Friday 20 November 2015

(61) U-13) What is there when nothing is there (1)

रामोवाचमहाप्रलयसम्पत्तौ यदेतदवशिष्यते भवत्येतदनाकारं नाम नास्त्यत्र संशयः
न शून्यं कथमेतद्स्यान्न प्रकाशः कथं भवेत्कथं वा न तमोरूपं कथं वा नैव भास्वरं  
कथं वा नैव चिद्रूपं जीवो वा न कथं भवेत्कथं न बुद्धितत्त्वं स्यात्कथं वा न मनो भवेत्
कथं वा नैव किन्चित्स्यात्कथं वा सर्वमित्यपि अनयैव वचोभङ्ग्या मम मोह इवोदितः  
Rama spoke:
At the time of great dissolution whatever remains back will be the ‘formless one’! 
No doubt about that!
But how is it not empty?  How is it not lustrous?  How is it not darkness?  How is it not shining forth? How is it not the conscious principle? How is it not a Jeeva? How is it not an intelligent principle? How is it without a mind? How is it not anything? How is it everything?
The contradictory terms used by you are confusing me as it were.
वसिष्टोवाचविषमोsयमतिप्रश्नो भवता समुदाहृतः भेत्तास्म्यहं त्वयत्नेन नैशं त  म इवांशुमान्    
Vasishta spoke: You have indeed presented a very subtle question! I will easily solve your doubt like the Sun (with shining rays) removing the darkness of the night.
महाकल्पान्त​सम्पत्तौ यत्तत्सदवशिष्यते तद्राम यथा न शून्यं तदिदं शृणु कथ्यते ।  
At the time of great dissolution (the end of the Kalpa), whatever reality is left back is not a void principle, Rama! Listen to my explanation.
(A note to the reader: Since Vasishta denies the creation and dissolution of the world altogether, whenever he uses the term great dissolution, it is to be taken as the highest state of realization of a JnaanaYogi where the world stays dissolved through reason.)
अयमियं महाभोगो जगदाख्योsवभासते सत्यो भवत्वसत्यो वा यत्र तत्र त्वशून्यता
This great field of experiences which is shining by the name of ‘Jagat’; let it be real or unreal; but the principle in which it shines is not void-ness. (It alone shines as void and full as the perceived.)
सौम्याम्भसि यथा वीचिर्न चास्ति न च नास्ति तथा जगद्ब्रह्मणीदं शून्याशून्यपदं गतम्
In a calm ocean wave is non-existent (in actuality); it is also there as ready to burst forth (in the level of ignorance); so also, this Jagat exists in Para Brahman as manifest (ready to burst forth in the ignorant level) and as unmanifest (dissolved as itself) both; and therefore the Para Brahman state is described as voidness (where no world exists) and no-voidness (where world exists also).
अनुत्कीर्णा यथा स्तम्भे संस्थिता शालभन्जिका तथा विश्वं स्थितं तत्र तेन शून्यं न तत्पदम् ।
यथा न पुत्रिकाशून्यः स्तम्भोsनुत्कीर्णपुत्रिक: तथा भासं जगद्ब्रह्म तेन शून्यं न तत्पदम् ।
देशकालादिशान्तत्वात्पुत्रिकारचनं द्रुमे संभवत्यथाsतो वै तेनानन्ते विमुह्यते  
तत्स्तम्भपुत्रिकाद्येतद्परमार्थे जगद्स्थितेः एकदेशेन सदृशमुपमानं न सर्वतः  
Like the un-carved statue existing inside the wooden pillar, this world exists inside the Brahman.
Therefore ‘that state’ is not void. (It is like a pillar that can become any type of statue.)
(Reality can exist as any perceived field of any mind depending on its ignorance level.)
When the statue has not been carved yet in the wooden pillar, it is not the ‘emptiness without the statue’. (If a statue has not been carved, it is like the unmanifest Brahman that is ready to manifest as the minds and perceptions.) Jagat shines in the Brahman the same way. Therefore that (Supreme) state is not void. (The supreme state is a potential state for the perceived.)
A statue is carved on a tree depending on time, place and availability of other instruments.
Such needs are superimposed also on the ‘Endless principle’ through delusion.
(A statue on the earth is carved using some tool by some sculptor at a particular place at particular time. Para Brahman has no such limitations. There is no outside sculptor, or tool, or place or time.)
The analogy of the statue carved on a wooden pillar is given here to explain the Jagat existing in the Supreme principle as the unmanifest. Only that one point is to be understood from the analogy; one should not take all the factors in the analogy (and feel confused).
न कदाचिदुदेतीदं परस्मान्न शाम्यति इत्थं स्थितं केवलं सद्ब्रह्म स्वात्मनि संस्थितम्  
This thing called the Jagat does not rise from the Supreme, nor does it subside.
It remains like this alone, as the Brahman the principle of existence in itself.
(Statue when sculpted appears at some time; stays for some time and erodes off some day.
It is not so with Para Brahman and Jagat.
World (Statue) never rises at all as distinct from the Reality state; and dissolve into it.
