My Spiritual Emancipation

My 50+ years of exploration rewarded spiritual awakening upon first resolving these illusion contributors.

Taking rope for snake.

Janaka Story - Is this true or is that true.

The tenth man.

The washerman's donkey.

The prince on growing up forgets his male identity.

The lion and the cub.

You can read them here :

Five Stories

Then these four illumining verses of Ch.5 of Ashtavakra Gita revealing the true nature of our existence.

My true nature

The same reality is described by use of many words. The One, Truth, Reality, Consciousness, Bliss and many more.

This realising that The One is abstract. So spiritual emancipation occurs on becoming one with the abstract. This is described using the expression exiting the complex - body, mind, intellect, senses and the identifier I.

Then by realising that the illusory I as ego is the 5th level of abstraction by imagined viewing and naming - nama-roopa and further by assigning qualifiers such as good / bad, this / that, mine / yours etc.

Then by understanding attachment by use of the agency of cathecting - attaching, connecting, providing name for identifying, qualifying, and describing. Cathecting like how in times before 1960 telephone connections were provided by operators who plugged in dialled numbers - each operator assigned for 100 numbers.

Then knowing that Allah is described by 99 names called Asmaa al Husna (The beautiful names).

99 Names of Allah - Asmaa al Husna

Consciousness is a gift available to all life forms. 

I saw a creeper letting out a branch to some two feet length. Then upon not bearing its weight, it let out another branch, and then yet another branch to support it. Creeper branches support each other to hold them lifted, to climb up. 

 Wild plants support creepers to climb tall trees to flower and bear fruit that can be dispersed through birds. 

Then tall trees like palas throw roots to hold the tree erect by supporting the weak trunk to grow vertically to heights in excess of 30 feet. 

How plants display consciousness

Then again how insects know the season and also know where to search for food to aid survival. Ants, butterflies even white ants.

Consciousness is universal. How to access it. I did it by sustained exploration.

Erase the Ego - Gain Spiritual Emancipation

Erase the Ego - Gain Spiritual Emancipation

Here are prescribed simple steps to taste spiritual emancipation in a few minutes without any practice.

Spare 30 minutes to an hour to complete the process. 

Whatever our age. Mine is 73. We start with our present age and ask these questions for previous (reducing by 10 years) ages till we reach the age of 3 years. (Jump from 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, to 3). One can choose to write down the questions and answers specific to ages as applicable. 

Tap this link to obtain a printable PDF of the questions. Questions

For me I will ask for ages 63, 53, 43, 33, 23, 13 and 3.

1. Where was I living.

2. What was I doing.

3. What was my family like.

4. How was my life.

5. What did I think about myself. 

6. Did I have a name? What was it.

7. How did people address me - socially, at work, at home, by siblings.

8. What made me feel proud.

9. What made me feel hurt, pained, insulted, ignored, left alone, not regarded, slighted or blamed.

10. What made me feel angry, sad and anxious.

11. Did I own a self identity which when hurt made me feel hurt.

12. Could I forgive and forget wrong done to me.

13. Did I yearn love, affection and praise. 

14. Did I recognise : Ah that's me.

15. Did I possess a sense of self.

It is at the age of 18 months that we for the first time recognised ourself as in : Ah, that's me!  When we looked at ourself in the mirror. The self was born at that age. Till then we were a first person pronoun, I, He, She without ego. 

We had a fully functional biological existence at the 23rd week of foetal life. The systems are functioning since then.

Till then we were passing through the germinal stage of 0-3 weeks after conception, then the embryonic stage from 3-8 weeks after conception, then developing foetus 8-23 weeks after conception and developed foetus waiting for delivery pains 23-40 weeks after conception. Tap this link to read about foetal development Foetal Development

Earlier to conception we were an egg for the age of our mother's life to delivery plus age of her mother's life. If I was born when my mother was 24 and she was born when her mother was 24 then I spent 48 years waiting to be conceived. My mother's reproductive system was developed when she was passing through 9-10th week of foetal life.

Prior to that our existence was food that our grandma ate. 

So we are born of food, are sustained by food, and are an expression of food. The food partaken by our grandma was eaten by others too.

Food is organic as well as inorganic.

That is our true existence.

Prior to that backward timeless energy assuming and changing forms and existence 

We ourselves have been living for millions if not billions of years.

We are not distinct from any one or any body.

Our core identity is one. One-ness describes our identity.

A rope is mistaken for a snake in dim light.

A snake is mistaken as a python, green snake, water snake or a cobra.

My snake has a name too - I call it Tinku. I possess it.

So also we think of ourself as distinct from everybody else. It is an illusive sense of identity. 

We can journey backward and realise our true identity of being the universal one.

Emancipation is at hand for the asking if only we care to know and realise it.

To know more read verses 65 to 75 from Ashtavakra Gita Chapter 8 Part 2 with special emphasis on Verse 70 highlighting illusion by tapping this link Pt 2 Ch VIII ASHTAVAKRA Gita and tap this link for reading the entire Ashtavakra Gita Full Ashtavakra Gita

Emancipation is denied because we are unable to give up the possessive I, mine. No only that we action it by adding sense of possession to it. Thus we convert illusion into reality, then hold on to it as if it is for fact. Ego is generator of all ails. It is the thread that provides possessiveness. Removing or burning the thread returns the beads to the universality of their existence. We do not give it up. We dissolve it whenever it becomes an impediment to our release from bondage. Example of a washerman's donkey is given in shastras to explain how illusion of belonging is generated. 

To read the story tap this link Five Stories for Audio of Five Stories tap this link Five Stories Audio