THE CHIDAKASH GITA OF
BHAGAWAN NITYANANDA OF GANESHPURI
Verses 176 - 200
BHAGAWAN NITYANANDA OF GANESHPURI
Verses 176 - 200
176. The goal of man is Upanayanam, i.e. to be lead to immortality. Dwelling in the cave of the heart is man' s goal. Living in the cave means living inside the body
177. Meditate incessantly on the Paramatma who is in the Jivatma. Space is in you. It is in the head. Meditate on the heart space which is in the head.
178. Those who are born deaf have not the least idea of sound. They have no desires. They have subtle discrimination. Those who are always in yoga sleep, have no difference between day and night, between sun and moon. To the subtle discrimination, all is one. Those who have annihilated the mind, are men. Lower animals are so called, because they are in a lower stage of development. Sensual life is beastly life. The upward breath is the goal of man. The same is Gayatri, accomplished. The same is yoga-bliss.
179. One who has annihilated the manas is the universal teacher. One who has destroyed desire, root and branch, is the teacher of all.
180. He is a real Sanyasi who has burnt desire to ashes. He is the universal teacher. The universe is in those who have renounced desire. What is Chidakasha (space) is Sanyasa. The same is light is consciousness. The same is divine light. The same is fire, internal, and external. The same is the fire of discrimination. This power of discrimination is in the universe.
181. Fire is essentially an internal thing. Fire is the supreme of all. The origin of all creation is fire. First, we must realize ourselves and then, impart it to others. This is the highest duty of man. When you feel pain, you must realize that others have pain just like you. When you feel hungry, you must realize that others have hunger just like you. We must think that what is our goal is also the goal of others.
When a physician develops a new medicine and he does not reveal it to others till his death, the medicine is lost to the world with him. One who does not know the ways and means to realize God, is not a man. The most supreme knowledge is the knowledge of God. This knowledge must be imparted to others so that they may understand it. Those who are hungry must be fed. Nobody asks you about God unless he has discriminative power.
182. The first requirement is faith. The second is devotion (Bhakti). Those who have no faith cannot have devotion. The judge listens to what the defendants say. Faith is just like that. When Buddhi has attained acute discriminating power, we will experience Vivekananda. Vivekananda is Paramananda, Satchidananda. When existence (Sat) and knowledge (Chit) become one, Ananda will result. This is Brahmananda, Shivananda.
177. Meditate incessantly on the Paramatma who is in the Jivatma. Space is in you. It is in the head. Meditate on the heart space which is in the head.
178. Those who are born deaf have not the least idea of sound. They have no desires. They have subtle discrimination. Those who are always in yoga sleep, have no difference between day and night, between sun and moon. To the subtle discrimination, all is one. Those who have annihilated the mind, are men. Lower animals are so called, because they are in a lower stage of development. Sensual life is beastly life. The upward breath is the goal of man. The same is Gayatri, accomplished. The same is yoga-bliss.
179. One who has annihilated the manas is the universal teacher. One who has destroyed desire, root and branch, is the teacher of all.
180. He is a real Sanyasi who has burnt desire to ashes. He is the universal teacher. The universe is in those who have renounced desire. What is Chidakasha (space) is Sanyasa. The same is light is consciousness. The same is divine light. The same is fire, internal, and external. The same is the fire of discrimination. This power of discrimination is in the universe.
181. Fire is essentially an internal thing. Fire is the supreme of all. The origin of all creation is fire. First, we must realize ourselves and then, impart it to others. This is the highest duty of man. When you feel pain, you must realize that others have pain just like you. When you feel hungry, you must realize that others have hunger just like you. We must think that what is our goal is also the goal of others.
When a physician develops a new medicine and he does not reveal it to others till his death, the medicine is lost to the world with him. One who does not know the ways and means to realize God, is not a man. The most supreme knowledge is the knowledge of God. This knowledge must be imparted to others so that they may understand it. Those who are hungry must be fed. Nobody asks you about God unless he has discriminative power.
