Category: Rhythm Indiana
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Of Blessings and Beginnings.
Some interesting observation across cultures.
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Summing up the qualities of an Adept.
Mandamadhyama rupapi vairagya smadina Prasadena guroh seyam pravrdda suyatephalam IIVC-28II Half hearted and mediocre aspirations in a seeker may also bear fruits as the grace of a Guru increases its merit and by the means of renunciation, calmness and so on. A mediocre person might get elevated by being exposed to a guru. A guru…
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Mumuksutva
Mumuksutva – VivekaChudamani 27 Sri Adi Shankaracharya talks of three essential qualities for self realization. Discriminating capacity to separate real from the unreal. The capacity to detach ourselves from the attachment to the result. Calmness, self control inner peace forbearance. He then talks of another quality Mumuksutva which the acharya calls a s the true…
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Samadhana Viveka Chudamani
Samadhana – Viveka Chudamani 26 In our day to day conversation, I have heard and used the word samadhana it is usually used in the sense of consoling. Sometimes people of the older generation have used as finding resolution. Samadhani was person who was non-aggressive. The imagery and understanding somewhere along the way became a…
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Viveka chudamani 25 Shraddha.
Shraddha Viveka Chudamani 25 One of the many discourses at the Audoot ashram in Kurushetra, guruji had spoken about Shraddha. To quote Guruji, he said the word had many intonation and blind faith was definitely not one. Shraddha meant comittement, shraddha meant focus, shraddha meant paying attention. When we place our shraddha in something only…
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Titiksa
Viveka chudamani 24 Religious leaders tend to talk a lot about and glorify meek surrender and silent suffering. Particularly the poems of Bhakti glorify oppression and sees inquiry as arrogance and rebelling. It is this very thought is discussed in the verse 24 of vivekachudamani where Adi-Shankaracharya calls it Titiksa. This is often translated as…
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