1, 2. Ο Γκουρού είπε: Ο Τζιβανμούνκτα* που
έχει φθάσει στην άφθαρτη κατάσταση Τουρίγια-Turiya δεν
μπορεί ποτέ να επηρεαστεί από τα ζεύγη αντιθέτων. Αυτός πάντα παραμένει στη
δική του Sat-Chit-Ananda
φύση. Περιπλανιέται ευτυχισμένος.
Σχόλιο
Ο Τζιβανμούνκτα*: Τζιβανμούνκτα, ονομάζεται ο απελευθερωμένος στα
σανσκριτικά και είναι ο όρος που χρησιμοποιείται στην Βεδάντα για να αναφερθούν
στον αυτοπραγματατοποιημένο ή φωτισμένο. Ένας άλλος όρος που χρησιμοποιείται
για τον αυτοπραγματατοποιημένο είναι η λέξη Γκιάνι, που σημαίνει ο Γνώστης της
Αλήθειας.
3. Ο Τζιβανμούνκτα συνειδητοποιεί ότι είναι
πέρα από τα τρία σώματα* και τα πέντε επικαλύμματα * (Κόσας), είναι μάρτυρας
των τριών καταστάσεων, είναι αγνή Συνειδητότητα.
Σχόλιο
τα τρία σώματα* και τα πέντε επικαλύμματα *:
τα πέντε επικαλύμματα ή κόσας ξεκινώντας από
το πιο χονδροειδές προς το πιο λεπτοφυές είναι:
1. Αναμάγια κόσα - Annamaya Kosha (το κόσα της τροφής)
2. Πραναμάγια κόσα - Pranamaya kosha ( το κόσα της ενέργειας)
3. Μανόμαγια κόσα - Manomaya kosha ( το κόσα του μάνας, ο εξωτερικός νους)
4. Βιγκναμάγια κόσα - Vijnanamaya kosha ( το κόσα της Διάνοιας)
5. Ανανταμάγια κόσα - Anandamaya kosha ( το κόσα της Ευδαιμονίας).
τα τρία σώματα είναι:
Το Φυσικό σώμα: - Το Annamaya Kosha αποτελεί το φυσικό σώμα
Το Αστρικό ή Λεπτοφυές σώμα: Τα κόσας Pranamaya kosha - Manomaya kosha - Vijnanamaya kosha αποτελούν το αστρικό ή λεπτοφυές σώμα
Το Αιτιατό σώμα: Το Anandamaya kosha αποτελεί το αιτιατό σώμα
4. Για έναν απελευθερωμένο σοφό που έχει
συνειδητοποιήσει ότι όλα τα όντα είναι ο Εαυτός (Συνειδητότητα, Άτμαν), δεν
υπάρχει ούτε πλάνη ούτε θλίψη, καθώς δεν υπάρχει δεύτερος γι' αυτόν (δηλαδή
υπάρχει μόνο ο Εαυτός, όλα είναι ο Εαυτός).
5. Ο σοφός που έχει εξαλείψει (καταστρέψει)
όλες του τις επιθυμίες και τον εγωισμό του, ο οποίος είναι πάντα ήρεμος και
γαλήνιος, που έχει ίδια στάση προς όλα, ο οποίος δεν διακρίνει ξεχωριστές
μορφές (τα βλέπει όλα ένα) και ο οποίος έχει απελευθερωθεί από την πλάνη (την
άγνοια), αστράφτει με λαμπρότητα.
6. Ο Τζιβανμούνκτα αναπαύεται με ένα
αδιατάραχτο νου στο Πανευδαίμων Μπράμαν (Ύψιστο Εαυτό, Πνεύμα, Απόλυτη
Συνειδητότητα, Θεός). Ο Τζιβανμούνκτα είναι ελεύθερος από όλες τις
τροποποιήσεις του νου. Η καρδιά του είναι αγνή όπως το χιόνι των Ιμαλαίων ή
όπως ο κρύσταλλος. Είναι ελεύθερος από τις διακρίσεις του 'Εγώ', 'Αυτός',
'Εσύ'.