182. The first requirement is faith. The second is devotion (Bhakti). Those who have no faith cannot have devotion. The judge listens to what the defendants say. Faith is just like that. When Buddhi has attained acute discriminating power, we will experience Vivekananda. Vivekananda is Paramananda, Satchidananda. When existence (Sat) and knowledge (Chit) become one, Ananda will result. This is Brahmananda, Shivananda.
183. Shiva is in you. You are in Shiva. Maya is in you. Creation and destruction are both in Maya. Those who are free from the bondage of the qualities (Trigunas) are free from Maya. He who is free from the delusion that he is the body, is nothing but bliss incarnate. That which is free from the idea of "honor" and "dishonor" is internal.
184. In this world, those who are indifferent to honor and dishonor, have attained the goal. Such people only, have attained peace.
185. In the infinite (indivisible), there is no finite (divisible). Those who are without a guru, cannot attain the goal.
186. Consider the physical eye. A blind man may have a light in his hand but the light is of no use to him. Those who have eaten a bellyful do not require food any more.
Suppose, the cooking is over. You are not satisfied by simply smelling the food. Your hunger is appeased only if you eat the food cooked. If you hold a piece of gold in your hand, it is of no use. It should be melted in the fire. Its dross should be removed. Then only, it shines brilliantly. Similarly, the dross of the soul is desire and anger. These should be destroyed.
187. What the nest is to the bird, is the body to the soul. The body is the house of the soul. What is "that house" and what is "this house" is subtle discrimination. The gross body is the beggarly house. What to say of Brahmananda! No one can describe it.
Truly, truly, realize that the eternal Atman is ONE in ALL. Hari is not the knower. Shiva is the knower. What is Hari is wandering. "Hari! Hari! I want this." "I want that." "Give me, give me," you say. This is of no use. Such a man is never happy. Let Hari merge in Hara. Burn Hari in Hara. Saying "Hari, Hari" is nothing but mental delusion. You praise Hara, hiding this delusion in your mind! He who has given you eternal joy is Shiva.
Shiva is the giver of eternal Mukti (liberation) and eternal Bhakti. What is Hari is keeping the mind in the world. Shiva is keeping the whole universe in one's Self. Saying "Hari, Hari" is going down. But Shiva is the guide to the path of bliss. Mukti is obtained by the upward course of Prana. Hari is like a horse without reins.
188. To ride a horse safely in the midst of a crowd of two thousand people, the rider must be efficient. Buddhi (intelligence) is above. Manas (mind) is below. Buddhi is the king. Manas is the prime minister. Mind must be subordinate to Buddhi. The first is sound. The second is the impression which the sound carries. The primary guru is the Manas. The secondary preceptor is he who initiates you. The secondary guru is the teacher. The primary guru is that which practices. Realization is the primary guru. You cannot have a secondary preceptor unless you have a desire to have him. When you have the desire to possess a thing you require a secondary guru. The secondary guru is he who shows you the well. The primary guru is he who drinks water from the well.
The primary preceptor banishes the darkness in you, giving you light. Darkness is ignorance. Light is knowledge. He who shows you the path to the subtle, leaving aside the gross, is the guru. The one guru who is in all is the Lord of the Universe. One is not the guru to the other. One is only a secondary guru. Guru is the Lord of the Universe.
He is the Omkar, Brahma, Vishnu, Maheshwara, the origin of Para-Brahma. Vishnu is the mental modifications (Vrittis). What is Shiva is the decoration of the body. Brahmeshwara is leaving aside of the body-idea, like the kernel of a dry coconut which is separated from the outer covering.
184. In this world, those who are indifferent to honor and dishonor, have attained the goal. Such people only, have attained peace.
185. In the infinite (indivisible), there is no finite (divisible). Those who are without a guru, cannot attain the goal.
186. Consider the physical eye. A blind man may have a light in his hand but the light is of no use to him. Those who have eaten a bellyful do not require food any more.
Suppose, the cooking is over. You are not satisfied by simply smelling the food. Your hunger is appeased only if you eat the food cooked. If you hold a piece of gold in your hand, it is of no use. It should be melted in the fire. Its dross should be removed. Then only, it shines brilliantly. Similarly, the dross of the soul is desire and anger. These should be destroyed.
