Vedantham : ( 07/11/2012. )

 ============================================================== ============================================================== Thursday, February 10, 2022. 19:00. Khanda X : Siva Jnana Amrita Upanishad : Post-29. ============================================================= SIVA-JNANAMRITA UPANISHAD ============================================================ Om! O gods! may we, with our ears, hear what is auspicious! O ye, fit to be worshipped! May we, with our eyes, see what is auspicious! May we enjoy the life allotted to us by the gods, offering our praise with our bodies strong of limbs! Om Peace Peace Peace!ed! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram : 1. yadetatràmaråpàtmakaü jagat tadàbhàsamàtram | na tad brahmaõaþ purastàt pratitiùñhati | rajjusarpanyàyena brahmaõi jagato.adhyàsaþdehàdhayàyasa÷ca || 1 || 1. This world of names and forms is a mere appearance. It has no independent existence apart from Brahman. ...

 ============================================================== =============================================================== Thursday, January 20, 2022. 06:00.AM. Pseudo-Vedantic Student : Post-28. ============================================================= PSEUDO-VEDANTIC STUDENT : A young aspirant says: “I have taste for Vedanta only. I do not like either Bhakti or Karma Yoga. They are far inferior to Vedanta. Only Vedanta elevates me. Only Vedanta inspires me and raises me to the magnanimous heights of Divine Splendour and Glory.” This foolish Vedantic student is like the greedy typhoid patient with ulcers in his bowels, who wants to eat and says, “I have taste for sweetmeats. I want to eat them now.” What will be the result if he eats Rasgullas and Laddus at this stage? The bowels will rupture and he will die of bleeding from the bowels or intestinal haemorrhage immediately. He is also like the patient who selects himself a medicine from the almirah, Liquor Arsenicals or T...

======================================================================================= ======================================================================================= Saturday, February 13, 2021. 09:32. AM. VEDANTA FOR BEGINNERS 6.SIVA-VIDYA :  Post-27 ==================================================================================== ========================================================================================================= Khanda I : Nature Of Brahman : Om! Brahman or Siva or the Impersonal Absolute is the Source and Substratum for the world of phenomena. He is the Source of the Vedas. From Him this world proceeds. In Him it lives. In Him it gets dissolved. He is Eternal, Self-existent, Self-luminous and Self-contained. He is all-Full. He is beyond Time, Space and Causation. He is birthless, deathless and decayless. Khanda II : Contradictions Reconciled He moves and moves not. He moves in His manifested or Saguna aspect. He moves not in His transcendental ...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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...