Vedanta Verse 306

Love for objects can be seen as the first emotion while dislike as the last one. That is the reason we like to close our mind, memory and also individuality and prepare to go to sleep. Every individuality is available for being loved and also disliked. But the Self shorn of individuality is never disliked, existence is never disliked, happiness is never disliked nor is peace ever disliked. Freedom is ever desired, fullness is ever loved. In fact whatever is never hated, never disliked and never ever negated can be rightly called the Self.

The Truth can never be sullied by anyone or disliked. In society when one looses one’s good name it means that one is disliked by others, but the observer of the three states having no name good or bad, can neither loose good name nor be disliked by any. Everyone universally loves this unnegatable Self.

Form makes the bulk of personality, form reigns supreme in creation. This form changes as it is its very nature to change. As the form changes, the personality also changes. But the observer of the form and the changes is free from both.

Why we feel bound and incomplete and unhappy is because of ignorance. The paradox is that remaining ever Full we live an unfulfilled life, remaining ever perfect we live an imperfect life. The imperfections are in thoughts which have a beginning and an end and not for the observer of the three states.
One who registers imperfections is never imperfect!
One who observes the beginning and the end of thoughts does not have any beginning or end.

Experiences pertaining to beginning and end of thoughts are misinterpreted as beginning and end of experience. Experience illumines the beginning and the end of thoughts. This experience is ever perfect.

The perfection of the awareness/Self is natural, svabhavatah, it is not artificially created. The self does not become perfect, it is perfect, ever perfect, and the discovery of this has to be made.

This is like the space in the pot. It does not have go anywhere in search of unlimited ness. All it has to do is to recognize that I am not inside the pot but pot is situated inside me. I am the infinite space and have misidentified myself with the limited pot and therefore conceive myself as being limited by the pot.

One can achieve anything within creation, wealth, name, fame so on and so forth, but happiness which is synonymous with peace is not an achievable object. It is one’s own nature, and nature has to be understood and found out rather than achieved. This is like the Xth man trying to achieving the Xth man. All that he has to do is to discover that he is the Xth man. He cannot achieve himself. An epistemic overhauling is required. We are by nature absolute serenity and this is not an achievable object and it is not a part of this creation.

All our effort has to be in the direction of discovering this truth. All our memory, education and thoughts have to be utilized for this. The three requirements namely, grasping the truth (grahanam), retaining what is grasped (dharanam) and remembering (smaranam) are absolutely important here. Unfortunately we use the three for remembering the events situated in time and miss out on what is to be actually remembered. We remember other things at the cost of our Self. I use all my attention to revel in objects and all this is done at the cost of awareness, the ever present subject. The only way to get out of this situation is to make the observer the topic.

Diverting the attention from object to another is not the solution, for we might be of the opinion that this object has given me pain, let me look for another one, probably that will give me happiness, so on we move from object ‘A’ to Object ‘Z’ and then again return to object A saying “old is gold!” forever we move from one object to another without finding any solution. This is worldly solution of a given problem i.e. move from object to another.

According to Vedanta this perennial movement offers no solution for that movement is exactly the problem. We are here confounding the problem for a solution. The Vedantic (shastric) diversion is simply shifting one’s attention from creation to the Observer. The observer is the solution, the observer can never be disliked or hated, I may dislike creation but not the observer who observes the dislike and like. (This dislike is the final emotion having enjoyed every bit in creation).