Summa Iru is abiding in one’s limitation.
There was a river flowing from the mountains to the sea. One man caught in its torrents decided to swim against the flow, in order to reach the destination his mind had set. He was soon drowned by the river. Another man was also caught in the river, he wisely decided to go with the flow of the river and let it take him where it willed. He still had to work to keep afloat but soon he felt his feet on solid ground in a quiet eddy of the raging water. He was not where he had intended to be, yet he was alive and well. Why constantly struggle against the world we inhabit, when we can instead rest within the flowing consciousness of Braham. There is great peace in understanding I am Braham; there is greater peace in understanding that I am.
“Motivated actions from the past are artificial. A Siddha is one who has reached beyond doing anything. This ‘doing nothing’ is spontaneous activity. Instead of a sense of intentional progression, it acts from the direct working of natural laws, Prakruthi; as a consort of a Siddha. This is Absolute Action; is completely natural. Change happens before a Siddha without hindrance; things are accomplished without assertion.”
” ‘If becoming is to cease – Oh ghost within!
Let there be no mental imagery.
Abide at the feet of the Sat Guru – Oh the Ghost within!
You shall not taste death.’ “
Agapai Siddha Verse 20
I have just finished reading, Siddhas, Master of Nature by Palpandian. I struggled through most of it and yet being the stubborn type, I finished the book. The last fifty pages are where the gems are hidden.
“The word Dhyanam, or meditation means (Dhi + yana) – the way up, beyond the intellect. It is when the body, mind and spirit are properly attuned to natural rhythm; similar to tuning a musical instrument to play high resonance music from seven notes. Glimpses of Truth manifest beyond the level of intellect through such attuning. Dhyanam is a dimensional transformation. It is the silencing of the center of ‘me’. With this silence emerges a new energy awareness, which sees and acts in the world in a non-dual way; without dividing life. This is the pre-reflective state, where there is no subject and object. When Dhyanam crystallizes , it transcends the conditioned mind. When the meditator is engulfed by the ever-staying ground or the Self, experiencing ends. In the flowering state, awareness of unity flowers into compassion and the illusionary walls separating one life form another dissolve into oneness. There is no longer subject and object but a communion with the wholeness of life; an ‘a-logical’ whole. The unfolding essence of Dhyanam was showered forth under the Divine sayings of my Sat Guru which I share below…’When we abide in ever-flowing energy, by its moving presence from one moment to its next, we feel the throbbing effervescence – the source of its movement…’ “
Wow, where have we heard this exact thing before…It was in the words of Heraclitus: “They do not comprehend how being in conflict it still agrees with itself; there is an opposing coherence, as in the tensions of the bow and lyre.” “The way up and the way down is the same…”The way of the Logos, on the other hand, allows us to fall freely into an intuitive self forgetting, in an act of absolute trust. It is stepping off the cliff of habitual existence into the ‘arms’ of an invisible support. Whatever the imagery, whether self-forgetting or Logos-Trust, the action is one of abandonment, particularly of one’s idea of possession and ego identity…obedience to the flow is neutral”
“Our superficial response to life’s happenings leaves us unsatisfied and hollow, because for an action or response to be complete, it must rise from the totality of our being. True action without acting. There is no depth in our activity if it rises from the mind like words and concepts. It often appears as though our depth rises only from memories, while a depth of an altogether different nature dwells in the pure response arising from the point of no dimension; the heart, charged with the primordial creativity. These depths have no foothold in time and may be described as the spirit of infinite space – having vitality, infinite possibilities and a freshness that belongs to life.”
“By accepting limitation, one naturally abides as his core, the unlimited heart, from where eternal Life shapes its play of limitation, The limited and the limitless, both are continuing participants in the area of Life. There is no duality where the Siddhas ‘simply be’.”
“The reluctant Siddhas believe in complete submission to the act of living. Their main teaching is ‘Don’t exert your will in existence’. Remaining ‘summa’ is the pathless way of the spirit; it is the open mind and lightning spirit that moves spontaneously in any direction, through any given situation, according to Dharma– the inherent order of Existence. Once we begin to believe in factual knowledge, spontaneity ceases to be. Yet, neither can we deliberately adopt a line of inaction, for that would at once turn into an action!” “
” The Siddhas ever-stay in the state of ‘Daring letting-be’. What is meant by ‘summa iru’ now? Letting-be is not keeping a distinguished idea of how one is ‘letting oneself be’ and how one is ‘letting others be’. No, there need be no difference. In a ‘Daring letting-be’, everything ‘is’ a living whole; without separation; yet with nothing identical – a grand paradox.”
” ‘ Oh! Mother! It is amazing
isn’t it? Isn’t it?
Making me Grand expanse
So that to realize myself,
You made me Summa there
Apart from being in bliss there,
What else is there to speak?
