Friday, January 18, 2008

Brahman

I cannot tell you what is that. Even if I tell you wont get it. No one told that before. No one heard that before. But everyone talks about that. Brahman - is the final ultimate reality in Hinduism. One who knows Brahman knows everything. One who doesn't know Brahman knows nothing. In that case you just have some fractional perception of this universe. Some idea. That's it. What you all have is an idea of this world. A mindset. You have no idea who you are? From where have you came? Where do you go? By applying the ultimate concept of Brahman it doesn't seem to be problematic thoough. Even problem itself is part of Brahman. Everything emanate from same Brahman. Do not slot. Let the things be connected. Don't say this is mine, that is yours. If you say so you are trying to divide which is non-divisible. Brahman is both manifested and non-manifested. The universe you see is floating in the Brahman. Just like a boat float on the vast ocean. Brahman was always there. It will be always there. Keep one thing in mind. You cannot understand Brahman by reading texts. Never. However, reading text will motivate you.
Just for the sake of better understanding we devide Brahman in two part. Atman and Parmatman. It's not that Atman is different from Brahman. Atman is Jiva. What you call is soul. Jiva desire to be merged with Parmatman i.e Brahman. This is called - Athato Brahm Jigyasa.
This is the first step. Jigyasa is the key. If you have no quest, forget about it. No harm. Actually it doesn't matter whether you aspire to be Brahman or not. But it does matter practically. We live in the practical world. Not in the idle world. Which is insigificant when viewed from broader perspective. That's why I say all are good. For example...I actually do not see much difference between Buddha and Anand. On the root level they both are same. The difference you see is the difference of practicality. Practically they are different. Buddha may have more love in him. But same Brahman is indwelling in both in different form. And Buddha knew it. Same brahman is fully active in Buddha. But the same Brahman is slightly dormant in Anand. Brahman manifest himself in the different form. Same Brahman sometimes manifest as stone sometimes as flowers. Difficult to understand by the intellect. Isn't it.
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You can understand everything if you look from Brahaman perspective. The other practical thing is you have to drop your ego to see the real picture of Brahman. Lets understand this by this example. There is only one chair in the room. And there are two person. Person A, person B.
Person A is little bit egoistic and person B is gentleman. Now whats gonna happen. When person A is sitting on the chair, B cannot sit on the chair. Person B is so saintly, that he wants to sit on the chair if and only if person A let him sit. Now replace person A by you and person B by Brahman. That's the case with you. You don't' let Brahman to descend on you. Your ego comes in between you and Brahman. And Brahman is extremely silent. He wont disturb you. He wont abuse you back if you abuse him. The glory of Brahman is non-describable.
Rig veda confirms that Brahman is the highest God in the hinduism. However, some other sect who worship God with manly form keeps the status of Brahman slightly lower than their diety. Brahman is so glorious that it doesn't matter to him at what position you keep him. Brahman is attribute less. You say Brahman is highest god or lowest god, its all same for Brahman. So, those sect who keep the status of Brahman slightly lower than their diety is also part of Brahman itself. Hence ok. No offence.
More later...
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