This is the sixth in a set of six talks on 'Sadhana Chatushtaya', based on Vivekachoodamani, during the Sadhana Shibiram Jamshedpur held on 13 October 2023.

In the concluding talk of this series, Swamiji says that a seeker must develop a sky-like, expansive, and elevated dimension. He must avoid repenting about past actions, and avoid imagining the future. Not being self-centered, he must be loving, flexible, and not take everything too seriously. In spirituality, the unfoldment and blossoming will happen in a natural manner, if the seeker is sincere.

Vivekachudamani (verses 254—263) describes the indescribable Consciousness and gives direct instructions to the seeker about what his mindset should be. All the ten verses end with the instruction from the teacher to the disciple ‘…ब्रह्म तत्त्वमसि भावयात्मनि’—Develop the Bhava that ‘You are Brahman’.

How can the Consciousness be contemplated upon? The Supreme Consciousness is beyond caste, creed, family, and lineage; it is free of name and form; it transcends space, time, all objects. It cannot be grasped by any words, senses, or the mind but it can be grasped by a purified intelligence. It is beginningless, pure and it is beyond the duality of subject and object. It is not connected to any of the six kinds of waves—old age, death, hunger, thirst, misery, or delusion.

It is the substratum of the entire creation, but it has no other support; it is its own support. It is different from both Sat and Asat, it is beyond all duality and it is incomparable. The Ultimate reality is transcendental, it is beyond one. It is the cause of all the perceived variety but it refutes all other causes. It transcends the cause-and-effect chain.

There is nothing other than the Consciousness, it alone shines as everything. It is the most Supreme. It is the inmost self of all, it is free of all duality and it can be known only as one’s own Atma. It is the real, eternal, unchanging substratum of all. If all these shlokas are contemplated upon in the mind, one will definitely, doubtlessly, realize the Truth, says Vivekachudamani.

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