Re: Fwd: [SriRangaSri] Clarification
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• March 17, 2003
Respected Sir: Your concerns are valid and the same for every sane man on this earth. To understand the why? why not etc. you must first come to grips with certain facts which are : 1. religion is a vast, wide term. It is concieved by man 2. God is also vast, wide term, concieved by man 3. By its very inherent nature, the mind of man is never quiet and is the main mischief maker. 4. There seems to be something beyond the mind The quest of the mind is to find what is in (4) through (1 2 3 ). This is precisely the crises. If the mind is silenced then perhaps (1 2 3 ) may cease and when something ceases, something else becomes visible. It is like smoke clouding the flame. Once the breeze blows away the smoke, then one can see the flame clearly. The word is not the thing. GOD is just a mixture of three alphabets. GOD, the word is not God. By the same reasoning Culture, philosophy, reasoning, prayer, caste etc.are all within the ken of the limited mind and cannot concieve that which is beyond. The crises starts when the mind tries to identify itself with the objects the sense (five in number) organs. This sets in motion an action or speech or inaction or verbalisation. This in turn excites the electrical impulses in the nerve centers and finally a pattern gets etched in the brain. This pattern forms the basis of our behaviour. Another word for this pattern is "experience". Individual experiences cumulated form the base called "memory". Therefore, man functions out of this bundle of highly volatile 'experience-memory' nexus. The mind is never free from this nexus, which is very tight and binding. With each usage of this nexus, one more set of experience gets etched and over a lifetime this process is called Samskara - please do not mix this with the other 'samskara'. Here is the meaning is confined from the Yogic point. This Samskara if not broken, winds its way into our genetic set-up and what we and our progeny reap is the 'Karma'. Anything the mind wants to convince, anything it desires it can achieve. But still it will be within the circle of the known i.e. experience-memory because of the fact of 'recognition' by the 5 senses. Now in Yoga, the emphatic declaration is : Understanding this fundamental basis, one can with sincere efforts of long duration come to a state whereby the clouds of Samskaras and the experience-memory nexus is move away and clarity reigns. What is this clarity? This is not defined. It is simply called "clarity". Something beyond, something invisible, something apparently different and more importantly something eternal. Some of our Rishis, Gurus and Sages have got a taste of this elusive principle. All of us also trying our best to grasp this, but we lack the focus of the Rishis/Gurus and Sages and hence the seemingly never ending delay. The writer does not know whether he has tried to give you some insight into your enquiry.The writer is also in the same boat as you are and the discovery process is actively on. Finally, to answer one part of your query as to why there are differences etc. these are just differences in perception dictated by the ego drive of each man and hence clouded and coloured. Every perception is false. In a perceptionless state that which IS may perhaps show itself briefly. Can you capture the fragrance of a jasmine? It is there for a flash of a moment and then its lost Om Tat Sat Dear Members, .............. My question is why we fight internally that my religion is great and why cant we listen to others also. Of course in our religion there are sub divisions like sudra, brahmin,vaishya etc. and we are having lots of gods to pray and treating my rama is great my shiva is great. Why are these diferences among ourselves. I give lot of respect to Hinduism but why are making differences among ourselves on caste and crede basis. Why cant we love people by not seeing the religions caste etc. Sincerely Navilpakam Raman, -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com Group Home: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bhakti-list Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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