It stays as a potential state of knowledge only; as it is; without any change.)
अशून्यापेक्षया शून्यशब्दार्थपरिकल्पना अशून्यत्वात्संभवतः शून्यताशून्यते कुतः  
The word ‘void’ is conceived to explain the non-voidness.
(What is void? Void means empty of something.
What is non-void? Non-void means something is filling the empty space.
Brahman is not empty of something; nothing fills it also like an object kept in empty space.)
As there cannot be non-voidness (as against voidness) where is the question of voidness or non-voidness? (Brahman-state cannot be described as void or non-void. Void and non-void are complementary words; each supporting the other. Brahman state has no changes of void and non-voidness. It is not void where the Jagat is absent and fills it later to make it non-void.)
ब्रह्मण्ययं प्रकाशो हि न संभवति भूतजः सूर्यानलेन्दुतारादिः कुतस्तत्र किलाव्यये
In the state of Brahman, the luster which is connected to the world of elements does not arise at all.
How can the sun, or fire or stars exist in the non-diminishing Brahman?
(Reality state is not made of elements, where light has to reveal the objects.
Reality state has no need of any luminous object to reveal itself; it is self-revealing.)
महाभूतप्रकाशानामभावस्तम उच्यते महाभूताभावजं तु तेनात्र न तमः क्वचित्  
The ‘absence’ of light which makes the visibility of the world of elements not possible, is termed as darkness. Since there are no elements in Brahman, how can there be any darkness?
(We have darkness in the world, when the light is absent, and we cannot see the objects made of elements. Brahman state is not made of elements; so it has no darkness where the light is absent and it is not seen.)
स्वानुभूतिः प्रकाशोsस्य केवलं व्योमरूपिणः योsन्तरस्ति स तेनैव नात्वन्येनानुभूयते
Brahman is just like empty space. The shine of Brahman is its own experience. 
What is inside one, can be experienced by that person only; not by another one.
(What reveals it then? Brahman state is self-revealing. It does not need any outside agency to reveal it. It alone knows itself. A second person is not there to know it.)
मुक्तं तमःप्रकाशाभ्यामित्येतदजरं पदं आकाशकोशमेवेदं विद्धि कोशं जगत्स्थितेः
This state is free of both darkness and light; and never deteriorates. It is just a storehouse of emptiness. Understand it as the storehouse of Jagat-existence (which is emptiness only.)
बिल्वस्य बिल्वमध्यस्य यथा भेदो कश्चन​, तथास्ति ब्रह्मजगतोर्न मनागपि भिन्नता।
There is not the least difference between a Bilva leaf and its inner portion (leaf only); so also there is no difference between Brahman and Jagat.
सलिलान्तर्यथावीचिर्मृदन्तोर्घटको यथा, तथा यत्र जगत्सत्ता तत्कथं खात्मकं भवेत्
भूर्जलाद्युपमानश्रीः साकारान्ता समा न सा ब्रह्म त्वाकाशविशदं तस्यान्तस्थं तथैव तत्
तस्माद्यादृक्चिदाकाशमाकाशादपि निर्मलं तदन्तस्थं तादृगेव जगच्छब्दार्थभागपि ।
The wave is inside the silent waters; the pot is inside the formless clay.
Jagat is in Brahman similarly. How can that be empty where Jagat exists?
Example-form given as the (pot in the) clay and (wave in the) water is about objects with forms and so have an end; and is not similar to Brahman state (in such factors.) Brahman is as expansive as empty space and formless; so is the Jagat within it. (It is also formless).
Therefore, since the Chit-Aakaasha (Awareness expanse) is more taintless than even empty expanse of space, that thing which is known by the word Jagat is also taintless only.
मरीचेरन्तर्यथा तैक्ष्ण्यमृते भोक्तुर्न लक्ष्यते चिन्मात्रत्वं चिदाकाशे तथा चेत्यकलां विना
The heat inside the ray of the sun cannot be understood unless a person is there to experience it.
The Chinmaatram (pure awareness of the Jagat bereft of the perceiver and perceived) inside the Chit-expanse cannot be understood without the taint of a perceiver. (That is why Jagat is the formless state of Brahman only; is with a form as it were for a perceiving mind.)
तस्माच्चिदप्यचिद्रूपं चेत्यरिक्तं तदात्मनि जगत्ता तादृगेवेयं तादृङ्मात्रात्मतावशात्  
रूपालोकमनस्कारास्तन्मया एव नेतरत्यथास्थितमतो विश्वं सुषुप्तं तुर्यमेव वा
Therefore, though it is known as Chit (awareness), it is not even awareness.
(Such words like Chit are for explanation purpose only; and that state is beyond description.)
Jagat state stays as its essence without any perceived as the awareness state only.
Since that alone is there as the purest state of awareness only, (as just some essence of knowing), the images that are understood by the senses and the mind stay as that only; nothing else is there.
As it exists as the Brahman essence, the perceived world is in the sleep state or it is in the transcendental state as the Brahman only.
