SWAMI DAYANANDA SARASWATI : (Interview with non duality magazine) -6.

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NDM: Is it possible to become fully enlightened without the traditional Vedanta training?
           

            Swamiji: We don’t need to have the traditional Vedanta training. But Vedanta is a teaching – there is a method in the teaching because I am solving a problem that doesn’t exist. When I am solving a problem that doesn’t exist I have to follow a method. It is like therapy.      

            You cannot write it in a book. You can never make someone a therapist by giving him a set of books. The therapist himself has to undergo hundreds of hours of therapy first because there is no medicine, there is nothing, nor does the therapist really solves the problem. He makes the person talk and sometimes points out, “This is not your fault.” Shifts the attention, shifts the whole blame from the person to another. That is what the therapist does. The therapist doesn’t really do anything except make the person see – validates the feeling, “If I were a child, I would have the same thing.” And that means there is a law. There is an order. And therefore, the child is not to blame. The child is innocent. But somebody is to blame. That is therapy.          

            We have a super-therapy. Nobody is to blame. (Laughter) Neither you are to blame, nor is anybody to blame. It’s all in order. So it’s a method. It’s a method, and therefore that method is the tradition Adyaropa apavadabhyam nisprapañcam prapañcate. By this method of superimposition and negation what is already free is set free.          

            It’s a method. It’s magic. And therefore, you cannot replace the teacher either, because the package is with the teacher. Sastra [scripture] and the acarya [teacher] both come together. You cannot separate one from the other. The teaching and the teacher don’t get separated.          

            Therefore, you need not have a traditional Vedanta training, but you should have exposure to a traditional teacher that’s all.


Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Arsha vidya gurukulum temple hall

To be continued  ...

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