Contributed BY Dr T Hegde
Atma– Atma / AnatmaViveka – Fundamental Laws Maya
I create a dream world and body.
Prathibhasika
Vyavahara
Paramarthika
AtmaSvaroopam
Contributed By Ullas
What am I after?
1.Peace
2.Security
3.Happiness
How can I get it?
•Jnana
•Self Enquiry
Analysis
1.Anatma is inert
2.Experience is of consciousness
3.(Seeming) Contradiction
Oṃ keneṣitaṃ patati preṣitaṃ manaḥ kena prāṇaḥ prathamaḥ praiti yuktaḥ | keneṣitāṃ vācamimāṃ vadanti cakṣuḥ śrotraṃ ka u devo yunakti || 1 || Kenopanishad 1. By whom willed and directed does the mind light on its subjects? By whom commanded does prana, the first, move? By whose will do men speak this speech? What Intelligence directs the eye and the ear?
Features of Consciousness
1.Consciousness is not a part, product or property of the body.
2.Consciousness is an independent principle which pervades and enlivens the body.
3.Consciousness is not limited by the boundaries of the body.
4.Consciousness survives even after the fall of the body.
5.The surviving pure consciousness is not accessible to anyone. It needs a medium to manifest.
Features of Atma
1.Nature of Consciousness (चैतन्य स्वरूप:)
2.Independent Entity (स्वतंत्र:)
3.Attributeless, Property Free (निर्गुण:)
4.Eternal (नित्या:)
5.All Pervading (सर्वगत:)
6.Non Dual (एक:)
Scientists:
Erwin Schrodinger - Any intuitions that consciousness is plural are illusions.
Max Planck - I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness
ĀtmāAnātmāVivekaha
Contributed By Dr Ravishankar
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Please Introduce Yourself
Aham brahma asmi
Swaraj is my birthright and I SHALL HAVE IT !
Anatma vs Atma
नेति नेति (न इति ) - Neti- Neti
पंच कोश विवेकह - Pancha kosha vivekaha
Drg- Drsya vivekah
Prakriya in Vedanta
Train the MIND
Use the material anatma -jada
Claim the non - material ATMA - Chaitanya -pure consciousness
Child
•Child - muddu Krishna –bhagavanta
•Social behaviour; likes and dislikes; mannerisms
•Sculpture
•Teacher
Om Asato Maa
Sad-Gamaya
–MBBS to MJBS .
–Mithya Jagat.
–Brahma Sathyam.
The Fundamental Laws of Vedanta
Contributed By Dr Anupama
Fundamental Laws of Vedanta
•I am different from whatever I experience
•All attributes I experience belong to the experienced objects and not to me the experiencer the subject-the Atma
For example…
Then Who Am I ?
I am that which illumines the
-Ego, MIND, BODY, THE WORLD
-The Sat-Chit-Ananta – The Atma
-I am without ATTRIBUTES - NIRGUNA
-Transcending form is the real transformation of Vedanta
What is this Consciousness or Atma?
As per Swami Paramarthananda
1.Consciousness is not a part, product or property of the body.
2.Consciousness is an independent entity which pervades and enlivens the body
3.Consciousness is not limited by the boundaries of the body.
4.Consciousness survives the death of the body.
5.This surviving consciousness cannot transact without the medium of transaction-the body
VIVEKA.
ATMA and ANATMA
Self Ignorance or Agnanam.
Correction by realizing that I am not this Body Mind Complex.
This understanding would release me from the bondage and give me a sense of ANANTA or MOKSHA
Our problems as Samsaris are…
TAPATRAYAS
ADYATMIKA.
ADIBHOUTIKA
ADIDAIVIKA.
The happiness that an ignorant person experiences is comparable to the joy that the traveler experiences when he sees a Mirage.
All our worldly possessions are as virtual or mithya as a mirage
This vision is called
•DRIK –SEER – ATMA
•DRISHYA –SEEN –ANATMA
•VIVEKA - DISCRIMINATION
Example:
1.WORLD (seen) - Sense organs (seer)
2.SENSE ORGAN (seen) - Mind (seer)
3.MIND (seen) - Consciousness (seer)
Every individual is a mixture of…
Sakshi-drik-Atma and Ahankara – Anantma - Drishya
ANATMA /Drishya ATMA/ Drik
Changing – Finite Unchanging – Infinite
Samsari Asamsari
Karta – Bhokta Akarta - Abhokta
(Subject to papa punyam
travels from Loka to loka
Never Free from problems)
Why do we suffer samsara?
An error in ATMA ANATMA VIVEKA is the cause of our suffering.
Maya – Manifestation - Creation
Contributed By Radha Muralidharan
•Is there a way out?
•Avidya and Vidya Maya
•Story of Narada
MAYA
Central cause for samsara or human suffering
•Central cause for samsara or human suffering, is due to adhyasa or a mistake or an error.
•Removal of samsara is by the removal of the error or adhyasa
• When the error is gone, then the error-caused problems also disappears.
•Manobudhy ahankar
•chittani naaham
•Chidanandaroopah
•Sivoham Sivoham
•Satsangatve nissangatvam nissangatve nirmohatvam,
•nirmohatve niscalatattvam niscalatattve jivanmuktiH
क्षेत्रज्ञं चापि मां विद्धि सर्वक्षेत्रेषु भारत।
क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोर्ज्ञानं यत्तज्ज्ञानं मतं मम।।
kShetrajnamchApimAmviddhisarvakShetreShubhArata | kShetrakShetrajnayorjnAnamyattatjnAnammatam mama || 13.2 |
ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पुर्णमुदच्यते
पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥
Om Puurnnam-Adah Puurnnam-IdamPuurnnaat-Purnnam-Udacyate
PuurnnasyaPuurnnam-AadaayaPuurnnam-Eva-Avashissyate ||
Om ShaantihShaantihShaantih ||