[Advaita-l] Ramana's method

Swami Sarvabhutananda swami.sarvabhutananda at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 08:10:57 CDT 2012


OM
It is your point of view!!!
One may not exactly follow the tradition because of Desa,kAla.
Knowledge has no restrictions.
SSBA

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Venkata sriram P
<venkatasriramp at yahoo.in>wrote:

> Namaste,
>
> ///
>
> But nowadays we hardly see this rigidity in practicality of advaita
> saMpradAya
>
> //
>
> I don't what you mean by rigidity and sampradAya.  Do you mean that the
> sampradAya
> only means hardcore, compartmentalized structure of shravaNa, manana ?
>
> If pratibandhakAs are removed in mumukSu, what remains is the Self only
> and there
> are various techniques to remove the pratibandhaka.
>
> In vEdAnta panchadasi, Sri vidyAraNya muni says:
>
> atItEvApi mahiSennEhEna pratibandhataH
> bhikSustattvaM na vEdEti gAthA lOkE pratIyatE
>
> anusrutya gurusnEhaM mahiSyAM tattvamuktavAn
> tatO yathAva dvEdaiSa pratibandhasya  saMkSayAt
>
> The meaning is:
>
> A certain grihastha used to love his pet buffalo and became too much
> attached to it. Later on, he took sanyAsa.  Even after taking sanyAsa,
> while meditating, he used to get disturbed owing to his attachment with
> the buffalo in his pUrvAshrama.
>
> Then his guru sensing his *pratibandhaka*, advised him to meditate on the
> form of buffalo and contemplate it to be the brahman.
>
> Thus, in due course of time, the pratibandhaka was removed and
> he attained Atma sAkSAtkAra.
>
> So, what *traditional approach* was followed here and what *saMpradAyika
> teaching*
> was imparted to this student?
>
> The 3 options are occuring to me here:
>
> 1) He might have undergone shravaNa in previous birth;
> 2) Might have born as yOga bhraSTa in the current janma owing to some
>     pUrva janama vAsana;
> 3) The guru's anugraha might have worked in the current birth which
> transformed him
>     like a philosopher's stone.
>
> What could be the possible answer?
>
>
> regs,
> sriram
>
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