#supreme knowledge

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"Knowledge is not separate from you, and that which is known is not separate from knowledge. Hence, there is nothing other than the Self, nothing separate from it."

The Supreme Yoga

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Hindu Mythology & Deities

- Hindu Cosmology (3) –

Satya Yuga

During Satya Yuga, all people engage only in good, sublime deeds. In this period, the weather is pleasant, and all people are happy. The first and best yuga. This yuga has no crime, and all humans are kind and friendly.

This era is devoid of agricultural activities or any other type of activity, as the earth yields those riches on its own. People in this era would never fall ill. No one would try to point out faults or demerits in anyone’s personality. The personality is not plagued by demerits like ego, sorrow, violent thought (aggression), jealousy, hatred, backbiting, fear, anger and lethargy. 

Human stature is 21 cubits (33 ft, 6 inches). Average human lifespan is 100,000 years.

People would practice austerities and penance to attain Brahman. All would be inclined towards the supreme knowledge and all actions performed would be in the intention of attaining celestial bliss. These people were devoid of selfishness, and they would effortlessly attain sublimity or union with God, which is a salient feature of Satya Yuga. Very valiant, mighty, intelligent and people gifted with all good qualities would be born in this era. They would surprisingly give birth to thousands of children. Great sages embellished with divinity would be born in this era.

The Mahabharata, a Hindu epic stated as - "there were no poor and no rich; there was no need to labour, because all that men required was obtained by the power of will; the chief virtue was the abandonment of all worldly desires. It was without disease; there was no lessening with the years; there was no hatred or vanity, or evil thought; no sorrow, no fear. All mankind could attain to supreme blessedness; at that time, the colour of the Supreme cosmic soul that is situated in the heart of one and all and the saviour of all the sages was white.”

Despite, we will not be alive, a forthcoming next epoch will be just like John Lennon’s song. Some of our reincarnations will be there for sure. So, let’s hang in there. It worth keep going.

Take it easy. Do not blame on yourself. You are doing very well. We were born into the hell. That was it!

インド神話と神様たち

−ヒンデゥー宇宙論（３）–

サティヤ・ユガ

サティヤ・ユガの時代では、すべての人々が善良で崇高な行為だけを行って生きている。この時代は天候も心地良く、人々はみんな幸福である。始まりであり一番良い時代だ。この時代には犯罪もなく、人間はみんな親切で愛想が良い。

地球そのものが富を生み出してくれるので、この時代には農業、その他の労働はない。この時代の人々は決して病気になることはない。誰も他者の人格の欠点や不備を指摘しようとする人はいない。この時代の人間たちの性格は、自我、悲しみ、暴力的な思想（攻撃）、嫉妬、憎しみ、嫌悪感、恐怖、怒り、無気力などのデメリットに悩まされてはいない。

人間の平均身長は21キュービット（約10m)、平均寿命は１０万年になる。

これらの人々は利己主義を欠いており、サティア・ユガの顕著な特徴である神との限界または和合に難なく達成することができる。この時代には、非常に勇気があり、力強く、知性があり、すべての優れた資質を備えた人々だけが生まれる。驚くべきことに、彼らは数千人の子供を出産する。神性を備え付けた偉大な賢者は、この時代に生まれる。

ヒンドゥー教の叙事詩、マハーバーラタには以下の通りに記録されている -「貧乏人も金持ちもいなかった；人が必要とするすべては意志の力によって得られていたので、労働する必要もなかった；主要な美徳は、’この世の欲望すべての放棄’だった；年を重ねても老いることはない；憎しみや虚栄心などの邪悪な考えはなかった；悲しみも恐れもなく、すべての人類は最高の祝福を得ることができた；当時、一人一人の心の中が至高の宇宙魂に釣り合っていたすべての賢者や救世主の色は白かった。」

その頃、わたしたちはとうに生きてはいないだろうけれど、次には、まるでジョン・レノンの歌のような時代が待ち受けているわけだ。わたしたちの来世の誰かが、いつか遭遇するに違いない。頑張って、生きましょう。

大丈夫、自分を責めることはありません。あなたはよくやっています。だって、地獄に生まれ落ちたのですからね!

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“If You give me such courageous intellect by Your Grace to firmly determine that any activity except loving and abiding in the Heart is useless, I will not request You even a bit (atom) of anything else.” ~ Sadhu Om

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When the ego, which projects the world but hides itself [being unable to know its own true nature], enters the heart by enquiring thus ‘What is the shining source of myself?’, the supreme knowledge which shines forth triumphantly and with vigour [in the form of the sphurana ‘I-I’] is the unending and real state of Self. 

~ Guru Vachaka Kovai - The Garland Of Guru Sayings, by Sri Muruganar - Part Three, The Experience Of The Truth - Ch. 30: The State of Self  - Verse 1022 

Sadhu Om :

The very nature of the ego is to attend only to things other than itself. Therefore, the ego does not know who or what it is. This ignorance of its own nature (i.e. the ignorance of the fact that it truly has no existence of its own) is what is meant here by the words “the ego which hides itself” (olikkum ahankaram). 

