Opinion

OPINION : Wednesday, December 30, 2020. 11:25 AM. 2318.  Chapter- 5. Introduction to the Epics - 1. In our last sessions we discussed the foundations of Indian culture and the inner contents and classifications of the Vedas. Next, we moved further on to a consideration of special emphasis laid in the course of history on the different sections of the Vedas, with some group or community laying emphasis on the Samhitas, others on the Brahmanas, and others on the Aranyakas and the Upanishads. The orthodox Vedic pundits who are available to us even today in small numbers in India study the Veda Samhitas by rote, by heart, and they make it a profession. Study of the Veda Samhitas means the capacity to recite the Samhitas. The emphasis is laid on the Brahmanas in the form of the Mimamsa doctrine of ritualism, karma kanda as it is known in Sanskrit, and the externalised form of the application of the Veda mantras. The mantras of the Vedas were originally intended as prayers to the gods, c...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------- # OPINION : Monday, November  09, 2020. 7:34. AM.  - 2299..  #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-11. ------------------------------------------------------- You have also to pay your gratitude to the rishis who handed over through a succession of Gurus and disciples the knowledge which you have gained. The study of the Veda, the study of the Upanishads or any scripture has been made possible to us because of the hierarchy of the knowledge that has come down to us through a lineage of Guru and disciple from rishis who are the originators of these scriptures. Therefore, the study of the scriptures is a daily ritual of the grihastha, by which he discharges the debt to the rishis. It is called brahma yajna. -------------------------------- The ancestors who are no more here, who have gone to the other world, also expect a recompense from us for all the good they have done to us...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------- # OPINION : Thursday, October  08, 2020. 7:34. AM.  - 2261. #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-10. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. This is prevented by the rules and regulations of brahmacharya wherein, at least for the period of 20 to 25 years, it becomes incumbent on the student to conserve energy. A system of this conservation of energy has evolved by which the brahmacharin, or the student, is not allowed to indulge in anything that is sensory, and is also not permitted to brood over objects of sense mentally. So for 20 or 25 years – nowadays it is less in number, but originally for the first 25 years, at least, one should live a life of intense self-conserving discipline. 2. Whatever you have been in your young age will tell upon you when you are old. This is something you must remember. What did you do when you were young? Did you live a...

  # OPINION : Wednesday, September 30, 2020. 8:07. PM.  - 2255. ##We the People, We the Citizen :15 Oct 2019 : My Gov : PMINDIA. A citizen of a country is an individual recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign nation or allegiance to a government in exchange for its protection, whether at home or abroad. A citizen is one of the dominant pillars of the country. They are entitled to enjoy all the legal rights and privileges granted by a state to the people encompassing its constituency and are obligated to obey its laws and to attain his or her duties as called upon. We are all a citizen of our country and retain several rights and responsibilities towards our community, state, and country. Each citizen has a responsibility to make his or her community a decent place to inhabit. When you are a responsible citizen, it implies that you know your duty adequately and will volunteer for numerous things that are required by the community or the society...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------- # OPINION : Saturday,  September 19, 2020. 8:30. AM. : 2244 #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-9. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. So what are the aims of existence? Dharma, artha, kama, moksha. Inasmuch as moksha is universally inclusive, it is not just one of the four aims; it is the aim which includes the other three automatically, and subsumes the other three. The goal of life is Self-realisation, God-realisation, the realisation of this absolutely universal Consciousness. This is to say something about the fourfold aim of existence: artha, kama, dharma, moksha. 2. How are we going to work for it? Now comes the practical question. We have understood that these are the aims of life. How is it possible to achieve it? This methodology of the actual attainment of this great purpose of life is laid down by the regulations of a different type altoget...

---------------------------------------------------------------- # OPINION : Tuesday, September 01,  2020. 07:30. AM. - 2234. #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-8. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. You want to know what is moksha. It is the delving into the state of this universality of consciousness, which is the nature of everyone. Inasmuch as universal consciousness can be only one, there cannot be many universal consciousnesses in the case of different people. It does not mean that when you are fast asleep you enter into the universal consciousness different from the universal consciousness into which another person is entering into in the state of deep sleep. We are all bathed in the ocean and sinking into a single sleep. The ocean is one only for all the waves. Millions of people may be fast asleep, but it does not mean that they are all entering into different kinds of universality. All the waves sin...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # OPINION : Thursday, August 13, 2020. 8:01.PM. - 2226. #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-7. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. So from the fact of memory subsequent to the experience of sleep, you conclude that consciousness must have been there in the state of deep sleep; otherwise, memory would not be possible. You existed in the state of deep sleep as consciousness, not as body, not as mind, not as any psychic function. Pure consciousness was your state, independent of any kind of relation to body and the mind. No social relation, no physical contact, nothing of the kind was there. You were not there as a person, as an individual. You were there as consciousness; but where was this consciousness? Was it inside or outside? The question of inside or outside does not arise for consciousness be...

# OPINION : Tuesday, July 28, 2020. 2:56. AM. : 2218 #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-6. 1. Please think over this matter deeply.  Where was the mind in the state of deep sleep? It was not there.  There was no thought of any kind. The body also was not there as the physical body.  Did you exist minus the physical body and mind? Yes.  What was your condition when you were there existing as independent of the physical body and the mind? “I knew nothing.”  This is all that you can say. “I cannot say what I was. I was fast asleep.” Who is saying that you were fast asleep?  In the morning when you wake up from sleep you say, “I was fast asleep. I had a very happy sleep.” My question is, who is making the statement?  When you say “I had a good sleep yesterday” who is making the statement? Does the physical body make the statement?  The physical body was not there. Is the mind saying it? The mind also was not there. Who is ...

# OPINION : Monday, July 06, 2020. 7:37. AM. : 2214 #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-5. 1. A person who is a hundred percent bound and involved in bondage only as his very nature will not have ideas of this kind – namely, ideas of transcending bondage. The idea of unlimited freedom cannot arise in the mind of a person whose mind is really bound and who is incapable of the fulfilment of the aspiration.  We, therefore, seem to be belonging to two worlds. One is the world in which we are now, which is bound to spatial and temporal laws. We live in this world where everything is conditioned in every way. Death itself is the ruler of this world. In addition to all the limitations that harass us from all sides, there is a final limitation which ends our existence itself, which is death.  We live in a mortal world. We live in a world of death. But we also seem to be belonging to another realm which is deathless, which is immortal. 2. Our inner conscious...