187. What the nest is to the bird, is the body to the soul. The body is the house of the soul. What is "that house" and what is "this house" is subtle discrimination. The gross body is the beggarly house. What to say of Brahmananda! No one can describe it.
Truly, truly, realize that the eternal Atman is ONE in ALL. Hari is not the knower. Shiva is the knower. What is Hari is wandering. "Hari! Hari! I want this." "I want that." "Give me, give me," you say. This is of no use. Such a man is never happy. Let Hari merge in Hara. Burn Hari in Hara. Saying "Hari, Hari" is nothing but mental delusion. You praise Hara, hiding this delusion in your mind! He who has given you eternal joy is Shiva.
Shiva is the giver of eternal Mukti (liberation) and eternal Bhakti. What is Hari is keeping the mind in the world. Shiva is keeping the whole universe in one's Self. Saying "Hari, Hari" is going down. But Shiva is the guide to the path of bliss. Mukti is obtained by the upward course of Prana. Hari is like a horse without reins.
188. To ride a horse safely in the midst of a crowd of two thousand people, the rider must be efficient. Buddhi (intelligence) is above. Manas (mind) is below. Buddhi is the king. Manas is the prime minister. Mind must be subordinate to Buddhi. The first is sound. The second is the impression which the sound carries. The primary guru is the Manas. The secondary preceptor is he who initiates you. The secondary guru is the teacher. The primary guru is that which practices. Realization is the primary guru. You cannot have a secondary preceptor unless you have a desire to have him. When you have the desire to possess a thing you require a secondary guru. The secondary guru is he who shows you the well. The primary guru is he who drinks water from the well.
The primary preceptor banishes the darkness in you, giving you light. Darkness is ignorance. Light is knowledge. He who shows you the path to the subtle, leaving aside the gross, is the guru. The one guru who is in all is the Lord of the Universe. One is not the guru to the other. One is only a secondary guru. Guru is the Lord of the Universe.
He is the Omkar, Brahma, Vishnu, Maheshwara, the origin of Para-Brahma. Vishnu is the mental modifications (Vrittis). What is Shiva is the decoration of the body. Brahmeshwara is leaving aside of the body-idea, like the kernel of a dry coconut which is separated from the outer covering.
189. All things with form is OMKAR. OMKAR is the divine in them. What is OMKAR is the subtle Bindu. Omkar pervades both in and out, in the form of air. It is impossible to describe Shiva-Shakti. Only those who have experienced it can describe what it is. Without experience, it is impossible to describe what Shiva-Shakti is. Men of book knowledge cannot describe it. But those who have the knowledge of the Atman can describe it.
190. If you see the dawn in the heart sky, it is possible to describe it. One must experience these things in one's Self. What is called Jnana is in Buddhi (intelligence). Those in whom Buddhi and Jnana have become one, can describe what this is. Those in whom intelligence and Jnana are separate, cannot describe what it is. What is called subtle discrimination is the union of Buddhi and Jnana. The reflection of the sun, ripples in the water. So also, is mind. If mind is fickle, it is enamored of Maya.
This madness (delusion) is caused by the gross. There is a madness caused by subtle discrimination. This is divine madness. The gross madness is the gross discrimination. Whatever we may eat, the path of food to the stomach is the same.
Whatever may be the contents of letters and post cards and various newspapers, the box in which they are posted is the same. The tongue distinguishes between things pungent and things sour. To the mind, there is no such difference. Just as we cage a bird binding its legs and then teach it to speak, so also intelligence becomes one with the soul when it is caged in the cage of Manas.
191. The Lord of Mukti is Shiva. Shiva is the Linga in the head. This Linga is nothing but Omkar. Enlightenment is the most important thing. Without nerves, there is no sound. Bhakti may be compared to the oil in a lamp. Nerves may be red to the wick. Subtle discrimination is the flame or the light. The nerves are the glass of the lantern. The various air holes of the lantern are the Brahma-Randhras. The form of discrimination is intelligence.
192. If you hold nose and mouth tight, you are not able to talk. Similarly, a thing that does not breathe, does not emit sound. Just as water goes on diminishing in a well in summer, so also, the power of breath goes on diminishing in the body. When the water is moving, the air moves along with it. You can live without food or without drinking coffee for five days. But you cannot live for five minutes without breathing.
