Notes-ap

Aug 21, 2025:

Shvetaketu, you are not a maanava. You are not a human being. You are The Being!

Jiva bhava- not me, not mine, not satyam 

v-110: You are not even a student.

v-73-112: 40 shlokas for section 8! 

8 more sections for mananam. 

Section 9 - 114-117

Doubt 1: if the jiva merged in brahman during deep-sleep, why does he not know it?

No! Because in deep-sleep or samadhi, no triputi and hence, no knowledge.

Example for non-differentiated state in sushupti- honey example. No individuality in taste...in the honey-comb. In deep-sleep, pragnya....in which every knowledge is dormant...pragnyaana ghana... Because of this laya, the jiva does not remember.

Aug 17:

Coming to mahavakya portion after coming to sat as one's essential nature after analyzing the 4 topics. Each person's essential nature is "sat". So is the world's. That is brahman. It has 2 versions...of which the sat version is the adhishtanam of the gross version also. Hence, there is just one. That is in you also....Uddalaka tells Shvetaketu

Maranam is being discussed to prove that just like deep-sleep, the person briefly merges into his kaaranam which is brahman...that is called "sat" here. 

v104: During death, prana merges into tejasi. Here, it means "udaana praana". Everything merges into udaana during death. Tejas....hence, the warmth of life is seen. Tejas-chidabhasa-udaana-vayu...one package.

v105: Briefly, the person merges into ishvara (brahman) temporarily. This is the pramanam. 

v106: chhaaya- sushupti, deha= ashanaya and pipasa, indriya = maranam...essential entity is sat. Same with the universe (macro). That is also existence...sat. This is called "anima" in this verse. This is the only thing.

v107: 2 versions. Jagat is gross version of brahman. Jagat has existence...that is the subtle version of brahman (once nama rupa is removed). Subtle version is the truth of the gross version. 

109: Gross version...brought out by maya...that is mithya (kliptam). Neha naanasti kinchana (K Up). In Kai Up also..."na bhumi aapo"....

110: Existence is not negatable. It is not superimposed by maya. The is-ness...is the adhishthaanam. Hence, we are experiencing brahman all the time. Of these, shvetaketu...you also have 2 versions. Existence-consciousness....is your essential nature. That is the jagat kaaranam. You are NOT a maanava. 

Shvetaktu says..."once more"...till section 16.

Aug 12:

The 8th section is being discussed. 3 words are taken. Karya-kaarana sambandha is brought in.

And brahman as "sad vastu" is pointed out as the ultimate kaaranam. That means, what is there...is sad-vastu alone. At body level...and at world level....things and beings appear to be there, but in reality, it is all sad-vastu.

Later, we will point out that....that sad vastu is "aham"...(through maha vakya)...and hence, what is there...is "I" alone...and everything else...is a superimpostion upon that "I". Hence, brahma satyam...jagan mithya...etc.

Here, the 4 words are: swapiti, ashanaaya, pipaasa and maranam.

Pipaasa = udanyaa = udakam nayati. The digestive fire principle leads water in the form of blood, urine etc. Hence, what is there, is fire....not water (mithya)! And fire itself...is mithya...and brahman...sad-vastu...is the only reality. This has to be done...at both the individual and jagat level....bhautika->bhuta->sad-vastu.

 

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June 18, 2025

 Chh Up: Chp-1...sections 2-7: Srishti-prakaranam

Mind is predominantly prthvi, prana is water (mainly), speech is fire (predominantly)

Experiment with Shvetaketu

15 days- No food, only water.

He could not recall the veda at all

Hence- prithvi tatvam (food) is the essence of the mind.

Hence, mind is mithya, and satyam is earth (food).

Hence, use the mind, but do not give reality to mind.

Mind is not me, mind is not mine, mind is not real- these 3 messages.

Same with praana and speech. These 3 messages hold.

Everything must be seen like this....everything. For this nididhyaasanam is needed. The only way to chk if this is happening is reduction in ahankara, mamakaara, raga, dvesha.

71. No earth, only water. No water, only fire. No fire, only brahman!

72. 6 sections (2-7)- brahman satyam....jagan mithya. Hence, world is mithya, body is mithya, mind is also mithya. We experience matter, but matter has existence borrowed from consciousness. Hence, factually, there is only consciousness.

