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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2290 Sublimation of Thought</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">The Purpose of Religion</span></b><span class="smalltitle" style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"><b>(HinduDharma: Religion In General) </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Religion is the means of realizing dharma, artha, kama and moksa. These four are called purusarthas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">In Tamil, dharma is called "aram"; artha is known as "porul'; and kama and moksa are called "inbam, " and<em> </em></span><a href="http://kirtimukha.com/DeivathinKural/Part1/referp1.htm#VIDU" name="vidu"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><em>vidu</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> respectively. "Artha" occurs in the term "purusarthas", but it is itself one of the purusarthas? What a man wants for himself in his life- the aims of a man's life- are the purusarthas. What does a man want to have? He wants to live happily without lacking for anything. There are two types of happiness: the first is ephemeral; and the second is everlasting and not subject to diminution. Kama or in barn is ephemeral happiness and denotes worldly pleasure, worldly desires. Moksa or vidu is everlasting happiness, not transient pleasure. It is because people are ignorant about such happiness, how elevated and enduring it is, that they hanker after the trivial and momentary joys of kama.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Our true quest must be for the fourth artha, that is vidu or moksa. The majority of people today yearn for the third artha that is kama. When you eat you are happy. When you are appointed a judge of the high court you feel elated. You are delighted when presented with a welcome address by some institution, aren't you? Such types of happiness are not enduring. The means by which such happiness is earned is porul. Porul may be corn, money, and house. It is this porul that is the way to happiness. But the pleasure gained from material possessions is momentary and you keep constantly hungering for more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Moksa is the state of supreme bliss and there is no quest beyond it. We keep going from place to place and suffer hardships of all kinds. Our destination is our home. A prisoner goes to his vidu or his home after he is released. But the word vidu also means release or liberation. Since we are now imprisoned in our body, we commit the grave mistake of believing that we are the body. The body is in fact our goal. Our real home is the bliss called moksa. We must find release from the goal that is our body and dwell in our true home. God has sentenced us to goal (that is he has imprisoned us in our body) for our sins. If we practice virtue he will condone our sins and release us from the prison of our body before the expiry of the sentence. We must desist from committing sinful acts so that our term of imprisonment is not extended and endeavor to free ourselves and arrive in our true home, our true home that is the Lord. This home is bliss that passeth understanding, bliss that is not bound by the limitations of time, space and matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Lastly, I speak of the first purusartha, dharma. Dharma denotes beneficent action, good or virtuous deeds. The word has come to mean giving, charity. "Give me dharmam. Do dharmam, mother, " cries the </span><a href="http://kirtimukha.com/DeivathinKural/Part1/referp1.htm#BEGGAR" name="beggar"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><em>beggar</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><em>. </em>We speak of "dana-dharma" [as a portmanteau word]. The commandments relating to charity are called "ara-kattalai"in Tamil. Looked at in this way, giving away our artha or porul will be seen to be dharma. But how do we, in the first place, acquire the goods to be given away in charity? The charity practiced in our former birth- by giving away our artha- it is that brings us rewards in this birth. The very purpose of owning material goods is the practice of dharma. Just as material possessions are a means of pleasure, so is dharma a means of material possessions. It is not charity alone that yields rewards in the form of material goods; all dharma will bring their own material rewards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">If we practice dharma without expecting any reward in the belief that Isvara gives us what he wills- and in a spirit of dedication, the impurities tainting our being will be removed and we will obtain the bliss that is exalted. The pursuit of dharma that brings in its wake material rewards will itself become the means of attaining the</span><a href="http://kirtimukha.com/DeivathinKural/Part1/referp1.htm#PARAMPORUL" name="Paramporul"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> <em>Paramporul</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><em>. </em>Thus we see that dharma, while being an instrument for making material gain and through it of pleasure, becomes the means of liberation also if it is practiced unselfishly. Through it we acquire material goods and are helped to keep up the practice of dharma. This means that artha itself becomes a basis of dharma. It is kama or desire alone that neither fulfils itself nor becomes an instrument of fulfilling some other purpose. It is like the water poured on burning sands. Worse, it is an instrument that destroys everything dharmic thoughts, material possessions, liberation it-self.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">All the same it is difficult, to start with, to be without any desire altogether. Religion serves to rein in desire little by little and take a man, step by step, from petty ephemeral pleasure to the ultimate bliss. First we are taught the meaning and implications of dharma and how to practice it, then we are instructed in the right manner in which material goods are to be acquired so as to practice this dharma; and, thirdly, we are taught the proper manner in which desires may be satisfied. It is a process of gaining maturity and wisdom to forsake petty pleasure for the ultimate bliss of moksa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Moksa is release from all attachments. It is a state in which the Self remains ever in untrammeled freedom and blessedness. The chief purpose of religion is to teach us how this supreme state may be attained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">We know for certain that ordinary people do not achieve eternal happiness. The purpose of any religion is to lead them towards such happiness. Everlasting blessedness is obtained only by forsaking the quest for petty pleasures. The dictates of dharma help us to abandon the pursuit of sensual enjoyments and endeavor for eternal bliss. They are also essential to create a social order that has the same high purpose, the liberation of all. Religion, with its goal of liberation, lays down the tenets of dharma. That is why the great understand the word dharma itself to mean religion.</span></div>
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is NOT ONE SINGLE mantra in entire Vedas that prohibit Yajna for women.</span></span></strong></h2>
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1.146.3: The Yajamaan (performer of Yajna) and his wife are two cows and the
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rigveda 1.72.5: Scholars perform Yajna with their wives and
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rigveda 2.6.5: If mother and sister perform Yajna together, that
brings bliss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Atharvaveda 3.30.6: All the members of family should perform
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Atharvaveda 14.2.18: O woman, you should perform Yajna in
Grihastha Ashram.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Atharvaveda 14.2.25: O woman, perform Yajna with bliss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Further, there is NOT ONE SINGLE mantra in entire Vedas
that prohibit Yajna for women.</span></strong><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Please note that Yajna here
does not mean merely Agnihotra or Havan, but all kinds of noble deeds. Vedas
simply do not differentiate on basis of gender or birth for conduct of any
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<em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">And when women can do
Yajna, what stops her from reciting Vedic Mantras!</span></em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The restriction of women from Vedas or Yajna is an innovation of
medieval age whose only contribution to our society has been disaster and
slavery. It is a matter of shame that many revered representatives of Hinduism
still justify such perverted beliefs. But thanks to legends like Swami Dayanand
Saraswati who gave right interpretations of Vedas, we hear Gayatri Mantra sung
by women even in temples!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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enlightening personality, that is Lord Krishna</a><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://agniveer.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=15724f8e6c2856933a0bbc466&id=d239ede5a5&e=b4b04f785c" target="_blank"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e35c0a; padding: 0cm;">Lord Krishna – an enlightening
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Feb 20, 2013 | by Dr. Satyapal Singh, The Police Commissioner,
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</span></a>Shrikrishna is the only greatest personality whose character
encompasses together all these diverse ideals. Dear readers, devotees of
Krishna, let us take a pledge today, let us make a resolution that we will not
allow even advertently any blemish to defame the noble life of that spotless,
innocent, virtuous and realized soul. Let us follow the footsteps of the ideals
of great people. Following are the words of Krishna<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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yad acarati shresthasthat devetaro janah</span></em><i><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><br />
<em>sa yat pramam kurute lokas
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and Gopis</span></u></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Some poets from rhetoric
school and bhakticult accepted Lord Shrikrishna as a God, worshiped him,
adorned him as blind devotees and followers on one hand, and on the other the
Western scholars and their self esteemed, the so called Indian scholars, following
their footsteps merely depicted him in various ways with low level intentions
and sensual impulses. Shrikrishna to them was one who played in the group of
Gopis under the sacred name Rasalila, as one stealing the garments of the
women, the one engaged and indulging in youthful activities with the damsel by
name Radha, making uncourteous hideous gestures with dwarfed maiden Kubja.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The rhetoric school poets
wanted to hide their sensual impulses and writings from the indignation of
common people in the society. The blind and self titled devotees wanted to
escape themselves from the scornful attitude of common man towards them, their
selfish and voluptuous behavior or actions and their luxurious and lavish life
style made under the pretext of divine justification and conformation. The
Western scholars and others belonging to different religions than that of
Hindus, and not to speak of other pseudo scholars wanted to devaluate and bring
down the supreme Indian culture and Indian religion – a sort of burning example
for all. Thus they mutilated the very noble character of Lord Krishna into an
ignoble and scandalous one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">In the whole of Mahabharata,
there is no mention even of the name Radha. We first get glimpses of her, in
Gita Govinda of Jayadeva, ……..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; padding: 0cm;">Bankimchandra
Chattopadyaya, the author of “Anand math” who carried out research on Mahabharata
continuously for about 36 years and also composed thereafter the biography of
Shrikrishna, states that according to Mahabharata Shrikrishna had only one wife
namely Rukhmini – neither two nor four and of course not at all 16000.</span></strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> According
to Mahabharata immediately after getting married both Rukhmini and Shrikrishna
went to Badrikashrama and led a pious life there for 12 years. They used to
sleep on ground, ate only roots, tubers and fruits and observed strict
celibacy. Thereafter Rukhmini gave birth to the first child named Pradhumna. <em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Reference: Mahabharata, Book
10 (Sauptika Parva), Chapter 12, Verses 29 & 30 – Editor) It is sheerly
disgusting to stigmatize this noble character shown indulging in love-affairs
with and in romance with Radha and Gopis. <o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">God – the Supreme Spirit is the most subtle topic of philosophy.
Faith in Supreme Power seems almost universal and encompassing the human life
from time immemorial. But unfortunately the concept of God has been blurred by
the fog of numerous wrong, perverse and sectarian notions. Consequently, today
we come across a variety of pictures, images and descriptions of God, which are
highly conflicting with each other and finally lead people towards sectarian
narrow-mindedness, bigotry, dogmas, superstitions, prejudice, skepticism,
atheism, frictions, wars, terrorism, dense materialism and a host of similar
other vicious and inhuman traits. That is why we also find among us many
persons lost in some sort of spiritual confusion and many of them have already
turned into either atheists or skeptics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Just to harbour a faith in any so-called
theistic notion is obviously an easy task. Sometimes it may be merely an
intelligent recognition. But the most difficult venture is to divinize one’s
whole being according to the right principles of spiritual science. A true
spiritual person should desperately seek to know the ultimate truth of life and
set out for the realization of the Supreme as the ultimate destination of his
life. The true theistic attitude of a person needs to get fully manifested
through his way of life. There could be no doubt about the omni-presence of
God, but the question is that whether we are conscious of His presence or not.
