Guest guest Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 Dear Sri Sastri Ji, Namaste. > vikArahetau sati vikriyante | > yeshAm na cetAmsi ta eva dhiirAH || Thanks a lot for the quote. Yes, this sloka is very simple to understand. With regards, Anupam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 --- On Wed, 8/27/08, S.N. Sastri <sn.sastri wrote: I had quoted this and given the meaning in my post # 40830. This meaning is very appropriate wherever this word appears in the Gita or the upanishads. ----------------- and in the post #40830 Sastriji says: Thus a dheera is a person in whose mind emotions such as desire, dislike, fear, anger, envy, pride, etc., do not at all arise even in the presence of objects or circumstances which generate such emotions in ordinary people. That means a person whose mind remains calm under all circumstances. Only such a person will be able to withdraw his sense-organs from all objects and concentrate his mind on the self. Such a person is one who has reached the stage of 'yogArUDha' as mentioned in gItA 6.4. He is free from all desires. ---------- In addition, upanishads also use the word dhiira in the sense of a jnaani - a realized soul. In the summary of MunDaka that Shree Ramachandran gave some time back - there is a sloka in the upanishads that define what is akshara brahman - yat adreShyam agraahyam agotram avarNam acakshushrotram tadapaanipaadam| nitam vibhuH sarvagatim sa suukshmam tad avyayam yat bhuutayonim paripasynati dhiiraaH|| dhiiraaH paripasyanti the wise see clearly that which cannot be perceived, that which can not be grapsed by organs of action, that which is one of a kind, that which has no sense organs to see, to hear, to act, that which became many, that which is all pervadiing, that which is extremely subtle that which is inexhaustable and that which is the source for all - they see! Here seeing meening understanding since it is already that that it cannot be seen. Hope you all see. Hari Om! Sadananda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 Namaste. I think Post #41402 should be grouped under this thread. PraNAms to all advaitins. profvk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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