If everything is brahman, everything should be auspicious. then how come we have some specific auspicious days and some specific auspicious times?

[prasad1]

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There was a thread in another section about Auspicious Days and Times.
In our culture, we all follow superstitions.

The idea that "everything is Brahman" comes from Advaita Vedanta, a non-dualistic school of Hindu philosophy. According to this school, the ultimate reality or truth is Brahman, which is non-dual, all-encompassing, and is the essence of everything. If everything is Brahman, then on an absolute level, distinctions such as good/bad, auspicious/inauspicious, etc., dissolve.

 

[renuka]

There was a thread in another section about Auspicious Days and Times.
In our culture, we all follow superstitions.

The idea that "everything is Brahman" comes from Advaita Vedanta, a non-dualistic school of Hindu philosophy. According to this school, the ultimate reality or truth is Brahman, which is non-dual, all-encompassing, and is the essence of everything. If everything is Brahman, then on an absolute level, distinctions such as good/bad, auspicious/inauspicious, etc., dissolve.

At a deeper level, I agree with you.
But at a practical level, I disagree with you.

Lets take a simple scenario.

H2O is water.
H2O2 is Hydrogen Peroxide.
Everything is Brahman going by deeper logic.
So H2O or H2O2 = Everything is Brahman.

But can we drink H2O2 instead of H20?

 

[sravna]

Everything thing is Brahman at a deeper level as Renuka says but at a practical level, maya veils and projects disparateness. So distinction happens.

 

[rckappu]

Ad

Everything thing is Brahman at a deeper level as Renuka says but at a practical level, maya veils and projects disparateness. So distinction happens.

Yes, you are right.

 

[rckappu]

There was a thread in another section about Auspicious Days and Times.
In our culture, we all follow superstitions.

The idea that "everything is Brahman" comes from Advaita Vedanta, a non-dualistic school of Hindu philosophy. According to this school, the ultimate reality or truth is Brahman, which is non-dual, all-encompassing, and is the essence of everything. If everything is Brahman, then on an absolute level, distinctions such as good/bad, auspicious/inauspicious, etc., dissolve.

Avaita also talks about 3 states of reality which we experience each and every day..i.e. vyavaharika,pradhibasika and paramarthika. At paramarthika level there is only one and nothing else, so no question of auspicious or not....and pradhibasika and vyavarika levels they are true as we are experiencing them and disappear when we dont. Hence we should not confuse ourselves with these and approach everything with clarity.

 

[tbs]

Hi

its called in sanskrit.......VYAVAHARIKA AND PAARA MARTHIKA.....means reality and practicality.....everything

brahman is okay.....its non dualism......but we are living dualism.....dualistic state.....to be or not to be....

 

[Hari51]

There was a thread in another section about Auspicious Days and Times.
In our culture, we all follow superstitions.

The idea that "everything is Brahman" comes from Advaita Vedanta, a non-dualistic school of Hindu philosophy. According to this school, the ultimate reality or truth is Brahman, which is non-dual, all-encompassing, and is the essence of everything. If everything is Brahman, then on an absolute level, distinctions such as good/bad, auspicious/inauspicious, etc., dissolve.

Auspicious/ Inauspicious are rules framed for our safety so the rituals are effective & dont go waste. Brahman is a concept of Advsita binding everything but not seen. What's the connection between them?

 

[prasad1]

Auspicious/ Inauspicious are rules framed for our safety so the rituals are effective & dont go waste. Brahman is a concept of Advsita binding everything but not seen. What's the connection between them?

By who framed it? Are they universal? So what is the consequence if someone is ignorant of them or does not believe in them? If a rule isn't universal or does not apply uniformly, should the be followed?

 

[sravna]

By who framed it? Are they universal? So what is the consequence if someone is ignorant of them or does not believe in them? If a rule isn't universal or does not apply uniformly, should the be followed?

Nothing to worry. Americans neither framed it nor following it. So you can safely ignore it.

 

[sravna]

Nothing to worry. Americans neither framed it nor following it. So you can safely ignore it.

Sorry about the sarcasm but aren't we accepting in full faith all that have been discovered and invented by the westerners? If they are evidence based we are insights and intuition based.

 

[renuka]

Sorry about the sarcasm but aren't we accepting in full faith all that have been discovered and invented by the westerners? If they are evidence based we are insights and intuition based.

Intuition based without evidence based back up is dangerous.

Whatever said and done, in the physical world of science, our intuitions needs to be proved or disproved by evidence.

But in the world of spirituality, we dont have to be evidence based..because each person's experience is unique and different.
Spirituality is experience based.

 

[sravna]

Intuition based without evidence based back up is dangerous.