Unless we have a reasoned faith in His presence, unless we are sincere in our
endeavor and unless our convictions are intense and grounded in truth, we
cannot say that our theism is genuine and rewarding. The true theism confers on
us joy, happiness, satisfaction, fearlessness and other divine powers; a
perfect sense to the spiritual dimension of our being. Moreover, it also
provides us sustenance, strength, solace and comfort in the moments of great
distresses, failures and disappointment, which occur almost to everybody when
one struggles to resolve the tangles plaguing one in the course of one’s daily
life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Generally it is believed that to define is
to limit, and God being the most mysterious entity it is beyond the human
capacity to define Him or fully express Him in any human language. Even the
most consistent intelligent speculation or hypothesis may not be in a position
to guarantee the realization of God. God can be realized only with the help of
True knowledge, True actions and True meditation – the practice of Yoga with
total surrender. Hence mere logical propositions or linguistic symbols could
not be of much help in this matter. But this does not mean that the existence
of God is to be regarded merely based on any sort of speculation. The
speculations leading one towards theism should essentially be based on some
definite observations, thoughts, logic and wisdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In Vedic philosophy, liberation from the
worldly or material bondage and realization of the all pervading Divine spirit
has been regarded as the ultimate goal of the human efforts. The Vedas proclaim
that God is such a reality which can be apprehended and realized in the depth
of our inner being. The Vedic wisdom demands that the Reason and Spirituality
are to be well coordinated and well integrated. A true religion or philosophy
of life must necessarily address these two fundamental aspects: (i) Worldly
prosperity aiming for happy today, and (ii) Spiritual progress aiming for the
happier tomorrow. Nevertheless, for the second purpose one has to transcend
this vast visible and invisible world, this grand and wonderful manifestation
of the matter, and reach to the Universal Spirit under whose will and wisdom
the creation is made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Vedas teach us that the primordial root
of all true knowledge, and the objects made known by the true knowledge is the
Supreme God. Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati (1824-1883), the founder of the Arya
Samaj has rendered a great service to humanity by restating the Vedic concept
of God in the nineteenth century. He tried to emphasize that God has a
personality but His personality is not physical or human, it is spiritual and
divine. He is a spirit of spirit, the Spirit Supreme. Dayananda endeavored to
present an image of God which is not only consistent with the philosophy of the
Vedas and the spiritual vision of the Vedic seers, but it is also based on
analytical reasoning. The hymns of the Vedas unequivocally express the
conception of one Supreme Being. The Vedas being the Divine Revelation and the
oldest record available with the mankind have universal appeal for the people of
all countries and all times. On account of their universal character, the Vedic
concept of God also must be secular and acceptable and adoptable as a sure
guideline for the all thinking people of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">God being the Transcendental Reality, the
Innermost and Cosmic Being, any discussion related to Him deserves paramount
importance. In Satyarth-Prakash (Light of Truth), the world famous book
authored by Dayananda, the concept of Vedic theism has been beautifully
described in the most sensible way. Its seventh, eighth and ninth chapters
embody a systematic and comprehensive discussion on three highly philosophical
topics: God, Creation and Emancipation. The significance of true theism has
been explained there in a very straight forward fashion. A careful reading of
these three chapters of the Satyarth-Prakash make one fully convinced of the
fact that the Vedic concept of God is not a casual creed, rather it is highly
comprehensive in its application to human life; and is much subtler and deeper
spiritual as well as scientific content than the sects and cults ordinarily
known as monotheism and polytheism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the river swept silently over them all - young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks at the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current was what each had learned from birth.<br /><br />But one creature said at last, "I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom."<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other creatures laughed and said, `Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you will die quicker than boredom.'<br />But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks. Yet, in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised , but hurt no more. And the creatures down stream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, `See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies. See the Messiah, come to save us all!'<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the one carried in the current said, `I am no more messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.' But they cried the more:. `Savior!' all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone, making legends of the Saviour."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Life is a do-it-yourself job</span></h3>
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We generally ascribe our failures to Fate;<br />the sanskrit aphorism: <i> </i><i><img align="middle" border="0" height="30" src="http://www.kirtimukha.com/surfings/Cogitation/yatBhavam.gif" width="108" /></i><em>yadbhaavam tat bhavati</em> (as one conceives, so things happen) contradicts<br />this assumption, reminds us that <em>we</em> are responsible for the consequences of our actions, and advises us to remember that<br /><strong>Life is a do-it-yourself job</strong>:We build our lives in a distracted way,<br />reacting rather than acting,<br />willing to put up with<br />less than what is best.for us in the long-term.<br />At important points<br />we do not give the job our best effort.<br />Then with a shock<br />we look at the situation we have created<br />and find that<br />we are now living in the house we ourselves have built.<br />If we had realized earlier,<br />we would have done it differently.<br /><br />Think of yourself as the carpenter<br />Who builds your house.<br />Each day you hammer a nail,<br />place a board, or erect a wall.<br />Build wisely.<br />It is the only life you will ever build.<br />Even if you live it for only one day more,<br />that day deserves to be lived graciously<br />and with dignity.<br /><br />The plaque on the wall says,<br />"Life is a do-it-yourself project"<br />Who could say it more clearly?<br />Your life today is the result<br />of your attitudes and choices in the past.<br />Your life tomorrow will be the result<br />of your attitudes and the choices you make today.<br />
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If you find the job difficult, help is always available:<br />from the Wisdom of the past contained in the scriptures or<br />the experienced, wise and competent teachers who are willing<br />to advise and guide. Life's path is like the razor's edge, dark<br />and difficult to tread - as explained in <em>Kathopanishad</em>:<br /><em>kshurasya dhaaraa nishitaa duratyayaa<br />durgam pathastat kavayo vadanti</em><br />and therefore:<br /><em>praapya varaan nibodhata</em><br />get the know-how from competent सगेस.<br />
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There is an another, easier path to liberation from the sufferings of failures: the ego's surrender to Krishna<br />and resting in his hands as his flute. He himself has advised: मामेकं शरणम व्रज <em>maamekam sharaNam vraja</em> .<br />This theme is lucidly brought out in the <a href="http://kirtimukha.com/surfings/SriKrishna/kuzhaloodi_flute_5mts.wav">song </a>"kuzhaloothi":<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB_c2oMrSmhD4pAD8Fq7icr68hFCOPyX-GP81cyl1ZWw7Ylrm4FVQBjV84043vfEW_UWdL7MbC85AJJCDlQYyBDXubQLhd6lx1KuVoNKTawhTZXgiIvYHbHX5gAiq9_cUTmHlwmYGepeQ/s1600-h/FluteKrishna.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="128" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211569516079114050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB_c2oMrSmhD4pAD8Fq7icr68hFCOPyX-GP81cyl1ZWw7Ylrm4FVQBjV84043vfEW_UWdL7MbC85AJJCDlQYyBDXubQLhd6lx1KuVoNKTawhTZXgiIvYHbHX5gAiq9_cUTmHlwmYGepeQ/s320/FluteKrishna.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" width="100" /></a>குழலூதி மனம் எல்லாம்<br />கொள்ளை கொண்ட பின்னும்<br />குறை ஏதும் எனக்கேதடி?<br />kuzhaloothi manamellam<br />koLLai konda pinnum<br />kuRaiyethum enakkEthadi<br /><br /><br />I am safely resting in His hands<br />It is He who blew the first breath of life into me and<br />it is He who will determine the last breath of my life.<br />I should rest my self in His hands as His flute<br />and let Him play the sweet song of my life.<br /><br />Tired of this stressful life and senseless pursuits?<br />Come; let us surrender to our dear Lord Krishna!<br />Let us place our ego as the flute in His hands.<br />Our every action will then becomes a note<br />in the music that He will gladly play through us.<br />Then, where will there be place in our mind<br />for regrets about failures, or for unfulfilled<br />wants and wishes that ceaselessly haunt us?<br /><br />We can blissfully chant thenceforth<br />in harmony with His divine music:<br />குறை ஏதும் எனக்கேதடி<br />I am wanting in nothing;<br />I am full; I am full; I am full.<br /><em>OM! Poornamadah Poornamidam</em>!<br /><br />The sound of Krishna's flute is the divine call to ecstasy;<br />it is His call advising us: "Give up attachments and follow Me."<br />Happy are those who can harken to this call and<br />commence living in eternal Bliss:<br /><em>yasya brahmani ramate cittam<br />nandati nandati nandatyeva</em>He whose awareness rests constantly in Brahman-Conciousness,<br />his mind is ever in the supreme Blissful state.</div>
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<u><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Excerpts from NY Times: </span></b><span class="kicker-label"><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/"><span style="color: black;">Opinionator</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span></a></span></span><span class="pipe"></span><span style="background: white; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">|</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;">When Philosophy Lost Its Way </span></span></u><br />
<u><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></u><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The act of purification
accompanying the creation of the modern research university was not just about
differentiating realms of knowledge. It was also about divorcing knowledge from
virtue. Though it seems foreign to us now, before purification the philosopher
(and natural philosopher) was assumed to be morally superior to other sorts of
people. The 18th-century thinker Joseph Priestley wrote “a Philosopher ought to
be something greater and better than another man.” Philosophy, understood as
the love of wisdom, was seen as a vocation, like the priesthood. It required
significant moral virtues (foremost among these were integrity and
selflessness), and the pursuit of wisdom in turn further inculcated those
virtues. The study of philosophy elevated those who pursued it. Knowing and
being good were intimately linked. It was widely understood that the point of
philosophy was to become good rather than simply to collect or produce
knowledge.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The scientist’s privileged
role was to provide the morally neutral knowledge needed to achieve our goals,
whether good or evil. This put an end to any notion that there was something
uplifting about knowledge. The purification made it no longer sensible to speak
of nature, including human nature, in terms of purposes and functions. By the
late 19th century, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche had proved the failure of
philosophy to establish any shared standard for choosing one way of life over
another. This is how Alasdair MacIntyre explained philosophy’s contemporary
position of insignificance in society and marginality in the academy. There was
a brief window when philosophy could have replaced religion as the glue of
society; but the moment passed. People stopped listening as philosophers
focused on debates among themselves.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Once knowledge and goodness were divorced, scientists could be
regarded as experts, but there are no morals or lessons to be drawn from their
work. Science derives its authority from impersonal structures and methods, not
the superior character of the scientist. The individual scientist is no
different from the average Joe; he or she has, as Shapin has written, “no
special authority to pronounce on what ought to be done.” For many, science
became a paycheck, and the scientist became a “de-moralized” tool enlisted in
the service of power, bureaucracy and commerce.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Here, too, philosophy has aped the sciences by fostering a culture
that might be called “the genius contest.” Philosophic activity devolved into a
contest to prove just how clever one can be in creating or destroying
arguments. Today, a hyperactive productivist churn of scholarship keeps
philosophers chained to their computers. Like the sciences, philosophy has
largely become a technical enterprise, the only difference being that we
manipulate words rather than genes or chemicals. Lost is the once common-sense
notion that philosophers are seeking the good life — that we ought to be (in
spite of our failings) model citizens and human beings. Having become
specialists, we have lost sight of the whole. The point of philosophy now is to
be smart, not good. It has been the heart of our undoing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><b>yat bhaavam tat bhavati</b> यत्भावं त</i><i>त्</i><i> भवति </i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In her personal journal as well as in her short stories, Katherine Mansfield showed a special interest in exploring the psychological underpinnings of much human conduct. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> but life itself would come to be different.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Life would undergo a change of appearance because</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> "If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In this observation, Mansfield recommends that -- no matter what our current age -- we imagine our own death. The basic idea is to think about who will show up at our funeral, and what will be said about us in the eulogies. It's an old idea, but a good one, and most recently suggested by Stephen R. Covey in his book "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" (1989). His Second Habit is called "Begin with the End in Mind</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.8181819915771px; line-height: 12px;">“Perumal Murugan is a scholar with a rich sense of history.” <br />A file photo of the novelist. - The Hindu</span><br />
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“Mathorubhagan” was published four years ago. The novel marks the second phase of Mr. Murugan’s fictional explorations. It poignantly tells the story of a childless peasant couple set in a time about a century ago. Ponna and Kali rejoice in their conjugal love but their pain of being childless is accentuated by the taunts of neighbours and insults on religious functions. Tiruchengode, the abode of Siva in the form of half-woman half-man, is the sacred temple to which childless couple flock to this day hoping to extend their lineage. Over 125 years ago, Chinnathayammal and Venkata Naicker of Erode circumambulated the “varadi kal” at Tiruchengode resulting in the birth of the great rationalist, Periyar.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px;">After exhausting all means, childless couples seek what is, from a modern perspective, an exotic, even ‘immoral,’ solution. Every year, at the Vaikasi Visakam car festival, childless women indulge in consensual sex in a carnivalesque atmosphere. The lucky are able to conceive. Children born of this socially sanctioned ritual are referred to as </span><i style="font-size: 13.63636302948px; outline: 0px;">sami kodutha pillai </i><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px;">(god-given children). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px;">Any anthropologist would attest to similar practices existing in many pre-modern societies with no access to assisted conceptions. Classical Hindu traditions refer to this practice as niyoga or niyoga dharma — an indication of its religious sanction. It is this section of the novel that has provoked the ire of Hindu fundamentalists and caste purists. Portrayed as a slur on Hindu women, Mr. Murugan is being pilloried for denigrating the whole town.<br />================= </span><br />
<b style="font-size: 13.63636302948px;">My Note:</b><br />
<span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px;">Due to political agitation, Perumal Murugan has discontinued his profession as writer and has left his town. </span><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px;">Compare this narration with the modern procedure for childless couples </span><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px;">portrayed </span><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px;">in the 2012 Hindi film "Vicky Donor" in which a young unemployed man is the </span><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px;">donor of his sperm that is used by the doctor to impregnate his clients. </span><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px;">The modern procedure avoids physical sexual contact by the lady </span><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px;">with the sperm-donor who remains anonymous. </span><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px;">The Pandavas were the children of Kunti and Madri through Nioyga :</span></div>
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Queen </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyavati" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Satyavati">Satyavati</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;"> compels her son and sage </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyasa" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Vyasa">Vyasa</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;">to perform niyoga with the widows of her son </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichitravirya" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Vichitravirya">Vichitravirya</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;">. The widows </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambika_(Mahabharata)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ambika (Mahabharata)">Ambika</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambalika" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ambalika">Ambalika</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;"> and one of their maids bear </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhritarashtra" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Dhritarashtra">Dhritarashtra</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandu" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Pandu">Pandu</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidura" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Vidura">Vidura</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;"> respectively. When Pandu is cursed to die on being intimate with any woman, his wives </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunti" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Kunti">Kunti</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madri" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Madri">Madri</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;"> perform niyoga with the Devas and mother five sons - the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandava" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Pandava">Pandavas</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;">." -- </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niyoga">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niyoga</a></span></span></blockquote>
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At the time of death a whole storehouse of impressions and desires is churned
out and the most cherished and</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> deep-rooted
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dying man’s mind for immediate gratification. If the desire is not gratified,
his mind gets permeated with it and it is said to be reborn and seeks
gratification in the next birth. The desire will manifest prominently in his
next birth. The last thought thus determines the nature or character of the
body to be attained next. The Gita says, “Whatever thoughts predominate at the
time of death as a result of the way you have lived your</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><a href="http://www.speakingtree.in/public/topics/life/life"><span style="color: #0022b5; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">life</span></a>, those thoughts determine your after-death state....”..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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upon death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same
after death as you were before. Nothing in fact changes; you only discard your
body. If you were a trickster or liar before death, you don’t become a saint
merely by dying. Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be
hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will carry the same traits with you.
