Mon, DEC 08, 2014. Upanishads : Kenopanishad : Chapter-4 : Conditioned Brahmam : 1. Idol worship ... Examples, illustrations, comparisons and stories are often used in the Upanishad-s to explain to us the inexplicable. It is evident then that none of these stories or illustrations can be literally in their application, nor can the Truth entirely be explained away by any one of them. This being the literary tactics of the seers of the Upanishadic Mantra-s, every story or illustration employed them needs a deep enquiry, if the student were to profit fully by them. In a sense, illustrations are employed in Vedantham to serve as idols in Bhakti Margam. No piece of stone in any temple can provide for the devotee his lifes goal of achieving happiness and peace. But without an idol self-improvement is impossible. The idol is the means ; self-discovery is the Goal. To confuse the means with the goal is the Grand Trunk Road leading to sorrow. The idol serves the spiritual aspirant as a spring-board to heave himself out of Samsaram and plunge into himself. The Super-Conscious State, otherwise called the State of God-Consciousness, is reached when a devotee through self-surrender or through full discrimination dissociates himself from his false ego-dream and comes to establish himself in the true conviction that he is the Jivatma. Next : Conditioned Brahmam : 2. detaching and attaching... To be continued
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