Sunday, November 11, 2018

Mithya - Addition without any addition

Brahman, who is nirguna, anantha chaitanyam, is the only vastu, with its lakshana being satchitananda.

So when we say anything "is", asti iti, the brahman alone is. I am and anything IS, is brahma lakshanam.

However the jagat is, seer is, seen is.

Jagat, seer , seen, are all additions without adding anything to the vastu, there being no second. No second ingredient is there, no element is there. There is only one vastu.

So the nature of jagat is kalpitam, adhyastha, adhyasa alone explains there is a jagat, which is addition without any addition. Without any ingredient, jagat is, elements is, universe is, knower atman is, without any addition, without any change. This is mithya, or maya shakti.

Maya sahita brahman is, brahman remains free of maya, but mithya maya is. Jagat is mithya. Brahman is satyam.

There is jagat without brahman adding anything to itself. Jagat is brahman, but brahman is not jagat. Jagat is atman, but atman is non jagat. Without adding anything to itself, jagat is, jagat  is, non separate from atman. Jagat is material in nature. Without addition, this material cause is. Atman oneself is the material cause, without adding anything. Without adding anything this material cause becomes the manifold beings and jagat. Sakshi brahman is all this, without becoming all this.

So what is , is brahman. Every vastu is brahman, brahman is satchitananta lakshanam. The name and form vastu, can be used for variety, novelty and beauty, but no security, brahman by itself is the unchanging secure consciousness.

Saturday, November 10, 2018

Brahma satyam jagan mithya

When it is said brahman is not an subject to becoming the experienced, it is to be understood, that what we call as 'known' and 'knowledge vrtti', and as the 'knower' are not separate vastus, There is only one vastu, which is satyam, which is the reality.

Knower, known, knowledge are mithya, which gain there reality from satyam brahman.

Jagat is adhyastha on brahman. and brahman is the satya vastu.

The mithya jagat entails a mithya "nimmitta" karana lord, who has the 3 gunas sattva rajas tamas, and who has the shakti to create, maintain and resolve , yatha urnanabhi uthathe.

यथोर्णनाभिः सृजते गृह्णते च
यथा पृथिव्यामोषधयः सम्भवन्ति ।

So here the maya sahitha chaitanyam, using which pruthvi etc. come forth, as per the karma of jivas, and then jivas are as though born. The sukshma sharira is born, the karana sharira is the ajnana and the karmas are present in it. So this jiva is born, with various shariras, here the one who gets the name jiva is also brahman only, brahman not undergoing any change.

In case of the maya isvara also, the same brahman alone, is the creator, resolver etc.

The resolved state, is when all jivas, all forms and names, and maya shakti are in unmanifest condition, again non separate from brahman.

So that is the message that there is only one brahman, who alone is the creator preserver resolver with total maya upadhi, and who is alone the sakshi chaitanyam with antahakarana upadhi, there is no real duality, but there is a mithya duality.

The word mithya has to be understood, along with the word satyam. 

Sunday, November 4, 2018

No becoming

Shastra and guru teach that atma never becomes the knower, never becomes the various object and the jagat, never becomes the vrttis, they are all mithya in terms of reality, not non existent, not having their own existence, existence belonging to oneself, the satyamJnanamAnantam atma.

Only if there is a second existent entity there is limitation, but if there is no second entity, then there is no issue, there is only a mithya jagat, mithya ishvara, mithya sakshi, mithya vrttis, mithya unknowns. So i can say for the various objects we way exists, I lend them existence. It has borrowed existence. I being the source. 

