Jagat

We appear to still be on the Gurukula issue here in 2016. I am rather pleased with that reflection. Weather snippets -- exhaustion from the hot season. A discussion on the connection of yoga to the bhakti-yoga path: pravartaka - sādhaka - siddha , a major subject of discussion in the early period of this blog and very important matter indeed for my way of understanding the spiritual path. A lot of articles. FB Memories May 24.

The law of karma from this date (April 18 of 2021). Obviously I was taking a strong position here so I must have believed in what I was saying.  I think that this is the last of the series.  I haven't included many counter comments but this time I did include a post by  Lee Yue Heng , since I think it formed a very nice conclusion, a bookend to this "kerfuffle."  In fact it is true that sympathy for victims is a necessary part of the overall picture that perhaps I did not give enough emphasis to, and it is especially true when speaking to victims with inadequate capacity for understanding. The world is a place of cheaters and cheated; one requires the other. Beginners on the path are easily deceived and may have to go through the process of being deceived many times. From the internet, don't know where it originated. One year ago I think that many devotees, especially the children and women who have been abused and the others who support them, do not believe in the l...

I here post the post I made on Facebook on April 10, 2021 about my meeting with Paramadvaiti Swami nearly three years after the scandals that pretty much destroyed his society of disciples called VRINDA. This was picked up and posted elsewhere on the internet , where it was a source of some glee to the Schadenfreude crew. I likely would not have posted but was motivated by an encounter with a neighbor who was one of the leading advocates for the victims on line and elsewhere. This led me to post what was an objective  leaning to sympathetic assessment of my encounter with Paramadvaiti. I have a bit of a suppressed journalistic instinct that occasionally gets me into trouble.  In the beginning there were favorable comments to this post but the tide turned and those who advocated for the victims and for a hard line against all abuse took me to task for being too soft. This then resulted in a campaign of complaints against me that had unpleasant consequences for me.  I don't...

tad evaṁ brahma-sampattir vyākhyātā || From previous anucchedas. These two verses, especially the second, were supported by the material covered in Anuccheda 5.1-5. यत्रेमे सदसद्रूपे प्रतिषिद्धे स्वसंविदा। अविद्ययात्मनि कृते इति तद् ब्रह्मदर्शनम् ॥ Where these real ( sat , gross) and unreal ( asat, subtle ) forms that have been created (imposed) on the self by ignorance are negated through self-knowledge, that is the vision of Brahman. (SB 1.3.33) यद्येषोपरता देवी माया वैशारदी मतिः। सम्पन्न एवेति विदुर्महिम्नि स्वे महीयते ॥ The sages know that should the goddess māyā in the form of unerring knowledge withdraws, the jīva attains the wealth [of bliss of Brahman] and is exalted in its own glory. (SB 1.3.34) Present in the state of living liberation ( jīvan-mukti ) is this goddess ( devī ), i.e. luminous, Māyā, in the form of unerring ( vaiśāradī ) knowledge ( matiḥ or vidyā ), i.e, the knowledge given by the viśārada or Supreme Controller, which is a particular func...