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# 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...

#OPINION : 12/06/2020 : 2192. #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-4. How is it possible for you to exist independently of anything that is outside you?  The very concept of outside or externality has to be abrogated completely, and transcended. Is it possible?  Normally, you will feel that such a thing is not possible.  How is it possible for anyone to be totally alone with nobody else existing on earth?  The idea of somebody else and something outside you is the limiting factor in which we are all involved in this world. Physically, socially, or from the point of view of natural life we cannot be absolutely alone. Aloneness is impossible in this world. Wherever you go, whatever you are, there is something outside you. There are people everywhere outside you.  There is the natural world of the five elements outside you. Space and time are there wherever you go. They are external to you. That means to say, in this world of space and ti...

======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #OPINION : 02/06/2020 : 2182. #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Four are the aims of existence: dharma, artha, kama, moksha. Actually, moksha is not one item among four items; it is that which surpasses and stands above the other three. It is a logical superiority which is over and above the other empirical needs or relative requirements which are physical, emotional and ethical. On what basis and in what manner are we to conceive this foundational concept of moksha? What is it, actually? What do you mean by moksha, which is inclusive of all the other values of life? You cannot have a hundred percent freedom in this world because your freedom is restricted by the freedom ...

=============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 15/05/2020 : 2161. #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. *We noticed the purpose of the Smritis. What do the Smritis tell us? *They lay down the laws of life. What are the laws of life? #These laws depend on the laws of existence itself. Our existence is summed up in our longings or aspirations, and our longings or aspirations are summed up in the fourfold aim of existence, which is what we noticed yesterday: artha, kama and dharma. ##The material values of life sum up our physical requirements or physical needs, and our emotional needs are summed up by kama, the regulation of the way in which we have to fulfil our desires for material comfort and emotional satisfaction i...

============================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 09/05/2020 : 2153. SRI GAUDAPADACHARYA PARAMA GURU OF SRI ADI SANKARACHARYA #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #We bestowed sufficient thought on the foundations of Indian culture, which are the Vedas. By observing also that the Vedas are not merely a scripture of religion in the sense of an aspiration for a god above the world, we had occasion to go into the different aspects of the meaning of the Veda Samhitas.  ##They are inclusive of at least five aspects of life. It is religion, of course, because the mantras of the Vedas are addressed to gods or divinities above the physical world. But the Veda mantras are also connected with this world, not merely with the oth...

================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 27/04/2020 : 2140. #Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture - 11. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Though that is an important thing, there is much more than this in kama. You require to be loved by society, the public. People in general should recognise you. #Would you like the whole society to pooh-pooh you though you are living a family life with a husband-wife relationship? Social recognition and status is also a part of the requirement of feeling and emotion, apart from a good family life. All this is included within the requirement of what is known as kama, apart from artha, or material requirement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Now, you must remember that you are permit...