Jump to content
IndiaDivine.org

Is the Buddhist Sahasrarapadma, Hindu Sahasrara and Christian Kingdom the same?

Rate this topic


Guest guest

Recommended Posts

shriadishakti , " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org> wrote:

>

>

> BUDDHISM, THE FULFILMENT OF HINDUISM

> Swami Vivekananda

> 26th September, 1893

>

> I am not a Buddhist, as you have heard, and yet I am. If China, or

> Japan, or Ceylon follow the teachings of the Great Master, India

> worships him as God incarnate on earth. You have just now heard

> that I am going to criticise Buddhism, but by that I wish you to

> understand only this. Far be it from me to criticise him whom I

> worship as God incarnate on earth. But our views about Buddha are

> that he was not understood properly by his disciples. The relation

> between Hinduism (by Hinduism, I mean the religion of the Vedas)

> and what is called Buddhism at the present day is nearly the same

> as between Judaism and Christianity. Jesus Christ was a Jew, and

> Shâkya Muni was a Hindu. The Jews rejected Jesus Christ, nay,

> crucified him, and the Hindus have accepted Shâkya Muni as God

> and worship him. But the real difference that we Hindus want to

> show between modern Buddhism and what we should understand as the

> teachings of Lord Buddha lies principally in this: Shâkya Muni

> came to preach nothing new. He also, like Jesus, came to fulfil

> and not to destroy. Only, in the case of Jesus, it was the old

> people, the Jews, who did not understand him, while in the case of

> Buddha, it was his own followers who did not realise the import of

> his teachings. As the Jew did not understand the fulfilment of the

> Old Testament, so the Buddhist did not understand the fulfilment

> of the truths of the Hindu religion. Again, I repeat, Shâkya

> Muni came not to destroy, but he was the fulfilment, the logical

> conclusion, the logical development of the religion of the Hindus.

>

> The religion of the Hindus is divided into two parts: the

> ceremonial and the spiritual. The spiritual portion is specially

> studied by the monks.

>

> In that there is no caste. A man from the highest caste and a man

> from the lowest may become a monk in India, and the two castes

> become equal. In religion there is no caste; caste is simply a

> social institution. Shâkya Muni himself was a monk, and it was

> his glory that he had the large-heartedness to bring out the

> truths from the hidden Vedas and through them broadcast all over

> the world. He was the first being in the world who brought

> missionarising into practice — nay, he was the first to

> conceive the idea of proselytising.

>

> The great glory of the Master lay in his wonderful sympathy for

> everybody, especially for the ignorant and the poor. Some of his

> disciples were Brahmins. When Buddha was teaching, Sanskrit was no

> more the spoken language in India. It was then only in the books

> of the learned. Some of Buddha's Brahmins disciples wanted to

> translate his teachings into Sanskrit, but he distinctly told

> them, " I am for the poor, for the people; let me speak in the

> tongue of the people. " And so to this day the great bulk of his

> teachings are in the vernacular of that day in India.

>

> Whatever may be the position of philosophy, whatever may be the

> position of metaphysics, so long as there is such a thing as death

> in the world, so long as there is such a thing as weakness in the

> human heart, so long as there is a cry going out of the heart of

> man in his very weakness, there shall be a faith in God.

>

> On the philosophic side the disciples of the Great Master dashed

> themselves against the eternal rocks of the Vedas and could not

> crush them, and on the other side they took away from the nation

> that eternal God to which every one, man or woman, clings so

> fondly. And the result was that Buddhism had to die a natural

> death in India. At the present day there is not one who calls

> oneself a Buddhist in India, the land of its birth.

>

> But at the same time, Brahminism lost something — that

> reforming zeal, that wonderful sympathy and charity for everybody,

> that wonderful heaven which Buddhism had brought to the masses and

> which had rendered Indian society so great that a Greek historian

> who wrote about India of that time was led to say that no Hindu

> was known to tell an untruth and no Hindu woman was known to be

> unchaste.

>

> Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without

> Hinduism. Then realise what the separation has shown to us, that

> the Buddhists cannot stand without the brain and philosophy of the

> Brahmins, nor the Brahmin without the heart of the Buddhist. This

> separation between the Buddhists and the Brahmins is the cause of

> the downfall of India. That is why India is populated by three

> hundred millions of beggars, and that is why India has been the

> slave of conquerors for the last thousand years. Let us then join

> the wonderful intellect of the Brahmins with the heart, the noble

> soul, the wonderful humanising power of the Great Master.

>

>

> Swami Vivekananda

> BUDDHISM, THE FULFILMENT OF HINDUISM

>

 

 

Sages have for millenniums extolled: " When Kundalini sleeps man is

awake to the world. He has objective consciousness. When Kundalini

awakes and ascends to Sahasrara then the person gains divine

consciousness and total awareness of the world and becomes one with

the universe. In Samadhi the body is maintained by the nectar which

flows from the union of Shiva and Shakti with Sahasrara. "

 

The great sage Swami Vivekananda noted that wherever there was " any

manifestation of what is ordinarily called supernatural power or

wisdom, a little current of kundalini must have found its way into

the sushumna what thus man ignorantly worships under various names

the yogi declares to the world to be the real power coiled up in

every being, the mother of eternal happiness if we but know how to

approach her. "

 

R.C. Zaehner, in his book Bhagavad Gita questioned: " How is it,

one may ask, that the fully integrated self which has

already 'become Brahman' can also attain to 'Brahman's saving

touch', or, according to the variant, to 'union with Brahman'? . . .

a 'touch' of which the Buddhists know nothing . . . which Pascal

spoke and over against which finite man seemed to make no

sense . . . When thought by spiritual exercise is checked and comes

to rest, and when of oneself one sees the self in the Self and finds

content therein, that is the utmost joy which transcends all things

of sense and which soul alone can grasp. When he knows this and

knowing it stands still, moving not an inch from the reality he

sees, he wins a prize beyond all others . . .(B.G. 6.20-22) — a

state of complete interiority and introversion, in which 'his joy is

within, his bliss within, his light within' (B.G. 5.24) and in which

he 'becomes Brahman.' This is the Buddhist Nirvana, and the 'highest

Brahman' of the Upanishads is identified with it. "

 

Shri Mataji keeps insisting that this joy is within, this bliss is

within, this light is within by which mortals realize Brahman.

According to the Adi Shakti " the Joy of the Sahasrara is called

as Nirananda since long, since ancient times called as Nirananda or

Nirmala-ananda. So many call it as Nirmala-ananda or Nirananda. That

Joy is the Joy that you enjoy even when you get crucified. That Joy

is the Joy that you enjoy even when you get poisoned. Even on your

death-bed you enjoy that Joy. That Joy is Nirananda. "

 

Then isn't the Buddhist Nirvana of the Sahasrarapadma, and the

'highest Brahman' of the Upanishads experienced in the Sahasrara

similar to the Joy of the Kingdom of God within that Jesus preached?

 

 

jagbir

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
×
  • Create New...