This Pseudo-Self!

DiversionsandDistractions.

P O E T R Y

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This Pseudo-Self,

Comes Into Being,

Arises, Wakes up, 

To Its Own World,

Which It Itself,

Creates, Sustains, 

And Dissolves Too, 

Repeatedly, Always,

Inattentively, Often,

Inevitability, Invariably.

Occasionally Though, 

It Goes Into Swoon,

Sleep, Coma,

Or Oblivion Too! 

Where And When,

It Forgets Itself,

But Remembers,

The Virtual World,

That It So Projects,

In And Around Itself.

Though Then,

A Moment Appears,

A Moment Beyond Time, 

Where and When, 

It's Caught Unawares, 

Shown It's Place, 

It's Diversions,

Distractions And, 

It's Wanderings

In Senseless,

And Meaningless, 

Activities, Pursuations,

Vagaries, Imaginations,

Abstractions, Motivations.

Still It Keeps Working,

As Had Been So Far!

This Endless Game!!

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THREE WOR(L)DS.

Can, May and Able.

When Self found the Other, was quite surprised. Before finding the Other, Self had no sense of being a male or female. Moreover, Even after finding the Other, Self just couldn't recognize the Other.

How could Self recognize the Other. It was just impossible.

Recognition means memory, and Memory means recognition.

Recognition means comparision.

Recognition means Past and Present.

Past again means Memory and again; Memory means Recognition.

Still far more difficult is to think of the Future!

Can, May and Able had this attribute.

The three words were cognate of their Sanskrit  संस्कृत equivalents.

The word Can was the equivalent and the cognate of the Sanskrit संस्कृत  prefix उपसर्ग "सं" / "सन्", indicating the sense of  : all inclusive totality. 

The word May was the equivalent and the cognate of the Sanskrit संस्कृत  suffix  प्रत्यय "मय" indicating the sense of :

"made of"

And the word Able was the equivalent and the cognate of the Sanskrit संस्कृत  word "अव + बल", that is in Sanskrit  संस्कृत - "समास" indicating the sense of a compound word made of and meaning : The supportive force.

Self was Can, God was May and the world was Able. 

Self was all omnipotent,

God was all Omniscient,

World was all Omnipresent.

Therefore and therefrom all evolution, manifestation and Dissolution happen. 

As is described in the Gita Chapter 2 :

अव्यक्तादीनि भूतानि व्यक्तमध्यानि भारत। 

अव्यक्तनिधनानन्येव तत्र का परिदेवना।।२८।।

The Existence is the Potential Reality, World is the Manifest Reality, and the Truth is Transcendent Reality.

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Belief Is Blind.

P O E T R Y

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Belief is blind,

Faith is fragile, 

Doubt is Danger,

Love Is Hostile.

Knowledge is Knave, 

Memory is Mourn,

Fear is Fever, 

Wisdom is Wicked.

Mind is bond,

Failure is Feeling,

Brain is Barren,

Heart is Healing,

Devotion is Direction,

Character is Creation, 

Decision is Destiny,

Fate is Fulfilment.

World is Word, 

Word is Worth,

Worth is Wealth,

Wealth is Wise.

Friendship is Form,

Nature is Norm,

Hatred is Harm,

Chance is Charm.

God is Glitter,

Devil is Death,

Death is Divine,

Benediction is Breath.

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Two Steps of Ignorance.

Desire and In-attention:

कामना और  अनवधानता : अज्ञान के दो चरण

अव्यक्त और व्यक्त

श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता अध्याय २

अव्यक्तादीनि भूतानि मध्यव्यक्तानि भारत। 

अव्यक्त निधनान्येव तत्र का परिदेवना।।२८।।

मन अर्थात् चित्त, केवल व्यक्त रूप में ही नित्य विद्यमान और अस्तित्वमान होता है। और इस मन में ही अव्यक्त की कल्पना उठती है और उसे ही

प्रमाणविपर्ययविकल्पनिद्रास्मृतयः।।

(समाधिपाद - ६)

