[Advaita-l] Vikalpa, Savikalpa, and Nirvikalpa

[Swami Sarvabhutananda]

OM
chittavrddinirodah is to facilitate one to manage the MIND and such a MIND
 alone can UNDERSTAND  ATMA.

SSBA

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:07 AM, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Vidyasankar Sundaresan <
> svidyasankar at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > . In my opinion, by doing so,
> > you also risk misunderstanding and misrepresenting advaita vedAnta. You
> > will miss
> >  the core of what is said about dhyAna in the yogasUtra-s and bhAshya, as
> > also how
> > this core is very, very close in spirit and practice to what a serious
> > vedAntin needs
> > to incorporate in his or her personal nididhyAsana.
> >
>
> In the book 'gItAshAstrArtha viveka' Shri SSS has made a fine case for the
> common points between the Patanjali yoga and the nididhyAsana/dhyana that
> is taught/described/prescribed in the Gita 6th chapter.  He admits that
> there is 'chitta vRtti nirodhaH' in the Gita, the same way as it is in the
> patanjali system. As the phala of the nirodha, there is the 'draShTRu
> svarUpe avasthaanam' in Vedanta too as also specified in the yoga shAstra.
> The only difference is in the meaning of the drashTA.  There is samAdhi in
> the Gita even as there is in the patanjali system.
>
> It should also be noted that even for the patanjali dhyana, the input comes
> from the shAstra, for there is the 'svAdhyAya' element in the 'niyama'
> stage itself there.
>
> regards
> subrahmanian.v
>
>
> >
> > It is all well and good to read and/or produce text after text and think
> > that it is all part
> > of "niScayena dhyAtavyaH". Beyond a point, all that is just vAg vaikharI.
> > The risk is that
> > it will become a mega SAstra vAsanA, as is being discussed in another
> > current thread.
> > SAstra is absolutely important, but a serious jijnAsu has to realize, at
> > some point of
> > time, that he or she has to act on the advice given in SAstra, rather
> than
> > talking about
> > SAstra. One needs to concentrate on "om ity evaM dhyAyatha AtmAnam" and
> > "anyA
> > vAco vimuncatha". Once this is started, all these doubts about where
> > pAtanjala yoga
> > and advaita vedAnta stand with respect to each other will start
> vanishing.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Vidyasankar
> >
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