The only thing you need to know for self realisation. The Mandukya upanishad, which is about aum!
- in eternal aum consciousness
- Oct 22, 2023
- 3 min read
Updated: Apr 22, 2024
I was watching one of the videos from Swami sarvapriyanda of ramakrishna math, in 2020, during the second lockdown, when one of my twins, my son, came and asked me.
A: What are you doing?
Me: i am trying to find out who am I!
A: you are fifty plus and you still don't know who you are?
We both laughed. After 3 hours, my second twin, my daughter comes. And asks. When she sees me watching the videos, she asks. (Both of their names start with A!)
A: are you still trying to find out who you are?
Me: yes!
We both laughed and i continued watching the videos... Six of them... To get clarity on what is mandukya upanishad. It was for around six hours, i was watching the videos not stop! Almost.
This is a very short upanishad, with 12 shlokas only
The videos were searched and located, when i read that...
When Lord Rama was asked by Hanuman, His dearest devotee, “What is the way to Self-realization?” He replied, “The only scripture one needs to know is the Mandukya Upanishad,”
By the way, we are taught by the British education system to call all our history as mythology, meaning it never happened. The word itself is wrong, as it fundamentally creates a dis belief in our own culture, paving the path for half baked Western ideas about self, mind, peace, values to enter our mind and corrupt it to meekly submit to foreign rule as their mental slaves. This will be a topic of another blog!
Luckily due to internet and social media, we now have un precedented access to authentic information, right from our mobiles. All my studies about the self are done online, with the desire to search for the ultimate truth.
I know (not just believe) that my guru appears in different forms, books, people, videos etc. To guide me further. In adwaita, there are no twos. There is only one. Hence any enlightened person is the manifestation of my guru, guiding me ahead. This made my progress quick and i sought resources that are easy to grasp and understand fast
As ramayana predates krishana times, there were still 4 Vedas, 18 puranas and 108 Upanishads! Out of all these, why was only this one identified? This set me thinking...
The video series is from ramkrishna mission, which has all established lineage of gurus. Their knowledge can be relied upon. They are one of the few, who have their goal clear with the mission doing the giving and math, helping people realise their true self.
Though I found many videos, books and articles on mandukya, this was my choice.
Here are the links. Please keep around 6 hours to watch them and take notes, if you are seriously interested in starting the journey of who am I, and realising that it is nothing but aum.
At the end of the first video, the second one starts and so on, till you see all 6.
I also located a link to explain the videos in the doc file format, for folks who want to read, instead of watching videos.
I am giving a short summary below. And a table that summarises the key aspects. This will make sense, once you go through the videos.
(To be done
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