Passions and Remedy

1. We all suffer from passions, embedded into us by nature, and we are ignorant about them. Unless they are contained, we can end up in miseries. They arise out of inner chemistry within the body by design, and we are not conscious about them.

1.1 They stimulate desire (lust) and result in anger, greed, jealousy, and all sorts of undesirable complexes. They spontaneously develop from exposure to nature and remain as Chitta Vritties (expressions of consciousness) or Karmic imprints, in the form of facial undulations. They perpetually repeat, as the body is synthesis of vibrations. The man becomes deluded, unable to find solution to control them.

1.2 When these passions go out of control, man loses integrity and becomes dependent on others. There are lot many institutions, offering solutions for remedy. All of them are temporary and can lead to addiction to medicines and drugs. Some offer dubious means, and they can result in miseries, beyond recovery.

2. But these passions are also essential for man to awaken his dormant power. They pull down his ego, and unless this happens, his dormant spiritual intellect cannot function. Ego always thinks that it knows everything, and obscures knowledge. It tries to put man above everybody. Once, ego is subdued, man enters into his intuitive (observation with detachment) faculties as his intellect enters into introspection mode.

2.1 The intuitive part of our life includes access to realized souls (rare commodity) or self-study through scriptures to find solutions to our worries, because mind wants peace. Once man experiences that the cause of every aspect of his life is his higher self, which is also the cause of entire universe, all mysteries of phenomenal existence unfold.

2.2 It is his higher self, which infuses individual consciousness (ātma - ????) into his insentient material body, weeks after conception in mother’s womb to make him sentient, deploys him to universal body (we call world), where his core exists.

2.3 The core is Supreme Indestructible Reality we call Supreme Lord (or God – ??????), and his higher self is the effulgence that is cause of entire creation (Primordial essence - ????????). It is also called true nature (pure untainted love) of God, or embodied self of entire Universe which gives cognizance to all that exists and is therefore Omniscient.

2.4 This is what Bhagavad-Gita tells us. There are equivalents to this in Holy Bible and Holy Qur'ān. Once we gain self-knowledge through experience, we find all scriptures throughout the world merge to say that nothing exists without God.

2.5 Everything relates to material evolution, and going by author’s own experience, only those who are born with Sattva Gu?a (good nature), and who can tune with others with subdued ego, are competent to be qualified to advance in material evolution. Most of us are qualified for this, as we are unconcerned and never harm others.

2.6 Of these (as written in scriptures), only few can scale to heights to merge with higher self. The others who gain this knowledge, lead the remaining part of their life with equanimity, free of body consciousness. This state is called Sthita Prag?a (????? ??????) in Sanskrit. It goes by universal laws of transcendental nature (time and space). Man has no control. Destiny guides.

3. Sadhgurus became realized only because of deep miseries they encountered arising out of these passions (no exception), and they know the invisible cause, as they have experienced it. They merged with higher self - only ONE enveloping entire creation, with hard penance. Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, is one of them.

3.1 Experiencing passions with awareness in itself gave them remedy. The life in deep miseries pertains to Vig?anamaya Kosha (knowledge phase of man), as we become glued to our higher self, unconsciously. They become a switch between suffering and experiencing with hard penance. Powered by self-knowledge, one can switch to experiencing miseries with detachment, which culminates into dismantling Karmic Imprints, to bring man yo state of equanimity, living in present. This brings inexpressible bliss. Otherwise it can end up in miseries.

3.2 But that path is not a faster root to give quick remedies. But it offers everlasting solution, and costs nothing. One has to face inferno of spirit transcending body. The bioplasmic energy surrounding and permeating body shapes itself as serpent power, we call Mother Kundalini, and destroys Karmic Imprints. In Holy Qur'ān, it is mentioned as Angel of Death. The author is not aware of its equivalent in Holy Bible, but there must be something. It cures deadly diseases. One loses fear of body.

4. There is no one in this world who is free from psychological worries. These problems put man in deep mental turmoil, and this is the root cause of all diseases without exception. The psychology and state of body expressed through mind have one to one relationship. It is through mind that passions arise and unless we know the means to keep our mind at peace, there can never be permanent remedy for passions.

4.1 What Sadgurus offer is to kindle inner potential to access grace within each one of us, uniquely and independently. That grace is inner effulgence, available to us without division, our higher self at core. It envelops three material worlds on Mother Earth: namely land, oceans, and sky (ākā?a). It cannot be borrowed from others.

