Continuing 3 Gunas

SATTVA:- Mind and sense control forbearance, sound judgement, truthfulness, benevolence,clear memory, contentment, abstemiousness belief in good and in life eternal modesty, liberality, abstinence from prohibited acts are the effects of Sattva Guna.

RAJAS:- Craving for sensuous pleasures, arrogance, passions, desire for action, obstinacy, discontet, hankering after blessings (from God and men) discrimination between the interest of oneself and that of others, lust, garrulousness, love of praise, aggressiveness are the actions of Rajas.

THAMAS:- Intolerance, miserliness, truth less, malevolence , ingratitude, hypocrisy love for discord, grief despondency, drowsiness, indolence ,fear, anger demanding favor etc.

These 3 gunas affects all. The individual characteristics but in practice all 3 go together in various proportions.

A student of spirituality or philosophy should watch these gunas and improve to Satva Guna.

3 GUNAS

EACH PERSON IS VIBRATING ACCORDING TO HIS OR HER INNER NATURE OR MIND AND THEN RELEASING VIBRATIONS.

Tamas - Dullness

Rajas - Restlessness

Satva - Calmness

Three gunas (quality) are present in every person in different proportion

Tamasik= Predominance of dullness due to inertia - it is a impure became tamas heightens body awareness and the non perception of inner self.

Rajasik= Mind of restlessness due to passion and desire. This vibrations of rajas are known to be worldly because it is the nature - of rajas to inflate Ego - and discomfort the perception of the self.

The Satvik= Mind of the calmness because of control of balance and regarded as pure and least distort the perception of the self. Thepure mind more sensitive to there vibrations.

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Supreme Self

The 4th state of mind is to be as the supreme self wherein all the other three state dissolve. In Mandukyopanishad describes" It cannot be internal consciousness or external consciousness or both. It is not a mass consciousness. It cannot be seen, cannot be used for worldly transactions, cannot be grasped. It has no attributes, nor conceived by the mind and has no name. The essence of the one Self where the entire world is dissolved. It is all asupiciousness, all peace all pervading, and non dual. This is the Absolute Self.

Lord Siva, Parameswara desribes " Iam not the body, blood, flesh or bones, nor I am the subtle body, consists of eight categories of things:

1. The five senses of action.

2. The five senses of perception (eyes, ears, nose etc

3. The pancha pranas

4 The 5 elements like space

5. Mind, intellect, Chitta and Ahamkara(ego)

6. Avidya (Nescience or ignorance of his own nature

7. Desire

8. Latent Karmas ( results( fruits of previous actions.

Namaskar, Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.

Bhagavad Gita (XV-6)

Neither the sun nor the moon nor the fire can shine or illuminate that final state (which is self effulgent). That state is my Supreme abode where from the people who once reach there do not return to the earth again.

This is the status of Jivan Muktha. The person who is liberated in this birth itself. That is attaining Brahma Bhava.

Supreme Brahman

The Acharya tries to express the highest Truth which is beyond the grasp of the intellect, the fact that the pure consciousness, the Supreme Self which has been stated as the cause of the unreal Universe. The Supreme Brahman is which is one's own Self is, therefore neither the subject nor the object.

The Brahman is ever pervading and omniscient The difficult is understanding is the crux. Once you understands it thenthe world is called un real. For example, whatsee, feel or understand through our eyes is not true, in philosophysial sense, that means it called (Midhya) meansnot real the questions is How and Why?

The Acharya explains and equally the scientists are also say the same ting. For example, the common salt, it chemically called Sodium + Chloride, therefore, the common salt is not real it a different and a combination different molecule. So also water the nature element, is not the realall the Chemistry students knows it, as Molecules of Hydrogen and Oxygen, hence we call it water is not the real. If you explore every matter in the universe the things we see or feel is not in original form but in a different form, hence it is called in Advaita, as non dualism

When we progress the studies we can explore further.

Now th Consciousness, which is the absolute one. There different stages of consciousness, briefly, Awakening State, Dream State and Deep Sate. We shall deal with it in details in the next session. Which is purely un real. In real terms when we sleep deeply, we are not able to know anything, even the body . Even then we get up immediately, we feel that "I have slept well" a common statement, Why we say that, because the original consciousness is aware and it is there even if the body is not aware, that consciousness which remind us every day is called absolute consciousness. In Another example, during the surgery on anesthesia the body is not aware of any thing, but on awakening it immediately recollects the body and the mind, during this unconscious period of the body who looked after our Jivan,? Only absolute onsciouness Okay.

The consciousness is like Electricity is one and the same in all the life forms, without any change, it cnnot change, to be more prcise, the electricity is working on vrious instruments, from ordinary bulbs to modern electronics gadgets, all the instruments are not the same but the energey electricity is the same, like that our absolute consciousness is one and the same for all the ife form, from tree to largest mammal elephant and soon, think for a while U will understand it.

Philosophy of India.

World Guru, Sri Adi Sankara, the accepted and competent Guru, Authority of Indian Philosophy, through Mighty Hinduism called Advaita philosophy, while commenting On the Bhagavad Gita Chp:XVIII-50, says" It is true that the Absolute is unattainable to those who are not initiated into the traditional knowledge by their preceptors, who have not properly grasped, studied, the import of Vedanta, whose intellect is completely engrossed in the external sense-subject-objects and who are not trained in the right sources (resources called our scriptures) of Knowledge. Those who are initiated, into the studies of vedanta (after Upanayana or BrahmaUpadesa) it is quite impossible to believe in the reality of duality - subject-and object- of our external perception because they perceive no reality other than the Consciousness of the Self." The Adi Sankara, touched all the aspects of our Philosophy, in 68AD.

The much talked after and sought after subject by Avatars of neo Gurus in various forms.

Therefore there is no need for an external evidence for knowing ones own body, so also there is no need for an external proof.

For beautiful example to suit the modern world, I shall quote "Swai Paramarthananda, that Self is like a Camera, the camera takes thousands of photos, but in no picture you can see the camera, means YOU ARE THAT. 'TAT TVAM ASI'

In Another example well defined, nobody so far thought like this. Self is Atman, and the Atman is the Self. "Aham Brahma Asmi" This Mahavakya is explained with the simple modern instrument. THE TELEPHONE MOBILE OR LAND LINE, CAN CONTACT ANY NUMBER OF NUMBERS EXTERNALLY AND CONNECT MANY PEOPLE, BUT THE MOMENT YOU TRY TO CONNECT YOU TELEPHONE YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CONTACT" THE IS THE SUPREME SELF OR WE CALL IT ATHMA OR PARAMATMA.

LET US THINK IT OVER. TILL THEN bye Om Shanti