To bring about a change in your character, huge effort is required.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seeker should adopt an attitude of dispassion by
constantlyremaining aware of the transitory nature of life and the fact that the
great sleep of death can take him away any moment from the world. Then,
through regular</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><a href="http://www.speakingtree.in/public/topics/soul/meditation"><span style="color: #0022b5; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">meditation</span></a>, the seeker should endeavour to rise above the
delusion of body-consciousness in order that he is prepared mentally to depart
from this world with</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> an
unruffled mind</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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does unconsciously every night in deep sleep. Every night you lose
awareness of your physical existence and the world, with its concomitant pains
and tribulations, as these get obliterated from the screen of your
consciousness. This points to the fact that you are not a mere body of
flesh and bones. And what is unconsciously experienced in the state
of deep sleep, can also be experienced consciously in mediation by reconnecting
our identity with our true</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><a href="http://www.speakingtree.in/public/topics/life/self"><span style="color: #0022b5; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Self</span></a>,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> the inner
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">"Where you see nothing else outside you, where you hear nothing else outside you, where you are not thinking anything outside you, that is the Infinite. Where you see something outside you, where you hear something outside you, where you are thinking something outside you, that is the finite. The Infinite alone is bliss. Know that!" replied Sanatkumara.</span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sa evadhastat, sa uparistat, sa pascat, sa purastat, sa daksinatah, sa uttaratah, sa evedam sarvam</span></em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">(C.U. 7.25.1). "Where is the Infinite, you are asking me. It is in front of you. It is behind you. It is to the right. It is to the left. It is above. It is below. It is everywhere. It alone is. One who knows this has freedom in all the worlds," replied the sage. No passport is necessary; no visa is necessary to move in the realms of being.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Such a person who knows this secret becomes the Self of worlds galore. He becomes the Self of all beings. He becomes everything! Such a person is the centre of gravitation for everything in the universe.<em>Yathaika ksudhita balah mataram paryupasate evam sarvani bhutany agni-hotram upasate ity agni-hotram upasata iti</em> (C.U. 5.24.5). If that person who knows this secret eats food, the whole universe is satisfied. In earlier days there was a concept of feeding Brahmins. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">and if he eats, everybody is satisfied. This knowledge makes you such a potentate in the cosmos that the worlds – all beings – gravitate around you for blessing in the same way as children sit around their mother for food. "Mummy, give me food. Give me something to eat," so children cry around the mother. So all beings, all creation – everyone will rally round you and seek your blessing because what you are, they also are. What you eat, they eat, and what you feel, they feel. Your joy is their joy. Your existence is their existence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">This is the import, finally, of this one wondrous story I mentioned to you of the six great people going to </span><a href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=toLDE1RavAEC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=Ashvapati&source=bl&ots=QWGn4mbCUF&sig=ent0I6yKEE-biXfDHcXS80_M47o&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KP2yUsrLEq6hiAfhuYHYDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Ashvapati&f=false"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Ashvapati</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">, the king, for the knowledge of the Atman, which is not outside and not somewhere, and that Atman about which Yama, the Lord, refused to speak.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><em>Ascaryavat pasyati kascit enam</em> (B.G. 2.29), the Bhagavadgita also reiterates. "Wonder is this thing that you are speaking. It is a wonder!" The teacher who can explain this is a wonder. The student who can understand this is a wonder. The thing that is explained is a wonder. The whole thing is a wonder. The greatest wonder is the Ultimate Being called God Almighty, the Absolute. May this wonder bless you, is my prayer!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Mark Twain's Top 9 Tips for Living A Good Life </span><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br /></span></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">by </span><a href="http://www.dailygood.org/search.php?op=auth&name=Henrik%20Edberg" style="border: 0px; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Henrik Edberg</a><span style="font-size: 12px;">, syndicated from </span><a href="http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2008/05/16/mark-twains-top-9-tips-for-living-a-kick-ass-life/" style="border: 0px; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">positivityblog.com</a><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></i><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”</span></span></em></h3>
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You may know Mark Twain for some of his very popular books like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He was a writer and also a humorist, satirist and lecturer.</div>
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Twain is known for his many – and often funny – quotes. Here are a few of my favourite tips from him.</div>
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<strong>1. Approve of yourself.</strong></div>
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If you don’t approve of yourself, of your behaviour and actions then you’ll probably walk around most of the day with a sort of uncomfortable feeling. If you, on the other hand, approve of yourself then you tend to become relaxed and gain inner freedom to do more of what you really want.</div>
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This can, in a related way, be a big obstacle in personal growth. You may have all the right tools to grow in some way but you feel an inner resistance. You can’t get there.</div>
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What you may be bumping into there are success barriers. You are putting up barriers in your own mind of what you may or may not deserve. Or barriers that tell you what you are capable of. They might tell you that you aren’t really that kind of person that could this thing that you’re attempting. Or if you make some headway in the direction you want to go, you may start to sabotage for yourself. To keep yourself in a place that is familiar for you. So you need give yourself approval and allow yourself to be who you want to be. Not look for the approval from others - but from yourself.<br />To dissolve that inner barrier or let go of that self-sabotaging tendency. This is no easy task and it can take time. </div>
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I remember a similar advice by <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;">Marianne Williamson in</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"> '</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;">A Course in Miracles' where she warns us of </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">a similar obstacle from ourselves to our achievement -MKK:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*~*</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We ask ourselves:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Actually, who are you not to be?</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*~*</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">There is nothing enlightened about shrinking</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">so that people won't feel insecure around you.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And when we let our own light shine,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">As we are liberated from our own fear, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">our presence automatically liberates others. </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">*~*</span></blockquote>
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So many limitations are mostly in our minds. We may for instance think that people will disapprove because we are too tall, too old or balding. But these things mostly matter when you think they matter. Because you become self-conscious and worried about what people may think.</div>
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And people pick up on that and may react in negative ways. Or you may interpret anything they do as a negative reaction because you are so fearful of a bad reaction and so focused inward on yourself.</div>
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If you, on the other hand, don’t mind then people tend to not mind that much either. And if you don’t mind then you won’t let that part of yourself become a self-imposed roadblock in your life.</div>
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<strong>3. Lighten up and have some fun.</strong></div>
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Humor and laughter are amazing tools. They can turn any serious situation into something to laugh about. They can lighten the mood just about anywhere.</div>
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And a lighter mood is often a better space to work in because now your body and mind isn’t filled to the brim with negative emotions. When you are more light-hearted and relaxed then the solution to a situation is often easier to both come up with and implement. Have a look at <a href="http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2008/01/03/lighten-up/" style="border: 0px; color: brown; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Lighten Up!</a> for more on this topic.</div>
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<strong>4. Let go of anger.</strong></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”</em></div>
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Anger is most of the time pretty pointless. It can cause situations to get out of hand. And from a selfish perspective it often more hurtful for the one being angry then the person s/he’s angry at.</div>
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So even if you feel angry at someone for days recognize that you are mostly just hurting yourself. The other person may not even be aware that you are angry at him or her. So either talking to the person and resolving the conflict or letting go of anger as quickly as possible are pretty good tips to make your life more pleasurable.</div>
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<strong>5. Release yourself from entitlement.</strong></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing.It was here first.”</em></div>
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When you are young, your mom and dad may give a lot of things. As you grow older you may have a sort of entitlement. You may feel like the world should just give you what you want or that it owes you something.</div>
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This belief can cause a lot of anger and frustration in your life. Because the world may not give you what expect it to. On the other hand, this can be liberating too. You realize that it is up to you to shape your own life and for you to work towards what you want. You are not a kid anymore, waiting for your parents or the world to give you something.</div>
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You are in the driver’s seat now. And you can go pretty much wherever you want.</div>
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<strong>6. If you’re taking a different path, prepare for reactions.</strong><br /><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”</em></div>
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I think this has quite a bit of relevance to self-improvement.</div>
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If you start to change or do something different than you usually do then people may react in different ways. Some may be happy for you. Some may be indifferent. Some may be puzzled or react in negative and discouraging ways.</div>
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Much of these reactions are probably not so much about you but about the person who said it and his/her life. How they feel about themselves is coming through in the words they use and judgments they make.</div>
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And that’s OK. I think it’s pretty likely that they won’t react as negatively as you may imagine. Or they will probably at least go back to focusing on their own challenges pretty soon.</div>
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So what other people may say and think and <u>letting that hold you back is probably just fantasy and barrier you build in your mind.</u></div>
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You may find that when you finally cross that inner threshold you created, then people around you may not shun you or go chasing after you with pitchforks. They might just go: “OK”.</div>
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<strong>7. Keep your focus steadily on what you want.</strong></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.”</em></div>
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What you focus your mind on greatly determines how things play out. You can focus on your problems and dwell in suffering and a victim mentality. Or you can focus on the positive in situation, what you can learn from that situation or just focus your mind on something entirely else.</div>
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It may be “normal” to dwell on problems and swim around in a sea of negativity. But that is a choice. And a thought habit. You may reflexively start to dwell on problems instead of refocusing your mind on something more useful. But you can also start to build a habit of learning to gain more and more control of where you put your focus.</div>
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<strong>8. Don’t focus so much on making yourself feel good.</strong></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”</em></div>
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This may be a bit of a counter-intuitive tip. But as I wrote yesterday, one of the best ways to feel good about yourself is to make someone else feel good or to help them in some way.</div>
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This is a great way to look at things to create an upward spiral of positivity and exchange of value between people. You help someone and both of you feel good. The person you helped feels inclined to give you a hand later on since people tend to want to reciprocate. And so the both of you are feeling good and helping each other.</div>
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Those positive feelings are contagious to other people and so you may end up making them feel good too. And the help you received from your friend may inspire you to go and help another friend. And so the upward spiral grows and continues.</div>
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<strong>9. Do what you want to do.</strong></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”</em></div>
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Awesome quote. And I really don’t have much to add to that one. Well, maybe to write it down and keep it as a daily reminder – on your fridge or bathroom door – of what you can actually do with your life.</div>
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is NOT ONE SINGLE mantra in entire Vedas that prohibit Yajna for women.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://agniveer.com/woman-foundation-of-knowledge/"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">http://agniveer.com/woman-foundation-of-knowledge/</span></a> (with quotes from Vedas )<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rigveda
1.146.3: The Yajamaan (performer of Yajna) and his wife are two cows and the
fire of Yajna is the calf.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rigveda 1.72.5: Scholars perform Yajna with their wives and
achieve bliss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rigveda 2.6.5: If mother and sister perform Yajna together, that
brings bliss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rigveda 7.1.6: The young woman approaches the fire with Havi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Atharvaveda 3.30.6: All the members of family should perform
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Atharvaveda 14.2.18: O woman, you should perform Yajna in
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Atharvaveda 14.2.25: O woman, perform Yajna with bliss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Further, there is NOT ONE SINGLE mantra in entire Vedas
that prohibit Yajna for women.</span></strong><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Please note that Yajna here
does not mean merely Agnihotra or Havan, but all kinds of noble deeds. Vedas
simply do not differentiate on basis of gender or birth for conduct of any
noble deed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">And when women can do
Yajna, what stops her from reciting Vedic Mantras!</span></em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The restriction of women from Vedas or Yajna is an innovation of
medieval age whose only contribution to our society has been disaster and
slavery. It is a matter of shame that many revered representatives of Hinduism
still justify such perverted beliefs. But thanks to legends like Swami Dayanand
Saraswati who gave right interpretations of Vedas, we hear Gayatri Mantra sung
by women even in temples!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://agniveer.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=15724f8e6c2856933a0bbc466&id=d239ede5a5&e=b4b04f785c" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #e35c0a; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lord Krishna – an enlightening
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Feb 20, 2013 | by Dr. Satyapal Singh, The Police Commissioner,
Mumbai<br />
<b>Extract:</b><a href="mailto:drsinghsp@yahoo.co.in" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #e35c0a; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><br />
</span></a>Shrikrishna is the only greatest personality whose character
encompasses together all these diverse ideals. Dear readers, devotees of
Krishna, let us take a pledge today, let us make a resolution that we will not
allow even advertently any blemish to defame the noble life of that spotless,
innocent, virtuous and realized soul. Let us follow the footsteps of the ideals
of great people. Following are the words of Krishna<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">yad
yad aacarati shresthas tat tad tad evetaro janah</span></em><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Some poets from rhetoric
school and bhakticult accepted Lord Shrikrishna as a God, worshiped him,
adorned him as blind devotees and followers on one hand, and on the other the
Western scholars and their self esteemed, the so called Indian scholars, following
their footsteps merely depicted him in various ways with low level intentions
and sensual impulses. Shrikrishna to them was one who played in the group of
Gopis under the sacred name Rasalila, as one stealing the garments of the
women, the one engaged and indulging in youthful activities with the damsel by
name Radha, making uncourteous hideous gestures with dwarfed maiden Kubja.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The rhetoric school poets
wanted to hide their sensual impulses and writings from the indignation of
common people in the society. The blind and self titled devotees wanted to
escape themselves from the scornful attitude of common man towards them, their
selfish and voluptuous behavior or actions and their luxurious and lavish life
style made under the pretext of divine justification and conformation. The
Western scholars and others belonging to different religions than that of
Hindus, and not to speak of other pseudo scholars wanted to devaluate and bring
down the supreme Indian culture and Indian religion – a sort of burning example
for all. Thus they mutilated the very noble character of Lord Krishna into an
ignoble and scandalous one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">In the whole of Mahabharata,
there is no mention even of the name Radha. We first get glimpses of her, in
Gita Govinda of Jayadeva, ……..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; padding: 0cm;">Bankimchandra
Chattopadyaya, the author of “Anand math” who carried out research on Mahabharata
continuously for about 36 years and also composed thereafter the biography of
Shrikrishna, states that according to Mahabharata Shrikrishna had only one wife
namely Rukhmini – neither two nor four and of course not at all 16000.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> According
to Mahabharata immediately after getting married both Rukhmini and Shrikrishna
went to Badrikashrama and led a pious life there for 12 years. They used to
sleep on ground, ate only roots, tubers and fruits and observed strict
celibacy. Thereafter Rukhmini gave birth to the first child named Pradhumna. <em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Reference: Mahabharata, Book
10 (Sauptika Parva), Chapter 12, Verses 29 & 30 – Editor) It is sheerly
disgusting to stigmatize this noble character shown indulging in love-affairs
with and in romance with Radha and Gopis. <o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">God – the Supreme Spirit is the most subtle topic of philosophy.
Faith in Supreme Power seems almost universal and encompassing the human life
from time immemorial. But unfortunately the concept of God has been blurred by
the fog of numerous wrong, perverse and sectarian notions. Consequently, today
we come across a variety of pictures, images and descriptions of God, which are
highly conflicting with each other and finally lead people towards sectarian
narrow-mindedness, bigotry, dogmas, superstitions, prejudice, skepticism,
atheism, frictions, wars, terrorism, dense materialism and a host of similar
other vicious and inhuman traits. That is why we also find among us many
persons lost in some sort of spiritual confusion and many of them have already
turned into either atheists or skeptics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Just to harbour a faith in any so-called
theistic notion is obviously an easy task. Sometimes it may be merely an
intelligent recognition. But the most difficult venture is to divinize one’s
whole being according to the right principles of spiritual science. A true
spiritual person should desperately seek to know the ultimate truth of life and
set out for the realization of the Supreme as the ultimate destination of his
life. The true theistic attitude of a person needs to get fully manifested
through his way of life. There could be no doubt about the omni-presence of
God, but the question is that whether we are conscious of His presence or not.
