Celebrating the birth of Brahm: Maharishi speaks on Brahma Vidya

Celebrating the birth of Brahm: Maharishi speaks on Brahma Vidya

5 July 2007

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Founder of the Global Country of World Peace, speaks on Gyan Shakti, Kriya Shakti, and Brahm Vidya, the knowledge of Brahm, Totality. Maharishi goes deeply into the nature of unity and diversity, and silence and dynamism.

Maharishi:

'The Communication Minister, [Dr Peter Swan], of Raja Raam's court has asked me to unfold the reality of Brahm. It's a beautiful time for the world that in the context of a birthday [of Raja Peter Warbuton, Raja of England], the birth of Brahm is sought for. The birth of Brahm is that delicate level of existence and intelligence where the birth of silence is from activity and where the birth of activity is from silence.

Gyan Shakti and Kriya Shakti, the two values of Brahm

'These are the two values and integration of the two is that totality, that Unified Field which is Brahm. Brahm is the most delicate assembly of the two opposite values. The two opposite values are silence and activity. Silence is Gyan shakti; activity, Kriya Shakti. So where the Gyan emerges from Kriya shakti, and where Kriya shakti emerges from Gyan shakti, they remain separate, and they remain together.

'I feel fulfilled today that all the Rajas have commented on this level of reality in terms of simplicity and totality: simplicity in the nature of dear Raja Peter, the simplicity. What is that simplicity? That simplicity is simple with its opponent. What is the opponent of simplicity? Complexity. Complexity giving rise to simplicity in a natural way, [and in] a simple way, [simplicity] giving rise to complexity. The unification, the summation of unity and diversity—that is Brahm.

The simplicity and unity of silence and dynamism
'I admire the Minister of Communication that, celebrating Raja Consciousness today, he openly asked for some expressions that will explore the reality of a very tender, very simple, very natural, relationship between two aspects of the nature of Brahm. Brahm is made of two opposite values, silence and dynamism, completely unified. There is no difference I would say between the silent aspect of the nature of Brahm, and the dynamism nature of Brahm. The union is so perfect in its complete naturalness, that it is never anything other than the combination of the two, the coordination of the two.

Rajah Rajate

'That is the Unified Field. And Raja Peter has expressed that thing, and is going to express more and more of the delicate union between the two values, silence and dynamism. This is such a field that qualifies or defines Raja Consciousness. Rajah Rajate. Rajate means Raja is, what? Self-referral. What is self-referral in the Raja? Knowledge is self-referral. Action is self-referral. That means science is self-referral, technology is self-referral.

'The science and the technology are so much together that the scientist of the science, the technologist of technology, they are eternally inseparable from each other. The scientist, the science of knowledge, and the technology of knowledge—the science of knowledge is made of the technology of knowledge, and the technology of knowledge is made of the science of knowledge. Knowledge and technology both meet in the scientist, and the scientist says Aham Brahmasmi, ''I am Brahm. I am Brahm.''

''Brahm, my universal status, is not isolation''

'In that it appears he has isolated himself from everything, that he is Brahm. Then he says, ''No, no, no. It's not isolation. It's universalization of my status.'' So when ''I am Brahm,'' when Aham Brahmasmi, then not only Aham, ''Thou art also That.'' Tat tvam asi. Aham Brahmasmi. Tat tvam asi. ''I am Brahm, Thou art also That.'' Not only I and you: that means, not only the single, not only the double, not only ''I am Brahm,'' not only ''Thou art That'', Aham Brahmasmi, Tat tvam asi, but also Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma, ''All this is Brahm.''

'What is all this? All this: Idam, 'I'. 'I' is the action principle, the Devata principle: the cause of action. You are not only silence, but I am also; and you are also that which is the cause of action.

