STUDY GROUP on SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTION V.3

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Q. WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF INSTRUCTION (UPADESA) ?

 

M. The word Upadesa means near the place or seat. [upa-near, desa-place or seat]

 

The Guru who is the embodiment of that indicated by SATCHITANANDA

[existence,consciousness, bliss]

prevents the disciple who, on account of his acceptance of the forms of the

objects of the senses,

has swerved from his true state and is consequently distressed and buffeted by

joys and sorrows,

from continuing so , and establishes him or her in their own real nature without

differentiation .

 

Upadesa also means showing a distant object quite near,It is brought home to the

disciple that the

Brahman which he believes to be distant and different from himself is near and

not different from

himself.