The mystic heart of the
world
Sometimes
some people say that the path is a kind of mystic syncretic recently
invented. What is this crime of syncretism that some people accuses
it ? The dictionary gives this definition: " philosophic or
religious System which tends to mix several different doctrines
".
To
mix several different doctrines would be bad ? What different
doctrines would the path try to mix ? It recognizes traces of the
Truth in certain words of the Christ, told in Gospels, all the
Gospels, and in those of Lao-Tse, in Tao-Te-King and of Krishna, in
Bhagavad-Gîtà and of Guru Nanak, in Guru Granth Sahib. In the
awakening of Gautama, in the Manicheanism of Mani, in the
Zoroastrianism and in the certain texts of Veda and the treatise of
the original-yoga (Yogasûtra), the path recognizes its teaching
also.
It
should be noted that all these doctrines, that of the Christ
including, arise from this perimeter, the mystic heart of the world,
and have the same origin. They influenced eachother as they appeared.
The oldest doctrine would be the one of the original yoga, named recently as : the path of freedom. This yoga existed well before the Yogasûtra of Patanjali was written. This doctrine knew many the other names, but as the harappan civilization, from which it arises, didn’t know the human writing nobody knows which was its name originally.
At
the time of the Aryans, it should be named Veda, because this word
means Knowledge [para] but as the word Veda being used to named the
founding books of the Vedaism and the Hinduism, it is not possible.
There have been the zoroastrianism, reform of the Mazda’s religion, then the Vedaism, then the Jainism, the Hinduism, the Buddhism, at the same time as the Taoism, the yoga as described by Yogasûtra and sikhism.
All
these doctrines turn around of the same core, the same Truth. As for
the Taoism, which is considered as a Chinese doctrine, it was
reported that Lao-Tse, if he really existed as a natural person [the
same doubts as for Patanjali], had disappeared for years after having
gone in the southwest borders of the Chinese empire. These borders
would have been able to be the North of our mystic heart.
To gather these doctrines is
not the syncretism, to have divided them is unconsciousness.
But are they different doctrines ? The fact that they are not from the same period, that they are not written, originally, in the same language and that they are not revealed by the same person would make of them different doctrines?
But are they different doctrines ? The fact that they are not from the same period, that they are not written, originally, in the same language and that they are not revealed by the same person would make of them different doctrines?
Jesus
Christ was never Christian. Sri Gautama, of the clan of Sakya, was
never Buddhist or Taoist Lao-Tse no more than Guru Nànak was Sikh.
The Christianity, the Vedaism, the Hinduism, the Sikhism, the Taoism
are doctrines but none was established by the one of which they take
advantage.
The original path doesn’t try to mix the Christianity, the Buddhism, the Taoism and the Sikhism. It delivers a teaching that exists since millenniums and that the awakened, from which it quotes the teachings, delivered at their times.
There are numerous
doctrines, religions, sects but of the Truth, the Knowledge, there is
only one. Its name doesn’t matter, in which language it was taught,
by whom and in which time: the Truth is one and inseparable. Its
Knowledge is named by the Sanskrit word Veda which means: knowledge [
apa ]. It has always existed, taught or not and that it was
transformed, each time the living master died, in doctrine and in
different religion doesn’t affect nor divide it.
The
form of the Knowledge often changed but the bottom remains true to
form. The Christ spoke about it and it is only in spite of himself
that he was transformed in divinity walking on the water and
resuscitating the deads. Buddha had no magic powers either, no more
than all other human beings. They were all awakened, Rishi, Siddha
[perfects-yogis].
The
path gets through all these teachings as a thread through pearls, to
make a necklace. It is this ancient teaching which it delivers and if
this teaching finds itself, when we have the understanding to
understand it, in others it is not the sign of a syncretism but
rather that of an identity.
