Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Viveka Chudamani – Sama
Among the qualities that help us know the self is “sama” Sri Adi Shankara begins with introducing us to this. When I just set out to read these I would find it so utopic the “sama’ peaceful, calm there was also this belief that calm meant still and still meant non-growth. But as I attended…
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About Mothers and Daughters
“our mother’s remain the strangest and craziest people we’ve ever met” she had said. “call me mother and harkens to my tale. This is something about nothing” her mother had said an hour and half ago. Radhamma, the heart and soul of the senior citizen’s guild wanted closures. 5th child to a borderline autistic mother…
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Guru Arjan Dev the 5th Guru of the Sikhs.
Yesterday was the day that the 5th Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan Dev was martyred. Looking back everyone talks about Akbar and his secular move, yet the seed of Guru Arjan’s martyrdom was sown during his reign. Guru Arjan Dev was the first Sikh Guru to be born to a Sikh family. He also consolidated the…
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Viveka Chudamani ~17
Vivekono viraktasya samadiguna salinah Mumksoreva hi brahmaijnasayogyatamah VC-17 The verse essentially deals with who is qualified for the quest of the supreme. The ability to discriminate, detachment qualities of calmness and also a burning desire for liberation. The first quality being viveka often we equate viveka to knowledge and confuse information with knowledge. But…
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viveka chudamani #20
Viveka chudamani 20 A firm conviction of the intellect that Brahman alone is real and the phenomenal world is unreal is known as the discrimination between the real and the unreal. Bhrama satyam jaganmithyetyevahrupo viniscayah So yam nityanityavastuvivekah samuddahrtah. I’m reading a rather mundane book by an author called Jason Kothari, but he makes a…
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Viveka Chudamani #19
Most of the eastern philosophy talks about similar things – the Bodhicitta is about doing a task without being attached to the result. That is neither elated with the win or self condemning on failure. The Bhagavata Gita talks of “yogasta kurukarmani, na phaleshu kada chana.” Do what you have to do without being attached…
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