Gospel of St John and Veda

[Guest guest]

Namaste Brian,

 

A while ago you had posted your translation of some

of the yoga sutras. I was wondering, how would you

translate 2.22 - 2.25, I am having some difficulty

with available translations.

 

Other list members are also welcome.

 

Thanks

 

Best regards

Shrinivas

[Guest guest]

--- Brian Milnes <b.milnes wrote:

> Ken

>

> Did you ever read "The Holy Science" by Swami Sri

> Yukteswar (Guru to Paramahansa Yogananda).

Dear Brian,

Many thanks for the intro. to this title. Some of the

things I was going to say to you I have included on my

reply to Martin but here are couple of titles you may

find of interest....'The Vedic Experience' by Raimundo

Panikkar. He is a Roman Catholic priest of

Hindu/Spanish paentage so he is totally at ease in

both cultures. In this book he has some chapters on

the Mahavakyas although he uses a slightly different

grouping to the four that I favour. My own choice is

because I try to follow as closely as possible the

Holy Tradition back through Adishankara, Govindapada

and Gaudapada etc.

Anthony de Mello is also good: 'Sadhana: a way to

God'.

 

Anything by Bede Griffiths...eg 'The Cosmic

Revelation'.... whose Christian /advaitin ashram is

near to Trichy in S. India. His life and that of a

Belgian monk there, Dom Henri Le Saux, who took the

name of Abhishiktaananda...'The Further Shore' and

'Prayer' and 'Saccidaananda' are wonderful

books....fully demonstrate the problems of aligning

Christian and advaitin teachings and practice.

 

There is also a book on 'Vedanta and the Sermon on the

Mount' which is true to advaitin teaching but it has

de-manifested from my shelves at the moment and I

cannot remember the name of the author although he was

an Indian Swami.

Hope that this is of use,

Om sri ram

ken Knight

 

 

 

 

Find the one for you at Personals

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[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

 

advaitin, ken knight <hilken_98@Y...> wrote:

> --- Brian Milnes <b.milnes@b...> wrote:

'The Vedic Experience' by Raimundo

> Panikkar. He is a Roman Catholic priest of

> Hindu/Spanish paentage so he is totally at ease in

> both cultures.

 

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Th complete book is on-line at:

 

http://www.himalayanacademy.com/books/vedic_experience/VEIndex.html

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> Anthony de Mello is also good: 'Sadhana: a way to

> God'.

 

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This is a good site to visit [include his Censure by the Vatican!]

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>

>

> There is also a book on 'Vedanta and the Sermon on the

> Mount' which is true to advaitin teaching but it has

> de-manifested from my shelves at the moment and I

> cannot remember the name of the author although he was

> an Indian Swami.

 

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This is by Swami Prabhavananda [Vedanta Society of Southern

California].

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Regards,

 

Sunder

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

"The Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta" by

Swami Paramananda is excellent.

Also of interest is "The Yoga of the Christ-in the Gospel

According to John "by Ravi Ravindra, born and schooled in

India and professor and chair of comparative religion at

Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is

published in 1990 by Element Books. The Gospel of John

is full of knowledge of Advaita, as all these and the

titles mentioned by Ken Knight indicate.

May all see the Good,

Kenneth Larsen

> --- Brian Milnes <b.milnes wrote:

>

>

> There is also a book on 'Vedanta and the Sermon on the

> Mount' which is true to advaitin teaching but it has

> de-manifested from my shelves at the moment and I

> cannot remember the name of the author although he was

> an Indian Swami.

>

> ken Knight

>

>

>

>

> Find the one for you at Personals

> http://personals.

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[Guest guest]

As an example from "The Holy Science" I quote below:

(from a discussion on Sat Chit Ananda)

 

"How consciousness appears.

With his heart thus contented, mans becomes able to fix his attention upon

anything he chooses and can comprehend all its aspects. So Chit, Consciousness

of all the modifications of Nature up to its first and primal manifestation, the

Word (Amen, AUM) and even his own Real Self, gradually appears. And being

absorbed in the stream thereof, man becomes baptised and begins to repent and

return to his Divinity, the Eternal Father, whence he had fallen. See Revelation

2:5.

'Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent.'

 

.... Man, being thus consecrated or anointed by the Holy Spirit, becomes Christ,

the anointed Saviour. Entering the kingdom of the Spiritual Light, he becomes

the Son of God.

In this state man comprehends his Self as a fragment of the Universal Holy

Spirit, and, abandoning the vain idea of his separate existence, unifies himself

with the Eternal Spirit; that is, becomes one and the same with God the Father.

This unification of Self with God is Kaivalya, which is the Ultimate Object of

all created beings. See John 14:11.

'Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me.'"

 

 

Finally, my favourite poet sums it up beautifully:

"The roads are different, the goal is one ...

When people come there, all quarrels or differences or disputes that happened

along the road are resolved. Those who shouted at each other along the road

'You are wrong' or 'You are an unbeliever' forget their differences when they

come there because there, all hearts are in unison."

- Rumi