Good morning!
This morning before I came here I turned on TV Japan and found the program
Classic Books, featuring Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Its title was “Hamlet’s satori.”
It was discussing the soliloquy “To be or not to be.” His satori was not clearly
defined, but perhaps “Let it be.”
The Vedanta (Veda’s end or ultimate) message is “the unity of ātman and Brahman.”
Yājñavalkya reduces all gods to “That.” Prāṇa (breath/life) is That, through which
ātman (self, breath) and Brahman (Cosmos, space, life) are identified as selves
(breath) that correspond with Cosmos (air space).
Thus, sac-cid-ānanda (sat, cit, ānanda: being, consciousness, bliss) is said to be
the characteristic of the Self. This has the practical merit of ourselves as Brahman
(no Separate Absolute Other: God), hopefully bringing prāṇa to full function of
saccidānanda (prāṇa becoming prajñā/ānanda), etc.
“Let it be” and “breath/life” are in karma kinetics. Nirvana transcends them in
limitless life and light (amita-ābha, -āyus), or limitless life, light, liberation,
and love (amita-prāṇa, -prajñā, -priya-dhāman, -prema), beyond limited
mundane life in practice (bhāvanā: cultivation = verification).
12/28/14
Note:
1. Bhava (becoming) is karma-kinetics, but bhāvanā (cause to become) is practice
in cultivation = verification) stilling karma-kinetics in nirvana and awakening.
2. Priya-dhāman is free-dom, meaning “beloved domain, friendly domain” with all –
wholly wholesome way world.