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Vedanta: the Solution – Part 4
VEDĀNTA the solution to our fundamental problem by D. Venugopal Part 4 looks at the ways in which we strive to overcome our sense of limitation but only succeed in propagating this. There is a complete...
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upadesha sAhasrI – part 16
Part 16 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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Topic of the Month – buddhi
The mind in Sanskrit is antaHkaraNa. It is the seat of both thought and feeling. It derives from antar – within, interior – and karaNa, which means “instrument” or sense-organ. The mind consists of a...
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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!...
View ArticleQ. 369 – mokSha
Q: What is meant by mokSha as a puruShArtha? (The answer should incorporate a definition of mokSha.) Responses from Ted, Venkat, Ramesam, Martin, Shuka and Dennis A (Ted): Moksha literally means,...
View ArticleQ. 373 – Ego, soul and mithyAtva
Q: For the last few years I have been trying to develop a manuscript detailing a working model which marriages the teachings of Advaita Vedanta with contemporary research on NDE or “Near Death...
View ArticleQ. 382 – Art and Vedanta
Q: As an artist and casual reader of advaita-vedanta, I wanted to ask about advaita-vedanta’s opinion on Art (be it music, painting, dance etc.). Generally speaking, we can classify art into broadly 2...
View ArticleQ. 387 – Value of Self-knowledge
Q: At the end of the day, what does knowledge of self give us ? It does not help to answer the burning question of why the appearance/dream/mAyA that we are experiencing as humans or animals exists....
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adhyAsa (part 3)
Notes on Shankara’s examination of the nature of ‘Error’ in the introduction to the brahmasUtra. Read Part 2 of the series Analogy of the Rope and the Snake This example originates from the...
View ArticleQ.411 Action and Knowledge
Q: Brief scenario: While walking I notice the floor is wet. I decide to walk carefully because I fear I might slip and fall otherwise. I could think that the entire situation takes place within...
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...
View ArticleJivanmukta and Jivanmukti – 6/12:
[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...
View ArticleJivanmukta and Jivanmukti – 7/12:
[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...
View ArticleJivanmukta and Jivanmukti – 9/12:
[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...
View ArticleJivanmukta and Jivanmukti – 11/12:
[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...
View ArticleJivanmukta and Jivanmukti – 12/12
[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 8 of 10
Read Part 7 Yogic Advaita This is a term, which I had not encountered before, coined by Fort in Ref. 200. He uses it to refer to those teachers and texts that incorporate elements of sAMkhya and yoga...
View ArticleAbhAsa vAda
This is effectively Part 6 1/2 of 10 in the pratibandha series. It follows on from the heading of “The ‘mixture of Atman and mind’”. Apologies for the misleading and changing part numbers. This is the...
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