In India this tradition exists in the yoga, that of the path is a Knowledge [jnana or Veda] in the meaning of "para", the "sensual" Knowledge of the subtle and spiritual things, rather than the knowledge [ jnana ] in the meaning of apara, which is the knowledge of the things of the world, the bookish theories. Many confuse them.
The original-yoga has its origin in India, and this "Indian" Knowledge comes very very far back in time. It goes back to thousands of years and would have been discovered within the Harappan Ciivilization disappeared 1800 years before J.C.
This
civilization was held in cities on the banks of the river Sarasvatî
and the rivers of its hydraulic pond. Due to a mega-earthquake this
river disappeared, but the spirituality of some of his inhabitants
remained. The Harappans scattered towards the Kashmir of this time
and the North of India.
At
the same time, people began to settle down little by little,
peacefully during hundreds of years in this continent. It came from a
powerful and civilized empire which was held in the North of the
current Pakistan, in a region named Bactriane. Its capital was
Bactres, current Balkh of Afghanistan or Bahlikâ, for Indians.
This
country was at the origin of the Persian Empire and of the Zoroastre
religion [Zarathoustra] which was the first monotheist religion. It
advocated the humility, the self-giving and the good mood, the
essential keys of a spiritual life. These values are ours.
These
Aryan people brought his religion and his Indo-European language,
become the Sanskrit. The word Aryan is the english form of the
Sanskrit word Arya, meaning faithful, noble and referred to the
speakers of Indo-European languages. They met the Harappans and the
yoga they practised. Erudits, heirs of the harappan mystic, the
rishi, told them an ancient teaching in form of stanzas learnt by
heart which became Veda, around 1600 before J.C, by the mix made with
their own mystic.
So was born, little by little, the Vedaism from where comes the Hinduism. The syncretism existed already, because if the Vedaism is a syncretism between the teaching of the original-yoga of the Harappan civilization and the Zoroastrianism, the Hinduism is the mixture of the Vedaism and the polytheistic faiths of India at this time.
The
end of the Harappan civilization is situated at about 1900-1800 years
BC and the beginning of the Vedaism, the writing of the Veda, at
about 1600-1500 years BC. Since the end of the Harappan civilization
up to the writing of the Veda, by the Aryans, between 300 and 400
years have passed, as for the teachings of the Buddha later.
But
these mix did not remove the source. The original-yoga, the Knowledge
kept being taught to very small number of disciples. The majority
adopted the doctrines of the majority, the Vedaism, the Hinduism etc.
The
Hinduism bears the traces of the vedic inheritance with its Trimùrti,
all the three forms of the supreme God to create and manage the life.
From a historic point of view, the Trimurti succeeds the vedic
trinity formed by Agni, Vâyu and Sûrya, three aspects of the
sacrificial Fire.
On the path of freedom we are used to named this supreme God by the word "One" or The One. It is the equivalent of Brahman.
In
the Veda, Brahman exists since and for ever. He is in anything but
transcends anything, he is the divine source of any Life. He is the
divine Absolute: all the gods of the Indian religion are only his
facets, incarnations of Brahman.
The
Atharva-Veda indicates that Ishvara [Suprême Lord] is an attribute
of Brahman. Ishvara can be completely identified with the supreme
Truth Brahman. Here is how Brahman is defined in Bhagavad-Gîtâ:
"This universe entire is penetrated of Me, in My not
expressed form. All the beings are in Me, but I am not in them. In
same time, nothing of what is created is in Me. See My supernatural
power! I support all the beings, I am present everywhere, and yet, I
remain the source even of any creation. Just as in ethereal space is
held the powerful, blowing wind everywhere, thus, knows it, in Me are
held all the beings." [Bhagavad-Gîtà 9:4]
1-1-2: Infinitly big and small, there
is part of One in everything.
1-1-4: Without limits, container and
content, One is in everything.
1-1-5: The sight in conscience sees One
in everything, the one of the illusion sees only the forms.
1-1-7: One is the inside and the outside , the water of the river and
its bed, the wind and the sky, the emptiness and the fullness.
