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======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== 28/12/2019. Chapter 1: The Forest of the Brahma Sutra -1. ======================================================================== The greatest truths available for human comprehension are supposed to be documented in the great scriptures called the Upanishads. They are exultations of masters who are deeply involved in the ultimate principles of the cosmos. They are realised souls, called Rishis, but these Rishis in their expressions through the Upanishads spoke in terms of their particular vision of the Ultimate Reality. A common student of the Upanishads is likely to feel embarrassed over apparently irreconcilable differences and contradictions among the statements of these great Masters. Every kind of philosophy you will find in the Upanishads. There are provisions for establishing the monism aspect of philosophy, the dualistic...

======================================================================= ======================================================================= 25/11/2019. Brahma Sutras - 12. Swami Sivananda CHAPTER ONE: SAMANVAYA ADHYAYA Section 1 : (Sutras 1-31) Section 1: Sastrayonitvadhikaranam : Topic 3 (Sutra 3) Brahman is realisable only through the scriptures. Sastrayonitvat I.1.3 (3) ----------------------------- The scripture being the source of right knowledge. ================================= Sastra: the scripture; Yonitvat: being the source of or the means of the right knowledge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POST-12. ====================================================================== The Omniscience of Brahman follows from His being the source of scripture. The aphorism clearly points out that the Srutis alone are proof about Brahman. As Brahman is the cause of the world we ...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21/10/2019. CHAPTER - I : SAMANVAYA ADHYAYA SECTION -1 Sastrayonitvadhikaranam: Topic - 3 : Brahman is realisable only through the scriptures Sastrayonitvat -  I.1.3 (3) The scripture being the source of right knowledge. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sastram : the scripture; Yonitvat: being the source of or the means of the right knowledge. The Omniscience of Brahman follows from His being the source of scripture. The aphorism clearly points out that the Srutis alone are proof about Brahman. As Brahman is the cause of the world we have to infer that Brahman or the Absolute is Omniscient. As the scripture alone is the means of right knowledge with reference to Brahman the propositi...

======================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16/09/2019. CHAPTER ONE: SAMANVAYA ADHYAYA Contents  Contents of Samanvaya Adhyaya Section 1 (Sutras 1-31) Janmadyadhikaranam: Topic 2 (Sutra 2) POST-2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The definition of Brahman. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Janmadyasya yatah I.1.2 (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The second Sutra does not propound here that inference serves as the means of knowing Brahman. It points to a Vedantic text which gives a description of the characteristics of Brahman. What then, is that Vedanta text? I...

01/08/2019. CHAPTER ONE: SAMANVAYA ADHYAYA Contents  Contents of Samanvaya Adhyaya Section 1 (Sutras 1-31) Janmadyadhikaranam: Topic 2 (Sutra 2)-1. --------------------------------------------------- The definition of Brahman. -------------------------------------- Janmadyasya yatah I.1.2 (2) (Brahman is that) from which the origin etc., (i.e. the origin, sustenance and dissolution) of this (world proceed). Janmadi: origin etc.; Asya: of this (world); Yatah: from which. Answer to the enquiry of Brahman is briefly given in this Sutra. It is stated that Brahman who is eternally pure, wise and free (Nitya, Buddha, Mukta Svabhava) is the only cause, stay and final resort of this world. Brahman who is the originator, preserver and absorber of this vast world must have unlimited powers and characteristics. Hence He is Omnipotent and Omniscient. Who but the Omnipotent and Omniscient Brahman could create, rule and destroy it? Certainly mere atoms or chance cannot do th...

14/06/2019 CHAPTER ONE: SAMANVAYA ADHYAYA Contents  Contents of Samanvaya Adhyaya Section 1 (Sutras 1-31) Section 1: Jijnasadhikaranam: Topic 1 (Sutra 1) The enquiry into Brahman and its pre-requisites. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Athato Brahmajijnasa I.1.1 (1) Now, therefore, the enquiry into Brahman. Atha: now, then, afterwards; Atah: therefore; Brahmajijnasa: a desire for the knowledge of Brahman (the enquiry into the real nature of Brahman). Sutra literally means a string. It serves the purpose of stringing together the flowers of the Vedanta passages. The word Atha is not used to introduce a new subject that is going to be taken up. It is here to be taken as denoting immediate consecution. The enquiry of Brahman specially depends upon some antecedent conditions. The enquirer should be endowed with certain spiritual requisites or qualifications. Then only the enquiry...