Unless we have a reasoned faith in His presence, unless we are sincere in our
endeavor and unless our convictions are intense and grounded in truth, we
cannot say that our theism is genuine and rewarding. The true theism confers on
us joy, happiness, satisfaction, fearlessness and other divine powers; a
perfect sense to the spiritual dimension of our being. Moreover, it also
provides us sustenance, strength, solace and comfort in the moments of great
distresses, failures and disappointment, which occur almost to everybody when
one struggles to resolve the tangles plaguing one in the course of one’s daily
life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Generally it is believed that to define is
to limit, and God being the most mysterious entity it is beyond the human
capacity to define Him or fully express Him in any human language. Even the
most consistent intelligent speculation or hypothesis may not be in a position
to guarantee the realization of God. God can be realized only with the help of
True knowledge, True actions and True meditation – the practice of Yoga with
total surrender. Hence mere logical propositions or linguistic symbols could
not be of much help in this matter. But this does not mean that the existence
of God is to be regarded merely based on any sort of speculation. The
speculations leading one towards theism should essentially be based on some
definite observations, thoughts, logic and wisdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In Vedic philosophy, liberation from the
worldly or material bondage and realization of the all pervading Divine spirit
has been regarded as the ultimate goal of the human efforts. The Vedas proclaim
that God is such a reality which can be apprehended and realized in the depth
of our inner being. The Vedic wisdom demands that the Reason and Spirituality
are to be well coordinated and well integrated. A true religion or philosophy
of life must necessarily address these two fundamental aspects: (i) Worldly
prosperity aiming for happy today, and (ii) Spiritual progress aiming for the
happier tomorrow. Nevertheless, for the second purpose one has to transcend
this vast visible and invisible world, this grand and wonderful manifestation
of the matter, and reach to the Universal Spirit under whose will and wisdom
the creation is made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Vedas teach us that the primordial root
of all true knowledge, and the objects made known by the true knowledge is the
Supreme God. Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati (1824-1883), the founder of the Arya
Samaj has rendered a great service to humanity by restating the Vedic concept
of God in the nineteenth century. He tried to emphasize that God has a
personality but His personality is not physical or human, it is spiritual and
divine. He is a spirit of spirit, the Spirit Supreme. Dayananda endeavored to
present an image of God which is not only consistent with the philosophy of the
Vedas and the spiritual vision of the Vedic seers, but it is also based on
analytical reasoning. The hymns of the Vedas unequivocally express the
conception of one Supreme Being. The Vedas being the Divine Revelation and the
oldest record available with the mankind have universal appeal for the people of
all countries and all times. On account of their universal character, the Vedic
concept of God also must be secular and acceptable and adoptable as a sure
guideline for the all thinking people of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">God being the Transcendental Reality, the
Innermost and Cosmic Being, any discussion related to Him deserves paramount
importance. In Satyarth-Prakash (Light of Truth), the world famous book
authored by Dayananda, the concept of Vedic theism has been beautifully
described in the most sensible way. Its seventh, eighth and ninth chapters
embody a systematic and comprehensive discussion on three highly philosophical
topics: God, Creation and Emancipation. The significance of true theism has
been explained there in a very straight forward fashion. A careful reading of
these three chapters of the Satyarth-Prakash make one fully convinced of the
fact that the Vedic concept of God is not a casual creed, rather it is highly
comprehensive in its application to human life; and is much subtler and deeper
spiritual as well as scientific content than the sects and cults ordinarily
known as monotheism and polytheism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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kirtimukhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14592390224108255372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133845822730042896.post-57375163814256084212013-08-21T08:04:00.001+05:302013-08-25T12:32:33.808+05:30MEDITATION - SEARCH FOR INNER SELF<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Mundakopanishad – Swami Nikhilananda Saraswati </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5th April, 2013 </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">– Chinmaya Mission Delhi.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;"><br />Source:</span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=506193182773161&id=155234097869073">Two birds on the same Tree</a> </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">There are two birds on the same tree. One bird eats fruits and another bird just looks at the other bird, he does not eat fruits. This beautiful picture is of our own personality. Our body is like tree and Jiva is one bird and Ishvara is another bird. In fact there is only one bird but appearing like two, just as when we stand in front of the mirror, we appear like two. One is the real person and another is his image. Jiva has misunderstanding and he considers himself as the doer, performs various types of actions and experiences the different types of fruits of actions. Once in a while, by the grace of God, by the Satsang when Jiva sit silently and looks within, he comes to see that his own higher Self is free from all bondage. His higher Self is supremely peaceful, pure and when he sees his inner Self, he also becomes free from all sorrows and pain. This happens in the state of meditation. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">We have to follow the path shown by the scriptures. First we have to purify our mind, make ourselves fit with proper knowledge and then meditate and recognize our own higher Self. What we think of ourselves now is not the real Self. It is just a false notion created by thoughts and emotions. Jiva is just and image but we have identified with that image so much that we feel we are that image. Through meditation we have to recognize our own real Self. Just like the river dissolves in the ocean, the little self has to dissolve in the higher Self. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">प्रणो ह्येष यः सर्वभूतैर्विभाति विजानन् विद्वान् भवते नातिवादी ।</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">आत्मक्रीड आत्मरतिः क्रियावा- नेष ब्रह्मविदां वरिष्ठः ॥४॥</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">All pervading Brahman is indicated here as Prana - life, that resides in all beings. Supreme Reality is not confined to any place but it is all pervading. It is subtler than the subtlest and existing everywhere. Everything is Brahman alone but appearing like something else. Brahman is present everywhere as life, consciousness, existence everywhere. Wise seeker recognises Brahman as his own Self by following the right path shown by teacher. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Have you seen people under hypnotism? They can do anything that they are told to do when they are hypnotized. They can be told to become a child and cry and they cry like babies. That is the power of our mind. Our mind is very powerful. It makes us experience that which is not real. We experience all sorts of illusions, delusions, confusions because of mind. We have to transcend this power through our Sadhana. We have to overcome this power. Our mind is expression of mighty power of Supreme Reality’s Maya. At the cosmic level Maya is creating illusion of this world and at the individual level same Maya is like our mind creating various types of illusions. We can overcome illusion through Sadhana. We have to surrender to our higher Self in meditation to overcome Maya. We transcend our own mind and come to know ourselves as we are. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">When a wise person comes to know his higher Self, thereafter he becomes silent. The lesser knowledge we have, the more argument we have. We argue with ourselves, with others. It is like a fifth grade child argues with Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein cannot explain theory of relativity to a child completely. He will have to use the language which will be understood by that child. Similarly, there are foolish people who talk too much and argue. When we come to recognize our higher Self, we become silent. There is nothing to say much. Bhagvan Ramana Maharshi used to say that a person, who is diving deep in the well to retrieve some object, should keep his mouth shut once he is in water. If he opens his mouth, he will get drowned. Similarly, one who comes to realize one’s own higher Self, becomes silent. There is no need to argue. Whatever one says, it is okay. Great Masters reveal the secret of Supreme Truth only to a ripe and sincere student otherwise they remain silent.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Someone asked Gautam Buddha, ‘what is the nature of God?’ Gautam Buddha remained silent. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">These great Masters, enlightened beings constantly revel in themselves. They play in their own Self. At the same time they are also very active in expressing their love, sharing knowledge with the world around. Tapovanji Maharaj was active; Pujya Gurudev was also very active in their own ways. Shankaracharyaji was active and was spreading the message to the whole world. At the same time revel in their own Self, which is the Self of all beings. Scriptures say that such Masters are the greatest among the knower of Brahman. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">We gain the theoretical knowledge about Self but only when we meditate, we come to recognize our own Self as we are, directly. It is like food, one can gain lot of knowledge about food through cook-books. All the knowledge of cooking gained from the book is useful when one actually cooks and prepares delicious food shown in the book. Similarly, all the theoretical knowledge given in scriptures about Self should culminate in realizing our own Self through Sadhana. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">सत्येन लभ्यस्तपसा ह्येष आत्मा सम्यग्ज्ञानेन ब्रह्मचर्येण नित्यम् ।</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">अन्तःशरीरे ज्योतिर्मयो हि शुभ्रो यं पश्यन्ति यतयः क्षीणदोषाः ॥५॥</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Four important Sadhana are mentioned here – Satya – truthfulness, Tapas – austerity, Samyak Gyana – proper knowledge, Brahmacharyena – self-control.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Another important word is Nityam – constant practice.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Satya – truthfulness. We have to be truthful at the level of our speech, actions, emotions, thinking, relationships. We have to be truthful at every level. When we are truthful, our body, mind, senses and intellect get integrated. It becomes easy for us to meditate when they are integrated. When we lie, our personality gets split. Mind, senses, intellect are not integrated in a person who does not speak truth. If they are not tuned then it is not possible to proceed in our Sadhana at all. Satya is very important. One should speak the truth, one should speak it pleasantly and one should it for the welfare of everyone. The essence of Dharma is Satya. The essence of Ramayana is ‘Prana Jai Par Vachana Na Jai, Raghukula Rit Sada Chali Ayi.’ Whatever we have spoken, we have to respect our word and follow it. If Satyam goes away from our life then relations get spoiled. If there is no truth in our speech then it loses its power. Our thinking and feelings are useless if there is not reality in it. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Truthfulness should be followed Nityam – always.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">When we meditate, our own mind and intellect guide us. We listen to the instructions of our own intellect when we meditate. We will not listen to the instructions if the intellect is not truthful. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Atman is my own Self but as though it is lost because of my ignorance and delusion and distractions of mind. It is like a person who has his spects on his head and looking for it everywhere. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Tapas – various types of austerities are mentioned in our scriptures but the highest austerity is in concentration. Focus, concentration of our mind and intellect on one point is called Tapas. To be able to focus our attention on point is called Tapas. Even when we chant the name of Lord, not only we should chant but our feelings and thoughts are also engaged in chanting Lord’s name. Valmiki Rishi chanted name of Lord Rama intensely and with great focus and concentration, he did not realize that ants made a big anthill around his body. That focus is called Tapas. There is small opening in our heart and we have to enter through that opening through meditation. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Samyak Gyana – Proper knowledge. We should learn about our own Self and about its nature from the scriptures. Scriptures give us indicators about the Self. They give us proper knowledge and we can gain proper understanding. This is subtle subject and requires thorough study. Shravan – listening, Manana – constantly contemplating and ascertaining about our own Self. It takes long time. Scriptures are like mirror. If we want to see our face, we have to take help of mirror. However good eyes you may have but without mirror you can’t see your face. Proper wisdom helps us to recognize our own Self.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Brahmacharya – Self-control. Brahmacharya is to restrain our senses from over indulgence. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">With this four-fold practice, one will be able to proceed on the path and recognize supreme Self.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Self is seen by those great seekers who put forth efforts in right direction. They come to realize their own Self, which is self-luminous, extremely pure, deep within their own heart. If we follow the four-fold path of Satya, Tapas, Samyak Gyana and Brahmacharya, we will also be able to recognize our own Self deep within the heart.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">सत्यमेव जयते नानृतं सत्येन पन्था विततो देवयानः ।</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">येनाऽऽक्रमन्त्यृषयो ह्याप्तकामा यत्र तत् सत्यस्य परमं निधानम् ॥६॥</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Satyameva Jayate – this is very famous line. Satya alone wins, falsehood does not win. Even when we see falsehood winning, it is winning in the name of Satya. Even when a person lies, he has to say that he is telling the truth. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Truthfulness is associated with Ahimsa. Patanjali Rishi made it more clear by mentioning Ahimsa before Satyam. Satyam is completely truthful when it is associated with Ahimsa and welfare of everyone. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">We will be able to attain our goal when we walk on this path with truthfulness deeply engraved in our heart. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">This is cosmic law. It may appear that we are getting something out of nothing but we are losing somewhere else. There are no free lunches available in this world. We have to pay for it. Nothing comes free in this world, you have to pay. If gross is not paid for what we take then something subtler is taken away. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">This path towards Supreme is laid down by Satyam. One cannot be a liar, cannot have a disintegrated personality and then follow this path. All other values become fruitful, complete based on Satyam. Goodness, kindness, generosity, service all these values should have truthfulness as the base. Every value becomes valuable when it is based on truthfulness. All good values are derived from ultimate Reality. It is natural that as our mind becomes more Sattvic, good values rise in us. Negative values are seen in a Tamasic mind. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">As we drop Tamoguna and Rajoguna rises then our values become slightly better. As we move towards Sattvaguna, good values start rising more and more. Goodness is the very nature of the Self. Good values come out in its full glory when they are not blocked by Rajoguna and Tamoguna. In the same way, if we proactively, sincerely cultivate good values, we move towards our own Self. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">The great Rishis have walked on this path of truthfulness; they were free of all their desires. Supreme abode of Satya is attained by Rishis who walked on the path of Satya. Following goodness, we attain the abode of goodness, who is God. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">बृहच्च तद् दिव्यमचिन्त्यरूपं सूक्ष्माच्च तत् सूक्ष्मतरं विभाति ।</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">दूरात् सुदूरे तदिहान्तिके च पश्यन्त्विहैव निहितं गुहायाम् ॥७॥</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Supreme Brahman is vast, all pervading. It is divine. Brahman is most difficult to comprehend. Our intellect and mind is so small that it cannot grasp vast Brahman. It is in different dimension altogether. For example, we see a small sapling which will grow into a big tree and bear many fruits. But looking at the sapling you cannot imagine how big it will grow and how many fruits it will bear. We can be the Self but we cannot comprehend Brahman. In the state of meditation, intellect and mind becomes silent and in that silence we come to recognize ourselves as we are. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Someone ask Ramana Maharshi that I want to know God. Maharshi said, you be still and know that you are God. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Self is subtler than the subtlest. Shankaracharyaji writes in his commentary that Brahman is subtler than Akash. Space is in everything. But Brhman is there inside space also. It is very subtle but appears like everything. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">For example, ink has tremendous potential. You can write volumes of scriptures with ink. You can crate characters, drama action with the ink but you will not find any character or drama or action in the ink filled in bottle. One ink appears in many different forms. Similarly, one Brahman appears like many. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Brahman is further than the farthest. Shankaracharaji writes that those who are not qualified and those who have not purified their minds, Brahman is far away for them. It is very difficult for them to attain. Those who are ready and fit, Brahman is nearer than the nearest. It is very close. It is our own Self. There can nothing be closer than our own Self. Everything other than Self is far away. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Self resides in hearts of all the living beings as their own Self. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">न चक्षुषा गृह्यते नापि वाचा नान्यैर्देवैस्तपसा कर्मण वा ।</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">ज्ञानप्रसादेन विशुद्धसत्त्वस्ततस्तु तं पश्यते निष्कलं ध्यायमानः ॥८||</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">We cannot grasp Self with our eyes. One who is seeing through eyes is the Self. We can’t see the Self with eyes. The very fact that we can see, it proves that there is seer. That seer is the Self. Self cannot be described by our speech, it can only be indicated. It cannot be defined. Speech cannot express it. It cannot be grasped by other senses. Just by concentration alone, we cannot recognize the Self. We cannot attain Self by performing different types of actions of the world. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">How can we know the Self?</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">That Self which is free from all divisions, which is complete, that pure Self one can see, recognize by meditation. But that meditation should be presided by extremely pure chitta. Chitta should be pure by the grace of knowledge. Pure mind means mind that is free from all negative qualities like anger, jealousy, greed, passion. It also means that mind should be absolutely silent but alert and awake.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Mind has different layers. The deepest layer is called Chitta. As the mind starts becoming more and more pure, the purity descends and chitta becomes pure. The topmost layer of mind can become pure through action done with proper attitude. The inner layer is purified with love, Bhakti. Deeper layer is purified with knowledge. Contemplation on the knowledge given in scriptures about Self purifies Chitta at deeper level. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">There is no greater purifier in this world than knowledge. Right understanding of our Self with conviction is the right knowledge. Knowledge should be complete and with conviction. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">For example, before taking up the journey to moon, scientists draw the entire journey on paper clearly and then they put it in action. We can understand the nature of Self by studying the scriptures and we will be convinced about it. The more convinced we are, the mind becomes more pure. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Mind is impure because it is searching for Self. It is like a child is looking for mother. He gets lost in the party and looks for mother. Then suddenly he notices mother sitting in a corner so he is now convinced. Though he has not reached to his mother but he is convinced that she is there and becomes quiet. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Similarly, our mind is in search of happiness and peace. We are searching our own Self. Through scriptures we come to know that what we are looking for is within. When mind becomes silent then meditation becomes easy. What we are looking for is HERE. What we are looking for is NOW. Then the mind becomes silent. When I am happy HERE and NOW then nobody can disturb me. Realized Master is happy HERE and NOW. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Meditation happens in completely pure Chitta and purity comes with grace of </span></div>
kirtimukhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14592390224108255372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133845822730042896.post-31232271449309828762013-07-13T16:25:00.000+05:302013-09-19T10:54:08.412+05:30Quotes to help us row the boat of our life in the turbulent of River of Time:<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Rowing the boat of our life in the River of Time<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Marianne
Williamson in:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>A Course in Miracles </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Quoted in the film <u>Akeela</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*~*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Our deepest fear is not that we are
inadequate.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It is our light, not our darkness,
that frightens us most.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*~*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We ask ourselves:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">'Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, and famous?’</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Actually, who are you not to be?</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*~*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You are a child of God. Your
playing small does not serve the world.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">There is nothing enlightened about
shrinking</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">so that people won't feel insecure
around you.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We were born to make manifest the
glory of God that is within us.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It's not just in some of us; it's
in all of us.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And when we let our own light shine,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">As we are liberated from our own
fear, </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">our presence automatically
liberates others. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">*~*</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You are but the product of your
thoughts;<br />What you think, you become. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">yath bhavam tath bhavati</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You shall be, what you will to
be.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">*~*</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What is the process?</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Start believing in yourself.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A musician must make music,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">an artist must paint,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">a poet must write;</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What you can be, you must be.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Begin doing what you want to do
NOW.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Remember, we are not living in eternity; we have only this moment,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">sparkling
like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">*~*</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Cultivate the
'Beginner's Mind':</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Ask yourself --</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How can I be a beginner in each
moment --</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">even in situations where I am doing</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">what I have done before many times?</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We do not, what we ought,<br />What we
ought not - we do; </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And lean upon the thought that chance will bring us through. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">But
our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier power</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">*~*</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The will is free.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Strong is the soul, and wise, and
beautiful.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The seeds of god-like power are in
us still;</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Gods are we, Bards, saints,
heroes,if we will !</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The mark of your ignorance is the
depth of your belief <br />in injustice and tragedy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What the caterpillar calls the end
of the world, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The master calls a butterfly.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*~*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">No one can make you feel inferior</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">without your consent.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*~*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The past should be a springboard,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">not a hammock.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*~*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In the confrontation</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">between the stream and the rock,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">the stream always wins,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">not through strength,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">but through perseverance.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*~*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">There is no such thing as a problem
without a gift for you in its hands.<br />
You seek problems because you need their gifts. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*~*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">--not absence of fear." --
Mark Twain </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*~*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"A
man with outward courage may dare to die;<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #323232; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.05pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-font-width: 120%;"><b>GOD AND EVIL by C.E.M. JOAD </b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #323232; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.05pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-font-width: 120%;"><b>Extract:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><span lang="EN-US">'The </span></b><span lang="EN-US">thing a man does practically lay to heart and know for
certain, concerning his vital relations to this mysterious universe and his
duty and destiny there, that is in all cases the primary thing for him and
creatively determines all the rest. That is his religion.' - <span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: -0.7pt;">carlyle</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">A book which takes religion for its subject ought
manifestly has<i> </i>to begin with a definition of its subject. Numbers are available,
yet none, I feel, is sufficiently authoritative to justify its adoption; for no
one of these definitions, that is to say, can it be claimed that it embraces <i>all
</i>of what is meant by people when they use the word religion, and that it
embraces <i>only </i>what <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">is meant. In the
circumstances, the prudent course seems to be to </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">abandon the attempt to frame a definition which is both objective </span>and
authoritative, and to take the easier way of indicating what <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">I personally have in mind when I use the word.
