[Advaita-l] Sringeri Days - About Umesh ji

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, sreenivasa murthy via Advaita-l wrote:

> Dear Sri Ryan Armstrong,You write :"Once again, my personal appeal (to myself and the group)
> which has already been expressed in this thread is simple...
> Forget the behaviour and actions of other.
> Instead focus solely on knowing who I am".
> I completely agree with you one hundred percent. 
> I have pointed out this point many many  previous times
> in this forum and in return I got brickbats .
>

See this why you should learn "dry logic."  Then you will actually 
understand why you get criticized.

Nobody was complaining about the "focusing on knowing who I am." part. 
It is the "solely" where you going wrong.   Everyone knows who they are 
even from infancy.  The problem is that "knowledge" is warped by maya.  It 
is necessary to understand that there is a greater knowledge, an expanded 
sense of "I am" that is readily apparent only to a few.  Those fortunate 
ones indeed have no need for disputations and syllogisms.  Therefore they 
abide in silence for what more is there to say?  For the rest of us there 
is Vedanta which as we have discussed here many times a-dvaita not aikya. 
This is why it deals with subjects such as the validity of cognition, who 
or what can be considered a valid source of knowledge etc.

You are like the man who when approached by a hungry beggar responds with 
the recipe for Dhosa.  Yes this is the ultimate solution to the problem 
but there are a few crucial steps in between no?


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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>