Dharana 109
na me bandho na me moksho
jivasyaita vibhishikah / 209
pratibimbamidam buddher-
jaleshviva vivasvatah // 135 //
Na me bandhah, “I have no bondage.” Na me moksho, “I am not liberated.” “I am neither bound nor liberated.” This liberation and bondage is just attributed to the jiva, the individual soul, and to him these two perceptions–being in bondage and being liberated–are vibhishikah, they make him terrified; he grumbles, he jumps.
ERNIE: Even the knowledge of liberation?
SWAMIJI: Yes, liberation.
“I am liberated. I am liberated!” What is that? It is also bondage. It is also ignorance. Knowledge and liberation is attributed to those who are individuals; and they get change in bondage and in liberation.
Pratibimbam idam buddher jaleshviva vivasvatah, if you are bound in this cycle of the world, that is bondage; and [if] you are liberated from the cycle of the world, you are liberated.
You should find out that this knowledge–being elevated and being liberated, or being bound in this cycle of the world–this bondage and liberation is just a reflection in the limited intellect. It is a reflection in buddher (in buddher, is the limited intellectual element).
On the contrary, it is not a reflection in unlimited God consciousness. In the mirror of unlimited God consciousness, that reflection is something else–that is shambhava. When you find out this whole cycle of one hundred and eighteen worlds is reflected in God consciousness, that is something else. But when you find, when you perceive, this reflection of this world in your intellect, in your limited intellectual state, this terrifies you. Because you will ignore Samdu's son and you won't ignore Viresh. This is the reflection of that in that limited cycle of buddhi, intellect. That is buddhih.
And that is samvit. What? Unlimited. The unlimited cycle of jnana is samvit, God consciousness. When you find out it is a reflection in God consciousness, then there is neither attachment nor detachment for Viresh.210 Then you are muktah, you become jivan muktah [liberated while living].
So, pratibimbam idam buddher, this makes you sad when you find out this reflected in your limited intellect, not in unlimited samvit, knowledge. Jaleshu iva vivasvatah, just as in various pools, or various streams of water, you find the reflection of the sun in varieties–somewhere you'll find the sun being cut, if the water is flowing; if the water is stationary, you will find it stationary, the reflection of the sun–in the same way, these things happen in the individual reflection, in the individual cycle of the intellect. When there is the individual cycle of the intellect, it is bondage, it will give you fear. It will give whom fear? Jivasya. Jivasya–who is individual.
So, you have to find out na me bandho na me moksho: “Neither I am bound nor I am liberated.”211
So this is shaktopaya.
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209. Swamiji corrected na me bandho na moksho me bhitasyaita vibhishikah to read na me bandho na me moksho jivasyaita vibhishikah.
210. The son of John and Denise Hughes.
211. Become divine! Do not put limited shrunken thoughts in yourself. Try to keep your mind broad. That will make you divine!
Original transcript contains diacritical marks and verses in Devanagri,
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