[Advaita-l] Rainbow Body

Venkatraghavan S agnimile at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 05:02:31 EDT 2018


Namaste Sriram mahodaya,
Thank you for a fantastic quote. Very crisply put.

The state of pure being, as personified by Ramana Maharishi, is the end /
result of sAdhana, not the sAdhana itself.

Thanks
Venkatraghavan

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, 07:41 Venkata sriram P via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Good advice Jaldhar-ji....
>
> People are getting misled with pop books and the so-called english
> translations of half-baked scholars.  I met a follower of Ramana Maharishi
> who keeps on saying "Sit quietly...silently and do nothing".  The horrible
> and devastating translations for the word 'मौनं' and 'मौनव्याख्या'.
>
> स्वयंप्रकाश यती writes as:
>
> मौनमेव वेदादिसकलशास्त्राणां व्याख्या, विशेषेण वस्तुयथात्मज्ञानं यया भवति
> तथा आख्यानं कथनं, प्रकाशनं व्याख्यानं शब्दार्थः ।
> सा व्याख्या मौनमेव ; मौनं नाम न तु पाषाणकाष्ठवदवस्यानं,
> अव्युत्पन्नसमधिगतं; किन्तु मुनेर्भावः ; मुनिः न अरण्यवासी, किन्तु मननशीलः ;
> मननं ; युक्तिभिः अनुचिन्तनं । युक्तयस्तु - "श्रुतिः प्रत्यक्षमैतिह्यं;
> अनुमानश्चतुष्टयं ; एतैरादित्यमण्डलं" इति हि श्रुतिः ।
> एतद्रूपाः आदित्यमण्डलं प्रत्यगात्मस्यरूपं, आभिः श्रुतिः
> प्रत्यक्षादिरूपाभिः युक्तिभिः, अन्वनु प्रतिक्षं असंभावनादिराहित्यै
> क्रियमाणं परिशीलनं मननं - तदेव सकलशास्त्रव्याख्यानं भवति ॥
>
> Silence is not sitting quietly and staring at other's faces ! Occasionally
> these meditations have induced sleep and snoring among them who are
> meditating !
>
> rgs,
> sriram
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