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Karma as the Source of Diversity

The vedas acknowledge divine karma as the origin of all creation, preservation, and destruction. However, since God does not have desires, unlike humans, he is not constrained by them. In the first chapter of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1.6.1), we discover that karma is one of the three main causes of diversity, alongside name and form. The variety in names is a result of speech, and the variety in forms is a result of the eye, while the mind and body are the sources for the variety in actions. For every action, the body serves as the source, the controller, or the lord.  Within the body, the mind, speech, breath, organs of action, and organs of perception are regarded as the primary deities who receive sustenance from the body and carry out their respective functions. Nevertheless, we cannot solely depend on them to combat the impurities and the malevolent forces that can infiltrate our body, as they are susceptible to evil and demonic influences, thoughts, desires, temptations,...
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BRAHMAN





This blog is in continuation of the previous blog "IGNORANCE?". That blog had a method to understand Brahman. The Vedanta being so vast, has many more methods to do the same work. This blog would convey another method which is the method of five sheets based on Taittiriya Upanishad, to the question, "How do we know Brahman?"

Lack of knowledge doesn't gets someone into trouble. But that thing which we know but it ain't so, gets one into trouble. The most common answer for "Who we are?" is dependent and connected to the body. We are firmly rooted to this idea that we are body mind complex. This is what we have to get rid off. Here the body is seen as transformation of what we eat and drink. 

So now if we move further, the oxygen is the real agent that keeps us alive. So this state of breathing should be considered as the final state. But the oxygen is an agent to keep our body alive and function properly and is not the atman as atman is not dependent on the body. 

The Upanishad divides understanding into two parts - mind and intellect. Intellect is what we all are using now to understand this world. But the intellect changes as the understanding comes and goes changing the intelligence.

The intellect is the one who experiences the world and we being apart from it just realize the world as what intellect experiences. Intellect is the seer and we being apart, see it. To give up intellect is much harder than to misidentify the body for understanding Brahman.

If we remove the idea of a direct attachment with mind, intellect and body, and meditate, we realize a state of blankness which is same realized in the deep sleep darkness mode. But this state of feeling of blankness is also not the real us, as it comes and goes.

Till now the thing which could be resembled as the ultimate but are not, is stated. The body, breath, mind, intellect and blankness is not Brahman. Now, this blog had a motive to cutoff the things that create a misconception to the path of Brahman. Now from here onwards it is on us how to achieve the real Brahman which is already been understood.  

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  1. Ganesh YegneshwaranMay 27, 2020 at 12:47 PM

    Swami Merrill namo namaha

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  2. Prachi SinghalMay 28, 2020 at 11:44 PM

    This could be very significant information for many. You are doing a fantastic job. Thanks for sharing!

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  3. Prachi SinghalJune 4, 2020 at 8:14 PM

    Very nice post Merrill.You will become a great blogger one day☺️☺️

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