7. Ο απελευθερωμένος σοφός, ο πρίγκιπας των
ασκητών που κατέκτησε τον εχθρό, την άγνοια, ο οποίος γνωρίζει το μυστικό της
αληθινής ευδαιμονίας, χρησιμοποιεί τις παλάμες των χεριών του ως κύπελλο και
κοιμάται ευδαιμονικά κάτω από ένα δένδρο.
8, 9. Ο σοφός δεν νοιάζεται για την κριτική
που μπορεί να του κάνουν δημόσια. Ο νους του παραμένει ατάραχος (ψύχραιμος)
ακόμα και όταν του επιτίθενται. Ευλογεί εκείνους που τον καταδιώκουν. Βλέπει
παντού μόνο τον Εαυτό του (Συνειδητότητα).
10. Αυτός του οποίου ο νους ούτε βυθίζεται
ούτε πετάει στα ύψη όταν βρίσκεται μπροστά σε δυστυχίες και απολαύσεις είναι
πράγματι ένας απελευθερωμένος σοφός. Αυτός έχει κάνει τον νου του εντελώς ήσυχο,
έχοντας ταυτίσει τον εαυτό του πλήρως με το Μπράμαν.
11. Ο Τζιβανμούνκτα έχει συνείδηση (αντίληψη,
επίγνωση) του σώματος στη μορφή μιας σκεπτομορφής*, (αντιλαμβάνεται δηλαδή το σώμα του ως μια σκεπτομορφή, ως μια σκέψη), Ο
Βιντεχαμούντα* (Videhamukta) δεν έχει
συνείδηση του σώματος.
Σχόλιο
σκεπτομορφής*: η πρωτότυπη σκέψη του κειμένου για την λέξη σκεπτομορφή είναι σαμσκάρα που είναι όρος σανσκριτικός.
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Ακολουθεί το κείμενο στα αγγλικά σε σχόλια
του Σουάμι Κρισνανάντα, ένα από τους πιο κοντινούς μαθητές του Σιβανάντα και ο
οποίος πέτυχε την κατάσταση του Τζιβανμούνκτα.
1, 2. The Guru said: A Jivanmukta who has reached the Imperishable
Turiya state can never be affected by the pairs of opposites. He always rests
in his own Sat-Chit-Ananda Swaroopa. He roams about happily.
A
Jivanmukta is a sage who is liberated from bondage even while living with a
body. The perception of the material universe as such vanishes and he beholds
the One Brahman appearing as the universe. The egoism of the Jivanmukta is like
a burnt cloth which has got the appearance of a cloth but is actually reduced
to the state of ashes. The individual consciousness of the Jivanmukta is
powerful enough to maintain the existence of his physical body, but it is not
capable of bringing to him another birth as an embodied being. His
Sanchita-Karmas get fried by the fire of Brahma-Jnana or Knowledge of the
Absolute Reality. He has no Agami Karmas to bring future births because he has
no feelings of Kartritva and Bhoktritva. His actions are cosmic movements and
not the instincts of the sense of egoism. The Prarabdha Karma which has given
rise to Brahma-Jnana lasts as long as the momentum of past desires which
constitute the present Prarabdha lasts. An illustration will make this fact
very clear.
A
hunter sees an animal moving in the forest and thinking that it is a tiger he
shoots an arrow at it. After the arrow has left the bow-string he realises that
the animal is not a tiger but a cow. But this subsequent knowledge will not
save the cow from being affected by the arrow. The arrow will hit the object
which lies within the sphere of its momentum.
The
Jnani realises that the whole universe is Brahman only. But the desires which
he had given rise to during the time when he thought that the objective world
is real will not cease from demanding materialisation into effects as long as
the momentum of their craving lasts. Hence these desires keep up the physical
body of the Jivanmukta for some time even after his Self-realization. When the
Prarabdha-Karma is exhausted the body drops off by itself and the sage becomes
unified with the Infinite Brahman.
