Vedanta is the ultimate truth.

What I want to explain in this post what is the teaching of Vedanta; it is the teaching of Upnishdas. Upnishdas are that part of vadas

These are fundamental teachings of the Hindu Vedas as have been described in Bhagavad Gita and other Upnishdas. In Vedas, there are some wrong things have been added also. How can we misuse mantras for harmful effects on someone? But real knowledge of the self has been described in Upnishdas. This is the knowledge of Vedanta.

I will give some ideas of this knowledge.

1. ‘I’ is the only real thing, it is our being or self. But my Is illusion.

Understand that my body, my mind, my son, my wife, my money, my property this is different from me or ‘I’. It had been described in the 13th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita very briefly. Now when I will leave my body. I can’t take it with me ‘ my ‘ I will leave here. But ‘ I’ will remain forever because ‘ I am ‘ is the deathless spirit. There are two parts to this knowledge. First, we have to understand the knowledge by theory and then the second part is of meditation. With this practice and by the grace of the Lord. If we can work very hard on this subject which I said something so one day you will understand the importance and beauty of it. It’s a vast knowledge so I will explain It with very keen interest in other posts.

Sri Ramana Gita.

This is the first Chapter entitled ‘On the importance of upasana’

These questions were asked by Ganapti Muni. The questions are 8 and i will write one question and one answer by Maharishi Ramana.

  1. I bow to Maharishi Ramana, God in human form and set forth teaching in this lucid work.
  2. In the year 1913 of the Christian era, on the 29th of cold December when all the disciples were seated around with with attentive minds, I (Vasishta Ganapati) asked Bhagavan Maharishi Ramana for definite answers
  3. Question no 1; Is Mukti to be had by mere discrimination between the real and unreal or are there other means for the ending of bondage?
  4. Answer: Abidance in the self alone releases one from all bounds. Discrimination between real and unreal leads to non-attachment.
  5. Comments; mind is not real , it is seen ,we can see our mind what it is doing, but I (self) is separate from it. we can not find mind in deep sleep beacuse it merges in the self (Atama). but in deep sleep we are in ignorence but it merges in the self . but by practicing self-inquiry in the stage of Samadhi it merges in the self and we find that bliss which is our real state.

Mind control

Men attached to the objects and having endless thoughts due to strength of latent tendencies find it difficult to control the mind.; Maharishi Ramana.

Commons; In meditation mind should be silent but if we are attached to so many worldly desires it will be not easy to still the mind.

Need for practice.

Divine grace is essential for the realisation. But grace is vouchsafed only to him who is a true devotee or a yogi. It is given to those who have striven hard and ceaselessly on the path to freedom.

Need for practice

Effort is necessary upto the stage of realization. even then the self should spontaneously become eviident. otherwise happiness should not be complete. upto the stage of spontaneity there must be effort, ln some form or other.

The Mind

The mind turned inward is the self: when turned outward it becomes the ego and all the world. The mind doesn’t exist apart from the self, it has no independent existence. The self exists without the mind, but never the mind without the self.

Comments; this is the whole story! One should understand it by one’s experience of self-inquiry. Nobody can able to tell you any Guru or any Saint, they tell you some ideas but you have to learn them from your practice.

Meditation

What is meditation? I have been using this method for 36 years. In this method, as I am doing in the beginning, you have to sit for half an hour and start to observe your thoughts. You have to look at the flow of your thoughts. Do not give any idea what you have learned from any teacher or from any realign or from any traditions. Just observe the very place of the thought where from it starts. This is the actual meditation. You will see that your lifestarts to become peaceful and blissful. Just you will find eternal peace if you will give ideas, which are thoughts also you miss the point. In this process, we want to still the mind. By thinking of providing views, more thoughts will be there. Meditation is ‘ just watching ‘, not interpreting or giving ideas. and in your life, there will be no anger, lust, anxiety fear etc.

Grace

One’s ignorance of the self-revealing immediacy of divine grace is no proof of the contrary. If the owl doesn’t see the sun that illumines the whole world, Is the fault of the sun? It is not due to the defectiveness of the bird’s sight?; Maharishi Ramana.