Sunday, May 08, 2016

Why a Body cannot have multiple Atma

The question seems something like why didn't someone think of it before! Why can't a body have multiple Atman. You have to think about why a body exists, and why an Atman pervades in it.

Atman, involuntarily or voluntarily, puts life into a body so it can run through its Karmas. It wants, in human life, to be made aware to not be identified with this life. To realize its been going through such lives multiple times, with memory getting wiped out since that stays in that life's mind. Only the Samskaras, the impressions-both good and bad, have stuck to it like a stain whose effects have to be run through. This much is well known.

Now, what Vivekananda has said, and is the crucial point to answer this question, is that Atman, the Purusha, that pervades and illumines all, actually manufactures these mind-body complexes, based on its previous Karmas, and to run through those effects. Vivekananda goes on to say that Karmas have to be run through in the nature where they were accumulated, the rest are held at bay for the time being. Thus, we were humans before, running through these Karmas, and getting them worked out. If we show animalistic tendencies, we might go back to occupy an animal body to work those out, since that's easier to wipe out. Animals behave purely on instinct that intent, so they are actually working out those Karmic effects without accumulating any more.

So if an Atman is generating this body to work out its Karmas, to wipe out these stains, then there is no question of another Atman also coming in here. It automatically answers the question. Although within this nature there are instances where a person gets possessed by a good or evil soul. I believe it has to be permitted, and does not automatically happen. You have to will it, else it will not happen.

Saturday, May 07, 2016

Of twitter raindrops, and gushing smiles

Where there is a child carefree
You feel really the spirit is free
No one expects anything less
A child to dance at none's behest

I am chaste, I hesitate
A child thinks not, an innocent lot
He jumps and dreams, and laughs and cries
He lives life truly, nature's child

The raindrops, seawaves, the chirping birds
He helps me notice, their inner joy
I had seen once, but now forgotten
The gushing smiles, beneath the karmic dust

Sunday, May 01, 2016

I may be Ananda, but not yet Ananta

There are teachings and commentaries by Gurus, especially in the Yogas, which point straight to the final goal, with the desire to kindle in the aspirant what lies in the final beyond.

But often it also causes misconceptions and actually disappointments. A simple thing as a person levitating is something we can strive towards but never achieve. If that's the goal some seeker keeps, he'll only stay disappointed.

Likewise is the Sat-Chit-Ananda quote, which commentators often cite the Ananda analogous to Ananta. This should be avoided. You may and can and will achieve Ananda. And that's what you are, Ananda and Bliss. But until you are in Samadhi state, you cannot possibly achieve Ananta, and shouldn't run after it.

Tat Tvam Asi says the essence in the (say) the Sun, is the same in you. But you are not the Sun. We are all made up of the same conscious. The Sun covered by another karmic layer, and we, by ours.

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