yajvan
21 October 2006, 07:39 PM
Hari Om
~~~~~~
We have been discussing the Infinite, Bhuma on many posts… this is a most fortunate thing to do. For those that aspire to Brahman, having the concept and undersanding of this Brahman is important. Who says this is of import? Sanatkumara.
What does the great rishi’s say of this Infinite , that will give us guidance?
Narada asks this of Sanatkumara, from the Chandogya Upanishad:
Sanatkumara says to Naradha:
“ So I say once again that Bhuma, the Fullness, is Bliss. How can you enter into this Bhuma unless you know what Bhuma is? You must, therefore, know what Fullness is,” says Sanatkumara. “O great Master, please tell me what this Bhuma is. Please introduce me to this great mystery of Being that you call Bhuma. What is Bhuma? What is this Fullness? What is this completeness?
Here is the definition,” says Sanatkumara. “Where one sees nothing except one's own Self, where one hears nothing except one's own Self, where one understands nothing except one's own Self, that is Bhuma, the Absolute; and where one sees something outside oneself, where one hears something outside oneself, where one understands or thinks something outside oneself, that is the finite.”
And if we look to anther brahmarisi , Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, he says
‘Surely, I am not saying anything bewildering. It is wisdom enough, my dear. For when there is duality, as it were, then one smells another, one sees another, one hears another, one speaks to another, one thinks of another, one understands another. But when everything has become the Self, then by what and whom should one hear, by what and to whom should one speak, by what and of whom should one think, and by what and whom should one understand? By what should one know that by which all this is known? By what, my dear, should one know the knower?’
such is the wisdom of these great saints that we can aspire to....
pranams,
~~~~~~
We have been discussing the Infinite, Bhuma on many posts… this is a most fortunate thing to do. For those that aspire to Brahman, having the concept and undersanding of this Brahman is important. Who says this is of import? Sanatkumara.
What does the great rishi’s say of this Infinite , that will give us guidance?
Narada asks this of Sanatkumara, from the Chandogya Upanishad:
Sanatkumara says to Naradha:
“ So I say once again that Bhuma, the Fullness, is Bliss. How can you enter into this Bhuma unless you know what Bhuma is? You must, therefore, know what Fullness is,” says Sanatkumara. “O great Master, please tell me what this Bhuma is. Please introduce me to this great mystery of Being that you call Bhuma. What is Bhuma? What is this Fullness? What is this completeness?
Here is the definition,” says Sanatkumara. “Where one sees nothing except one's own Self, where one hears nothing except one's own Self, where one understands nothing except one's own Self, that is Bhuma, the Absolute; and where one sees something outside oneself, where one hears something outside oneself, where one understands or thinks something outside oneself, that is the finite.”
And if we look to anther brahmarisi , Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, he says
‘Surely, I am not saying anything bewildering. It is wisdom enough, my dear. For when there is duality, as it were, then one smells another, one sees another, one hears another, one speaks to another, one thinks of another, one understands another. But when everything has become the Self, then by what and whom should one hear, by what and to whom should one speak, by what and of whom should one think, and by what and whom should one understand? By what should one know that by which all this is known? By what, my dear, should one know the knower?’
such is the wisdom of these great saints that we can aspire to....
pranams,