Pratibodha Viditam

In kena upanisad there is a verse
pratibodha-viditam matam amrtatvam hi vindate
atmana vindate viryam vidyaya vindate amrtam
So here the method to understand brahman is given.Pratibodha viditam, brahman is known in every cognition.
In every cognition, non dual atma is the svarupa of the cognition, the svarupa of the knower, the svarupa of the object that IS. Atma being non dual and all pervasive with respect to the triputi.
So when it is said cognition IS, the IS belongs to atma it is said.
When it is said the IS belongs to atma, without withdrawing the entire cognition, letting the cognition be, the ISness , has to be reclaimed by the atma, as its own svarupa , belonging to itself and not to the cognition or the cognized object. In general the atma is believed to be located, limited. But here it is made clear, that no matter where the object is, the isness belongs to atma, hence the isness is ananta isness, limiteless and existence are both the svarupa of atma.
Therefore all you are doing is claiming your ananta svarupa.
So my ananta svarupa here refers to my being not away from anything, my being all pervasive.
So when I say that object IS, whatever space time it may be in, in that the isness, belongs to the all pervasive me.
In the cognition, the isness belongs to the "me" that is nirvisesha, that doesnt become the cognised, or the cogniser or the cognition, and is at the same time ananta, not away from the cogniser, cognized and cognition.
That is only reasonable, as in a room full of golden ornaments, the gold is all pervasive, and while every chain, bangle is gold, gold never becomes either chain or bangle, chain bangle are mithya in terms of reality. They have a transactional reality.
So in the cognition, the cognised, the cogniser, the IS belongs to the me, that is not the cognition, neither the cognised, nor the cogniser.
So here I am claiming by brahma svarupa, my ananta svarupa.
And the names and forms are simply a prabhava, a magical experience alone, whole experience as a whole involving experiencer, experienced, is a mithya maya prabhava, maya kalpita, or mayikam. It is gandharva pattanam. Which means on the sky we see clouds in various formations, looking like palaces horses etc. So thats how this jagat is, an experience of limited object of limited names and forms in space and time, inspite of the vastu being limitless non dual, inspite of there being no limited vastu at all, there is an experience of limited objects, the experience is hence mithya, so for there to be such an experience created, or woven together, there is maya sahita ishvara, who wieves together this experience based on the karma knowledge. So purely on the basis of knowledge of names and forms alone, this experience is woven together. The jagat is purely knowledge, isvaras knowledge it is. The knowledge we have to appreciate, as knowledge. Pure knowledge being brahman, and every name and form IS knowledge, is an as though limitation, and not really limiting jnanam brahman.

Mithya satyam

Known objects , knower, knowledge, are mithya. Mithya is not an object, it is a word covering ones understanding of reality. it is an ontological word. The word indicates the trueness or falseness. There is a 3rd reality word in shastra, called mithya. Mithya means, neither non existent, nor having any existence of its own. If it doesnt have existence of its own, in language we say  "lily flower is".Here the word lily is a name and form, and existence is not an adjective of lily.
Rather existence is the svarupa of atma.

So like saying golden chain. Rather it is chainy gold.
So in the object lily, the word 'object' is a form, is a function, is a superimposition, is a adjective.
The word subject is also an adjective. Once the word object, and the name and form, and the color are all taken to be adjectives, then the noun is atma alone. Atma that is nirvisesha, nameless formless atma.

Now with this in mind, when we say "I see the lily".
The knower of lily,  the knowledge of sight of lily , the object lily are all adjectives.
The noun is not an object of knowledge, the noun is the reality atma, wherein knower is also an adjective. The adjective is tatastha lakshana. So the recognition can take place of the lily object, the lily object can be, the knower can be, no issues. It is not hiding the atma.
As atma is not an object to be hidden.

Being not an object at all, it cannot be subject to hiding and all. Only ignorance is as though hiding atma.


So atma is not hidden. Atma IS, the reality of atma is to be known. When it is said object IS, is refers to atma that is not an object. So atma is not the object. Subject is a name given to atma again, given the seeing. The vrtti IS, is refers to atma, atma is not the vrtti.
So is across knower, known, knowledge is, ones svarupa.
Anantam jnanam, anantam satyam these words reveal this meaning about atma.
So in every cognition atma is.

