PRACTICE IN ADVAITA VEDANTA

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praNAms

Hare Krishna

 

Due to time constraints / non availability of system I have not read all

the mails in this thread. Kindly pardon me if the below is a repitition :

 

In advaita, practice is only for chitta shuddhi & not to attain

brahmatva. Since our paramArtha svarUpa is svataH siddha, apramEya & vastu

tantra....any amount of purusha tantra ( human effort) jnAna would not

fetch us the any *new* knowledge or nUtana svarUpa jnAna. All bhakti,

karma, rAja yOga-s meant for mental purification & removal of anAdi avidyA.

shankara in sUtra bhAshya explains elaborately sAdhana chatushtaya while

commenting on the word *atha* in the very first sUtra athAtho brahma

jignAsa & in adhikaraNa shAstrayOnitva. sravaNa, manana & nidhidhyAsana are

the prescribed three fold sAdhAna prescribed by shruti-s & bhagavadpAda.

And for spiritual practices we can find plenty of instructions in sAdhana

prasthAna srimadbhagavad gIta. shankara says in gIta bhAshya

shAstrAchAryOpadEshashamadamAdhi samskrutam manaH Atmadarshane karaNam.

kaTa shruti also says the same thing masaivEdamAptavyaM nEha nAnAsti

kiNchana. The *instrument* here is *susamskruta mana* to have *Atma

darshana*. Here Atma darshna means avidyA nivrutti not looking at Atman

as an objective reality. when this happens, jnAni realises that yEna rUpam

rasaM gandhaM shabdAn .....yEtEnaiva vijAnAti *kimatra parishishyatE!

yEtadvai tat!! yasyAm jAgrati bhUtAni sA nishA pashyatO munEH so says

gIta.

 

Today Adi mAtAji asked about the details of vaiyuktika sAdhana of

co-aspirants. In nityAnushTAna krama I observe the following :

 

chanting vEda mantra-s ( samhita & brahmaNa portions of yajurvEda shAkha

i.e. my sva-shAkha), nitya yEka kAla sandhyAvandanaM ( Saturday & Sunday

trikAla, if at home :-), nitya laghu dEvatArchana, svAdhyaya, shankara

bhAshya adhyayana & Hare Krishna mahA mantra japa. morning times shruti

bhAshyAdhyayana & sandhyAsamaye smruti prasthAna bhAshyAdhyayana with

purports of my parama guruji Sri SachidAnandEndra saraswati & prakaraNa

granthAdhyana like upadEsha sAhasri, naishkarmya siddhi.

 

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!

bhaskar