Monday, 20 January 2020
Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
GOD AND THE WORLD
In the third point of view known as
non-dualism or monism, the Divine who is really impersonal and transcendent appears
as the universe though the power of Maya or delusive and creative Ignorance. With
its limitations of time, space and causation. My forms , as it were , the
matrix of matter and mind. This appearance is taken to be real as long as the
soul is in ignorance , but it is found to be unreal with the dawn of true knowledge,
which reveals the nature of Reality
Clarion call by Vivekananda
The
Speaking Tree | India | ET
Applying the Vedantic notion of the cosmic
Brahmn, from which all emerges and into which all dissolves without any
distinction of creed or caste, Vivekananda called upon each person to accept
the other. That is the real understanding of the principle of life, the
realisation that each is either as divine or as flawed as the other.
His notion of God as the Infinite Self
exhorts us all to tap into our dormant selves, wherein lies the infinite
capacity to become good and compassionate. He believed that the rejection of
the other stems from our own fears and insecurities, and his clarion call was
to awaken from this hypnotism of weakness. His watchword of the acceptance of
the other led him to envision a ‘Vedantic brain with an Islamic body’ as
roadmap towards greater understanding and empathy between traditions in the
Indian context.
This view of a mystical Self at the root of
all religions stems from the experiential life of Vivekananda’s own guru,
Ramakrishna, who immersed himself in the practice of all faiths, to finally
arrive at the view that all faiths lead us to realisation of the inner Self.
Vivekananda’s pluralistic vision was grounded in the fact that this common core
of all faiths was not merely an intellectual assertion but an experiential
realisation of his guru.
His call to rise above dogmas and ‘isms’
was a call to understand this spiritual core, which binds each one of us.
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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