Vedantham : ( 07/11/2012. )

Pursuing our enquiry further, we shall, on analysis of the memory bits and hope-flakes, discover that they have only a reality with reference either to the dead past or unborn future.  That means the ego in me has no existence in the present moment; it thrives in the burial-ground of the dead hours and in the womb of time. Swami Chinmayananda. Next :- This ego-is in fact a myth! ( Continues.....)  

Each of you now please ask this question to yourself :" Who is this ? Or what  constitutes this ego - sense in me ?" Is not the I - Personality in each of us nothing but memories of certain facts of life lived in the past such as, I am the son /daughter of so - and - so, educated, lived, loved, hated, taught,  etc. ? In short, I am the sum - total of all the retained memories of all vivid experiences I have had in the past. The I - concept includes, also, my hopes for the future. By Swami Chinmayananda. Next- Memory bits and Hope - flakes :  Continues......  

There are in us two distinct personalities : the God and the Man. The birthright of manhood is the experiences of limitations and death. In its very nature of Godhood is unlimited and immortal. Our attachment to the false negatives in us - the manhood  -  is the cause  of all the salt-hill ant melancholia. Detach yourself from the manhood, you regain Godhood. This is the theory of Vedantham, and Upanishads. Jnana Yajna is an attempt to convince ourselves that by ending the man in us we gain the God within. If there be an enemy concealed in us, who is the cause of our imbecilities and sorrows, the sooner we unearth and destroy him the earlier we shall come to realise our aim. Who is then our enemy? Unanimously all the Sastras ( sciences) and scriptures point : "It is the Ego." "Kill this little 'I' to live ." "End the  ego and end the woe".  If the ego in us is the Samsarin, if ego is the tormentor, if the ego is the enemy, let us spy on ...

Explanation with a short-story :- ----------------------------------------- An ant living in a salt-hill met a friend of his from a sugar mill. The fat corpulent, cheerful sugar-mill ant enquired in sympathy and friendship if there was famine in the salt-hill, for the later was thin, emaciated  and melancholy. During the meeting it was decided that the salt-hill ant should visit the home of the fat friend of sugar-mill. While packing for the trip  to the sugar-mill, the salt-hill ant carried a few day's ration with it. Even after a couple of day's stay in the mount of sugar the salt-hill ant looked all the more depressed and unhappy. His host was anxious and worried. On enquiry for the cause of his depression, the salt-hill ant replied, "friend, there is every comfort here. But the taste of your food does not suit me." It was a shocking surprise to the host. "If sugar which is all but sweetness is not sweet to the friend" he wondered  "what...

                                                           Swami Adi Sankaracharya In one of our most important Upanishads, the Kathopanishad, we have the story of an aspirant reaching the very portico of Death, and there face to face with him, the seeker enquires about the Supreme knowledge.  This must be the spirit of true student of Vedantha. Life and Death are in reality so close together that it is ordinarily even difficult to distinguish  between them. To have the courage to continue seeking even after death is real living. To a seeker, if he be honest and persevering, there is no death. It is in this sense that we consider, and our Sastras declare, that the great Saints, Sages, Incarnations and Prophets are immortal. They are immortal in the sense that they understood the meaning of life and lived that meaning...