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The cosmic embrace (Aishwarya yoga)

 

Week 25, chapter 9, shlokas(1-14)

I am that formless singularity and the world that you see is the expanse of my manifested form. All the manifested forms dead or alive including this body are because of my expanse, but I am not in them. As they are like the images seen in the dream that I dream.

When the illusion is broken, the reality remains, and I am that one constant reality. If you see that- even though waves are contained in an ocean, but the ocean is not the creator of the waves- that is done by the wind. The same way the cotton flower does not contain the fabric, but the fabric is processed from the cotton fiber through the imagination of the artisan. And in the same way, Maya imagines various forms to manifest all that is unmanifested- that is me. And when the veil of illusion is lifted, all that is manifested through Maya is broken and thus remains that which in truth- is me. And so, you can say in a way that I and the forms are one even when I have not made them. So, there’s oneness between me and the beings even when they cannot see that because of Maya.

So, to see me- look at that which lies beyond imagination- is my ‘bodharoop’ (the form that can be sensed/felt through the state of awareness).

Thus, Krishna sums up ‘Aishwarya Yoga’.

The embrace of me with Prakriti (the cosmic union) results into various life-forms that become part of creation- where Prakriti rules the kingdom of beings. Whereas I am the cause of creation (by Prakriti) I am not the doer also, I am indifferent to the creation.

 

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