Select quotations from Essence of the Supreme Reality, revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo
One Parabhairava has become many and He realizes many in one. So, it is a kind of disease that He has invited for himself by His own play….It is His play. (p. 36)
Just as syrup, brown sugar, molasses, and purified sugar are just the juice of the sugar cane, so all these different traditions are Sambhu, the supreme Self. (p. 37)
You’ll know that unperishable state of God consciousness is residing in each and every being…In that way, you won’t hate anybody. (p. 39)
(The way of the Buddhist, the way of the Christian, the way of the Muslim), the way of the atheist…these are just varieties of thoughts, various thoughts. In the real sense, from the real point of view, these things do not exist at all. It is only one play of God. (p. 40)
Brahmcharya is not the type of being a bachelor always. Brahmcharya, from the Saiva point of view, is that you should see, you should observe in your mind, that death, life, success, failure, pain, pleasure, sadness, sorrow, happiness, joy, rise, fall, all these are the expansion of His glory. Brahmcharya is to perceive that everywhere Brahman is moving, everywhere is the movement of God consciousness. Death is the movement of God consciousness, life is the movement of God consciousness. So there is no fear, because the soul is always living, the soul will never die. The body is already dead. (p. 45)
When Parabhairava manifests His own nature, the revealing of His own nature, according to the will of His free will, He appears in many individual beings in the form of the Parabhairava state. So, although I am Parabhirava, there are at least one thousand Parabharavas created, and they also reveal their nature and are situated in the state of Parabhairava. And others are stuck; they are overwhelmed with absolute ignorance and darkenss, and they are caught in the pangs of repeated births and deaths on the other side. But, in fact, this section and that section—that revealed section of so many Parabhairavas and the concealed section of so many stuck Parabhairavas, brute Parabhairavas—He enjoys this drama. (p. 53)
Dreams are created from one’s own internal light (tejas). (p. 54)
If heaps of clouds come, they cannot affect this vast askasa. This vast askasa cannot get soaked in these clouds. In the same way, even with the crooked (and abominable) ways of maya, Parabhairava cannot be stained or confused – he will remain just like akasa. Parabhairava does not care if so many things happen in this world. He waits for the time when He likes and, at once, all is finished and there is only Parabhairava. (p. 56)
You must not think that Parabhairava is away from you. He is always there and always craving for you to have Him! If you don’t want to have Him – it is your choice – no matter, that is also fine. That is also your own way of thinking. Don’t have Him. Enjoy hells. That is also enjoyment. And you are never away from Him. You are caught by that grip. You are grabbed by Him, always. This is his play. (p. 66)
When the aggregate of tattvas has thus become integrated into Siva through awareness, then what grief or delusion could be for one beholding the universe as Brahman? (p. 69)
When Spanda overflows, then you want to disconnect it. That is His position; disconnected because of too much of it. You want to get disconnected from that state and then again connect yourself, then it gives pleasure. That is why this whole universe is created. Otherwise, there was no reason to create this universe when God was there already in His own knowledge, completely. This differentiation has come out because of that overflowing of that God consciousness. The ecstasy of God consciousness is overflowing and then this happened to His own nature.
Atmajna, he who has realized one’s own Self, he does not get afraid of anybody. His branches are everywhere scattered. You cannot get afraid of yourself. He is expanded. He has manifested His nature in every being. Of whom will he get afraid? (p. 74)
Any person who, O Lord, observes this whole universe one-pointedly, he who observes this world one-pointedly, and realizes that this whole universe is the glamor of Your manifestation, he is actually situated in Your manifestation, or in his own manifestation. He is always appeased and peaceful. Of whom or what will he get afraid? There is no other than his being. (p. 75)
Although he sees varieties of people, varieties of dogs, varieties of eagles, varieties of demons – he perceives them as not separate from his being. (p. 76)
He who says, “I am Lord Siva”, he is always Lord Siva. (p. 79)
He who carries shrunken consciousness, he is always crying, “I have not achieved anything! O master, when shall I achieve anything?” When he dies, he dies also in the same manner, and he is caught by repeated births and deaths again. It is his own thinking. Whatever you think, that gets its shape, it comes true. If you think “I am Parabhairava”, it will get its shape—true. If you think, “I am not. I am trodden. I am a fool. I am worth nothing”, then you are worth nothing. (p. 81)
The Self-realized soul does not get afraid. He is always jivan mukta because he is the same in each and every respect. Nothing will affect him. (p. 88)
On this path of Parabhairava, whoever has taken a step with pure desire, no matter if that desire is slow or if that desire is intense or whatever it is, who has taken this step, he becomes one with Parabhairava….If you are trodden down, go on doing, go on remembering God. This is the way in whichever way you will remember Him, He will carry you. The way of remembrance may be supreme, it may be medium, it may be low, it may be very low, it may be the lowest…it does not matter. Go on, another step, another step. (p. 131)
Lord Siva creates this external universe for the sake of realizing His own nature. That is why this external universe is called “Sakti”, because it is the means to realize one’s own nature. Therefore, in order to recognize His nature, He must first become ignorant of His nature. Only then can He recognize. Why should He want to recognize His nature in the first place/ It is because of His freedom, His svatantrya (independence). This is the play of the universe. This universe was created solely for the fun and joy of this realization. IT happens that when His fullness overflows, He wants to become incomplete. He wants to appear as being incomplete just so HE can achieve completion. This is the play of His Svatantrya: to depart from His own nature in order to enjoy it again. It is this svatantra that has created this whole universe. This is the play of Siva’s freedom. (p. 141)
Svatantrya sakti (freedom of energies) is that state of energy which can produce the power of going down and coming up again. And maya is not like that. Maya will give you the strength of coming down and then no ability of going up. (p. 141)
No matter what intensity of His grace is with you, it will carry you to His nature in the end. (p. 149)