Whatever said and done, in the physical world of science, our intuitions needs to be proved or disproved by evidence.

But in the world of spirituality, we dont have to be evidence based..because each person's experience is unique and different.
Spirituality is experience based.

Renuka,

Thats what we have been meticulously tutored. Yes evidence. But what is the purpose of evidence? It is only a support and not the essence of understanding. Phyical evidence in the final analysis is illusory. It cannot and should not be taken on its face value ignoring intuition. That is what is really dangerous and paving the way for evil to enter.

 

[renuka]

Renuka,

Thats what we have been meticulously tutored. Yes evidence. But what is the purpose of evidence? It is only a support and not the essence of understanding. Phyical evidence in the final analysis is illusory. It cannot and should not be taken on its face value ignoring intuition. That is what is really dangerous and paving the way for evil to enter.

Evidence base is important in science.
Most scientific discovery start off from intuition but its through evidence that we are able to present it.

Also everything is subject to change..be it evidence or intuition.

 

[sravna]

Evidence base is important in science.
Most scientific discovery start off from intuition but its through evidence that we are able to present it.

Also everything is subject to change..be it evidence or intuition.

Are revelations the highest intuitions subject to change? Interpretations and presentations may vary but I think the essence will be the same. The better the intuitions the more real they are and less subject to change. The type of intuitions that are received by great spiritual persons are way more real than what a scientist gets. They are actually of different levels. So the physical evidence also being way below reality, the scientific theories have to constantly change unlike the truths about Brahman for example which are unchanging eternal truths.

 

[renuka]

Are revelations the highest intuitions subject to change? Interpretations and presentations may vary but I think the essence will be the same. The better the intuitions the more real they are and less subject to change. The type of intuitions that are received by great spiritual persons are way more real than what a scientist gets. They are actually of different levels. So the physical evidence also being way below reality, the scientific theories have to constantly change unlike the truths about Brahman for example which are unchanging eternal truths.

Revelations are subject to change as the veils are lifted one by one.
When clarity increases the perception of the very first revelation would change too.
Change as in the mechanics of the first revelation would be revealed in a different light.
Each veil lifted,the more the change.
Only when we fix our perception we never get the whole picture.

 

[renuka]

Are revelations the highest intuitions subject to change? Interpretations and presentations may vary but I think the essence will be the same. The better the intuitions the more real they are and less subject to change. The type of intuitions that are received by great spiritual persons are way more real than what a scientist gets. They are actually of different levels. So the physical evidence also being way below reality, the scientific theories have to constantly change unlike the truths about Brahman for example which are unchanging eternal truths.

With all the great spiritual people around the world yet no one has decoded the Indus valley script.
Btw Sravna, we cant divorce the physical from subtle.
Even God doesnt do that.

 

[sravna]

With all the great spiritual people around the world yet no one has decoded the Indus valley script.
Btw Sravna, we cant divorce the physical from subtle.
Even God doesnt do that.

Renuka,

I know in a physical mental reality, the physical plays a preeminent role. In general, It is the hero actually. But as you say when it is not divorced from the subtle, then the hero becomes superhero. If it is totally divorced from the subtle it becomes a very evil villain.

 

[RSSARMA52]

In simple way say I am a human as Brahman. Say Electricity it is Brahman ever present every where. It is derived in to cable as power. You can't see it. It is super power. If you touch it repercussions are Threatening. Like when Lord Vishnu gave Vishwaroopa Darshanam to few devotees as per puranas they could not see it in full as their visionary Power is limited.
Like wise power that electricity is used in a medium like bulb, fan and others. Machines need high power to operate. But when you need certain work and which high power is needed, you seek the help of workshop to get the work done.
So also we as human have more identity. We cannot remain in one identity with everyone and say I Brahman so it makes no difference.A child to a mother and father when grown up we see the shame and present ourselves with dignity. Likewise husband to wife and father to children, brother to sisters and brothers. Time to be with each is foretold and caution is observed even if accidentally had to meet each other.
So auspicious time is derived say when are born, educated, married, child birth, family other occasions.
We are ever present but days made to be auspicious that gives happiness.

 

[rckappu]

Vedas are 2 parts, poorva or karma kanda or rituals duties etc and the second antha or end or jnana kanda part upanishads which talk about Brahman , moksha . Finish all duties and rituals upasanas and then seek moksha by taking the jnana marga. So we cannot question something meant for karma kanda with stipulations and rules combining with the jnana kanda messages.

