[Advaita-l] The significance of metaphorical meditations in various Upanishads

[Akilesh Ayyar]

*Our Acharya used to quote this in Hindi as Aropa from others "You are
Ishvara? chehrA dekhA hai apnA? (You are the creator? Have you seen your
face [in the mirror?])" *

Ha! Yes, I suppose this must be the reason... thank you.

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 4:59 AM Praveen R. Bhat via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste,
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:26 PM Akilesh Ayyar via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering why so much time is spent in various upanishads -- I'm
> > reading Chhandogya right now -- on various metaphorical comparisons of
> > Brahman or truth generally to various things.
> >
>
> Why even upAsanas, there are so many different ways in which the equation
> tvam = tat is explained building up to it with creation stories in various
> ways, so that at least one may click to someone and another to someone
> else. That too is difficult to understand, so chittashuddhi via various
> upAsanas is necessitated, again based on the background of the person at
> least one may settle down with some upAsana. On this very list, you can see
> the opposition if one begins from the culmination that jIva is Ishvara! Our
> Acharya used to quote this in Hindi as Aropa from others "You are Ishvara?
> chehrA dekhA hai apnA? (You are the creator? Have you seen your face [in
> the mirror?])" This is the level of misunderstanding that people land
> themselves into even after study as many people understand only one
> prakriyA as idam ittham, whichever their antaHkaraNa allows! Same is with
> upAsanas.
>
> gurupAdukAbhyAm,
> --Praveen R. Bhat
> /* येनेदं सर्वं विजानाति, तं केन विजानीयात्। Through what should one know
> That owing to which all this is known! [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */
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