Shri Dattatreya's Teachers - Teacher #3: Sky

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

Bhagavata Purana: XI:vii:42, 43 [tr. C.L.Goswamy; Gita Press,

Gorakhpur].

 

Teacher #3. Sky -

 

antaH hitaH cha sthira-ja~Ngameshhu

brahma- aatma-bhaavena samanvayena .

vyaaptya avachchhedam asa~Ngam aatmanaH

muniH nabhaH tva.n vitatasya bhaavayet.h .. 42..

 

Though clothed in a body, the ascetic should, by identifying himself

with Brahma [the Infinite], visualise the affinity of his all-

pervading soul with the sky in the shape of freedom from all

limitations and absence of attachment because of its interpenetrating

all mobile and immobile organisms at once.

__

 

tejaH abannamayaiH bhaavaiH megha- aadyaiH vaayunaa iiritaiH .

na spR^ishyate nabhaH tadvat kaala-sR^ishhTaiH guNaiH pumaan.h .. 43..

 

The soul is not touched by material adjuncts [like the body], which

are the creation of the Time-Spirit and are constituted of fire,

water and earth [in the form of its products, viz. food-grains], any

more than the sky is by phenomena like the clouds, tossed by the wind.

 

Regards,

 

s.

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

In the same context, we can perhaps say that death was

Sri Ramana Maharshi's Guru. It was the sudden fear of

death that made Venkatraman into Bhagavan Ramana

Maharshi.

 

Anand

 

 

--- sunder hattangadi <sunderh wrote:

> Namaste,

>

> Bhagavata Purana: XI:vii:42, 43 [tr. C.L.Goswamy;

> Gita Press,

> Gorakhpur].

>

> Teacher #3. Sky -

>

> antaH hitaH cha sthira-ja~Ngameshhu

> brahma- aatma-bhaavena samanvayena .

> vyaaptya avachchhedam asa~Ngam aatmanaH

> muniH nabhaH tva.n vitatasya bhaavayet.h ..

> 42..

>

 

 

 

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Namaste,

 

In Maharshi's own words: "The whole world was my

Guru. ...Guru need not be in human form and the Self within, God and

Guru are the same. "

............"Everything in the world was my Guru. Don't you know that

Dattatreya, when he was asked by the king which Guru had taught him

the secret of bliss, replied that the earth, water, fire, animals,

men, etc., all were his Gurus and went on explaining how some of

these taught him to cling to what was good and others taught him what

things he should avoid as bad."

 

[Oct. 30, 1945, Dialogue between Dilip Kumar Roy, Sri Aurobindo's

disciple, and Maharshi, reported by A. Devaraja Mudaliar, in Day By

Day with Bhagavan, p. 36; Ramanashram, 1968.].

 

 

Regards,

 

s.

 

 

 

advaitin , Anand Natarajan <harihara.geo>

wrote:

>

> Namaste,

>

> In the same context, we can perhaps say that death was

> Sri Ramana Maharshi's Guru. It was the sudden fear of

> death that made Venkatraman into Bhagavan Ramana

> Maharshi.

>

> Anand

>

>

> --- sunder hattangadi <sunderh@h...> wrote:

> > Namaste,

> >

> > Bhagavata Purana: XI:vii:42, 43 [tr. C.L.Goswamy;

> > Gita Press,

> > Gorakhpur].

> >

> > Teacher #3. Sky -

> >

> > antaH hitaH cha sthira-ja~Ngameshhu

> > brahma- aatma-bhaavena samanvayena .

> > vyaaptya avachchhedam asa~Ngam aatmanaH

> > muniH nabhaH tva.n vitatasya bhaavayet.h ..

> > 42..

> >

>

>

>

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>

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Lord Sri Krishna takes time to narrate Avadhuta Gita to give similar message as

a part of Uddhava Gita

 

sunder hattangadi <sunderh wrote:

Namaste,

 

In Maharshi's own words: "The whole world was my

Guru. ...Guru need not be in human form and the Self within, God and

Guru are the same. "

............"Everything in the world was my Guru. Don't you know that

Dattatreya, when he was asked by the king which Guru had taught him

the secret of bliss, replied that the earth, water, fire, animals,

men, etc., all were his Gurus and went on explaining how some of

these taught him to cling to what was good and others taught him what

things he should avoid as bad."

