Beyond bondage and freedom
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
Duration: 11 minutes
Just as you see the one sun reflected on the water as many suns, in the same way see the one real Source and be free from all types of bondage.
This is a classic ananda sutra!
It cannot be practiced. It can only be grasped by the being.
In the sutra above, the sun represents the Divine consciousness, the source of all light. The reflections are the so-called 'individual consciousnesses', who only appear to be varied and different from the source because they are reflected in individual body-minds. If you keep ten pots of water in the sun, you will see the same sun appearing as ten suns in the ten pots. If you break every pot one by one, the number of 'suns' will come down. Suddenly if you break the last pot, there is no reflection at all, but the Sun remains untouched!
The whole universe is nothing but the reflection of the single Source in many body-minds. So many suns are seen in the water. But when you look for the source, you will see only one Sun! There are innumerable reflections of that one source. Study any one reflection, and when you look to see from where it is being reflected, you will always find the source.
Each of you is also a reflection. Your body-mind is like a mirror, and the Divine is superconsciousness. That exact spot where the superconsciouness, the Source, touches your body-mind or the mirror, is what we call your individual consciousness. There may be so many individual consciousness, but if you trace the Source, you will reach the same superconsciousness.
When you realize that the whole universe is nothing but a reflection of the source, all your restlessness, all your effort to do something will simply disappear!If you understand that all the reflections have the same one Source, you can relax into that peace. Breaking the pot is videha mukti, which is enlightenment upon leaving the body. Having this understanding even when living 'in the pot', as an individual consciousness, is what I call jeevanmukti, living enlightenment!