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जीवन : सार-संक्षेप 

मनुष्यमात्र सिर्फ अपनी गलतफहमियों के कारण ही सुखी या दुःखी होता है। जिसे कोई गलतफहमी नहीं होती, या जैसे ही किसी की सभी गलतफहमियाँ दूर हो जाती हैं वह बस धन्य हो जाता है। 

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18/59 यदहङ्कारमाश्रित्य

Shrimadbhagvad-Gita

and

The Choiceless Awareness.

Shrimadbhagvad-gita begins with the conclusive determination /choice of Arjuna :

Chapter 2, Stanza 9

सञ्जय उवाच :

एवमुक्त्वा हृषीकेशं गुडाकेशः परन्तप।। 

न योत्स्य इति गोविन्दमूक्त्वा तूष्णीं बभूव ह।।९।।

(अध्याय २)

Chapter 18, Stanza 59

(श्रीभगवानुवाच)

यदहङ्कारमाश्रित्य न योत्स्य इति मन्यसे।।

मिथ्यैष व्यवसायस्ते प्रकृतिस्त्वां नियोक्ष्यति।।५९।।

(अध्याय १८)

What a coincidence! 

The Text of this Greatest classic of all times concludes / strikes the same Note  where it had started -- 

न योत्स्य (अहं न योत्स्ये इति)

Chapter 2 stanza 09 and Chapter 18 stanza 59.

The emphasis is in the phrase :

यदहङ्कारमाश्रित्य (यत् अहङ्कारं आश्रित्य)

Shrikrishna exhorts Arjuna :

If you are subject to ego and decide that shall not engage in the War, this your choice is indeed futile, because the  प्रकृति  / the nature would force upon you this and you can't disobey the dictate of the nature, you shall be compelled to fight.

Here is a "scriptural lock" where only a truly wise a man could see this lock and has the key to it.

Here no A. I. could be of any help to you!

Shrikrishna points out to Arjuna :

You're supposed to understand what is :

The Choiceless Awareness.

Usually a common reader would think that Shrikrishna is telling Arjuna to go to war and get engaged in the war. 

So here is yet another 

"Lock on the Lock!"

The another lock that one fails even to see is about the relinquishing the sense of doer-ship - I'm free to exert my choice, - what the advocates of "the Free Will" assert.

Will, Choice, determination on the part of the mind too are subject to the nature that is inherent spirit behind whatever happens.

This is verily the tenet and the wisdom of the साङ्ख्य दर्शन / sAMkhya Principle.

Arjuna too fails to see and understand the catch / lock. He is obsessed with the idea :

I'm free to decide what I need to do, should, and act accordingly.

This is the very ignorance, everyone is possessed by from one's birth itself.

The following stanza 27 of Chapter 7 points out this rather candidly :

इच्छाद्वेषसमुत्थेन द्वन्द्वमोहेन भारत।।

सर्वभूतानि सम्मोहं सर्गे यान्ति परन्तप।।२७।।

(अध्याय ७)

O Man of Great Striving and Penance! 

All living beings from their very birth, are subject and a victim to the delusion caused by desire and envy / hatred.

This delusion because of the desire and the envy is there in the nature of all and everyone. This is indeed the ego.

Another point is that Shrikrishna is not forcing the War upon Arjuna.

Shrikrishna doesn't say or order Arjuna to fight. Shrikrishna merely points out :

Discard only the sense of doer-ship - the idea :

 I shall do, or I shall not.

This is rather difficult to understand that this idea is the only conflict and is to be overcome by means of : 

Choiceless Awareness (of What Is)

This could be again explained by the way of rephrasing the same in the following :

Automatic Divine Action.

Which could be supported by the stanza 14, 15 of Chapter 18 viz. 

अधिष्ठानं तथा कर्ता करणं च पृथग्विधम्।।

विविधाश्च पृथक्चेष्टा दैवं चैवात्र पञ्चमम्।।१४।।

शरीरवाङ्मनोभिर्यत्कर्म प्रारभते नरः।।

न्याय्यं वा विपरीतं वा पञ्चैते तस्य हेतवः।।१५।।

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संज्ञान और ऋषि

ज्ञान की परम्परा और परम्परा का ज्ञान

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What Did The Sage Speak?

The Nameology :

नम् परः नामपरकः वा इति  "number".

In the year 2016 precisely on 19 March,  had to leave Ujjain, where I had been living since 2006, and on the same day in the night arrived at Ghatkhedi, a village on the bank of the river Narmada. I lived there till 5th of August.

In the neighborhood there was a pundit named Sri Girijashankar Atre. He had two sons and the younger one shared the name with me as well - Vinay. So he was - Vinay Atre.   

The river flows between the two banks, one is Ghatkhedi while the another is : Khedighat.

A bridge on the state highway joining Indore to Khandwa  connects the two banks as well. The village Ghatkhedi is a village, part of the nearby town known as Baravaha, while Khedighat is on the other bank and the adjacent Railway Station is accordingly Omkareshwar-Road . Mortakka is also an old name of this place and Omkareshwar is about 11 miles away from there.

This detailed description is what I can give out here so as to relate the facts. 

In between April 2016 to March 2016, I started reciting the Rigveda, and just by the very insight and my intuition too, I was aware that the VedapAtha are to be recited and to be learned in this way and should never to be learned in any other way through translation in any language what-so-ever. Just because Veda is the Mantra and the devatA as such and is to be connected through phonetics only.

