Namarupa

Ignorance Sanskrit Avidya Pali Avidya Confirmations Sanskrit Samskaras Pali Samkhara Consciousness, Sanskrit, Vijnana, Pali, Vijnana.

Name and Form, Sanskrit and Pali, Namarupa.

Six Sense Organs, Sanskrit, Shad-ayatana, Pali, Salayatana.

Contact, Sanskrit, Sparsa, Pali, Vasa.

But even if during meditation, you're looking and you're saying, Okay, I'm thinking about this.

Okay, let me focus on this Nama Rupa or this Divya Rupa or this Japa.

As soon as you put the name, you're no longer looking inward.

It's that moment of silence where that self disintegrates.

We can't say golden or clay pot, etc.

Because then the substance, the substratum or the content of that Nama Rupa really becomes an adjective to it, which is a wrong thing to do.

Yes, we have to understand the language, limitations of the languages.

Yeah, really we have to rectify that way our language, because even though for our convenience we say golden pot, clay pot, etc., we have to really rectify and understand it is a pot which is made of gold if it is gold then it is really the pot should be an adjective it is potty clay clay is the substance then potty clay now the it assumes the the shape of a pot and the name is given pot but the material is clay if it is clay if it is made of clay if it is gold then yes that means we are more serious why because because people have got that again you know there is something supreme boost upon it the value wise therefore golden pot no no no it is Potty gold, the gold is made into a shape of pot and the pot is sustained by gold.

And it is a clay creation, which is out of the earth, the form comes into being and goes back into the earth.

Yeah, and it's also, in a sense, a reminder for us to um, kind of reflect on the fact that that is the divinity does not lie in the shape of form or the NAM or the name and form the Nama Rupa of, you know, objects that, that are, that are in the world.

Um, it's something that lies beyond all the name and form.

Yes.

Okay.

See, when we did Rig Drishya Viveka, right? So we said that every aspect of creation has five things, Satchitananda, Nama Rupa.

When you bring in this concept, it makes you believe that if you were to negate the Nama Rupa, you will see Brahman.

Right? Yeah.

Yeah.

You have to tell me what C Brahman means.

S-E-A, S-E-E, what are we saying?

I know you'll catch me in this, but I also want to understand this a little bit more, you know, because when we try to filter, which is what the Vedantic meditation tells you to filter the Nama Rupa and look at the existing part in the creation and the Chit part in the meditation, right? So when you're trying to do that, it gives you a feeling that you can actually remove the Nama Rupa and you can therefore find Brahman.

Which you can easily listen to, but it's so hard on a day-to-day basis to start to try and recognize it and continuously remind.

Because we're stuck in Nama Rupa, that's how we categorize the world.

So what do you do to kind of move to that Mananam stage?

So, I mean, I don't know if there is one thing.

You've got a mind and a body.

Nama Rupa.

Your senses are working.

All of that is already running.