Bhagavan, what who

Bhagavan is the one who has bhaga, the six-fold virtues in absolute measure.

भगः अस्य अस्ति इति भगवान्

bhagaḥ asya asti iti bhagavān

The one who has bhaga is called bhagavan. It is said in the Vishnu Purana (6.5.74)

ऐश्वर्यस्य समग्रस्य वीर्यस्य यशसः श्रियः।

 ज्ञान-वैराग्ययोश्चैव षण्णां भग इतीरणा॥

aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya yaśasaḥ śriyaḥ |

jñāna-vairāgyayoścaiva ṣaṇṇāṁ bhaga itīraṇā ||

1 Total and absolute overlordship,

2 power,..virya;

3 wealth, sri;

4 dispassion, vairagya

5 fame ,yasas;

6 knowledge, jnana

These six absolute virtues, then, constitute bhaga and the one who has this six-fold bhaga is Bhagavan.

To have all knowledge, jnana, is to be free from all ignorance. Thus the one who has all jnana does not require a mind, perception, or a means of knowledge with which to know. If we require a mind to know, there is always ignorance. Thus, whoever is endowed with a mind in order to know cannot be Bhagavan. Bhaga, therefore, is jnana, all knowledge.

Total, absolute, dispassion is also called bhaga. The one who has total, absolute dispassion, vairagya, has no longing, no insecurity. He or she is full.

Virya is absolute power or sakti meaning the capacity to create, to sustain, and to resolve. The one who has this absolute power is called the Almighty.

Absolute fame, yasas, means all fame, including your own or anyone else’s. This is also bhaga. One who is endowed with the ability to sing, for example, may gain some fame, a ray of glory, but that fame belongs to the Lord, the one who has all fame.

The Lord also has all wealth, all resources - Sri. Any wealth you may have really belongs to Bhagavan, the Lord, and you are only a trustee of whatever resources you happen to have

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Finally, the one who is not caused, who is not ruled by anyone, who is not subject to the laws of someone else, has the bhaga called aisvarya - overlordship.

We, as individuals have to go by the laws of nature; we cannot go against them. Even an engineer who is responsible for planning, commissioning, and running a thermal plant cannot touch a live wire without facing the consequences. In other words, the engineer cannot behave as he or she likes merely because he or she caused the electricity to be generated. It was because of the laws alone that the engineer was able to generate electricity in the first place

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The one who does not subject himself to the law or laws of another is the Lord. If the Lord is ruled by someone else, then that someone else becomes the Lord; and it is this Lord that we are talking about.

These six absolute virtues, then, constitute bhaga and the one who has this six-fold bhaga is Bhagavan.

 Gurur Brahma

gurur brahma gurur vishnu

gururdevo maheshvaraha

guru sakshaath parabrahma

thasmai shree gurave namaha

 

 how true!

eternal truth

 

my proof is, i am here

made possible only by guru

 

i chanced to spot guru, how?

guru spotted me, that is why

 

who told him to do this?

parabrahma residing in him 

 

so a friend, very casually referred the name maharishi Mahesh yogi to me

i went, very casually, heard his first lecture

 

that 's it

i fell for him

 

my mind, though not my body, fell dandavath before him.

his grace, driven by paramathma, flowed, flooded, drenched, drowned me.

 

i was just a doll, his commands i followed most willing,

not commands, his words are cajole, a lullaby, a loving touch, a call to wake up, a hand helping me to learn walk. talk, work, 

 

things happened, on their own ,

circumstances, allowing, unexpected,

 

results following unanticipated.

eyes got opened

 

knowledge started revealing, petal by petal ,sprouting

the way is illumined, the speed is picked

 

the goal came nearer.

journey filled with joy

 

all as per his will

will of god

 

will of my guru

jai gurudev

 Rama and Krishna

Ram is not called Purna Avtar. Only Krishna Avtar is purna. Rama was 14 kala sampurna and krishna was 16 kala sampurna. Shri Ram had first 14 kalas but the last two were missing viz. Paripurna & Swarupavasthit ... here paripurna means complete knowledge of all forms of awakening and swarupavasthit - swarup + awasthit = established in his real true self. 

Shri Rama before, incarnation had decided to hide two kalas....declaring him a God....because of boon to Ravan... in which he was promised that no god would kill him

So Rama intentionally hid his 2 kalas and behaved like a common man... to fulfil the boon that Ravan would be killed by a man. (this has a reply to questions like why Rama cried for his wife,... why he took help from monkeys...etc etc).

Krishna was simultaneously awakened in Jiva consciousness.....God consciousness... and Brahm(Turiya) consciouness.... that is the beauty of Krishna avtar.

Krishna Tattwa is unique.

!6 kalas are as follows:- That only krishna has:-

1) Anna Maya 

2) Pranamaya

3) Mano Maya

4) Vigyanamaya

5) Anandamaya 

6) Atishayini

7) Viparinabhimi

8) Sankramini

9) Prabhvi 

10) Kunthini 

11) Vikasini

12) Maryadini

13) Sanhaladini 

14) Ahladini

15) Paripurna

16) Swarupavasthit 

Krishna was complete and that could be witnessed from his activities-he was a philosopher, politician, diplomat, warrior, yogi, lover, renunciant etc. etc. It is impossible for one person to possess all these and that too in totality. Therefore, Krishna wasn't only the Supreme Person but while descending, he came with all his opulences. Rama didn't because his mission was to establish an ethical govt. and to teach people how to establish Dharma-rajya. 