People have used the word religion to cover many different things; what follows
is </span>no more than an indication of those of them which I take to be
important and am proposing to discuss in the following pages.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt;">The Propositions of Religion.</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">First, then, I take religion to consist of a set
of propositions to which those who 'believe in' religion would assent. The
propositions relate, in the first place, to the nature and purpose of the
universe. They are to the effect that the world of solid, everyday things
extended in space is not the only world, is not even the real world; for, they
assert, there is another world, a world of spirit which is real in some sense
in which the familiar world is illusory, and which is eternal as contrasted
with the familiar world which is transitory. By many, this spiritual world is <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">regarded as a universal consciousness which
expresses itself in our </span>partial consciousnesses or rather which is the
essential core or reality of our partial consciousnesses. This essential core
of the human being, which is his true self, is thus, by virtue of its </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">participation in the reality of the universal
consciousness, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">immortal. We are, then, immortal
souls, and it follows that by virtue of our possession of, or rather, by virtue
of our <i>being </i><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">immortal souls, we are
here and now members of the real spiritual </span>world, although by virtue of
our bodies we are also and at the <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">same time
members of the familiar world of physical things.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">If we live aright we can, even while we are in
the body upon earth, partially realize our real nature as participators in the
spiritual world and prepare ourselves to enter upon our full <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">spiritual inheritance when our souls leave their
bodies at death.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">The universal consciousness
which is the fundamental reality </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">of the universe can be
further defined, and by many, perhaps most, religions is further denned, as
being of the nature of a <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Person. This
Person is God.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Now we can only conceive of
the personality of God in terms of our own personalities; we can, in other
words, only conceive </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">of Him
anthropomorphically. To do so is no doubt to conceive <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">Him falsely, since God is not after all a man, is not even a perfect </span>man.
Nevertheless, we are in a position to make certain state<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">ments about His attributes, as, for example, that
He is all wise, all </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">good, and all
powerful; that He created us, created, that is to say, </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">our souls, and that He cares for us and wishes us
well; also that </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">He created the
familiar world of visible things and, therefore, our bodies which are members
of that world. God, then, is the author </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">of our being and it is to Him that we owe the gift of eternal life.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">It is possible by practising
certain disciplines, which are sum</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">med up in the words contemplation, meditation and prayer, and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">by living a good life to enter into direct intercourse with God. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Such intercourse has been vouchsafed to the
mystics who speak </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">of it in the
language of a revealed vision. The mystics are excep</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">tional men; ordinary men can, however, communicate
with God </span>in prayer and, if they.^pray with faith and (what is important)
pray for the right things, God will listen to their prayers and grant their
requests.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Apart from the direct
vision of the mystics, God has revealed </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">Himself
in indirect ways to man. There are certain values, the <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">values, namely, of moral goodness, of truth and of beauty, which </span>constitute
the permanent objects of human aspiration and the goals of human effort. These
values may be conceived as</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">attributes of God. They
are, that is to say, the ways in which God reveals </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Himself<b> </b>to man. God has further
vouchsafed to man the gift<b><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span></b><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of freedom, so that, although he is free to live a
good life, to persue </span>the values and to love God, he is also free to do
the reverse <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">of these things.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">I do not claim that these propositions cover the
whole ground <b>rf </b>religious belief; they do not even constitute the
highest com<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">mon factor of the beliefs of all
the great religions. The Buddhists, </span>for example, do not believe in the
immortality of the individual soul: the Hindus, that there was first a
universal spirit or con<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">sciousness which
created the world—before God, they claim, there </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;">was non-existence from which God Himself sprang—or the Zoroas-</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">nians that God is all-powerful—co-equal with God
there is, they </span>hold, another Being who is evil as God is good, who is
God's <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">antagonist and fights with Him for
the control of the universe and </span>the soul of man. I am conscious, too,
that the circumstance of my having been born in a Western civilization and
having inherited a Christian culture and tradition has permitted the beliefs
maintained by the Christian religion to colour, many would say to bias, my
statement of the propositions common to most religions. If I had been born in
India or China, I should no doubt have stated them differently. Nevertheless
they do, I think, constitute the essential part of what most people, who at <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">different times in the history of mankind have
'believed in' reli</span>gion, would be understood to mean when they said that
,they <span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">so believed.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">The Religious Faculty.</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Secondly, there is a
question of faculty. I have stated the above </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">propositions
as if their truth could be known in the same way as the truths of algebra; but
religious truth is not exclusively a matter of intellectual knowledge, nor is
the intellect the only faculty which is involved. What other faculties are
involved, it is difficult to say. Most religions have, however, consistently maintained,
and maintained as a part of the religion, as, that is <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">to say, an article of faith, that mankind cannot live by knowledge </span>alone.
To know the truths which religions have affirmed is also <i>to feel </i>the
truth of what one knows, so that it no longer remains <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">something outside oneself, but is taken up into and incorporated </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">with one's whole being. The heart, in short, is involved no less than
the brain. Hence 'experience' is perhaps a better word than 'knowledge', an
experience which is of the whole man; whereas the intellect knows algebra, the
heart human love, the emotions fear, it is the whole man, the whole man as
thinking, as feeling, as striving and as loving, that knows or experiences the
truth of <span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">religion.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">The Ends of Religion.</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">The question of faculty raises the question of
ends. If there are truths which are beyond the realm of reason or of reason
operating alone, it will follow that the knowledge of such truths will <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">exhibit important differences from the kind of
knowledge obtained by reason, or by reason operating alone. The characteristic
feature </span>of knowledge in the ordinary sense of the term, when we use it
to describe the knowledge of the things of this world, is that the knower is
separate from what is known. If I know that I hold a pen and sit at a desk, my
knowledge does not make me one with the pen or the desk. Indeed, it would be
said that I do indeed know them only because I am other than what I know. But
the <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">knowledge that is religious knowledge,
just because it is <i>more </i>than </span>knowledge, leaps across the gulf
which separates knower from known, so that in the last resort, when the soul
truly knows God, the soul ceases to be separate from God, ceases, that is to
say, to be individual and becomes one with what it knows. This condi<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">tion of oneness can be achieved while the soul is
still in the flesh in </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">the mystical
vision, when the true self realises its oneness </span>with the God it knows
and loves; it may also be achieved, and permanently achieved, after death,
since it is in part the body <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">which
separates the soul from God. 'Our spirit,' says St. Catherine of Genoa, 'is
ever longing to be free from all bodily sensations so </span>as to be able to
unite itself to God through love.'</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Even before this stage is
reached, however, since the soul can</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">not know God
however imperfectly without loving and revering <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">what it knows, and since in the experience of earthly love the soul </span>of
the lover approaches and enters into communion with the soul of the beloved, we
may say that the relation of the mind to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">religious
truth is never purely intellectual and other, but is always </span>and from the
beginning in part intuitive and akin.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt;">Religious Practice.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">Thirdly, there is the question of practice. Since
knowledge is not enough, since to know is also to love, to reverence and to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">strive after, the peculiar kind of knowledge
which religion gives </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">carries with it
certain obligations, carries in particular the obliga</span>tion to live in
such a way as to commend oneself to Him whom one loves, to humble oneself
before Him for whom one feels reverence, to draw nearer to Him after whom one
strives. Religion, in other words, enjoins a way of life. It does so for three
reasons. First, because such a way of life is seen in the light of <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">revealed truth to be good in itself; secondly,
because it is pleasing </span>to God; thirdly, because it is a preparation of
the soul for the fuller life to be lived hereafter.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">The first and the second motives entail one
another. It is good <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">because it pleases God,
and it pleases God because it is good. Yet </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each motive is separately authoritative. It is enough for one who </span>recognizes
the value of goodness that the way of life should be good in itself; it is
enough for one who loves and fears God that it should be pleasing to Him. The
third motive is particularly liable to perversion, since the suggestion that
one should live in such and such a way in order to prepare oneself by so living
for <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">eternal bliss can be represented as an
invitation to take out a long-</span>term insurance policy whose benefits will
be drawn in the next world; it can, in other words, be represented as an
incentive to <span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">the exercise of far-sighted
selfishness. In fact, however, this motive </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">follows directly from the recognition of the necessary limitations </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">of the life of the soul in the body, and a
consequent determination </span>to achieve a fuller and more blessed life
hereafter.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">From all these motives, there follows the
obligation to live in a certain way. That way has been pointed out to us by the
teachers of the great religions. There are important differences in their
teachings, but through them there run a number of threads which are fairly
clear and fairly consistent: to be kind, <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">gentle,
compassionate and just; not to be self-seeking; to </span>discipline, even in
some cases to suppress the bodily passions; not to set over much store by the
things of this world; to respect the rights of others, treating them as not
less important than <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">oneself; to love them
so far as one can, and to love and fear God.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">These and similar injunctions constitute common elements in the
practical teaching of most of the great religions.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">But the way of life which the religions enjoin
cannot be lived without assistance. Though the spirit is willing, though, that
is to say, the true self desires only what is good and to be good, <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">the flesh is weak and the body, which is the
source or the vehicle </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of all manner
of evil desires, deflects the true self from its objec</span>tives, or so
blinds it that it cannot perceive them. Hence arises <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">temptation, which is a conflict between two motives, a good and </span>a
bad, often resulting in a yielding to the bad. Because men are by nature
sinful, we cannot always resist temptation; we cannot, therefore, lead the life
which the religions enjoin, unless God helps us to do so. If, however, we pray
to Him for help it will be given. Thus it is only through the assistance of
Divine Grace, as it is called, that man can succeed in living aright. 'I
clearly recognize,' says St. Catherine of Genoa, 'that all good is in God
alone, and that in me, without Divine Grace, there is nothing but deficiency.'
'The one sole thing in myself,' she continues, ' in which I glory, is that I
see in myself nothing in which I can glory.'</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">I am not suggesting that the foregoing
constitutes a definition of religion. It is obvious that it does not; but it
does convey broadly what I understand by the content and the claims of
religion. To an elucidation of this content and an examination <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">of the claims that are made for it, the following
pages are devoted.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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kirtimukhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14592390224108255372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133845822730042896.post-14817447970015249002013-05-16T07:52:00.002+05:302013-05-16T08:34:30.468+05:30Freedom from the burden of the Past<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"> Memory of the past, if vivid and ever-present, </span><br />
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is like a non-existent ghost which haunts us with our consent. <br />
It becomes an obstacle to freely conduct life in Time which flows only one way.
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It is wise to learn the core lesson from the past for guidance; <br />
the wise extract the essence right, and update/use it <i>appropriately. </i><br />
Otherwise, the past becomes a burden which needs to be dropped at the earliest
time. </span></span></div>
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Else, mired in the past-land, we shall miss the future.</span></span></div>
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Leaving no foot-prints behind - Swami Chidananda</span></div>
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"I am" , without qualifications, is the constant assertion of the wise; they are
always in the present –– not living <i>in </i>time, but transcending time.
