Re: Why do we get bored with things we initially enjoy ?
Pranam Atanu ji
Originally Posted by
atanu
It is good that we agree. IMO, it is also prudent to recognise that an advanced Yogi's status need not be same as mine
Om
Lord Krishna Advises one to surrender to such advanced yogi, I have no illusion of my status and if I come across disrespectful I apologise.
Shri Krishna himself has taught that the truth is known in Samadhi. Patanjali says that one's nature is known when all movements in mind get stilled in Samadhi. Upanishad's teach of Abheda.
Lord Krishna has taught many different ways to arrive at the same truth, Bhed Abeheda vad has been with us and debated, by many advanced souls, I have no grasp of any, that is not to say I have no preference.
And logic says that if Atman is one and indivisible then what is this me -- different from everyone?
Face on the mirror is very near description (though not accurate as expected). Say, if I had no perception of touch and I was blind to immediate objects (my body), I would imagine that the face on the mirror is me. Similarly, since, the Self is imperciptible, so we see only the mind and its thoughts and believe the thoughts to be me.
Advaita is very difficult to percieve in face of duality which very much apperent.
Atma and paramatma are both indiviable, only that parmatma that reside in all appears as divisable, I believe upanisad does talk about two birds on a tree.
And Krishna says
Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be. bg 2.12
Mind and thoughts are changing all the time yet there is within this me that remains constant which accumulates Karma, through unending desires. if I was just bundle of thoughts or budhi then all this upadhi would disappear at the time of death.
Another example (used in Shiva Purana as cited by Agnideva) is of one true sun and its many many images in many ponds etc.
There are different ways one see the same example, without the existence of many ponds one true sun is truly alone.
Jai Shree Krishna
Rig Veda list only 33 devas, they are all propitiated, worthy off our worship, all other names of gods are derivative from this 33 originals,
Bhagvat Gita; Shree Krishna says Chapter 3.11 devan bhavayatanena te deva bhavayantu vah parasparam bhavayantah sreyah param avapsyatha Chapter 17.4 yajante sattvika devan yaksa-raksamsi rajasah pretan bhuta-ganams canye yajante tamasa janah
The world disappears in him. He is the peaceful, the good, the one without a second.
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