Moment to Speak

Life after life circulates in the samsāra chakra, or the wheel of birth, growth, decay, death, and reincarnation. It is because of life's attachments to sense perceived objects emanating from insatiable desire clouded by a veil of ignorance that propels a being to move in a continuous cycle to satiate the  insatiable desire through the cycle of action, reaction, and fruits arising from that. No one can remain away for a moment without karma or action, says Srimad Bhagavad Gita . The issue pertinent here is the degree of attachment or detachment to karma and the consequential reactions and fruits thereof. As a consequence, attachments to objects of the senses tie one to karmic action, reaction, and resultant fruits. It also shows the importance our actions have on our existence, or what we like to call karma . Vedic literature also discusses rebirth; the Sanskrit word " bhavachakra " is a synonym for the word s amsāra . Bhava , which means origin or worldly being, ...

Existence has value as It is the infinity of the infinitude, absolute, imperishable, and beyond comprehension of the finite mind. Nothing is absolute in the cosmic order except Absolute Existence, which is Non-Relative. In the cobwebs of cosmic order, everything is relational, limited, and transitory. That way, the conception of value is also relational if it is related to something else other than Absolute Existence. Value is limited, ascribed, derivative, relational, and graded. It gets its valuation in relation to its existence. Further, the relative qualities are limited to space-time-causation. It can never be Absolute nor ever was it. At any time, it is tied up to a situation with other limited adjuncts. For example, gold or a currency note has a certain relational, or empirical value at a certain time or in a certain situation, as long as it is generally accepted as a medium of exchange. But air and water have intrinsic value beyond certain situational adjuncts but are subject...

The Subject is Infinity and Absolute Existence. The created universe, from the Absolute Existence, is the object and subject to finite finitude. The Subject does not require sense perception or recognition for Its existence, as It is Self-existent, Absolute, Infinite, and Imperishable. Objects require It for their validation and existence. The Cosmic Self is absolute existence, full and complete in every respect. He is the source, originator, transformer, annihilator, and absorber of everything in the cosmos, including the cosmos itself. Nothing exists outside of Him. The symbiotic relationship needs to be comprehended consciously, as it is latent and immanent, and its manifestation is discernible to a Self-realised one. Nothing is outside of what is inside, and all thoughts, actions, and processes follow the lines. The Cosmic Self may be deciphered by a Self-realised as a part of a cosmically interlinked organic relationship between the Subject and the objects. There is absolute, or...

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...

The self, or the ātman , is a living being and a part of the Supreme Self. It is the realised meaning of life and is eternally free, unrestricted, transcendent, and effulgent. Everything is unreal except for who you are. It transcends time, space, and causality and is everlasting and unbreakable. It is a being's everlasting essence and light, existing outside of time and space. Transmigration, or freedom, occurs for the Samsār chakra, or the wheel of birth and death. Finding one's true self—the divine and pure essence of oneself—and transcending individuality are the ultimate goals of life exploration. Every being is unique. Unique in birth, growth, decay, and death. Uniqueness is its essential identity, and real identity is its self. When a being takes birth, he comes to this world embedded with the koshas (sheath) of his body-mind-intellect system that propels him outward. The first way he feels the world outside is through his sense perceptions—sound, touch, sight, hea...