Upasana

There are people who meditate on certain symbols.

As I told you, there are so many, so many Upasanas, techniques of concentration.

But what is the highest goal of meditation? People meditate for peace of mind, people meditate to de-stress themselves, people meditate so that they'll be successful in their business, people meditate for number of reasons.

And don't tell me that even a lusty man is not meditative, he's meditating on Woman, woman, woman.

Shri Guru Devaya Namah.

Tonight is Shashti, the sixth night of this Upasana to Parashakti, the supreme power that permeates every particle of the universe.

We are calling upon that presence with our devotion, one-pointed attention in so many different ways.

Puja on the altar, path, reading out scriptures, Guru Gita aloud, repeating our mantra, chanting, singing, rituals, all these various ways.

If we make a sound that's not very nice, that makes them feel terrible.

Sound has its purpose and effect.

So Upasana of Ma also teaches us that this Vageshwari, the sound that comes out of her, this instrument, also has a name.

Vageshwari, Vak, Bani, the speech.

Produce plenty of Annam and do Annadhanam.

So then, then he says, uh, in the preparatory for gr- gaining Brahma Jnanam, there are three type of Upasana.

Adhyatmik Upasana, Adhidaivik Upasana, and Adibhautik Upasana.

Adhyatmik Upasana involve invoking God in your own organs.

Power of speech is God's gift, Vibhuti.

Each organ has power, and meditate upon them, Pran apana because of which Yoga Kshema, acquisition and protection is possible.

Then Adhidaivik, uh, mm, Adhidaivik Upasana is natural forces are taken and see God in them.

Nakshatra, lightning, rains, cattle, Pashu, uh, ecological meditation ends in meditation on space.

avyaya, transcendent and imperishable beyond gunas, the world fails to know this specific aspect of Brahman.

Not Brahman as Saguna Ishwara which Upasana can reach, but Brahman as nirguna para avyaya, beyond the three gunas, transcendent and imperishable.

And that Brahman is maam, Krishna says.

Maam,

this verse which I have been giving, that Trigunatmika.

Mohita Jagat, the world is deluded by that.

So activities of Satya, including the Satyuka activities of the Yoga or even the Saguna Upasana, all of them are coming under the Sattva Rajasthamas.

But Krishna is telling you to transcend beyond that.

Hiranyagarbha is about the subtle universe.

And Eshwara Upasana is about the causal universe.

So these are the three, totally five Upasanas or meditations.

So these meditations, you know, if you do it for as a Sakama Karma, there will be material benefit.

If you do it as Nishkama Karma, then you will have the mental benefit to prepare yourself for further scriptural studies.