Gita Satsangh IX.1-3

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Hello All,

Sri Nairji I enjoyed your post 14871. My wife says that if I take to

Sanskrit the house will never get finished. So for the moment in relation

to you fellows I must remain like the rustic savant who never went to school

but met the scholars coming home.

 

IX.2: The royal secret that is directly experienced and moreover easy to

practice. That sounds like a riddle. What is the open secret that is so

big you don't see it but you can practice it. It has been called the

practice of the presence. 'Vasudeva is all'(VII.19) Sankara's commentary

 

We are in it all the time which is a truth that is graspable as a

metaphysical intuition or as often happens by the grace of a Perfect Master

we are brought into it.

 

Figure/Ground: What makes things stand out? What is a universal or a

natural kind? This was one of the first problems that occured to the

philosophic mind. Do universals select themselves? Are there natural kinds?

The multiverse is a world of attrition - of mere things. This is the

level of demarcation and territory and the bounded life. The poor

contrarian is at home at that level.

 

Beyond individuals is 'natura naturans' (nature naturing) or prakriti. It

is the ebb and flow of a cosmic tide. There the conceptual schema that

sieves and sorts has not happened yet. This is the mystic's direct

experience. He sees but does not separate. Like a child talking to a

moonbeam he names things. This primal wonder is expressed mythically in

Genesis 2.19/20.

 

"And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and

every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call

them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name

thereof.

 

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every

beast of the field; but for Adam there was not an help mate for him."

>From the undifferentiated oceanic unity of being Adam is now in the world of

namah rupah. But its venom is drawn for he knows that he is naming, that is

a facet of the 'royal secret'.

 

Ciao & Blessings, Michael.

 

 

 

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Namaste.

 

Many thanks, Mike-Ji and Ram(2)-Ji for your very kind words and

understanding.

 

Mike-Ji, my prayers for the early completion of your beautiful

house. About the quote from Genesis, have you read the quotes from

Yogananda Paramahamsa compiled by one of his lady-disciples (I forgot

the title of the book.)? He had found a lot of vedanta in the bible

and Christ's teachings.

 

Pranams.

 

Madathil Nair

 

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advaitin, "michael Reidy" <ombhurbhuva@h...> wrote:

 

My wife says that if I take to

> Sanskrit the house will never get

finished. ..........................................................

 

Like a child talking to a

> moonbeam he names things. This primal wonder is expressed

mythically in

> Genesis 2.19/20.

>

> "And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the

field, and

> every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he

would call

> them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was

the name

> thereof.

>

> And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and

to every

> beast of the field; but for Adam there was not an help mate for

him."

>

> From the undifferentiated oceanic unity of being Adam is now in the

world of

> namah rupah. But its venom is drawn for he knows that he is

naming, that is

> a facet of the 'royal secret'.

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MY DEAR NOBLE DEVOTEE OF SRI SANKARA

BHAGAVATPUJYAPADA,

 

May I request you to kindly help me to get more

explanation on the following quote with some other

cross references ,if any , from the Holy Bible.

 

And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast

of the field, and

every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to

see what he would call

them; and whatsoever Adam called every living

creature, that was the name

thereof.

 

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of

the air, and to every

beast of the field; but for Adam there was not an help

mate for him."

 

I am trying to collect information on naming and

language in the Holy Bible.

 

Thank you very much .

 

 

YOurs in Sri Sankara Bhagavatpujyapada,

 

Chilukuri Bhuvaneswar

 

 

 

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