Shree AadiShankaraachaarya, the Adwaita SiddhaaanTa Prachaaraaka Aachaarya ShiromaNi, has travelled the length and breadth of the Nation from his birth place Kalady to the Kedaarnaath and rejuvenated the SanaatanaDharama Vaibhawam by defeating the then 72 Avaidika Philosophies propagated by some folks to confuse the people with their own fabricated prophecies to execute their personal vendetta and establish their spiritual supremacy amongst the common folklore....
On his long spiritual journey while visiting innumerable temples and "correcting" their "spiritual magnitudes" so that people of the upcoming Kaliyugam too can withstand those divine energy realms to continue worshipping them safely to keep securing God's grace as pertinent to a given pilgrimage centre...
Aachaarya has blessed the mankind with several spiritual literary treasures that are not just stotrams with a great verbatic prowess which are a feast to the ears to listen to and for the mouth to utter them as they are essentially magnanimous compositions embedded with his unfathomable intellect in every syllable....
In terms of the erudite standards of propounding the paratattwavaibhawam, they were ranging from as simple as
Mohamudgaram / BhajaGovindaStotram
where in ShreeShankara preaches one and all to worship lord Govinda to make sure that our lives are fulfilled with the divine grace required to make them blessed and complete...
to the Nirvana Shatkam where in the complex to be comprehended Adwaita SiddhaanTa Tattwa saaram has been so mellifluously poured in to every word of the stotram to get it distilled in to the hearts and minds of the devotees reciting it so that one or the other day they would be blessed to achieve and realize the
" Aham brahmaasmi " tattwa samanwayam by establishing it within themselves and then to experience the unparalleled JeevaBrahmaikya siddhi while still being alive in this very own mortal coil which is the very purpose of believing and following the Adwaita Siddhaantam that preaches
" Deaho Devaalayah Proakto.....
Jeevo deavah Sanaatanah..."
Shree ChaaganTi sadguruvu gaaru, being the today's Navayuga ShreeAadiShankaraachaarya blessing the devotees with the guru kaTaaksham required to experience the Bhagawad tattwa vaibhawam by...
1. Properly listening to the same from a sadguru boadha...
2. Securing the carefully listened Bhagawad tattwa vaibhawam by swaadhyaayam that comprises of
smaraNam mananam, nidhidhyaasanam
which will gradually transform that captured Bhagawad tattwa gnyaanam in to Bhagawad Tattwaanubhooti by the merit of the UpaasanaaBalam gained by a devotee by his efforts and diligent practices all along the life time....
3. Once that transformed Bhagawad Tattwaanubhooti gets concretely stabilized and established within ourselves, then the "ChidaakaaSham" required to elicit that much cherished "Paramaatma tattwam / Bhagawad Anubhooti / AdwaitaBhaavana " gets manifested with in our mortal coil by making it a "GhaTaakaaSham" which
transduces the all pervading Paramaatma Tattwam and makes us witness the same by establishing its presence in our very own perishable body thus making it achieve the
"so-ham" state in order to absolutely refer to that Adwaita Tattwam in a relatively absolute state of JeevaBrahmaikyaSiddhi.....
Well the above "Adwaita Tattwaanubhooti" explanation might sound a bit complex so let me make it very simple with a common world example so that the same becomes easily comprehendable to one and all....
Let's take the very well known example of cool drinking water from a simple earthen ware / pot....
1. A simple earthenware / pot
2. Normal drinking water.
3. After sometime, the above combination becomes cool sweet drinking water with no external force of whatsoever kind being applied on the combination....
A simple earthenware / pot refers to the GhataakaaSham, our mortal coil.....
Drinking water poured in to it refers to the Bhagawad Bhakti Vastu Vishaya Saamaagri
The final product obtained, i.e., the cool sweet drinking water that quenches the thirst so soothingly with an additional feel good relaxing factor is the
is the Paramaatmatattwaanubhooti....
Hope the example is simple enough for anyone to understand the analogy of the AdwaitaTattwaanubhooTi...
The bare earthenware / pot did not have coolness in it....
The normal drinking water at room temperature did not have coolness in it....
However their combined system after a certain period of time say a day, suddenly results in extremely cool water...and the coolness of which can be felt even by touching the pot and of course by savoring the sweet cool drinking water....
Now tell me from where did that natural coolness come in to the pot and to the water...
Did it come to the pot because of the water...?
or did it come to the water because of the pot..?
If it is the former, then any entity the water is contained by should also get that coolness.....
( Say a steel, brass, copper vessel etc..)
