You and You Alone
(Tu Hi Tu)
(Tu Hi Tu)
Shree Hari
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The Lord says in the Gita that I have two "Prakritis" (Natures) - the Apara (Lower nature) and Para (Higher nature). Earth, water, fire, air,space, mind, intellect and ego – these eight fold divisions form the "lower nature" (apara prakriti) and the "atma" (spirit, soul) in the form of a "jeev" (embodied soul) is the "higher nature" (Para prakriti). Both Para and Apara - are God's Prakritis (Nature), in other words, His powers.
Bhoomiraaponalo vaayu khan mano budhi reva cha |
Ahankaar itiyam me bhinna prakrutirashtadhaa || (Gita 7/4)
Apareyam itstavnyaam prakritim vidhi mein paraam
"Jeevbhootaam mahaabaaho yayedam dhaaryate jagat" (Gita 7/5).
Strength does not have an independent existence from a strong man. Therefore due to these both being the power of God (Apara and Para), they are not separate from God. Just as man cannot observe himself by separating his strength from himself, similarly both the apara and para cannot be seen by separating them from God. The point is that due to both Natures - apara and para being inseparable from God, they are God's very own self (swaroop).
In the infinite universes, the three worlds, fourteen cosmological regions (bhuvan), sentient and insentient, movable and immovable, living in water, on earth and in the skies, born from egg, womb, seed, among the three modes of nature - mode of purity, activity or inertia, man, demi-god, ancestors, heavenly minstrel, animal, bird, insect, ghost-evil spirit-demon, devil etc, whatever is seen, heard, read, comes in thoughts or in imagination, in it there is nothing else besides the two Natures – higher and lower nature (para and apara). Whatever is seen, heard, studied, thought about, or imagined and the body-senses-mind-intellect-ego with which it is seen, heard, studied, thought or imagined, it is all-in-all "apara" (lower nature). But that which is not seen, heard, studied, thought of, or imagined is "para" (higher nature). All the various bodies that are there, are all within the realm of "apara" and all the embodied souls (jeev) that are there, are within the realm of "para" (higher nature). Therefore in the infinite universes, besides the ten - eight forms of apara (lower nature), one para (higher nature) and one God, there is nothing else. In other words, besides the one God, there is nothing else, nothing whatsoever.
It is only due to regarding the apara prakriti (lower nature) as me, mine and for me, that a being sees the apara (world), para (beings) and God as three separate. In reality it is all Paramatma (God) only. It is not nature at all. It is due to having your sight on Nature, that Nature is present. If one does not look towards Nature (prakriti) and there is no Nature. The vision is also in relation to the visible. The observer is in relation to the observed. When we regard ourselves as the body, then God becomes the world for us, meaning, we begin to see Him in the form of this world. When "para" and "apara" both Natures are God's then how can there be a separation between me and you?
If we see ourselves then besides apara and para we are nothing else. Our body, senses, mind, intellect and ego, are all apara and our self in the form of an embodied soul, is para. Both Para and apara are God's Natures – therefore, only God remains ! Our individual existence does not remain ! There is nothing by the name of "I". (to be continued) (to be continued)
Bhoomiraaponalo vaayu khan mano budhi reva cha |
Ahankaar itiyam me bhinna prakrutirashtadhaa || (Gita 7/4)
Apareyam itstavnyaam prakritim vidhi mein paraam
"Jeevbhootaam mahaabaaho yayedam dhaaryate jagat" (Gita 7/5).
Strength does not have an independent existence from a strong man. Therefore due to these both being the power of God (Apara and Para), they are not separate from God. Just as man cannot observe himself by separating his strength from himself, similarly both the apara and para cannot be seen by separating them from God. The point is that due to both Natures - apara and para being inseparable from God, they are God's very own self (swaroop).
In the infinite universes, the three worlds, fourteen cosmological regions (bhuvan), sentient and insentient, movable and immovable, living in water, on earth and in the skies, born from egg, womb, seed, among the three modes of nature - mode of purity, activity or inertia, man, demi-god, ancestors, heavenly minstrel, animal, bird, insect, ghost-evil spirit-demon, devil etc, whatever is seen, heard, read, comes in thoughts or in imagination, in it there is nothing else besides the two Natures – higher and lower nature (para and apara). Whatever is seen, heard, studied, thought about, or imagined and the body-senses-mind-intellect-ego with which it is seen, heard, studied, thought or imagined, it is all-in-all "apara" (lower nature). But that which is not seen, heard, studied, thought of, or imagined is "para" (higher nature). All the various bodies that are there, are all within the realm of "apara" and all the embodied souls (jeev) that are there, are within the realm of "para" (higher nature). Therefore in the infinite universes, besides the ten - eight forms of apara (lower nature), one para (higher nature) and one God, there is nothing else. In other words, besides the one God, there is nothing else, nothing whatsoever.
It is only due to regarding the apara prakriti (lower nature) as me, mine and for me, that a being sees the apara (world), para (beings) and God as three separate. In reality it is all Paramatma (God) only. It is not nature at all. It is due to having your sight on Nature, that Nature is present. If one does not look towards Nature (prakriti) and there is no Nature. The vision is also in relation to the visible. The observer is in relation to the observed. When we regard ourselves as the body, then God becomes the world for us, meaning, we begin to see Him in the form of this world. When "para" and "apara" both Natures are God's then how can there be a separation between me and you?
If we see ourselves then besides apara and para we are nothing else. Our body, senses, mind, intellect and ego, are all apara and our self in the form of an embodied soul, is para. Both Para and apara are God's Natures – therefore, only God remains ! Our individual existence does not remain ! There is nothing by the name of "I". (to be continued) (to be continued)
From book in hindi "Tu Hi Tu" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
Ram Ram
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