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✨Verse 3
असूर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसावृताः।
तांस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥3॥
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▫️Transliteration:
असूर्याः = Asūrya (sunless); नाम = by the name; ते = those; लोकाः = worlds; अन्धेन = darkness; तमसा = Tamāṣ; आवृताः = covered; ये के च = whoever; जनाः = people; आत्महनः = self-slayers; ते = they; प्रेत्य = after dying; तान् = those; अभिगच्छन्ति = attain to.
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▫️Translation:
Those worlds, by the name ‘Asūrya’ (sunless), are covered by darkness (Tamāṣ). Those who are self-slayers, attain to those worlds after death.
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📖✍️ Notes(4/07/2026):
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In today’s Vedanta Samhita session, Acharya Ji beautifully described the essence of the above verse pointing towards a rare acknowledgement of the ego ~ ‘self slaying’ which inspite of being a common inner phenomenon is very rare to acknowledge by it when the ego lacks intent.

▪️ What is self slaying?
~ The act of slaying the self(ego) where the ego is involved in its own destruction.
~ ‘आत्म’ in the word ‘आत्महनः’ in the above shloka doesn’t refer to ‘आत्मा’ which means ‘that which is never born and hence never going to die.’
~ ‘आत्म’ here refers to the ‘ego’ and this same ego is available to be slayed in the the process of self slaying ie., the one who is available to death.
~ Hence, self slaying is actually the process where the ego is slaying its own opportunity to turn alive.
~ Slaying here refers to self destruction.

▪️ What is death?
~ आत्महनः - the process of self slaying here refers to the real process death.
~ Who is dying? - The Ego is the one who dies in this process. The body doesn’t die, nor does the body took any birth.
~ The ego dies and returns every moment. It’s like, there is no final ‘death’ to the ego until the body stays in a particular configuration.
~ The material body never dies.. its constituents remain as it is in the nature. It just looses a particular configuration once the physical structure is physically dismantled. Once this ‘particular configuration’ of the body is gone, only then the ego permanently dies.
~ As long as the body remains, there is no final death to the ego. Until the body stays in that particular configuration, the ego keeps coming back even after dying multiple times.

▪️There is no final Enlightenment!
~ That’s why ‘constant attention’ is needed as there is nothing called ‘Final Enlightenment’.
~ Just as dirt & dust returns to the surface of the body, the ego will also return and hence just like you need to constantly wipe your body to wipe off that dust, similarly ego also needs to be ‘dissolved’ every moment to wipe off its own self destruction. There is no final wiping off until the physical configuration of the body is not gone.
~ The dissolution/reduction of the body is never a final certificate.

▪️ The Choice..
~ If you perceive the ego as a vertical range having two ends, the lowest end is ‘Death’ and the highest end is ‘Life’.
~ The ego itself will ‘choose’ where it will place itself in the range.
~ The highest point of the range ie., ‘Life’ will comprise of choices like ‘self dissolution’, ‘love’, ‘responsibility’, ‘freedom(liberation)’, ‘infinite potential’, etc..
~ The lowest point of the range ie., ‘Death’ will comprise of choices like ‘self preservation’, ‘security’, ‘comfort’, ‘duty’, ‘bondage(identification)’, ‘scripted performance’, etc..
~ The ‘Saints’ has to work continuously to dissolve the ego towards ‘Life’.
~ The ‘Slayers’ has to work continuously to slay towards ‘Death’.

▪️Asurya - The Sunless
~ The act of slaying the self will repeatedly make you enter into a dark world - Asurya ie., the world of darkness.
~ The world of darkness is like a world where the light of the sun is covered with a haze of ignorance.
~ In this dark world, the ego will die again and again without ever dying fully.

▪️How to make the Right Choice?
~ Relieve yourself from previously made bad choices.
~ Every bad choice will sum up to a negative infinite along with it. Even though it may appear on the surface level that your are choosing ‘few positive points’ while choosing the bad choice, but the net sum will be anyways ‘negative’ because you will be ignoring the big ‘negative infinite’ already adding up to that choice.

