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Om let the Brahmam save both of us the teacher and the student.
Let us be nurtured. Let us work together with full energy. Let our
rituals be bright. Let us not have the enmity with each other.
Part I
Hari Om. Let Mitra be favorable to us! Let Varuna be favorable to us!
Let Aryaman be favorable to us! Let Indra and Bruhaspati be favorable
to us! Let Vishnu be favorable to us!
Salutation to Brahman! Salutation to Vayu(air)! You are the visible
Brahman. I will proclaim only you as the visible Brahman. O Vayu,
I proclaim only you as the right. I will proclaim only you as the truth.
Let the Brahmam protect me! Let It protect the teacher! Let It protect
me! Let It protect the teacher!
Om. Peace! Peace! Peace! ....................1
Let the glory come on both of us together! Let the brightness of Brahman
reach both of us! Now we will explain the combinations under five heads:
the world, the heavenly lights, knowledge, progeny and the atman
(individual). People call these the great Samhitas.
First, the world: The earth is the first form, heaven is the last from,
the akasa(sky) is the union and the air is the medium. .........3.1
Secondly, the heavenly lights: Fire is the first form, the sun is the
second form, water is the union and lightning is the medium. .......3.2
Thirdly, the knowledge: The teacher is the first form, the pupil is the
second form, knowledge is the union and the recitation
is the medium.
Fourthly, the progeny: The mother is the first form, the father is the
second form, the progeny is the union and procreation is the medium. .......3.3
Fifthly, the atman: The lower lip is the first form, the upper lip is the
second form, the speech is the union and the tongue is the medium.
These are the great Samhitas. He who realises these Samhitas, as here
explained, becomes united with progeny, cattle, the light of Brahman,
food and the heavenly world. .......3.4
Which is grater than other Vedic hymns like a bull among many cows,
which is reached by the Brahma by curdle the ocean of knowledge, let
that Indra cheer me with wisdom. O God, let me be the possessor of
immortality! Let my body be competent to that; Let my tongue be sweet
like honey; let me hear abundantly with my ears. You are the sheath of
Brahman, hiding yourself in the worldly knowledge.
Guard my knowledge. ..........4.1
I am the life of the tree of the universe. My fame is high, like a mountain
peak. My root is the Supremely Pure Brahman. Like the nectar of immortality
that resides in the sun I am the unstained essence of the Self,. My
wisdom is the brightest treasure. I am the shinning wisdom. I am
immortal and my wisdom will not decay.
Rishi Trisanku tells this after the attainment of the Knowledge
of the Self. ..........10
After teaching the Vedhas, the teacher instructs the pupil like this:
Speak the truth. Practice dharma. Don't neglect the study of the Vedas.
Having brought to the teacher the Thakshinai (tuition fees!) desired by him,
enter the householder's life and see that the line of progeny is not cut off.
Do not swerve from the truth. Do not swerve from dharma. Do not neglect
personal welfare. Do not neglect prosperity. Do not neglect the study and
teaching of the Vedas. ............11.1
Do not neglect your duties to the Gods and the Manes. Treat your mother
as God. Treat your father as God. Treat your teacher as God. Treat your
guest as God. Whatever deeds are faultless, must be performed-not others.
Whatever good works have been performed by us, must be
followed by you-not others. .........11.2
Even now if a student often rises from his seat and tells something
will be nicknamed as "athikapprasank"(blabbermouth) or
"munthirikkottai (cashew nut) (which comes before the fruit itself.)
Thousands of years have crossed but the teacher student relationship
is not changed much. ...............ashokha
You should follow yourself the brahmins who are competent to judgment
by inquiring themselves, who are devoted to good deed and who are not
follow anybody else because of fear and who are not cruel and are not
urged to their performance by others, and who are not too severe,
but are lovers of dharma. This is the rule. This is the teaching.
This is the secret wisdom of the Vedas. This is the command of God.
This you should observe. This alone should be observed. ..............11.4
Part Two
Om let the Brahmam save both of us the teacher and the student.
Let us be nurtured. Let us work together with full energy. Let our
rituals be bright. Let us not have the enmity with each other.
“They who worship food as Brahman will get all food. All creatures are
born from food . By food they grow. Because it is eaten by beings and
because it eats the beings, therefore it is called food.â€
Different from this, which consists of the essence of food, but within it,
is another self, which consists of the vital breath. By this the former is filled.
This too has the shape of a man. Prana, indeed, is his head; vyana is his
right wing; apana is his left wing; akasa is his trunk; the earth is his tail,
its support. ................2
“The gods like Agni (fire) breathe after the prana (air), so also do men and
cattle; for the prana is the life of creatures. Therefore it is called the life of
all.
