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Sikhidhwaja and cUDAla – testing jIvanmukti, conclusion

Continued from https://yogavaasistha.wordpress.com/2021/07/03/sikhidhwaja-and-cudala-sikhidhwajas-awakening/ – Sikhidhwaja engrossed in samAdhi became like a statue. On the other hand, cUDAla reached here kingdom and attended to the activities of administration for three days. She came back to take a stock of the situation … Continue reading

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Sikhidhwaja and cUDAla – Sikhidhwaja’s awakening

Continued from: https://yogavaasistha.wordpress.com/2021/06/29/sikhidhwaja-and-cudala-sikhidhwajas-sanga-parityaga/ At the end of last post we reached the end of sarga 93 of nirvAna pUrvArtha. This post aims to cover Sarga 94 till 101 dealing with the cUDAal’s teaching of self inquiry to Sikhidhwaja for completely … Continue reading

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Sikhidhwaja and cUDAla – Sikhidhwaja’s sanga parityAga

Continued from: https://yogavaasistha.wordpress.com/2021/06/26/sikhidhwaja-and-cudala-sikhidhwajas-sishya-sweekara/ Having accepted as a disciple by kumbha, Sikhidhwaja replied to his question: dEva putrA! I gave up the kingdom. I gave up my wife. I gave up the palace and its comforts. I am here with no … Continue reading

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Sikhidhwaja and cUDAla – Sikhidhwaja’s Sishya sweekara

Continued from https://yogavaasistha.wordpress.com/2021/06/21/sikhidhwaja-and-cudala-cudala-origin-as-kumbha/ Next day the assembly formed and the discussion resumed; bhagavAn vaSishTha continued the narration further. Sikhidhwaja said: Oh deva rishi putra! It is a great accomplishment of me to have met you. I consider all my past … Continue reading

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Sikhidhwaja and cUDAla – cUDAla origin as kumbha

Continued from https://yogavaasistha.wordpress.com/2021/06/15/sikhidhwaja-and-cudala-dispassion-of-sikhidhwaja/ bhagavAn vaSishTha continued his narration to lord rAma further as follows: The discussion between Sikihdhwaja and the boy sage:- Sikhidwaja: having given arghya and pAdya as per the injunctions of sastras to the boy who has arrived … Continue reading

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Sikhidhwaja and cUDAla – dispassion of Sikhidhwaja

Continued from: https://yogavaasistha.wordpress.com/2021/05/26/sikhidhwaja-and-cudala-cudalas-yoga-siddhi/ bhagavAn vaSishTha continued: O rAmA! in case of Sikhidhwaja, cUDAla’s teaching acted like the shell in the above narration. But the student has not yet started searching. But the teaching has not gone in vain. Sikhidhwaja comprehended … Continue reading

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Sikhidhwaja and cUDAla – cUDAla’s yOga siddhi

Continuing from https://yogavaasistha.wordpress.com/2021/04/24/sikhidhwaja-and-cudala-cudalas-atma-siddhi/ bhagavAn vaSishTha continued: cUDAla continued her yOga sAdhana as sikhidhwaja went on the military campaign. She selected a peaceful place for her practice; she sat in the fixed Asana, controlled breath, concentrated the life-force to the middle … Continue reading

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Equivalence of individual beings across dream and waking

After nearly a year of https://yogavaasistha.wordpress.com/2020/03/06/satarudriya-akhyana-narration-of-100-rudras/ just after mahA SivarAtri the cycle brings us back to the great festival again. Let’s continue the discussion: Lord rAma asked: guru dEvA! you have started the narration of jIvaTa and each of the … Continue reading

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SatarudrIya AkhyAna – Narration of 100 rudras

As the assembly on day 17 commenced, the discussion between lord rAma and bhagavan vaSishTha gone in these lines: Till now all the teaching brought us to the ajAti vAda i.e., the thesis of non-creation. The world view is but … Continue reading

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Discussion at the end of 16th Day teaching

bhagavAn vaSishTha continued: Oh! rAmA! the “cit-Atma” can be formulated in two ways: giving importance to the triad of a. chittam, b. its function and 3. the objective reflection of the function. transcendental understanding (samvid) rUpa. The vision required for … Continue reading

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