About Bliss - Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
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Sunday, April 25, 2021. 08:21.AM.
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SWAMI BHOOMANANDA TIRTHA says that by thinning down the thought process, the seeker can create conditions for Samadhi
God is present everywhere. Then why are you missing Him? You might not be aware, but you are happiness personified! When is the time you experience yourself? On waking up, your experience is mixed with words, objects and inferences.
The moment you wake up, you see the wall, the room and your own body, so whatever experience you have, it is never pure consciousness — it is a mixed state of consciousness because it is coupled with objects. But in deep sleep state, there is no mixed state. Only when you are disconnected, you get ananda or bliss because only you are there and nothing else. When it is you minus object inference, the result is comfortable sleep, which is blissful. Even a sinner’s sleep is not affected by the sin and hence everyone is untainted.
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Know Your Real Nature :
You get tainted when you are mixed up with something else. Otherwise, your real nature is unconditional bliss. Troubles and agitation arise when you are mixed up due to impressions on the mind created through objects and events outside. A plain mirror carries the reflections of objects, but it remains the same and undergoes no change. A reflection might make the mirror go black but the mirror remains untainted. The mind is exactly the same.
Your consciousness remains the same ever and ever; in your waking state you have the power to reflect objects but it doesn’t mean you become the reflection. Objects are inert; they do not get any knowledge. By reflecting them in me, I process them and arrive at a great degree of understanding. You have no blemishes. No change or modification of any kind takes place in you. All objects get imprinted and the mind doesn’t lose its original state and hence no wear and tear happens to consciousness.
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Painted By The Mind :
The Bhagavad Gita says that the Lord of the universe has never installed, created or instituted doership. If you’ve given birth to a child, that doesn’t mean you have a right to foster the ego: ‘I have given birth and I am the mother.’ You have no right to foster ownership and ego, you gave birth only because you have a female body and a uterus.
If you have sinned, you go to the church because of guilt, but God has no part to play in taking away anything; God has given you a body and a mind and they have their properties and that is all. Human nature is different from animal nature. A cat bites her own kitten, but if you would do the same, you would pray for forgiveness.
God doesn’t come in the middle as guilt is a byproduct of thinking. God has only given you a mind and a mind has its own properties which are exclusive of God. Everything is manmade. When you become indifferent to thoughts arising in you, you become quiet and get closer to God. God is a painting of the human mind. There are societies that don’t think of God and don’t believe in the Supreme. God is a creation of thought. So God is a conclusion and a suggestion. Has God ever spoken? We have spoken on behalf of God, so we have manufactured God — designed Him and instituted religion. So let’s define religion and use it for common benefit.
Religion is a psychological science and does tend to appease the psychological needs of humanity. When it comes to consciousness, it is capable of producing figures, shapes and letters without occupying space in the human body, so it is all the same consciousness giving you the notion of thought, figure and space, so these are notionally there. The comfort and the joy of the empire of the Self is far more extensive than the extensive external world. The external world is an extension of your internal world.
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The Power To Think :
Mind and intelligence are not physical deliberations; when I think and produce thought, don’t think the mind becomes the thought. The mind has the power to think; it gives the notion of ideas, but there is no condensation taking place. By interacting with objects or thoughts, we don’t become them.
The biological body is the transformation of various substances like different types of food evolved from the earth, air, heat and energy. This kind of transformation does not take place in the consciousness. By its very nature it is untransforming. It has the power to give you notions, like fire gives heat and glowing power. With spiritual knowledge, you’ll get the happiness of the Self and experience inner splendour.
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Consciousness Is Indivisible :
Everytime an idea arises, understand it to be an idea and check where it comes from, its source. When you find the source, you’ll find that it is neither the body nor the constituents and segments of the body. It is entirely different from consciousness, too.
Consciousness admits no kind of division. It is indivisible. The ‘i’ notion is generated from the source, namely consciousness. Your dying is also a notion. When the prana or life force ceases to operate in the body and it becomes un-functional, you call it death. Birth and death are just biological events; never attribute it to the consciousness of the soul.
Thoughts just arise and subside into and from the same source. Samadhi is the thinning down of the thought process until at last the very thought process merges into the thinker or the thinking substance.
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