1-1-8: Everything comes from the not-born, coming from nowhere,
without end, all beginning comes from One, all ends up there.
1-1-10: One is the fire and the stone, the ocean and the fish, he
contains everything and nothing contains him.
1-1-11: One is since ever and for ever
as a whole in the moment.
1-1-12: One is the single and the two Creator and creature Kingdom
and King, sky and earth outside and inside.
1-1-17: One is Nectar, Light and the two sounds, hi is the music too
and, in the human being, the aptitude.
1-1-20: The Holy-Name is Light since ever His Music is played and
says its will for the entire world.
1-1-21: One does not have a beginning, the beginning comes from It,
each created being has Word and Word is its life.
The fascination of a yogi for
the Gods can be an obstacle in the achievement of Brahman:
“He who is fascinated by a God, how great he can be, has more trouble conquering Brahman than the earthworm that still expects an infinite evolution. Therefore while adoring with enthusiasm Shiva, the Mother herself, the yogin should never cease keeping with its conscience the single one and prevalent nostalgia of the Absolute. Then its worship of Shiva, the Mother [Aditi] or any other God will lead him to the Goal of his race.” [Translation of Some aspects of a sādhanā, Ma Suryananda Lakshmi, Albin Michel, 1963, p. 117]
“He who is fascinated by a God, how great he can be, has more trouble conquering Brahman than the earthworm that still expects an infinite evolution. Therefore while adoring with enthusiasm Shiva, the Mother herself, the yogin should never cease keeping with its conscience the single one and prevalent nostalgia of the Absolute. Then its worship of Shiva, the Mother [Aditi] or any other God will lead him to the Goal of his race.” [Translation of Some aspects of a sādhanā, Ma Suryananda Lakshmi, Albin Michel, 1963, p. 117]
He is the creative god of the matter and the universe. He arises from a flower of lotus appearing from the navel of Vishnu. Brahma would be an emanation of One or Brahman, and the creator of the living beings. He would be the personification of the Creation of One.
Brahma
would have a wife, Sarasvatî, at the same time his wife and his
daughter. The name Sarasvatî means " which is as the water ".
She is the goddess of the Knowledge, The Word.
Remember that meaning of the word knowledge or jnana [Veda]: it is about two different knowledge: para and apara. Apara, the knowledge of the " unrefined ", material and intellectual things and Para, the mystic, sensual, subtle and inner Knowledge or Veda. In the Rig-Veda, Sarasvatî is described as the origin of the words of Truth and the noble thoughts. The words of Truth, on the path, are Satsang.
Thus
Sarasvatî appears as the mistress of the Verb, the one who teaches
what Rishi passed on. Among seven, the Rishi would have been yogi
who, in state of deep Meditation, [Dhyana or samadhi] heard the hymns
of the essential Veda, emanated from Brahman. It was, in fact,
awakened ones which heard, saw, comprehended the essential Veda. This
essential Veda is the Kingdom of which Brahman or One is the King.
We attributed later to Sarasvatî the maternity of the Sanskrit
language.
These
Rishi had The Knowledge or Veda. The first ones of them must have
received the four techniques of the original-yoga. They were the
heirs of the harappan mystic. In any case as for the first ones but
it is possible that, later, this term of Rishi served to indicate
people who, as the griots in Africa, had the responsibility to recite
Sùkta of the Rig-Veda.
The
writing of the Veda lasted for a long time, enough so that several
generations of Rishi handled that. All were not certainly initiated
to four techniques of the original yoga which constituted the base of
Veda or The Knowledge [Shruti, the path]
The
origin of the Sarasvatî legend, wife of Brahma and goddess of the
Verb, comes from the river lost and forgotten on the banks and in the
hydraulic pond on which lived this lost civilization who would have
been born at about 5000 years BC and would have stopped at about 1900
years BC. The Veda would have been written at about 1500 years BC
under the dictation of Rishi, awakened yogis heirs of the harappan
mystic [origin of the path].
