[Advaita-l] Sri Nochur Swami - Be - A profound message in Tamil, just 3 minutes

[Ven Balakrishnan]

He is recounting an episode where presumably an advanced person approached Ramanamaharishi for advice.  I guess it needs to be considered in the context of his full lecture.

As an aside . . . Since self-knowledge / liberation is the highest goal of existence, and Brhad Up says that a Brahmana in the primary sense is one who has this self-knowledge and has inevitably renounced (because self-knowledge destroys all desires and factors of action) . . . the implication of the Yajnavalkya - Maitreyi dialogue is that Y. Is not a jnani, and hence his intention to renounce, having fully understood the import of sruti.  Sankara, Gaudapada and Suresvara do not make a distinction between a jnani and a jivanmukta.  That seems to have arisen with Vidyaranya’s Jivanmukta-viveka.


> On 15 Apr 2021, at 13:36, H S Chandramouli via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> 
> Namaste.
> 
> Even a Jnani like Sage Yajnavalkya tells Maitreyi that he proposes to take
> to Sanyasa just for achieving  what is proposed by Sri Nochur Swami in this
> video. And it is being advocated for ordinary people here. Or am I making a
> mistake.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Chandramouli
> 
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 6:15 AM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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>> Namaskaram,
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>> 
>> Another nice nugget from Nochur Swami
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIPqZEm42wc
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>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Shiva
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