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yajvan
10 March 2007, 08:37 AM
Hari Om
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Namaste,
This notion of dhirah is of great import and interest. This is the notion of fixity of the mind in balance. This as I have been taught is a prerequisite for full devotion to blossom and take root in the sadhu. That is a steady mind. This is not done by trying, as it causes only stress and strain on the individual. I cannot say this enough that mood making is done on the surface level of the mind. One must consider establishing oneself in the SELF where one lives a natually balanced life and the body functions by nature ( 3 guna's). Yet the real you (me) is established in and resides in and associated with the SELF 7x24x365. Now am I in this state? No, yet I have made the resolve and will accept nothing less till I am grounded in the divine… We discussed this notion in the following: http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10290&postcount=1 (http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10290&postcount=1)

Let me if I may talk of this dhirah - lets first look at its root meaning: Dhirah comes from dhr or to hold. Note too that dhi is also there, and this is 'luminous' and many apply to dhi shakti or light of intelligence. Also Dhrti is part of this word family. From dhr to hold, yet also suggests steadfast and constant. So we can now have a feel for this notion of steadfast, holding, and luminous , as it relates to the intellect. A very pregnant word, yes?

There is a discussion from Sanatsujata (a Kumara of Brahman) that talks of this dhirah as one that can transcend death. Some use this word as 'brave soul' yet the fixity of the mind ( balance) , unattached to duality, the same in pleasure and pain, is the richness of the dhirah. This is not at the surface level of the mind, but one established in turiyatit chetana
( if one cares to read more of this consciousness please consider this post: http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10290&postcount=1 (http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10290&postcount=1)

Adhi Sankara says:
VikAra-hetau sati vikriyante yeShAM na chetAmsi ta eva dhirAH.
Those whose minds are not perturbed even in the presence of causes for such agitation, excitement or distraction – only they, are the dhiras.

Now, if we look to the Bhagavad-Gita this comes up…Sri Krsna informs Arjuna:
dehino’smin yathA dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara
tatha dehAntarah praptih dhIras-tatra na muhyati ( BG2.13)
As the soul passes physically through childhood, youth and old age, so also it passes on to another body; this does not blind and disturb a dhirah.

Now Srila Prabupada chooses to define/interpret dhirah as 'sober'. I have also read 'wise' , 'sage' , by different authors.
The message to me is awake, stable, alert, balanced intellect that is more then just conscious effort to make this so. This level of being, of stablity is the gift one receives from turiya unfoldment or recogntion of and stablizing this state of being. May all of us recognize and live this level of existence within us.

Pranams,