Hindu Article-Truth cannot be taught

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Namaste,

 

thank you for this interesting article

 

maybe there is a "time" for all "beings" to live in truth....to meet

a Guru.....to meditate on the truth described in scriptures....

 

....to be "free"

 

difficult to find out the "right" time?

 

if one cross the "limits" of time and space....means the ego-

mind......there will be plenty of "time"....infinity......

 

....to be "free"

 

 

how to cross this "limits"....?

 

maybe one Guru will describe this "limits"....and so prepare the way

to....the side in which there is no time.

 

.....wish you endless time to meet to right teacher ....at any time...

 

love and peace

 

Marc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

advaitin, "B VAIDYANATHAN"

<vaidyanathiyer> wrote:

>

> Truth cannot be taught

> CHENNAI, APRIL 5. Scriptural texts like the Upanishads are in the

> form of dialogue between the Guru (preceptor) and the disciple as

> Self-knowledge has to be grasped by the student and cannot be

> imparted like other objective sciences. Generally a person will not

> appreciate the value of anything obtained without any effort on his

> part and it is all the more so in the case of knowledge because it

> cannot be forced on an indifferent student. The disciple must be

> eager to learn and must approach the Guru with sincerity and

persist

> in his quest till he learns the truth. The Kenopanishad, which

occurs

> in the Sama Veda, begins Self-enquiry with a question raised by the

> disciple, "By whom urged does the mind alight on its objects? By

whom

> directed does the first breath go forth? By whom urged do men utter

> the speech? The eye and the ear, which God indeed directs?"

> In his discourse, Sri Goda Venketeswara Sastri said the

Kenopanishad

> was a text of divine grace akin to the Sundara Kanda of the

Ramayana

> and its importance could be gleaned from the fact that Sankara had

> written two commentaries on it. The Upanishad at the outset draws

> attention to the nature of the human mind, which is the faculty

with

> which man acquires all knowledge. It is obvious when one observes

the

> mind that some other force impels it. For instance, when one tries

> with difficulty to forget some unpleasant experience the mind

refuses

> to obey and keeps on dwelling on it. It is necessary then to

> understand why it behaves in this fashion.

> The answer to this is given by the Guru, which underscores the fact

> that it is because of the Self (Atman) that all human faculties

> function, "It is that which is the ear of the ear, the mind of the

> mind, the speech, indeed of the speech, the breath of the breath,

the

> eye of the eye. Having abandoned (the sense of self in these) and

> departing from this world, the wise become immortal."

> It is the Self, which gives the power to each sense organ to

function

> similar to different electrical gadgets functioning because of

> electricity. The sense faculties are able to perceive only the

> objects outside, as they are outward bound and not the Self. Just

as

> fire will burn all objects but not itself, so also Self-knowledge

has

> to be intuited and it cannot be taught. Thus the Upanishad points

out

> right at the outset that the spiritual aspirant has to learn the

> scriptures from the Guru and must grasp the truth by meditating on

it

> alone.

>

> copy right: the Hindu-daily