Notes-med

Aug 27, 2025 (med-30)

- Jewellery shop

- Many ornaments- name, form, function change

- Variables in all ornaments. One non-changing factor- gold!

- We experience the ornaments along with the gold. 

- So too...with every experience we have. Is there a non-variable experience?

It is "existence of every thing and being". He is...you are...I am...grammatical difference in expression...but these expressions reveal the non-variable...I exist...you exist....past, present, future....I am, you were...etc. non variable...Non variable...is the cause of the variable....like gold for ornament...like sat is...for this world...."sadeva somya"....Everybody experiences brahman all the time!

Upanishad is asking us to register the "fact"...about an experience that I have all the time... During sleep, we go back to this brahman...."sadaa somya....tadaa sampanno bhavati...swam apeeto bhavati"....(Chh Up, 6.8) I "was asleep". No experience...but "I was" (sleeping). That "Was" means...we were merged in brahman...during deep sleep. This experience is brahman!..."yasyaiva sphuranam"....

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Aug 15, 2025 (med-29)

What is Nididhyaasanam? Not "no thought" in the mind. No new experience. Only recollection of the teaching during shravanam.

What is recollected? Brahma satyam...jagan mithya...jeevo brahmaiva...

Of these, we will postpone the last part to a later day when we bring in maha vakya meditation.

Here, we focus on brahma satyam...jagan mithya.

What is brahman? It is sat, it is chit. Here, we take only sat.

Sat is Existence...associated with every object that we experience. It is like space.

Space is one, sat is also one.

Space is seemingly divided into "potspace" etc. And so is Existence.

"Pure existence" is beyond transaction. Transaction means change.  "Knowing" means change, "doing" means change, "talking" means change. Hence, pure Existence is beyond any transaction and cannot be known, talked about directly etc....(but supports every transaction like knowing, doing etc.). Pure Existence cannot be experienced as an object...but in deep-sleep, pure-existence knowledge is available. That Existence is brahman. (Rahu grasta....(dakshinamurti stotram)

And in the world, whatever we experience is brahman + nama-rupa.

Drishyate shruyate yad yad...brahmanah anyan na tad bhavet. (atma bodha)

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 June 23, 2025 (med-21)

- In Vishnu Sahasranama, we have some names for vishvarupa ishvara.

- Vishvam (the first name)...the one who appears as this world

- Sarvah (the one who is everything)....(in sarva-sharva-shiva)

- Purnah (the one in whom...nothing is excluded)....(in purna-puurayita-punya)

- ananta (the one who is everywhere...so...no particular form is alone his)...(in ananto-hutabhuk...)

In vishvarupa, we have both pleasant and unpleasant....good and evil....what I like...and what I dislike. Powerful raga-dvesha makes us incapable of appreciating that these so called "negative" aspects are also ishvara.

A true vishvarupa bhakta accepts the so called negative aspects as also bhagavan.

We face choiceless situations in life. In every such situation, this vishvarupa bhakta says...I welcome my god...who alone has come as this situation. He does not resist. Now, he gets inner strength to deal with the situation. Thus, through this approach, raga-dvesha is taken care. He smiles...and he is ready to play the host to bhagavan...who comes as every experience in life...even the bitter ones. aagagatey swagatam kuryaat. 

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June 23, 2025 (med-22)

- Innate liking for happiness and means that bring happiness

- Innate dislike for sorrow and situations that bring sorrow.

- Raga-dvesha is instinctive....like this.

- Hence, we are anxious about the future...whether it will be in keeping with my raga-dvesha

- But a bhakta deals with the future differently

- For a ishta-devata bhakta, the future is a prasada from the Lord

- For the vishvarupa-bhakta, the future IS bhagavan

- Time is Bhagavan- the past was bhagavan, the future too....

- Kaalah kalayataam aham

- Hence, I welcome the future as bhagavan himself.

- I allow the future to happen...regardless of how it is.

- No resistance....It gives me the inner strength...