Freedom from movement of thought into the past or future and an alertness in
which the illusory coordinates of time are not given any place are the
characteristics of the Wise.</span></span></div>
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Pure knowledge has no past, no future; it just <i>is</i>, unqualified by
anything. Birds do not leave any mark as they glide gracefully in the air;
fishes do not leave a mark when they swim in the ocean. </span></span></div>
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Neither haunted by the past nor taunted by the future, the Wise live a blissful
life, <i>leaving no footprints behind</i>. They seem to be walking along a path;
but if you observe carefully there are no footprints. </span></span></div>
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Leaving no footprints in their mind as they act dynamically and selflessly in
the present, and living their lives without fear, free from pride or regret,
empty, totally selfless and pure in oneself, with no grudge, at ease with
themselves and with all of God’s creation, subject to no pulls or pushes, the
Wise are ever blissful and are always in the present. </span></span></div>
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Is it any wonder that the most beautiful actions come out of such divine
persons?<br />
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You cannot escape from experiences,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">These roots give rise to problems, conflicts and
constant struggle.</span><span style="background-color: #ffff99;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">There is no way out of this but to die each day
to every yesterday; <br />
And live eternally in the present. -- J Krishnamurti</span></span></span></div>
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kirtimukhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14592390224108255372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133845822730042896.post-2916135906479470852013-05-08T19:39:00.001+05:302013-05-08T19:41:51.597+05:30OLD AGE DEMENTIA - ALZHIEMER'S<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 18pt;">A Singular Life, an All Too Common End<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: grey; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">By <a href="http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/author/paula-span/" title="See all posts by PAULA SPAN"><span style="color: #666699; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; text-underline: none;">PAULA SPAN</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="color: #666699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/a-singular-life-an-all-too-common-end/#p[TllTll]" title="Link to 1st paragraph">¶</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/a-singular-life-an-all-too-common-end/#h[PSiPSi]" style="line-height: 24px;">http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/a-singular-life-an-all-too-common-end/#h[PSiPSi]</a><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">The <span style="color: #666699;">long list of roles Margaret Thatcher played</span> during
her 87 years — potent politician, free-market evangelist, labor antagonist,
dominant global leader — includes the one she never publicly discussed: person
with dementia.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">The stroke that killed her on Monday was not
her first. Mrs. Thatcher suffered several small strokes more than a decade
earlier, canceled all her speaking engagements in 2003 and largely withdrew
from public life. Even before the strokes, <span style="color: #666699;">her daughter, Carol, wrote in a 2008 memoir</span>,
she was losing cognitive ground, repeating questions and showing other signs of
confusion.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Heart-breakingly, she often forgot that her
beloved husband, Denis, had died of cancer in 2003. “I had to keep giving her
the bad news over and over again,” her daughter wrote. “Every time it finally
sank in that she had lost her husband of more than 50 years, she’d look at me
sadly and say, ‘Oh’, as I struggled to compose myself. ‘Were we all there?’
she’d ask softly.”<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">At the time, members of her mother’s political
circle and other British commentators <a href="http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/margaret-thatchers-open-secret/"><span style="color: #666699;">denounced Carol Thatcher</span></a> for invading her
mother’s privacy and, supposedly, diminishing her dignity. The criticism arose
again in some quarters last year, when Meryl Streep won an Oscar for her
portrayal of Mrs. Thatcher’s dementia in <span style="color: #666699;"><a href="http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/the-lioness-in-winter/">“The Iron Lady.”</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">The contrast with her fellow conservative and
staunch supporter Ronald Reagan perhaps says something about American openness
versus British reserve. Or maybe his movie-star past made him more at ease in
the public eye.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Mr. Reagan chose to disclose his Alzheimer’s disease <span style="color: #333333;">in
a handwritten open letter in 1994, accompanied by an explanatory letter from his
doctors. He, too, had experienced memory loss for a couple of years, and once
he got the Alzheimer’s diagnosis, he and Nancy Reagan considered how much to
say.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">“In opening our hearts, we hope this might
promote greater awareness of this condition,” his letter said. “Perhaps it will
encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families affected by
it.”<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, to
this day, carry a stigma that most other diseases — heart failure, for example
— do not. To my mind, Mr. Reagan’s public disclosure showed courage, as Betty
Ford’s candor about her breast cancer and her substance abuse did 20 years
before.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Mrs. Thatcher’s family, on the other hand, has
never discussed her diagnosis — whether she had vascular dementia from the
earlier strokes or some other form of the disease. Perhaps she forbade her
children to offer details about her illness, or perhaps by the time her
condition was clear she was no longer able to make such decisions. We may never
know.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">But we do know that dementia will become an
increasingly common condition in coming years, that it’s a terminal disease
which doesn’t respect the public stature or intellectual accomplishments of its
victims, that it can cause families to grieve for the people they’ve lost long
before they die.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="emhighlight"><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.paulaspan.com/"><span style="color: black;">Paula Span</span></a></span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></i></span></span><span class="emhighlight"><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">is the author of
“When the Time Comes: Families With Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and
Solutions.”</span></span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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kirtimukhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14592390224108255372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133845822730042896.post-13108200197616970942013-05-02T09:33:00.002+05:302013-05-02T11:18:09.949+05:30"MY STROKE OF INSIGHT" - Neuro-Scientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">TED talk (Video) by </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal">Jill Bolte Taylor</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">: </span><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/talks/<wbr></wbr>jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_<wbr></wbr>stroke_of_insight.html </a></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Hidden potential of our amazing human brain / mind </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal"> </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal">In the modern scientific world-view, if God exists at all, he has the role of a great engineer who had, initially, made this giant clock. But having done that and set it into motion, he really has no further role to play. In other words, he is a retired engineer - and, like all retirees, has been pushed to the background. As the economist Schumacher of “Small is Beautiful” fame has explained, in the academic world it is okay to indulge in polite talk about God, provided of course it is accepted that He is not capable of doing anything in our world!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal">As in folklore stories, God seems to have answered, by choosing two ‘representatives’ to go to those higher realms and return to tell us how things ‘up there’ are like. And He has chosen - two brain specialists with absolutely impeccable credentials - both having strong connections with that institution we educated people revere more than any God - Harvard!! They have published two books:</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal">One is “My Stroke of Insight” by Jill Bolte Taylor, a Ph.D. in neuro-anatomy, and the other is “Proof of Heaven” by Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon of repute. Both had very unusual experiences, ‘journeys’ into levels of consciousness far above the material level of ‘duality’. What they tell us questions in a very deep and effective way the basic tenets of the ‘scientific world view’. In effect, both of them have ‘come back after experiencing heaven’, so to speak.</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal">But the most important message contained in both these books is not a theoretical one about whether God exists or not. As recognized brain scientists, both Dr. Taylor and Dr. Alexander are telling us, “Hey, we understood much more about our brain’s (or, more accurately, our mind’s) hidden capacities during this experience than what we did in decades of research on the brain. Our human brain has fantastic, unbelievable, hidden capacities. …… - the Kingdom of Heaven is <i>within</i> us - each one of us is a microcosm <i>carrying the entire macrocosm</i>. If we want to know the truth about who we are, we need to go <i>within</i>, tap these hidden resources. Once we do so, we will emerge as a new human being, full of unbelievable love and compassion for all, for we will then see ourselves as one with the entire universe, not just a minute part of it.”</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal">I am giving below details of the publishers, so that you can obtain them easily. I am also giving a brief preview of what they contain. Please also view the TED presentation by Jill Bolte Taylor, and in particular focus on the concluding of what she has to say under the heading “WHO ARE WE?”. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 18px;font-style: normal"><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal">The two scientists presentations represent a very great break in the way we human beings, especially the educated class, look at life and its purpose - and, in particular, realize the path to “be the change we want to see in this world”, to borrow Gandhi’s famous words - words which, together with Einstein’s quotes integrating his discoveries in science with the ‘cosmic religious experience’, form an integral part of <i>both</i> these books, even though they have been written independently and without reference to each other.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"> </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal">“My Stroke of Insight” by Jill Bolte Taylor:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal">Published in paperback by Hodder and Stoughton (2009)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal">Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuro-anatomist by profession.</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal">In 1996, she was at the Harvard Medical School, performing research, and teaching students about how the brain functions.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal">On the morning of December 10, 1996, when she was only 37, she herself experienced a brain stroke - a major haemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain. Technically, what attacked her was an AVM (arterio-venous malfunction) - a very rare form of stroke that results in the rapid leakage of a lot of blood into the brain. As blood is toxic to neurons, such a leakage of blood has a devastating effect on the brain’s functions. Within four hours, she could not walk, talk, read, write, calculate or recall anything of her life. Recovery from such a state is considered very rare. But not only did she recover, she has regained her ‘left hemisphere’ capabilities completely. It has been a miraculous recovery, and she is convinced that there is a higher purpose to the efont-style: normalvent that happened to her - and has been dedicating her life to spreading awareness of what she learnt during that stroke.</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal">The right and left hemispheres of our brain normally function in a complementary way. The circuitry of the right side is organized somewhat like that of a parallel processor in a computer, and is designed to take in data ‘moment by moment’. That means, there is no ‘flow of time’ in its perception. Each moment is vibrant with sensation, and so this circuitry plays the central role in our feeling of joy, of <i>intuitive</i> insights, of spontaneous outbursts, of connecting with the rest of the universe. The left hemisphere, by contrast, is a sequential processor of information: it superimposes a time-frame to what the right hemisphere senses by putting them together in timely succession. Thus, it commands us to put on our socks before we put on our shoes; it enables us to describe, evaluate, categorize and communicate; it breaks up the ‘big picture’ of the present moment presented by the right hemisphere’s circuitry into manageable and comparable bits of data that we can talk about. Of course, the two hemispheres act in conjunction, as complementary parts of a single whole: which is why, for instance, when we come across a rainbow, we see beautiful colours - the right hemisphere capabilities point out its grand beauty, while the left hemisphere capabilities, acting simultaneously, dissect it into the colour components.</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">It is the function of the left hemisphere to dissect, to analyze, to break into parts. It is because of our left hemisphere capabilities that <i>we see ourselves as an “I”:</i> separate from the rest of the universe. We draw boundaries to ourselves: in particular, we identify ourselves with our body. Thus, if someone were to attack us, it is the left hemisphere’s circuitry which ignites the defense mechanism within us, because we see ourselves as residing within a limited amount of space which is being threatened by an outside force.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">View/hear the TED video talk by </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px;font-style: normal">Jill Bolte Taylor</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Saints like Ramana Maharishi have stated that when the "I" drops, <br />we experience the Whole.<br /><span style="background-color: white;">अहमि नाशभाज्यहंतया स्फुरति ह्रुत्स्वयं परम पूर्णसत् |</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Upadesa Saram</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Proof of Heaven” by Eben Alexander</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Published in paperback by Simon & Schuster, 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal;">In 1975, the medical fraternity had reacted with skepticism bordering on ridicule to the work of one of their colleagues, Dr. Raymond Moody, who had described the ‘out of body’ experiences of many people who had been victims of ‘cardiac arrest’ but were resuscitated because of new techniques developed in medical science in the 1960s. But Dr. Moody bravely stuck to his guns, pointing out the great similarities between the experiences of so many ‘clinical death’ cases, cutting across cultural, religious and racial divides. He got the unstinted support of the highly respected doctor, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the founder of the </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">hospice</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal;"> movement, who had herself had one such experience. Gradually, other doctors too got interested in this phenomenon, giving rise to a new branch of study that goes by the name of Thanatology. Several doctors, such as the cardiac specialist Dr. Michael Sabom, who set out to debunk what Raymond Moody had initiated, became converts when data they accumulated pointed to the truth of what Dr. Moody was saying, and slowly a vast amount of literature has been collected documenting what are now classified as “NDEs” - near death experiences.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal;">Attempts have been made to link these experiences to the mystical notion of “dying while living” extolled by the mystics of all ages and cultures, in particular of India and China - the Tibetan Book of the Dead being seen as an ancient document which describes such ‘out of body’ experiences in terms that are very strikingly similar to what the Thanatolgists are recording.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal;">. Among those who dismissed them as of no consequence was Dr. Eben Alexander, who regarded such experiences as ‘impossible’ - that is, until he himself had one!</span><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal;">Direct perception</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-style: normal"> is the best proof of anything. Once we have direct perception, nothing can shake our faith. That is why Dr.Eben Alexander has boldly titled his book “Proof of Heaven”. He asserts that what he experienced was no hallucination or dream - and he <i>knows</i> it because he himself experienced it. It was, he insists, <i>ultra</i>-real: even more real than what we experience here at the physical level. It was a huge jump in his level of consciousness, after which life here on earth seemed to have </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">‘extraordinarily cumbersome limitations’.</span></blockquote>
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</div>kirtimukhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14592390224108255372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133845822730042896.post-15332157670177748602013-03-13T14:34:00.000+05:302013-03-13T14:34:02.500+05:30KATHOPANISHAD - explained<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: xx-small; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.atmaprajnananda.blogspot.in/" style="color: #4e2800; text-decoration: none;">Ātmaprajñānanda Saraswati</a>, disciple of Swami Dayananda Saraswati.</span></h1>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Kathopanishad</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.atmaprajnananda.blogspot.in/search/label/Upanishads">http://www.atmaprajnananda.blogspot.in/search/label/Upanishads</a>
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Notes: Posted by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="fn"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/11338922485362163163" title="author profile"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span itemprop="name">Atmaprajnanand</span><span style="text-decoration: none;">a</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Imagery of the Chariot</span></u></b><b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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I.3.3 and I.3.4. It compares,</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">the body is the chariot itself</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">intellect – buddhi is the chariot driver</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">the mind - manas is the reins</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">the indriyas – five senses are the chariot horses</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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popularized by Somerset Maugham in his novel ‘The Razor’s Edge’ in 1944. The
novel was </span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">later adapted, twice, into films of the same title. The epigraph reads,
"The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say
the path to Salvation is hard." taken from a verse in the Ka.Up.- I.3.14.
