Philosophy of Advait Vedanta....... Introspection of Self.....The core of the teaching in Advaita Vedanta is the identity of Jivatma and Paramatma and to understand about our Jeevatma, we need to introspect self. the real nature of Jivatma is our own real nature which can only be known by inward enquiry. Jivatma is a mixture of the sukshma (miniscule or finite) sharira (body) and sthoola or Physical sharira (body). When the unenlightened person without the pure infinite consciousness refers to self as “I”, he/she is referring to the physical and miniscule sharira complex (what we generally refer to as the body-mind-complex). Since we have no preconceived notion about Brahman, we readily accept what vedas say about Brahman but about ourselves, in successive births (janmas), we have been regarding ourselves as the limited personalities based on the body mind complex and so, when vedas tell us that we are the pure consciousness, identical with the infinite Brahman, we do not readily accept it. That is why enquiry into one’s own real nature (tvam-pad-vicaara) is more important than enquiry into the nature of Brahman (tat--pada-vicaara).
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:55:50 +0000
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