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  ------------------------------------------ Friday, November 13, 2020. 07 : 12. AM. Chapter-2. The Critique of Erroneous Doctrines - 2. ---------------------------------- Iha amutra vishaya tyaga is necessary. If you have no desire for anything outside; you have accepted that there is nothing outside Brahman and you are therefore wanting to know Brahman. You should not be dishonest to your own self, by saying 'I want something else', 'I have got a desire for something else'. When Brahman is the Only existent thing, how would you allow the mind to long for another thing? This is an erroneous attitude of the so-called seeker of Brahman. Already a warning is given. Unless the longings for the pleasures of this world as well as the other world are abolished and obliterated completely, one cannot become fit for the knowledge of Brahman. ------------------------------ What are the joys of this world? So many sense-enjoyments; beautiful things to see, beautiful things to hear

---------------------------------------------------------- Saturday,October 24, 2020. 07 : 12. AM. Chapter-2. The Critique of Erroneous Doctrines - 1. -------------------------------------------------------------- Where one does not see anything outside, where one does not hear anything outside, where one does not understand or think anything outside – That Great Being, Plenum of Felicity is Brahma. But if there is someone to see, hear see, hear and understand and imagine that one is going to know Brahman, that Brahman would not be the real Brahman because the point to be remembered always is that Brahman is inclusiveness. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brhmati iti brahma; Everything is inside It. Even the one aspiring to know It is included in It. So there is no such thing as aspiring to know Brahman! This is the problem of Jnana Marga. Nobody can touch Jnana. It will close all talk and people can go crazy because their mind cannot u

  ------------------------------------------ Saturday, September 26, 2020.  Chapter 1: The Forest of the Brahma Sutra -7. --------------------------------------------- Consciousness cannot be divided into parts, something here, something there. Because even to imagine a sub-division in consciousness, consciousness has to be present in the division itself. So nobody can conceive a division of consciousness. That would be a self-contradiction. Then, in that case, when the infinite consciousness establishes itself in itself, as the crystal would remain pure and shining as it was, the question arises: 'where is the rose at that time'? As consciousness is infinite, it is omniscient, it knows everything, and there is no rose outside it! If this state of omniscience of consciousness is moksha as the Sankhya says, does that omniscient consciousness know that there is a rose flower outside it? The rose flower is only an example of matter, world, Prakriti. If due to the omniscience of co

------------------------------------------- Thursday, August 06, 2020. 9:38. AM. Chapter 1: The Forest of the Brahma Sutra -6. --------------------------------------------- Suppose there is a pure crystal which is radiating light from all sides. You bring a red rose flower near this crystal. You will see the whole crystal is red because of the reflection of the rose flower in the crystal. You may say this is a form of contact of the rose flower with the crystal. Crystal may be compared to consciousness, rose flower to matter. Don't you agree that they have come in contact with each other? The fact that the crystal has not become the rose, but imagines that it is the rose, is the bondage of the crystal. That the matter of the world outside cannot touch you and you are pure consciousness, and yet it appears as if the objects have entered your mind and tempt you and repel you, is the tragedy of the whole of life. This is one explanation the Sankhya gives. Two things do not really meet

Friday, July 10, 2020. 9:25. AM. Chapter 1: The Forest of the Brahma Sutra -5. Vedantacharyas and people who teach Vedanta generally do not follow Bhamati's view or Sureshwaracharya's. Panchapadika's view is taken usually, with its commentary known as vivarana. The whole text of Panchadasi written by Swami Vidyaranya follows the line of Panchapadika of Padmapada. What is its speciality? The objective world must be existing. You cannot simply say your mind is creating the world of trees and mountains and all that. Such fantastic statements should not be made. Supposing it is accepted that your mind is creating things by avidya operation inside, then you have to agree that the trees in the forest are created by your mind; the cows and the pigs and the dogs that are moving in the streets – they are created by you only; the mountains, the sun and the moon and the stars are created by your mind. You cannot accept this view and you will be repelled by the very idea that your mind

=============================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, May 14, 2020. Chapter 1: The Forest of the Brahma Sutra -4. ------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The Brahma Sutra makes a statement 'Brahman is to be known'. ##Commentators write pages after pages in explaining the meaning of one Sutra only, athato brahma jijnasa. Volumes have been written, commentaries have been written, and commentaries on commentaries, and a third commentary on the second and the first! ###Sankaracharya, Ramanujacharya, Madhvacharya, Vallabhacharya, Nimbarkacharya, all wrote great commentaries on the Brahma Sutras. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. #Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya's commentary was commented on by Vachaspati Mishra in his exposition called bhamati. One of the disciples o

================================ --------------------------------------------------------- 14/04/2020. Chapter 1: The Forest of the Brahma Sutra -3. ----------------------------------------------------- 1. #You can enjoy so many things in this world. You can eat, you can go on a tour, you can read books, you can go to a drama or a cinema, you can dance – there are so many varieties of enjoyment; but when one enjoyment is taking place, another cannot come.  ##They are all different things. So, successively we are enjoying different things in the world, but not all things at one stroke.  ###Here is the difference. --------------------------------------------------- 2. #The joys of all kinds of pleasurable encounters, whatever the number of these be, innumerable, infinite ways of the enjoyment of things in the world – when they all get clubbed together into a melting pot of a single instantaneous expression of Oceanic Bliss – that will be your ex

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17/02/2020. Chapter 1: The Forest of the Brahma Sutra -2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jnanamay frighten away anyone even while approaching it. It can throw you out. You cannot go near It, as it will happen if you go near a powerful magnetic field. It will kick you back; you cannot go near. It is considering this aspect of the nature of Jnana, that Bhagavan Sri Krishna mentions in the Gita – 'this is a difficult path'. (Bhagavad Gita XII.5) "Klesodhikataras tesham avyakta saktachetasam, Avyakta hi gatirdukham dehavadbhiravapyate." Body-consciousness is the obstacle to understanding what all this means. Body-consciousness is just individual consciousness, affirmation of