RES: advaita vedanta, more info please

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Thank you dear professor..

 

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De: advaitin [advaitin ]Em nome de

V. Krishnamurthy

Enviada em: terça-feira, 15 de maio de 2007 15:47

Para: advaitin

Assunto: Re: advaita vedanta, more info please

 

 

advaitin , " phap44 " <phap44 wrote:

 

> Before I dwelve deeper on this view, I simply don't want more

> knowledge. I would really like practical knowledge.

>

> Therefore my question is, may I ask how advaita vedanta has

benefitted

> your life?

>

> Thank you

>

> Laksamanh

>

 

Namaste all.

 

How has advaita affected my life?

 

That is a good question. Advaita has affected my daily life in

changing my attitudes to everything in a different way.

 

Earlier, that is, before I was twenty, I was affected by every

happening around me.

 

When I saw an honest relative suffering by the evil-doings of a

capricious relative, I felt very very bad that I myself could not do

anything because both were my close relativces and further, in the

ancient culture of traditional India in which I lived and grew up I

was not supposed to raise my voice against elders, particularly elder

relatives.

 

When I was infuriated by certain doings of missionary christians

which affected the religious sentiments of hindus, I wrote a letter

of scathing criticism to the newspapers which was, to my amazement,

published with a provocative heading. I did not have the heading part

in my letter but it was the editor's making. And what happened was I

was criticised for that heading by several correspondents in the

newspapers and I felt really small, particularly before my student-

friends. I was a college student then.

 

When I saw certain ancient customs of shaving the head, etc. of a

woman who had just been widowed I protested to my heart's content,

spoke to the elders who were responsible for it, but finally I could

not succeed. I was totally bowled by the elders. But I could never

get over that bad feeling, because it was my elder sister who was the

victim!

 

I was reading English Fiction all my spare time and I had such a

craze for them that I collected all the classic fiction books by

buying them from old bookshops, and keeping them as my greatest

treasure -- in the hope that I will even pass it all as a legacy to

my `future successors'!

 

Well, I have given you above, only four instances of my youthful

attitudes which I thought will be most permanent.

 

All that was before I was 25 or 30. But in due time over the years,

some thing struck my mind so forcefully that all these attitudes

became mellowed. And what is that thing which struck me?

 

THIS TOO WILL PASS!

 

This single idea took possession of me over the years. By the time I

was 35 or 40 I was convinced that this is the only thing which is

ever permanent. Everything comes and goes. All our attitudes are

only passing attitudes. We are right, only temporarily. In the long

run, our attitudes change. Even the details of the events and

attitudes pale into insignificance, as time passes. Good and Evil

exist, but both pass away. Neither is permanent. What is permanent

is only the anchor sheet on which all the events, attitudes and what

not, take place as a movie on a movie screen.

And I was convinced that advaita is the right thing! And now I am not

affected by anything seriously. Even if I am affected by something,

like a physical ailment, or a mental shock, or what seems to be a

personal insult or even if I am excited by some success – I tell

myself " THIS TOO WILL PASS " and the feeling tones down.

 

PraNAms to all advaitins.

profvk

 

 

 

 

 

 

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