Post 13: VIVEKACHŪḌĀMAṆI
Śhrī Mātājī's words on Vivekachūḍāmaṇi
Translation of Vivekachūḍāmaṇi of Śhrī Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya by Swami Madhavananda, Eleventh Reprint, December 1982, printed by N. K. Mitter at the Indian Press Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata
Translation of Vivekachūḍāmaṇi of Śhrī Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, Vedanta Press, California
Translation of Vivekachūḍāmaṇi of Śhrī Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya by Pranipata Chaitanya, available as a pdf at pdf
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Śhrī Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya lived in sixth century A.D. He wrote many texts: Saundaryalaharī, Upadeśhasāhasri, Vivekachūḍāmaṇi, Ātmabodh, etc. In most of these texts, there are various references to Kuṇḍalinī awakening, as some of the following stanzas [10 and 9 from Saundaryalaharī] will illustrate:
[Having in-filled in the pathway of the nāḍīs with the streaming shower of Nectar flowing from Thy pair of Feet (Lotus Feet), having resumed Thine own position from out of resplendent lunar regions, and Thyself assuming the form of a serpent of three and a half coils, sleepest Thou in the hollow of the Kulakuṇḍa.] [Kulakuṇḍa=the hollow of the Mūlādhāra -- sacrum bone.]
[Thou art diverting (residing) in secrecy with Thy Lord (the Spirit) in the thousand-petalled Lotus, having pierced through the Earth situated in Mūlādhāra, the Water in the Maṇipūra, the Fire abiding in the Swādhiṣhṭhāna, the Air in the Heart (Anāhata), the Ether above (the Viśhuddhi) and Manas between the eyebrows (Āgñyā) and thus broken the entire Kula path.]
Śhrī Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya propounded that it is the Kuṇḍalinī who has to be awakened and unless and until you get your Realization you are nowhere near religion. Śhrī Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya also had given a very befitting answer to the so-called proponents of Haṭha Yoga, Gyān Yoga, Karma Yoga or Rāj Yoga. "Neither by Yoga, nor philosophy, nor by work, nor by learning but by the Realization of one's identity with the Brahman is liberation possible and by no other means.
1900-0000 Two Quotes from the book Divine Knowledge through Vibrations (1992) by P.T. Rajasekharan and R. Venkatesan, Pages 75 and 76
What you have to get? Is Collective Consciousness, which is called in the Sanskrit language Sāmūhik Chetanā.
It's written all over!
Now, if you have to listen to anyone, you go and read Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, He was the last word, in His book Vivekachūḍāmaṇi.
1978-1106 Public Program, Attention and Fulfillment, Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK (likely)
Imagine: they challenged Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya I must say. When He wrote His Vivekachūḍāmaṇi, they got after His life. So He gave up everything. He said, "All right. I will just sing the praise of the Mother, finished! I'm not going to talk." He was very clever man though.
1979-0416 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Āgñyā and Lord Jesus Christ, Phillipa's House, Barnes, SW London, UK
The second person who was very well equipped with this knowledge, was Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya who has written many books. The first book He wrote was Vivekachūḍāmaṇi, in which He describes this fourth dimension and explains why we should try to attain this fourth dimension. An intellectual, one Mister Sharma, challenged Him and told Him that, "He could not do anything as an ascetic and win over my intellect." Thus He felt that for the common people all this discussion might just seem to be mental acrobatics. So He decided to write books just praising the Primordial Mother, especially in Saundaryalaharī, where He described all the Divine Vibrations as the vibrations of the loving beauty of the Primordial Mother. At that time all this was written in the Sanskrit language but the common people did not understand this language, except for a very few learned people, who also did not want to go into the details of this exposition.
1995-0929 Meta Modern Era, Chapter 9: Evolution
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na yogena na sāṃkhyena karmaṇā no na vidyayā |
brahmātmaikatvabodhena mokṣaḥ sidhyati nānyathā
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Neither by Yoga, nor by Sāṅkhya, nor by work, nor by learning, but by realization of one's identity with Brahman is liberation possible, and by no other means
Neither by Yoga, nor by Sankhya, nor by action, nor by learning, is liberation possible. Only by the realization of the oneness of the Brahman (Absolute) and the Atman (Self) is liberation possible, and in no other way.
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Now we will talk about Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya.
Hindus have not done anything except ridiculing great people.
He said, "Na Yogen na Sāṅkhyen": "You will not get it in any other way, you will get it only through Mother's grace."
He has written a great book Vivekachūḍāmaṇi, a book full of wisdom. He has shown His wisdom in the book. Later, He described only His Mother in the book.
People asked Him, "Why are You praising [the] Mother?" He said, "There is no other cure, this is everything. All the mantras are in this."
1979-0114 Public Program (Hindi), Day 1, Satya kā Anveṣhaṇa (Exploration of Truth), Biralā Krīṛā Keṃdra, Chowpatty, Girgaum Chowpatty, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Even Śhaṅkarāchārya, you know Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, the one who propounded Hinduism in India, said that, "Na Yogen na Sāṅkhyen": "Not by any of these things that it is going to happen, but by Mother's Grace it's going to work out that you are you going to be realized. There's no way out." No way thinking about it, writing about it, give ... preaching about it, talking about it: it has to happen to you. It's a living thing that has to happen to you.
1979-0531 Public Program, Hall in City Center, Birmingham, UK
In Kerala, such a great man was born, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, I mean they have not read about Him!
He never preached any Hinduism, it's a wrong idea! He said, "Na Yogen na Sāṅkhyen." He said, "Not by these philosophies you are gore ... you are going to gain [get] to God. But through Mother's Grace only you will gain that position."
He's clearly said it. He never believed in any such secular uh-uh-uh sort of ideas or any such ideas which meant that, 'This religion is different.'
1980-0128 Public Program, Seminar, Day 1, Cowasji Jehangir Hall, 15, Madam Cama Road, Mantralaya, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Jay Śhrī Mātājī!