Dear Dennisji and Sadaji, Pranams thank you for bringing up this question, Dennisji, which in my ongoing studies of Mandukya Up has come up for me too (though...
Dear Sastri-ji and Sada-ji, Thank you for the prompt clarification. Yes, I was reading it as though Shankara was saying that, by perceiving an object, one was...
Dennisji - praNAms Here is my understanding of how knowledge GROWS. When I see an object out there with certain attributes - as a child my mother shows me a...
We are discussing the Vedanta ParibhASha of Dharmaraja Adhvarindra, on the basis of my understanding. ... Knowledge and the Means of Knowledge -21 We are...
... their ... offering ... bondage, ... most ... Namaste, Sastri-ji Yes, I used to explain it that same way in my lectures, but somehow in my writing on the...
... `jnAna- ... that ... five ... also ... 10.10? ... yoga, Namaste, The term buddhiyoga has also been used in Gita 2:49 and 18:57. Sri Sankara defines it as: ...
Namaste, Sri Nairji and others, From whatever very little exposure I have through the Teaching of my Gurus, and satsangha etc, I may say Avidya is not absence...
... see an object there which neither of us has seen before and whose purpose is unknown. Suppose that, after allowing you only a second or two to look at this...
Thanks a lot, Maniji. Regards. Nair ... my Gurus, and satsangha etc, I may say Avidya is not absence or Abhava of Knowledge, i.e. jnAnabhAva. It is erroneous...
praNAms Sri Jai Shankar prabhuji Hare Krishna JS Prabhuji : This is why we have to say that ajnana is sat-asad vilakshanam (mithya) but kinchit bhavam asti (it...
praNAms Sri JS prabhuji Hare Krishna ... JS prabhuji : Yes not only Shankara but even Bhagavan Krishna. As I am travelling for I can't give you quotations from...
Padmapadacharya interprets mithyAnjananimittah in the adhyasabhasya as mithya ca ajnanam ca mithyAjnanam tena nimittah mithyAnjananimittah.. i.e. Adhyasa is...
The Vivaranasampradaya does not accept ekajivavada ("I (subject)confronting the rest of the world of objects" model). It is defeinitely based on nanajivavada...
Br. Up that Sastriji pointed out - shrotavyaH, mantavyaH and nidhidhyaasitavyaH - where tavyaH implies a vidhi - one has to do it - and doing part is the yoga....
Namaste Jaishankarji. The whole idea behind my post was to tell you that, even in the midst of our misunderstanding the unreal for the real, there is a flicker...
Bhaskarji, Namaskarams. The debate was published as a booklet in Kannada but I have no inclination to search for it nor get it translated into English. Even if...
Bhaskarji - PraNAms ... JS Prabhuji : This is why we have to say that ajnana is sat-asad vilakshanam (mithya) but kinchit bhavam asti (it exists in vyavahara)....
Bhaskarji - PraNams. ... praNAms Sri Sadananda prabhuji Hare Krishna I am really surprised why Sri Sastri prabhuji has not replied to this particular statement...
Namasthe, Once you get into 'gita' why is it that one doesn't feel like going elsewhere. This feeling I thought is not exactly right. So I still kept going to...
Shankara uses the term avidya to mean adhyasa(avidya karya) and also in many places to mean karana-avidya (as adhyasakarana). Calling a karya (effect) with the...
Dear Sada-ji and Sastri-ji, Thanks again for the responses – both very clear, though I believe this is already how I understood it to be. The very specific...
Namaste Satsanghis: The verse # 5 provides the practical difficulties of Jivas to identify themselves with the Atman by renouncing their identification with...
Namaste: This news item contains some interesting information (see the link below) http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/08/lhc.collider/index.html regards, Ram...
Namaste Shri Ram Chandran-ji, Thanks a lot for posting this. It was very good reading His commentary on these verses. In one of his lectures on Srimad...
PraNAms - Interesting. And What a waste of multi billions of dollars. This guy tries to compare the discovery of electron and subsequent utility to the...
Hari OM~ Pranams Shri Sastri ji, Shri Sada ji, Dennis ji, I first all would like to appreciate Dennis ji for raising this interesting topic for discussion. As...
