Guest guest Posted November 16, 2000 Report Share Posted November 16, 2000 I read the nice article on 'Why Vedanta' by Sri Sadananda. I present my understanding on how and why Vedanta is relevant in this millenium and this age. The following are borrowed from Sri Sadananda's article: 'The self I am is the self in all, the very life principle in all - the very consciousness that pervades everything - and that consciousness is nothing Brahman - "PrajNaanam Brahman" says Upanishads that is consciousness is Brahman.' Whenever I am placed at an intellectual or moral crossroads and I have nowhere to go to know what is right and what is wrong or what is just and what is unjust, I usually employ one method - I take each alternative and then extrapolate as to what will happen if the whole humanity were to take this option. The answer usually comes out. Now, I employ the same method with above principle 'The self I am is the self in all'. Each person is seen as Divine because the Divine is in each person (Kingdom of God is within you). By seeing as Divine, what we say is what we mean and no less. In other words, each person is seen as the likeness of God. With that outlook, we respect each person unconditionally and with the respect comes unconditional love(Love thy neighbor as thyselves). When we love each person we encounter as if the person is all that matters, I believe this will be welcome in any age and any time. This as start, when practiced in daily lives, we are striving in Karma Yoga towards the goal. I believe the beauty of Vedanta lies in its practice in our daily lives. Chidanandarupa! Shivoham!! Shivoham !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2000 Report Share Posted November 17, 2000 Shree raghavakaluri wrote: >I read the nice article on 'Why Vedanta' by Sri Sadananda. >I present my understanding on how and why Vedanta is relevant in this >millenium and this age. >When we love each person we encounter as if the person is all that >matters, I believe this will be welcome in any age and any time. > >This as start, when practiced in daily lives, we are striving in >Karma Yoga towards the goal. > >I believe the beauty of Vedanta lies in its practice in our daily >lives. > >Chidanandarupa! Shivoham!! Shivoham !!! Raghava rao gaaru - Welcome to the advaitin group. Beautiful post. What you say is absolutely correct. To keep that oneness in many is what we are all striving for in oneway or the other - then only the pure unconditional love spontaneously pours out. Please keep posting - we all can get benefit from your wisdom. Hari Om! Sadananda K. Sadananda Code 6323 Naval Research Laboratory Washington D.C. 20375 Voice (202)767-2117 Fax:(202)767-2623 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2000 Report Share Posted November 17, 2000 On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 raghavakaluri wrote: > I read the nice article on 'Why Vedanta' by Sri Sadananda. > I present my understanding on how and why Vedanta is relevant in this > millenium and this age. > > The following are borrowed from Sri Sadananda's article: > 'The self I am is the self in all, the very life principle > in all - the very consciousness that pervades everything - and that > consciousness is nothing Brahman - "PrajNaanam Brahman" says > Upanishads that is consciousness is Brahman.' > > Whenever I am placed at an intellectual or moral crossroads and I > have nowhere to go to know what is right and what is wrong or what is > just and what is unjust, I usually employ one method - > I take each alternative and then extrapolate as to what will happen > if the whole humanity were to take this option. The answer usually > comes out. > Now, I employ the same method with above principle 'The self I am is > the self in all'. > Each person is seen as Divine because the Divine is in each person > (Kingdom of God is within you). > By seeing as Divine, what we say is what we mean and no less. In > other words, each person is seen as the likeness of God. With that > outlook, we respect each person unconditionally and with the respect > comes unconditional love(Love thy neighbor as thyselves). > > When we love each person we encounter as if the person is all that > matters, I believe this will be welcome in any age and any time. > > This as start, when practiced in daily lives, we are striving in > Karma Yoga towards the goal. > > I believe the beauty of Vedanta lies in its practice in our daily > lives. > > Chidanandarupa! Shivoham!! Shivoham !!! > namaste and welcome to the List. What you have stated above is quite right and one would fully agree with it. But we should not forget onething in this; the purity of the heart. Only when the heart is pure, vedanta is effective. Without that purity, vedanta becomes an intellectual exercise only. Whenever we are at intellectual or moral crossroads (as you say above), we do not have time to weigh the various options. The correct (and only) option is to be a second-nature to us. That comes with the purity of the heart and the necessary preparations for a vedanta student. That is also the meaning of athaH in Brahma Sutra 1.1 which shri Sadananda is so thoroughly pointing out in Notes on Brahma Sutra. As Lord Yama says in kaTha upanishad, shreyaH and preyaH (the good and the pleasant) approach a sAdhaka. Option shreyaH without even thinking that one is at crossroads should be the nature of a true vedanta student. It is nice to see your post sir, and I welcome you to the List. Regards Gummuluru Murthy ---- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 18, 2000 Report Share Posted November 18, 2000 Namaste, Thank you for welcoming me to the advaitin group. Thanks again for the followup posts from each of which, I learned more. While reading each followup post, I appreciated the beauty of each writer so much that I then went into the archives and began reading from archives till past midnight. I thought while thanking you all, I will also post something nice. Swami Vivekananda said- "After expressing earnest prayers to Sri Ramakrishna, in the evening at the meditation time, I lost body consciousness and felt its non-existence. I felt that the sun, moon, space, time, ether and all had been reduced to a homogenous mass and then melted far away into the unknown; the body-consciousness had almost vanished, and I had nearly merged in the Supreme. But ..." Also, interested readers may contrast with creation account in Genesis of Old Testament, "In the Beginning.." Into that Heaven, my Father, let my country awake ! (Tagore) Regards, Raghava Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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