Technology of Self - I

ஓம் நமசிவாய சிவாயநம ஓம்

Om Nama Shivaya, Shivaya Nama Om

Have you ever stood barefoot in a mountain stream experienced the  sight and feel of clear water flowing off the pebbles and its feel under your feet ?  Have you stood on a cliff and see down into a valley and experienced the fleeting moment when you slip outside yourself and become part of the scenery ? Have you suddenly slipped into an awareness while in the midst of a poetry triggered by the silence of gaps between the words? If so, you have had a revelation of “Self”, the conscious behind our I-consciousness which is our normal state, the real charioteer of the chariot.

In Maitre Upanishad, when Valakhilayas asked thus:

“Master, how does this pure Being ( the Brahman) give consciousness to the unconscious body ? How is he the driver of the Chariot ?”

The Master Kratu Prajapati answered:

“Even as a man who is asleep awakes, but when he is asleep does not know that he is going to wake up, so a part of the subtle invisible Spirit comes as a messenger to this body without the body being conscious of his arrival.”

A part of Infinite Consciousness becomes our own finite consciousness with its own false conceptions. He is in truth Prajapathi and Visava, the Source of creation and Universal in all; he is the driver of the Chariot.

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Sivavakiyar says the same thing, that he and god and one and the same:

என்னவென்று சொல்லுவேன் இலக்கணம் இலாததை

பன்னுகின்ற செந்தமிழ் பதம்கடந்த பண்பென

மின்னகத்தில் மின்னொடுங்கி மின்னதான மாறுபோல்

என்னகத்துள் ஈசனும் யானுமல்லை இல்லையே

(This to me means:

“How will I explain that which is beyond rules of explanation; there is no word for it in the

Tamil language that I speak in; just like lightening hidden in the sky and hence and inseparable from the sky  , God is  not outside me and reveals himself in a fleeting moment of awareness. )