COGNISING SELF

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H.N. Sreenivasa Murthy

Pranams to all.

Sri Shankara in his commentary to mantra 4,chapter2 of Kenopanishad has

detailed a methodology, the most DIRECT and SIMPLE, for the benefit of genuine

and sincere mumukshus. The same has been reproduced for the benefit of all.

 

PRATIBODHAVIDITA

 

The Kenopanishad (2.4) and the bhashya thereon throw a flood of light on this

subject:

 

Brahman is known when It is realised in every state of mind;

for by such Knowledge one attains Immortality.

By Atman one obtains strength; by Knowledge, Immortality.

 

The term bodha here stands for cognition ie., the mental mode that reveals an

object.

He for whom each and every one of these cognitions is an object of direct

perception,

who is of the nature of Pure Consciousness alone and

who is indicated by these very cognitions as being present in identically the

same manner in all of

them, without being conditioned by them, is Atman;

 

There is no otherway for knowing the Inner Atman.

 

Thus 'knowledge' of Brahman in this

manner as the very essence of every cognition is Samyagdarshana, the true

knowledge of Brahman.

It becomes established thereby that Brahman, the Witness of all cognitions,

is of the nature of

Consciousness, subject to neither birth nor death, Eternal, of absolutely pure

nature, the very Atman, without any attributes, and

the One in all being, as the akasha in a pot, a hill and a cave, there being no

differentiating feature. (unquote)

OM TAT SAT

 

 

 

May the GURU of all gurus bless us with that supreme understanding.

 

From one who has been vastly benefitted by this methodology,

With warm and respectful regards,

Sreenivasa Murthy.

 

 

 

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