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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 b...

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