''I am That and Thou art That,'' the fabrics of Brahm, Brahmavidya

'So I am made of knowledge, you are made of knowledge, and both of us and all this is made of knowledge. That means, it is the knowledge that divides me with you and all this. And it is the knowledge that maintains uniformity of the three. So if one is real, if I am That, then Thou art also That. If one is real, two are also real, and if one is self-referral, two is also self-referral. So the self-referral value is common; that is the third value, which is also real.

'This is how the chain reaction of multiple, or we can say, multiple-ization has started. Unity is real, duality is real, trinity is real, and in between unity and duality, the connecting link is another fourth value. So when one is real, and two is real, and three is real, four is real, like that, the chain of realities on the simple totality of unity.

'These are the fabrics of Brahm. This is the Brahmavidya. This is the Brahmavidya. And this is developing in the expression of the exposition of Total Knowledge through these graphs and charts by Dr Peter Warburton.

'And what is further going to come out of him is Brahm, which has been asked for today by the Communication Minister. The Communication Minister has raised the point of exposing that knowledge itself is not only singularity, but duality also, but trinity also. It's unification four times, it's the Samhita also—the whole multiple expression of unity in terms of the spread of language, and the spread of number system.

The rigidity of the number system and the flow of language

'There is a beautiful insight into this. What is the number system? Number system is rigid. One is rigidly one, two is rigidly two, three is rigidly three. But in this rigidity of one, what is there? Simplicity of unity, of infinity. Simplicity of unity, that is Brahm. When we think on it what we find is that in 'A', in the first syllable of the Veda, is the whole multiple flow of the Veda, and the multiple flow of the Veda is in two streams, the number system, one, two, three, and infinity; and in language, the language flows.

'Number system doesn't flow, it is rigid. So from the point of rigidity, [it is] the same value, the same Brahm; from the point of view of non-rigidity, that means multiplicity. Multiple and single, multiple and single, knowledge and action. One and many. Totality and points of totality, infinity. Unity and infinity, unity and infinity. And then unity and diversity, both opposites are so simply in togetherness; when unity and multiplicity are so much in togetherness, that one reality is both together and, both together, opposite values, what do they do? They begin to exist in the neutralized state of both.

The meeting point of knowledge and action: Yoga Sutra and Brahma Sutra

'One is neutralized by the other, because silence and dynamism, knowledge and action, and the meeting point of knowledge and action: if there could be a meeting point of the opposites, then that meeting point of the opposites is the totality. That meeting point, and this meeting point has been so brilliantly, so completely exposed to the intellect, exposed to experience.

'Just in that one word of Yoga Sutra [one aspect of Vedic Literature], one word of that Brahma Sutra [Vedic Literature]. One word of Yoga Sutra is: Svarupe avasthanam, Self-referral. One word of Brahma Sutra is Tat tu samanvayat. Brahm is from summation, unification—such natural unification that it can never be multiplication, because, naturally, by nature, they are one.

'When they are one by nature, that is the nature of Brahm, wholeness; that Atma is Brahm. This is the definition, this is the disclosure or vision of what Atma is. At-ma. From 'A', 'Ma'. The 'A', Purnam adah. The 'A' is Purna, full, full. In one syllable, 'A', full, full in one syllable, 'A'.

' 'A' is Ananta Akhanda Avinash; infinity, unboundedness, is made of points of infinity, points of unboundedness. Points of infinity [are] made of points of unboundedness, and point and point when they meet, then there is that action principle, then there is the state of Being and becoming. One is the other, from the state of Being is the state of becoming. Being and becoming, both together qualify, describe, or present Brahm.

Brahmavidya

'This is Brahmavidya. Brahmavidya. So delicate that it is this, that, and everything together. This, that, and everything together, and in the most natural way, in the most simple way, by nature they are unified, and by nature, even when they are unified, they are diversified. They hold on to their nature, and they partake of the other nature. That's why the word Brahm. 'Bra;' 'Bra' is made of two syllables, 'Ba' and 'Ra', 'Brahm'. That is a specialty of the Vedic language. It is able to convey in words that are truly applicable to its nature.