But,
even while living with a body, the Jivanmukta identifies his consciousness with
Brahman and is not affected by the pairs of opposites and the forces of nature.
The whole universe is his body for he is in tune with all the forces of Nature
due to his transcending all phenomenal relativities and resting in
Brahman-Consciousness at all times.
3. A Jivanmukta realises that he is beyond the three bodies and
five Koshas, he is the witness of the three states, he is pure Consciousness.
The
Jivanmukta is the witness of the three lower states of consciousness, namely,
the waking, dreaming and deep sleep states. He realises the Turiya state which
is peaceful, blissful and non-dual. He lives in the seventh Bhumika of Jnana
where the mind becomes Brahman itself. The expanded consciousness soars above
the five sheaths and hails beyond the region of thought and intellect. The
Jivanmukta's thoughts and actions do not promise a future world-experience for
him. He experiences the world and individuality only apparently and not in
reality.
He
does not get delighted by pleasures, nor do distresses pain him. He has nothing
dear, nothing inimical. Even violent distractions cannot make him move away
from the Reality. He does not trouble anybody, nor is he troubled by anybody
even in the least. He talks sweetly and nobly. He comes out of the net of
distinctions and desires like a lion from its cage. Fear is unknown to him, and
he is never helpless or dejected. He does not care for life, honour or death.
He behaves as the occasion of the environment requires, but is absolutely
detached within. He is an Apta-Kama. He has got nothing to obtain or avoid. He
is satisfied with his own Self. He is a Mahakarta, a Mahabhokta and a
Mahatyagi.
The
Jivanmukta feels the great Unity of himself and the whole universe in the
Supreme Brahman. He has an abiding realization of the secret Oneness of
Existence which is the basis of universal love. It is the love that does not
expect any reward, return or recompense. Such people are the veritable Emperors
of the universe.
The
Jivanmukta is neither an idle man not an active man. He is a transcendental
actor. His behaviour is ununderstandable even as Brahman is inscrutable, for he
is Brahman itself. Whatever he does is righteous, moral and ideal, for his
actions are the expressions of the Absolute itself. He leads the Divine Life
and moves in the free flow of the Law of Eternal Existence. He has no war
between the body and the spirit. His external actions are just like those of
the ignorant worldly man. But the greatest difference lies between their minds,
the desires and Vasanas. The one does not know what is desire and the other is
immersed in desires. The mind of a liberated man is pure Sattwa itself, it is
no mind at all. He is established in the state of the Self unimpeded by
phenomenal laws. He rejoices in the Infinite Being and lives in the world like
a happy bird, being fully illumined with Transcendental Wisdom.
4. For a liberated sage who has realized that all being are the
Self, there is neither delusion nor grief, as there is no second for him.
To
him who sees Oneness only everywhere, where is delusion and where is grief? The
experience of secondlessness is achieved through a finding of one's self in
each and every being including even the wicked and the ungrateful. Such an
expansion of the Self leads to the glory of the manifestation of the real
Essence of the Being of all beings, where one finds himself in truth, where the
lost Self is recovered with unbounded joy. Grief is only the temporary
psychosis of the individual which has been deprived of a desired object or
which is unable to fulfil a desire. The Jivanmukta who sees the One common
Being spread everywhere grieves never. Beholding Existence as undivided he
walks on the earth unknown and unidentified. No one can find out whether such a
person is a learned one or is ignorant, whether he is virtuous or vicious. He
lives in the great silence of the Self, and whether active or at rest does not
link his ego with his act. He does not see duality even when he is awake to the
world. He is a representative of the Supreme Brahman, appearing before the
human eyes.
The
freed soul assumes the form of what is existent in the absolute point of view.
Hence the sage becomes a Gunatita. He is alike in pleasure and pain,
Self-abiding, regarding a clod of earth, a stone or gold alike. He is the same
to the agreeable and to the disagreeable, firm and alike in censure and praise.
