Vedanta Manthan (Talk 108: Technique to Meditate on Hiranyagarbha – Part 4)

Описание: Vedanta Manthan Series on Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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(Video excerpts of Swami Abhedananda)

Talk 108: Technique to Meditate on Hiranyagarbha – Part 4
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KEY POINTS:

• Hiranyagarbha is the source of all knowledge and powers. Hiranyagarbha Upāsanā is important because there are millions of jeevās with various problems, so different uāsanās are needed to suit all.
• When Gargya started giving knowledge, he knew only up to the conditioned Brahman and not the unconditioned Brahman.
• Seekers who do not study the shāstrās through the sampradāya tradition, think that the Lord with form and attributes is the final Lord and there is no other bigger Lord.
• By doing Hiranyagarbha Upāsanā, the Absolute Brahman is not known because Hiranyagarbha is not the pure Self. It is Shaktimān Brahman. It is Brahman endowed with Māyā, and subject to modifications, and therefore, cannot be the Absolute Brahman.
• Beyond this Hiranyagarbha, there is Para Brahman also. Vedanta says reach that Para Brahman in which everything is established and from which everything has come out.
• One who does Hiranyagarbha Upāsanā on the Purush in the quarters, the ears and the heart, viz, the Ashwin Kumārs, the twin-Gods who are never separated from each other, is never lonely. He is never dis-associated from his group and will always have someone associated with him.
• One who does Hiranyagarbha Upāsanā by identifying himself with his shadow (Chhāyā) as death, attains his full term of life in this world and will not die an unnatural death.
• Chhāyā is a devatā. Adhyatmik Chhāyā is ignorance and Adhibhautik Chhāyā is the external shadow that is associated with us all the time.
• One should be aware of his limited span of life so that he can develop intense dispassion and be more intense in his sādhanā.
• Anatmā is one who does not have self-control, whose mind is not with him as if he is not existing because he cannot do anything.
• Atmanvi means one who is having full self-control, his buddhi, mind, and sense-organs are following his dictates. One who does the upāsanā of Purush as Atmanvi, he and his progeny will become self-controlled.
• The more a person has control, the more he conserves his energy and directs it towards gaining Knowledge.
• Self-control maintains the lamp of Knowledge lit by the teacher in the disciple’s heart.
• One should have tremendous self-control and every day try to tighten the loose ends. It needs extraordinary austerity and tapasyā.
• It is not that the knowledge of conditioned Brahman is futile; it is only with that knowledge the aspirant acquires the knowledge of Supreme Brahman.
• Realising that he knew only the conditioned Brahman, Gargya dropped his ego and with humility took refuge in King Ajātasatru as his disciple.

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