WHO IS A SAGE & THEIR EXPERIENCE
by Swami Sivananda, book, TRIPLE YOGA
WHO IS A SAGE
- The sage is released from bondage. He shines with knowledge of Brahman. He is ever blissful.
- The sage has crossed Maya. He has abandoned his lower nature. He has realised true Satchidananda nature. So he swims in the ocean of Bliss. He floats in the sea of joy.
- The great, illumined sage has burnt his egoism, Vaasanas and craving. He sports in his own Atma. He has supreme satisfaction.
- The actions of the mind, good or evil, the actions of the speech, good or evil, the actions of the body, good or evil, do not touch the sage.
- The sage, knowing that the entire universe is unsubstantial and is only a product of Maya, roots out all desires, egoism, pride, self-love and envy, and roams about happily.
- The sage catches the fickle deer of his mind in the snare of enquiry, and rests blissfully in his own Atma.
- For a sage the shoulder is his pillow, the sky is his covering, the earth his bed, renunciation his wife, and peace his son.
- The sage is established in the supreme state. There is neither distance nor proximity, there is neither grossness nor subtlety, there is neither external nor internal, for him.
- The sage works without effort, without agency, without egoism, attachment and desire. Like a child his conduct is neither good nor evil.
- A sage sleeps not in the sleeping state; he dreams not in the dreaming state; he wakes not in the waking state. He ever rests in Bliss Consciousness, his own Swaroopa.
- Who is to see whom, where everything is the Self or Pure Consciousness? The visibles melt. The seer and the seen are one.
- Even the Vedas cannot speak of an illumined sage perfectly. His state is beyond description. He is Bliss Absolute and Ineffable, and a source of bliss to all.
13. Just as the sky is not really affected by the smoke, so also the sage or Brahman is not affected by virtue and vice.
SAGE’S EXPERIENCE
There is neither space nor time in me. I am infinity. I am eternity.
I alone am. I am ever free. I am taintless, spaceless, timeless. This world appears like a mirage within me.
I am infinite, imperishable, self-luminous, self-existent, self-contained. I know neither pleasure, nor pain, neither joy nor sorrow, neither happiness nor misery.
I am beginningless. I am endless. I am decayless. I am birthless. I am deathless.
Never was I born. I am ever free. I am perfect. I am pure. I am independent.
I am tranquil. I am pure knowledge, transcending. I am above good and evil, virtue and vice.
I am one. I go nowhere. I come from nowhere. I abide in my Self. I pervade the entire universe. I am all-permeating and inter-penetrating.
I am absolute. I am non-dual. I am pure wisdom. I am pure consciousness.
I am the limitless, infinite ocean of consciousness. The wind of mind produces the waves of worlds.
I am Atma, impersonal and all-pervading. I am Atman, the Self of all beings. I am the substratum, support, source, for everything.
I am the nectar which is knowledge absolute. I am beyond the reach of the mind, the intellect and the senses.
I am unattached (Asanga). I am not the doer (Akarta). I am not the enjoyer (Abhokta). I am the silent witness (Sakshi).
Free from subject and object am I, Satchidananda Brahman am I.
The one, the taintless, transcendental truth am I. Ever stable, peaceful, immovable, immutable, invulnerable, unperturbable truth am I.
The nectar of immortality am I. The immortality-giving knowledge am I. Ever blissful Siva am I.
I am the taintless Nirvana. I am Turiya, the fourth. I am Be-ness.
I am freedom absolute. I am supreme peace transcendental. I am supreme silence stupendous.
Repeat God’s name constantly
“The water to purify your heart is the name of God.” “Of utmost importance is to increase the repetition of God’s Name (japa) daily. In this way, your heart and mind will be purified, and only then will you find (realize) God within you.”
~ Haidakhan Babaji
The ‘secret’ to a plentiful life, a life of harmony, happiness and contentment is to have a sattvic mind free from desires and ego and to live in every moment in conscious contact with our true Self (Consciousness).
🌺 Peace, Love, Harmony
atmannityanada 