Aatma Jeyam- Self-control

ஆத்ம ஜெயம்

AATMA JEYAM

[SELF-CONTROL]

‘AatmaJeyam’ means ‘Conquering the Self’.

Aatman means the true ‘I’ in each one of us.

Aatman means the essence within you that makes you a you acting in this world; like the water (liquidity) in all juices is the basic essence of all juices.

Juices can be of many varieties; good and bad.

Egos are also of many varieties. This ego that makes you think you are the body and its connected things is the false you; the mind made juice using the water that is the real you.

To stay as the liquidity is the realization for the orange juice.

To know itself, its essence is the Moksha for that orange juice.

All of us are identified with the physical form and name and believe it to be the real ‘I’.

This false ‘I’ should be conquered and the true ‘I’ has to be realized as the ‘I’.

What is the ‘I’ in all?

The pure awareness-state that shines in all beings is the common essence of all beings.

This awareness which makes you aware of the world around you and yourself as a form, is the common essence refereed to by the term Aatman. 

Aatman means that which knows or understands.

It is also known as Brahman. This Brahman is not any deity or god or ‘Kadavul’, but shines as the awareness in all.

Everyone says ‘I’ at all times; but do not know the true ‘I’ at all!

The false ‘I’ has to be conquered and thrown out and the true ‘I’ should shine forth,

This is AatmaJeyam.

ஆத்ம ஜெயம்

கண்ணில் தெரியும் பொருளினைக் கைகள்

கவர்ந்திட மாட்டாவோ?-அட

மண்ணில் தெரியுது வானம், அது நம்

வசப்பட லாகாதோ?

KANNIL THERIYUM PORULINAIK  KAIGAL

KAVARNTHIDAMAATTAAVO? ADA

MANNIL TERIYUDU VAANAM, ADU NAM

VASAPPADALAAGAADO?

Will not the hands grab that thing which is in immediately in sight?

Ah-

Heaven itself is sighted down on this earth!

Will it not be ours by any chance?

We need not search for this Aatman anywhere outside.

It is not reached by visiting temples, closing the eyes in meditation, or inside the icy caves of Himalayas.

It is the very ‘you’ who are searching for it outside somewhere.

The problem is that you like a mad person think of you as someone else and have forgotten the real ‘you’.

It is like the desired object is just in front of you; but you cannot grab it ever.

Aatman is just ‘you’; but you still cannot know it! Is it not the greatest tragedy?

Once we know it as the truth, this earth will turn into a heaven indeed.

No trouble on earth can ever touch a man who has understood his true ‘I’.

 எண்ணி யெண்ணிப் பல நாளு முயன்றிங்

கிறுதியிற் சோர்வோமோ,

விண்ணிலும் மண்ணிலும் கண்ணிலும் எண்ணிலும்

மேவு பராசக்தியே!

ENNIYENNIP PALA NAALU MUYANRIN-

KIRUTHIYIR SORVOMO,

VINNILUM MANNILUM KANNILUM ENNILUM

MEVU PARAASAKTIYE

Longing again and again for many days,

will we fall exhausted at the end?

Hey Supreme Goddess of Power, hey ParaaShakti!

You are in the sky, in the earth, in the eyes, in the thoughts!

I am doing effort again and again; but still the form-identity does not disappear at all.

Ah! The impossible task!

Should we give up? Can such a state be ever attained as mentioned by the Scriptures like Upanishads?

Hey power of the Supreme! Mother ParaaShakti!

You are in everything! You are the power of Brahman.

You are Brahman who is shining as all the perceived objects.

You are the power by which even gods exist in heaven, humans exist in the earth.

You are the one who sees the world as me.

You are the thoughts that run in the mind.

Where you are not?

என்ன வரங்கள்,பெருமைகள்,வெற்றிகள்

எத்தனை மேன்மைகளோ!

தன்னை வென்றா லவை யாவும் பெறுவது

சத்திய மாகுமென்றே

முன்னை முனிவர் உரைத்த மறைப் பொருள்

முற்றுமுணர்ந்த பின்னும்

தன்னை வென்றாளும் திறமை பெறாதிங்கு

தாழ்வுற்று நிற்போமோ?

ENNA VARANGAL, PERUMAIGAL, VERRIGAL,

ETTANAI MENMAIGALO!

THANNAI VENRAALAVAI YAAVUM PERUVATHU

SATTIYAMAAGUMENRE

MUNNAI MUNIVAR URAIITTHA MARAIP PORUL

MURRUMUNARNDA PINNUM

THANNAI VENRAALUM THIRAIMAI PERAATHINGU

THAAZHVURRU NIRPOMO?

What boons, what honours, what victories,

what great things are there!

‘All that can be attained in truth, if one conquers oneself’

Even when this Vedic statement uttered by the Sages of the yore,

has been understood fully,

will we still remain in a wretched state,

without getting the talent of conquering oneself?

The Sages have declared that Self-realization alone leads to all the glories a man can aspire for!

No boon, no honour, no victory of the earth can match the greatness of the realization state ever; so the Upanishads state.

To know the true essence of oneself is the most glorious state that can be attained ever; it is understood well by my intellectual sharpness! I know that I have to stop believing in the inert body as the ‘I’.

I have to realize that I am the Brahman the Reality, which is formless and nameless.

But can I do it? Or will I give up?

Can I control my mind? Can I make it thoughtless?

Can I realize my true nature of Brahman ever?

Even after knowing that the Rishis of yore have declared that everything gets attained by conquering the lower ‘I’ and realizing the Supreme truth, can I waste even a moment in wasteful ventures?!