The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad : 11. Swami Krishnananda
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Or if your mind is not strong enough that it can think only in this way, you can find a time for your own self. This analysis the process of this wisdom meditation. Be seated in a particular posture and deeply think over this issue.
What do I want? One hundred questions will arise in the mind.
“I want all kinds of things.” Yajnavalkya has given the answer to yourthat we made just now should be the analysis that you to carry on during question.
Do you really want all kinds of things? What are those all kinds of things? “So many things, so many objects.” Do you love objects? “Yes, Sir.” Is it true that you are in fact loving the objects?
Now comes Yajnavalkya to your assistance. You are not loving objects for their own sake. Neither building, nor land, nor property, nor relatives, nor people, nor any blessed thing, not even this body itself. You do not want any of this.
It is the great Bliss of Universal Existence that is summoning you, and the establishment of oneself in that Consciousness is the liberation of the spirit, moksha. This is moksha yoga that Yajnavalkya speaks – the yoga of the liberation of the spirit.
This sage, Yajnavalkya, is very famous in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Very powerful person was he.
I can tell you a little story as an example of how powerful he was.
Yajnavalkya was one of the disciples of a sage called Vaisampayana, and Vaisampayana was the promulgator of the Yajurveda Samhita.
There are four Vedas – Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda. Yajurveda was the prerogative of this particular sage called Vaishampayana. They say there was a conference of sages on a mountain, and they stipulated a condition – all the invitees should come. If any invitee did not come, he would incur the sin of killing a Brahmin.
This Vaisampayana somehow or other could not attend that conference. He had some other occupation that day, and the sin came upon him. He called all his disciples. Yajnavalkya was one of them. “You see, my dear boys, this sin has come upon me in accordance with the ordinance, because I could not attend that meeting.
Will you do some prayaschitta, something to expiate my sins? All of you!”
To be continued ...
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02/12/2019.
11.
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Or if your mind is not strong enough that it can think only in this way, you can find a time for your own self. This analysis the process of this wisdom meditation. Be seated in a particular posture and deeply think over this issue.
What do I want? One hundred questions will arise in the mind.
“I want all kinds of things.” Yajnavalkya has given the answer to yourthat we made just now should be the analysis that you to carry on during question.
Do you really want all kinds of things? What are those all kinds of things? “So many things, so many objects.” Do you love objects? “Yes, Sir.” Is it true that you are in fact loving the objects?
Now comes Yajnavalkya to your assistance. You are not loving objects for their own sake. Neither building, nor land, nor property, nor relatives, nor people, nor any blessed thing, not even this body itself. You do not want any of this.
It is the great Bliss of Universal Existence that is summoning you, and the establishment of oneself in that Consciousness is the liberation of the spirit, moksha. This is moksha yoga that Yajnavalkya speaks – the yoga of the liberation of the spirit.
This sage, Yajnavalkya, is very famous in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Very powerful person was he.
I can tell you a little story as an example of how powerful he was.
Yajnavalkya was one of the disciples of a sage called Vaisampayana, and Vaisampayana was the promulgator of the Yajurveda Samhita.
There are four Vedas – Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda. Yajurveda was the prerogative of this particular sage called Vaishampayana. They say there was a conference of sages on a mountain, and they stipulated a condition – all the invitees should come. If any invitee did not come, he would incur the sin of killing a Brahmin.
This Vaisampayana somehow or other could not attend that conference. He had some other occupation that day, and the sin came upon him. He called all his disciples. Yajnavalkya was one of them. “You see, my dear boys, this sin has come upon me in accordance with the ordinance, because I could not attend that meeting.
Will you do some prayaschitta, something to expiate my sins? All of you!”
To be continued ...
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