(Where is the world in Brahman? It is as Brahman alone as its essence.
Brahman is the essence of Jagat; Jagat is the essence of the Brahman.
Jagat is Brahman alone and stays as Brahman only, as purest of pure awareness.)
तेन योगी सुषुप्तात्मा व्यवहार्यपि शान्तधीः आस्ते ब्रह्म निराभासं सर्वभासुरसमुद्गकः
Therefore, a Knower who has realized the Brahman state is asleep in essence; though engaged in the world affairs stays with a quiet mind without affected by any appearance of the perceived; and is the casket which holds all the appearances.
(When a yogi in the Knowledge path realizes the Brahman state, he does not become again the tri-world as Rama stated. Brahman state is a sleep-state of all perceptions. No Jagat is there at all. It is a container for all the perceived; but since there is no perceiver, nothing gets perceived. The Yogi stays silent within, as if the entire perceived is asleep within him as his essence. Yogi stays as formless Brahman only; quiet and as pure awareness.)
आकारिणि यथा सौम्ये स्थितास्तोये महोर्मयः, अनाकृतौ तथा विश्वं स्थितं तत्सदृशं परे
Huge waves with forms stay inside the calm waters of the ocean which has a form, like the waters only; so also the world stays in the formless Supreme like that only (as the supreme).
पूर्णात्पूर्णं प्रसरति यत्तत्पूर्णं निराकृति, ब्रह्मणो विश्वमाभातं तद्धि स्वार्थं विवक्षितम्
Completeness (Jagat) that spreads out from completeness (Brahman) is completeness (Brahman) only and is formless. (Completeness means, there is no change, no deterioration, no devolving nature, no lack of anything, no form, no taint; as opposed to Jeeva-Jagat which is an imagination of incompleteness.) From the formless Brahman the world shines forth; it carries the same want of completeness. (Therefore the incompleteness-state of Jeeva has to realize the completeness.)
पूर्णत्पूर्णं प्रसरति संस्थितं पूर्णमेव तत्, अतो विश्वमनुत्पन्नं यच्चोत्पन्नं तदेव तत्
Completeness (Jagat) that spreads out from completeness (Brahman) is completeness (Brahman) only. (Completeness never can be incompleteness; so Jagat is not produced at all.)
Therefore the world is not produced at all; whatever is produced (as Jagat) is that completeness only.
(Brahman never splits as Brahman and Jagat or as unmanifest and manifest. 
Jagat is also Brahman only. 
Brahman is completeness; never is in want of any second thing.
What is seen as the world is also completeness only.
Brahman is formless; Jagat is also formless.
Brahman and Jagat are synonymous words. How can it produce itself as another?)
चेत्यासंभवतस्तस्मिन्यदेका जगदर्थता आस्वादकासंभवतो मरीचे कैव तीक्ष्णता
There is no perceived in that state; therefore there is one single essence as the Jagat (which is Brahman). When there is no one to experience, how can there be heat in the rays?
(There is no perceiver in the Brahman state to see the Jagat; so how can a realized person become the tri-world, when there is no world at all?)
सत्येवे​यमसत्यैव​ चित्तचेत्यादिता परे, तद्भावात्प्रतिबिम्बस्य प्रतिबिम्बार्हता कुतः
Perceiving mind and the perceived are unreal; yet shine as real because of being the essence of Reality. When the reflection is made of mirrorness only, how can it be a reflection (separate from the mirror)? (Reflection is also mirror only.)
परमाणोरपि परं तदणीयो ह्यणीयसः शुद्धं सूक्ष्मं परं शान्तं तदाकाशोदरादपि
That state is more supreme than the supreme atom, tinier than the tiniest; is purer, subtler, supreme, and quieter than the inside of the empty space even.
दिक्कालाद्यनवच्छिन्नरूपत्वादतिविस्तृतं तदानद्यन्तमाभासं भासनीयविवर्जितम्
Since it is undivided by space and time, it spreads out exceedingly; is without beginning or end; and though shining forth as the perceived is without any shine of anything as perceived (like a mirror only is the reflection).
चिद्रूपानुदयादेव तत्र नास्त्येव जीवता, कथं स्याच्चित्तताकारा वासनानिलरूपिणी
चिद्रूपानुदयादेव तत्र नास्त्येव जीवता, न बुद्धिता चित्तता वा नेन्द्रियत्वं न वासना
As there is no perceiving consciousness, there is no Jeeva-ness at all in Brahman.
How can there be a form of the mind-state (functioning as a Jeeva) as a Vaasanaa form supported by Praana?  As there is no perceiving consciousness, there is no Jeeva-ness at all in Brahman.
There is no intellect-state, no mental process, no sense perception, and no Vaasanaa.
एवमित्थं महारम्भपूर्णमप्यजरं पदं, अस्मद्दृष्ट्या स्थितं शान्तं शून्यमाकाशतोsधिकम्
In this manner, though it is complete with all potentialities with infinite possibilities, it is a state which never deteriorates (into Jagat state). In our vision that state is quiescent and emptier than the empty sky.




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