So it's not that Rama was inferior but his purpose was limited to one aspect of life, namely how a king should be a raja-rishi and establish his kingdom based on dharma.

Krishna's mission was diverse, it was multi-faceted. He descended to teach practically everything under the sun, from politics and diplomacy to the highest flights of Vedanta and yoga. So people say krishna was purna-avatar not because he was superior to Ram (because they were both one and the same) but because his mission was integral and all-inclusive.

one aspect is that rama respected social duties

krsna transcended even them showing that god is above everything

rAma is maryAdA purusottama incarnation.

he accepted limits as to what he can do in his lila.

krishna is pUrna purushottama incarnation.

he had no limits.

 All other avtaars except shri Krishna were not poorna why ?

A poorna avataar is the one where the avatar is full conscious, simultaneously about his Jiva form, his God form and his Turiya (Brahm) form.

Rama was aware of his Jiva form and Turiya form but unaware of his God's form (that too for a purpose)

Shri Krishna is the only avataar who was fully conscious of all the three states of existence, simultaneously

 Lord Krishna was a Purna-Avatara, with sixteen rays (kala) Lord Rama was an Avatara of fourteen rays (kala).

 

 ………….from Swami Amaranandaji lecture notes:

 life process is a process of yagna ,

soul is s fire in the homa kundam ,

prani's body is homa kundam

fuel is food intake..

digestion is like burning

homam is the process of evolution from lower state to higher state

iron , calcium are inert

but when body consumes they become blood and bones, ie life substances

once the body’s capability reduces, it dies , but jeeva flame continues, it goes into new body

this is how life, death, life, death cycle continues

sloka ‘’aham annam…..’’ ie I am food , when food is taken by me, the food becomes me … hence prani takes food , not once, but life long

, all lower bodies  gradually, by repeated rebirth ultimately become the fire that is soul ..hence births and deaths happen for bodies..

 33 koti devata in Hinduism!

Posted by : shoumik dasTuesday, April 29, 2014

The concept of 33 koti devata in Hinduism:

 The Vedas refer to not 33 crore Devatas but 33 types (Koti in Sanskrit) of Devatas. They are explained in Shatpath Brahman and many other scriptures very clearly.

 "Yasya Trayastrinshad Devaa Ange Sarve Samaahitaa, Skamma Tam Bruhi Katamah Swideva Sah”. ~(Atharva Veda 10-7-13)

 Which means: with God’s influence, these thirty-three (supporting devta) sustain the world.

 In Brhadaranyaka Upanishad while discussing Brahman, Yajnavalkya is asked how many gods are there. He says that there are three hundred and three and three thousand and three gods. When the question is repeated? He says, thirty three. When the question is again repeated he says, six. Finally, after several repetitions he says ONE. (Chapter I, hymn 9, verse 1)

 The number 33 comes from the number of Vedic gods explained by Yajnavalkya in Brhadaranyaka Upanishad – the eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras, the twelve Adityas, Indra and Prajapati. (Chapter I, hymn 9, verse 2)

 They are: 8-Vasu, 11-Rudra, and 12-Aaditya, 1-Indra and 1-Prajaapati.

 8. Vasus are: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether, Moon, Sun, and Star. They are called Vasus, because they are abode of all that lives, moves or exists. (also mentioned in Mahabharat, 1/66/18)

 11. Rudras: The ten Pranas (Praana, Apaana, Vyaana, Samaana, Udaana, Naag, Kurma, Krikal, Devadutta and Dhananjaya) i.e. nervauric forces which live in the human body. The eleventh is the human soul. These are called ‘Rudras’ because when they desert the body, it becomes dead and the relations of the deceased, consequently, begin to weep. Rudra means one who makes a person to weep. { also mentioned in Harivansha 13/51-52})

 12. Adityaas ---the twelve months of a year called Adityaas, they cause the lapse of the term of existence of each object or being. { also mentioned in Mahabharat 1/65/15-16})

 1. Indra which is also known as the (all-pervading) electricity, as it is productive of great force.

 1. Prajaapati , also called the “Yajna” because it benefits mankind by the purification of air, water, rain and vegetables and because it aids the development of various arts, and in it the honor is accorded to the learned and the wise.

 

 The master of these 33 Devatas is the Mahadeva or Ishwar who alone is to be worshipped as per 14th Kanda of Shatpath Brahman.

 Rishi sees

sees dream while dreaming

sees sleep while sleeping 

sees wake while waking 

and never he is in illusion 

since he is a thuriaatheeth , ie 4th state coexisting in 3 states

He knows even wake is mithya, the ever changing reality ephemeral 

which is different from never changing reality that is brahma 

he knows lives brahma sathyam 

while staying in jagath mithya

 raag and thaal—great are these

together they rejoice

 

swing to the tune of raag

dance to the beat of thaal

 

you are siva, a nataraja

on the head of snake , a tandav krishna 

 

you are deva walk into the devalok, 

for a fresh look

 

you are gandharva, kinera, kimpurush

gaayan, vaadan naachan, you possess 

 

you are rishi

meditate, make life a sangeethshri

 

you are naarad 

all lokas are yours , a vishaarad

 

fly high unbound

flow in flood unleashed

 

walk on water

float in space, undeter

 

you are athma

dear son of paramathma

whom

sword cannot cut 

fire cannot burn 

air cannot dry 

water cannot wet 

 

free yourself

of all fetters that engulf

 

no need to be in well of sansar

surf heartful, ocean is there apaar

 

no cares

no worries

 

all vaporize

awareness raise

 

you do prayer

to yourself, be just a player