In every cognition, atma is the svarupa of the cognition, the svarupa of the knower, the svarupa of the object that IS.

So when it is said cognition IS, the is belongs to atma it is said. When it is said the IS belongs to atma, without withdrawing the entire cognition, letting the cognition be, what IS , has to be reclaimed by the atma. Therefore all you are doing is claiming your ananta svarupa. So my ananta svarupa here refers to my being not away from anything, my being all pervasive. So when I say that object IS, whatever space time it may be in, in that the isness, belongs to the all pervasive me.
In the cognition, the isness belongs to the "me" that is nirvisesha, that doesnt become the cognised, or the cogniser or the cognition.
So in the cognition, in the cognised, the cogniser, the IS belongs to the me, that is not the cognition, cognised or the cogniser. So here I am claiming by brahma svarupa, my ananta svarupa.

Bha svarupa

What is congnized is knowledge. 

Bhana is there. There is bhatr, bhanam, and bhanya vastu. 
Pramata, Prama and Prameya.

The vastu "IS". All three are names of one vastu, that is bha svarupaH. 
Asti svarupaH, or sat svarupaH. What kind of sat., anantham satyam, which is desha kala vastu aparichinnaH. Same way anantam bhanam, which is the truth of pramata, prama and prameya.

That is atma. Atma is satyamJnanamAnatam, which is atma lakshana. The seer, seen and seeing, all the 3, has astitvam, bhanam.

When the word atma is said, knower, known, knowledge all 3 are included. All three is actually 1, non dual. 

All 3 names are mithya. Are viseshas. Are adjectives. The vastu is present always asti, asti. 
Always bha, bha. Hence there is only purnatvam. 

Whatever one says, I am always is. Is anantam , truth of time, always present, never absent. 

I cannot avoid "I", I always is. 

So the pramata, pramana , prameya always is, and always atma, or brahman is. and always atma brahman is whole, is free of attributes, is all pervasive, is limitless.

I myself see myself as prameya, as prama, as pramata hence. eeeee




Sunday, October 28, 2018

Arguments for sabarimala

Introduction


Womens constitutional right to worship lord ayyappa can be protected, only by following the tradition and rules for worship. By protecting the tradition the law can protect the constitutional right of women to worship the lord by following the dharma. By giving in to activists and non believers' interpretation, honorable court will be "taking away" the traditional and believing womens' right to worship. Hence the current judgement is against Article 25 where women and everyone have a freedom to practice religion. 

By nullifying the sanctity of the tradition, and allowing non believers to take over the faith, the Article 25 is not upheld and the traditional believing men and womens' "freedom of religion" is broken. 


Arguments



Verbatim : 25. Freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion
(1) Subject to public order, morality and health and to the other provisions of this Part, all persons are equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practise and propagate religion

1. Article 25: Right to practice religion

Religion for sabarimala includes the "entire" practice of undertaking the 41 day vratham as a "family". 

In hinduism we are not a congregatory religion. Our worship starts the moment a man or child or old woman in the home undertakes the vratham. For 41 days , entire family, including the age group women in the house who are not travelling to the physical location. are undertaking "worship" by contributing to whosoever is undertaking vratham.

The women fill the irumudi with their prayers, and pray for the safe journey , good darsanam and for their family to be blessed by lord ayyappa. This is their means to worship the lord of sabarimala.

 By breaking the tradition, their right to practice ones religion under Article 25 of indian constitution is being snatched away. This is since the moment the practice and tradition of vratham is taken away as a stipulation or rule, then the sanctity, the glory, the importance, the weightage , the sacredness and the potency of the vratham is being mocked at, and rendered 'unimportant' or 'unnecessary'. 

