Trinity of experience/mistakes
Question
Hi dhananjay
1.please explain trinity of experience Rishi Devata chhandas,esp the devata & chhandas.I can not make a good discrimination between these two.
2.do mistakes & misdeeds that we have committed or bad incidents have happened to us have been avoidable or they have been our destiny?
Answer
1. In reality, there is one absolute Supreme and nothing else. The true us (Atman) is no different than this Supreme, just as drops of sea water are no different from the ocean. By the Leela (divine play) of the Lord, is created Prakriti (energy of creation) who effects manifestation through Mâya (cosmic illusion). While the Lord remains unaltered and unaffected by his Leela, those constituent extensions of the Lord which get subjected to this illusion become Jiva-s (embodied souls)
Then it appears as though there are three processes namely the Drsta (seer), Drsti (seeing) and Drsyam (seen). However, all these three are the result of the modifications of the mind due to Agnyana (ignorance around the atman). These three are also referred by the names Rishi (knower), Devata (knowing) and Chhandas (known) in vedic literature. In reality, there is only ONE namely the Brahman or Lord and the concept of this trinity is false, for what is there to be known by HIM who knows everything and who exists everywhere and who does not have a second? (Prathamo Brahman Dvitheeyo Naasti - The Lord himself is first, there is no second meaning there is nothing but HIM). These three thus represent the manifest part of creation which is unreal in terms of absolute reality. All these three disappear after Kaivalya (self-realization), when the Atman (seer) is established in his own self.
2. Karma accrued from those actions already committed (in this or previous births) which will fructify in this birth (Prârabdha Karma) is unavoidable. Karma which one has a tendency to commit in the future due to the presence of such seeds in the Kârana Sharira (Âgama Karma) is avoidable by burning such seeds in Samadhi (super-consciousness) and through a life based on the Yama-Niyama-s of Yoga. Thus the misery which would accrue due to further acts of ignorance in the future is avoidable through realization of Gnyana (knowledge of reality)
ॐ तत् सत्
(That Supreme being is the absolute truth)