193. The highest of all powers is the power of Maya. A dead body and so also a stone are unable to talk. Likewise, if air does not act, fire cannot burn. If breathing is not regular, the fire of digestion will be impaired. When the digestive fire does not act properly, the phlegm in the lungs becomes hard. Fat increases in the body. The food that is eaten remains in the stomach undigested. If there is any obstruction in the pump, water will not flow out properly. Similarly, if the breathing becomes difficult, fever, thickening of the mucus are caused. By this, all diseases are caused.
194. Everything comes out from within, not from without. One becomes bad by oneself. One becomes good by oneself. Similarly, there should be Omkar breathing within. Then, there is purity. When evil merges in the good, that evil is transformed into good. The thing in your own hand has no smell. It has no price. A thing that is got from others has smell. It has price. A Raja yogi Mahatma is Nityananda, all pervasive Omkar, all pervasive Pranava. He who is the Sri Guru is Nityananda. In the beginning, before perfect peace is attained, the power of Maya (delusion) in us will be greatly manifested. Wherever you turn your eyes, you see serpents. In the beginning, when you sit for practice, the heaviness of a mountain is experienced. At times, you feel as if you leave off the ground. You feel as if you are sitting in the sea. You feel as if hot water is poured on you. At another time, you feel as if you are sitting in a grand upper story.
Sometime you feel like a needle. At another time, you feel like a leaf. Sometime you do not feel whether you are walking or sitting or talking. At another time all feeling comes to a stand still. Sometime, the body becomes quite motionless, like a coconut tree. At another time, human beings appear like actors in a dramatic performance. At one time you see black faces. In perfect peace, one indivisible whiteness is visible. Light is in darkness. Darkness is in light. The whole universe is in darkness. In the universe is light. At one time, all this appears like a bioscopic performance. At another time, like Sat Chit Ananda. At one time, questions arise: "Why have men come into this world?"
"Whither are they going?" They do not know what their main duty is. Coming down is not permanent. Going up and up, is permanent. To those who have gone step by step to the upper story and look around, what is heard, what appears, what is done, all is like a net, that cannot be cut through. All penetrating Omkar is the all penetrating Pranava. Birds are like airplanes. Men are like beasts. Beasts are like men. Dogs are like Jnanis. If you feed a dog, it will never forget you till its death. It will have constant love for the master, who has fed it but once. Men have no subtle discrimination. They think not whence they have come and whither they are bound. A man of perfectly ripe understanding should be like a dog.
195. If you go to see a king, you have not the boldness to tell him to his face what his defects are. But behind his back, you criticize him. So also, people (worldly) are not bold enough to criticize a Jnani to his face. If you gaze at the brilliance of the sun and come into the house, you see nothing for a while. Similarly, if you emerge from a dark place into a light place, you cannot know whence you emerged.
196. Suppose a man awakes from a sleep out of fear, and sits up. Then he is so confused that he has no clear knowledge of anything. So also, Jnanis who are always in "Yoga-Nidra" (yoga sleep) do not know anything about the external world. If you have an umbrella, your head does not become wet by rain water. Those who take meals daily, have hunger. Those who are entirely merged in cold water do not feel cold. A perfect man is never excited to anger. A fried seed cannot sprout. Like gold, well burnished, your mind should be always pure.
197. A high class cobra has internal Pranayama. A cobra is very attentive to the sweet music, arising from a musical instrument called Nagaswara. A Jnani loves ALL as a cow loves its own calf. This is what is called same-sightedness. There is no house which is without doors. There is no cooking without vessels. A dog feeds on food, cooked either in earthen vessels or in gold vessels. Birds think of today's necessities. Never tomorrow's. A seed, kept in a closed box, never sprouts. Such a seed, never yields fruits. If it is sowed in earth (and watered), it will sprout and yield fruits. Hence, we must practice and get experience. It is you yourself who is responsible either for happiness or misery.
