Post 15: ĀTMABODHA

Śhrī Mātājī's words on Ātmabodha

Translation by Swāmi Nikhilānanda, published by Sri Ramakrishna Math, seventh edition 1987, Madras, India

Quotes
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

So, the Realization, if it comes to you, the chakras which are placed on your fingers, should be enlightened, minimum of minimum. And that you should be able to feel this All-pervading Power that is there!
This is Self-knowledge, this is Ātmabodha.
Bodha means to know. To know, to feel that Power.
1981-0929 Public Program (1st Day and 2nd Day of Navarātri), Self and Heart Chakra, Day 6, East West Center, 141 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, NY, U.S.A.

Wherever Nāṇaka has used it or wherever Gyaneshwara has used it, it means 'The Knowledge', is the Knowledge of the Self: Ātma-bo-dha-ḥ. Ātmabodha.
If you read Śhaṅkarāchārya, His book Ātmabodh, very important it is, and you will know that He has described that, "When you get the Knowledge," is the Self-knowledge, "then only you will know about God." Clearly He says! I mean, so clearly you can't [dispute] it, crystal clear.
1981-1013 Public Program, Day 2, John Muir Elementary School, 1721 Ocean Park Boulevard, Santa Monica (23 kms W of Los Angeles), CA, U.S.A.

But in any case, I will try to describe because so many of you have felt the Realization, have got Ātmabodha, the awareness of the Spirit and that's why I wanted to speak about it [Truth] today.
1981-1014 Public Program, Day 3, John Muir Elementary School, 1721 Ocean Park Boulevard, Santa Monica (23 kms W of Los Angeles), CA, U.S.A.

1 Translations
I am composing the Ātmabodha, or Self-knowledge, to serve the needs of those who have been purified through the practices of austerities, and who are peaceful in heart, free from cravings, and desirous of Liberation

2 Translations
Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness.

68 Translations

Jay Śhrī Mātājī!