Meditation Thought

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Namaste all.

 

This is the thought I meditated on during the one week of silence. I

think it is relevant to our current topic as well as the previous:

 

"Many an attempt at interpretation of the Upanishads has become a

failure, just because the various systematizers were not aware of

this unique method of procedure(superimposition and rescission)

adopted in Srutis. While most of the systems, detailed in the

present work, were aware of the Monistic tendency of the Upanishads,

*they unnecessarily presumed that the present state of the Jiva is a

fall from the ideal Brahmic nature, and so some effort is necessary

to re-transform it into its pristine glory*. They never suspected

for a moment that the *essential nature of each one of us as well as

of the whole world of duality is really Brahman or the Absolute*,

eternally unsullied by a second, except for the Super-impositions of

Avidya."

 

Words in brackets mine, and those between asterisks, I believe relate

to the current and previous topics of discussion.

 

Now, any guess whose statement it is? Of none other than PUjya Swami

Satchitanandedra Saraswaji in the penultimate paragraph of his

book "How to Recognize the Method of Vedanta" in the last section

captioned "Conclusion".

 

Food for a lot of thought, eh?

 

PraNAms.

 

Madathil Nair