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 [...]
How is one to gain this knowledge? (Part 1) In the fourth lecture we had further explored into what actually belief systems are and how beliefs are being formed. This was a topic that was dealt in two parts. The first part dealt with Perception and the second part with Reasoning or Logic. Both these [...]
Can we term this knowledge as knowledge or is it a belief system (part II)? In the fourth lecture we further explore into what actually belief systems are and how beliefs are being formed. I have devoted two sessions for this. A thing that has not been experienced either directly through our senses or projected [...]
Can we term this knowledge as knowledge or is it a belief system? In the second lecture we had explored into what actually is this knowledge and how does it affect our lives. This question was more to have a clearer idea of what actually is happening with our lives and what exactly should we [...]
What exactly is “this knowledge”? (How does it affect our life)? In the first lecture we had explored into what the term Eastern knowledge suggests or means. We had seen that we are specifically concerned about a particular discipline that has a direct bearing on each of us, which is the knowledge about ourselves-Self Knowledge. [...]
Though there is no such thing as Eastern or Western knowledge, still in a lighter sense, we could use the word Eastern knowledge, for this knowledge had been developed and refined in the East and had been effectively used as a systematic means of unfolding, for centuries. It continues to be doing so even today [...]
