08/11/2025
Weaving the Threads — Echoes from the Shiva SutrasRebooting Happiness:
Recap till Chapter 3 — “Udhyamo Bhairavaḥ”
Weaving the Threads — Echoes from the Shiva Sutras
In Rebooting Happiness: The Art of Being, our journey through the first three chapters traces three luminous sutras from the heart of Kashmir Shaivism — each a portal into awakening.
1. Chaitanyam ātmā — The Soul as Pure Consciousness
Our journey began before birth itself. From conception to form, everything we have has come from others — our body, name, language, thoughts, even our sense of “mine.”
When death finally takes it all, what remains?
Only the soul, the pure consciousness we’ve never paused to know.
If we are not aware of it now, how will we recognize it when all else is gone?
Thus, Chaitanyam ātmā reminds us to awaken to what truly belongs to us — the awareness that never dies.
2. Jñānam bandhaḥ — Knowledge is Bo***ge
Knowledge, the pride of the intellect, becomes the very chain that binds us.
With knowledge come comparisons — what I know versus what you know.
Our learning, shaped by society, religion, and culture, often divides more than it unites.
This is borrowed knowledge — reflections, not realization.
True knowing is not of the mind but of the Self.
If we are not yet aware of who we are, how can we claim to know consciousness itself?
3. Yonivargaḥ kālasarīram — Nature as the Home of Action
Every desire plants a seed (yoni).
Each seed grows in time (kāla) into thoughts, attachments, and compulsions — the body of time itself (kālasarīram).
Until our desires are fulfilled or transcended, the tree keeps growing — birthing restlessness, conflict, and exhaustion.
When we act from awareness rather than craving, the body of time dissolves, and only pure action remains — effortless, alive, and free.
And then dawns the next awakening:
Udhyamo Bhairavaḥ — The Upwelling is Bhairava.
From stillness rises the surge of consciousness — fierce, ecstatic, alive — shattering all limits of the small self.
Here begins the dance of the awakened being.
Each Sunday at 09:00 PM IST, seekers gather on X Spaces — a digital "satsang" where these sutras are not studied but lived.
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