Upaniṣads: The Original Source of Complete Completion
Living Advaita means realizing you are Whole, one with the Whole, you are not a broken or separated, divided part. That realization of complete Completion, even with the past, can be given only by Upaniṣads.
Broken means, once for all taken out; separated means, internally divided; divided means, the internal sub-division. You are neither broken nor separated or even entered into sub-division from the Whole. The Whole exists as Whole. It is not that now you will achieve Completion and in future you will experience complete Completion. The Completion is complete Completion when you realize that even in your past you were always completely Complete.
The depth of Completion, is complete in you, when you understand that even in the past you were Complete. When your incompletions of the past become not only meaningless or irrelevant, they are just unrememberable, uncognizable by you, when they have no place in you any more, you are Living Advaita.
The person who says, 'In the future I will be completely Complete,' is a Yogi. The person who says, 'Now itself I am completely Complete,' is a Tāntrik. The person who realizes, 'Not only in the future or in the present, even in the past I was completely Complete,' is an Advaiti.
Living Advaita means, realizing that not just in the future or present you will be out of māyā, delusion experientially, it is realizing that even in the past you were never in the clutches of māyā, is Living Advaita.
Upaniṣads, the original source of all the religions, the original source of all the Truths! The main message of the Upaniṣads is not just that in the future you will be Complete. 'In the future you will be Complete,' is the message of Yoga Śūtras. 'Even now you are Complete,' is the message of Śiva Sūtras. 'Even in the past you were Complete,' is the message of Upaniṣads.
Complete healing happens in you not just by becoming Complete in the future or the present; it happens only when you realize that even in the past you were Complete. Only Upaniṣads have the courage to tell you and give you the experience that even in the past you were completely Complete! What will happen if you practice Yoga Śūtras, can be predicted; what will happen if you practice Śiva Śūtras, can be experienced; what will happen if you realize Upaniṣads, can neither be predicted nor explained.
Living Advaita means not just becoming completely Complete in the future and present, but realizing experientially that you were completely Complete even in the past. There was never ever any incompletion in you. That realization is Living Advaita, and that can be given only by Upaniṣads.
Living Advaita heals, completes, fulfills, puts bliss not just in your future or present, even in your past. Only Living Advaita is capable of changing your past. You may think, 'How can past be changed? It is already over.' No! Nothing is over! Anything of the past that you remember, it still exists, it is present. Anything which is not present will not have life or power over you. So, past or future is present. As long as you remember, it is still alive. All your desires, creations, declarations that you wanted in the future is about the future, but in the present. That is why they are so powerful to drive you experientially to move towards them. All your pains, guilt, incompletions are about the past, but in the present. That is why it is still painful, it is still experientially incomplete.
Only Upaniṣads declare, with a clear understanding, to experientially complete your past in the present, future in the present, and present in the present. And, when the Completion of present in the present happens, past in the present happens, future in the present happens, the complete Completion happens; then not only your future and present, even your past is transformed! No account is settled till you realize, reach Living Advaita in the Cosmos. The last victory in life, if you achieve Living Advaita, your whole history, your past will be rewritten; and just for you to reach the Living Advaita your past gets 'in store' but does not get recorded. All your files are still 'in pending', not yet archived.
Once anybody's past gets recorded in the Cosmos, that is what comes down as Purāṇa. It means that from amoeba to Anantanārāyaṇa (limitless Lord Nārāyaṇa), He has completed the journey, won the game, and recorded it in the Cosmos. So, now He is presented as Bhāgavata Purāṇa, from Matsya to Kalki avatār.
Even now, by waking up and Living Advaita, we can rewrite the whole history. Not just socially, even cosmically! Patañjali (founding father of Yoga) dares only to say, 'Your future can be completed, do these practices.' Mahādeva dares to say upto, 'Even your present will be completed immediately, practice these techniques,' in Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra. Only the Upaniṣads, which in truth nobody wrote but only channelled; have the audacity to tell, 'Not just your future or present, even your past can be transformed, re-arranged.' Because, nothing is complete, till you start Living Advaita.
Mahādeva just sat in silence and vibrated the Cosmic Knowledge, the Vedas as Dakśināmūrti under the Banyan tree and radiated it as the vibrant silence, the living, alive silence; and the Ṛṣis (enlightened sages) just spelled out the Ākāśic (cosmic) Records, and shared them with the world. This is the way Upaniṣads happened and were delivered to Planet Earth.
What idea, what promise is given to you through the word 'Enlightenment,' the truth of Living Advaita is far higher, beyond. Enlightenment is always either about the future or the present; only Living Advaita has the courage to tell you the truth about the past also. As long as the future is not complete, the past also cannot be complete! Till you die, till your last moment, your whole biography cannot be written. Same way, till you finish your future, your past cannot be frozen. So, don't be under the myth that your past is already lived or over. The decision to experientially transform the future, present, past, and ALL, is Living Advaita.
Start contemplating on this one great Truth—completing, radiating complete Completion not just about your future and present, but your past also. Meditate, you will realize It.
Taking the decision to Live Advaita means deciding to reach the space of complete Completion to the extent that even your past is rewritten; not just the present or the future.
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