Honour and disgrace do not make to him differences. Friend and foe are no more
valid conceptions.
The
Upanishad says, "Him who knows this (Brahman) these two do not overcome –
neither the thought 'Therefore I did wrong,' nor the thought 'Therefore I did
right.' Surely he overcomes both. He is not affected by either what he has done
or what he has not done. He sees the Atman in the Atman. He sees everything as
the Self. Evil does not overcome him; on the other hand he overcomes all evil.
Evil does not burn him; on the other hand he burns all evil. One who knows
Brahman becomes Brahman. He is fearless. He, who, on all beings, looks as his
very Self, and on the Self as all beings – he does not shrink away from
anything. If one would know It here, then there is the True End of all
aspirations. He who knows That set in the secret place of the heart, he, here
on earth, rends asunder the knot of ignorance.
"Of
him whose desire is satisfied, who is a perfected soul, all desires even here
on earth vanish away! He who knows Brahman attains the Highest. One who knows
that Brahman exists is really existent. If one who knows this (Self) should
offer the leavings even to an outcast (pariah), it would be offered in his
Universal Atman. The Seer does not see death, nor sickness, nor any distress.
The seer sees only the All, and obtains the All entirely. He has delight in the
Self, he sports in the Self, he has company with the Self, he has bliss in the
Self. He is autonomous. He has unlimited freedom in all the worlds.
"Of
whatever object he becomes desirous, whatever desire he desires, merely out of
his will it arises. One who realises 'I am Brahman' becomes the All. Even the
gods have not got the power to prevent his becoming thus, for he becomes their
very Self. He who is without desire, who is freed from desire, whose desire is
satisfied, whose desire is the Self – his Pranas do not depart. They are
gathered together right here. He being Brahman Itself, becomes Brahman.
"When
one realises (the Eternal), all has been done. Only by knowing Him does one
pass beyond death. There is no other way for going over there."
5. The sage who has destroyed all his desires and egoism, who is
always calm and serene, equanimous, who does not see any distinction of form
and who has freed himself from delusion or ignorance shines brilliantly.
The
state of the Jivanmukta is the consciousness of the consummation of spiritual
attainments. The expanding nature of consciousness finds its Destination
reached and having expanded itself beyond space and limitation, rests in a
state of undisturbed changelessness, where Fullness, Peace and Bliss become the
centre of Experience.
When
the universal generalisation of the being of consciousness is effected, the
particularised form of consciousness as egoism is withdrawn into the background
of the vast Sea of Consciousness. Together with this withdrawal of the ego, its
further ramifications in the form of the sense forces are also drawn back to
the source and the common distraction of the subtle body is made to return to
the tranquillity and equanimity of harmonious awareness. Hence distinction of
form is not perceived when ignorance is completely removed.
A
Jivanmukta who is in the seventh Jnana-Bhumika cannot do any action in the
plane of earthly consciousness. Those of the Jivanmuktas who wish to do
Loka-sangraha have to come down to the fourth or the fifth state of
Consciousness in order to be useful to humanity. A little of Rajas is necessary
for doing all kinds of action. The pure Sattva state of the highest kind of
Jivanmuktas is completely devoid of Rajas and hence is unsuitable for working
in the world. The very existence of such a blessed being will give solace to
the whole world. His life itself is the most supreme teaching and help.
Wherever he is, he spreads around him such a force of conscious equilibrium of
being that those who are near him are easily transformed. The Satsankalpa of
the Jnani is beyond all powers of Ashta-Siddhis and Nava-Riddhis and he works
through his mere Self which is in all. He is the ocean of Knowledge and Power
and there is nothing that is impossible for him.
6. The Jivanmukta rests with an unshaken mind in the All-blissful
Brahman. He is free from all the modifications of the mind. His heart is pure
like the Himalayan snow or the crystal. He is free from the distinctions – I,
He, Thou.
