[Advaita-l] Sadyomukti

[Krishnamurthy Nagarajan]

Resepcted Sreenivasa Murthy Sir,

Please find attached an exhaustive description of Sadyo mukti by Swami
Krishnananda of Divine Life Society (Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh).

https://www.swami-krishnananda.org/disc/disc_41.html


With warm regards,
Nagarajan K.


On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 18:26, sreenivasa murthy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>  Dear Sri Raghav Kumar Dwivedula,
>  I am  deeply  indebted  to  you  for  your  wonderful  pointrs.
> With respectful namaskars,Sreenivasa Murthy
>
>     On Monday, 1 June, 2020, 9:20:20 am GMT+1, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via
> Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>  Namaste Sreenivasa Murthy ji
> Since the Upanishads are not regarded as books which we can browse by
> ourselves, we need the help of various Acharya's of the Advaita Vedanta
> paramparA and the excellent bhAShyas and prakaraNa granthas to make correct
> sense of self-knowledge unfolded in the Upanishads.
>
> Sri Sureshwara Acharya summarizes the entire vedic and Upanishadic
> evolutionary process in this way in his work, the naiShkarmya siddhi.
>
> 1. nityakarmānuṣṭhānāddharmotpattirdharmotpattiḥ
> 2. tatopāpahānis
> 3. tataścittaśuddhis
> 4. tataḥsaṃsārayāthātmyāvabodhas
> 5. tato vairāgyaṃ
> 6. tato mumukṣutvaṃ
> 7. tatastadupāyaparyeṣaṇaṃ
> 8. tataḥsarvakarmatatsādhanasaṃnyāsa
> 9.  tatoyogābhyāsas
> 10.  tataścittasya pratyakpravaṇatā
> 11.tatastattvamasyādivākyārthaparijñānaṃ
> 12. tato'vidyocchedas
> 13. tataśca svātmanyevāvasthānaṃ ᳚brahmaiva san brahmāpyeti vimuktaśca
> vimucyate ᳚ iti ।
>
> 1. From the performance of obligatory actions, righteousness arises.
> 2. From the arising of righteousness, sins are destroyed.
> 3. Purity of mind flows from the
> destruction of sin.
> 4.From that follows the comprehension of the real nature of
> trasmigratory existence.
> 5. From that originates renunciation.
> 6. From that emerges the desire for liberation.
> 7. Then the search for the means of liberation ensues.
> 8. Then follows the renunciation of all actions and their means.
> 9.  From that follows the practice of contemplation.
> 10. From it originates the inclination of the mind towards the Self.
> 11. From that arises the understanding of the import of the propositions
> like “tat tvam asi”.
> 12. From it follows the elimination of ignorance.
> 13. Then the Self remains in itself. “Being Brahman, he attains Brahman”
> (Brihadhaaarnyaka Upanishad IV. iv. 6) and “the ever-free one is as though
> freed” (Kenopanishad II.ii.1).
>
> Further elaboration I would suggest is best done through extensive
> listening to Acharya's. If you get any specific questions on some idea
> presented there, you could always ask fellow students and others here in
> this forum.
>
> Also it's always important to remember that careful meditation upon the
> yuktis and tarka presented in various traditional texts is also very
> helpful for many. So although such texts might seem to use a lot of tarka,
> they are to be examined with shraddhA. The linguistic focus and discipline
> fostered by such tarka-oriented vedAnta texts makes the buddhi very subtle
> (sUxma) which is vital for many students in more clearly appreciating the
> mahAvAkya.
>
> avidyA ('self-ignorance') is manifest in our mind through deep-rooted false
> notions and ideas (which are all in the form of words and their meanings
> which make us believe that this world is absolutely real and I am a small
> entity within time and space. Etc).
>
>  Therefore these prakaraNa granthas inculcate enormous *verbal* and mental
> discipline, whenever they are studied. They are not to be mistaken for
> needless hair-splitting (shuSka tarka) which is the label we assign to
> arguments which are infructuous. (they don't have a meaningful benefit).
>
> In that spirit of shraddhA when we study the sentences such as
> 'yo, satyam jnAnam anantam Brahma, guhAyam nihite veda, sah Brahmavid,
> param Apnoti', then step no. 11 of the naiShkarmya siddhi spiritual ladder
> is ascended.
>
> Om
>
> Raghav
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 30 May, 2020, 6:43 PM sreenivasa murthy via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Dear friends,
> >  What is sadyomukti?
> > Will  any  of  the  learned  members  explain  what  it  isand  teach
> > the  methodology  to  get  it?
> >
> > I  will  be  deeply  indebted  for  the  help  so  rendered.
> > With respectful namaskars,Sreenivasa Murthy.
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-- 
Nagarajan K.