Time for a story ............

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Dear Advaitins!

 

Namaskarams!

 

it is said .....

 

 

"The best of all knowledge, the greatest of all powers, come

from silence"

 

This type of silent teaching is more 'powerful' and more 'direct' ...

this is the spiritual force which many people experience in the

presence of great saints like shri Ramana - disciples who sat in His

SATSANGHA experienced this 'silent' power that quitened their minds -

a state of inner peace ...

 

This was the type of teaching that was imparted by sage

dakshinamurthy to the four disciples who sat with him under a tree -

who experienced the 'selF' (atma-jnana) through the power of the

great sage dakshinamurthy's silence... ( please read adi shankara's

sloka on shri dakshinamurthy- a great explanation is given regarding

mauna diksha or silent instructions)

 

http://www.hindunet.org/stotras/itx/dakshina.txt - 24k - Cached

 

 

Thus, true sat-sangha is one where you are sitting in the presence of

a self-realized person... this need not even be physical... mere

contemplation is enough! for such a realized person sends out

powerful waves of spiritual power!

 

i would like to narrate a story which shri Ramana was fond of

narrating to his disICIiples! , which demonstrates the power of the

Guru's silence.

 

Tattvaraya composed a Bharani, a kind of poetic composition in Tamil,

in honour of his Guru Swarupananda, and convened an assembly of

learned Pandits (pundits) to hear the work and assess its value. The

Pandits raised the objection that a Bharani was only composed in

honour of great heroes capable of killing a thousand elephants in

battle and that it was not in order to compose such a work in honour

of an ascetic.

 

Thereupon the author said, "Let us all go to my Guru and we shall

have this matter settled there."

 

They went to the Guru and, after they had all taken their seats, the

author told his Guru the purpose of their visit. The Guru sat silent

and all the others also remained in mouna (silence). The whole day

passed, the night came, and some more days and nights, and yet all

sat there silently, no thought at all occurring to any of them and

nobody thinking or asking why they had come there. After three or

four days like this, the Guru moved his mind a bit, and the people

assembled immediately regained their thought activity. They then

declared, `Conquering a thousand elephants is nothing beside this

Guru's power to conquer the rutting elephants of all our egos put

together. So certainly he deserves the Bharani in his honour!

 

 

vaTaviTapisamiipe bhuumibhaage nishhaNNaM

sakalamunijanaanaaM GYAnadaataaramaaraat.h .

tribhuvanagurumiishaM dakshiNaamuurtidevaM

jananamaraNaduHkhachchhedadakshaM namaami ..

 

 

 

I offer my profound salutations to Shri maha dakshinamurti, the

remover of the worldly (samasric) bonds binding us, Who is to be

meditated upon as the one sitting under a banyan tree and bestowing

knowledge (GYana)instantly on all the sages (and the devoted

disciples).

 

AUM SHRI RAMANAYA NAMAHA!

[Guest guest]

advaitin, "adi_shakthi16"

<adi_shakthi16> wrote:

> Dear Advaitins!

>

>>

> They went to the Guru and, after they had all taken their seats,

the

> author told his Guru the purpose of their visit. The Guru sat

silent

> and all the others also remained in mouna (silence). The whole day

> passed, the night came, and some more days and nights, and yet all

> sat there silently, no thought at all occurring to any of them and

> nobody thinking or asking why they had come there. After three or

> four days like this, the Guru moved his mind a bit, and the people

> assembled immediately regained their thought activity. They then

> declared, `Conquering a thousand elephants is nothing beside this

> Guru's power to conquer the rutting elephants of all our egos put

> together. So certainly he deserves the Bharani in his honour!

>

>

> vaTaviTapisamiipe bhuumibhaage nishhaNNaM

> sakalamunijanaanaaM GYAnadaataaramaaraat.h .

> tribhuvanagurumiishaM dakshiNaamuurtidevaM

> jananamaraNaduHkhachchhedadakshaM namaami ..

>

>

>

> I offer my profound salutations to Shri maha dakshinamurti, the

> remover of the worldly (samasric) bonds binding us, Who is to be

> meditated upon as the one sitting under a banyan tree and

bestowing

> knowledge (GYana)instantly on all the sages (and the devoted

> disciples).

>

> AUM SHRI RAMANAYA NAMAHA!

 

Namaste, Adi-ji and all

 

The shloka that usually follows the above is a conventional quote on

the 'silent teaching' of the Guru:

 

citraM vaTa-taror-mUle

vRddhAH shishhyA gurur-yuvA /

gurostu maunaM vyAkhyAnaM

shishhyAs-tu chhinna-samshayAH //

 

Lo and behold! At the feet of the banyan tree, (there is the

assembly of) the Guru and his disciples. The disciples are all old

whereas the Guru is a youth. The Guru's teaching is silence; and the

disciples' doubts are all gone!

 

PraNAms to all advaitins

profvk

[Guest guest]

yes, dear professorji !

 

i stand corrected !

 

who is going to 'teach' me when you go back to India ?

 

i hope you will guide me 'silently but surely !

 

Hari AUM!

 

Professorji - today i was reading the 'saundarya lahari ' at Luch

break in my office and i learned there were 103 slokas out of which

only 100 were attributed to shri shankara Bhagvadapada ! do you mind

shharing those 3 slokas with us , if it is not inconvenient ?

 

forever your humble student

 

 

>>

> Namaste, Adi-ji and all

>

> The shloka that usually follows the above is a conventional quote

on

> the 'silent teaching' of the Guru:

>

> citraM vaTa-taror-mUle

> vRddhAH shishhyA gurur-yuvA /

> gurostu maunaM vyAkhyAnaM

> shishhyAs-tu chhinna-samshayAH //

>

> Lo and behold! At the feet of the banyan tree, (there is the

> assembly of) the Guru and his disciples. The disciples are all

old

> whereas the Guru is a youth. The Guru's teaching is silence; and

the

> disciples' doubts are all gone!

>

> PraNAms to all advaitins

> profvk