This much for the introduction.

While going through this veda-pATha,  while going through the part 2 and in the subsequent richA I was reading my own name there, I found it in the following :

ॐ गणानां त्वा गणपतिं हवामहे ...

सः विनयः भारद्वाजः ...

VinayaH BhAradwAjah.

I at once realized why my destiny might have brought me at this place. It's not just the coincidence that the above two words really connote my Vedika name.

I'm not unnecessarily glorifying myself but want to say I was feeling humbled only to know this. This is so because I'm born in the bhAradwAja Gotra and my this name Vinay was given to me by my parents for whatever reasons they might hardly knew.

Intuitively I could see that I belong to Sage BhAradwAja in this lineage / tradition also.

This is an example of Nameology.

Yesterday I came across a video of Sri Neeraj Atri. While viewing this all and at once this memory was there and I felt our names reveal so much about us.

So I felt Neeraj Atri might also be in the lineage of the Sage and Gotra of  Atri.

Then remembering the associated ideas I was thinking of the  Sage JAbAl Rishi . In my other blogs I've written in detail how the Angel Gabriel was none other than Sage JabAl Rishi indeed. The word Angel is likewise a cognate of the word angirA / angiras who was again a Sage belonging to Vedika  Tradition.

The Mundakopanishad / मुण्डकोपनिषद्  also describes how this tradition begins with brahmA :

ॐ ब्रह्मा देवानां प्रथमः सम्बभूव विश्वस्य कर्ता भुवनस्य गोप्ता।। 

From The brahmA onwards begins this lineage of the Sages/Rishi .

शौनको ह महाशालः 

Thus describes the Sage Shaunaka who approached the Sage angiras/ angirA and questioned Him :

भगवो किमिदं यद्विज्ञाते सर्वमिदं ज्ञातम् भवति?

(As I am writing all this only with the help of memory so may be a bit different from the text as may be there in the text of  Mundakopanishad.)

Watching the video of the talks of Sri Neeraj Atri with Sri Rahul Dewan, all this came to mind.

There are two salient points -

1. If I remember correctly, The story of how Angil Gabriel gave the teachings to Abraham was to "listen to and speak" His words.  In the Sanskrit this is said -

"ब्रूहि"

When written in left to right way, which becomes हिब्रू , and when written in right to left way. That much I can say. I claim nothing more. So Abraham was indeed  the first Messenger or the Prophet of this Knowledge of God / Brahman.

2. The same knowledge was then given to two other next prophets who are known to have founded the other two religions.

One can understand how in Time the  Mighty and the Great this knowledge was lost to next generations as is said in the Gita - अध्याय 4,

इमं विवस्वते योगं प्रोक्तवानहमव्ययम्।।

विवस्वान् मनवे प्राह मनुरिक्ष्वाकवेऽब्रवीत्।।१।। 

स योगो कालेन महता नष्टः परन्तप।।

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This is how I can relate and accordingly I can think.

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पुनरपि जननम्!

 कविता  21 09 2023

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प्रकाश और अन्धकार

सत्य का आलोक

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मन आकाश है, विचार अन्धकार और भावनाएँ इन्द्रधनुष हैं। विचार और भावनाएँ विषय-चिन्तन।

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उषःसूक्तम्

सुबह का राम राम, 

इस सुबह का प्रणाम!

Do What You Will!

P O E T R Y.

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Do What You Will, 

For, What You Want, 

May Or May Not Be Done.

Irrespective Of Your Deed, 

The Consequences Will Be There!

You Can Though Do Nothing, 

Still The Wheel Of  The Destiny,

Would Push You Into Action. 

Though You Are Scared,

Or If Have Even Dared,

You Can't Escape From,

What Is Destined To Be Done,

Neither By You, Nor By The Others,

Who Think They Do, Or They Don't.

There is Really No One There,

Who Could Be Held Responsible, 

For Whatever Happens Or Not, 

For Whatever Is Done Or Not, 

For This very Idea : "I Do",

Is Itself Ambiguous, Undefined.

Neither The World, Nor The Body, 

Neither The Organs, Nor The Senses, 

Neither The Thought, Nor The Feeling,

Do Anything Independently,

On their Part, On Their Own. 

Nor The Memory, Nor The Desire, 

Nor The Inspiration, Nor The Fear,

Neither The Instinct, Nor Intuition,

The Duty Distinct, Nor Compulsion,

Do Anything Independently,

On Their Part, On Their Own.

Still There Lurks Behind,

In The Mind, A Belief Blind!

That Captivates You And You Claim :

I Believe,  I Think, I Like Or Hate, 

I Do,  I Did, I Didn't, I Would, I Wouldn't.

Unaware Of What You Say And Believe,

What You Think, You Live Or Leave,

Driven By The Ignorance Of,

What Is Really Done, 

Or If, Is Really Done, 

What Really Happened,

Or Not Really Happened.

This Chain Of Events,

That You Call The Happening, 

Is Neither Done By You,

And Is Not Of Your Making!

Why Do You Fall A Victim Innocent,

To This Blind Belief, Arrogant!

Look At This Whole Phenomenon,

You Neither Do Nor Have Done! 

Be Calm,  Collected,  Free Your Mind, 

There Is No Hurry, Nothing Can You Bind.

There Is Light, The Conscious Awareness,

There Is No Darkness, Nor You're Blind! 

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