The mystic 'vamana', 'Mahabali' and 'sahaja samadhi'

The mystic 'vamana', 'Mahabali' and 'sahaja samadhi'
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On the banks of the river Narmada, in front of the fire of sacrifice, Mahabali sat with his wife Vindhyavali, waiting for their Guru Sukracharya. Soon Vamana, the embodiment of spiritual enlightenment, reached the venue of sacrifice. After greeting each other, Mahabali asked Vamana to demand anything he would like. vamana:” Give me three feet of land, so that I can sit and meditate.I don`t want anything more!”. Sukracharya immediately , reached the scene, and ordered Mahabali , not to give Vamana anything , recognizing that Vamana was none other than Lord Mahavishnu himself. But Mahabali hailing from the noble family of Prahlada, took a firm decision, to donate three feet of land to Vamana, disobeying his guru Sukracharya.Immediately Vamana, the incarnation of Lord Mahavishnu, occupied the three worlds, with his all encompassing divine feet, rendering Mahabali homeless.

Now we shall go through, the esoteric ism behind this story. Mahabali actually represents our mind which is nothing but a conglomeration of thought constructs and Ego. The mind is always influenced by both material and spiritual thoughts. Sukracharya is none other than the promoter of desire- prompted actions ( karma vasana). Giving too much importance to material pursuits make us spiritual pigmies( Vamana). Disobeying Sukracharya, the arrogant promoter of desire-prompted actions, one should enter the divine land of spiritual beatitude, by absolute self- surrender, renouncing not only one`s possessions ( Mind) but the possessor ( Ego) too. Here the spiritual pigmy becomes a spiritual giant. Thus casting away, the gnawing grip of 'gunas' ( sathwa-light, rajas-activity and thamas-ignorance) from our minds, the all pervading, pure, infinite consciousness (Mahavishnu), occupies our three states of finite consciousness( wakeful , dream and deep sleep )- the three feet of land.

When the ocean of cosmic consciousness, flow back,through the river of finite consciousness of the aspirant of Brahmavidya, cosmic pralaya or cosmic flood occurs there in the mind, resulting in total enlightenment, self-realization and sahaja samadhi. ‘Thiruvonam’, celebrated by keralites, every year , is actually our aspiration for spiritual enlightenment and fulfilment.

~SWAATHMAARAAMAN