But if this transient and unreal ego, which rises in the form of the wrong knowledge ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’, tries to turn its attention away from the world of second and third persons, which it projects through the five senses, and turns towards itself, the first person, in order to find out ‘Who am I?’, it will subside into its source, the Heart or Self, whereupon the eternal and real state will shine forth of its own accord in the form of the true knowledge ‘I am I’. 

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Photo by Eliot Elisofon: “Women devotees having darshan of Ramana Maharshi in Ramanasramam” (David Godman Books)

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- The Green and Blue People (3) -

Yoga means ‘to unite’. The lord Shiva, a blue person, taught humans how to unite with the universe. It is a tool to clear your mind and body, in order to unite with oneself and with the supreme universe.

We also learnt about the time differences between the planets in the Sivananda TTC lectures. Our one minute could be a few hundred, in their time system, a few thousand years ago.

They must have had to be moving faster to stay on this planet? Maybe this is why some Hindu gods, have many faces & hands. It is how one would depict a blur, in artistic terms.

There are many other green & blue people appear in world folklores and mythologies such as Kappa in Japan, Green man in England, Troll in Scandinavian, and so on. I wondered if they were only imaginations of ancient people.

There was an exam at the end of the course. I had to stop my mind wondering off.

- 緑の人と青い人（３）-

ヨガとは「繋がる」という意味だ。青い人のシバ神が、人間に教えた‘宇宙と繋がる方法’であり、至上の宇宙と繋がるために心と体を綺麗にする手段である。

シバナンダの授業で、わたしたちは惑星ごとに時間差があることも授業で習った。地球上の１分間が彼らのす百年、数千年、またはそれ以上だとしたら、地球上では早く動く必要があったのではないか？だから、ヒンドゥーの神々は顔や手がたくさんあったのではないか？

日本の河童、イギリスのグリーンマン、北欧のトロル、緑の人や青い人は、世界中の民話や伝説に登場している。これらも、やはり想像に過ぎないのだろうか？

コースの最後に試験があったので、それ以上余計なことを考え続けるわけにはいかなくなった。

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YO!Yoga Onion

The God of Wisdom

Once, Shiva and Parvati were given a divine fruit that could give supreme knowledge and immortality. Shiva told his sons Ganasha and Kartikeya, that whoever circled the world three times and returned, could eat the special fruit. Kartikeya, the god of war immediately started his journey, thoughtlessly.

But Ganasha, the god of wisdom circled his parents three times and replied. "My parents are my world and moreover, the whole universe is within you. So I am circling the world”

Shiva and Parvati were impressed with his wisdom.

Ganasha won the divine fruit.

知恵の神様

ある日の事、シバ神とパールバティは、

ディーバから最上の知識と永遠の命を

得ることができる神聖な果物をもらい

ました。シバは２人の息子、ガネーシャ

とカーティケヤンに「世界を３周して

早く戻った方にこのスペシャルな果物

を食べさせてやろう」と言いました。

戦いの神、カーティケヤンは、一寸も

逃すまいと即座に旅立って行きました。

でも、ガネーシャは自分の両親である

シバとパールバティの周りを３周して

から「あなたたち両親が僕の世界です、

そして宇宙はあなた方そのものです。

だから僕は世界を周っているのです」

シバ神とパールバティはとても喜び、

ガネーシャは神聖な果物を勝ち取り

ました。

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Enquiring within, ask, ‘Who am I? and whence is this thought?’ All other thoughts vanish. And as ‘I-I’ within the Heart-cave, the Self shines of its own accord. See this Self within as awareness’ lightning flash; Abide in stillness, without any stir of tongue, mind, or body. And behold the effulgence of the Self within, When the mind free of thought turns inward, Annamalai appears as my own Self. True grace is needed; love is added and bliss wells up.

Ramana Maharshi -  Anma Viddai -  Self Knowledge

Arunachalam, by  Bernd Kalidas Flory

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The one unending supreme knowledge which exists as the base for the appearance of all dyads [dvandvas or pairs of opposites] which are seen, such as subtle [sukshama] and gross [sthula], void [sunya] and full [purna], and despondency [arising from craving] and elation free from craving, alone is ‘I’ [the real form or nature of Self]

Guru Vachaka Kovai (The Garland of Guru’s Sayings) by Sri Muruganar, Ch. The Nature of Self - Verse 1043

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The one real consciousness [chinmaya] that exists as the base for the rising of the many unreal selves [egos] and for [their] suffering, without itself suffering due to the miseries produced by the mind, which exists without performing the two karmas [good and bad], alone is Self.

Guru Vachaka Kovai (The Garland of Guru’s Sayings) by Sri Muruganar, Ch. The Nature of Self - Verse 1044