Reminiscence

                Maya (Illusion) => Shraddha (Faith) => Poorna (Completeness) =>Shama (Calmness)=> Shanthi (Peace)

Maya (Illusion) - Being caught in false identification (1)
  • Discrimination (of real and unreal) and Dispassion (with worldly affairs) will uproot Maya - the veiling power of Ego
  • Be indifferent to good or bad (for which there is no good or bad). Identifying something as good, bad and wanting of good is the problem. When you are indifferent, mind stops right there. There is only silence and peace
Shraddha (Faith) - Having complete faith in the higher Self (2)
  • Faith in the greater Self will result in Acceptance. Acceptance will result in Contentment, Compassion, forgiveness, Calmness, Silence & Peace
Poorna (Completeness) - Realizing you are the wholeness (3)
  • Search must come to an end - Hunger must satisfy without being quenched. Indulgence can never bring satisfaction.
  • Give up - Search, goals, hopes, longing. (even the longing for liberation)
Shama (Calmness) - Results in tranquility and calmness of mind (4)
  • Give up - Fear - A fearful mind can never be a spiritual mind (Mind which is clear, calm and peaceful). When you are not afraid, you are love itself.
  • Unite Breadth and Prana to stay in the state of Calmness. Ignore everything else (which hampers Calmness).
  • When the mind is free of thoughts (Good or bad), then you see beauty in everything, here, now and everywhere.
Shanthi (Peace) - Abide in the Self (5)
  • One who accepts any criticism, continues to be silent. No war within him. He is at peace.
  • Keep it
  • Maintain high level of life energy (Prana) to be alert to maintain silence and peace.

The projecting power, through the aid of the veiling power, connects a man with the siren of an egoistic idea, and distracts him through the attributes of that. It is extremely difficult to conquer the projecting power unless the veiling power is perfectly rooted out. 

It is only the dispassionate man who, being thoroughly grounded in Brahman, can give up the external attachment to the sense-objects and the internal attachment for egoism etc. (First) destroy the hopes raised by egoism in this filthy gross body, then do the same forcibly with the air-like subtle body; and realizing Brahman, the embodiment of eternal Bliss – thy own Self.