4 Sensitivities, 4 Attitudes, & 4 Perfections #163

With such a deep, powerful, and timeless teaching as this, emanating from one of the world’s most illumined of souls, there is really no need for ignorance and suffering to persist anymore amidst seeking and striving humanity. To have it available as a four-color presentation on a 24 x 36 teaching chart would cause all sincere seekers of truth to want it placed on every wall of every monastery, ashram, spiritual center, meeting hall, and household in the world — across the three worlds, if possible. This teaching of the Indian dharma is a free soul’s reckoning and rendering of the perennial path and its obstacles after having had the consummate Vision of the Absolute, Nirvana. It is well-suited to assist the practitioner in freeing the self from unnecessary suffering, placing ones feet on the road to Divine Reality, and realizing, forever, the diamond nature of ones own intrinsic Awareness.

Vivarta, false superimposition, is a key principle in Vedanta philosophy, the point being that all manifestation/expression covers the formless nature of Reality. Left alone in Its purest state, Brahman is “partless, faultless, actionless, and divine,” to quote the Upanisads. When mentation begins, from the Cosmic Mind on down and out to the collective and individual minds, then does all that is “unreal” obscure the Real. Beings then take what has been projected by the mind, like matter and objects, as being the only reality. That there is more or less of the conscious shine of Brahman in every little thing, while Brahman remains partless and indivisible, this is the lesson of Vivartopadana taught by the Vedanta philosophy.