The nature of Brahm

'What is the nature of Brahm? A combination of two values: one is completely opposed to the other. One is unity, one is point of unity: and the relationship of point and wholeness, the relationship of infinity and point is Total Knowledge. This is the value of Smriti. Smriti, memory—memory of infinity along with the memory of the finite point value, infinity and point value. Smriti, this is the field of memory.

The number system and the flow of language

'So the whole thing: ''Whole thing'' means both these—the flow of number systems, and the flow of the alphabets, the flow of language. The language of the number system; the flow of this and the flow of this, all that is completely, most naturally, two aspects of the same thing, two aspects of Being: one steady, silence, and that silence is dynamism—dynamism on the basis of Smriti, memory—memory of the unified state, memory of the diversified state, and the memory of how unity diversifies.

Knower, knowing, and known

'So there are three values, knower, knowing, and known: the process of knowing, the object of knowing, and the subject of knowing. It's all the subject, the object, and the behaviour between then. [The] whole rigmarole of infinity is in the nature of grand Unity, and both together, Brahm; and both together being opposite to each other, Brahm is invisible, unmanifest. [It is] invisible, unmanifest, and permeating everything, giving life to everything, giving substance to everything—unity and diversity and their relationship.

The subject, the object, and their relationship: the values of one holistic value called Brahm
'There are three values: the subject, the object, and subject-object relationship. These are all the values of one holistic value called Brahm, and the grand expression from the Vedic field that we have [is] Ayam Atma Brahm. This Atma is Brahm. What is this Atma? 'A' and 'Ma'. 'A' infinity, 'Ma' its point, so 'A', infinity remembers the point, [and] point remembers 'A,' infinity, so this Smriti is the reality. Smriti is the reality.

'When Smriti is the reality, it has two values of its reality: the base of it, which is ancient, ocean, and the sound of it, which is Shruti, [that] which is heard, which is the Veda. So the whole Vedic field—one Rk Veda and three others—Sama, Yajur, Atharva Veda; and Vedangas, Upangas, Upavedas, Ayur-Veda and Sthapatya Veda—all these different Veda values, each Veda value is a value in the number system, in the language.

'And where the number system separates itself from the language and where the number system meets with the language, because both of them are the same, and have the same origin, so there is a simplified unity of diversified values. That's it, that is Brahm.

Innumerable values and commentaries of the Veda

'That is Brahm. This presents to us innumerable values, and now, this time I would say, this presents to us innumerable commentaries of 'A', the first syllable of Veda. Innumerable commentaries of the Veda, and, in order to see it as such, [there are] innumerable values of the Veda. The expression of Veda is in terms of the word and the gap, and the word and the gap, and the word and the gap.

Shabda and Sandhi, word and gap

'Shabda, [word], Sandhi [gap]; Shabda, Sandhi; Shabda Sandhi; Shabda, Sandhi, that's how the Vedas are. [There is] one word, and there is a gap, and there is another Veda [word] and there is a gap. There is Veda [word] and the gap. So the gap is the transformation of the previous into the following; the gap is transformation of the previous into the following. So in the Vedic expression there is not only the cooked rice, but how the rice is cooked from hardness to softness. That is the process of transformation, and not only the transformed value of the Veda, but how one is transformed; and how one is transformed is under the caption of Brahma Sutra [the Vedic Literature pertaining to Brahm].

The thread, Sutra, of Brahm

This is the thread [Sutra] of Brahm, which connects one with the other. The thread of Brahm is nothing other than the Brahm itself, and this is because, ''I am Brahm'', Aham Brahmasmi, Tat Tvam Asi, Sarvam Khalvidam Brahm, ''I am Brahm, That Thou art, [and] everything is all this''—all this absolute Unity expressed in so many different ways, but expressing the Totality....

Different commentaries on 'A' and Veda

'What are these? Now listen carefully: these are different commentaries on 'A'. That means these are different commentaries on Veda: the two parallel lines of commentaries, one through number system, and one through language. In the language there are two values—one value 'A,' a huge thing—and the expressions and the connecting link between the two expressions; that means the Sutras, the Brahma Sutras, Brahma Sutras.

