[Advaita-l] 8 names of Lord Shiva equal to reciting the whole Shiva Sahasranama

[Divya Meedin]

Pranams, Venkatasriram-ji. Quintessentail wisdom!

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 1:47 PM Venkata sriram P via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste,
>
> We can only share what is given in scriptures.  However, cannot point the
> 'Ultimate Truth' to somebody.
>
> The one who has realised the Ultimate Truth can only take the
> responsibility of pointing this to somebody else
>
> To become a Guru / Acharya is not an easy task and our Gita teacher used
> to scold us when
> we used to think & point towards someone who is 'less intelligent' and
> unable to cope up with studies.
> When we think that someone doesn't know anything / knows something; it
> implies that we know more in compared
> to that person.  Unknowingly, we slip into 'मिथ्याचारः'
>
> Quite often, these tendencies of 'teaching others' slip from our pen but
> as far as 'adhAtma-vidyA' is concerned,
> we shouldn't don the role of Guru / Acharya.  This is very dangerous in
> our path of sAdhana.
>
> कृष्णं वन्दे जगद्गुरुम्
>
> rgs,
> sriram
>
>
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> On Wed, 6/3/19, sreenivasa murthy <narayana145 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] 8 names of Lord Shiva equal to reciting the
> whole Shiva Sahasranama
>  To: "advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org" <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>, "Venkata sriram P" <
> venkatasriramp at yahoo.in>
>  Date: Wednesday, 6 March, 2019, 7:56 AM
>
>
>          Dear Sri Venkata Sriram,
>  I  completely  agree  with
>  you.The  Ultimate  truth  has  to  be
>  pointed  out to  all  the  persons
>  irrespective  of  their grasping  power.
>  When  their  aMtaHkaraNa  gets t  uned  to
>  that  frequency  resonating  to  the
>  Ultimate  Truth  by
>   The
>  Grace  of  The  Guru  and  The
>  Divinity, the   reciter  no  longer
>  remains  as  a  reciter  but abide  as
>  the  KNOWER  of  RECITATION. Is  it  not
>  a  fact?
>  With
>  respectful namaskars,Sreenivasa Murthy
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>                      On Wednesday, 6 March, 2019, 10:53:23 am
>  IST, Venkata sriram P via Advaita-l
>  <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>                  Namaste,
>
>
>  //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
>  Cognition  of  that
>  Changeless  Principle  who  exists
>   even  before  the
>  thinking  or    uttering  of  the  names  of  Lord
>  Shiva
>   and  who
>  illumines  the  very  thinking  and  uttering  of
>  the  names
>   by
>  the  reciter  of  the  names  will  bestow  upon
>  the  thinker / reciter
>   amRutatva  /  moksha.  This  is   for
>  sure  and  certain.
>
>
>  /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
>  True....but we must not
>  forget that people have different IQ & intelligence
>  levels and
>  grasping
>  power vary from person to person.
>
>  bahiryAga leads to
>  antaryAga...and the the 'devotee' in us should not
>  be
>  ignored in the
>  pursuit of knowledge.
>
>  karma
>  becomes mukhya and jnAna as gauNa initially and later
>  jnAna becomes mukhya and
>  karma as gauNa.  At the end,
>  karma merges in jnAna and only jnAna remains...
>
>  rgs,
>  sriram
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