Kallalin, Verse – 25, Sage Tayumanavar
” The Siddhas ever-stay in the state of ‘Daring letting-be’. What is meant by ‘summa iru’ now? He quietly drifts along without any resistance toward things we label dirty or bad, hot or cold, rain or storm, fasting, eating and so on. Neither is he overly pleased on experiencing the opposite of each. His divinity shines as he does not cause change in his surrounding nor in any affairs of the world. He lives in simple continuity, facing everything that comes from the outside toward him, with no attempt to interfere in its progressive flow. And while amidst the welcome of unwelcome circumstance, neither does he attempt to change himself from within to ward them of or to protect himself in any way. There is a wholesome allowing and daring letting-be from within to without and likewise from without to within. He faces things as they come, transparent to differences or separation. This is the state of ‘summa iru’. He who remains in the state of ‘summa iru’ always experiences the state of God – the state of Infinite Bliss. He can be likened to a blade of grass enduring all weather conditions, yet alive and rooted in the earth, in glowing crisp green freshness! Why try to have things the way we want and each of us are used to this standpoint right from birth. The behavior of a Siddha is the exact opposite. And because of Their contrary behaviors, we tend to label them insane, even so, They remain in the state of ‘summa iru’ unperturbed…”
“The Brahmins who wished to listen to Vedanta
They didn’t give up their desire, even after listening to it.
Vedanta is the place where desire ends
Those who truly hear Vedanta are desire less.”
Thirumanthram Verse 229, by Siddha Thirumoolar
“… Renunciation doesn’t mean literal or forcible begging. It implies understanding the mechanical functionality of inessential things in relation to oneself and hacking away at them to unravel a finer quality in one’s way of living. It is an attitude not a physical act. It is not about giving up, but allowing things to go away…It is the difference between need and desire. True renunciation conserves energy in a meaningful, assimilable form to live authentically in one’s own nature. When everything is in constant change, renunciation is only the acceptance of it…to realize one’s unconditional nature, de-conditioning of inessentials is needed. Once we realize what we know is different from what we are, renunciation happens naturally and living manifests a quality. Spirit is: Creativity without Destruction, Production without Possession, Action without Self-assertion and Development without Domination…”
“As the acquired conditioning gradually drops, it unveils the natural potential of the human body and eventually leads deeper and beyond, to the universal source until the source itself can freely manifest itself within the human frame. This path is called Vasi in the Siddha Tradition. Siddha-hood or immortality and the creative spirit carry unlimited possibilities”
“There are only ten figures in this world – one to nine and zero. That is all. You may write a sum of ten or even twenty figures, yet the sum is only about placing these ten figures in different places… Like in the play of figures you can either run about from one to nine or arrive at zero. Once you arrive at zero – there is nothingness in the world, the world play is over…To arrive at zero is to return to the Original State and accomplish one attitude – the attitude of Summa Iru. In truth, Summa Iru, the attitude of letting be, is neither action nor non-action.”
Its a funny feeling when you begin believing that the Atman, or Braham is the consciousness that animates your being. It is stranger still when you perceive that the Mother of All, is present in the Temple of your heart. The flow of love from the conjoined presence of the Mother and Father within yourself is a rather rare phenomenon. Yet there is a sense of peace in having the One firmly attached within your being and there is power in recognizing their presence. It is a state of being that allows the surrender of control, with the understanding that it is all under control; with the understanding that there is nothing to control.
If the Human only understood how close God is, our perspective would forever change. If the Human only understood that he|she is God, how amazing and beautiful would the heart and mind of that Human become. And peace would flow out of the love and bliss empowered by that understanding
I bought this book in order to learn to fly; what a silly idea. Then again, maybe not. I was looking for the formula that would raise blocks of stones from the ground with me riding as a ferryman on the top. I was sorely disappointed in this regard. Watch your motivations carefully, often you really don’t understand your self.
What I found instead was an ideal that has allowed my spirit to fly to new heights, in the quietude of my heart, I understood what it means to be I am. And, I now understand why I’ve been lead, every morning and afternoon, to ply my physical body with zinc.
My beloved, begin to let things that ensnare you, loosen their grasp and flee from you of their own volition. As you watch the thing that you once held so dear, fading into the distance, envision the pure crystalline light of the One filling their places within you. Not through effort, but instead by letting go. May God Bless You with his unmitigated love and mercy. May every one who hears these words be doubly blessed. You are Braham. Better Yet, You are!
“…For those who have seen the Ethereal Light by searing without burns,
Where is the need to end passions – Oh lass Kudambai?
Where is the need to end passions?” (The Akashic Realm)
“For those who go in ways unique, crossing without dying.
Where is the need for solitude – Oh lass Kudambai?
Where is the need of solitude…”
“…For those liberated who are dancing in Space.
Where is the need for magic – Oh las Kudambai?
Where is the need for magic?”
For those poised in awareness, who brim with bliss.
Where is the need for knowledge – Oh lass Kudambai?
Where is the need for knowledge..”
“For those who realized of the ‘core, conquering death.
Where is the need for further undertakings – Oh lass Kudambai?
Where is the need for further undertakings…”
“…For those who remain as the way to God.
Where is the need for direction – Oh lass Kudambai?
Where is the need for direction.”
“Kudhambai describes the vastness and the immensity of the Absolute as a light that pervades everywhere. The divine light being all-pervasive is also visible within the body. Hence the Siddha says the human body is an instrument to liberation.” Anaadi Foundation
Siddhas, Master of Nature by Palpandian.