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👉 What is a right choice according to you? Why do you think the ego keeps on choosing the dark world? How would it be possible for the ego to come out of this dark world?

We must have heard the names of these two famous modern day philosophers ‘Acharya Prashant’ and ‘Jiddu Krishnamurti’, but do you know that most of their opinions and ways of describing Spirituality is not at all same.
There are so many evident differences between the philosophical opinions of these two philosophers, that tracing or following one can lead you to a complete different way of understanding and living.

One of such crucial difference arise when they describe their respective opinions on the authorisation of “Guru ~ The Spiritual Teacher”. Where one is strictly against the authorisation of a Guru, and another one is expressing gratitude towards the same.

👉 Who do you think in your opinion is a true Guru? Do you think for initiating one’s Spiritual journey, one needs the assistance of a Guru? Why do you think people look for a Guru in Spirituality?

Short Video link: https://youtube.com/shorts/WnJsvas2nmo?si=-weYEPfgSoBQVh6x

Long Video link: https://youtu.be/ayREDZFJfuI?si=wC2XDVGyHQfRwDzw

A woman should not be emotionally or biologically dependent on a man and “a man should never be at the centre of a woman’s world”.
The above video strongly portrays the real purpose of a human being which is to stay away from the gender identities and to be a human being completely at its full potential.

What you think about a woman’s psychological world in today times!? Do you think that modern women have truly become ‘modern’ or they are still under the clutches of that ‘old’ psychological darker ego?

Recently heard some of beautiful timeless poetic lines of Sant Kabir Saheb from Acharya Prashant’s Vedanta Sessions.

Every line of his just captivates your mind like magic✨ and once you start listening or reading them deeply, they just dissolve you so beautifully that you start losing even the sense of yourself and become one with those poetic rhymes.

In recent times of Climate Catastrophe, we can even relate Sant Kabir’s timeless philosophy with the existing patterns human beings exercise.. Nothing has changed! During his time also people were ‘running away’ from the solutions and now also they are doing the same: “Running.. Just Running away!!”

Have you heard these lines of Sant Kabir Saheb before? What do you think when you listen to them? Do they resonate with your mind deeply and tickle something within when you listen to them?

Happy Sant Kabir Saheb Jayanti 🧡🙏🏻

YouTube link for the above short video: https://youtube.com/shorts/Bzo6ECdeXvw?si=ejr1dx5M58QDKplY

When I am with Kabir Saheb, I feel grateful for being alive. He would work the entire day and had the courage to speak Truth to power, the bare Truth, the hard hitting Truth. Never mix it up, never dilute it, and put things as they are.

Macho man! My hero and I have been a fanboy! He is my superhero.

And the sheer depth of his realisation and the absolute simplicity of his expression - such fantastic mastery is rarely seen elsewhere. Obviously you get glimpses of it at many other places as well. I respect all of them, all of them are very dear to me, I worship them but when it comes to Kabir Saheb I said, "I am a fanboy".

When he speaks, when he sings, I can just stand and clap all day. Brute honesty and child-like simplicity, how can you put these two together? Kabir Saheb does.

When it came to cruelty towards animals, Kabir Saheb is in another league. He is probably the only well known figure in the history of religion who has spoken very clearly, loudly and unsparingly against cruelty to animals and flesh eating.

Kabira! The highest that the world can ever know is calling himself 'Kabira'. Oh, who will not fall in love with such a hero?

🙏 Happy Sant. Kabir Jayanti

We generally think that people who have been eating non-vegetarian food since childhood or who are having layers of family background of eating non-vegetarian food can never feel compassionate towards animals ever.

But maybe facts have that power to showcase clarity! In this video, you will be able to see stories of two non-vegetarians who turned vegan after realising the facts of reality. Where, one turned vegan because of imbibing with the compassion he felt for animals and then decided not to kill them ever! And the other one turned vegan when she realised the impacts of Climate Change on earth and then decided to give importance to the facts over her taste buds!!

👉What you guys think about this? Is it possible for people eating non vegetarian food since childhood to acknowledge real facts and turn compassionate leaving behind their pasts to choose healthy living in present?