Message from

Taoshobuddha

As Birthday message Feb 6th 2011

Etymological
explanation
(Excerpt from Gita Dhyan Sadhana –
Taoshobuddha)

E ach word has its etymological meaning. Each

word is a living organism. Just as a human
being have circumference and the center. So
too each word has circumference and the
center. Man lives on the circumference. One
who lives on the circumference can connect only
to the circumference. Circumference can only
connect to center through a process that we call
radius in geometry.

The entire process of spirituality entails

movement from circumference to the center. Or
we can say movement from non-essential to
essential is the movement from circumference
to the center.

For this you need to go to the very core of the

word. This process of going to the core or the
center is Sadhana or manan or introspection.
Introspection is the process to understand the
essence.
The word Bhagwat is the essence. The word has
four syllables bha, ga, va, and ta.

Bha refers to bhakti

Ga refers to gyan
Va refers to vairagya or renunciation
Ta refers to tap or austerities.

-agvt

- -iKt

g }an

v vEraGy

t tp
Unless the aspirant attains to the state of inner
growth wherein bhakti, gyan or awareness,
vairagya or renunciation or non-attachment
with the world and its affairs and finally tap or
austerity one cannot understand the message of
Bhagwat Gita. Gita comes from the Sanskrit
root or song.

Thus Bhagwat Gita is the song of bhakti, soaked

in awareness, unattached with the non-essential
and constantly engaged in austerities. Only a
person endowed with these qualities can indeed
decipher the essence of the Song Eternal of
Krishna.

Now I take the word Bhagwan and its

etymological essence. The Hindi word -gvan has
five syllable or letters. These are referred to as
the five elements of which human existence is
composed of. These five elements are Bhoomi
or earth; gagan or sky or ether; vayu or air;
aanaal or fire and neer or water.
-gvan

- -Uim

g ggn

v vayu

A Anl
n nIr

Further to these elements or panch tatvas

there are panch mahabhutas. Each human
existence is composed of these elements.
Ordinarily man remains yoked to these
elements. His existence is like a wave in the
surface of the ocean. Waves arise on the surface
of life’s ocean and disappear in the vastness of
the ocean.

Human body is made of these five elements.

Their nature is perishable. One day these
various elements dissolve into their totality. This
is non-essential. Such is the life on the
circumference. When the body thus comes into
existence something of the beyond enters the
body. This is your center. One who has moved
from the circumference to the center? Such a
person lives in the awareness of the center and
has indeed attained freedom from the essential
elements. He has attained to the state of
Jeevan-mukta. He exists in the body and its
consciousness does not exist in him. This is
Enlightenment. He has become Bhagwan – the
Existence Beyond.

Through each gesture of such Jeevan Mukta

totality manifests wherever he is or whatever he
speaks or does.

LOVE
TAOSHOBUDDHA