Those who worship the prana (air) (breathing) as Brahman obtain a full life;
for the prana is the life of creatures. Therefore it is called the life of all.â€
This Prana is the embodied soul of the former. Different from this which
consists of the essence of the prana, but within it, is another self, which
consists of the mind. By this the former is filled. This too has the shape of
a man. Like the human shape of the former is the human shape of the latter.
The Yajur-Veda is its head, the Rig-Veda is its right wing, the Sama-Veda is
its left wing, the teaching is its trunk, the hymns of Atharva and Angiras
are its tail, its support. ........3
“He who knows the Bliss of Brahman, when all words together with the mind
turn away, unable to reach it,will never fear.†This sheath of the mind is the
embodied soul of the former. The different from this sheath, which consists
of the essence of the mind, but within it, is another self, which consists of
the intellect. By this the former is filled. This too has the shape of a man.
Like the human shape of the former is the human shape of the latter. Faith is
its head, what is right is its right wing, what is truth is its left wing,
absorption
is its trunk, philosophy is its tail, its support. ..........4
“In the beginning all this was non-existent. From it was born what exists.
That created Itself by Itself; therefore It is called the self-made.â€
That which is Self-made is the essence; on obtaining the essence one
becomes blissful. Who could direct the prana and the apana if this Bliss
did not exist in the akasa (sky of the inside)? Brahman verily exists
because It alone bestows bliss. When a man finds fearless support in
That which is invisible, incorporeal, indefinable and support less, he has
then obtained fearlessness. If he feels the slightest differentiation from
Brahmam, the fear will come inside him. Whatever may be the wisdom
one may have if he cannot identify himself with Brahmam he will fear
the brahmam. ...........7
From fear of the Brahmam the wind blows; from fear of It the sun rises;
from fear of It Agni and Indra are doing their duties and Death, the fifth,
jumps upon living beings.
One who knows the Bliss of the Brahman, where words with the mind
turn away, unable to reach It, will not afraid of anything whatsoever.â€
He does not distress himself with the thought: Why I have not done the
good? Why I have done the evil? For evil and good soul is not
responsible. One who knows this will be strengthened by the same evil
and good. One who knows that the attachment in evil and good
will give only pain and the wisdom of brahmam will remove the sorrow,
will make the evil and good weak and will cherish
the Adma (soul) ........9
Om let the Brahmam save both of us the teacher and the student.
Let us be nurtured. Let us work together with full energy. Let our
rituals be bright. Let us not have the enmity with each other.
Part III
Om let the Brahmam save both of us the teacher and the student.
Let us be nurtured. Let us work together with full energy. Let our
rituals be bright. Let us not have the enmity with each other.
Om. Peace! Peace! Peace!
Om. Bhrugu, the son of Varuna, approached his father Varuna and said:
" Sir, teach me about Brahman."
He answered: "Food, the vital breath, the eye, the ear, the mind, speech."
are the basics of the Brahmam.
He said further: " From which these beings are born, by which they live,
in which they enter after death , try to know That. That is Brahman."
He performed austerities. Having performed austerities; .............1
He realised that food is the Brahman; for from food, are these beings born;
by food, when born, do they live; into food do they enter, do they merge.
Having realized this (but as he doubted that food may not be Brahmam as
the food is having production and destruction ), he approached his father
again and asked:
Sir, teach me Brahman."
To him he said this: "Seek to know Brahman by means of austerities. For
austerities are the means of knowing Brahman."
He practiced austerities. Having practiced austerities, ........2
He realized that the prana (breathing) is Brahman; for from the prana,
are these beings born; by the prana, when born, do they live; into the
prana do they enter, do they merge.
Having realized this, he approached his father again and said:
Sir, teach me Brahman.
To him he said this: "Seek to know Brahman by means of austerities.
For austerities are the means of knowing Brahman."
He practiced austerities. Having practiced austerities; ......3
He realized that the mind is Brahman; for from the mind, are these beings
born; by the mind, when born, do they live; into the mind, at the time of
dissolution, do they enter, do they merge.
Having realized this, he approached his father again and said:
Sir, teach me Brahman."
To him he said this: "Seek to know Brahman by means of austerities; for
austerities are Brahman."
He practiced austerities. Having practiced austerities- ...........4
He realized that the intellect (vijnana) is the Brahman; for from the
intellect are these beings born; by the intellect, when born, do they live;
into the intellect, at the time of dissolution, do they enter, do they merge.
