VIII
TRIPURAA THE SUPREME SELF
SHE is THAT which exists as the Self is Pure Knowledge
Transcending all.
SHE is the Perfect one, aggregate of all the egos
identified with her.
SHE is Self-contained, and manifests as Maayaa by
virtue of Her own prowess.
Being one without second, SHE makes even the
impossible happen and thus reveals the world as a series of images in a mirror.
SHE manifests as the individual egos falsely
identified with bodies.
SHE is Ego in perfection, while remaining as Pure
Consciousness.
This is the nature of Abstract Principle of
Knowledge.
This unbroken ‘I’ ‘I’ consciousness remains before
creation as will, self-sufficient and independent in nature and is also called
Svatantra.
SHE turns into action (kriyaa) during creation and
is called Maayaa.
Creation is not vibration or metamorphosis; it is
a mere reflection of images like those in a mirror. Shakti is untainted by time
and unbroken. SHE is eternal.
The World has no origin. SHE herself appears as
all this.
SHE who is transcendence, pure awareness and totality
of all egos, of Her own Will divides Herself into two – sentient and insentient.
The sentient phase is SadaaShiva Tattva.
SadaaShiva identifies the insentient phase with
His body at the beginning of Creation. Then he goes by the name Ishvara, the
Ruler.
This tainted Higher Ego, namely Ishvara, divides
Himself into the three aspects - Rudra, Vishnu and Brahma (representing the
modes of Ego associated with the three qualities Tamas, Rajas and Sattva) who
in their turn manifest the creation consisting of countless worlds.
Brahmas are innumerable, all of whom are engaged
in creating worlds;
Vishnus are equally taken up in protecting the
worlds; and
the Rudras in destroying them.
This is the way of Creation. But all of them are
only images in the grand mirror of Abstract Consciousness. These are only
manifest, but are not concrete, since they have never been created.
The Supreme Being is always the sum-total of all
the egos.
Just as you fill the body and identify yourself
with different senses and organs without deviating from the Ego, so does the
transcendental Pure Intelligence similarly identify itself with all, beginning
from SadaaShiva and ending with the minutest protoplasm, and yet remains
single.
Again, just as you cannot taste anything without
the aid of the tongue, nor apprehend other things without the aid of other senses
or organs, so also the Supreme Being (SadaaShiva) acts and knows through the
agency of Brahma, etc., and even of worms.
Just as your conscious Self remains pure and
unqualified although it forms the basis of all the activities of limbs, organs
and senses, so also the Supreme Intelligence is unaffected though holding all
the Egos within Herself.
SHE is not aware of any distinctions in the
vastness of the world nor does SHE make divisions among the Egos.
In this manner, the perceived world shines in her
like a reflection in a mirror.
The perceived world shines forth as Her
reflection.
The individuals in the world, namely you, I, and
other seers are all flashes of Her consciousness.
She remains untainted and unaffected by the
manifest world.
Just as the mirror shines forth pure when reflections
are absent, and also remains untainted when
the reflections appear on it, so also Pure Intelligence subsists pure and
untainted whether the world is perceived or not.
This untainted Supreme Intelligence is one without
a second and is filled with Bliss. The
sum-total of all happiness of all the living beings has taken shape as the
Supreme One because SHE is obviously desired by all.
SHE is the Self, the principle of Bliss, because
the Self is the most beloved of every being.
Pure Intelligence is indeed Bliss because it is
the only one sought for.
For the sake of the Self people discipline their bodies
and subdue their desires.
Pleasures of the senses are mere sparks of Bliss
inherent in the Self.
Sense pleasure is the joy felt in the absence of
pain or the joy felt in the absence of perceptions as at sleep.
People do not recognize the Bliss inhering as
their Self, because of their ignorance. They always associate pleasure with the
events of the world.
Sages know the Self alone to be unique, real and
untainted by its own projections, namely, the world, etc. like the mirror
untainted by reflections.
The relation of the perceived phenomenon to Pure
Intelligence, i.e., Abstract Self, is like that of a pot to earth, or of an
ornament to gold, or of sculpture to the granite rock.
Denial of the existence of the world does not
amount to perfection.
Denial is absurd. For, it implies intelligence,
and intelligence displays itself as the world. The intelligence denying or
admitting the world is there shining over all! Can the world be erased out of existence
by mere denial of it?
Just as the images appear in a mirror and partake
of its nature, so also the perceived world is of and in the Self, and real
inasmuch as it is the Self.
This wisdom in perfection is the realization of
all as the Self.
Consciousness appears as objects by its own
virtue, as a mirror appears as the images on it.
This is the whole essence of the Scriptures.
There is no bondage, no liberation, no aspirant,
and no process of attainment. The transcendental Conscious Principle alone
subsists in the three states of being.
SHE remains as the one uniform, absolute being.
SHE is ignorance. SHE is wisdom.
SHE is bondage. SHE is liberation and SHE is the
process thereof.
This is all that need be known, understood and
realized. There is nothing more.
The man who knows it rightly will never be
overtaken by misery.
Such is the section on Wisdom, recondite with
reason, subtlety, and experience.
Should any one not gain wisdom after hearing or
reading it but continue to wallow in ignorance, he should be put down as
nothing more than a stock or a stone. What hope is there for him?
Hearing it even once must make a man truly wise;
he is sure to become wise. Sin or obstruction to wisdom is destroyed by reading
it; wisdom dawns on hearing it. Writing, appreciating and discussing its
contents respectively destroys the sense of duality, purifies the mind and
reveals the abiding Truth.
SHE goes by the name of Liberation when clearly
and directly realized by enquiry as the one undivided Self of all; otherwise,
SHE goes by the name of Bondage.
SHE is the one Consciousness threading the three
states of being, but untainted and unbroken by them.
SHE is the sound, word and the significance of – ‘HREEM’
SALUTATIONS TO TRIPURAA MY OWN SELF
Supreme knowledge
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