The
Jivanmukta rests in the All-Blissful Brahman and yet lives like man in order to
be of help to him. The Jnani alone is the really good man, the really kind
person, and the really selfless worker. Those who struggle to be good are only
superficially good. They can only pretend to be good, humble, kind, merciful
and compassionate. How can those, who do not know the nature of the Self, who
do not know the exact character of things, who cannot understand the feelings
of others, be really good and compassionate? The great love of the Jnani for
all creatures of the universe cannot be equalled by any other's love or
compassion. The love of the Jnani is real love. It is only the Jnani that can
serve and help the world in the best possible way, for he knows that all is the
one Self, the Great Being of Brahman. Without knowing this, how can one be
truly good and virtuous? A man who does service without the knowledge of the
Self, cannot be really selfless. How can he drive away selfishness unless he
knows the Absoluteness of Existence? How can he get rid of egoism who does not
feel that he is one with Being itself? The ideas of doership and enjoyership
cannot be overcome without Self-Knowledge.
The
love of the Jnani is called universal love. The love of the worldly man is
physical love. He does not love all equally; there is partiality in love. Man
loves and serves only those whom he likes. He cannot love and serve those who
hate him, who beat him and who abuse him always. This is because he has no
knowledge of the Self. The Jnani loves all equally, for his is transcendental
love. He loves others because he loves his own Self. He alone exists
everywhere.
7. The liberated sage, the prince of ascetics who has conquered
the enemy, ignorance, who has known the secret of true bliss, uses the palms of
his hands as his bowl and sleeps blissfully under the foot of a tree.
The
Jivanmukta does not feel the necessity for abiding by what brings pleasure to
the physical body. The palm of the hand is his bowl, the earth is his bed, the
sky is his clothing. He does not exert to acquire any object that is limited in
space and time. His absolute consciousness by its very nature of
all-inclusiveness attracts that part of universal existence where lies the
object necessitated by his personal existence. At once, like a flash of
lightning, the things needed by him flow to him, like rivers into the ocean,
for he is their very Self. The man of Wisdom does without acting, enjoys
without desiring. He need not command anybody, for he is already the Self of
the one whom he may wish to command. He does not instruct or order anybody, for
he is the essential being of everything that he may have to deal with. Even the
gods cannot obstruct him from doing anything, for he is the inner reality of
even the gods. He is the glorious Swarat or Self-King, and is beyond all
comparison. He has reached the climax of perfection and the whole universe is a
part of his body.
8, 9. The sage does not care for public criticism. He keeps a cool
mind even when he is assaulted. He blesses those who persecute him. He beholds
only his own Self everywhere.
The
Jivanmukta unifies with himself the cosmic principles of evolution, namely,
sound, touch, colour, taste, smell, form and name. Whatever that happens is the
sport of his own Self. Criticism and insult, flogging and assault are the
movement of the shadow of his Self. He blesses those who ill-treat him and
injure him. The Consciousness is ever unaffected by virulence and change of any
kind. The objects of the inner Consciousness are realised as being the forms of
itself manifested due to past desires. The perfected condition where thought
reaches the freedom of immunity from being misled by the external forms of the
universe is liberation, even if the forms persist in coming within the sphere
of the vision of the Jnani. He controls them; they do not control him. The
forces of the universe are his friends, not his enemies. They act according to
his wish, for his individual consciousness is in harmony with the universal
consciousness. He does not feel or say "It should have been like this; it
should not have been like that", for he realises the absolute validity and
perfection of all movements of nature in accordance with the eternal law.
10. He whose mind does neither sink nor float amidst pains and
pleasures is indeed a liberated sage. He has rendered his mind completely
quiescent by identifying himself with Brahman.
Delusion
has vanished for the Jivanmukta. The sense of want is annihilated once for all
by the ineffable experience of Self-realization. His only delight is in the
Self, for he is truly conscious of living, moving and having his being in the
Divine Existence. The transcendental intuition which has brought to him the
realization of his oneness with Brahman gives him also the realization of the
same Brahman in all beings. His life, therefore, becomes one of service in the
light of knowledge of the One Self in everything. He performs the Jnana-Yajna,
the sacrifice of the self in the Knowledge of Brahman. Brahman is offered in
Brahman by Brahman through the act of Brahman. It is a joyous suffusion of
oneself in Brahman and the exact nature of this experience is one of immediate
directness of being and cannot be understood, thought, felt or talked about.
