Contributed By Dr Thimappa Hegde
Vivekachudamani – Class 7
01st March 2021
Summary of Previous class
Contributed by Dr. Komal
Introduction
Dr. Thimappa Hegde
Sarvavedāntasiddhānta
Gocaraṃtamagocaram |
Govindaṃparamānandaṃ
Sadguruṃpraṇato'smyaham ||1||
Verse 37 (127)
Contributed by Dr. Suman
Verse 38 (135)
Contributed by Dr Sandhya N
prakṛtivikṛtibhinnaḥ śuddhabodhasvabhāvaḥ sadasadidamaśeṣaṃ bhāsayannirviśeṣaḥ vilasati paramātmā jāgradādiṣvavasthā svahamahamiti sākṣātsākṣirūpeṇa buddheḥ
The Supreme Self, different from the Prakriti and its modifications,
the essence of Pure Knowledge, and Absolute, manifests this universe,
in all states, as the substratum of the persistent sense of AM ness.
Verse 39 (137)
Contributed by Dr Anupama
ATRA ANATMANI AHAM ITI MATIHI
BANDAH AESHA ASYA PUMSAHA
PRAPTHA AJNANATH JANANA MARANA
KLESHA SAMPATHA HETUHU
YENA EVA AYAM VAPUHU IDAM ASAT
SATYAM ITI ATMA BUDHYA
PUSHYATI UKSHATI AVATI VISHAYAIHI
TANTUBIHI KOSHA KRITHVAT
This is the answer to the first question
Ko namabandah?
•What is the meaning of bondage?
•The notional misconception that I am the anatma the Body Mind Complex (BMC ) is bondage.
•Two errors are committed simultaneously:
1] The anatma though MITYA is mistaken to be SATYA
ASAT VAPUHU SATHYAM ITI BUDHYA
2] Identification with this anatma
ASAT VAPUHU ATMA BUDHYA
Definition of Bandah
•I the ATMA erroneously identify myself with the BMC
•=DEHABIMANA
•=ADHYASA
•=BRANTHI
•=VIPARYAYA
•What is the cause of bondage?
•Ignorance Atma anatma aviveka
WHAT IS THE CONSEQUENCE?
•Aesha asya ajnanath praptha janana marana klesha sampatha hethu
•Substance [BMC] identification =DHARME adhyasa leads to attribute identification =DHARMA adhyasa
•Identification with the mortal body is the cause of birth, death and the problems of life
Types of bondage
•RAGA –‘[Shell?=silver] run towards-PRAVRITHI
•DVESHA—[Rope?=snake] run away—NIVRITHI
•This incessant futile running =SAMSARA
Atra anatmani aham itimatihi ajnanath prapti
•If I claim that I am the body mind complex, anatmani [=Stula, Sukshma, Karana sharira]
• I become vishva, taijasa and prajna
•I create 3 false “I”s
•This intellectual misconception =deha abhimana could be:
1]samanya abhimana
2]vishesha abhimana
Samanyaabhimana
•Inborn [prarabdha karma] —a natural association with the physical body.
•Ex. If the body is hungry, hurt ,etc. I feel hungry, hurt…….
•Even Atma jnana cannot eliminate this association
•All animals have samanya abhimana
•Visesha abhimana is the conclusion that I am the BMC
•AHAM ITI MATHI
•This intellectual erroneous notion is called BANDAH
•Aesha BANDAH asya pumsah ajnanath praptah
Body Mind Complex - BMC
•Is a phenomenal gift
•Use it
•Do not identify with it
•Without BMC how can I claim AHAM BRAHMA ASMI
•A Jeevan Mukta has Jeeva Sharira
•A Videha Mukta has Ishwara Sharira
•CONSEQUENCE OF DEHABHIMANA= SAMSARA
•A battle of fate [prarabdha] v/s freewill
•Unmatched because prarabdha is adrishta
•It is the cause of insecurity, anxiety unpredictability of a Samsari
Priorities shift to immortalise the BMC
•1]Pushyati = nourishes the body
•2]Ukshati = cleansing the body with various objects [vishayaihi]
•3]Avati = protects the body
LIKE A SILKWORM
•A silkworm protects itself by weaving a cocoon of silk
•To get this silk thread intact the worm is killed by dropping the cocoon in to a cauldron of boiling water
•What was thought to be a protection becomes an enemy
•Similarly indulging in the BMC - DEHABHIMANA leads to BONDAGE or SAMSARA
•Samsara is self inflicted by self ignorance
•We are living silkworms in the boiling water called SAMSARA
•THIS IS BANDHA
Verse 40 (139)
Contributed by Sri Vinayakan
KathameshaAgataha:
How does the human bondage come into existence?
What is the diagnosis and remedial measures?
KARANA SARIRAM (AVIDYA, MAYA, AVYAKTAM)
Every individual has got his own karana sariram holding the sanchithakarma.
ATMA
“ Akhanda nitya advaya bodhasakthya sphranthamathmanam”
•Akhanda - Undivided
•Nitya - Eternal
•Advaya - Non-dual
•Sphruntham - Evershining
“Tamomayi rahuriva arkabimbam”
Like the mythological rahu (shadow of the moon) eclipses the sun during the solar eclipse,
avidya’s avaranashakti conceals my real nature.‘I become ignorant’
Verse 41 (140)
Contributed by Sri Vishwanath
41 tirobhūte svātmani, amalataratejovati pumān
anātmānaṃ mohād, ahamiti śarīraṃ kalayati |
tataḥ kāmakrodha-prabhṛtibhiramuṃ bandhanaguṇaiḥ
paraṃ vikṣepākhyā, rajasa uruśaktirvyathayati ||140||
When a person’s own self of purest splendour is hidden from direct experience, that person, due to ignorance, comes to falsely identify with the body which is the non-self. Then the merciless persecution of rajo guna (projecting power) binds the person with fetters of lust, anger etc.
Stage 2 of the problem:
1.I imagine or mistake Anatma shariram as self of Atma (stage 1)
2.I consider myself as Apurna (aham apurna atma)
3.I desire to complete myself with external things – wealth, job, relationship
4.This leads to SIX negative tendencies (Kama, Krodha, Lobha etc) and psychological problems
5.It binds a person because the six negative tendencies has Bandhana Gunam or Guna of bondage
Verse 42 (144)
Contributed by Sri Madhusudan
Om Puurnnam-Adah Puurnnam-Idam
Puurnnaat-Purnnam-Udacyate
PuurnnasyaPuurnnam-Aadaaya
Puurnnam-Eva-Avashissyate ||
Om ShaantihShaantihShaantih ||