Samshaya Bhavana

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Jaya Guru Datta,

 

Here is today's saying:

 

"What is the final dictum of the Vedas is the main question in Samshaya Bhavana.

Here, the word Veda stands for those branches of knowledge which set out to

explain the Atma Tattva. They are called as Upanishads. What is the purport

(Taatparya) of the Upanishads? - is the question before us. Let us see.

 

Tatparya (Purport)

 

A close relative from a far off place visits us. He has brought toffees and ice

cream for the ten year old boy. But the boy has just recovered from fever. The

mother takes the boy to one side and tells him 'don't eat it; it is poison.'

 

Here, what is the meaning of the sentence 'it is poison'? Does not the mother

know that the toffee is not a poison? Is she telling a lie? Why would she

wrongly place blame on her close relative?

 

Thus, what the mother really intended to say when she said 'it is poison' was,

eating the toffees and ice creams is not good (to the boy who is just recovering

from illness) just as poison is not good for the body.

 

All that she said was 'it is poison'. Which among these three words is capable

of implying what she meant to say? None. How can a sentence imply something

which is not implied by the words of that sentence?

 

Can you say that the meaning flowed from the mother's heart although it was not

there in the words of her sentence? One must be endowed with divine vision to

find out if this meaning was in her heart."

 

 

Sri Swamiji

Lessons in Vedanta - 38 part V

Bhakti Mala, March 1999

 

 

Sri Guru Datta,

Swamiji Says

 

 

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