Kathopanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

  ----------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, October 23, 2020. 8:15.  AM. Chapter-5.  Sannyasa – The Renunciation of Erroneous Notions - 4. ----------------------------------------------------------------- We may, for our understanding, compare these dancing marionettes to the shadows. The originals are the fingers. If the fingers do not move, the marionettes will not play, and according to the dance or the movement of the fingers, so is the movement or the dance of these marionettes. Therefore, again we come to the point that we are doing nothing. Somebody else is doing everything. That Somebody is not outside us. Here is a very crucial, difficult point for us to understand. Our own originals are acting in   with the originality and the original archetype of the universe, which is the substance behind the objects of sense – ishvara-sristi, which is different from jiva-sristi. The world of God is not a bondage. The world of the jiva, the individual, is a

  ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, October 06, 2020. 8:47.  AM. Chapter-5.  Sannyasa – The Renunciation of Erroneous Notions - 3. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The objects of the world are to be approached with wisdom, like an electrical engineer touching live wires. Any kind of ignorance is not to be permitted here. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. We are suffering due to the ignorance of the law that operates in this world. We have mistaken one thing for another thing. Our individual wills do not work in consonance with the universal will. We have come out from the roots of our personality to the shadows that we are seeing. Again to come to the analogy of Plato, the shadows cast by originals in the caves he describes in The Republic are regarded as the originals by prisoners shackled by chains in a den which is dark, through which light cannot penetrate, where only the shadows can be seen and be mistak

  ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, October 06, 2020. 8:47.  AM. Chapter-5.  Sannyasa – The Renunciation of Erroneous Notions - 2. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The world is an evil. Some doctrines tell us that the whole world is Satan’s kingdom. This is samsara; this is bondage. But the Kathopanishad says: atra brahma samasnute (Katha 3.3.14). The Absolute is realised here itself inside this very hall, in the very kitchen that we are dining, in the very bathroom that we are taking our toilet cleansing; that is the very spot where we enter into the bosom of God. The very hell that we are thinking in our mind is also the Vaikuntha into which we are going to enter. 2. How is all this possible? Samsara and moksha are supposed to be the same according to certain great teachings such as the Yoga Vasishtha and also the Madhyamika philosophy of Buddhism, which is a highly mystical doctrine of logical analysis. Nag