Having realized this, he approached his father again and said:
Sir, teach me Brahman.
To him, he said this: "Seek to know Brahman by means of austerities;
for austerities are the means of knowing Brahman."
He practiced austerities. Having practiced austerities. .........5
He realized that Bliss is Brahman; for from Bliss (ananda) are these beings
born; by bliss, when born, do they live; into bliss, at the time of dissolution,
do they enter, do they merge.
This is the wisdom taught by Varuna and learnt by Bhrugu. It is established
in the the supreme akasa(sky), in the heart. He who knows this is
established in the Bliss of Brahman. He becomes a possessor of food
and an eater of food. He becomes great in offspring and cattle and in
spiritual radiance and great in fame. ............6
In those days it is enough that one can get a hut in a forest and
some cattle with longevity (of course not to be eaten by any lions) to
get ghee for the fire rituals and a fig tree (pippala) (ficus religiousa)
to get easily some sticks to burn for the fire rituals and some students
with knowledge. People are so pious that they were satisfied with
ordinary things. When a neighboring country king attacks this ashram (farm
house) he will chase away all the cattles first. ....ashokha
An villager once visits a palace of his king to see him. In the entrance
he sees the soldier in front of the gate and thinks that he is the king
as he is wearing shining dress. He laughs and allows him to go inside.
In the next door he sees a captain with more beautiful dress and thinks
that he may be the king. He also laughs and allow him to go further.
In the next door he sees an accountant and thinks the same. He allows
him to go further. Then he meets a minister and he also laughs at him.
Finally the villager come to the main courtyard and sees the king
and realizes who is the real king. Similarly until one is realizing the
real bliss one will doubt that this may be the brahmam or that may
be the brahmam etc. (Hallucinations that are coming in meditation,
sounds heard inside etc.) .....Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
When you are practicing austerities you may get certain siththis
(perfections) like telling the future by having a vision. You must not
be satisfied with that and immersed in that by collecting the crowd
and telling the futures to them. Your efforts will be stopped with that
and you will be immersed in that and you cannot escape from that
level. Even chances are there that you may be slipped down from that
level and become an ordinary person in due course. As it is coming at
the Manipooraka level (Nabi) (adrenal) (stomach) itself you cannot go
further high to the level of agnsa (pituitary) or to the level of
sahasrara (pineal)
to realize what is god. ...........ashokha
Don't condemn food; that must be the vow. Which is being eaten is the
food (annam) and who is eating the food is annatham (no equivalent)
(may say eater). So the prana (breahing) is the food; the body is the
eater of the food. The body rests on the prana; the prana rests on the body.
Thus food rests on food. ie: they are inter related.
One who knows this (resting of food on food) will becomes a powerful
person. He will have enough food to eat and he will enjoy the food.
He will become great in his offspring and cattle and in wisdom and will
become great and famous. ............7
One who knows this will have more food to eat and to give.
He will become great in his offspring and cattle and in wisdom
and will
become great and famous.
One should meditate on Brahman as preservation in speech, as
acquisition and preservation in the prana (upward breath) and
the apana (downward breath), as action in the hands, as movement
(walking) in the feet, as evacuation in the anus. These are the
meditations on Brahman through actions. Next follows the meditation
on Brahman, through the gods:
One should meditate on Brahman as satisfaction in rain, as power
in lightning; ......10.2
Let him contemplate Brahman as adoration and all desires will fall
down before him in adoration. Let him contemplate Brahman as the
Supreme Lord and he will be endowed with supremacy. Let him contemplate
Brahman as the destructive agent and his enemies who hate him and
who don't hate him will perish. Who is in this man and who is in the sun,
both are same. .........10.4
One who knows this, as described above, after death , attains the soul
which consists of food, attains the soul which consists of the vital breath,
attains the soul which consists of the mind, attains the soul which
consists of the intellect, attains the soul which consists of bliss.
Even reaching the stage beyond this, eating the food he desires,
assuming the forms he likes, singing the chant of the non-duality
of Brahman: ........10.5
It is wonderful..............It is wonderful..............It is
wonderful..............
"I am food, I am food, I am food! I am the eater , I am the eater , I am the eater
!
I am the uniter of food and the eater, I am the uniter of food and the eater ,
I am the uniter of food and the eater! I have come first to the
world which is beautiful and discipline, come first before the gods and the
first to get the immortality. One who gives me become the savior of me.
If one don't give I will eat him as food. I am having the brightness of the
sun which is giving the entire brightness to the world. One who knows this
like the Brugu (jupiter) will be liberated. ........10.6