Know thyself advised Gurus, Masters and avatars who changed the life of ours

Thursday, December 15, 2005

God confuses.


God himself is the truth and reality. when he comes and walks among us, the truth attracts us and we all know the truth and we stop our cosmic acting in our roles. so, i feel God creates maya, and confuses our conception about him and makes us to doubt him. Or our own long companion, the ignorance, would first doubt him. God also wants it and he acts in line with our ignorance. Because his mission is that true sadhaka only will know his presence by his long effort . Thats why, when avatar walks with us, lots of ugly roomours spread about him, to drive away ignorant, weak minded people, who would take many more births to get that opportunity. As all gurus say, when we start believing, never give up the belief come what may.Even if your all senses prove you are wrong, stick to that so called wrong thing. Finally it reveals itself as right.
my progress:: reduced wasting time in games. started sleeping a bit early and getting up atleast by 7am. watching Guru on vcd or computer and rememebering him before i sleep.

 

Monday, December 5, 2005

Upanishads: vedic knowledge


Upanishads are the essence of the knowledge what indian philosophy or vedic philosophy hands over to the generations for their upliftment and self realization. To know Thyself, you should atleast open and know what these upanishads are teaching. Each upanishad is a smaller one in text but profound in disemminating the knowledge. There were 108 upanishads ( some say more than 108). But 10 are very important and contain the essence of all the 108 upanishads.These are:
  Aitareya   , Brihadaranyaka ,   Chandogya,    Isa ,
  Katha ,   Kena  ,  Mandukya  ,  Mundaka   , Prasna ,
  Svetasvatara,    Taittiriya
 
Upa means near, and nishat means sit. upanishad means sit very near and learn the esoteric brahma gyan. These are at the end of each veda. the knowledge expounded is very great and supreme. The knowledge is in the form of abstract. It would be a little bit difficult to gain the full meaning of the upanishad without a proper teacher. One can get the help of the commentaries written on these upanishads. on line one can have the entire text of upanishads from the url. http://www.bharatadesam.com/spiritual/upanishads/kena_upanishad.php
These are the transalation of upanishads by swami nikhilananda.
It is highly advisable to one who wants to know the supreme knowledge about the unseen god and his creation, to learn slowly about upanishads and ponder over their meaning for days and days. Great gurus provided wonderful commentaries and lectures on thse which would be very helpful . Upanishads are authoritative in declaring any truth and till now they are not questioned . When we read them we can understand how terse, pithy they are and how logical they derive the facts and truth.