Transliteration of excerpts from Pariciti

The following is a transliteration by Sri Ramen Basu of excerpts from Pariciti (pages 61 & 62).

 

The identity of Consciousness Itself Paramatma and I-Reality has been clearly expressed in the revealed song ‘Ahamdeva er Parikrama’ – (Song no. 2, Ami Tattva Swanubhavasudha vol. 1) depicting ‘I’ at different states appearing in different forms; sometimes Revered He is I of Being, sometimes I of Prakriti, again sometimes I is present as many individual I’s in diversified form. One indivisible Absolute – I is present in all I’s in all conditions and in all states. This Absolute-I is called Paramatma, Para Brahman, Parameshwara, Purushottama Bhagavan or Saccidanandamoyee Maa.

 

Sri Sri Babathakur says: ‘Do abide by this Maa instead of trying to know. If you want to understand God, learn to stand under Him first. That means first learn to serve Him, love Him, dwell in Him, and finally be One with Him.’ He further said: ‘If you talk of Maa but there’s cinema within you, then Maa is not attained. If Maa’s within you, and you talk of cinema, Maa is attained, but not Absolutely. The best of all is when Maa dwells both within your internal and external worlds. Then you can attain Maa absolutely. This results in remaining One with Maa in eternal identical union.  Verily this is Eternal Yoga (Nitya Yoga) Itself.  Saccidananda expresses spontaneously incessantly only in Eternal Yoga.  

 

By knowing you cannot accept; but by accepting you can know. ‘Accepting’ means to abide by the Absolute, and not accept the part; and by knowing is meant to know the part, not the Absolute; since Absolute is not known. To accept the part while not accepting the Absolute, acceptance is not perfected. When you accept the Absolute, knowing becomes all-perfect; but simply knowing the part, doesn’t make the Absolute known. The greater than the greatest Brahman cannot be known by being tinier than the tiniest. Only accept Him. Absolute self-surrender is a must. By merging in oneness with Him in and through acceptance, there remains no question of knowing or not knowing. The individual or the part deals with knowing and not knowing; but the nature of the universal is to accept and to know or to know and to accept.  The nature of the Absolute is neither knowing nor unknowing, it is only about accept Him.’

 

What is Absolute surrender and how to surrender? 

Sri Sri Babathakur says: ‘Do accept absolutely. Self-surrender is to accept the entirety in even Consciousness, or in one’s Own Consciousness or in One Consciousness.’ Unprecedented outlook. More lucidly Revered He clarifies: ‘By all surrender is meant all acceptance.’ Apparently in spite of being contradictory, it is fundamentally one and the same. Without any predilections, mental liking and disliking, and shunning all preference and reservation whatever comes in front of your senses verily do accept that in the Consciousness of Maa, or in the Consciousness of Guru or in the Consciousness of Ishwara, or in the Consciousness of Brahman-Atman and always do adapt, adjust, accommodate and total embrace everything by that Consciousness (mene maiye chola).  Verily this is one’s Own Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, even Consciousness or the Science of the right use of Eternal Yoga. This results in becoming the innate nature perfected in the influence of Consciousness of Maa or Ishwara.  Then the influence of no other Awareness/ Consciousness remains. Hence very easily all-renunciation or all-surrender is accomplished spontaneously.’

 

Submitted at the lotus feet of Sri Sri Babathakur