 

[Oct. 30, 1945, Dialogue between Dilip Kumar Roy, Sri Aurobindo's

disciple, and Maharshi, reported by A. Devaraja Mudaliar, in Day By

Day with Bhagavan, p. 36; Ramanashram, 1968.].

 

 

Regards,

 

s.

 

 

 

advaitin , Anand Natarajan <harihara.geo>

wrote:

>

> Namaste,

>

> In the same context, we can perhaps say that death was

> Sri Ramana Maharshi's Guru. It was the sudden fear of

> death that made Venkatraman into Bhagavan Ramana

> Maharshi.

>

> Anand

>

>

> --- sunder hattangadi <sunderh@h...> wrote:

> > Namaste,

> >

> > Bhagavata Purana: XI:vii:42, 43 [tr. C.L.Goswamy;

> > Gita Press,

> > Gorakhpur].

> >

> > Teacher #3. Sky -

> >

> > antaH hitaH cha sthira-ja~Ngameshhu

> > brahma- aatma-bhaavena samanvayena .

> > vyaaptya avachchhedam asa~Ngam aatmanaH

> > muniH nabhaH tva.n vitatasya bhaavayet.h ..

> > 42..

> >

>

>

>

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>

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

This may need a little clarification.

 

Avadhuta Gita is an anonymous, independent text, attributed to Sage

Dattatreya. The text has 8 chapters and 270 verses in all. It is not

a part of Uddhava Gita. [The translations are being posted in this

forum by the Vivekananda Center].

 

Uddhava Gita is the 11th book [skanda] of Bhagavata Purana,

attributed to Sage Vyasa. It has just over 1,400 verses [twice as

long as Bhagavadgita]. [in Marathi language, Saint Ekanatha wrote a

commentary of 18,000 verses on this, and is one of the great

scriptures of Maharashtra, and along with Jnaneshvari, Tukaram's

abhangas, and Ramdas's Dasabodha are commonly referred to as the 4

marathi vedas.]

 

Regards,

 

s.

 

 

advaitin , BTA SAGAR <btasagar> wrote:

>

> Lord Sri Krishna takes time to narrate Avadhuta Gita to give

similar message as a part of Uddhava Gita

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Dear Sunder,

 

Namaste!

 

Thank you.I have both the books. Avadhuta Gita is not a part of Uddhava Gita. It

is a seperate book attributed to Sri Dattatreya.However, it is of interest to

note that Lord Sri Krishna narrates Avadhuta describing His twenty four teachers

ranging from earth to ether,from insects to courtesan from snake to spider etc.

to KingYadu.It is in this context I made a reference to Uddava Gita.It is not

ofcourse certain whether the Avadhuta in Uddhava Gita is Dattatreya or some

other Avadhuta.

 

 

Regards

Ananda Sagar

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Namaste Ananda Sagarji,

 

There is a foot-note in the Bhagavata I have, to refer to

II:vii:4, as confirmation that the Brahmana referred to here in Book

XI is indeed Dattatreya.

 

Regards,

 

s.

 

 

advaitin , BTA SAGAR <btasagar> wrote:

>

> Dear Sunder,

>

> Namaste!

>

> Thank you.I have both the books. Avadhuta Gita is not a part of

Uddhava Gita. It is a seperate book attributed to Sri

Dattatreya.However, it is of interest to note that Lord Sri Krishna

narrates Avadhuta describing His twenty four teachers ranging from

earth to ether,from insects to courtesan from snake to spider etc. to

KingYadu.It is in this context I made a reference to Uddava Gita.It

is not ofcourse certain whether the Avadhuta in Uddhava Gita is

Dattatreya or some other Avadhuta.

>

>

> Regards

> Ananda Sagar

>

>

>

>

>

>

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>

>