Maugham had visited India in 1938 and met Ramana Maharshi in his ashram.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Mantras proving Reincarnation</span></u></b><b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ka.Up.-I.1.6
and II.2.7 are pram</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">na for the theory/law of incarnation.</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Pram</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">na for concept of Jivanmukti</span></u></b><b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ka.Up.-II.2.1
and II 3.14 are pram</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">na vakyas for the theory/concept of Jivanmukti in Advaita.</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Pram</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">na for Law of Karma</span></u></b><b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">‘---yath</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">karma yath</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">srutam’. - Ka.Up.-II.2.7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Analogy with Fire, Air and the
Sun</span></u></b><b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">II.2.9 – Oneness of</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">compared with fire</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">II.2.10 – Oneness of</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">compared with air</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">II.2.11 – Oneness of</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">compared with the Sun</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ch.II-1<sup>st</sup></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Valli</span></b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">It has
been stated – ‘He is hidden in all beings, and hence does not appear as the</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">. However, He is seen through a pointed and fine intellect (I.3.12). The
question naturally is, what is the obstacle to the intellect, because of which
obstacle the</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">is not known. The second chapter begins with the
first mantra showing</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">as the cause of that non-perception. When the cause
of the obstacle is known, effort can be made to overcome the same.</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Lord destroyed every possibility (of knowing the</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">) by making the sense-organs face outward. Therefore, people see the outer
objects, and not the</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">within. Only a rare discriminating person, desiring
immortality, turns his/her eyes within and sees the</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">within. (II.1.1)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. -
The unintelligent people pursue the external objects; and become entangled in
the net of death. Therefore, the discriminating people who know what
immortality is, do not desire impermanent objects. (II.1.2)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">In the 1<sup>st</sup></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Chapter, 2<sup>nd</sup></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Valli, The moment Lord Yama said, ‘I got to know
that nitya-tattva by performing the Naciket</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">gni (I.2.10); immediately Naciket</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">said – ‘Please teach me that
nitya-tattva.’(1.2.14)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">In
this chapter, Lord Yama then goes on explaining this in various manner by
saying ‘etat vai tat’ – (that which you asked, O! Naciket</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">.)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Omniscience of</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - That through people perceive form, taste, odour, sound, touch and
conjugal pleasure, is indeed That, which you asked (O! Naciket</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">). (II.1.3)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - Having known the great and all-pervasive Self, through which a person
perceives the objects both in sleep and waking state, a wise person does not
grieve. (II.1.4)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - Anyone who knows this</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">as oneself, as the
karma-phala-bhokt</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">-experiencer of all actions, bestowing life to all, ruler of the past and
the future, and knowing Him to be near him, is not afraid of anything. (II.1.5)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - That which was before the five great elements, and manifested as
Hiranyagarbha by His tapas, That who is in everyone’s intellect, one who knows
thus alone knows – This is That. (II.1.6)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - This nitya-tattva is the Aditi. It manifests along with all beings
and remains in the intellect. One who knows Him thus, alone knows - This is
That. (II.1.7)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - Just as the pregnant women carefully protect their foetus, just as
the fire is hidden within two aranis, That to whom people offer oblations daily
– That Fire is That. (II.1.8)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - By which tattva, the Sun rises, sets, and into which all deities are
offered, that which cannot be superseded by anyone – This is That. (II.1.9)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - That which is here is there; similarly, what is there is here. He who
sees duality here goes from death to death. (II.1.10)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - This (tattva) is to be known through the mind
indeed. There is no duality here. One, who sees duality here, goes from death
to death. (II.1.11)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">(‘manas</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">-evam-idam-</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ptavyam’ - II.1.11 is
apparently contradicted by Kena mantra – ‘yam mans</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">na manute’, ---- This is clarified in the
‘Brahmasutra’)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - The Purusha, is of the size of the thumb, resides within the physical
body. Knowing Him to be the ruler of the past and the future, one does not want
to save the</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">. This is That. (II.1.12)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - The Purusha, who is of the size of the thumb, is like light without
smoke. He is the ruler of the past and the future. He exists today and will
exist tomorrow. This is That. (II.1.13)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The Upanishad again presents a refutation of the perception of duality with
reference to Brahman,</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - As water rained from an inaccessible height gets dispersed on the
lower hilly regions, similarly, one who sees duality, pursues after the
duality. (II.1.14)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">(And to think that there are philosophy/ies about
duality, which is evident to everyone unexposed to the Upanishad/s).</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Now the Upanishad states as to how the</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">is
known,</span></b><b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - O Gautama! Just as pure water poured on pure water becomes verily the
same; so also the</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">of the wise man. (2.1.15)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">One who understands this nitya-tattva goes back to that, just as the
rainwater from the clouds.</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Lastly one question emerges naturally – Why are we
not being able to understand this nitya-tattva that was so well presented by
Lord Yama? The explanations are given in the next Valli.</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 2<sup>nd</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Valli<br />
</span></b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Recap: </span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">In the previous Valli, Lord Yama presented the nitya-tattva in various
manner saying – ‘etat vai tat’. Still it is difficult to understand that
nitya-tattva Brahman. Hence, Lord Yama continues to explain that tattva again
in another method.</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - That tattva remains in the city of eleven gates. Meditating on Him,
one becomes free from grief, and free being already free – This is indeed That.
(II.2.1)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">(II.2.1 is pram</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">na-v</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">kya for the law of Jivan-mukta
in Advaita)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. As the moving sun, He dwells in the sky, as V</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">yu He pervades all and dwells in the space, as the
fire He resides on the earth, as Soma He stays in the container, He lives among
people, among the celestials, in the truth, in the space. He is existent in the
water and earth in various forms, in the mountains as the rivers. He is
unchanging; He is great. (II.2.2 c.f. RV-IV.40.5)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - He that takes up the pr</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">na, and makes the ap</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">na enter inside, all the deities worship Him, who sits in the middle. This
that is in the heart of all. (II.2.3)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - That which remains after the falling of the physical body, This is
That. (II.2.4) (meaning That makes the pr</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">än</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">a and the senses function)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - No mortal can live without pr</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">än</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">a-ap</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">än</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">a, but all live by something else, due to which these two find base. (II.2.5)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - O Gautama! I shall tell you of this secret, Brahman; and also what
happens to the</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">after death. (II.2.6)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - Some souls enter the womb for acquiring bodies, and others assume the
motionless forms (trees), all in accordance with their deeds and in conformity
with their knowledge. (II.2.7)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">(This is pram</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">na-v</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">kya for the theory/law of
reincarnation.)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The Upanishad now speaks of the secret of Brahman
about which it was promised, ‘I shall tell’.</span></b><b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - That Purusha who is awake when everyone is asleep, He who goes on
creating desirable objects even when the senses fall asleep, That pure tattva
Brahman, That is called Amrta (Immortal). The whole creation is based on Him,
and there is nothing can transcend Him. That is indeed That. (II.2.8)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">An analogy -</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - Just as the fire, though one, entering the world assumes different
forms, so also That remains as the Antar</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">in each being, and remains outside also. (II.2.9)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Another analogy -</span></b><b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - Just as the air, though one, entering the world assumes different
forms, so also That remains as the Antar</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">in each being, and remains outside also. (II.2.10)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Since it should not be construed that if a single entity is the</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">of all, then all the sorrows of the world would belong to the Brahman
Itself, Upanishad says - </span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Yet another analogy –</span></b><b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - Just as the Sun, which is the eyes of the whole world, is not
affected by the defective sight of the onlooker, similarly the</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">tm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">, that is but one in all being, is not affected by the afflictions of the
world. (II.2.11)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - The wise person, who sees this Lord of all beings who controls all,
and has become many in his heart always, obtains happiness, not someone else.
(II.2.12)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; border-bottom: double windowtext 2.25pt; border: none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; padding: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - That who is the timeless amongst all
temporary beings, That which is the consciousness of sentient jagat, That which
makes the desires, the wise man sees that inside Him and obtains happiness, not
someone else. (II.2.13)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Listening to this nitya-tattva and the peace it
brings about to the knower, Naciket</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">asked,</span></b><b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - How can I know this tattva, which gives</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">nanda and s</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">nti. Is that self-effulgent, does it shine
distinctly or not? (II.2.14)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">To this question Yamaraj replied,</span></b><b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - The Sun does not shine there, neither the Moon nor the Stars; nor the
flashes of lightening shine. What to talk of this Agni? He alone shines;
everything else shines after Him through His lustre. (II.2.15)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">This mantra II.2.15 is in other Upanishads in to-to.</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">3<sup>rd</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Valli</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">In the first mantra of this Valli, Yamaraja gives another imagery of ‘etat
vai tat’. The Upanishad presents the sams</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ra as an Asvattha tree. Its root system if facing
up and the branches are hanging down. The roots are in the nitya-tattva. That
is Brahman, That is Amrta. All the regions are based on That. No one can
transcend That. This is That (you asked). (II.3.1)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">(This </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">imagery of Asvattha tree
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Yamar</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">ä</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">ja continues to present That Brahman thus,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - This is the pr</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">äna</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">. The whole universe emerges and moves because of This Brahman, which is a
great terror like an uplifted thunderbolt. Those who know This become immortal.
(II.3.2)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Yamar</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ja then explains how the order
is maintained because of Its presence –</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - Out of fear of Him fire burns, out of fear of Him the Sun shines, out
of fear of Him, Indra, V</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">yu and Death perform their duties. (II.3.3)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">(The concept of II.3.3 is repeated in Taittiriya Upanishad-II.8.1).</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - If one succeeds in knowing Him before the fall of the physical body,
one becomes free; else, because of that one continues to be born in the world
of creatures. (II.3.4)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">(This concept is a famous and oft-quoted mantra in
Kenopanishad-II.5)</span></b><b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Clarity
of Vision of Atma is maximum here</span></b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - That tattva is clearly seen here in the intellect, just as the
reflection in the mirror, in the Pitrloka It is seen like in the dream, in
Gandharva-loka as seen in water. However, in Brahmaloka It is seen as clearly
as light and shade. (II.3.5) (Since it is very difficult to go to Brahmaloka,
one should strive to know That in this life.)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Now Yamar</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ja explains how to know That
and the necessity of that knowledge.</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">(This physical body functions with the help of the five senses.)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - The wise man who knows the differences of the senses and rising and
setting, does not grieve. (II.3.6)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - The mind is superior to the senses, and the intellect superior to the
mind and Mahat is superior to the intellect, and the Avyaktam (Unmanifest Creation)
is superior to Mahat. (II.3.7)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">(This is repetition of mantra I.3.10,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> and the concept is repeated in
BhagavadGita-III.42)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - The all-pervasive Purusha is superior to the Avyakta, and is devoid
of any attributes. Knowing Him, a man becomes free and obtains immortality.
(II.3.8)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - His form is not within the range of the vision, nobody sees Him with
the physical eyes. When this Self is revealed through meditation, it is known
by the intellect, the ruler of the mind. Those who know Him become immortal.
(II.3.9)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">But how can the ruler of the heart be known? For that purpose, Yoga is
introduced,</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - When the five senses along with the mind and intellect calm down,
that is called the highest state. (II.3.10)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - Such a state of keeping the senses steady is called Yoga. One becomes
alert and vigilant at that time, since Yoga is subject to rising and setting.
(II.3.11)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Such a state is achieved through effort and practice,</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. That nitya-tattva is not attained through
speech, nor mind (contradiction of </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">mantra II.1.11), nor the eyes. It is not available
to anyone other than him, who knows that It indeed is. (II.3.12) (meaning the
wise know it as himself/herself)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - First, the Self is to be accepted as existing, and then as It is
really. Of these two aspects, the real nature of the Self that is known as mere
existence becomes favourably disposed (for self-revelation). (II.3.13)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - When all the desires of the mind fall off, then the man becomes free
even while alive. He attains the Brahman here. (II.3.14)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">(2<sup>nd</sup></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Pram</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">na-v</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">kya for the theory/law of Jivanmukta in Advaita)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">But when the desires will be totally uprooted? Upanishad says –</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - When all the knots of the heart (mind/intellect) fall off, even while
the man is alive, then a mortal becomes immortal. This much alone is the
teaching of the Upanishad. (II.3.15)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - The nerves of the mind is 101 in number. Of them, one nerve passes
through the crown of the head. Going up through that nerve, one gets
immortality. The others who go through different directions, become causes of
birth and death. (II.3.16)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Now, with the view to conclude the purport of the chapters, the Upanishad
says -</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - The Purusha, the indweller of the body is of the size of the thumb
(for visualisation and meditation only) and is ever-seated in the minds of the
people. One should unerringly separate Him from the physical body, just as the
stalk is separated from the munj</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">grass. One should know Him as pure and immortal, one should now Him as pure
and immortal. (II.3.17)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tr. - Naciket</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">having first become free from virtue and vice, and
desire and ignorance received this knowledge of Yoga in its totality revealed by
Lord of Death, and attained Brahman. Anyone else, too, who becomes a knower
like him (Naciket</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Rama-Palatino","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ä</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">) attains Brahman. (II.3.18)</span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: KN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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kirtimukhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14592390224108255372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133845822730042896.post-5523435190542691982013-03-07T11:55:00.000+05:302013-03-07T14:03:34.873+05:30Old Order Changeth . . .<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: blue;"><b>In Defence of Midnight's Grand children</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In </span><span lang="SA" style="font-family: Mangal, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Sunday Hindu - Magazine article (19-8- 2012), </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">V. Nagaswami, one of mid-night's children<br />(born in the decade or so after Independence: age 40+ ) writes in support of Midnight’s grandchildren (those born towards the end of the last century: age <40>: <br />the link to the article in the web is:<!--40--><!--40--><!--40--><!--40--><!--40--></40></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/article3793807.ece" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.thehindu.com/<wbr></wbr>todays-paper/tp-features/tp-<wbr></wbr>sundaymagazine/article3793807.<wbr></wbr>ece</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Two extracts from the article, with my comment at the end:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Over the last decade or so, we have witnessed extraordinary changes in our social environment, and at an astonishingly rapid pace at that, flying in the face of classical social science teaching that social change takes place extremely gradually, over centuries than decades.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />The India of two decades ago and the one we live in today are distinctly different on a variety of<br />parameters. The popular belief has been that these changes have been wrought by the<br />shameless imitation of western mores and lifestyles, owing to exposure through globalisation,<br />television and the Internet. The implication is that all the changes taking place are only superficial, transitory and that sooner than later we will get back to our “old Indian ways”. This is what midnight’s children (I use this term to refer loosely to people born in the decade or so after Independence) would like to believe. However, I (also a midnight’s child by the above definition) would not be foolhardy to assume that the changes we see around us are superficial. For, they are not. I believe that they are intrinsic, organic and reflect a much deeper change in belief systems than we would like to imagine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />Midnight’s grandchildren (those born towards the end of the last century) are conspicuously different and bear little resemblance to midnight’s children.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Midnight’s grandchildren take criticism about India in their stride. Unlike their parents who constantly want everybody to acknowledge the supremacy of ancient Indian culture and feel slighted when harsh comments are made about India, they are perfectly aware of what ails the country and do not feel the need to defend the indefensible, such as coming up with pointless socio-historical explanations of why people defecate on the streets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />They have neither the need nor the time to extol Indian culture; <u>they are too busy living it. </u><br />To me it appears that their greatest strength is that they don’t see themselves as the defenders of their culture. They are perfectly willing to tweak it and enjoy it. They use Indian culture as a stepping stone than as an albatross around their necks.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As I understand the article, the message seems to be:<br />We ( >40) may try to influence/moderate/accept the inevitable change but not seek to<br />resist it and restore the past, realising that evolution involving change is an ever-present, unstoppable process of Nature. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,<br />Courage to change the things I can, and<br />Wisdom to know the difference</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">. (Alcoholics Anonymous)</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">yat yat bhavyam bhavatu bhagavan </span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Que sara sara)</span></div>
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'</span><b style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Science without religion is
lame, religion without science is blind</b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.'</span><br />
So Einstein once wrote to explain his personal creed:<br />
"A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubts about the
significance of those super-personal objects and goals which neither require
nor are capable of rational foundation."<u1:p></u1:p></div>
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His was not a life of prayer
and worship. Yet he lived by a deep faith--a faith not capable of rational
foundation--that there are laws of Nature to be discovered. His lifelong pursuit
was to discover them. His realism and his optimism are illuminated by his
remark:<u1:p></u1:p></div>
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'Subtle is the Lord, but
malicious He is not' <br />
(<i>'Raffiniert ist der Herrgott aber boshaft ist er nicht.'.'</i>).<br />
When asked by a colleague what he meant by that, he replied:<br />
'Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, <br />
but not by means of
ruse'<br />
(<i>'Die Natur verbirgt ihr Geheimnis durch die Erhabenheit ihres Wesens, aber
nicht durch List.'</i>).</div>
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My personal Note on the above:</span></span></b></div>
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It's truly a miraculous
experience, watching a baby grow from infancy to childhood - struggling to crawl,
move on all fours, sit, stand, walk and speak to the mother. The instructions
wired into the brain are first decoded and practiced repetitively by the infant
before it learns the tricks to balance itself, stand, walk and speak. The
nurturing mother watches, encouraging her child; but every step of the learning
process has to be taken by the child itself.</span><br />
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A similar process is in
operation when we learn to walk on the spiritual path. An urge to seek the
mysterious spirit arises in our mind; we then have to unlearn the earlier urges
and directives of the ego, and learn new ways to perceive, hear and experience
the spirit. The Universal Mother, with great love and affection, watches
patiently - confident that her child would overcome the initial hurdles as it
did the physical ones as an infant and triumphantly come to her ultimately.
