Understanding Purna - ‘COMPLETENESS’

We would like to start with the Ishavasya Upnishad which talks about what is COMPLETE. In order to understand the trueness and wholeness of ‘Sat’ we have to first understand what is COMPLETENESS.

The first shlok in the Ishavasya Upnishad is

Om purnamadah purnamidam purnaat purnamudachyate
purnasya purnaamadaya purnameva vashishyate.

purnamadah: 'That is complete.'
purnamidam: 'This is complete.'
purnamadah purnamidam: 'That is complete, this is complete'.
purnat purna mudachyate: 'From that completeness comes this completeness'
purnasya purnamadaya: - If we take away this completeness from that completeness'
purnameva vashishyate: 'Only completeness remains.'

Let’s begin our Journey on the way to Completeness with the sound of TatSat.

The next topic will explain why to begin with Om or Aum and what is the similarity between Om and Amen.

For now, Hari Om, TatSat ||

Why TatSat and not anything else?

In this practical world, knowledge is not shared thoroughly and people run after intermediate things like ‘stress reliever programs and processes’ which only provide relief for the time being. What they do not provide is an ‘in depth’ knowledge of TatSat because even such schools of thoughts have become big business.

In today’s living, we have left behind many significant aspects of our evolution, including knowledge and understanding of basics. We are so surrounded by material things and pleasures that we have unknowingly sidelined the finer aspects of life. These ‘finer’ aspects are really something which require attention in order to lead a better life. Pursuit of happiness can be accomplished in true sense only if we follow the path of Truth. Gandhijee tried to do it and he was able to prove that it is possible to handle bigger responsibilities like liberating a nation and yet, continue with the ‘search of truth’. In many of his books, he mentions that ‘Truth is God in itself’.

After working on various topics over nights, we have realised that ultimately we all are in search of ‘eternal happiness’ and this everlasting contentment is achieved only through the understanding, knowledge and experience of what is ONE, ONLY and ULTIMATE.

Tat = That or all that is
Sat = Truth – the Ultimate Truth which is not ephemeral

What is TatSat?

TatSat has begun at a very fortunate moment. 18th August 2007 was the day - in fact, night - when the idea of TatSat began in an informal conversation between Raj Vaidya and Bhavesh N. Pattni.

Generally topics that require deep understanding and an endless thought process begin after a lot of contemplation. However, in our case, the discussion initiated very casually and, in no time, it was in the ‘high spirits’ mode. We were both talking about Destiny and it’s design, which has been explained in the Vedas, the Upnishadas and even explicitly discussed by spiritual Gurus or Masters.

We believe that we are in the process of ‘making’; so first of all, we would like to clarify that whatever we will be discussing here is based upon our level of understanding ‘today’ and that it may change tomorrow. The line on which we are walking is very thin and hence, there can be times when we might radically differ from what we have explained in previous posts. Having said that, we also humbly put forward that we have luckily been able to achieve the level wherein the chances of such radical difference between our two posts are very less. If at all our readers find such differences, we expect them to kindly try and understand the process that we are undergoing in order to enlighten ourselves and so this world too, and forgive us for such contradictions. In fact, we talk about two extremes - we would hardly know where the neutral point or ‘zero’ is and this is all about ZERO.

We have other contributors like Mr. Ravichand Nallapa – we call him Ravijee with love and respect. Ravijee is also in the process of understanding the ‘oneness’ of this ‘wholeness’. We always have insightful discussions with him. In this Blog, we will try to put transliteration or transcripts of our conversations with Ravijee.