Who is a Master? (Part III) While exploring the truth of the subject, who is a Master, we analysed the meaning of the word Srotria, which is one of the two words of the mantra ‘pariksya lokan ...’, in the previous two lectures. We shall now discuss the next important word, Brahmanistha. We had already [...]
Who is a Master? (Part II) In Part 1, we covered one portion of the Mantra. The key word was Srotriam. At the outset, we have to arrive at the meaning of the word Srotria, for the mantra mentions that a student has to go to a Srotriya. The word Srotriya is a Sanskrit word [...]
Who is a Master? (Part I) We started the series of lectures under the heading, ‘Eastern Knowledge for the Western Mind’. While analysing the subject matter of this knowledge and its influence on the human personality, we discovered we are talking about a specific knowledge form - Brahma Vidya, meaning knowledge of the limitless. Despite [...]
How is one to gain this knowledge? (Part III) We continue exploring how is one to gain this knowledge in the 7th lecture, from view of requisites on the part of a student. We had seen in the two earlier lectures that a person gains knowledge who has a Master and has the proper frame [...]
How is one to gain this knowledge? (Part II) We continue exploring how is one to gain this knowledge in the 6th lecture too, from the view of requisites on the part of a student. We had seen in the previous lecture that the one who has a Master gains this knowledge. There was a [...]
Harih Om! Hello All, We have just one more question asked by our young friend from BC. The questions that we examined were: What constitutes the human personality? Who are we? What is our living - what is it we call living? What is the outcome of our living? The last question is: What [...]
Harih Om! Hi All, We were exploring meaning of the word Destiny, while discussing the question, “what is the outcome of our living” in previous issues. Let us now wrap up the discussion by seeing the reason why Rishis have used the word Karma or Prārabdha. Some tend to translate the word as ‘destiny’, which [...]
Harih Om! Hello All, I am sure you would have discovered sufficient time to think about what all we shared in the previous issue about living. Where there is sufficient room for the free expression of our choices, we say there is life. Our living therefore is a free expression of the choices given to [...]
Harih Om! Hi All, In the last issue, we were discussing about one verse from the Bhagavad Geeta. We shall continue from where we stopped. The question was “Are we not subjecting the mind constantly to abuse and disuse? Is this helping us in any way? If it is not helping us now, at least [...]
Harih Om! Hi All, We were discussing about how we are the cause for our destruction. We have also seen how the natural beauty in us becomes destroyed all because of our rigidity. By this, I do not mean that we should not be firm. Firm we must be, but let the firmness be born [...]