11. The Jivanmukta has a consciousness of body in the form of a
Samskara; the Videhamukta has no consciousness of the body.
The
Jivanmukta melts himself in Brahman even as ice melts into the ocean of water.
"Knowing It in every single being, the wise, on departing from this world,
become Immortal. When all the desires that are lodged in the heart are cast
off, then the mortal becomes Immortal! Herein he attains Brahman! Attaining
Him, the seers who are satisfied with Knowledge, who are perfected souls, free
from passion, tranquil – attaining Him who is the universally omnipresent,
those wise devout souls into the All itself do enter. They who have realised
the meaning of the Vedanta-Knowledge, the sages, with natures purified through
Sanyasa and Yoga, they in the State of Brahman in the end of time are all
liberated beyond death. Gone are the fifteen parts according to their station,
even all the sense-organs are gone to their corresponding divinities! One's
actions and the self consisting of Intelligence, all become unified in the
Supreme Imperishable! As the flowing rivers in the ocean disappear leaving name
and form, so also the wise man being liberated from name and form, reaches the
Divine Being, who is Higher than the high! He who knows that Supreme Brahman,
verily, becomes Brahman. He crosses over sorrow. He crosses over sin. Liberated
from the knots of the heart, he becomes Immortal" (Upanishads).
Sage
Vasishtha says to Rama that a Videha-Mukta need not necessarily dissolve
himself in the Absolute Brahman. If he so wishes he may merge in the Being of
Satchidananda; but if he wishes to remain as an individual merely as a sport,
he may shine as the Sun of a universe or rule like a Vishnu or become a Brahma
or a Siva. He may become a universal individual like Krishna or Vasishtha who
are identical with Brahman but still assume bodies for the solace of the world.
If he at any time does not wish to be an individual, he may exist as the
Absolute wherever he pleases to be so. The liberated state is not bound by or
limited to Indivisibility and Changelessness alone, for the Absolute is
unlimited and is free to assume any form. But that formative will is not like
the unconscious will of the Jiva which involuntarily binds it to individuality.
The conscious formative play of the Absolute is completely free and voluntary
act. The Videhamukta is Brahman himself and hence lives and acts as the
Absolute.
The
Jnani attains Sadyo-Mukti or immediate salvation. The Jivanmukta who has
realised that there is nothing anywhere except Brahman merely, does not have
the departing of the soul, as in the case of other individuals. Where can his
Self depart to? There is no space where the Self is not and hence it does not
depart to any place. It merges in Itself here only.
Mukti
is not a thing to be attained. It is not far away to be obtained. It is the
very being itself and hence the mere knowledge or realization of it is itself
Mukti. Everything is Brahman only in the three periods of time. There is
neither bondage nor suffering. The Consciousness of this Truth is called
Liberation in empirical language.
The
Brahmasutras discuss the question of the possibility of a return of the
liberated one to earth in a new existence. Sages like Apantaratamas etc.,
though possessed of the highest Brahmajnana, returned to bodily existence. They
do so in order to fulfil a mission for the good of the world. When their
mission is completed, they again exist as the Absolute. Lord Krishna says that
though he has no form, birth or death, he assumes forms in every age for the
uplift of the world. Such incarnations are not the effect of Prarabdha Karmas
but the conscious manifestations of the Supreme Absolute in the plane of
relativeness. The Upanishads also indicate the free will of the liberated soul,
when they say that it acquires full freedom in all the worlds. Logically, the
highest state of Moksha is the merging of individual consciousness in Absolute
Consciousness. Eternal Existence, Infinite Knowledge and Immortal Bliss is
Moksha or Final Emancipation.
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