'In the number system, there is also a connection. And the connection, when it's a connection, it's a move. The connection between one and two is a move from one to two, so there also is the same value that connects. 'There' means in the field of language, the expanded value of language, and the expanded value of number system, [and] in between, there is transformation, transformation, transformation.

Transformation

'And what is the transformation? Transformation is in the unification of the two. It's a transformation. Transformation means ''one coming out of the other'', but ''coming out of the other'' is a clear vision of what the togetherness of the two is. What is togetherness of the two? In the value of Brahm, very clearly both things are necessary—to know it through the intellect, through the number system, and to know it through the intellect through the system of language, language.

Shabda Brahm and Akshara

'This is all the Brahma Sutras; and then we find two words again defining the same thing, and the two words are Shabda Brahm. Shabda means ''a combination of letters.'' Shabda, a combination of letters, is also Brahm, and a combination of Aksharas, syllables—the word is made of syllables, the word is make of syllables.

'So whether it is in the combined state—a word—or in separate values of the syllables, in the syllables come either the number system or the language, both. So the interpretation of that; this is scanning the fabrics of knowledge, scanning the fabrics of knowing, and scanning the fabrics of known. This is knowledge of Brahm. And it is intellectually available through analyzing the words.

'We find wise people throughout the ages have commented upon the first syllable 'A'. Commentary on the first syllable 'A' is the total commentary of Brahm. When from unity, infinite diversity of the points come out, both things run parallel—the number system of calculation, and the syllable system, the words, the language.

'A' is a part of every language

'Throughout the world we have examined some time in the past that there are 7,000 languages, and we only enquired about whether 'A' is there. So all those who are speaking any language, five, ten of them we enquired and found out that 'A' is a part of every language. 'A' is a part of every language, and 'A' is the first syllable of the Veda. And 'A', the first syllable of the Veda, is the flow of Atma. So Atma, the Self, becomes the centralized field of knowledge, a concentrated field of knowledge. 'A', a concentrated field of knowledge 'AA'. So the whole Veda is a commentary of 'A'.

'All the Vedas, Vedangas, and all the different aspects of the Veda are different aspects of the commentary of the Veda. This is science of life, which considers all possible angles of enquiry: all possible angles of the unification process and diversification process, so there is no end to the commentary of the Veda. That is why, when the expression is made, Veda Aham, ''I am the Veda,'' then the expression is made, ''Thou art the Veda'', and the expression is made, ''All this is Veda.''

Aham Veda

'The universe is a Veda. Vishva. Vishva is the word for the universe. So Aham Veda, Tvam Veda. The Vishva is Veda, Brahm is Veda. Veda Brahm. Veda Brahm. These are fine, fine values; fine, fine values. There, in the state of Brahm is the field of all possibilities. So realization of Brahm has been the fondest aspiration of the wise throughout the ages.

Realization of Brahm

'Why? ....Associating [our] conscious intelligence with Brahm is associating ourselves with the field of all possibilities. All possibilities. Where? In the field of total knowledge, Brahm [Totality]. That is a more delicate level of knowledge and a most delicate level of action.

'Gyan Shakti, Kriya Shakti

Gyan Shakti, the field of knowledge, and the field of action means the application of knowledge. Application of knowledge, application of self-referral knowledge through object-referral application of it in the field of multiplicity from the field of unity, from the field of 'I'. You are created, all this is created, Sarvam Khalvidam Brahm, Aham Brahmasmi: these are all the Mahavakyas, the great expressions of Brahma vidya, the field of knowledge of Brahm.

Now Maharishi asks:

'Why is Brahm a goal of all the pursuits of knowledge? Because it has the ability to command total life—Totality. At the same time, it is commanding diversity. So the ability to command both diversity and unity is the ability to hold on to the process of diversification without losing hold on [unity]. Diversity, unity, diversity, unity.

