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yajvan
hariḥ oṁ
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Namasté
Just a side note on the notion of waking up to another's body.
The 107th kārikā of the vijñāna bhairava calls out a ~simular~ approach ( upāya ). I will use svāmī lakṣman-jū's words and avoid the saṃskṛt ( unless requested).
One should experience the consciousness also in the body of others as in one's own. Giving up the concern for one's own body, one becomes all-pervading within days.
We have heard of the stories of Ādi Śaṅkara-ji doing this.
I also support saidevo's idea,
As atanu is the author, perhaps he can decide the name and folder he perfers and we can ask satay to move it accordingly.
praṇām
Namaste saidevoji and yajvanji, Thanks for adding more pickle. The post may go into scripture section, may be?
There is a story in Yoga Vasista of 100 Rudras. Much of the confounding ideas running around in everyones minds can be put to sleep, if we bring into picture that actually the controller -- or the reality of all these chidabhasa is one consciousness only. In fact in my shell inhabitates incarnation of a Rishi, who is linked to Rudra.
Mahanarayana U.
XXIV-1: All this verily is Rudra. To Rudra who is such we offer our salutation. We salute again and again that Being, Rudra, who alone is the light and the Soul of creatures. The material universe the created beings and whatever there is manifoldly and profusely created in the past and in the present in the form of the world, all that is indeed this Rudra. Salutations be to Rudra who is such.
XXV-1: We sing a hymn that confers on us happiness in the highest degree to Rudra who is worthy of praise, who is endowed with the highest knowledge, who rains objects to the worshippers most excellently, who is more powerful and who is dwelling in the heart. Indeed all this is Rudra. Salutations be to Rudra who is such.
The story in YV states how Rudra (in the swan) realises that all this is Rudra - Him. He remembers His original form as all pervasive. The full chain from the original Rishi to the Swan get illumined. I do not understand the story fully, since the effect is almost like ingesting some drug. I did not understand as to who initiated the illumination? (Anyway, I feel like reading it again, which i will do).
A friend of mine says: Harmonising the functions of Creator, Maintainer, and Destroyer is Moksha. So, there are three beings vying for supremacy.
From another perspective, the body is assemlage of Seven Rishis (who became dis-embodied during previous Pralaya) by the will of Mukhya Prana - Indra, who (the Seer) is the reality of the body. The Seer is Seer since there is Consciousness, which is there because there is a Self who Sees the consciousness. The Self and the Seer are one.
Ramana Maharshi similarly says "This body is like a transistor radio." THe Buddha simply said this is an assemblage of khandas. The deranged minds that we see occassionally, IMO, are linked to such things -- say two contradictory souls trying to grab a residence.
Till we are not aware of single Rudra, our body is inhabitated by many beings. Some are cooperative to each other but most are not. I suppose all these -- the Lion, the Rat, the Peacock, the Snakes, The Bull, the beautiful Lady, the tortoise, four children -- all become cooperative when the Lord glances.
Else this is just a battle ground-- the Kurukhestra.
Just rambling thoughts.
Om Namah Shivaya
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