प्रमाण, विपर्यय, विकल्प, स्मृति, और निद्रा

इन पाँच प्रकारों में "वृत्ति" का नाम दिया जाता है।

नित्य विद्यमान समष्टि मन केवल वर्तमान (present and now) ही है जबकि अज्ञान ही उपरोक्त पाँच रूपों में "वृत्ति" की तरह - व्यक्त से अव्यक्त, और अव्यक्त से व्यक्त रूप धारण किया करता है । व्यक्त होने पर यही अज्ञान, व्यक्ति और उसके संसार में विभक्त हो जाता है।

अनवधानता / In-attention ही वृत्ति है और यही संकल्प, कामना, भय, आशा, और द्वन्द्व-रूपी -

अविद्यास्मितारागद्वेषाः अभिनिवेशाः पञ्चक्लेशाः।। (साधनपाद -३)

अविद्या अस्मिता राग-द्वेष और अभिनिवेश

नामक पाँच क्लेश हैं।

यही व्यक्त आता-जाता रहनेवाला व्यक्तिगत मन अर्थात् व्यक्ति-विशेष के रूप में अहंकार और उसका संसार है, जबकि समष्टि-मन इन सब की समष्टि है जिसमें व्यक्ति होने की भावना तक का अत्यन्त अभाव होता है। वह सत्, चित् तथा परिपूर्ण अस्तित्व मात्र है।

पञ्च महाभूतों के विशिष्ट संयोग से उत्पन्न शरीर-विशेष में पञ्च-प्राणों का उन्मेष / उत्स्फूर्त होने पर व्यक्ति-भाव अस्तित्व में आता है, और यही अज्ञान अर्थात् अविद्या है। इस प्रकार प्रकृति में अनवधानता के प्रभाव से अभिभूत व्यक्ति, शरीर-विशेष से संलग्न चेतना-विशेष है। यह सब औपचारिक सत्य है। इसी औपचारिक-सत्य के आधार पर व्यावहारिक-सत्य प्रतीति में पाया जाता है जो पुनः उन्हीं पाँच वृत्तियों के रूप में व्यक्ति और उसका कल्पित संसार होता है।

ऊपर उद्धृत अध्याय २ के श्लोक २८ में जिसे "भूतानि" कहा गया है वह यही व्यक्ति है।

अनवधानता और अहंकार, अज्ञानतावश ही परस्पर भिन्न प्रतीत होते हैं। अनवधानता अज्ञान का स्थायी / स्थिर पक्ष है, जबकि अहंकार अज्ञान का गतिशील पक्ष है।

फिर मृत्यु क्या है? 

जैसा कि उपरोक्त श्लोक में कहा गया, व्यक्ति-चेतना अव्यक्त से व्यक्त रूप ग्रहण कर पुनः अव्यक्त में ही लौट जाती है, इसलिए एक शरीर में जीवन बिताकर उसे त्याग देती है और एक नया शरीर ग्रहणकर उस शरीर में पुनः व्यक्त रूप में जीवन बिताने लगती है। निद्रा में जाने पर हम एक स्वप्न शरीर ग्रहण कर लेते हैं जो कि स्वप्नलोक में हमारा अस्तित्व होता है, उसी तरह इस शरीर के नष्ट हो जाने के बाद या तो किसी स्वप्न-शरीर के माध्यम से हम स्वप्नलोक में विचरण रहते हैं, या पुनः किसी योनि में जन्म लेकर शरीर के रूप में दया जीवन जीने लगते हैं।  जैसे हमारे द्वारा देखे गए अनेक स्वप्नं में से अधिकांश हम भूल जाते हैं, वैसे ही एक नये शरीर को धारण करने पर पुराने शरीर के माध्यम से अनुभव किए गए जीवन को भी हम लगभग भूल जाते हैं और किसी किसी समय वे हमें याद भी आ जाया करते हैं, जिसका प्रमाण भी समय समय पर मिलता रहता है। शास्त्रों के अनुसार यह आवश्यक नहीं है कि मनुष्य के रूप में जी लेने के बाद मृत्यु हो जाने पर हमें पुनः मनुष्य-शरीर ही मिले, यह भी संभव है कि हम किसी अन्य योनि में जन्म लें। इस प्रकार के अनुमानों में व्यस्त रहने और संशय में पड़े रहने से अच्छा यही है कि हम व्यक्ति के रूप में क्या हैं ओर हमारे उस रूप की सत्यता कितनी क्षणिक है इस पर हम ध्यान दें।

श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता भी महर्षि पतञ्जलि के योग-शास्त्र जैसा ही योग-विषयक ग्रन्थ है, इसलिए दोनों ही के माध्यम से इस बारे में आगे और अन्वेषण कर सकते हैं और इस तरह से हम सत्य का साक्षात्कार भी कर सकते हैं। 

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The Circle of Ignorance.