The
mount of Brahma is the swan, which is able to recognize the good from
the bad. In India the word for swan is said Hans and it is the symbol
of the guide of the path, sri yoganand alias josé. The fact of
discerning inevitably the good from the bad, the truth from the false
is one of the attributes of an awakened : the just-sight.
It
is not because an individual has this discernment that it becomes an
awakened, but it is because he is an awakened that he possesses this
discernment. I remember that the awakening arrives brutally, as a
thunderclap in a summer sky, after a Nirvikàlpa-Samadhi, during a
deep Meditation.
The
semantics of the name Veda extends thus from the meaning of
"Knowledge, discovery, revelation" describing the
experience of the first "vedic" wise men who heard the
essential sound [Holy-Name or Verb] shown by the original-Veda, [The
Kingdom] until the meaning of "science, knowledge" [jnana,
apara] given today by the Hinduism to this word.
Avesta,
the sacerdotal code of the zoroastrians, drafted in an archaic, about
3000 years old indo-Iranian language, the avestic language appears to
be very close to the Indian vedic texts of the Rig-Veda, where we
find the same kind of grammar as in the holy book of Zoroastre.
Some
people think that it is by acquiring a vast knowledge [jnana or
apara] they will have the just-sight and they practise their yoga
with this idea but they are wrong: while finding the Truth in
oneself, by dhyana, or deep Meditation without thoughts, one
find the jnana, or para, the revealed Knowledge.
Vishnou [or Hari] would be the one which would protect the
stability of the world. He would work hand in hand with Brahmà.
Brahmà creates the life and Vishnou maintains it and protects the
balance from it. He is also the God of time.
His
wife is Lakhmi. His second wife is Bhumi, the Earth. He is a
protector of the human beings and the rescuer. He cannot intervene
directly in the events, he is then incarned in an avatar. Krishna is
considered as one of these avatar. As a general rule the awakened, or
perfect-masters, are often described as avatars of Vishnou. Obviously
they are myths. God is One and these three heads of Trimùrti are
only personifications of the powers of One.
He is the master of the
yogi and the force which participates of the intention of One
[Brahman] by the creation and the maintenance of the illusion, the
Màyà and of the Revelation of the way to go beyond the illusion by
the yogi practice.
Shiva would thus be the demonstration of the dharma and the Agya. It would be the hyphen between the Creation and the increated infinity, Kingdom of Brahman. He would give the sight allowing to see One in the multiple. He opens the third eye, ajna-chakras or jnana chakshus, half-opened, which perceives beyond the material reality, One in the multiple.
As
you see we far away from a recent invention taken out of the
imagination of a self-taught visionary ! But there will be always
criticisms and it wouldn’t be wise to hope to silence them by
arguments even factual. This text had for subject, after all, only to
make the link between all the essential mystics.
In
this time of the world, which lasted five thousands years, the origin
of the Indian spirituality was this region represented by the map in
illustration. The original yoga of the harappan civilization became
established there, for 8000 years ago, the Mazda’s religion in
Iran, then its monotheist reform, the Zoroastrianism of Zoroastre
[Zarathoustra] there, for 3700 years ago. Then came the Vedaism from
which results the Hinduism, the Jainism, the Buddhism then the yoga
such as it is known and recognized since the Yogasûtra or the
treatise of the original-yoga.
As
there was a Fertile Crescent for the agriculture, there was a mystic
heart of the world from where arise so many important doctrines. The
Christ, later, was influenced by the same mystic that he found during
his journeys before the age of thirty years and when he continued his
existence until more than hundred years after the episode, true or
not, of the cross.
This
geographical zone was very important at that time and in narrow
relations with other continents, as China, Greece and Central Asia.
It was the heart beating of the world such as we know him well before
the Mediterranean Basin and the three major religions of the book.