Till now, only paroksha gnaanam for Shvetaketu.

Now....he needs aparoksha gnaanam. Only this will give moksha. Triangular format can give only this. Knowing bhagavan as great, our sense of limitation, jeeva bhaava will NOT go.

HAFD- Helplessness, anger, frustration, depression. This will continue if we have ahankara-mamakara-raga-dvesha towards.....mind, body, family, possession, profession.

Hence, we have to go to aparoksha gnaanam. Tat....tvam asi....must be learnt. You have to come from dvaita bhakti. Sections 8-16....9 times....tat-tvam asi is repeated!

July 14:

4 words analysed:

- swapiti- swam apiti....resolves into our original nature

- ashanaaya

- pipaasa

- maranam

Bird- shakuni drshtaanta (tied to the mast)

Maya is the thread

Mast - atma

When the bird goes out...in jaagaranam and swapnam....comes back to atma (in deep sleep).

Mula-murti and utsava murti example.

July 23:

upadhi: red flower

upahitam: crystal

mind and atma-chaya = upadhi

atma = crystal

every complaint => transference has happened.

In sushupti- mind is resolved. samsara is dormant. Sushupti and moksha are similar. In moksha, samsara is made mithya.

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v85: section 8 summarized

br up: madhu brahmanam quoted (2.5.19 Br up) (rupam-rupam...)

sushupti, ashanaya-pipasa, maranam....used to reveal brahman.

Using chidabhasa, you can know chit. Using body (ashaya)...indriya (maranam)...through this, we can know brahman. 

K Up also says the same....fire takes the form of the wood....like that, chita takes the form of chidabhasa. 

v86: 

indrah = maya sahitam brahma

It became all of this....Tait Up....

Ishvara became body, Ishvara became chidabhasa....for what? He takes jiva form....so that he can relish mukti later (though it is all mithya)

v87: 

haraya= horses (sense organs)....jiva (brahman's avatara!)....sense organs to go to a guru...for atma gnanam....

Connects to section 8.

In sushupti....i should meditate that i am not pragnya, but atma.

july 30:

swapiti discussion is over. During deep-sleep and during maranam, we go back to brahman (temporarily).

Now, ashanaya, pipasa and maranam discussion.

Why has brahman taken avatara as jiva?

- To know ourselves as brahman! This comes in Br Up. This is the second reason apart from karma.

- Brahman as brahman cannot know itself.

v-88:

Now...ashanaayaa...

Body to annam to prthvi tatvam to jalam to agni to brahman....

Next pipaasaa...

Body to jalam directly...and from there....to agni...to brahman.

Using these 2 simple words....Upanishad reveals brahman! 

ashanaayaa (hunger) means "water" by "vastu vivekibhih"!

 asha- what has been eaten by us

naayaa- what has been carried by it...

ashitam nayati iti ashanaayaa.

So what? Body is nourished by food...carried by water. 

Body is kaaryam....food is kaaranam.

Kaarana kaaryam series is pointed out by this derivation!

Hence...this derivation is...extended...all the way to brahman!

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Aug 5, 2025:

Section 8:

ashitam nayati - it means water. 

Journey-> body->annam->water->tejah->brahman as existence (This is explicitly pointed by Vidyaranya).

shungam -> kaaryam...unique word used in Chh Up for kaaryam.

Kaaryam does not exist separate from kaaranam (remember the 3 examples).

body does not exist...annam alone exists....all the way to saying...only brahman exists!

Existence alone is muula kaarnam...and everything else...is naama-rupa (vaachaarambhanam...)

This is the main thing...in this exercise! You have to see everything as Existence...even as you see the body, water, fire etc.

There is logic (anumaanam) involved here. Vidyaranya says...it is important because this knowledge requires conviction (vishvaasah) and for that, we need logic. Hence, shruti, yukti and anubhava are all required....to finally claim...."this whole world is mithya...even as you see the world!" This is the aim. This is the bottom line....remember this well.

My real nature is seen in deep-sleep state....(swapiti)...no individuality. This is the reality...this is the existence...(as experienced in deep sleep state)....and this is the only satyam. Everything else is mithya.

Tat dhhasya vijagnyau...Shvetaketu got this clear knowledge..He got it after 9 times repetition.

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