brahmavidyA is self transformation

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namaste

 

The shruti and shri shankara's bhAShyA-s repeatedly

say that brahman is untainted by the superimposition.

That means, brahman is always there in its glorious

shine and is only masked by the ajnAna. If the ajnAna

is removed, brahman shines. Brahman is unaffected

by whatever superimposition or misapprehension that

is made.

 

Quite often, we hear and see of processes in which

the item to be retrieved is sometimes irreversibly

changed by its subsequent alterations. In those cases,

the original cannot be retrieved any more because the

later events completely change the original.

 

BrahmavidyA is not like that. The original is in

its shiny state all the time. The superimpositions,

are to be removed.

 

In the process of this removal (of misapprehensions),

the remover (the ego) has to die willingly. This is

like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. After the

transformation, the caterpillar is no longer there.

It has willingly and joyously given itself up to

turn into a butterfly. Similarly, the ego has to

willingly and joyously give itself up to evolve

as brahman.

 

 

Regards

Gummuluru Murthy

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[Guest guest]

Namaste,

> Similarly, the ego has to

> willingly and joyously give itself up to evolve

> as brahman.

>

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Here is a delectable elucidation of this.

>From lectures of Swami Paramarthananda

 

A vedantin's (spiritual seeker) approaches as follows.

When a thing snatched away from us, the loss is

intensed. When it is given up or given away by us, the

pleasure is intensed. An example is usually given of a

lady, who while visiting the temple lost a gold

ornament. She thought somebody has stolen it. She felt

very bad and was upset. She took a vow that if the

ornament were to come back to her, she would offer it

to the Lord. As it turned out, she got back the

ornament which she offered to the Lord. Then she was

very happy. When she lost the ornament, she lost the

benefit of wearing it and was very sad. When she gave

the ornament to the Lord, again she lost the benefit

of wearing it, but this time she was very happy.

>From this we get a very important idea. In loss, we

are without an object. In giving also we are without

an object. But in loss there is pain. In giving there

is pleasure. So even before time or kala (call it Yama

or Bhagwan or whatever) takes away from us, we

handover to time. So when things go away, we do not

feel any pain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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