Doership
You are not your body. Your body is not you. You are not the doer. You are not the enjoyer. You are pure awareness, the witness of all things. You are without expectation, free. Wherever you go, be happy! Desire and aversion are of the mind. The mind is never yours. You are free of its turmoil. You are awareness itself, never changing. Wherever you go, be happy. For see! The Self is in all beings, and all beings are in the Self. Know you are free, free of ‘I,’ free of ‘mine.’ Be happy.
Ashtavakra Gita
There’s no such thing as
union or separation for me or for you.
There is no me, no you, no manifold world;
All is the Self, and the Self alone.
You can’t be heard,
or smelled, or tasted;
You can’t be seen, or sensed by touch.
Truly, you’re the ultimate Reality;
Why, then, should you be troubled so?
Neither birth, nor death,
nor the active mind,
Nor bondage, nor liberation,
affects you at all.
Why then, my dear, do you grieve in this way?
You and I have no name or form.
mind, why are you so deluded?
Why do you run about like a frightened ghost?
Become aware of the indivisible Self!
Be rid of attachment; be happy and free!
Truly, you’re the unchanging Essence of everything;
You’re the unmoving Unity;
you’re boundless Freedom.
You have neither attachment nor aversion;
Why, then, do you worry and succumb to desire?
All the scriptures unanimously declare
That the pure, formless, undifferentiated Reality Is the Essence of all forms.
There is absolutely no doubt about this.
🕉 Avadhuta Gita by Rishi Dattatreya.
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Whatever is found to exist is Sat (Existence) only.
Whatever is pleasurable is Ananda (Bliss) only.
One should ever abide in the
bedrock bhavana of Sat-Chit-Ananda.
Never for once should oneslip,
even inadvertently,
into the disastrous bhavana that one is the
body and that the world is real.
🕉 Ribhu Gita. Ch.25, v.12
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Satchitananda (Sanskrit: सच्चिदानंद, IAST: Saccidānanda) or Sacchidānanda representing “existence, consciousness, and bliss” or “truth, consciousness, bliss”, is an epithet and description for the subjective experience of the ultimate unchanging reality, called Brahman, in certain branches of Hindu philosophy, especially Vedanta.
Satchitananda (Sanskrit: सच्चिदानन्द) is a compounded Sanskrit word consisting of “sat”, “chit” and “ananda”, all three considered as inseparable from the nature of ultimate reality called Brahman in Hinduism. The different forms of spelling is driven by euphonic (sandhi) rules of Sanskrit, useful in different contexts.
Satchitananda is therefore translated as “Truth Consciousness Bliss”, “Reality Consciousness Bliss”, or “Existence Consciousness Bliss”.
The term is contextually related to “the ultimate reality” in various schools of Hindu traditions. In theistic traditions, sacchidananda is same as God such as Vishnu, Shiva or Goddess in Shakti traditions. In monist traditions, sacchidananda is considered directly inseparable from nirguna (attributeless) Brahman or the “universal wholeness of existence”, wherein the Brahman is identical with Atman, the true individual self. Satchitananda or Brahman is held to be the source of all reality, source of all conscious thought, and source of all perfection-bliss. It is the ultimate, the complete, the destination of spiritual pursuit in Hinduism.
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (c. 800–600 BCE) is among the earliest Hindu texts which links and then discusses Atman (soul), Brahman (ultimate reality), awareness, joy and bliss such as in sections 2.4, 3.9 and 4.3. The Chandogya Upanishad (~800-600 BCE), in section 3.14 to 3.18, discusses Atman and Brahman, these being identical to “that which shines and glows both inside and outside”, “dear”, “pure knowing, awareness”, “one’s innermost being”, “highest light”, “luminous”. Other 1st-millennium BCE texts, such as the Taittiriya Upanishad in section 2.1, as well as minor Upanishads, discuss Atman and Brahman in saccidananda-related terminology.
An early mention of the compound word sacchidananda is in verse 3.11 of Tejobindu Upanishad, composed before the 4th-century CE. The context of sacchidananda is explained in the Upanishad as follows:
The realization of Atman.
(…) I am of the nature of consciousness.
I am made of consciousness and bliss.
I am nondual, pure in form, absolute knowledge, absolute love.
I am changeless, devoid of desire or anger, I am detached.
I am One Essence, unlimitedness, utter consciousness.
I am boundless Bliss, existence and transcendent Bliss.
I am the Atman, that revels in itself.
I am the Sacchidananda that is eternal, enlightened and pure.— Tejobindu Upanishad, 3.1-3.12 (Abridged)
Main article: Vedanta
The Vedantic philosophy understands saccidānanda as a synonym of the three fundamental attributes of Brahman. In Advaita Vedanta, states Werner, it is the sublimely blissful experience of the boundless, pure consciousness and represents the unity of spiritual essence of ultimate reality.
Saccidānanda is an epithet for Brahman, considered indescribable, unitary, ultimate, unchanging reality in Hinduism.,
Main article: Vaishnavism
Tulsidas considers Rama as Satcitananda.
“You are pure Consciousness—the substance of the universe. The universe exists within you. Don’t be small-minded. You are unconditioned, changeless, formless. You are solid, unfathomable, cool. Desire nothing. You are Consciousness.”
~ Ashtavakra Gita (Advaita Vedanta scripture)