 

[RSSARMA52]

Yes. One life is not enough to know for a common man and a grhasti. Here Karma yoga with the right path. To read and Sri Bhagwath Gita and explanatory given be many. Today we do rituals what we knew to our knowledge. God accepts it whichever is offered with true devotion. Intension is more important than the real action. We sympathies with someone and wish to offer but we could not understand the circumstances. You get the Fruit of it.
We should hear more and more lectures given by great scholars to understand it.

 

[tbs]

Yes. One life is not enough to know for a common man and a grhasti. Here Karma yoga with the right path. To read and Sri Bhagwath Gita and explanatory given be many. Today we do rituals what we knew to our knowledge. God accepts it whichever is offered with true devotion. Intension is more important than the real action. We sympathies with someone and wish to offer but we could not understand the circumstances. You get the Fruit of it.
We should hear more and more lectures given by great scholars to understand it.

hi

bhagavad gita gives karmakanda jnana kanda and moksha kanda tooo....very practical for every body's life...

every body has to read and learn gita daily.....every body must keep gita in their home....even very english

translation by sri prabhu pada of ISCKON and free books available...i have many copies too..i studied

sri shankarachraya's vakya for sri bhagavad gita in my college days...

 

[RSSARMA52]

I recall an event far back as around 1968-1970. Swamy Chinmyananda giving a discourses on Sri Bhagwad Gita. First day he was giving opening talk on Sri Bhagwat Gita. He was telling the youngsters in the audience. In your homes your family would have kept Sri Bhagwat Gita in their prayer chest or the prayer books at the puja room. They worship it and preserve it as secret. You try to locate it and bring it carefully packed to the satang. So you can read the slokas when I quote from the chapters. Then again go and keep it safely at the place at home. Because if you ask them to give you they won't give it to you. That way he propagated Sri Bhagwat Gita.
Swamy Parthasarathy- Vedanta Academy-satsang happens on specific chapters. They bring the Chapters slokas in Sanskrit and English printed separately and made it available for the attendees. It was convenient to make them attached to Sri Bhagwat Gita little by little, step by step.

 

[rks nair]

There was a thread in another section about Auspicious Days and Times.
In our culture, we all follow superstitions.

The idea that "everything is Brahman" comes from Advaita Vedanta, a non-dualistic school of Hindu philosophy. According to this school, the ultimate reality or truth is Brahman, which is non-dual, all-encompassing, and is the essence of everything. If everything is Brahman, then on an absolute level, distinctions such as good/bad, auspicious/inauspicious, etc., dissolve.

We know only a little of the truth and an ocean of truths about Brahman is unknown and unexplainable even by quantum physics as brahaman is supposed to be a universal Energybwith no form, shape sex or color.

So sometimes it is good to follow certain guidelines by the gurus or society.

 

[RSSARMA52]

Everything is Brahman.
In our society Everything and everyone is Brahman and so also the worship of different form.
1. To tell us the truth: Everyone at sometime or the other Doing Sri Lalitha Sahasranamam Puja as "Vilakku" poojai, chanting it at home as a regular worship or seen this pooja in the internet or seen at any ones home. I remember out Guru Mr.Venkat who do this Sri Lalithasahasranama Puja every Friday at anyone's house as per their their chart offered to perform it at their home. Every year during Navarathri Akanda Vilakku pooja is celebrated at a large space provided by one devotee.
Here he starts the puja first st the main altar of Goddess and a Big Vilakku once he lights it with the prayer, his assistants take the Deepam from this main vilakku to every devotees who assembled there with Vilakku and given pooja items. So after all the vilakku is lighted then again the Deepam is brought back to the Guru and he submits it the main Deepam.
We have Brahman the light which is present but to enlighten it we need a medium. Match box, gas lighter to light the fire in stove, and many more.
Say Ekectricity: We all know the power is beyond human reach. But we made methods to carry it nook and corners of the country and world. We devices methods as power stations to draw power and bring it through cable to each place. Then it is further reduced to our requirements for various needs Industrial, commercial, household and society's mass requirements. If no electricity then there is no use of these Gadgets. Like we have life and and if not.
So Brahman is used I'm different form of worship that we believe. Like someone worship one form of God now then change it to another. A fan is working and once damaged we get a new Fan or go in for an AC if our financial supports it. Buy an elephant before thinking would you able to feed it. That is AC needs more power and electricity bills payment also increase. Similar to people going to Important famous Temples as pilgrimage.
So it is we who remember God which is ever present and getting connected to the main Brahman till the Jyot is called upon to merge in the Main Jyot.
Jyot se Jyot Jagawo is the main these of Siddah Yoga.

 

[tbs]

Hi

EKAM SAT VIPRAHA BAHUDHA VADANTHI.....TRUTH IS ONE...CALL IT DIFFERENT NAMES AND FORMS..