Guest guest Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 Today , i feel very ecstatic. I read the following passag in Shri Anandaji's book 'Ways Of Truth'. Many of us on this list quote the scriptures from time to time but Sri Anandaji has the unique talent of picking out some very meaningful passages from the upanishads . i specially resonated with these words in his latest book 'Ways of Truth' ....... Quote begins Learning from Source " Implicit in this traditional approach is a reflection back to an inner, common source: shared by the microcosm of individual experience and the macrocosm of the external universe. A student learns by going down beneath the changing sounds of learning, to that unchanging source from where the world is understood. This is described, a little allegorically, in the Brhadaranyaka Upanisad, 4.5.8-11. First (in 4.5.8-10), there is a description of changing sound and how it may be understood. The understanding is achieved by holding one's mind to the instrument that plays the sound, and thus coming to the player: the inner source that is expressed. • Second (in 4.5.11), there is a description of seeing. Here, the forms of learning, personal experience and the whole universe are described as differentiated smokes and vapours, breathed out from that one inner source which is beyond all limitation. The outward sounds of drumbeats can't be captured. But, by holding on to just the drum, or to the drummer, what get's spoken there is grasped. – 4.5.8 The outward sounds blown from a conch cannot be captured and kept held. And yet, by holding to the conch, or to the one who blows the conch, what's spoken there is understood. – 4.5.9 The outward sounds played from a vina can't be captured and kept held. And yet, by holding to the vina, or the one who plays the vina, there what's said is understood. – 4.5.10 As fire burns up sap-filled fuel, smokes and vapours issue forth in differentiated ways. So too, breathed out of the unlimited, which has now come to be, is this Rg-veda, Yajur-veda, Sama-veda, the Atharva-veda, history and myth, the arts and sciences, the teachings of philosophy, verse-compositions, aphorisms, explanations, commentaries, sacrifices, offerings, what's eaten, drunk, this world, the other world, and all created things. They are the breaths of that alone " – 4.5.11 Quote ends Wow! A Krishna premi like me RESONATES with these words " The outward sounds blown from a conch cannot be captured and kept held. And yet, by holding to the conch, or to the one who blows the conch, what's spoken there is understood " Yes! Lord Vishnu holds in his hand a special conch, Panchajanya, that represents life as it has come out of life-giving waters.How do we understand all about The cycle of material existence except from learning from the source - Our beloved Gitacharya ! He is the living Teacher ! enjoy the subtle truth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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