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What do you mean by self-analysis?

You cannot analyze yourself. Only Satguru can analyze and show your internal

self. You cannot see the condition of your internal organs. Only a doctor can

take the x-ray photo and will show to you. Then only you can understand your own

internal system. Therefore self-analysis does not mean the analysis of yourself

by yourself. It means the analysis of yourself with the help of the Satguru.

 

Adi Sankara’s Advaita Philosophy

Advaita of Adi Sankara says that every human being is Brahman (the Lord).

There is a figure of speech called " Roopaka” in which the object compared is

identified with the original object. Ex: This man is tiger. This means that the

man and the tiger are very much similar in qualities. So instead of telling the

Lord is like human being it is said as the Lord is the human being (Jeeva is

Brahman). In the third stage of the university level the human incarnation of

the Lord is recognized and is differentiated from the other human beings by His

internal form, which is His Special knowledge (Prajnanam Brahma). In this stage

all the egoism and jealousy to the human form must have been removed. At this

university level Sankara proved that He alone is Eswara. The water in a drop and

the water in the ocean is one and the same. The water is Brahman. The definition

of Brahman is confined to simple awareness. In such case every living being

(Jeeva) is Brahman since every living being

is having awareness. This is the qualitative similarity between water drop and

the ocean. But if you see the quantitative aspect, the water drop is the living

being and the ocean is Eswara. Sankara told not only that He is Brahman but He

is also Siva who is Eswara (Sivoham). Therefore He swallowed the molten lead

where as the disciples could not swallow it. Thus Sankara proved that any living

being is Brahman but not Eswara. One should not misunderstand that Brahman

(qualitative) and Eswara (Quantitative) are one and the same.

In Advaita philosophy you are reaching the self which is only the intermediate

station. Ofcourse you must attain the peace which gives you lot of strength so

that you will withstand the suffering by sacrifice in the next half of the

journey. Sankara stopped by preaching this intermediate station to all the

people. When a few people reached this station, then He opened the further path

to them only. He swallowed the molten lead and preached to the disciples that He

alone is the Lord. They realized the self and reached the intermediate station

called Brahman by the path of ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ (I am Brahman). Brahman means

simple awareness. The next half path is to reach Lord who is Eeswara. Peace is

not the final fruit. Peace is only the intermediate fruit, which gives you the

strength in the journey. The fruit given by the Lord is the final fruit, which

are peace, bliss and all the eight super powers. If one takes a sleeping tablet,

he can get peace during the sleep as well

as after awakening. Detachment from the world gives you the peace (Brahman) but

the fruit given by the Lord is to remain peaceful, blissful while living in this

world and helping the real devotees with the help of the eight super powers

(Asta Siddhis). The fruit given by the Lord will give you the real bliss i.e.,

the entertainment in the life game played by you in this world itself which is

certainly far higher than the peace. Sivoham (I am Eeswara) as told by Sankara

is the final goal and not 'Aham Brahmasmi'.

 

Sankara lived in the world and did lot of work. He never sat idle thinking

Aham Brahmasmi like the present Advaita Philosophers. Patanjali wrote Yoga

Sutras and fixed Eeswara as the final goal. We remember Sankara today as the

divine hero but not the other Advaita philosophers. Sankara sacrificed His

mother and earning of money for the sake of the mission of the Lord. But the

Advaita Philosophers sit in their houses and roll with their family bonds and

simply say Aham Brahmasmi. One should become a divine hero like Sankara,

Ramanuja, Madhva, Swami Vivekananda etc.; they were dynamic doing the Karma

Yoga, which was without any selfishness. Their Karma Yoga was the propagation of

the divine knowledge, which is Jnana Yoga but today the Advaita Philosopher is

doing Karma Yoga with selfishness for his family bonds only. What is the use of

their Jnana Yoga?

 

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