Moment to Speak

Live life itself. Man is essentially the all-pervading eternal soul, according to Swami Sivananda . Because of his ignorance and delusions, he associates himself with the five illusory Koshas , or sheaths, that are the Annamaya Kosha (physical sheath) , Pranamaya Kosha (physiological or energy sheath), Manomaya Kosha (psychological or the mind sheath) , Vijnanamaya Kosha (wisdom sheath), and Ānandamaya Kosha (bliss sheath). He believes that he is also susceptible to these fluctuations. He considers the physical body, the Annamaya Kosha , to be his identity, and he considers himself burned when the physical body is burned. In addition, he believes that he is black. For the sake of ignorance ( Avidya ), he gets connected to his familial relations, property, fortune, etc., and assumes he possesses them completely. He considers himself to be a householder, an ascetic, a student, and so forth. There are five components that make up the body. It is very different from the true self. Ignor...

You are not the body, nor is the body yours, nor are you the doer of actions or the reaper of their consequences. You are eternally pure consciousness, the witness, in need of nothing—so live happily, an aphoristic proclamation by Sage Ashtavakra (Ashtavakra Gita,15.4., translation by John Richards, 2 nd Edition, 1996, Stackpole Elidor, UK). Meditation is based on the premise that the subjective self is eternal, luminous, self-effulgent, sentient, imperishable, existence-consciousness-bliss (Sat-Chit-Anand), and the outward objective world of matter is transient, insentient, inert, perishable, anxiety, misery, vexation, craving, bondage, attachment, jealousy, and all those appended adjunct qualities. The way forward is to turn inward to uncover the ignorance and realise the self within.  Meditation is to become conscious of your own self, hitherto covered by a veil of ignorance. It is a means of ascending on the ladder of enlightenment and realisation of consciousness, starting...

There is just one Existence, and it is the only one that is Eternal, Absolute, Infinite, Imperishable, Complete, Final, Full, Supreme, Constant, Everlasting, Real, Conscious, Undivided, Immovable, Non-relative, Non-dual, Non-limitless, and beyond the reach of a finite. The Supreme Being is the infinity of the infinitude and all-inclusive. Nothing exists outside of Him. He is the cause of all causes, and the source of all sources. He is inconceivable, transcendent and immanent at the same time. Neither the celestial gods nor the great sages know of His origin, asserts the Srimad Bhagavad Gita . Satyam-Jñānam-Anantam Brahma, or Brahmān (Absolute Existence, or Supreme Being) is Truth-Knowledge-Infinity, is a clarion remark by Taittirya Upaniṣad ( 2.1.1).  Realisation of Brahmān is really nothing but identity with the Self of all. Because the attainment or non-attainment of Brahmān is contingent on Its realisation or non-realisation. Though fundamentally identical to Brahmān , th...