Vivekachoodamani : ( 05/05/2013. )

================================================================================ Tuesday, 06 Aug 2024. 05:30.  Vivekachudamani = “The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination"  VOL-1. The PURPOSE of Human Life PART 1: (Sloka-s 1-66, 66 No.) Slogam - 57:  Can Any Talent Help?  =========================== ==================================================--- 1.8   FREEDOM FROM BONDAGE  Slogas : 56-61, 6 Nos ============================================================================== Slogam - 57:  Can Any Talent Help?  1 veenaayaa roopasaundaryam, = The beautiful form of a veena;  2 tantree-vaadana-saushhthavam; = the proficiency of one playing on its chords;  3 prajaa ranjana maatram tat, = these are Talents just to please an audience;  4 na saamraajyaaya kalpate. = they do not make one competent for sovereignty.  ===============================================================================   This slogam just points out another possible distraction facing a spiritual aspirant.   1-2 A clas

========================================================================== Tuesday, 06 Aug 2024. 05:30.  Vivekachudamani = “The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination"  VOL-1. The PURPOSE of Human Life PART 1: (Sloka-s 1-66, 66 No.) Slogam - 56: Can Any Science or Technique Help?   ============================================================================= 1.8   FREEDOM FROM BONDAGE  Slogas : 56-61, 6 Nos =========================================================================== A NEW THEME OPENS up in this Chapter, and its verses have to be seen in the  context of that theme. If the context is ignored, then the danger lies in misinterpreting it as  criticism of other significant philosophies existing in India at the time of Sri Shankaracharya,  and in the rest of the world. This is not intended here.   Vedanta has always been grateful for what it has received from the other schools of  philosophy. It has never been critical of them. Later in this theme, one finds Vedantic  scholarship

========================================================================== Friday, 21 June 2024. 05:30.  Vivekachudamani = “The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination"  VOL-1. The PURPOSE of Human Life PART 1: (Sloka-s 1-66, 66 No.) Slogam - 55:  Simile 5:    The Chains of Bondage  ============================================================================= Slogam - 55:  Simile 5:    The Chains of Bondage:  1.avidyaa-kaama-karmaadi = Ignorance, desire and action –  2. paasha bandham vimochitum; = to free oneself of the bondage resulting from these,  3. kah shaknuyaat vinaa aatmaanam =  who will be able to do that, except oneself?  4. kalpa koti shataih api. = For they may span hundreds of crores of Kalpas!  ============================================================================== In the context of the chapter we are in, it is not so relevant to go into a discussion of  the “chains of ignorance, desire and action”. There will be time enough for that later. Nor is  it important to conc