Traditional worshippers would believe the sanctity of sabarimala to be impacted as a result of breaking of tradition and hence the religious practice itself is being diluted the moment the temple makes it non mandatory. The temple itself is an inseparable part of the entire sequence of worship, and without the vratham, irumudi and mode of worship, the "religious" character of the institution is altered, thereby the practice can no more be undertaken in its wholeness. As a result my right to practice is challenged by breaking the tradition, since the practice is possible only when the "means to practice" is available, and the strict observance of the rule by temple authority and communities collective belief, is the rule to which a devotee subjects himself or herself to, which itself is the means to practice. 

You cannot ban a mantra, or a mala and say you are upholding the religious practice of Japa. You cannot say that I am allowing the blacksmith or the weaver to ply his trade by taking away all his tools. 
Same way the rules, the vrathams are the mode of worship, and by making it "any way goes", the very means is being diluted and washed away. By killing the means the very end is rendered unreachable. 

2. Article 25: Right to profess and propagate religion

 If the temple starts allowing anyone without any rules, the believers and followers will see their traditional practice and its effect being diluted, and the dream of seeing lord ayyappa after the entire family undertakes rigourous vratham of 41 days, is being mocked at, as other people are coming in without any such rule at all, and without any rigourous penance. Essentially both followers and non believers will get "divya darisanam", mocking at the efforts taken by the followers and their families.

 This is taking away the right under Article 25 to profess and propagate ones religion. The essential element of vratham involved in the mode of religious practice is being flouted. It is like claiming that sanyasis can be married, church fathers can be married, sisters in church can be married, and those religious institutions should accept that. The essential character of the religuous practice must be protected by stipulation for it to survive as an article of faith. 

By nullifying and taking away the "vratham" as an essential religious practice for sabarimala, the entire religious practice is being broken and rendered non existent due to an incorrect interpretation of Article 25.

Example Cases
As per the below verdict given in SC for case of Central Board of the Dawoodi Bohra Committee v State of Maharashtra, the court is clearly stating that Article 25 also extends to "acts done in pursuance of religion, and contain a gaurantee for rituals and observances, ceremonies and modes of worship which are integral parts of religion. Practices which are regarded by "community" as a part of its religion are considered as "integral parts" . Also the doctrine of the religion itself is in keeping with the spirit of specific modes of worship (explained in later sections) .

 By a 4-1 majority, the Supreme Court struck down the Act. Das Gupta J. wrote the opinion for himself, and two of his brother judges. Referring to a previous decision of the privy council, he commenced by noting that it was now a settled legal position that the Dai did have powers of excommunication. He then observed that, on a survey of precedent, there were two clear principles underlying the interpretation of Articles 25 and 26:
“The first is that the protection of these articles is not limited to matters of doctrine or belief they extend also to acts done in pursuance of religion and therefore contain a guarantee for rituals and observances, ceremonies and modes of worship which are integral parts of religion. The second is that what constitutes an essential part of a religious or religious practice has to be decided by the courts with reference to the doctrine of a particular religion and include practices which are regarded by the community as a part of its religion.”

4. Article 25: No issues with morality , public order and health

In the sabarimala religious practice false equivocations cannot be made with immoral practices such as forced sati etc. There is no question of morality here, as entire family is happily participating in the vratham mode of worship. Public order is not under threat, in fact its only after the verdict, devotees are being instigated and falsely implicated.

On the health aspect, in fact there are instance of people bringing up the fact that yogic sciences talk about the fact that women of reproductive age and their health maybe negatively impacted due to vibrations of a yogic center and a diety in yogic sadhana such as lord ayyappa in sabarimala.


5. Article 17 : Untouchability

Article 17 regarding untouchability does not apply here at all.  In fact Sabarimala is "upholding" article 17 , there being NO CASTE based discrimination here since ancient times. 

5. Article 21: Rights of the deity 

And of course the rights of the diety also apply which is Article 21.The diety has laid down rules for strict vratham as per the history of the temple. 