198. Anybody can handle a lamp without distinction of caste and creed. So also, the sun gives the same light to all. Sun is visible to all alike. Fire is visible to all alike. Supreme Buddhi (intelligence) and Jnana (knowledge) are one to those who have developed in them the power of the internal eye.
199. Those who have no subtle discrimination are not worth the name "men." A man is not an animal. The gross is the body idea. The subtle is the thought of Atman. Jivatma is the gross. Paramatma is the subtle. Without the gross, the subtle cannot be realized. Without a foundation, a house cannot be erected. Thought power (power of discrimination) is what is called Shiva-Shakti. The union of Jivatma and Paramatma is called Shiva-Shakti." When this power is intensified, man becomes "superman." A superman is a happy man. He is a Brahmin, knower of Brahma. Vedantic conduct or behavior is true character formation.
200. He who is desireless is an Acharya (great teacher). Desireless man is the Sanyasi. He is an Avadhoota in this world, who has abandoned desire. Avadhoot is a man of the first class. He is the most supreme of men. There is no state higher than that of Avadhoot. Avadhoot is he who is above all. He to whom this world and the next have become one is an Avadhoot. Consciousness sky, real sky, emancipation from bondage, the bliss of self government, the bliss of Brahma, real bliss, yoga bliss, fulfillment of human birth, lordship of Mukti, power to teach emperors; these are the "possessions" of an Avadhoota.
190. If you see the dawn in the heart sky, it is possible to describe it. One must experience these things in one's Self. What is called Jnana is in Buddhi (intelligence). Those in whom Buddhi and Jnana have become one, can describe what this is. Those in whom intelligence and Jnana are separate, cannot describe what it is. What is called subtle discrimination is the union of Buddhi and Jnana. The reflection of the sun, ripples in the water. So also, is mind. If mind is fickle, it is enamored of Maya.
This madness (delusion) is caused by the gross. There is a madness caused by subtle discrimination. This is divine madness. The gross madness is the gross discrimination. Whatever we may eat, the path of food to the stomach is the same.
Whatever may be the contents of letters and post cards and various newspapers, the box in which they are posted is the same. The tongue distinguishes between things pungent and things sour. To the mind, there is no such difference. Just as we cage a bird binding its legs and then teach it to speak, so also intelligence becomes one with the soul when it is caged in the cage of Manas.
191. The Lord of Mukti is Shiva. Shiva is the Linga in the head. This Linga is nothing but Omkar. Enlightenment is the most important thing. Without nerves, there is no sound. Bhakti may be compared to the oil in a lamp. Nerves may be red to the wick. Subtle discrimination is the flame or the light. The nerves are the glass of the lantern. The various air holes of the lantern are the Brahma-Randhras. The form of discrimination is intelligence.
192. If you hold nose and mouth tight, you are not able to talk. Similarly, a thing that does not breathe, does not emit sound. Just as water goes on diminishing in a well in summer, so also, the power of breath goes on diminishing in the body. When the water is moving, the air moves along with it. You can live without food or without drinking coffee for five days. But you cannot live for five minutes without breathing.
193. The highest of all powers is the power of Maya. A dead body and so also a stone are unable to talk. Likewise, if air does not act, fire cannot burn. If breathing is not regular, the fire of digestion will be impaired. When the digestive fire does not act properly, the phlegm in the lungs becomes hard. Fat increases in the body. The food that is eaten remains in the stomach undigested. If there is any obstruction in the pump, water will not flow out properly. Similarly, if the breathing becomes difficult, fever, thickening of the mucus are caused. By this, all diseases are caused.
194. Everything comes out from within, not from without. One becomes bad by oneself. One becomes good by oneself. Similarly, there should be Omkar breathing within. Then, there is purity. When evil merges in the good, that evil is transformed into good. The thing in your own hand has no smell. It has no price. A thing that is got from others has smell. It has price. A Raja yogi Mahatma is Nityananda, all pervasive Omkar, all pervasive Pranava. He who is the Sri Guru is Nityananda. In the beginning, before perfect peace is attained, the power of Maya (delusion) in us will be greatly manifested. Wherever you turn your eyes, you see serpents. In the beginning, when you sit for practice, the heaviness of a mountain is experienced. At times, you feel as if you leave off the ground. You feel as if you are sitting in the sea. You feel as if hot water is poured on you. At another time, you feel as if you are sitting in a grand upper story.