If it is the latter, then any entity the pot contains should also become cool....
( i.e., If we pour some sand or mud or some other stuff then it should become cool sand cool mud etc , if we pour some offer stuff it should become cool stuff...etc)
Only the combination of a Pot + Drinking Water is yielding the amazingly savourable cool drinking water after some time is allowed....
Quite similarly,
only a human body when supplied with proper " Bhagadwad Vasthu Vishaya Saamaagari " will transform itself in to that system which will miraculously manifest the Adwaita Bhagawad Tattwaanubhooti from within that can be savoured by the mortal realm engaged in the process of witnessing the same...
"Tath Jalaan..."
" Aapovayadagum Brahma...."
are the very well known verses stated by sathguru Shree ChaaganTi gaaru to explain the paramaatama tattwam....
When that state of coolness is extracted via the water containing it from the GhaTaakaasham, the pot, in to a
parimitaakaasham, another space contained entity, say an empty glass, it persists for a while and then after sometime it becomes normal water at the room temperature......
So is the case with the AdwaitaTattwaanubhooti.....
As long as the Jeevadhaaraka, i.e, the body in our normal terminology, is in a state of witnessing the conjugal bliss of Jeeva Jeeveashwara Aikya Bhaavana
called "samaadhi sthithi" in the Yogic Terminology, where in the subtle difference between the Jeevaatma and the Paramaatma gets erased leading to that much required state of spiritual equilibrium that establishes the "Adwaita Stithi.."
The moment it gets dissolved either by being affected with any external factors or with the internal factors that arise because of the distubance in ChittaSthireekarana for whatsoever reasons, the Adwaita sthiti enters it's inertiatic state and will subsequently and gradually gets vanished just like the coolness from the cold water that begins to lose its relative existence gradually after being collected by some steel glass....
Now the most important thing is how cold is the water in the pot...?
i.e., how deep is the Adwaita Sthithi attained by a Saadhaka or an Upaasaka...
It depends on various factors, ranging from the kind of mud it is made from to it's thickness to it's absorption rate to it's energy transfusion rate and so on and so forth...
Similarly, the magnitude of the
"Adwaita Sthithi" depends on various factors like the path employed by the Saadhaka or the Upaasaka to achieve the determined state, the magnitude of the GurukataakSham obtained by the Saadhaka which determines the power of the Saadhaka to exert an immaculate control on their body so as to relatively
"decouple" themselves to remain a witness to all the universal drama going on inside and outside the body....
In other words, the Saadhaka gets established to in a yogic state where in they become audience to themselves in observing the PinDaanDaBrahmaanDa Samanwayam that keeps happening every second at each and every macro and micro levels of their mortal coil....
In such an elevated Adwaita Stithi,
they can be as fast as they can and they can be as slow as they can as they perspire...
they can be here...they can be there...
and thus they can be everywhere as they perspire...
they can be this and they can be that and thus they can be any and everything they perspire...
they can be the Jeeva and they can be Jeeveshwara and thus they can be Parameshwara as they perspire.....
And thus the Adwaita Stithi preaches....
"so-ham" which essentially bundles in every thing under the Sun....
Hence at a supreme state, when the ShadChakraBhedanam happens either knowingly or unknowingly, they surpass the laws of nature and become an entity beyond the nature....
And thus they become one with the nature and then go above the nature and then influence the nature and then control the nature as perspired.....
This is an unfathomable only to be experienced state of Adwaita Bhagawad Tattwa Saadhana that elevates them from the all obvious mortal realms to the various perspired spiritual realms.....