Aspiring to cultivate Brahm, Totality, by being it

'So one aspires to get this level of intelligence cultivated. One aspires, one understands the whole thing intellectually: one understands oneself intellectually, and one experiences it by being it; by being it one experiences it. One is completely identified with it. Identification with the field, with the quality and essential nature of Brahm has been the fondest—fondest underlined—the fondest aspiration of the wise throughout the ages, because it's a field of all possibilities.

'Our Rajas have had some small period of training into this, and once they sit on the boat, the boat is going to take them across the ocean. This is the value of our devotion to Guru Dev*. Gururbrahma, Gururvishnur, Gururdevo Mahesvarah, Guruh Sakshat Param Brahma Tasmai Sri Gurave Namah. Guruh saksat param Brahma: Guruh in the status of the embodiment of total knowledge of Brahm.

Peace stirred—Stirring the ocean of knowledge

'This is the stirring of the ocean of knowledge on the level of celebration of the birth of the Raja Pe-ter—peace stirred. Peace stirred means ''Peace made invincible''; that peace is not disturbed through stirring, through action, through practice. The perfection of a Raja is in practising unshakeability in the midst of that reality which is one and infinity at the same time: Richo Akshare, Akshare, Akshare. Richo Akshare. The whole Veda becomes a living reality; all the commentaries of the Veda becoming a practically lived reality and that is the consciousness of the Raja—Raja Consciousness.

The exposure of Brahma vidya in the context of Janma, birth—the birth of a Raja

'Consciousness-Based Education is for that. That is one single point. Infinity is seen lively. [This is the] beautiful exposure of Brahmavidya—the total field of knowledge of Brahm in the context of Janma, in the context of birth: the birth of a Raja. The birth of a Raja is the birth of Brahman Consciousness [the highest level of human development]. So we have very beautifully celebrated, because celebrating the birth of a Raja is celebrating the dawn of Total knowledge. The dawn of Total Knowledge makes us blossom on the way of perfection.

Perfection is in our naturalness and simplicity

'Where is perfection? In our naturalness, [in our] simplicity of knowledge and action—[in] the science of knowledge and technology of knowledge—the ability to do anything, everything, on a level where everything in the universe [is] in a unified, [di]versified state both together. [It is] a beautiful occasion that we have celebrated our dear Raja Peter's birthday and the Communication Minister inspired the turn-key of the invaluable treasury of knowledge, invaluable treasury of knowledge....

The total vision of science and technology

'What Dr Hagelin has been proclaiming—the total vision of science and technology—is being celebrated as a living content of the life of Raja Consciousness. It's a beautiful reflection, a beautiful ownership of Raja Consciousness, and this is how very proudly we are able to celebrate a Raja's birthday. A Raja's birthday celebration is a celebration of Brahm, Total Knowledge in action. Total Knowledge in action is centred in 'A', the first syllable of the Veda, which is the flow of Atma, the flow of the Self.

Making the Atma a living reality

'Everything is there in the Atma. It has to be intellectually investigated, decided, and made a living reality. And this is living that one ordainment of the Vedic [knowledge]: Atma va are Drashtavyah Shrotavyah Mantavyah Nididhyasitavyah; Atma va are shrotavyah: ''Atma is worthy of hearing.'' You hear about Atma from the embodiment of Atma, the embodiment of Brahm, Guru Dev.

'Atma va are drashtavyah: ''You see it, you see it. You see the unseen, intellectually comprehend it.'' Atma va are drashtavyah shrotavyah mantavyah: we get down to this level of the senses, and the level of the mind, Mantavyah. Nididhyasitavyah, and the level of intellect where you can distinguish and decide; and the level of Being where you rise to Aham Vishvam, ''I am the Vishva, I am the universe.''

