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KAPILAS TEACHINGS II

"I will now tell the secret about the Purusha and about how he has pervaded the universe.  This Yoga is again Atma Vidya mastering which you will reach salvation.  All one's doubts will vanish on their own accord once this Yoga is understood.  The Atman in you is the PURUSHA.  He has no beginning and no end.  He is self=luminent and there is nothing which is not the Purusha.  He pervades everything.  He is eternal."

"Prakriti, however. is the cause of the conditioning of the Atman. Purusha is eternal, as I said before, and he is that which pervades the world of plurality.  He is beyond the three Gunas.  How then can one reconcile the two aspects of Purusha?  One is Pure and the other is world of Plurality.  How did the Purusha who is beyond the reach of the Gunas and beyond Prakriti: how did he become involved in this apparant process of births and deaths?  It is not a puzzle to the Wise."

"Prakriti is made up of two powerful ingredients;  Avarna Shakti and Vikshepa Shakti.  When the three Gunas are so well balanced that there is perfect equilibrium, then we have what is called the Nirguna State: Guna-less-ness.  Time is again another form of the Purusha.  When Time moves on,  the Gunas are suddenly found to have lost their equilibrium.  it gets upset and one of the three Gunas, the Rajas, manifests itself. After that, the other two."



"When the Gunas thus come into action the AVARANA and VIKSHAPA also come into their own.  Purusha now assumes two forms:  JIVA and ISHVARA.  JIVA is that aspect of the Purusha which becomes involved in the play of the Gunas.  Avarana makes the Jivatma forget himself: forget his True nature and this state of the Purusha is called AVIDYA:  not knowing:  ignorance of the truth about himself.  Along with Avidya, Vikshepa also comes into force.  Vikshepa causes the agitation:  it is considered to be MAYA,  the illusion which makes one think that the UNREAL is the REAL.   These two, Avarana and Vikshepa together cause Avidya and Maya.  When the Jivatma gets involved in this, it forgets its true nature.  It identifies itself with the World of Plurality and gets involved more and more deeply.  The other aspect of the Purusha which goes by the name Ishvara is the one who does not get deluded by the two poowerful forces of Prakriti."

"For one to be free of this Maya, and reach the state where the forces of Prakriti do not capture the Jiva, one path is enough, Bhakti Yoga.  Mother, think on the Lord all the time.  Bhakti will on its own accord grant you Gnana and Vairagya.   You do not have to seek them.  Love for Lord Narayana will make you indifferent to other loves and so non-attachment is acheived.  Bhakti will show you the way to the feet of Narayana.   when a Bhakta realizes that the only aim in his life is to reach Narayana and strives for it that means that he has learnt the Truth and his Avidya has vanished.  He knows that Narayana is the only Truth and nothing else."

"It is the Brahman or the Purusha or the Ishvara or the Bhagavan according to the different Yogas which seek Him:  it is this which is revealed in all manifestations in the world of plurality.  The one who realizes this is the Brahman himself.  Realizing the Brahman is not a Knowing but a Becoming.  You will KNOW that you are the Brahman.  The Jiva will know that he is the Isvara, the Purusha.  The Gnyana Yoga taught by me and the Bhakti Yoga on which I elaborated earlier, are in reality, the same.  One is not different from the other."

"Mother, I have taught you the different pathways of approach.  You can rest assured that anyone of the paths when followed earnestly, will help attain salvation."