VACHANA KAVITHAI/PROSE WORKS
INTRODUCTION
Bharati was a realized Sage.
He did not don a saffron cloth; he
did not live inside a cave. He did not have crowd of disciples. He did not give
lectures on platforms; nor did he do produce gold and ashes in his hand to
attract people.
He just realized the Self as if it
was a natural thing to do for any human with thinking capacity.
He knew many languages; had studied
all that could be read whatever he could reach out for. Rice and grains might
not be found in the kitchen on a daily basis; but books and papers were
scattered all over his house like diamonds of immense value.
Bharati had faith in Vedas; in
scriptures; in himself.
What he studied just became part of
his own ‘Knowledge-Self’.
If he just uttered ‘AHAM
BRAHMAASMI’ (I am Brahman) he was already ‘BRAHMAASMI’ (I am Brahman) without
any contemplation process as such.
What Saadhana do you need to
remember your forgotten self?
Where do you search for the Self
outside yourself?
Bharati realized the Self, the
moment he uttered AHAM BRAHMAASMI!
His thoughts were true; not like
the thoughts of ordinary men.
Scriptures talk of noble souls
descending down to earth for a revival of Dharma; Bharati must indeed be a
noble being who came down on earth from a higher world just to change the
thinking pattern of his country.
Love, patriotism, women’s right,
philosophy, Tamil- all took a new life with his arrival on earth.
His knowledge level was far beyond
the ordinary human level.
When he knew he was Brahman, he
could not identify with his mortal coil; he talked always from the Brahman
level. He would not pretend to be ordinary or compromise with the world
stupidity. He was what he was; a great store-house of knowledge, imagination
and courage. No matter what others thought of him, he stuck to his identity of
the Higher Self. He always talked, lived in that level.
For him, there were only two things
that were to be dealt with – Unmanifest Brahman and manifest Brahman –Brahman
or Chit which remained without perceptions and Chit which remained with
perceptions. He called the Chit with perceptions as Shakti- the Supreme power
of Brahman, Mother Supreme – ParaaShakti.
How can you reach the Chit hiding
behind this perceived world?
Only through the perceived world;
the visible Mother who was all around cuddling all of us to her bosom; as the
perceived.
What does it matter if Mother was
there as the white Himalayan Mountains
He reached ‘That Brahman’ through
‘This Mother’ all around him. How to do that?
Through his simple prose-articles
which start like ordinary sentences, he starts describing the ordinary scenes
of the world in front of him; slowly climbs through the ladder of imagination
to the Supreme beyond the words and thoughts. No; he did not enter trance state
by such Self-states; rather like Krishna or
Rama he completely involved himself in rising others from their ignorant level.
With a wife who could not ever
grasp the greatness of his personality, in a community which ridiculed him as
an eccentric insane character, in a country which was struggling to free from
the iron chains of slavery, he as a JeevanMukta worked hard for improving the
thinking level of the society. He was proud be an Indian and donned a turban as
a mark of his superiority as a child of Mother Bhaarata. He never bent his head
down in any trying circumstances.
If he was in trouble, he ordered or
prayed to his ParaaShakti, the manifest Brahman to solve the day to day
problems; and of course ParaaShakti obeyed his commands. Was he not her very
essence, the Supreme Brahman!?
In this section – all the articles
are based on the truths of Vedas simplified to the most common level.
Sun – MITRA, Wind- VAAYU, Water –
VARUNA, Fire- AGNI, - all are Deities propitiated in Vedas.
And of course they are all various
forms of Manifest Brahman – SHAKTI, according to Bharati.
So thus he starts his article- a mixture
of Vedas, Upanishads, imaginations, and day to day ordinary scenes -
“In the ocean of Shakti
பாரதித் திருவடி போற்றி
[SALUTATION TO THE
SACRED FEET OF BHAARATI]
ஓம்
AUM
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