Meditations on Transcendence

  Adhyātma Sukhānubhūte — The Inner Relish Beyond Samsāra Adhyātma sukhanubhūte is important — the inner spiritual bliss relish, the sweetness that springs from direct contact with the Divine within. When this inner flow awakens, samsāra vajra-hatim ajānan — one becomes unaware of the blows of life’s thunderbolt. The strikes are there, yet they do not register, for the heart is absorbed in a higher vibration. This is not escape, nor indifference, but saturation. The inner touch with divinity is so strong, so living, that worldly pain fails to pierce through. Just as one immersed in a beautiful melody forgets the noise outside, the one who hears the inner nāda — the sound of the Lord — forgets the sting of samsāra. Through śravaṇa (listening to divine names), kīrtana (chanting with heart), and smaraṇa (remembrance), the inner field becomes luminous. When the tongue vibrates with Kṛṣṇa-nāma , when the ear drinks the words of Bhāgavata, when the mind remembers the touch of sva...

 Make the vrata configuration involving food, sleep, and regulation of roopa form, rasa taste, gandha smell, sparsha touch and sabda sound. These sense objects need to be regulated of contact and bodily discomfort tolerated by simultaneous engagement in contact with higher spiritual energy. Spiritual energy of satchitananda is emanated by spiritual personality manifestations. By higher contact a austere life can be led and offered for the pleasure of the universe sustaining infinite soul 'Viswatma'. Spiritual experiments behooves one to test and experiment life without ones favorite sensual attachments. Austerity is made possible by contact with divine sound. one has to chant in such a way that the treasure casket of divine sound opens up pouring molten satchitanand into ones heart to create swarupa. They make those sugar forms to gift and distribute during sankranti. The molten sugar is poured into wooden holders of varied divine symbols like tulasi mandap to get those nice fo...