All this is from one syllable of Guru Dev, Pashya, ''See''

'[It is] such a beautiful flow of knowledge and all this is from what? From one syllable instruction of Guru Dev*. What is that one syllable instruction of Guru Dev? Pashya, Pashya, Pashya. Just that one syllable. Pashya means ''See, see, see.'' Pashya, Pashya, Pashya: that Brahm is not far; [it is] is not hidden from view. Pashya is unmanifest, but you see it, you see it.''

'Pashya me yogam aishvaram. This is what Lord Krishna said [in the Bhagavad-Gita], Pashya me yogam aishvaram: ''Behold my dignity of Brahm.'' Pashya me yogam aishvaram: ''See my Aishvaram, see my grandeur, see my magnanimity, see my reality.'' Pashya, Pashya, Pashya.

'Because it is omnipresent, omniscient, it is everywhere; it is self-referral, everywhere, and therefore you have only to see, only to see. Guru Dev says ''Pashya, Pashya, Pashya.'' He shows through intellectual commentaries on 'A,' one single thing: the innumerable values of the interpretation of 'A'. Every fibre of 'A', Totality, is Veda. There is the knowledge of it. ''Pashya, pashya, pashya.''

'So the tradition of Vedic Masters, through which they teach, is very simple: one syllable, one word, to disclose the totality of knowledge. ''Pashya, pashya, pashya, pashya.'' See, see, see. That is why Jnananjana shalakayah, that is why the glory of the Guru. He gives us the ointment for our eyes to begin to see. This is the eyes of Gyan. Gyan Shakti unfolds. Gyan Shakti, Kriya Shakti, the unity of the two is exposed in the simplicity of the contradictory values.

Two contradictory values brought together make it Brahm

'The two contradictory values brought together make it Brahm. Atma. 'A' and 'Ma'. 'A' infinity, 'Ma' is point. Two things brought together, that is Brahm, Brahm, Brahm. It's a beautiful thing that one could...swim through the waves, and get across the ocean.

'It's very beautiful. In the celebration of the Raja of Latin America [Raja Jose Luis] the other day, we went across the multiple geography of the pure knowledge, and today we went through the multiplicity of Total Knowledge. Both ways Total Knowledge—in space and in the activity of space: silence and activity, and surprisingly, both at the same time.

Our turn-key operation for Invincibility

'This is our platform, which is promising a turn-key operation for every single individual life on earth to be on the level of invincibility on the [individual] level and on the combined level; on the national level and on the universal level. It's such a beautiful thing that Maharaja Nader Raam is inspiring world consciousness to be awake in its reality, and this is the reality of unity of two divergent values, science and technology.

Gyan Shakti, Kriya Shakti

'Gyan Shakti, Kriya Shakti together—this is what makes the field of administration science of administration, where the administrator is not seen, but he causes administration to keep on going, keep going, keep going, eternally. It's a very good opportunity for us, for all the future. The voice of every generation will rejoice in celebrating birthdays like this.

Invincibility is dawning

'It's a very great thing, and invincibility is dawning. Invincibility is dawning, and the effect that is being produced in the world is the transformation of the destructive tendencies of major governments. Governments are tumbling down, tumbling down, very quietly, very naturally, very spontaneously; it is a national action, a national action. So all the transformation that is going to be witnessed by the wise of this generation, all that has started to be at the door.

'All our Rajas are really set on their reality of awareness, the reality of Brahm. And when we say Gururbrahma gururvishnur gururdevo mahesvarah, guruh saksat param Brahma, Guru is personified Brahm, therefore we identify ourselves with Guru Dev.

'It's a very beautiful celebration of dear Raja Peter. Raja Peter, live long to guide mankind and put all nations to the level of invincibility. All glory to Guru Dev. All Glory to Guru Dev, [who] is bringing Heaven on Earth. Minister of Communication, give us the joy of your Heaven descending on Earth [the song 'Heaven is descending']. And ring the Bell of Invincibility in the memory of Guru Dev—permanent peace on earth in the memory of Guru Dev; permanent peace on earth in the memory of the rise of Guru Dev in our awareness today. Jai Guru Dev.'


Transcribed by Global Staff writer

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