Chapter 1 : Conversation with Rain ( My daughter)
O Rain, my daughter, May you attain the peaceful & blissful stage
like queen Chundalai who attain this supreme adobe by residing at her palace performing
all social duties.
Rain : Mother , who is Queen chundalai, How she became possessor of peace & bliss. What is that knowledge which I need to attain like her? I would like to learn that knowledge (Gyan) please teach me.
Neetu ; Rain , there is story from Yoga Vashist, I will tell you today, It is conversation between Guru Vashista & his disciple Ram. This conversation is very important to listen for spiritual seeker as many questions and doubt will be removed of spiritual seeker by hearing this story.
Guru Vashista blessed Ram , “ O May thou rest in thy all peaceful Atma like the king Sikhitwaya who controlled the restless bird called mind”.
Ram enquired, “Who is King Sikhitwaya?. Is he truly the possessor of peace and bliss. How he attain the knowledge of self. I would also like to learn that Gyan (Knowledge) which is basis of everything. By knowing what there nothing remains to know. By attaining what there is nothing remain to achieve.
The Rishi started the story, “ King Sikhhitwaya was born in Dwapar Yuga.
Rain : Mother sorry to interrupt but what is Dwapar Yuga.
Yogini Neetu : A yuga is an era with four age cycle. A complete Yuga start with Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga & kali Yuga. Now present time is Kali Yuga. Satya yuga was best yuga due to its characteristics.
Satya Yuga : In Satya Yuga There was no religion but all worship one Surpeme, all human were saintly therefore they were not required to perform religion ceremonies. There were no crime only kindness and facilitation. Human were honest, gigantic, youthful, virtuous, vigorous. They attain knowledge of Vedas by practicing meditation and servingtheir guru. There were no disease, all human possess high quality energy which keeps them happy. There were no addiction , no sexual weakness, no stress, no greed for possessions, All mankind could attain supreme bliss & peaceful adobe.
Treta Yuga : In Treta Yuga virtue diminish slightly. The restless bird like mind turns greedy for possession and powers. Saintly quality in all mankind start to disappear which gave birth to war, business, caste, pair of rich-poor, high-low, Owner- servant arise. These state of affairs offer loss of the knowledge of self which human attained by meditation and which is permanently adobe of human kind. Now for temporary satisfaction of mind people started to follow ceremony which was easy to perform and it gave birth to rituals & ceremonies in temples. It also gave birth to religions.
Dvapur Yuga : In this yuga people become tainted with tamsic qualities. Disease spread widely. Human attain discontentment. Vedas were divided. The true knowledge of Vedas was not attained by meditation. People started to mere reading it and religious ceremonies, idol worship, wars, religions increased.
Kali Yuga : The present age in which we are living now. It is age of darkness and ignorance. People become sinners and virtue was lost. They became slave to their senses and passions. They possess ego, lust, anger, pride. People became liars and hypocrites. Knowledge is lost. They do not know to meditate on self to earn blissful supreme adobe. They only go to pilgrimage to perform ritual ceremonies along with enjoying the travel and food. People eat dirty food, Environment is polluted. Food and water is insufficient & unhealthy. Life span is decreasing years by years. With the increasing usage of science human life span will be reach upto as low as 20 years.
Hm rain , we will get back to story which Guru Vashist is telling to Ram now, if I have given appropriate answer to your question.
So The Rishi Said about King Sikhitawaya that he was taking care of
kingdom and its people
wisely. He was a virtuous king and he had a
purpose to attain the self
knowledge. His queen chundalai was very
beautiful and virtuous. The king and
queen lived together in perfect
happiness. They both were performing their
duties admirably. They
enchanted their youth with love and indulgent united in
body and mind. They splurged their middle life perceptively. They had tasted
the passion fruit of worldly things. In their youth and middle age they love
material things but now the materialistic desires fell from them like a mature
fruit get separation from a tree by falling. The only desire left to attain Wisdom
of the self ( Adyatmic Gyan)
As they were united in mind and body so they realize that there is no escape from the cycle of rebirth except through Atmic Gyan ( self wisdom). So both focus on this goal and started to fix their mind on meditation. They followed instructions of wise & learned of their time. They stay in peaceful environment and led a spiritual life.
Queen chundalai understood the meaning & significance of Vedas and scriptures taught by the wise. She attain the beginning stages of spirituality but her thirst was not quenched. She attained self enquiry which is one of the important pillar of spirituality. For the attainment of higher spirituality she said to herself, since there exist Atma in each body then why do we use the term I? How & where “I” is present in me? Is the I is in body or in Atma or in mind? She realize that “I” cannot be search until she will not meditate by ceasing all the senses of body. As her material desire was already controlled which is another important pillar of spirituality and she followed company & instructions of wise, the third important pillar of spirituality. She did her practice with discipline and true devotion which is the forth pillar of spirituality. So The four important pillar ; self enquiry, control on desire, company of wise and discipline with devotion was formed by Queen chunadalai. She attained Atmic vision by ceasing her body senses, she successfully joined her individual consciousness to Supreme consciousness. She entered into supreme adobe where you rejoice with peace and bliss. Cosmic energy and divine light entered in her. She became knower of self. By divine realization Queen enjoyed the consciousness of reality of the Atma.
So this was the story of realization of Queen Chundali, but Rain there is further interesting story about king Sikhtavya , husband of king chudalni who attained self realization with the help of his wife but with so much struggle and difficulties, In next class i will tell you that story.
May all good be yours, May you attain peace, May you meditate long hours on Divine, May you perform yoga & Pranyama with devotion & discipline, May bliss of cosmic energy be yours. May soon your taste divine fruit & attain liberation ( These blessings are for all seekers)
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