Vedantham : ( 07/11/2012. )

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VEDANTA FOR BEGINNERS - 26. SWAMI SIVANANDA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, February 13, 2021. 09:32. AM. 5.. ILLUSTRATIONS IN VEDANTA - Section II Post-26 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Butter In Milk Butter or ghee exists in milk. But where is it? It cannot be perceived. But it is present everywhere in milk, in each and every drop of milk. There is no particle of milk where butter or ghee is not present. In the same manner Brahman is present everywhere; and there is no speck of space where Brahman is not. But Brahman cannot be perceived and It seems...

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, February 13, 2021. 09:32. AM. 5.. ILLUSTRATIONS IN VEDANTA - (Nyayas) Post-25. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Vedanta Philosophy is best taught through practical illustrations of daily life, because its abstract truths cannot be understood by the finite intellect very easily. The main purport of Vedanta is that Brahman alone is real and the whole world of appearance is unreal, and that the Jiva s nothing but Brahman Itself. This abstruse theory cannot be comprehended by ordinary men of small understanding, who are immersed in the life of relativity and ignorance. They are taught this ublime Truth by means of illustrations suitable to them, so that they may fix their minds on the eality through various angles of  vision. ---------------------------------...

  ----------------------------------------------------- Monday, January 11, 2021. 04:50. PM. 4. I’ IS THE SOUL AND NOT THE BODY. Post-24. ----------------------------------------- A sense is not soul, because you can apprehend an object through any other sense, e.g., “Previously I saw a tree and now I touch it;”—such an expression will be meaningless if ‘I’ is not different from the eye which cannot touch, and from the skin which cannot see. The ‘I’ or the Soul is distinct from the senses. ----------------------- There is a fixed relation between the senses and their objects, e.g., between the eye and colour, the ear and sound, and so on. It is the eye and not the ear that can apprehend colour, and it is the ear and not the eye that can apprehend sound. If a sense were the Soul, it (the Soul) could apprehend only one object, but the ‘I’ can apprehend many objects; the ‘I’ can see colour, hear sound, and so on. Therefore, the ‘I’ or the Soul which confers unity on the various kinds ...

  ----------------------------------------- Sunday, January 03, 2021. 08:06. AM. 3. ADHYAROPA OR SUPERIMPOSITION-2. Post-23. -------------------------------------------------- You are in search of a rope. You find one. But in the dark you mistake it to be a snake. You run away from it. You search all other places in the house and fail to find a rope. Your brother brings a light and shows you the rope which you mistook for a snake. You now see the rope. Just as you found the rope in the snake itself, even so, you will see Brahman in the objects of the world themselves. You cannot run away to the mountain-caves in search of Brahman. You have to practise seeing the Lord or Brahman in each and every object around you. When you are able to cognise the Reality underlying the objects, you will no more be deluded. ------------------------- The highly exalted Brahmanishtha-Guru for whom there is no world comes down from his exalted state to teach the disciple. He is even then fully consciou...

  ------------------------------------------ Wedne sday, November 11, 2020. 08:46. AM. 3. ADHYAROPA OR SUPERIMPOSITION-1. Post-22. ------------------------------------------ Adhyaropa is superimposition! This is one of the fundamental principles of Vedanta. You cannot proceed with the study of Vedanta without understanding Adhyaropa. In reality, this world was never created. This world is superimposed on Brahman. This world is imagined where there exists only Brahman. This is Adhyaropa. This superimposition is sublated through the Yukti called Apavada. ------------------------------- You want to meet your friend Sri Rampratap. When you go to his house, he is not there. Somebody tells you that he has gone to a particular shop in the bazaar. You wait at his door and in a short time you see someone coming, who looks like Rampratap. From a distance you determine in your mind that the person coming is none but Rampratap. But after some time when he actually comes near you, you find that...

  ------------------------------------------ Tuesday, October 20, 2020. 08:01. AM. 2. PHILOSOPHY OF RAGA-DVESHA Post-21. ------------------------------------------ Raga and Dvesha (likes and dislikes) only constitute this Samsara or this world of phenomena. It can be totally destroyed by knowledge of Brahman. Raga-Dvesha is a Vasana. It has four states. Raga-Dvesha, Vasanas, Samskaras and Gunas are intertwined. They co-exist. The seat of Raga-Dvesha is the mind and the senses. Destruction of one will lead to the destruction of others. But the destruction of the source, Avidya or Ajnana, the seed of  msara, through Brahma-Jnana will destroy everything to the very root. The cultivation of virtues like Maitri (friendship), Karuna, (mercy), Mudita (complacency) and  peksha (indifference) can thin out or attenuate Raga-Dvesha. This is the Pratipaksha-Bhavana method or  ultivation of the opposite positive qualities, of the Raja Yogins. Destruction of Avidya will lead to th...

  ------------------------------------------ Saturday, October 10, 2020. 07:29. AM. 1. Introduction - 20. 20. DHYAROPA OR SUPERIMPOSITION ------------------------------------------ 20.ADHYAROPA OR SUPERIMPOSITION : Adhyaropa is superimposition! This is one of the fundamental principles of Vedanta. You cannot proceed with the study of Vedanta without understanding Adhyaropa. In reality, this world was never created. This world is superimposed on Brahman. This world is imagined where there exists only Brahman. This is Adhyaropa. This superimposition is sublated through the Yukti called Apavada. You want to meet your friend Sri Rampratap. When you go to his house, he is not there.Somebody tells you that he has gone to a particular shop in the bazaar. You wait at his door and in a short time you see someone coming, who looks like Rampratap. From a distance you determine in your mind that the person coming is none but Rampratap. But after some time when he actually comes near you, you f...