Disciple Enlightened

Sri Tandavaraya Swami

Master: 

Is it not because that the nature of sugar is to be sweet that makes the sweets sweet? Realize yourself as the meaning of 'I' which makes objects known as 'this' and 'that' and Itself lies beyond them. The Self, as described above, is the primary meaning of 'thou' (in the mahavakya That Thou Art). Brahman which is never bounded by limitations is the primary meaning of 'that'. Their secondary meanings are the transient jiva and Ishwara respectively. Two separate entities can never be identical. The distinctions between Ishwara and the jiva are due to their names, localities, artifical limitations, bodies and capacities. They are as far apart as the upper and the nether regions. Their identity is unthinkable with these associations.

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The ether reflected in water in a pot, and in the clouds, are both circumstantial and therefore unreal, whereas the space in the pot and the wide expanse are together one and the same. Similarly, all-pervading Brahman and the Witness in the individual being are together one and the same. You must experience it so that you may remain fixed in the realization 'I am the Reality'.

On hearing this, the disciple, loyal to the instructions of the Master, discarded the five sheaths and the blank, realized the Self as 'I am Brahman', went beyond that and remained as Perfect Being. At the glance of the Master who was Grace incarnate, the worthy disciple sank into the Ocean of Bliss and merged as the undivided Whole, as pure Consciousness free from body, organs and all else, with mind made perfect and he became the true Self, unaware while awake.