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Karma as the Source of Diversity

The Vedas recognize divine karma (the action of God) as the source of all creation, preservation and destruction. However, since God performs them without desires, unlike human beings he is not bound by them. From the first chapter of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1.6.1) we learn that karma is one of the triple causes of diversity, the other two being name and form. The diversity in names arises from speech, and the diversity in forms comes from the eye, whereas the (mind and) body is the sources for the diversity in actions. For all actions, the body is the source, the controller, or the lord. Within the body, the mind, the speech, breath, the organs of action, and the organs of perception are considered the main deities who receive their share of food from the body and perform their actions. However, we cannot fully rely upon them to fight the impurities and the evil that can infest our body, since they are all vulnerable to evil and demonic actions, thoughts, desires, temptations, a...
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PURE EXISTENCE





This blog is third part of realizing the true existence, the first blog is IGNORANCE? continued by BRAHMAN, please refer this two blogs first.

In Shankaracharya's commentary on Bhagavad Gita 2.16, every experience has two parts:- 
  1. Unchanging experience of easiness. 
  2. Changing experience of name and form.
Jim Holt wrote a very fascinating book "Why does the universe exist?", he asked this question to each and every one across the world but he didn't ask this to a Vedantist. 

All that we experience through consciousness is an object of consciousness, but consciousness is itself not a object. Even if the universe is destroyed the existence still continues but it cannot be experienced any more. 

If we want to experience the real existence, we can take the example of a movie theater as in the screen on which the movie is displayed is apart from pictures displaying on it. Here the screen is the real existing object and the pictures displaying on it just comes and goes. So if we want to see the real existing screen we have to shut off the movie. This is the Yogic approach to experience the real existence.  

We continuously miss the pure subject because it is our habit from life after life to experience objects.

Reality belongs to the easiness which we are, appearance borrows some of that reality from easiness and make this world.

This life is also a movie, only difference is an enlightened person has realized that he/she is the screen and the world is acting upon it and we think that we that we are a part of this movie.

There are three kinds of difference:-
  1. Difference between two different object. 
  2. Difference between two things of the same type.
  3. Difference amongst the self.
But this three types of difference do not apply to the Pure Existence.   

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  1. Ganesh YegneshwaranJune 3, 2020 at 8:15 AM

    I am only amazed. Is passion any different from pure unadulterated joy of Bhakti.

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  2. Prachi SinghalJune 4, 2020 at 8:45 PM

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

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  3. UnknownJune 6, 2020 at 7:39 AM

    I am amazed about your simple example of theater cleared the path of life.

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