After being through the state of such a magnanimous Adwaita Bhagawad tattwaanubhooti, Shree Shankara has extolled that Adwaita Samaadhi sthithi by explaining that he is neither this nor that but the all pervading SadaaShiva....by terming it as "Shivoham... "
Namah Shankara Bhaavanavay Namaha... 🙏😊
॥ निर्वाण षटकम्॥
मनो बुद्ध्यहंकारचित्तानि नाहम् न च श्रोत्र जिह्वे न च घ्राण नेत्रे
न च व्योम भूमिर् न तेजॊ न वायु: चिदानन्द रूप: शिवोऽहम् शिवॊऽहम् ॥
न च प्राण संज्ञो न वै पञ्चवायु: न वा सप्तधातुर् न वा पञ्चकोश:
न वाक्पाणिपादौ न चोपस्थपायू चिदानन्द रूप: शिवोऽहम् शिवॊऽहम् ॥
न मे द्वेष रागौ न मे लोभ मोहौ मदो नैव मे नैव मात्सर्य भाव:
न धर्मो न चार्थो न कामो ना मोक्ष: चिदानन्द रूप: शिवोऽहम् शिवॊऽहम् ॥
न पुण्यं न पापं न सौख्यं न दु:खम् न मन्त्रो न तीर्थं न वेदा: न यज्ञा:
अहं भोजनं नैव भोज्यं न भोक्ता चिदानन्द रूप: शिवोऽहम् शिवॊऽहम् ॥
न मृत्युर् न शंका न मे जातिभेद: पिता नैव मे नैव माता न जन्म
न बन्धुर् न मित्रं गुरुर्नैव शिष्य: चिदानन्द रूप: शिवोऽहम् शिवॊऽहम् ॥
अहं निर्विकल्पॊ निराकार रूपॊ विभुत्वाच्च सर्वत्र सर्वेन्द्रियाणाम्
न चासंगतं नैव मुक्तिर् न मेय: चिदानन्द रूप: शिवोऽहम् शिवॊऽहम् ॥
English Transliteration:
Nirvana Shatkam :
Mano Budhyahankaar Chitani Naaham, Na Cha Shrotra Jihve Na Cha Ghraana netre
Na Cha Vyoma Bhumir Na Tejo Na Vayuh, Chidananda Rupah Shivoham Shivoham
Na Cha Praana Sanjno Na Vai Pancha Vaayuhu, Na Vaa Sapta Dhaatur Na Va Pancha Koshah
Na Vaak Paani Paadau Na Chopasthapaayuh, Chidaananda Rupah Shivoham Shivoham
Na Me Dvesha Raagau Na Me Lobha Mohau, Mado Naiva Me Naiva Maatsarya Bhaavah
Na Dharmo Na Chaartho Na Kaamo Na Moksha, Chidaananda Rupah Shivoham Shivoham
Na Punyan Na Paapan Na Saukhyan Na Dukham, Na Mantro Na Tirthan Na Vedaah Na Yajnaah
Aham Bhojanan Naiv Bhojyan Na Bhoktaa, Chidaananda Rupah Shivoham Shivoham
Na Mrityur Na Shanka Na Me Jaati Bhedah, Pitaa Naiva Me Naiva Maataa Na Janma
Na Bandhur Na Mitram Guru Naiva Shishyah, Chidaananda Rupah Shivoham Shivoham
Aham Nirvikalpo Niraakaara Rupo, Vibhutvaaccha Sarvatra Sarvendriyaanaam
Na Chaa Sangatan Naiva Muktir Na meyah Chidananda Rupah Shivoham Shivoham
Meaning:
1) I am not mind, nor intellect, nor ego, nor the reflections of inner self. I am not the five senses. I am beyond that. I am not the ether, nor the earth, nor the fire, nor the wind (i.e. the five elements). I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, Shiva, love and pure consciousness.
2) Neither can I be termed as energy (Praana), nor five types of breath (Vaayu), nor the seven material essences (dhaatu), nor the five coverings (panca-kosha). Neither am I the five instruments of elimination, procreation, motion, grasping, or speaking. I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, Shiva, love and pure consciousness.
3) I have no hatred or dislike, nor affiliation or liking, nor greed, nor delusion, nor pride or haughtiness, nor feelings of envy or jealousy. I have no duty (dharma), nor any money, nor any desire (refer: kama), nor even liberation (refer: moksha). I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, Shiva, love and pure consciousness.
4) I have neither virtue (punya), nor vice (paapa). I do not commit sins or good deeds, nor have happiness or sorrow, pain or pleasure. I do not need mantras, holy places, scriptures, rituals or sacrifices (yajna). I am none of the triad of the observer or one who experiences, the process of observing or experiencing, or any object being observed or experienced. I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, Shiva, love and pure consciousness.
5) I do not have fear of death, as I do not have death. I have no separation from my true self, no doubt about my existence, nor have I discrimination on the basis of birth. I have no father or mother, nor did I have a birth. I am not the relative, nor the friend, nor the guru, nor the disciple. I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, Shiva, love and pure consciousness.
6) I am all pervasive. I am without any attributes, and without any form. I have neither attachment to the world, nor to liberation. I have no wishes for anything because I am everything, everywhere, every time, always in equilibrium. I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, Shiva, love and pure consciousness.
( The stotram and it's 6 points' explanation has been copied from
https://templesinindiainfo.com/nirvana-shatakam-stotra-lyrics-in-hindi-and-meaning/)
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