Moment to Speak

The Self, or Ātman , is an inseparable aspect of the Cosmic Self (Brahmān) . Its origin, orientation, and mission are to become one with the Cosmic Self. Its intrinsic nature is that only. However, it gets derailed in its own recognition as it, in the embodied form of the body-mind-intellect system, tries to savour the objects of the senses and gets deeper into the cloud of ignorance. That way, to relish the objects of the senses, it becomes forgetful of its own existence. In order to uncover the veil of ignorance , it takes several reincarnations to realise one's own Self as part of the Cosmic Self. When the realisation is complete, it becomes complete with its originator. Reincarnation is part of the elevation process. The Cosmic Self is beyond the comprehension of the objective dimensions. He is Absolute in every way. The reason for this is that space and time are used to an object's advantage in a number of ways, including identification, existence, structuring, function...

Freedom is freedom in some way. Freedom is relative, to some extent. It is to some way, or some extent, as one conceives, identifies, and delineates it from the prism of ego-based self-respect. Such freedom is illusory, unreal, or transitory and subject to space, time, and causality . The limiting adjuncts—self-ego, attachment, bondage, insatiable desire, greed, anger, lust, deprivation, fulfilment, and denial—set a perimeter of limit in the search for and fulfilment of freedoms. Any amount of freedom is considered inadequate in the thirst for freedom to have more. There is a self-limiting circumvention in the quest for freedom to have more and more. In that quest, man faces a piquant situation in the samsāra chakra (wheel of birth and death) cycle of opposites of pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, happiness and anguish, pleasure and pain, pacification and inflammation, satisfaction and thirst, rage and calm, happiness and distress, etc. It catalyses one to move outward to relish t...

The Self, or  Ātman , is the true and real identity of a person. It is without form, beginning, and ending. It is the only Witness-Conscious Self. There is no object and only one subject. It is not subject to time-space-causation. The notion of “I” as a separate identity germinates under the  veil of ignorance  as the Self relishes the fruits of objects. In the process, it gets stalked by the myriad issues of entrapment. It gets forgetful of its original identity as an emanation of the Cosmic Self. Sage Ashtavakra contends that neither things nor anything exist within one's real identity, the Self. The Witness Self is an identity that arises by acknowledging one's Self as such, and it has no physical existence. Everything else is a fabrication. The idea of a distinct identity, or "I," gives rise to all of these concepts. We attempt to maintain the tangible universe that the notion of "I" created in ignorance. We live our lives controlled by a false sense o...