Practical Vedanta

[Sunder Hattangadi]

namaskaaram .

                Gita's vision is comprehensive and synoptic: for
example,

na karmaNaamanaaraMbhaannaishhkarmayaM purushho.ashnute .
na cha sa.nnyasanaadeva siddhi.n samadhigacchchhati ..

sarva.n karmaakhilaM paartha GYaane parisamaapyate ..

karmaNyakarma yaH pashyedakarmaNi cha karma yaH .
sa buddhimaanmanushhyeshhu sa yuktaH kR^itsnakarmakR^t.h ..

karmaNyevaadhikaaraste ..........

ne hi dehabhR^itaa shakya.n tyaktu.n karmaaNyasheshhataH .
yastu karmaphalatyaagii sa tyaagiityabhidhiiyate ..

sarvadharmaanparityajya maameka.n sharaNa.n vraja .
aha.n tvaa sarvapaapebhyo mokshayishyaami maa shuchaH ..

adhikaara(fitness) and siddhi(attainment) are complementary, and not
incompatible.


Sunder








----- Original Message -----
From: Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at BRAINCELLS.COM>
To: <ADVAITA-L at advaita-vedanta.org>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: Practical Vedanta


| On Mon, 17 May 1999, Shashikanth Hosur wrote:
|
| >         Namasakram
| >         I differ to agree with whom you are calling samnyasin.  Sri
Sankara
| > warned us about such people in his bhaja govindam song.
| >         Jatilo mundi lunchita Kesa: ....  Just because one calls one
self as
| > a samnyasin one does not become one.  One who truly has renounced
everything
| > is a samnyasin.
|
| Agreed.
|
| > Lord Sri krishna although lead a life of householder is
| > true samnyasin.
|
| That's a bad example.  As the Gita says, Bhagawan only appears to
perform
| actions so the ignorant will not be led astray into giving them up
before
| they are ready.  A Sannyasi is a person who acts who then gives up
| the actions.  One who has never performed actions doesn't count.
|
| > Such people can be recognised by there actions from day to
| > day life.
|
| Or rather their lack of actions!
|
| > Just because one wears a saffron colored coth and roaming about
| > with a stick in his hand calling himself a samnyasin does not become
one.
| > Sri Ramakrishna paramahamsa though being a housholder was a true
samnyasin.
| >
|
| He actually came from a Tantric background which has radically
different
| views on the nature and utility of sannyasa than Advaita Vedanta.
|
| As much as some people may wish otherwise, Advaita Vedanta considers
the
| grhastha and sannyasa states to be utterly irreconcilable.
|
| --
| Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
|