Re: What Does the Guru Bring?
Hari Oṁ
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Namaste
Yet what is going on? I have offered for your consideration on several posts the notion of the Supreme, anuttara, is satatoditam, without break or pause.
One can say, yajvan, you say that this Supreme is satatoditam, without break or pause, it is everywhere. Therefore He is shining in me, what more is needed?
Yes, this is true. Yet it needs to become a real personal experience, consciously appreciated, experienced. Let me offer an example.
You are reading or working on a project and you are completely absorbed in this action. Someone speaks to you, and you do not respond. Then that same person comes to you and asks again the question they posed to you just a few seconds earlier.
You respond to them ' Oh, excuse me, I was not listening ' . For that time, that other person did not exist, you were absorbed in your work. Like that, that person was there all the time, yet for you he was not. The Supreme is here all the time, yet your attention is not tuned to it.
This idea brings out the notion of tṛpti or contentment as Abhinavagupa explains it. There is contentment of the Supreme when one experiences samāveśa¹ or absorption. This absorption is in the Fullness of Being, and real contentment occurs. The other (tṛpti) is being able to bring this samāveśa with you where ever you go. The Silence is established in your self. Your 'self' becomes your 'SELF'. One lives the fullness of life.
Others like to call this state jivan-mukti , life in freedom. When in this level of being, finite things no longer look as such, there is commonality or unity within the diversity of creation that is experienced by the native. The Reality of Unity comes to the forefront - this is the Supreme.
It is from this freedom, svātantrya, also called svātantrya śakti, found in this state of Fullness (bhuma) that brings the experience of bliss, of joy and happiness that is perpetual ( so say the wise).
The guru supports/guides/directs the śiṣya to have this realization. That is not just a intellectual understanding, but a direct personal experience. The sanskrit word for this is hṛdayañgamībhūta which means the native has become something that moves in the Heart. The heart is a word used often for Supreme Consciousness, the core, Śiva.
Another view of this (as I see it) is hṛdaya + añga +mī +bhūta - The Heart (hṛdaya) + the part (aṅga) + is changed, moves to (mī) + becomes or consists of (bhūta). Or the part (aṅga) the individual, is changed and becomes the heart (hṛdaya) i.e. The Divine.
Said another way the individual (aṅga) the part, disappears (mī) and becomes (bhūta) or now consists of the Heart (hṛdaya).
ॐ शम्भवे नमः
oṁ śambhave namaḥ
oṁ I bow down to śambhave (Shambhu)
the One who bestows happiness
pranams,
- samāveśa समावेश- absorption , enterence into; the simultaneous occurrence
- tṛpti तृप्ति- contentment, satisfaction.
- hṛdaya हृदय- the heart or centre or core or essence or best or dearest or most secret part of anything ; essense; ātman
- bhūta भूत - become; actually happen; consisting of.
- aṅga - part
- aṅgī - the whole
- mī मी - to go , move, change, disappears, destroy
- The heart is a word used often for Supreme Consciousness, the core, Śiva. If someone would want to go deeper into
this just one idea of the heart, then the book 'The Triadic Heart Of Śiva' by Paul Eduardo Muller Ortega would serve you well. - yajvan यज्वन् - a worshipper, an offerer
- हरिॐ
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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