According to Hindu philosophy (Sanatana dharma), life does not end in 100 years. Life is cyclical, not linear. You can see that all around us, the seasons, from seed to tree and seed, weather patterns, rotation and revolution of the planets, birth and death of beings.

All beings have the desire to be happy, and we go after that. We want tasty food, buy colorful clothes, get new toys, decorate our houses, travel and seek happiness.

Every religion teaches us to be good in our behavior. According to Hinduism (I mean as Hinduism but its Sanatana dharma), Rishi, muni, holy, sage, Gita mentions that a person grows from childhood to old age. But inside the person does not change, eventually, that immutable takes another body. What decides the next body of him, the karmas of him…? If we want a good body and life, we need to do good, that is, act for the common good. Avoid negativity.

“Yatha karma, yatha shrutham”… “As you act, so shall you be!”

Once you are born, you will experience duality, but if one goes beyond that duality, one is in Bliss. What is bliss? Upanishads (Vedanta) teach us how to reach that state of Bliss.

Many people have no idea of ​​a state beyond duality… They want happiness but every happy situation also has an opposite side. Let’s say a person inherited a house and lived there for a hundred years. So his son decided to demolish the old property and rebuild it with modern conveniences. While he was digging, he found a treasure underneath. For three generations, they lived there. I did not know that! Similarly, we all have a treasure that we are not aware of.

We can call it by any name God, Consciousness, Consciousness or whatever, but there is only One that animates this body and the entire universe… Without verifying that, we are looking for happiness outside of ourselves… All objects and all people . Scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists and many more! These are important to expand our potential to explore, but as we get deeper into the investigation, the periphery seems to expand in all directions! We keep walking on the treasure and we haven’t recognized it.

That treasure is Satyam-jnanm-anantham, Existence-Consciousness-Bliss

Sathyam here does not mean the opposite of ‘lie’, but THAT which exists at all times. You can ask, ‘Everything exists, what does not exist?’ There are some without ISness like a mirage! Although it appears to be, it is not there. This Truth is always present, it is not affected or changed by any other knowledge as once the rope is seen in the dark, the knowledge of the snake disappears.

It is present in trikale. Trikale, the three periods of time should not be interpreted as past, present and future because time was created by humans. The Truth existed even before time, it just means that the Truth existed when one was ignorant, during the Knowledge and after obtaining the knowledge. As if the rope existed before you knew it, when you thought it was a snake, and after you realized it’s not a snake.

Consciousness is ‘you know you exist!’ You don’t need someone to tell you that, or a light to recognize that you exist while a tree or a rock or the five elements don’t know that they exist. That realization is awareness.

Bliss is Happiness, the moment of delight, not only momentary, but eternal. Pleasure, happiness, joy, bliss are all different proportions of the glimpse of the ultimate. That is Truth/sathyam, now where is it?

Taitriya Upanishad says in the cave of the heart. (guhai in Tamil). It’s covered by our likes and dislikes… They cover it up so we can’t see it. When the mind is calm, clean, pure we can do it. In this world, whatever you do, you can only get that result, but when self-knowledge is achieved, everything is achieved… we buy a bicycle but we also want a car, we buy a house but we are not satisfied until we buy a refrigerator, an air conditioner in each room, with a continuous list, never satisfied, but this self-knowledge… gives complete satisfaction. Everything in the world is based on conditions and duality. That unconditional Bliss is in all of us, but we just don’t know it. That is atmanandam.

To do anything, to achieve anything in this world, talent or skill is needed, but to obtain this knowledge there are no restrictions, at any time for anyone. All you need is the desire to know. Spirituality…can happen at any age…can happen at any time. We need to follow the rules, practice from the beginning, long periods like an athlete, the key is consistency. Eventually everyone takes this path to enter spirituality one day, the sooner the better. All the Upanishads give the same answer even though the questions are different. Our life is not 100 years, we have to start at some point, better to start early so that in this great opportunity of human birth, we can eliminate fear, anger and experience inner peace only in this life.

Self-knowledge, Atma jnanam is illustrated in all Sanatana dharma scriptures as the purpose of human birth. Kenopanishad discusses what is behind the five organs of perception, Kathopanishad explains life after death, Thaithriya upanishad describes 5 kosas, five layers, Mandukya Upanishad focuses on three states of our experiences (turiyam)

Let’s focus on Atma bodha, a simple and easy text for universal search engines.