For, she has already provided the needed equipment and knowledge for this new
experience.</span><br />
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We have to have faith in this
belief. Reincarnating over many births, benefiting from past experiences, like
the child tripping, falling and finally learning to stand and walk and take
great strides upon this earth, we too will be ultimately successful in attaining
to the goal of Sat-Chit-Ananda that is pure Bliss.</span></div>
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Einstein who said he
experienced the mystifying forces in Nature, stated also that he did not believe
in a personal God - the anthropomorphic God created by man, in the image of man,
for the worldly benefit of man, a God that ruled like a disciplinarian, granting
favours to those who conformed and punishing the rebels, the fictional God of
the religions preached by the Priests supported by the earth's Rulers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Upanishads however, speak
only of a Brahman, (in the neuter as </span><span lang="SA" style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">तत्</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">-<span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It),
omnipresent</span><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> in
every atom of the Universe and beyond, living in each moment of time,
past-present and future. Conceptualizing this huge, timeless dimensionless presence in a Rama or a Krishna helps the mind of the seeker in
the same manner as a stroller helps the child to walk steadily and learn.
Identifying totally with a personal God of one's choice in this manner, one
advances spiritually by leaps and bounds. The personal God then becomes the
Universal Presence, which is experienced in the silence of the mind and the
Bliss in the heart. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa experienced this Blissful
presence of the Universal Mother in the idol of Kali that he worshipped.</span></div>
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Hinduism is an amalgam
of a core theory with accompanying puranas, practices, rituals and superstitions.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Understanding
its core truth is a process like reaching the kernel of a coconut - remove the adhering coverings of fibre, break the hard shell, pour the
water and reach the pure white delicious kernel. Is it any wonder that those
who do not practice it with faith, sincerity, steadfastness, devotion and
detachment see only its outer coverings are turned away?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Einstein did not believe in a personal God
since he felt that organized religion and its rituals were not effective in
ensuring the practice of the core that they preached about morality and ethics.
He summed up this ineffectiveness, and his disappointment, in forceful terms
thus:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">When considering the actual living
conditions of present day civilized humanity from the standpoint of even the
most elementary religious commands, one is bound to experience a feeling of deep
and painful disappointment at what one sees. For, while religion prescribes
brotherly love in the relations among the individuals and groups, the actual
spectacle more resembles a battlefield than an orchestra. Everywhere, in
economic as well as in political life, the guiding principle is one of ruthless
striving for success at the expense of one's fellow men. This competitive spirit
prevails even in school and, destroying all feelings of human fraternity and
cooperation, conceives of achievement not as derived from the love for
productive and thoughtful work, but as springing from personal ambition and fear
of rejection.</span></span></blockquote>
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The Vedantic portion of
Hinduism lays emphasis on a personal, moral, ethical code of conduct. It
however, goes further to analyse the root cause of humanity’s suffering and
concludes that the powerful, over-riding ego nurtured in societal materialistic
values is to blame. This analysis, which is contained in the Upanishads, leads
to many recommendations for getting complete control of the mind, over-riding the ego and developing
contact with Universal Consciousness. Perhaps, had Einstein been more familiar
with the Upanishads, he might have conceded the validity of Upanishadic
statements - which do not refer to a Personal God but only the Brahman (in the
neuter) as the source that exists every where - timeless, in all things and
beings - perhaps like his concept of Energy.</span></div>
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This Upanishadic concept of the Universe is not religious but philosophical.
Realizing the practical needs of the 99% of humanity, Hinduism’s ancestors
created Gods, mythologies, rules, regulations and rituals -- all of which served
an <i>intermediate </i>purpose like a ladder. An advanced practitioner like an ascetic
(<i>sanyasi</i>) has to step out of it and proceed further on his/her own in
order to realize the Truth. The spiritual path is aptly compared to a razor's edge in Katha-Upanishad thus: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">क्षुरस्य धारा निशिता दुरत्यया </span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">दुर्गं पथस्तत् कवयो वदन्ति </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">kṣurasya dhārā niśitā duratyayā </span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">durgaṁ pathastat kavayo vadanti</span></blockquote>
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Hinduism thus provides a
2-tier system: an elementary stage in which you believe in a personal Deity of <i>
your choice</i> and follow rules for personal ethics and morality, and an
advanced stage when one is ready to leave behind ego-dictated pursuits for
material goals to seek the higher goal of realizing Sat-Chit-Ananda with the assistance of a Guru. The Guru of Hinduism is merely a guide and an
adviser, not a priest with authority to control and guide his flock in
accordance with a set of rules prescribed in a book. He is a realized saintly
person who has himself understood and practiced the Upanishadic statements
relating to the nature of Reality and therefore is able to give his disciple (<i>sishya</i>)
guidance in the travel along the spiritual path which is difficult to tread beset
with obstacles, as described in <i>Kathopanishad</i>:</span></div>
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kirtimukhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14592390224108255372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133845822730042896.post-43163720465207670732013-02-09T11:15:00.002+05:302013-03-01T16:13:57.366+05:30LEAD A MEANINGFUL LIFE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="line-height: 105%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yama teaches Nachiketas:</span></b><br />
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<b style="line-height: 105%;">What is Brahmamuhurta? Why is
it eulogized by the Rishis?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4 a.m. in the morning is termed as Brahmamuhurta.<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Because it is favourable for <span style="line-height: 105%;">meditation on God or Brahman, it is called Brahmamuhurta. At this particular hour, the mind is </span><span style="line-height: 105%;">very calm and serene. It is free from worldly thoughts, worries and
anxieties. </span><span style="line-height: 105%;">The mind is like a </span><span style="line-height: 105%;">blank sheet of paper and comparatively free from worldly Samskaras. It can be very easily </span><span style="line-height: 105%;">moulded at this time before worldly distractions enter the mind. Further, the atmosphere also is </span><span style="line-height: 105%;">charged with more Sattva at this particular time. There is no bustle and noise outside.</span></span></div>
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Give me a very simple, but very impressive proof for the existence of the soul.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You say in daily life, “My body”, “My Prana”, “My mind”, “My
Indriya”. This clearly <span style="line-height: 105%;">denotes that the Self or Atman is entirely different from the body, the
mind, the Prana and the </span><span style="line-height: 105%;">Indriyas. The mind and the body
are your servants or instruments. They
are as much outside of </span><span style="line-height: 105%;">you as these towels, chairs, cups are.
You are holding the body just as you are holding a long </span><span style="line-height: 105%;">walking stick in your hand. You
are the possessor or proprietor of this body.
The body is your </span><span style="line-height: 105%; text-align: right;">property or possession. The body,
the senses, the mind, etc., are not the soul, but belong to it. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 105%; text-align: right;">-</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 105%;">Swami Sivananda</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 105%;"><br />In
Kathopanishad, Lord Yama advises Nachiketas:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> Atmanam rathinam viddhi Shareeram
rathameva tu<br /> Buddhim tu sarathim viddhi Manah
pragrahamevacha</i><br /><br />A model for the working of the principle through the intellect, mind and body
is described here. Know the spirit within as the sole passenger sitting in a
chariot. The chariot is the body associated with that spirit. The intellect
sits in the driving seat and controls the horses harnessed to the chariot. Mind
is the reins by which the charioteer gets hold of the horses, to make them
perform in accordance with its will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> <br />Indriyani hayanyahur Vishayansteshu
gocharan</span></em><i><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><em> <br />Atmendriya manoyuktam Bhoktetyahur
maneeshinah </em></span></i><i><br /></i><br />The sense organs are the horses. The objects
in this universe keep pulling the sense organs towards them. The intelligent
persons understand that the inner spirit is the true consummator of all
objects. The spirit acts through the mind to reach the objects through the
sense organs.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> <br /> Yastuavijnanavan bhavatyuktena manasa sada</span></em><i><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><br />
<em> Tasyendriyanyavashyani dushtashva iva
saratheh</em></span></i><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><br />When one ignores this model it disturbs the
union of mind and inner spirit. Then the sense organs work without respecting
any control. They run in all directions dissipating energy like a group of foul
horses in the hands of an incompetent charioteer. The charioteer has no control
over the horses and eventually they topple the chariot. No meaningful progress
is possible in such a scenario.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> <br />Yastu vijnanavan bhavati yuktena manasaa sadaa</span></em><i><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><br /><em>Tasyendriyani vashyani sadashva iva sarathe<br />
</em></span></i><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><br />For one who acknowledges this model the mind is
united with the inner spirit. His sense organs remain perfectly under control
like good horses in the hands of a competent charioteer.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> <br />Yastuavijnanavan bhavatyanyamanaskah
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and turbulent. It becomes incapable of conceiving higher realities. He is
trapped in the ocean of worldly transactions. He can not attain that state
where one is free from the cycles of birth and death.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> <br />Yastu vijnanavan bhavati samanaska sada
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><br />When this model is acknowledged his mind
remains organized and clear. He acquires the power to reach that state where
one is free from the cycle of birth and death.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><br />One who keeps wisdom as the charioteer and uses the mind to rein the sense-organs, attains the strength to traverse the course
of a meaningful life. He reaches the state of Vishnu, which transcends all
states, fills the universe with his perennial presence.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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kirtimukhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14592390224108255372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133845822730042896.post-27043051928015049502013-02-06T10:34:00.001+05:302013-02-06T11:04:17.699+05:30THOUGHT-LESS MIND<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A Quote from Rajaneesh (OSHO):<br />
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The thought-less mind becomes hollow like the bamboo flute. Songs will flow through it but not its own songs, rather those of the divine. Thoughts will emerge out of it but not its own, rather those of the whole.<br />
Such a mind will be surrendered to the whole. It will only speak what the whole makes it speak. It will only do what the whole makes it do. The inner core of the “I” will disintegrate – and with its disintegration, there will be no anxiety, no anguish."</blockquote>
This seems to be the best explanation of the scriptural prayer slokam:<br />
असतो मा सत्गमय <i>asato maa sat gamaya</i> and of the luck of the Gopis in Brindavan remaining immersed always in the music of Krishna’s flute -- a Bhakti sentiment referred to in the Tamil song <i>kuzhaloodi manamellam kollai-konda-pinnum kurai-yedum enakkethadi</i> which aptly describes their state of mind –“I do not have any wants after Krishna has robbed me of my mind with his music from the flute”.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lyrics</span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">: <a href="http://www.karnatik.com/c1219.shtml">http://www.karnatik.com/c1219.shtml </a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Audio</span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">: <a href="http://karnatic-mp3.blogspot.in/2011/12/kuzhaloodi-manamellam-sudha-ragunathan.html">http://karnatic-mp3.blogspot.in/2011/12/kuzhaloodi-manamellam-sudha-ragunathan.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shri Krishna, from infinite space-time, is patiently waiting for us within our own heart (हृद्देश hrd-desha) to follow the example of the Gopis and offer the hollow reed of our mind to him. But amidst the noise of the activity in the external world, we have failed to hear the message even after the many, many life-times that he has granted to us. As Adi Sankara has stated in his Bhaja Govindam, we have to pray to Muraari (Krishna) to save us from this worldly-trap:<br />
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This will be our never-changing state unless we seek his grace for <i>sharanaagati </i>through a Guru and live a life dedicated to this goal.<br />
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kirtimukhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14592390224108255372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133845822730042896.post-2602421945536785132012-12-03T11:05:00.000+05:302013-03-01T16:25:50.540+05:30Reality Beyond the Boundary We Assume Exists.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.35pt;"><span style="color: red;"><b>A Parallel Reality</b></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.35pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.35pt;">from</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.35pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.35pt;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/user840058"><span style="color: black;">Nayadel D.T.</span></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.35pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.35pt;">on</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.35pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.35pt;"><span style="color: black;">Vimeo</span>. </span><br />
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ourselves who we are, where we come from and<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span>where
we’re going. But many of us stop wondering about the meaning of<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span>life because solving the day-to-day dilemmas
of everyday existence is<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span>challenge enough
in it self.<br />
This is the story of 5 people who kept wondering over the course of their lives
because they needed to find the answers. Five adventurers. Five explorers who
have opened the door to a reality that goes beyond the boundary we assume
exists.<br />
What we would like is that after watching this documentary, you felt the need
to search, to look within yourselves. We’d like you to say: yes, there is
something more! Reality goes beyond the limits of what I can see with my eyes
or touch with my hands! I can go beyond! And going beyond means connecting with
our true strength. With the divine spark in all of us. Enjoy your journey!<br />
This documentary came into being thanks to Dolors Martorell, Daniel<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span>Hernández and Pablo Uson. We are enormously
grateful, for your great<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span>generosity in
allowing this documentary and the extras with it, to be<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span>viewed and downloaded free of charge.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Quote from a sub-title: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;">" All God's creatures have an entire God within them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;">If we are aware that Reality is a constant creation and that we are God, </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;">well, you get it. We are perfectly capable of creating Reality." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;">The Upanishads state: that we are Brahman and our mission </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;">in life is to merge with Brahman. Adi Sankara describes in a Bhaja Govindam sloka the state of one who has attained to this state of Brahman Consciousness thus:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;">The yogi who has reached the state of Brahman consciousness, revels in eternal Blissfl consciousness. We who are in ordinary, relative/subjective consciousness may perceive him as a yogi or bhogi, with or without company but being in a different stae of God-consciousness, he is not affected by such percections, continuing in eternal bliss. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">योग रतो वा भोग रतो वा सङ्ग रतो वा सङ्ग विहीनः</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">यस्य ब्रह्मणि रमते चित्तं नन्दति नन्दति नन्दत्येव</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">yoga rato vaa bhoga rato vaa sanga rato vaa sanga viheenaḥ</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">yasya brahmaNi ramate cittam nandati nandati nandatyeva </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The statement: "We are perfectly capable of creating Reality" reminds one of the Puranic story of Sage Visvamitra creating a mid-heaven for his disciple Trisanku. It is intended to warn us of misuse of the <i>siddhis - </i>powers that accrue during advanced stages yogic practice. The Yogi is advised to ignore them as obstacles to realisation of absolute reality and persist.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The statement, hence, needs an amendment since the realised individual is bereft of any desire to create. Perhaps, the words "touched by God" might be more suitable as the end result of the effort by the 'explorers'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>MKK</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tamiclose reflects on this subject in the following videos: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GablnriTfNs&list=UUHWqATbb_xq6_4l4-zSOjtA&index=10" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GablnriTfNs&list=UUHWqATbb_xq6_4l4-zSOjtA&index=10</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWFtDJyv6KI&list=UUHWqATbb_xq6_4l4-zSOjtA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWFtDJyv6KI&list=UUHWqATbb_xq6_4l4-zSOjt A</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br />
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