"Atma Bodha - Day 08 / 08" Talk in English by Swami Aparajitananda, Chinmaya Mission Mangaluru.

Hari Om! For offering Gurudakshina click http://chinmayamissionmangaluru.com/c... This talk by Swāmī Aparājitānanda jī begins with a soulful rendering of Ātmashatakam of Bhagavān Ādi Shankarāchārya jī and ends with an expression of gratitude for the beautiful verses of deep import about our true nature. Some of the gems from this treasure trove: • Benefit of this meditation is that the person derives properties of Consciousness. • Technique to meditate on Brahman (Sat - Chit- Ānanda) is to think of Brahman as the Source of existence, knowing and bliss and the world as a projection on Consciousness and to experience that all our dealings are with Consciousness. • Manner of meditating upon Consciousness as "Light of lights" and explanation of the spiritual definition of light. • Highest philosophy of Vedānta discussed in its two stages. • To know ourselves as the Substratum of this world is the only way to end the birth-death cycle. • The choice is "to be wise or otherwise". • Process of getting Self Knowledge by dispelling ignorance, doubts and desires and by kindling Brahma vāsanā. • Mahātmās become Holy Tīrtha. • Access to Ātma-Tīrtha is a bath for mind and benefit of taking refuge in It is Eternal Bliss. Regular dips in the waters of this Ātma-Tīrtha are essential to charge ourselves just as we charge our phones. The most important knowledge to be gained in this human birth with all its unthought of revelations is simplified most wonderfully by Swāmījī. (Ātmabodha - verses 59 to 68)