The following is a
transliteration of excerpts from pages 115-116 of Brahma-Atma Vidya Vol 2 by
Shri Ramen Basu
Spiritual
practices for the realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Absolute
(Purushottama):
1)
The Pure I
— the Supreme Personality of Godhead Absolute Itself (Supreme Person) is in all
respects eternally perfect, ever present and ever revealing in the bosom of the
Supreme Self, i.e. in the bosom of Brahman, the Self-God, the Real I.
2)
All kinds
of manifestation of the I of I-Reality is verily cent-per-cent I. This I has no
exception. One undivided Absolute I has become all, is in all, all verily exist
in I, verily all are I and I Itself is all. I is all-perfect in the bosom of I,
for I and by I. This Real I of the Absolute Consciousness is the I of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead Absolute (Supreme Person, Purushottama), the
Greatest I. It verily is all-perfect and inseparable.
3)
I is
Saccidananda Itself, the Supreme Person (Purushottama). All are fulfilled by Me.
All are born of Me, all are established in Me, again all are getting dissolved
in Me. This I Itself is Saccidananda Brahman Atman, One without a second Self.
4)
No one is
inferior to Me, no one is equal to Me and no one is superior to Me. This is the
identity of the eternally non-dual Self-God, the Real I, the Absolute Self— the
Supreme Personality of Godhead Absolute (Supreme Person, Purushottama).
5)
Get
your-self in the Consciousness of the Supreme Person. Merge in the ocean
instead of being in a pit or ditch or a drain. Come in the ocean of
Saccidananda because that verily is your identity. There is no return from
there.
6)
The
experience of the Supreme Person is filled with Graceful Love. The spiritual
practice for the realization of Graceful Love is based on the Supreme Person
i.e., it is executed based on the all-pervading, all-preserving, partless and
Pure Conscious Existence.
7)
What is
unity and identity with the Supreme Person? The practice which has perfectly
synthesized all modifications of the inner sense organ. All modifications mean
all ideas, emotions, feelings, sentiments, none are exempt. The Supreme Person
will reveal when all modifications are immersed in the Consciousness. That
means— ‘I Is’, not ‘I am’.
8)
At the
root of all kinds of manifestation is that Absolute Conscious I Itself, or the
Supreme Person, Purushottama. The central word of Sri Gita is Purushottama, the
Supreme Person— the last word of chapter 15— with all ideas and emotions,
worship this Purushottama, i.e. all possible ideas are nothing but evolving
expressions of the Eternal I Absolute. Very rare is that Realizer who has
realized His I as the I of all. ‘Ekoham Sarvamiti Sa Mahatma Sudurlabha’.
‘Ekoham’— Absolute I alone is Reality. This is the highest realization.
9)
Under all
circumstances, to accept, adjust and accommodate everything within and without
in the Self-Consciousness is ‘Mene Maniye Chola’. This verily is the worship of
the Purushottama (Supreme Person) in perfect synthesis of the modifications of
the inner organ. The worship of the Supreme Person is the ecstasy of Love of
non-duality. This verily is known as Jnan-Vijnan Yoga i.e., identification with
the united principle of Supreme Knowledge (manifested) and Supreme Wisdom
(unmanifested). The perfection of this Yoga is fourfold— 1) I am all, 2) Self
of all I am, 3) Without all I is and 4) Beyond all I is.
10)
By
‘Sarvoham’ is meant ‘all I am’. ‘Sarvatmakoham’ means ‘I am in all’.
‘Sarvashunyoham’ means ‘attributeless Iis’. ‘Sarvatitoham’ means‘beyond
attributeful and attributeless I is’ or ‘equanimous state of attributeless and
attributeful— Nirgunaguni’.
11)
‘I am all’
is indicative of Virat in the form of the universe, the outer Purusha (outer
Being). ‘I am in all’ is indicative of inner Purusha Hiranyagarbha (inner
Being). First two are the attributeful idea of I.The third step— ‘I without
all’is the idea of attributeless. That verily is the Central Being, in other
words Hridaya Purusha (Being in the Heart of all). The fourth I, the ‘I beyond
all’ is the ‘Transcendental I’. That is the attributeless- attributeful or the
perfect identity of the inner Purusha and outer Purusha, the Purushottama.
Beyond the Transcendental state is the trans-Transcendental state of Purushottama.
That is supremely hidden and is full of mystery. Hence, this topic is
ineffable.
Submitted at the lotus feet of Sri Sri
Babathakur