4.2 Comprehensive Yoga develops a sound Prā?ic body. It encompasses Shatkarmas (ancient body cleaning techniques), āsana, Prā?āyāma, Mudra, Bandha, and meditation exercises. It is meditation on higher self, that propels awareness which subsequently gets embedded into our routine, entire subtle body harnessing itself to bring bliss. It is only sound Prā?ic body that can face inferno of passions. It is a near death experience for man.

4.3 Meditation is Kriya, action with awareness of every moment of our routine, not inaction. All meditation exercises that Yoga teaches set this trend, which culminates into awakening of dormant power, positive energy (Mother Kundalini). Then on it guides itself to destiny.

4.4 It never too late for man to enter into Yoga. In the words of Paramahamsa Satyananda Saraswati, “Maybe you have religious beliefs, but without any spiritual experience; maybe you have no religious beliefs and you seek spiritual experience. Perhaps you have no belief in the existence of spiritual experience but have come to yoga merely to see what it is all about. It does not matter - you have come. That is the main thing. What we are trying to say is that whatever your situation in life, whatever you believe or do not believe, whatever you want from life, yoga will help you because it changes your whole being and hence your relationship with and attitude to life itself”.

4.5 Once man commences yoga, there is no going back. The benefits speak for themselves. Gradually man gets addicted to it. This addiction is better than any other. It culminates into higher awareness.

4.6 Maximum man can reach in this life is Supreme Abode of all realized souls, termed in scriptures as Puru?a. It is the space or ākā?a, or Ether resonating at AUM. It gets its expression from embodied soul. This ascent brings us eternal peace, as mind itself loses its significance.

5. There is a Divine principle behind all aspects of our life. Those, who have faith in God as part of them, and not outside them may kindly further dwell on this subject. This faith is vital for reaping benefits, that takes us to peaks in our life.

5.1 Those who are continuing may kindly pay attention, as this subject is not beyond our comprehension as the commercial world puts it. The commercial world projects it to be esoteric, for only some special people to have access to this knowledge, and only those people are bonafide to teach this subject. There is nothing to teach. Even teacher learns, as he teaches. It is inner dormant power that teaches. One can only become the scribe of Mother's script expressed through mind.

5.2 Two sages of 19-20th century have broken this esoteric misconception. One is Sri Aurobindo, and the other is Swami Sivananda, a doctor turned saint. The latter has wide network of disciple succession, including Swami Dayanada Saraswati and Swami Satyananda Saraswati (author’s Guru). The institutions established by them are doing great service to humanity. Bhagavad-Gita confirms self-realization to be direct experience, and it is true.

5.3 In reality, it is easy subject to understand, if we are able to experience subtleties hard to believe, deserting intellectual tendencies. The only means is systematic yoga. The biggest surprise one can experience is that no man is doer, including realized souls who took their ascent to what we call heavens, and everything goes by Universal Laws of Nature. All realized souls reach that state, which already exists as part of creation.

5.4 The illusory doer within us is immortal unmanifest nature, our subtle body, we call ātma, which manifests in the form of ego (I-maker) by birth. It gives us a feeling of doer-ship. It is through doer-ship of visible ignorant body, that we reach invisible higher self.

5.5 After this ascent, beholding higher self, we find ourselves to be beyond higher-self, indivisible part of Ultimate Truth, we call Whole, or Absolute. It is cause of everything in creation. It is immortal, never born (beginning less), and only ONE.

5.6 It is the in dweller of all that exists. It is so near, yet so far; the state of ‘just be’ in deep slumber (nothingness). This is all what Advaita Vedanta means and is confirmed by ādi ?ankara.

6. Please read this topic in conjunction with ‘Artificial intelligence in two parts’, available in references, mentioned below. There are scriptural references in these topics to confirm the script above. It is all about inverted tree concept, inverse process of creation with roots in heavens, as brought out in Chapter#15 of Bhagavad-Gita. The ascent is possible only by meditation to higher self, with unalloyed faith in God at core.

6.1 In the words of Carl Gustav Jung, “The idea that man is like unto an inverted tree seems to have been current in by gone ages. The link with Vedic conceptions is provided by Plato in his Timaeus in which it states, behold we are not an earthly but a heavenly plant.’ This correlation can be discerned by what Krishna expresses in chapter 15 of Bhagavad-Gita.”