6. Article 26 : What denomination does sabarimala belong to?

Article 26 , sabarimala is definitely hindu religious denomination. It is under devaswom board, and the diety plus practices have hindu origins. All religions are allowed in sabarimala, as since per hinduism, all religions and faiths, are under hinduism, since it allow plurality of worshiped deity and modes of worship. Hinduism accepts worship of god in any form ,and considering everyone undertaking the vratham and having devotion as a hindu even if he also worships jesus or Allah, hence sabarimala belongs to hindu religious denomination.


Narrative



My views concur with that of Justice Indu Malhotra, in her words
“Judicial review of religious practises ought not to be undertaken, as the Court cannot impose its morality or rationality with respect to the form of worship of a deity. Doing so would negate the freedom to practise one’s religion according to one’s faith and beliefs. "

1. Social effect of breaking tradition
Breaking sabarimala tradition is a discrimination against women.Against women who believe in the tradition and want to gain from it. Against women like honorable judge indu malhotra who understand the in depth subtlety. Against enlightened populace of keralas matrimonial society who have followed tradition for thousands of years. Against those who dont have a voice in westernized colonized english media. Against anyone who doesn't follow a communist ideology. 

It is a rank discrimination and in fact worse, it's a false incrimination, a false accusation and a false characterization of peace loving traditionalists who only seek the wellness of entire humanity and living beings. It is nothing short of violence and ignorance cannot be a valid reason for continued propagation of violence.

2. 41 day vratham, is it discriminatory? Supported by religious doctrine and not just community
Moreover if the argument is that the 41 day vratham itself is stipulated to be discriminatory , discrimination can only be argued if the benefits are usurped by a certain section. By not following any kind of vratham and going with a random irumudi based on no rules, or self made rules, why do they believe that there would be a benefit. If they argue that god didn't create these rules , then we can argue that none of the vrathams, traditions, mantras are valid. I can even worship a Mickey mouse as god with candies ?
We arent simply visiting a deity statue. There is a living God who is manifesting as a blessing principle "via" the form. We worship the god in the form and not just the plain form. That's why a vigraha or statue needs a prana pratishta, after which the diety has entered the statue and it becomes the living diety.
If we are to believe that a god principle which is other than the form has entered the form , then why was this form picked, why not some random form ? This means the form has a significance, a reason behind it. Which means the means of worshipping the form cannot be random. If the forms are specific , the mode of worship is specific and so is the result.
If the mode of worship is not followed we believe the result is not beneficial.
So if women worship without any mode or rules and is of either no benefit or opposite effect , due to which they are advised not to come , is that discrimination ?
By having the husband visit, dont they gain the same benefit as the husband carry the irumudi.
Those arguing to create their own rules , based on what can they claim that "their" rules will "work" for the benefit. If they claim god has no rules , then based on what do they claim so, and as explained if we extend that argument we need not have any form , we can worship Mickey mouse with candies.
Without any means of knowledge to justify their claims, they have no right to impose their thoughts.
To uphold gender non discrimination , discrimination has to be established by proving that the "benefits have been usurped". Whereas in this case the men and women both benefit by folowing the tradition (as have women for 1000 years).
If they claim the benefit that accrues to women is usurped by not letting them pray , they have to prove it, and they have no basis or means of knowledge to prove so. Without a means of knowledge what they believe is purely their "opinion without any basis". In a free country how can you impose your opinion on others through law?

Conclusion

Pandalam + other royals etc. built 100+ temples- all genders allowed, but apparently for their sadistic pleasure they built 1 temple and said "lets keep women out"? Makes no sense at all . 

We must be sensible in our judgments and not allow our own prejudices to cloud our judgement. 

It is the duty of the law of the land to uphold the constitutional right to practice of ones religion  and religious beliefs, subject to morality, public order and health . In this case there is no threat to morality , public order is being broken by instigating devotees by their right is being taken away.  Request the highest seat to protect our constitutional rights.

Maya and brahman