This is the world’s first Advaitic birthday song, written by Swami Swatmananda of Chinmaya Mission in 2025🙏✨
Advaita and Birthday are oxymorons. Neither the entity celebrating the birthday is real, nor Birth is real, nor day(concept of time) is real in the Infinite Self or Consciousness. Real is defined in Advaita Vedanta as that which is Changeless in the 3 periods of time: Past, Present and Future.
Birth, change, death belong to the body. Not to the Self or Consciousness. An advaitin knows this and celebrates the Self every moment, not birthdays once a year.
Yet, if the so-called Birthday is to be celebrated then the birthday song to be sung that day and every moment is
“I was never born.
I am not born.
I will never be born.
Aham Brahmasmi”
(After singing the song, do the action of blowing away something from your hand.)
Forget blowing candles — Vedantins blow away ignorance of the Self(which does not really exist from Self standpoint. Can there be darkness for the Sun?).
Let go of cutting the cake. An Advaitin, cuts the so-called ego, lives blissfully as Consciousness or the Self(Sat-Chit-Ananda or Existence-Consciousness-Bliss).
The Bhagavad Geeta Chapter 2 Verse 20 mentions this:
na jāyate mriyate vā kadācit
nāyaṁ bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥ,
ajo nityaḥ śāśvato’yam purāṇo-
na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre. (20)
He(Self) is not born, nor does He(Self) ever die; after having been, He(Self) again ceases not to be; Unborn, Eternal, Changeless and Ancient, He(Self) is not killed when the body is killed.
Swami Chinmayanandaji in his commentary on the above verse says,”This stanza labours to deny in the Self all the symptoms of mutability that are recognised and experienced by the body. The body is prone to different changes and these modifications are the sources of all sorrows in every embodiment. These six changes are common to all and they may be enumerated as: birth, existence, growth, decay, disease and death. These changes are the common womb of all pains in a mortal’s life. All these are denied in the Self in this stanza, to prove the immutability of the Self. Unlike the physical body, the Self is not born; It being the Eternal Factor that exists at all times. Waves are born and they die away but the ocean is not born with the waves; nor does it die when the waves disappear. Since there is no birth, there is no death, things that have a beginning alone can end; the rising waves alone can moan their dying conditions. Again, it is explained that like the birth of a child who was not in existence before, and who has come to exist after the birth, the Atman is not something that has come to be born due to or because of the body. Thus the Self is Unborn, Eternal, Birthless, and Deathless (Ajah, Nityah).”
The great statement “ahaṁ brahmāsmi” (अहं ब्रह्मास्मि) is one of the Mahāvākyas (great declarations) of the Upaniṣads, specifically from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (1.4.10) of the Śukla Yajurveda.
Aham (अहम्) – “I” – not the ego-personality, body, or mind, but the Pure Witnessing Consciousness (Self or Ātman).
Brahma (ब्रह्म) – the Infinite, Formless, attributeless Absolute Reality, the substratum of everything.
Asmi (अस्मि) – “am” – the immediate identity, not future attainment.
Thus, the statement reveals:
“The real ‘I’ (Self or Ātman) is not separate from Brahman, the Infinite Reality. My essential nature is that Limitless Consciousness.”
Poojya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda says:
“This Mahāvākya is a thunderbolt for the ego. The finite individual disappears in the recognition of Infinite Being. To live in this awareness is to live in Brahmanhood, free of delusion.”
May we realise & live as Brahman.
Would you dare to celebrate your so-called birthday like an Advaitin? Share your thoughts in the comments.
Share this with maximum people.
