Vivekachudamani 108 selected Verses Class 7 : video Link, Summary Slides

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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

Shadow

•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.