Dissecting Nirguna Definition

In the shlokas or Bhagavadgita or Lalita Sahasranamam we can often find mention of 'trigunas'. Now I will go in details about this. Guna in Sanskrit means trait. There are three. Sathva (truth, honesty, softness), Rajas (ego, power, aggression, manipulation, tact) and Tamas (evil, cruelty, horror).

Amongst the three, 'Sathva'or 'Sathya' is most revered!!! Our national symbol endorses 'Sathyam eva jayathe' (!!!!???)

In the mythical texts and verses we often find that GOD defined as Nirguna. That means GOD has none of the 'gunas' or  has all the three!!! The Goddess is defined as 'guna ateeta' and 'nirguna' and 'thriguna athmika'. Meaning Goddess is beyond these three traits, she is not attached to three traits and she contains these three traits..!!! Complicated isn't it? As we normally perceive, sathva is most favored guna of the God, verses should have called GOD as Sathva Guna Bhagavan! It is not so.

Guna's are 3 kinds of energies and they formed along with nature. These are tools of supernatural power and managed with balance and equilibrium of all the three!

Our general understanding is 'truth prevails in the end'!. It is not true. Who has seen the end? When one guna revers to its extreme, it becomes its own weakness and gets killed by other Gunas!!! For example: Let us take sathva. If extremity of sathva, without tact makes it too mild/weak and it easily gets manipulated by Rajas and Tamas. ex: harmless, nonaggressive deers get killed by Tiger (aggression and tact).

ex Rajas: When extremity of ego, aggression and manipulation reaches, it gets declined with a smallest weak link. ex: A small wound on tiger gets infected by flies and it dies a long, painful journey to death. 

So extremity of any guna leads to its own death or downfall. But gunas never die. They only get subdued. Thats why our verses defined God as Nirguna Bhagavan! Therefore, the learning for humans is to not to allow the development of any guna to its extremity!!!! So no guna is superior or inferior. The growth of a guna to its extreme makes it more weak than strong!!!

Creator of these tools (gunas) is not the tool himself, not attached to them, he contains them and uses when needed. Hence the definition of nirguna, thrigunatmika and guna ateeta!

Nirakara, Nispruha, Nirguna Ithi Bhagavantah!.. God is shapeless, detached and a-trait!

Get your wishes granted!

Do you have some die hard wishes? Highly desirable dreams? Are you able to do something to achieve them? Are you already doing some efforts towards it? If your answer is 'yes' for all of these then try this to realize them faster..

Look around you, what people are struggling for, what could be their dreams..wishes.. if you know at least some, analyze if these wishes are honest, fair and legitimate. If your judgement does ok, sincerely pray for their grant with no jealousy.

If you did that, you will notice that your honest, fair and legitimate dreams getting realized faster with negative energies getting subdued gradually..!!!

Disclaimer: Please experiment before believing it. It you have to experiment, please check if you really have an honest, fair and legitimate obsessive dream that you tried/trying to achieve.

...If you dont know where you want to go.. any road will take you there..!!!

Mantra Pushpam - Praise of Nature!!!

Yopam pushpam Veda...!! Pushpavan prajavan pashuman bhavathi..!
Agnirva apahm ayatanam...!
Vayurva apahm ayatanam..!
Aapohvai vayo rayatanam..!
Yah evam veda..! yo upam ayatanam veda...ayatanavan bhavathi!!!

Agni (fire), Vayu(gases/air), Aapah (water), Pathah (motion/movement), Chandramasah (planet), parjanya(particle cloud),
nakshathra (star), samathsara (time)

My husband sent me an audio clip of Mantrapushpam recently. It was circulating in whatsapp groups.
It triggered an interest in me to write about it in this blog. Because I would have heard mantrapushpam over 100 times since I was young. Every Vedik puja at home concluded with it. Thanks to whatsapp... It is reaching those who could not otherwise heard it..!

When you hear this chanting it creates some kind of vibration. For a neutral mind, it is positive vibration. I dont know otherwise. This mantra has no GOD's reference. It simply praises the nature and nature's elements. If it has no religious reference, why do we conclude Vedik rituals with this? For creating positive vibrations!!! It also says, the one who knows (yah evam veda), upam ayatanam (this knowledge?) veda (knows), acquires that ..Knowledge( ayatanavan bhavathi).!!!

So, what is that knowledge? It is about elements of universe. Here is my interpretation of Mantrapushpam..!
Fire creates gas(air?), from gas the water, from water the movement (magnetic field?), from movement the particles, from particles the planet and stars, and these consistent changes create definition of time..(change creates concept of time)!!We also know that water and movements created life.

Now it also says, one who knows this acquires knowledge.! What is that knowledge? How universe is created? In my interpretation, what one knows, s/he can influence it and manipulate it.. or takeover it!
So if I  know how to create massive fire, it creates a big bang, water, gases, collision of particles, attracted particles become planets, due to their weight they start slowly moving (circulating) creating a galaxy..!!!??? If I created it, I own it..!!!

Well,, mantrapushpam compares universe to lotus. Lotus is multi layered, has a centre and connected to centre with support of a stem and it floats on the water..! I could not connect similarity of universe to lotus.
I recall a budhist chant.. Aum mani padme aham! .... I am the lotus..! If universe is like lotus....I am a small part of that universe...a part of infinite energy..So is everything.. every one..a part of energy!..
Feels intriguing, isn't it?