7. Om Namo Nārāya?a

References

I. Artificial Intelligence, Part -1

https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/artificial-intelligence-part-1-vasudeva-vadlakonda/

II. Artificial Intelligence, Part - 2

https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/artificial-intelligence-part-2-vasudeva-vadlakonda/

Place: Hyderabad

Date: 14 August 2020

Author: Vasudeva Murthy Vadlakonda

Mail ID: [email protected]

Websites:

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bhagavadgitareflections.blogspot.com

Notes:

a. Author is a mere scribe. The script is by Angel of Death, Mother Kundalini, expressed through mysterious but evolving mind, purging all mysteries.

b. This article is dedicated to Paramahamsa Satyananda Saraswati, founder of Bihar School of Yoga, Yoga Research Foundation, and Rikhiapeeth.

c. We must understand why we refer to man in almost all spiritual writings. Man refers to Purus??a, the only invisible sentient element in three material worlds, which gets expression from the Omniscient. Everything in the existence is Prak?ti or nature - visible to optical eye, unique to individual (includes man and woman). Prak?ti (time and space) is worshiped as Feminine Divine Mother in her three transcendental states (ignorance, sustenance and death or knowledge) world over. Navarātri is celebrated in India in glory of Mother, in HER three transcendental states enveloping entire material world.

c. Annexure gives words of wisdom from Paramahamsa Satyananda Saraswati, which changed the life of author from status of a simple scientist of fairly good caliber to a non-doer, never born.

Annexure

Words of wisdom from Paramahamsa Satyananda Saraswati

A.  What is Yoga?

Yoga is a system of living with sense and science, of the realization of ultimate values and altruistic missions of life. Yoga evolves a harmonious order in mind, matter, and man. Yoga is an absolute departure from basic animal tendencies. Yoga is a state of aloofness from the artificiality of life and relationship. Yoga is the culture of tomorrow.

B.  Unique Individual – Never Born.

Think that you are not you, that you do not exist. Think that it is that power which works in all things, also working through you. Practice will eventually reveal this secret to you. One must realize through experience that it is He (Supreme Lord) who makes us do everything. Never believe that you are the doer, you will gradually realize this through experience of the doer.

Always cherish the thought that you are nobody. Whatever there is, it is only the power, you are only the medium. This attitude may be merely intellectual in the beginning, but eventually you will discover through experience that it is a sublime truth. Whether you feel this non-doing through the intellect or through personal experience, it leads directly to detachment. One becomes detached in all situations of life. This is the means to harmony, happiness, and higher experience.

C. Passions

All the problems that you face in life, all the ups and downs are really the means to your personal evolution. Everything that you face in life, whether pleasant or unpleasant, is really the means to higher awareness.

They really help you. Though they may seem to hinder you from a limited and personal viewpoint at this stage, they are really the tests, the means to your eventual transcendence and total understanding of reality.

Though mental disturbances during meditational practices, and during everyday life may seem obstacles, they are really the things that help you to become aware of, to confront and remove the personal blocks or hindrances that prevent the flight into higher awareness.

Without these apparent obstacles, you would never become aware of the imperfections in yourself that prevent higher experience. It is only through your enemies that you can recognize personal hang-ups. It is only through unhappiness, that you can recognize seeds of disharmony within yourself.

Without day to day problems, you would never try to overcome obstacles. All the turmoils of everyday life are the indicators that stimulate you to overcome your own imperfections. So, recognize your problems and use everyday life as the means to attain perfection.

D. Karma Yogi

To abide by the laws of karma yoga is an uphill task but surely not an impossible one. The karma yogi goes on his way through small day to day events. The test lies in trying the attitude of man towards daily problems, severe and ordinary. The one who can detach himself from the exciting effects of joyful events, and from the maddening effects of sorrowful events is a karma yogi in the true sense of the word, for he has offered all he has. For such a man, prayer does not mean remembrance for a few routine minutes, but it means offering of the whole, full life. For such a person, then life itself becomes a constant prayer. Make your life a constant prayer by dedicating yourself to karma yoga.

E. Sage vis-à-vis an ordinary man

A great saint, a mahatma, a yogi, a prophet or a J?āni lives on this earth like any other human being. He thinks, enjoys, and eats like others. The great difference between a yogi and an ordinary man is that he has awakened a dormant faculty in man called awareness. He has unfolded this faculty, whereas the ordinary man has not. He is always aware. He is called a dra?ta - a seer. He is the witnesser of events. Your aim on the path to realizing and awakening your dormant potential should be to gradually unfold this faculty of awareness within yourself. You should try to become a seer.