jabdakhata

Swami Sarvapriyanandaji's lectures are available on youtube. These are just the my personal interpretations and transcriptions of his explanation of the text of Drig Drisya Viveka. Actual Copyright of the lecture belongs to Vedanta Society of Southern California. Drig Drisya Viveka is a Vedantic test written by Vidyaranya Swami in 14th century AD. Its an introductory text on Vedanta. We perceive gross matter through our senses and the gross matter has a name to identify and a form to distinguish it from the rest. These names and forms are superimposed on pure consciousness. We perceive the existence of others as well as that of us - our thoughts, feelings, desires etc. because of the reflected or the borrowed consciousness - chidabhasa. This is the consciousness aspect of Brahman. The sun shines and reflects upon everything but its reflection is more pronounced on shining surfaces like the mirror, not on dull objects. Similarly Brahman as consciousness is everywhere but is r...

Swami Sarvapriyanandaji's lectures are available on youtube. These are just the my personal interpretations and transcriptions of his explanation of the text of Drig Drisya Viveka. Actual Copyright of the lecture belongs to Vedanta Society of Southern California. Drig Drisya Viveka is a Vedantic test written by Vidyaranya Swami in 14th century AD. Its an introductory text on Vedanta. The veiling power of Maya is the most powerful, it hides and obscures.  "Why" we are veiled cannot be asked, because if we know that we are veiled, we are not veiled. All causation is within Maya so Maya cannot be known from within Maya. Even the lower animals are nothing but pure consciousness, only their body-mind is a poor reflector of it. They are not fit enough for realization. One of the major purposes of evolution is to come to a body mind step by step that is fit enough for realization of ones true self. The mother nature holds our hand to lead us towards the freedom, throug...

Swami Sarvapriyanandaji's lectures are available on youtube. These are just the my personal interpretations and transcriptions of his explanation of the text of Drig Drisya Viveka. Actual Copyright of the lecture belongs to Vedanta Society of Southern California. Drig Drisya Viveka is a Vedantic test written by Vidyaranya Swami in 14th century AD. Its an introductory text on Vedanta. The pure consciousness is ever awake, ever witness in the three states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep. In deep sleep it is the witness of the absence, the void. Pure consciousness is nearest to the subtle body, the mind and hence it gets reflected and illumines the mind-intellect as the reflected consciousness, thus imparting the I sense or the individuality/ego. The jiva, which is the other name of the pramata is a limited self. That limitedness is super imposed on the unlimited, pure consciousness through adhyasa or superimposition. The limited individual sense covers or obscures the real ...