Hari OM
Story-day is for cultural exploration, puraanas and parables and finding out about leading lights in spiritual philosophy.
Every one is searching for:
- something to get
- something to become
Other than…
- what we have
- what we are.
From THIS limitation…
we want FREEDOM.
When we have something…
we want
the next thing.
When we achieve a state…
we want the next level.
- The uneducated want education
- The young want adulthood
- The old want self-sufficiency
We also want permanence:
- permanent home
- permanent job
- everlasting youth
The PERMANENCE
We seek has different names…
Truth…Knowledge.
Vedanta calls this…
Unlimited…immortal…complete…
Also known as Brahman…THE INFINITE
The limited…
finite…mortal…incomplete…
seekers are called JIVAS.
The incomplete jiva…
Seeks it's OWN NATURE…
Struggles to ‘BECOME’…
that complete infinite Brahman.
BUT IT CAN NOT…BECAUSE
it already IS BRAHMAN.
How so?
LIKE HEATED water cannot stay hot.
It returns to its own cool nature.
LIKE in sleep…
the mind to return
to its essential nature.
We want to be rid of…
Limitations…sorrow…agitation
as they are not our essential nature.
YOGA is the discovery that…
on merging with the INFINITE…
this seeming limited jiva is…
That UNLIMITED BRAHMAN!
– – Swami Tejomayananda