Vedanta

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The excerpt below is from Swami Krishanandaji's 'Essays in Life & Eternity'. You

can read the full discourse at:

http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/life/life_32.html.

 

Swamiji has beautifully explained in a nutshell the 'The Integral Philosophy of

the Vedanta'.

 

Regards

 

Balagopal

 

NARAYANA NARAYANA NARAYANA

 

...Through unselfish action in the service of people (Karma), through devotion to

God as the Creator of the universe (Bhakti), and through the wisdom of the

Absolute as the sole reality (Jnana), the soul attains salvation. Scriptures

declare that the will of God (Ishvara) is the source of creation, and His

creation ranges from His will onwards down to His immanence in all created forms

of every species. Up to this level creation is a state of cosmic experience

which is God's omniscience. But, subsequently, the created individuals assume in

themselves a vainglorious independence from God's universal creation and behold

it as an object of sense-perception. Matter is Spirit discerned through the

senses. When the isolation of the individual from cosmic inclusiveness takes

place, the individualised consciousness falls headlong, as it were, into the

empirical states of sleep, dream and waking, entangling itself thereby in the

compulsive urges of desire and

action whose impressions involve it in cycles of transmigratory life. Freedom

from this turmoil of individual existence is attained when the individual

(Jiva), in a state of meditation through Yoga, withdraws its sense powers from

objectivised forms and centres its consciousness in the unitariness of its

identity with the Absolute. This is the merging of the individual in Brahman

(Brahma-Sakshatkara).

 

The above is basically the position maintained by Acharya Sankara in his

interpretation of the Vedanta, but other thinkers like Ramanuja and Madhva hold

a different view...

 

 

 

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