Brahma Sutras : ( 10/04/2013. )

 =============================================================== ============================================================== Sunday, April 17, 2022. 06:00.  Chapter - 4. The Origin of Bondage  -2. =============================================================== The 'shot-off' sparks asserted individuality of their own, something like each appointed official in a centralised government assuming independence. This is called seceding. A district collector may say 'the whole district is mine only. Don't talk to me!' and so on. A patwari may say 'this village is mine'. Though they are all sparks of a central operation called the government, they can attempt to secede by an arrogance developed in themselves and wind themselves up on a cocoon of involvement in a little area of functioning – it may even be a little mohulla – you may say 'I am the lord of this mohulla'. In a similar manner, tragedy has befallen the individual soul. Desire is the nature of t...

 =============================================================== ============================================================== Saturday, March 05, 2022. 06:00.  Chapter - 4. The Origin of Bondage  -1. ================================================================ The Brahma Sutra is a Moksha Sastra, dealing with the subject of the salvation of the soul. How did you get into bondage and how will you retrace your steps to the original liberated condition – that is the main subject of this wonderful scripture, the Brahma Sutra. How do you get into bondage? This subject is dealt with in the Chhandogya Upanishad and the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad under the chapter called the Panchagni Vidya. When a child is born, it enters into bondage. Also, how does the child get into the womb of the mother? How does it become necessary for the child to enter the womb of the mother?  How does it know who is the suitable parent? There is an endless number of parents in the world. Why doe...

 ===================================================================== ======================================================================== Saturday, January 01, 2022. 6:00. AM. An Analysis of the Brahma Sutra  Chapter 3: Erroneous Notions Refuted -4 ======================================================================= ========================================================================= The Brahma Sutra says that there cannot be categories of divinities. It is one indivisible mass, and if Vasudeva produces Sankarshana, Pradyumna, Aniruddha etc., each one will be perishable. That which produces another has an end. A cause that transforms itself into an effect has already undergone a transformation within itself and it has ceased to be a cause; the effect has destroyed the cause. Brahman cannot become Vasudeva, Sankarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha unless it modifies itself into these gradations or objects which we are worshipping religiously. When milk transforms itse...

 ========================================================================= ======================================================================== Sunday, November 14, 2021. 6:00. AM. An Analysis of the Brahma Sutra  Chapter 3: Erroneous Notions Refuted -3. ======================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kshurasya dhara nisita duratyaya Durgam pathasat kavayo vadanti. (Katha Upanishad) The path to Heaven, the path to the Gods, the path to the Absolute is sharp, subtle, incapable of comprehension as the edge of a razor, on which one has to tread. Why does it say, then, that the Atman is inside? The idea that the Atman is inside gives the impression that it is not outside. Is it so? The idea of the Atman, whether it is inside or outside, is to be cleared first. What do you mean by the Atman at all? What is it? What is it made of? It is n...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, September 08, 2021. 6:46. AM. Chapter 3: Erroneous Notions Refuted -2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you speak the doctrine of Brahman to an unprepared mind, you yourself will go to hell together with that student! Do not talk about that carelessly. It is mischievous to tell an unprepared person that all is Brahman. That would ruin the sanity of the person and he will get nothing out of it, and he would lose whatever he has. Again the warning – Vedanta should not be studied in the beginning stage of learning. In the earlier stages, there is Bhakti Yoga and Karma Yoga, upasana and other things prescribed. The upasana method also will be mentioned in the Brahma Sutra itself, in the third chapter. You have to pass through the upasana stage, bhakti as you ca...

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, August 2, 2021. 7:35. AM. Chapter 3: Erroneous Notions Refuted -1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Desires pertaining to the objects of the world cannot be fulfilled for the reason that the mind accepts them to be outside. An 'outside' thing cannot become an 'inside' thing. So, all desires are futile in their nature. They are a will-of-the-wisp, a phantasmagoria that you are pursuing. In the vyavaharika satta, in the practical and pragmatic state of existence, the world seems to be on par with you. You can shake hands with it. But you cannot shake hands with Brahman, the Absolute. The world exists as an empirical, practical, pragmatic reality. Therefore vijnanavada is not correct in saying that the world does not exist at all in any way. It exists ...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday,July 2, 2021. 7 : 25. AM. Chapter-2. The Critique of Erroneous Doctrines - 6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. There is an outright condemnation and criticism of vijnavada that you cannot go on saying that there is an appearance of something being outside unless there is really something outside. A rope appears as a snake but even for that appearance, the rope must be existing. If rope also does not exist, then the snake will not be there. 2. Now, the other side comes in. Does Vedanta accept that there is a world, when it says that vijnanavada is wrong? There are two degrees of reality. One degree is called vyavaharika satta; another degree is called paramarthika satta. 3. The object and the subject are on par with each other. Anything that is above your mental operation cannot be known. by you. Anything that is below your mental operati...