[Advaita-l] Fwd: Book Recommendation - Scientist's Search for Truth - Swami Virajeshwara

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

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From: Raghav Kumar Dwivedula <raghavkumar00 at gmail.com>
Date: Thu 17 Jan, 2019, 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Book Recommendation - Scientist's Search for Truth
- Swami Virajeshwara
To: Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com>



To add to what you wrote....

Swami Shuddhabodhanadaji of Arsha Vidya tradition gives a more nuanced
teaching giving vedAntic samadhi abhyAsa its place of importance . His book
on dRg-dRShya-viveka is memorably titled 'Vedantic ways to samAdhi'.

Generally, people who over criticize samadhi-abhyAsa may be doing so
because they themselves do not have the necessary vixepa-rAhityam.

When Sri VidyaraNya who was an adept in vedAntic samAdhi (inferred from his
writing a work like jIvanmuktiviveka) mocks samAdhi as being easily
disturbed even by the sound of a mosquito, it rings true because he was
already accomplished in vedAntic samAdhi.

Sri Candrashekhara BhAratI mahasvaminaH has written a commentary on
vivekacUDAmaNi. What more needs to be said to attest to it's authenticity!

Om


On Thu 17 Jan, 2019, 12:54 PM Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com wrote:

> Swami Virajeshwara ji was an austere yogi mahAtmA and has more of an yoga
> experience-based approach rather than looking upon Shruti as a pramANa to
> directly unfold brahmaGYAnam.
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> praNAms
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> Hare Krishna
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> Infact the above statement of yours was there in my mind when I was
> replying your mail 😊 To get the practical experience of shAstra janita /
> vAkya janita jnana samAdhi experience is must and mandatory in some of the
> traditional works.  And most of the time ‘this samAdhi’ experience has been
> linked to patanjali’s asaMprajnata samAdhi experience in the name of
> ‘nirivikalpa samAdhi.  As you know, Arsha vidya gurukular followers
> questions / doubts the necessity of  this type of ‘experience’, hence
> doubting the authorship of viveka chudAmaNi.
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> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
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> bhaskar
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> *From:* Raghav Kumar Dwivedula <raghavkumar00 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 17, 2019 12:31 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Advaita-l] Book Recommendation - Scientist's Search for
> Truth - Swami Virajeshwara
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> Namaste Bhaskarji
> There are many types of samadhi. Some of these types are conducive to
> GYAna prApti by removing pratibandhakas in the mind. I agree with you on
> that part.
> I referred to the problem inherent in equating the physical entity, energy
> 'E' in Einstein's equation with the substratum of the jagat.  SamAdhi
> associated with such a conflation needs to be treated with caution.
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> Om
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> Subject: RE: [Advaita-l] Book Recommendation - Scientist's Search for
> Truth - Swami Virajeshwara
> From: Bhaskar YR
> To: A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta ,Venkata sriram P
> CC: Raghav Kumar Dwivedula
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> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
>
> *“Who is this ‘I’? I went several rounds, back and forth: Everything is
> Energy, everything is Brahma, then who is this ‘I’?*
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> *The ‘I’ which was so obviously perspicuous, which never needed even a
> moment’s thought to know till now, appeared illusively enigmatic, the most
> concealed and perplexing secret. A thing which was. so far clearly the
> knower and the subject, now suddenly turned an unknown object to be known,
> and the most difficult one. I was fully engrossed with this single thought,
> with so deep a concentration that I never knew before, for quite some time.*
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> *Then in one spark, the answer flashed. ‘I’ is:*
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> *SHOONYA*
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> *‘I’ is nothing, it is naught, a cipher. A non-entity. It does not exist.
> ‘I’ is a mere nonexistent ego. It has no existence, no place on earth. All
> this was in deep samadhi.*
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> *That was it.”*
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> >  Though it is not at the cost of shastra shravaNAdi sAdhana, though the
> word "shoonya" not emphatically said and emphasized, the deep samAdhi
> experience has been categorically  insisted in our traditional works as
> well, like viveka chudaamaNi, paNchadashi, jeevanmukti yOga, yOga
> perfection and enlightenment etc.  So IMHO, here swamiji does not said
> something that is alien  to Advaita tradition.
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> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
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