Existence Is Constant Expansion
Sadāshiva samārambām shankarācharya madhyamām Asmadācharya paryanthām vande guru paramparām
Just from yesterday night, after My blessings that you all will be showered with wealth also, I got ten email and ten new registration for Inner Awakening saying that suddenly money came, suddenly money came, just after yesterday’s night… They were saying some property got sold, some person got….some person gave money and so many different, different reasons. Suddenly people are here and saying money has come. Good! Blessings are working!
Let’s enter into today’s Sutras. Today’s Sutra, 13th Sutra in the Brahma Sutras the 1st chapter, 1st section, 13th Sutra:
Vikaara Sabdanyethi chenna prachooryaat
Vikaara sabdaat na iti chetna prachooryaat
Gambhirananda translates as, “If it be argued that the blissful one is not knowing to the use of a word, suffix denoting modifix say no for the word is used in the sense of abundance.”
If you don’t understand, don’t worry. I also don’t understand. I am just putting it on record. As I said, I am speaking on these Sutras for various reasons. One: to make this whole Brahma Sutras as a life science. Second: to make this whole Brahma Sutras as scientifically proven life system. I will do thorough study on all these truths, concepts, techniques, methods expressed in Brahma Sutra, scientifically record them, validate them through scientific researches. Of course, we are nobody to validate. Let us study and record it. Who can validate Badarayana? Who can validate Vyasa? No. I can say that study and record the scientific….. scientifically researchable parts. For example, when you go through certain understanding of the certain Sutra, certain parts of your non-mechanical brain gets awakened. This we can record and present it to the world in a very proper way. This way, we can do lot of work, lot of good things, hmm?
Swami Veereswarananda’s translation goes, “If it be said that Brahman is not spoken of as an independent entity in the passage on account of a word ‘tail,’ denoting part, we reply not so on account of abundance of terms denoting parts.”
Swami Shivananda translates as, “If it be objected that the term ‘Anandamaya’ consisting of bliss cannot denote the Supreme Self because of its being a word denoting a modification or transformation or product, we say that the objection is not valid on account of abundance which is denoted by suffix maya.”
As I said, I am putting it all in record so that later on when people see these discourses, it will be used as a research material also. That is the reason I am presenting some two-three persons’ views. And another one important thing you need to know, the latest Incarnation always has the benefit of upgrading all their old way of translating, interpreting, arguing. Now I have that big benefit. I can upgrade. I can take you little further. I will be able to take you little further if I translate and present to you how the orthodox commentators, that earlier commentators, My predecessors have presented this to you. That’s it! Nothing else. So if you know how our predecessors have presented it, I can upgrade.
Please understand, I wanted to tell you all, I offer My humble respects on all these great sadhus. I am not anyway disrespecting them. I am only doing My work. I am expected to upgrade. Any Incarnation in Hindu tradition is expected to take you deeper steps than the earlier Masters, than the earlier spiritual interpretations. So I am doing My profession with all My humbleness and respects to the earlier Masters. No way I am disrespecting them. It is like a research. You understand?
You see, for their period and time, how people in front of them will understand, they expressed that much. And I am fortunate, first time, youngsters are listening to Brahma Sutras. Not only young Guru is talking, young disciples are listening. ‘Gurur yuvaha Shishya yuvaha.’ That is happening for the first time. It was always Vruddha shishya gurur yuvaha or Gurur vruddha shishya yuvaha. Sometime the Guru is old and disciples are young. Sometime the disciple is old, disciples are old and Guru is young. First time we are making a unique combination. We are making a unique combination where able, young, intelligent Guru and able, young receptive disciples sitting together. So we are creating unique combination. So naturally, we can upgrade ourself, go up, next level, next level, next level.
I can say, only when a right team sits, right things are also expressed. I was trying to express Brahma Sutras for last, I think at least three years but I don’t know why, never it happened. Now suddenly with a small team of disciples, it’s flowing. It is just happening. I think right people, right time, things are really ripe and right. Let us enter into the Sutras. Again I will read the Sutra.
Vikara Sabdanyeti chenna prachooryat
One of the greatest power of the Brahma Sutra is, it just fits into the context of the Master. See, I wanted all of you to understand two-three important, very important truths. Whenever a Master leaves a footprint, it will be half truth. Half truth will always be much worse than a lie. Whenever a Master don’t leave footprint like a ….birds don’t leave footprints in the air in the sky. Big problem! You can’t use the path he travelled. There is no guidance from him. There is no tips from him. There is no way he can help you. See this fun. Buffaloes leave footprint but it only leads to more and more muddy areas because buffalo go and land in mud only. Birds don’t leave footprint even though they fly in high zones. They don’t leave footprint. Now what to do?
If you want to follow the bird, there is no way. If you want to follow the buffalo, it only leads to mud. It is a big conflict. People who leave footprint are always buffaloes. It’s a basic rule. Please understand, it’s a basic rule because all footprints gets muddy in course of time. It gets muddy… It will be used based on opputunists’ opportunities and oppurtunists will text torture all the spiritual texts. They will twist, turn, disturb, misinterpret, manipulate, misrepresent, morphe all the sacred scriptures. What to do?
It’s impossible for a common man to follow the path of birds which don’t leave footprints and it is useless to follow the footprints of buffalo. So, somewhere bird needed to leave footprint. Of course, bird can’t leave footprint. It just left a smell streak. A strong smell in the air, the line through which it flew. I can say, Brahma Sutra is the smell line left by Badarayana, Vyasa. Words can’t describe. Here Badarayana brings a unique context.
In some of the Upanishads, the description about the Source and the bliss is done by the abundance of words. Because of that, bliss and Brahman are one and the same. There can be another one understanding and translation, a sacred secret you can dig out from this Sutra. Brahman is abundance. Brahman is life. Existence is life. By very nature, it goes on expanding, expanding, expanding. Understand, I will present the interpretation of this Sutra. I will present this Sutra, maybe in this angle: Existence is bliss… Existence is constant expansion. Please understand, bliss constantly expands in all dimension.
If you are experiencing levitation, automatically you will see, you are expanding in the dimension of health, wealth, relationships, in every dimension. Please understand, if you are levitating and your wealth is not expanding, your health is not expanding means something is seriously wrong. It’s not levitation, you are jumping around. Don’t hop around because these are infallible informations which can never be false. Brahma Sutras, aphorisms of Existence, cosmic law… Existence is abundance, constant expansion. Whether it is in the level of understanding, in the level of love, in the level of life, in the level of health, in the level of wealth, whatever maybe but the truth of Existence is expansion. Very essence of Existence is expansion. Essence of Existence is bliss. Essence of Existence is expansion.
I wanted all of you to know these two-three sacred secrets as today’s flow for Vada-Prativada - debate. Today’s flow for en debate should be: Existence is constant expansion. So if you are living life existing, you should be expanding. Let Me give you some understandings. One: even when death comes, for example, the eighth birth, you are dying. When you die, even though you think it is… you are losing something but you don’t understand now you have the experience of ninth death. You are more rich than last moment. Till the last moment, you know only eight deaths. Now you are master of ninth death. Then the next birth happens. Then you are master of one more birth. Then life happens. You are now rich with more and more experience. Then the death happens. Now you are more rich with one more death.
Details
The talk
- Date
- 15 March 2011
- Place
- Adi Kailasa
- Type
- Brahma Sutras
- Language
- English
The recording
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- Published
- 15 October 2020
- Duration
- 21 min
The transcript
- Status
- Verified
- Time-synced
- Yes — 18 marks
- Length
- 1,503 words · 8 min read
- Topics
- None recorded