Bhagavad-Gita and Advaita – Q. 329
Q: How would it be possible to deal with our common Bhagavad Gita in terms of Advaita Vedanta? A (Ramesam): Please appreciate that Bhagavad-Gita is not the primary or basic text for Advaita. Though...
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Incomplete Enlightenment – Q.333
Q: As I understand, the sense of “I” (distinguished from the ultimate I/Self) is the source of “ignorance”. “Ignorance” leads to “the fear”, which inspires us to attempt to find “enlightenment”. The...
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upadesha sAhasrI – part 15
Part 15 of the serialization of the presentation (compiled by R. B. Athreya from the lectures given by Swami Paramarthananda) of upadesha sAhasrI. This is the prakaraNa grantha which is agreed by...
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Knowledge and the Fruit of Knowledge
Following on from the l-o-n-g discussion we had on this topic under the thread ‘akhaNDAkAra vRRitti – The End of Suffering‘, I have written what was intended to be the commentary on kArikA 3.40 in my...
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Knowledge, Action and Liberation
Most readers will be aware of the Brahmasutras – the third ‘leg’ of the prasthAna traya (the threefold set of scriptures that constitute the authority for Advaita – and some will even have read them!...
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Knowledge, Action and Liberation – AV
When Ed Witten, the legendary genius Physicist of Princeton, proposed his theory integrating the four or five disparate string theories during the mid-nineties, he called it the M-theory. He did not...
View ArticleekajIvavAda, jnAni, jnAna niShTha, jIvanmukta
Several times in the past we have had detailed discussions in these columns on the question whether a jnAni needed to continue the observation of some or other ‘practices’ after gaining jnAna...
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samAdhi (part 1)
Experience versus knowledge – a brief look at samAdhi I do not know an awful lot about neo-Vedanta. The term is generally applied to the teaching ‘introduced’ by Swami Vivekananda and carried on by the...
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Vedanta the Solution – Part 57
VEDĀNTA the solution to our fundamental problem by D. Venugopal Part 57 explains why the prescribed qualifications cannot be bypassed and begins a detailed explanation of the process of shravaNa,...
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Vedanta the Solution – Part 58
VEDĀNTA the solution to our fundamental problem by D. Venugopal Part 58 continues the detailed explanation of the process of shravaNa, manana and nididhyASana. There is a complete Contents List, to...
View ArticleJivanmukta and Jivanmukti – 5/12:
[Part – 4/12] NDM: What is the difference with simply being enlightenment in the advaitin sense, knowing one is Brahman, infinite, eternal non-dual awareness and so on and being a Jivanmukta? Ramesam...
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[Part – 5/12] NDM: What about an energetic shift? Does this also take place? Ramesam Vemuri: A particular individual may call his experience as an ‘energetic shift’ and only he can tell what those...
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[Part – 6/12] NDM: What would you say are the odds of someone being “enlightened” also becoming a Jivanmukta? Ramesam Vemuri: Advaita holds that everyone is...
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[Part – 7/12] NDM: Did you ever formally study traditional Advaita Vedanta? Ramesam Vemuri: I should at the outset say that other than as a matter, perhaps, of curiosity, me or what I did is...
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[Part – 8/12] NDM: So without a teacher/guru of some kind, how does one navigate a path through this non-dual jungle? How did you do this without falling into all the traps like getting stuck in...
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[Part – 9/12] [NDM: Also what about this sensitive money issue that seems to hit a raw nerve when ever it’s raised. Is there anything right or wrong with doing this? Is there anything right or wrong...
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[Part – 10/12] NDM: Ok, what about the belief in karma? Reincarnation? Whatever the incorporeal essence is that some believe transmigrates. It is known in different spiritual traditions; “the most...
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[Part – 11/12] NDM: R.D. Laing said “True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality… and through this...
View Articlepratibandha-s – part 3 of 6
Read Part 2 nididhyAsana nididhyAsana is recommended to remove any mental impediments that remain. This may consist of any activity that serves to consolidate the knowledge and fully assimilate the...
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Read Part 3 j~nAna phalam Here is the sequence of events that I believe represents the traditional understanding: A would-be seeker practices sAdhana chatuShTaya sampatti for a length of time in order...
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