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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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IGNORANCE?





"Any Ignorance can be removed by knowledge"

There are three ways to overcome this ignorance:-
  • The Advaita Vedanta says, to overcome this darkness of ignorance by the light of knowledge. This is the path we are going to understand today.
  • The path of Yoga, where its says that the ignorance is not the real problem, the restlessness of the mind is the real problem which can be calmed by meditation.
  • This path is well known amongst all conventional religious of the world, the path of Bhakti. Here they say the problem is not ignorance or restlessness, the problem is lack of faith in god, which can be solved by choosing the path of devotion.
The traditional method of learning something in Advaita Vedanta was to listen then think of that and then abide that knowledge. The insight that we will learn today is drawn from the medieval book "Panchadasi". There are a total of 8 verse in this book and we will learn about 3 verse in this blog and they are going to point to our real nature that its pure consciousness.
  • Our life is all made up of experiences. Three key points are to be understood here:
  1. Every experience is different from other experience.
  2. Experiences come and go.
  3. Each experience has two parts, a changing part and an unchanging part.
In all this experiences there is a object that we experience.
  • The dreaming state comes as the day ends where we are not in a direct contact with the world, it's just that we are illuminating our experiences. Here the scientific approach towards the dream is quite more responsive than the Advaita Vedanta's approach as Science can tell us the meaning and the reason behind our dream but the Vedanta is not at all interested in our dream. Vedanta says there is no difference in our waking and dreaming state as our waking is just a long dream.
  • The deep sleep is seen by the Vedanta as the experience of absence not the absence of experience. This mode is conscious without an object of consciousness. Here the experiencing consciousness is one and unchanged.
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  1. Ganesh YegneshwaranMay 24, 2020 at 12:51 PM

    Words are irrelevant here. It's beyond all that the words can express. Thanks for the soul liberating stir.

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  2. Prachi SinghalMay 24, 2020 at 11:38 PM

    Very interesting article, Good job and thank you for sharing such information.KEEP IT UP AND DON'T STOP!

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