Sometime you feel like a needle. At another time, you feel like a leaf. Sometime you do not feel whether you are walking or sitting or talking. At another time all feeling comes to a stand still. Sometime, the body becomes quite motionless, like a coconut tree. At another time, human beings appear like actors in a dramatic performance. At one time you see black faces. In perfect peace, one indivisible whiteness is visible. Light is in darkness. Darkness is in light. The whole universe is in darkness. In the universe is light. At one time, all this appears like a bioscopic performance. At another time, like Sat Chit Ananda. At one time, questions arise: "Why have men come into this world?"
"Whither are they going?" They do not know what their main duty is. Coming down is not permanent. Going up and up, is permanent. To those who have gone step by step to the upper story and look around, what is heard, what appears, what is done, all is like a net, that cannot be cut through. All penetrating Omkar is the all penetrating Pranava. Birds are like airplanes. Men are like beasts. Beasts are like men. Dogs are like Jnanis. If you feed a dog, it will never forget you till its death. It will have constant love for the master, who has fed it but once. Men have no subtle discrimination. They think not whence they have come and whither they are bound. A man of perfectly ripe understanding should be like a dog.
195. If you go to see a king, you have not the boldness to tell him to his face what his defects are. But behind his back, you criticize him. So also, people (worldly) are not bold enough to criticize a Jnani to his face. If you gaze at the brilliance of the sun and come into the house, you see nothing for a while. Similarly, if you emerge from a dark place into a light place, you cannot know whence you emerged.
196. Suppose a man awakes from a sleep out of fear, and sits up. Then he is so confused that he has no clear knowledge of anything. So also, Jnanis who are always in "Yoga-Nidra" (yoga sleep) do not know anything about the external world. If you have an umbrella, your head does not become wet by rain water. Those who take meals daily, have hunger. Those who are entirely merged in cold water do not feel cold. A perfect man is never excited to anger. A fried seed cannot sprout. Like gold, well burnished, your mind should be always pure.
197. A high class cobra has internal Pranayama. A cobra is very attentive to the sweet music, arising from a musical instrument called Nagaswara. A Jnani loves ALL as a cow loves its own calf. This is what is called same-sightedness. There is no house which is without doors. There is no cooking without vessels. A dog feeds on food, cooked either in earthen vessels or in gold vessels. Birds think of today's necessities. Never tomorrow's. A seed, kept in a closed box, never sprouts. Such a seed, never yields fruits. If it is sowed in earth (and watered), it will sprout and yield fruits. Hence, we must practice and get experience. It is you yourself who is responsible either for happiness or misery.
198. Anybody can handle a lamp without distinction of caste and creed. So also, the sun gives the same light to all. Sun is visible to all alike. Fire is visible to all alike. Supreme Buddhi (intelligence) and Jnana (knowledge) are one to those who have developed in them the power of the internal eye.
199. Those who have no subtle discrimination are not worth the name "men." A man is not an animal. The gross is the body idea. The subtle is the thought of Atman. Jivatma is the gross. Paramatma is the subtle. Without the gross, the subtle cannot be realized. Without a foundation, a house cannot be erected. Thought power (power of discrimination) is what is called Shiva-Shakti. The union of Jivatma and Paramatma is called Shiva-Shakti." When this power is intensified, man becomes "superman." A superman is a happy man. He is a Brahmin, knower of Brahma. Vedantic conduct or behavior is true character formation.
200. He who is desireless is an Acharya (great teacher). Desireless man is the Sanyasi. He is an Avadhoota in this world, who has abandoned desire. Avadhoot is a man of the first class. He is the most supreme of men. There is no state higher than that of Avadhoot. Avadhoot is he who is above all. He to whom this world and the next have become one is an Avadhoot. Consciousness sky, real sky, emancipation from bondage, the bliss of self government, the bliss of Brahma, real bliss, yoga bliss, fulfillment of human birth, lordship of Mukti, power to teach emperors; these are the "possessions" of an Avadhoota.
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