Monday, 30 December 2019
Quote from the True Charm
and Power of Vedanta
A view of Vedanta _I
There have in fact, been great Vedantic lechers who have
maintained that even in the ultimate there will remain certain permanent distinctions.
For example, Sri Ramakrishna used to give this illustration, when the cold wind
blows , the water of the sea , which is formless, becomes congealed frozen into
ice, that which was formless takes from but when the sun rises again the ice
melts away, that which had from becomes formless Similarly the cool air of devotion makes the
formless Divinity take form but when sun of monism rises, then the formed becomes
formless . having said that, he used to add “But there is a place where the ice
never melts Eternal ice is there, eternal forms of God” Well some will quote
this and say “Yes, even in the highest realization of Divinity there can be
from and so, although from a logical point of view monism is must satisfying
from a religious point of view i am not a monist “ Or another will say, “Yes I
admit that the monistic realization is that last state that comes to the soul,
but you do not realise . it by your own
efforts-it comes of itself, and anyhow you cannot realize it until you have
gone though all the other stages . so for practical purposes you might as well
forget monism except when you have to discuss philosophy.
Educator & the student
The Speaking Tree | India | ET
BY J KRISHNAMURTI
People are divided racially, religiously, politically,
economically, and this division is fragmentation. It is bringing about great
chaos in the world.
There is the spreading violence of man against man… This
is what is happening; and the responsibility of the educator is really very
great. He is concerned in all these schools to bring about a good human being
who has a feeling of global relationship, who is not nationalistic, regional,
separate, religiously clinging to the old dead traditions, which really have no
value at all. The responsibility of the educator becomes more and more serious,
more and more committed, more and more concerned with the education of his
students.
What is education doing actually? Is it really helping
mankind, our children, to become more concerned, gentler, generous, not to go
back to the old pattern, the old ugliness and naughtiness of this world? If the
educator is really concerned, as he must be, then he has to help the student to
find out his relationship to the world, not to the world of imagination or
romantic sentimentality, but to the actual world in which all things are taking
place; and also to the world of nature, to the desert, the jungle or the few
trees that surround him, and to the animals of the world. (Animals,
fortunately, are not nationalistic; they hunt only to survive.) If the educator
and the student lose their relationship to nature, to the trees, to the rolling
sea, each will certainly lose his relationship with humanity.
Courtesy: KFI
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.
But, if He exists?
I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7
minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his
colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting
ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The
doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten
minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire
lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you
grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.
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