[Advaita-l] Book Recommendation - Scientist's Search for Truth - Swami Virajeshwara

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

> Namaste Chandramouli ji
> It's unfortunate Google muddled up so many mails . I too get so many out
> of sequence and also many I don't even receive but manage to read as in
> line text in others replies... :)
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> The burden of my mail was that it's more of a blessed and sattvika yogic
> experience and it is different from shabda-janya GYAnam that arises by
> shravaNam.
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> I quoted the passage from the blurb of the book to indicate why it was so.
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> Om
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> On Fri 18 Jan, 2019, 12:41 PM H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com
> wrote:
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>> Namaste Raghav Ji,
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>> Your post landed in my Inbox only today, thanks to Google’s latest
>> version.
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>> Reg your observation
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>> << In the 18th chapter, the author vividly describes the experiene
>> (sic) of
>> the  “sakshatkara” (self-realization) as follows:
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>> *“Who is this ‘I’? I went several rounds, back and forth: Everything is
>> Energy, everything is Brahma, then who is this ‘I’?*
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>> *The ‘I’ which was so obviously perspicuous, which never needed even a
>> moment’s thought to know till now, appeared illusively enigmatic, the most
>> concealed and perplexing secret. A thing which was. so far clearly the
>> knower and the subject, now suddenly turned an unknown object to be known,
>> and the most difficult one. I was fully engrossed with this single
>> thought,
>> with so deep a concentration that I never knew before, for quite some
>> time.*
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>> *Then in one spark, the answer flashed. ‘I’ is:*
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>> *SHOONYA*
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>> *‘I’ is nothing, it is naught, a cipher. A non-entity. It does not exist.
>> ‘I’ is a mere nonexistent ego. It has no existence, no place on earth. All
>> this was in deep samadhi.*
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>> *That was it.”* >>,
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>> I was a little surprised, coming as it does from you. I am not sure if I
>> have understood correctly. Are you suggesting that this is the position
>> taken by the Swamiji in accordance with  advaita ?? If yes, are you in
>> agreement with it ?? I thought it may perhaps correspond to the position of
>> Yoga Darshana, not advaita sidhanta.
>> Regards
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