya

Cause

Tamo Guna Covered Reality, Non-

apprehension cause of Vikshepa

Rajo Pradhana Dream Sattva Pradhana Waking

- Misapprehension - Misapprehension
- Effect 1 - Effect 2 196
Mundak Upanishad :
2 Birds

2 Selves in this Body

Jivatma Paramatma

- With Attributes - Without Attributes, Upadhi

- With ignorance Adhyasa
- With Upadhi Adhyasa - Ever free
- Bound Now - Original Consciousness
- Reflected Consciousness

2 Answers

Emotions don’t belong to Anatma, Mind Emotions belong to Atma Seemingly

In Atma - Superimpositions

- Attributes of Mind - Other Anatma Shabda, Sparsha,

Rupa, Rasa Gandaha
- Subtle body, Gross Body, Causal
Body
• Karta, Bokta, Pramata, enclosed with all emotions. 197
2 Answers :
• Emotions belongs to Mind with Chidabhasa (Jiva)
• Emotions are Superimposed on Atma, Seemingly
• 2 Prakriyas – Methods.
3 States

Belong to Mind and Chidabhasa Belong to Atma Seemingly

Brahma Sutra :

And on account of the distinctive qualities (of the two mentioned in subsequent texts).
[1 – 2 – 12]
Katho Upanishad :

The two who enjoy the fruits of their good works being seated in the cavity of the heart, the
Seat of the Supreme, the knowers of Brahman call them shadow and light ; as also the
performer of the five-fold-fire and those who have propitiated three times the Naciketas-fire.
[1 - 3 - 1] 198