[Advaita-l] Ramana's method

Swami Sarvabhutananda swami.sarvabhutananda at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 00:09:46 CDT 2012


OM
BrahmajnAnam pursuit would appear different! But that is how it IS!
SSBA

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Sunil Bhattacharjya <
sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> How can just the knowledge give the liberation if one does not lead one's
> life in accordance with the knowledge. One who knows that one is in
> everybody will one do anything for oneself before doing that the same to
> others. One, just learning the techniques of swimming theoretically from a
> book or from a person orally,  cannot be a swimmer unless one takes the
> plunge and does practice of swimming.
>
> Sunil KB
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Suresh <mayavaadi at yahoo.com>
> To: Advaita <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:44 AM
> Subject: [Advaita-l] Ramana's method
>
> Dear friends,
>
> Thanks for all the insights. It will take some time to study them
> carefully, but in the meantime I have a doubt related to this. This has
> been gnawing at me for a long time.
>
> In dualistic traditions, god vision is the objective, and even in Buddhism
> the seeker looks out for jhanas and such experiences. So my question is,
> Must something extraordinary happen in an advaitin's life to confirm that
> his advaitic realization is genuine, perhaps the advaitin equivalent of a
> jhana? If an advaitin has no such experience all his life (only theoretical
> understanding), does that mean his knowledge will not liberate him at
> death, and that he will have to take birth again?
>
> Suresh
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