Re: Spanda-karikas and Nijashuddhi
Hari Om
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Nijashuddhi - ones own impurity is how the 9th karika starts off. This asuddhi is impurity , yet what is meant is mala. Mala मल is considered dirt , filth , dust , yet we are directed to consider mala as a limiting condition. Just as one has dirt and dust on the windshield of a car, it can be wiped off.
Namaste,
the last verse or karika 9 dealt with the impurities we as humans encounter. Now we go to karika 10 and a question is asked...
What happens when the limited, empirical individual is dissolved? (That is ignorance is dissolved)What is left in the person is the Supreme. If this Supreme is infinte perfect silence, the perfect Absolute, what happens to the person? Does s/he become like the wave-less ocean? Where before the native is the wave ( activity within the relative field of life) now he/she is at the Universal status, is s/he now devoid of activity?
This is a most excellent and profound question. We know the Absolute to be perfect, transcendent, some say perfect Silence, perfect Being. If this is the status of the individual does s/he then too become just stillness, complete, but with no action?
The 10th karika informs us of the following:
Tadāsyākrtrimo dharmo jnatvakartrtvalaksanah|
yatas tadepsitam sarvam jānati ca karoti ca ||
Then will flash forth his innate nature characterized by cognition and activity, by which he ( the native) then knows and does all that is desired ( by the native).
This insight is far reaching and answers some questions many have of the status and actions of the sadhu. It says then at the time of entrance into that Supreme state, all the native desired to know or do at the time of the entering the Supreme is now afforded to him/her.
I find this a very unique state of affairs... what does the native desire most at that time? Swami Laksmanjoo reviews some of these conditions as how kundalini manifests or reveals itself fully in the native.
If there is interest we can review...
ॐनमःिशवाय
pranams
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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