The Geometry of Relationships.

The Fourth Angle / Angel.

For the reasons unknown, or because of the circumstances and situations, in the beginning of my school education, when  I was in the classes of the primary and the secondary school, I studied in Hindi Medium. I always liked Hindi and I was good in English also, but English could never become my favorite language of communication because of the obvious reasons.

This question of Hindi or English was a really a big bug in those days of school education, and I also enjoyed this much. However, The Sanskrit was also there as the Third optional language one has to study. One reason behind this education policy of the Government was the three language formula. I still favour it.

In different states of our country it is the only acceptable way that all may agree.

Here I'm not going about this in details.

So I had Sanskrit as the elementary and introductory level language English as yet another main choice and Hindi was the major one and the medium of study.

In Mathematics There were Arithmatic, Algebra and Geometry, and this in Hindi were अंकगणित, बीजगणित, and ज्यामिति .

So I felt that the origin and source of all knowledge was Sanskrit / संस्कृत.

I also felt that Sanskrit and Veda  /  वेद and "knowledge" might be the same and somewhat / somehow synonymous too.

Through intuition and insight, I could also feel that my inclinations, interests, likes and dislikes were much different than those of all the others, even those in my own family - not only my siblings but my parents as well. Though now only I can understand why I was born in this family. The only evident reason for this was in this way I could connect myself with my 

Bharadvajaa Gotra / भारद्वाज गोत्र

Now I can well understand how the

D.N.A. is the only link that maintains the Gotra / गोत्र - ऋषि परंपरा  through and from one to the next birth.

On the other hand though the 'religion' may be another reason why one is born in whatever traditional set-up, it affects the life accordingly in another way.The spiritual progress of the person or the soul is not obstructed because of this in any way.

The pertinent question here is :

Who exactly is the person / soul / spirit / the individual who has to go on through this cycles of repeating birth, death and reincarnation?

The  obvious and the plain truth is :

The Ignorance.

One "Who" is "born" is ignorant of this whole phenomenon.

There are two angles to this 

Ignorance

One is : Why and How,

Another is : Who?

While studying Geometry I came across the Geometrical concept of the :

In-centre and Ex-centre of a triangle.

As the medium of my study was Hindi, I had the words

अन्तःकेन्द्र and बहिःकेन्द्र

respectively for the words :

In-centre and the Ex-centre.

While in Hindi,  we used two different words to differentiate between two types of triangles i.e. त्रिभुज and त्रिकोण, We had yet another approach to the concept of : In-centre and Ex-centre.

By way of reference, let me explain how the In-centre and Ex-centre is defined.

For example in a 🔺 we can construct two different circles - one passing through the three vertices of the triangle and another  that passes through the 3 mid-points of the three sides of this 🔺. 

The analogy and the Algorithm.

I intuitively and through the insight felt that the physical body, the mind and the world could be the three vertices of the triangle referred to here, and there is a centre that we can see as the In-centre and with it there is also an Ex-centre in this triangle.

If I'm not wrong, the two - namely the In-centre and the Ex-centre may or may not always coincide. I leave it here as this.

Then we can also think of those so many innumerable circles that are beyond both these two circles - that passes through the vertices or through the mid-points of the 3 sides of the triangle.

The Person  / soul / spirit / individual is the Sense of the "self" / consciousness.

In the same way again, we could define that there is a Great Circle, the Whole and it's centre as well, where-in all the infinite and innumerable circles and their centres are located. In comparison to the individual we can call it The God.

However, the nature and the reality of the relationship between this assumed  God and the individual is uncertain and ambiguous too, just because it is quite hypothetical.

I could say this has been always for me :

The Geometry of the Spiritual.

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