Janaka said,
- ज्ञान, knowledge, ज्ञेय, that which is to be known and ज्ञात the knower, this triad does not exist in reality. I am that stainless One in whom this triad appears out of ignorance.
- Aho! The misery rooted in द्वैत (duality). There is no other medicine for this. Everything that is seen is मृषा, false. I am the one अमल रस, pure essence, चित् consciousness.
- I am only the Knower. But by my lack of knowledge an उपाधि, a substitute, had been कल्पित created/postulated/admitted. I stay in an unwavering (निर्विकल्प) state by always reflecting thus.
kalpa is an idea or a possibility. It can be creation. kalpanA can be imagination or fiction. kalpita is that which is thought of.
vikalpa is an alternate idea or possibility. nirvikalpa is the absence of such an alternative.
If you recall this article : yOga : Samadhi: The Height of Divine Consciousness — Sri Chinmoy, you will recall savikalpa samAdhi, nirvikalpa samAdhi and sahaja samAdhi. In savikalpa samadhi, an alternative can be admitted in the mind – this is thus called a temporary samAdhi. In nirvikalpa samAdhi there is no alternate idea, only a steady idea of one-ness. nirvikalpa samAdhi as attained through yOga, may cause a loss of memory etc and give many siddhIs or powers.
But Janaka, attained nirvikalpa samAdhi through just reflecting on the idea that he was a bOdha, a knower and that the body-mind thing he had accepted so far was an upAdhi. His mind is intact, though he knows that he is not his mind!
Janaka said,
- There is no bondage for me, nor mOkSa.
- This illusion of mOkSa and bandha is now set at rest, since it has no support.
- Aho! this universe that exists in me, in reality does not exist in me.
- This universe along with my body is nothing, that is certain.
- The self is pure cit, so where is the kalpanA now?
- The body, svarga and naraka (heaven and hell), bandha and mOkSa and fear are all only imagination, therefore what kArya (work) exists for me whose Self is the cit (consciousness).
- Aho! even in a crowd of people, dvaita (duality) cannot be seen by me. It has become (संवृत्त) like a forest, what enjoyment (रति) is to be done?
- I am not the body, nor have I a body, I am not the jIva (life, finite self), I am the cit. This was my bondage, the desire to live.
brahmagnyAnIs (knowers of the brahman) have difficulty in getting attached to things! I manage to get involved in movies and dreams even when I know they are false, but I can break away from the movie or dream, as soon as I remember that it is not real. Somewhat similarly, when I look at this beautiful universe, I get involved and everything is real and yet when I choose to – I can step away and the illusions, fears and everything falls away. It is like the child’s willingness to play a pretend-game or make-believe.
Janaka said,
- Aho! There is a limitless ocean in me. There is a wind of my cit (cittavAta). This creates a variety of worlds with their tumultous activities (vicitra-bhuvana-kallOla).
- When this wind of my cit becomes peaceful, the boat called the world (jagatpOta) is destroyed, unluckily for the trader called the jIva (life, finite self).
- How surprising it is, that in me, these waves of jIvAs, rise, play, enter and get destroyed all of their own nature!
Satya Sarada Kandula
