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VEDANTA FOR BEGINNERS -4. SWAMI SIVANANDA

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======================================================================== ======================================================================== 28/11/2019. 4. RENUNCIATION : ======================================================================== The Atman can be realised only through renunciation. You have enjoyed sensual objects in millions of births. You have enjoyed sensual objects for so many years in this birth. If there has not come satisfaction in you till now, when will it come, then? Do not run after the mirage of sensual objects. The senses are deluding you. Develop dispassion and renunciation. Realise your Atman. Then only you will get eternal satisfaction, everlasting peace and immortal bliss. Wake up from your slumber of ignorance, O worldly fool! If your body-clothes catch fire, with what celerity you want to run towards water for cooling you? You must feel like this from the burning fire of Samsara. You should feel that you are roasted in the fire of Sa

VEDANTA FOR BEGINNERS -1,2 and 3. SWAMI SIVANANDA

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======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07/11/2019. Dear members, on request of some who not understood this subject well, restarting from the beginning to make them follow well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. INTRODUCTION : Vedanta is the culmination of the Vedas. It is entering into the study of Brahman. It is the science which raises man above the plane of worldliness. It is the rational method of meditating on the Supreme Absolute, the Eternal, the Infinite. Vedanta is the culmination of human experience and is the end of the faculty of thinking. It is the greatest and the highest knowledge. This wisdom was revealed to the ancient sages. The Rishis and sages of yore have made experiments and researches in meditation and given