chapter 7 Refine Your Being for Vijñāna, Sacred Cognition
The Truth of the Being does not change with the sun and moon cycle. Some books can awaken Jñāna, Sacred Knowledge and Bhakti, Sacred Sentiments in you; but only Upaniṣads can awaken Jñāna-Bhakti-Vijñāna, all the three in your Being.
Upaniṣads are too big! Just by reading and understanding, It refines the sacred understandings, sacred sentiments, sacredness of your Existence. There are some books that can refine your understanding; there are some books that can refine your sacred sentiments, but only Upaniṣads can refine your understanding, sentiments, and your sacred beingness.
Beingness means experiencing liberation as your Existence of the future, present and past; liberation as your future, present and past. Refining your being, the understanding which becomes part of your being, which stays in your being as cognition, which is a powerful existential and experiential Truth.
For example, if you have a strong belief inside you about you that—you are a blessed being, God is supporting you and He is constantly taking care of you; you can pray to Him and He supports you—that is one of the very fine, subtle, sacred experience you are having about you. And same way, if you have that feeling-connection, 'Whenever I call upon my God or Guru, immediately He responds to me, He is available to me,' if you have that as part of you, then it is not faith or belief.
All these are not faith or belief. These are more solid, more real than the so-called reality you are perceiving around you. If you feel—the moment you pray, you call your Iśta Devatā or Guru, He immediately responds, He is available to you—that is the most subtle, sacred sentiment. And, 'Ultimately, I know I am going to become enlightened and relax into the Cosmos. No question of suffering in the birth and death cycle.' Sometimes people get this very strongly into them. It is not faith, be very clear.
Faith is that, which comes up and goes down along with the sun-moon cycle. Anything comes up and down with the sun-moon cycle is Faith. During Pūrṇimā (full-moon time), if you feel that everything goes well and then, during Amāvasya (new-moon time), you feel, 'No. I don't know... what is happening?', then it is Faith. That which comes and goes with the sun-moon cycle is Faith.
But, sometimes beyond this coming and going 'faith', certain understandings become part of your bio-memory; it is just there forever, through the thick and thin. Those things only are subtle, sacred sentiments, understandings, and the truth of the being.
Sacred sentiment, truth of the being, and the sacred understandings, do not change based on the sun and the moon, coming and going. If you have the understanding intellectually, 'Anyhow all this is going to dissolve into 'from where it came', that's all. If this understanding does not change by the coming and going of the sun and the moon, it is called Jñāna, Sacred Knowledge.
Same way, 'However much I have self-doubt, self-hatred, self-denial (SDHD) about me, the Source from which I happened cannot have denial towards me. So, He is the Source. Today or tomorrow I have to dissolve in Him only. He only has to protect me and dissolve myself into Him. So, He is the Ultimate.' If this understanding, this feeling-connection happens in you, which does not change by the coming and going of the sun and the moon, this is called as Sacred Sentiment, Bhakti.
And, Being! 'Whether I feel now bound or liberated, ultimately I can never be bound, because I am the reflection of the Cosmos. Neither the Cosmos nor the reflection can be bound. Not only you cannot bind the sun, even the sun's reflection in the water or the mirror, can you bind it? You can bind the mirror, you can bind the water into the pot, but not the reflection.' If you have this understanding in your very core being, which does not come and go with the sun and the moon, up and down, this is called Vijñāna, Cognition, Sacred Cognition, Cosmic Cognition.
Some books can awaken Jñāna in you; some books can awaken Bhakti in you; but only Upaniṣads can awaken Jñāna-Bhakti-Vijñāna, all the three in you. Upaniṣads, only Upaniṣads are capable of awakening all the three in you, completely.
It is a gift of Gaṅgā Mātā and Sarasvati Mātā (goddesses of holiest rivers). Between Sarasvatī and Gaṅgā, in that valley, the civilization happened;
the civilization which does not need to wage wars or defend, which does not have enmity or possessiveness, which never bothered about the outer world or its comforts. Our ancestors are not ignorant about the outer world, they did not bother! That great civilization which gave the tremendous peace naturally by fulfilling all the needs, in that space, Upaniṣads have happened.
Understand, the most important, ultimate wealth you can accumulate in your life is Jñāna–Sacred Knowledge, Bhakti–Sacred Sentiment, Vijñāna–Sacred Cognition. Jñāna, Bhakti, Vijñāna.
Understand, the cognition you need to have to experience Upaniṣads is just openness, nothing else. Jñāna, Bhakti, Vijñāna, all the three can happen in you just by receiving It openly.
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