- I can now try and change what I can...and accept what I cannot

- This is titiksha....the ability to take care of the situation....however it is...

- Maatraa sparshaas tu kaunteya....

- Sukha-dukkhe samey krtva....

- I welcome the future with open arms....without evaluation...as my vishvarupa's manifestation

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Med 23 (July 8, 2025)

Raaga-> natural (indriyasyendriyas....vyavasthitau)....It has to be combated with bhakti.

raga->bhayam

to combat bhayam (especially about future)...

In eka-rupa ishvara: future is prasada from Lord

In vishvarupa ishvara: future is Lord himself.

I welcome the future...with courage.

yad-yad bhavyam bhavatu....

This is the upasana method of facing the future.

In Nididhyaasanam method, future is seen as mithya...and I am satyam. We will practice this later.

For now, I am a bhakta...

No fear, no anxiety, no tension....I am relaxed.

durjana...sajanno bhuyaat....

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Med-24 (July 16)

vishwam- I am experiencing God all the time...as the world. No other proof is required because as the world, God is all the time, evident. 

Initially- we focus on the changing form- variety, vastness and the pairs of opposites.

Both are equally sacred- they are complementary. Birth is sacred. Death is sacred. It is required. Pleasant experience is sacred. Unpleasant is equally sacred. Union is sacred. Separation is also sacred. (Remember this well. This is meant for me). This is vishvarupa dhyaanam. Everything changes....This is ishvara as "aparaa prakrti" and is maya-shakti.

But this universe is made up of names and forms. Maya is all this...names and forms. But it does not have stability....and hence...maya cannot give us...permanent peace, security, happiness. It should be used for spiritual sadhana (remember this).

Hence, turn to changeless part- paraa prakriti or brahman....

This is "sat"....existence...that is present all the time...but ignored! This is the absolute truth. Everything else is mithya...

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Med (July 23)

Nididhyaasana from this talk onwards...

Vedantic meditation:

brahma satyam, jagan mithya, aham brahmaiva....

vishvarupa...

changing and changeless part....

existent universe....

universe has "is-ness". 

child is, boy is, old person is....

existence....continues...in the ashes....

this existence is satyam.....this is brahman....

this is brahma satyam....

we experience always...and always ignore....

yasyaiva sphuranam.....as is-ness in everything

universe is a changing bunch of nama-rupa...

experienceable...changing rapidly...this is mithya part....

since it changes, it is challenging emotionally also....intellectually also challenging....

accept universe as changing flux...that is mysterious....then, it is entertaining!!! (this is the most important thing for me).

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July 29:

Assimilate "brahma satyam, jagan mithya, aham brahmaiva naaparah"

This is nididhyaasanam

Thoughts should be on the above 3 messages.

brahma satyam: visualize universe, It is vishvarupa ishvara- made up of changing + changeless. 

Changing part is apara prakrti. The changeless part is para prakrti- It is the Existence principle. Every experience of the universe is because of this existence. This is-ness undergoes no change. Ice is, water is. Vapor is. Na jaayate...na mryate is this "is-ness". This is brahman and the absolute reality. It is available all the time...but ignored by us...all the time. We ignore the screen in the movie. The world is the movie. We ignore existence. This is "sad brahma"....sad eva somya.....(Chh 6th chapter).

Existence is not a part-product-property of the universe....It is an independent principle that pervades the universe and makes the universe appear existent....like the sun makes the moon appear bright. Brahman makes the world appear existent. Existence is not limited by boundaries of world including time and space..."atyatishthad dashaangulam" (remember this point....how purusha sukta talks about it). No plurarity of "is-ness". This is paroksha gnyaanam.

Everything else...other than existence...may appear tangible....but solidity is an illusion...names and forms and function..."trayam vaa idam naama-rupa krya". It appears to exist....but not in reality.

Nididhyaasanam helps to sort out this mixture....not physically....but intellectually..."satyam brahma" and "mithyaa jagat".

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