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Karma as the Source of Diversity

The vedas acknowledge divine karma as the origin of all creation, preservation, and destruction. However, since God does not have desires, unlike humans, he is not constrained by them. In the first chapter of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1.6.1), we discover that karma is one of the three main causes of diversity, alongside name and form. The variety in names is a result of speech, and the variety in forms is a result of the eye, while the mind and body are the sources for the variety in actions. For every action, the body serves as the source, the controller, or the lord.  Within the body, the mind, speech, breath, organs of action, and organs of perception are regarded as the primary deities who receive sustenance from the body and carry out their respective functions. Nevertheless, we cannot solely depend on them to combat the impurities and the malevolent forces that can infiltrate our body, as they are susceptible to evil and demonic influences, thoughts, desires, temptations,...
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FALSITY




This third part of the blog is the commentary of the third verse of Ashtavakra Samhita. This blog would be a bit confusing but possess a very deep knowledge. The first verse said that "we are detached from the entire universe", then the second verse said that "the entire universe is in us" and now the third says, "the entire universe is not in us". The literal meaning is not to be understood here. Rather, the deep knowledge behind it is the glory of Ashtavakra Samhita. 

The appearance of the universe is not at all denied in a self but the existence is. In Vedanta the appearance is seen as something which does not have its own identity and is Mithya. The experience of the universe and then the appearance of it is not denied but it is also said to be "not real", in its appearance. We, the infinite existent consciousness bliss are mistaking our own real nature for this world. The rope mistaken as a snake is a very famous example for this.We know the world by the little day-to-day stories of life with success, failure, emotions and what not, but the world is none other than Brahman, none other than us and we do not know that.

The psychology or the definition of the falsity in Vedanta is that which borrows its reality from something as false. Who looks rich, is rich but not rich.  It's the credit card. That is the borrowed money which makes us look rich, act rich, buy rich, but in the end it is not rich and simply  borrowed. Everything in the universe that is experienced has drawn its identity of being experienced, from the Brahman which is ultimately us. It borrows its identity from us. False is not non existent. There is a difference between existent, false, and non existent. It's like telling the truth, telling a lie and keeping silent. Mihtya cannot be called existing or even non-existing. It borrows its existence and then is experienced by us. The universe borrows its existence from the ground of existence which is us.

Things are dead in themselves, we breathe life into them. Then, either we chase them or run away from them.

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  1. Ganesh YegneshwaranOctober 20, 2020 at 9:22 AM

    Beyond comments. Let this knowledge share provide peace to us all. Om Ramakrishna Paramhamsaya namo namaha

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