Bharatham : Uthishtatha-Jagratha : (wef-05/11/2012. )

  ---------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, September 23,2020. (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 4. Post-1-7. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Philosophers have stumbled upon this difficulty and have gone to the extent of finding out if there is any qualitative superiority in our reason, in our intellects, in our ratiocinations, beyond what the senses give us as a quantity of information. We have failed utterly. We have found nothing; we see nothing. But there is a peculiar feature in our reason, or rationality; and our question which is refusing to be ignored finally, whatever be the difficulty in answering it.  2. The process of human history is nothing but the insistence of this question to receive an answer and the failure of humanity to provide an answer. If humanity had provided an answer to this insistent question, the world would have vanished altogether by this time. But no one has

---------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, September 03,2020.06:04.AM. (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 4. Post-1-6. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Our daily activities will show that there does not seem to be much relevance between the seeking of an answer to this question and the nature of our daily movements in life. We do not consciously do anything, it appears. We are driven by impulses. We are forced under certain circumstances to act in a particular manner; and if this is true, we cannot say that we have an aim before us. The aim is merely to be subjected to the mandate of that power which compels us to move in a particular direction. Well, this cannot be called an aim. This is slavery. 2. So we do not seem to be able to perceive any aim in our life by opening our eyes, or listening to any sound through our ears, or from any sensory operation. And intellectual

----------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 01,2020.8:02.AM.  (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 4. Post-1-5.  ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Now, questions lead to further questions and we are not anywhere near the final answer, evidently. The incapacity of the resources of man to find an answer to the problems of life is the fear in us, fear in everybody; and what can be a greater fear than this? We have a great question before us, and we are unable to receive an answer. Not I, not you, not anyone in the world can give an answer to this question that the whole of the world has raised before itself, a large question of the nature of existence: Why should anything be what it is? Why should there be a tree, why should there be a mountain, why should there be a man, why should there be a river? Why should there be anything as it is? We cannot answer these questions unless we are in a p

=========================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, May 25, 2020. (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 3. Post-1- 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. We were told by some of our speakers of the dread that is before us from the future world, the possibility of the utter annihilation of even the particles of sand. But who injects this fear into our bodies? The dread itself cannot be the answer to this question. The source of fear cannot be equated with the complexion of the sources of fear. We fear death because we are immortal. That is the final answer. It is the great proof of the immortality of what we essentially are. The fear of death demonstrates the immortality of the soul of things. Otherwise, we will not fear death. If death is our nature we cannot be afraid of death, because nature cannot be afraid of its own

=================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, May 10, 2020. (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 3. Post-1- 3 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1. In this predicament, no sense can be there in asking a question what the aim of existence is – because there is no existence. There seems to be only the parading of the drama of non-existence. We are living non-existence, rather than existence; and in this enactment of life which is nothing but a series of pictures of the poses of non-existence, existence cannot be discovered. It is just not there. But we are not able to reconcile ourselves in spite of this unfortunate and hopeless state of affairs into which we have been thrown by causes unknown; and there is a voice speaking from within us from a realm which refuses to get identified with the picture of this drama of life we call phenome

====================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------ 12/04/2020. (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 3. Post-1- 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The struggle for a meaning behind life, a search for values which are permanent in their nature, is no doubt ingrained in our being, which is essentially becoming. We have no idea in our minds to be annihilated at any time, though it appears that nothing can stand this ultimate requirement of utter transformation to the point of non-existence.  ##What we see with our eyes does not seem to be capable of giving an answer to what our heart seeks. Our perception is sensory; and our arguments, which are intellectual, do not seem to collaborate with the demands of a point in our own selves which refuses to be reduced to a point of becoming or transiency, because the recognition of the transiency of things

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 16/02/2020. (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part 1 of 3. Post-1.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #We have been asked to express our ideas on today’s theme, the aim of human existence. It would appear that an impertinent world of mankind is seeking a pertinent answer to its questions when it asks for means of security and safety from immanent dangers that can threaten its existence from various corners of the world. ##Mankind seems to be asking for a gain for which it has not worked and does not intend to strive; yet it is not fully conscious of a gulf that seems to be there between what is sought, and the direction in which mankind is moving. We seem to be placing o

======================================================================== ======================================================================= 01/01/2020. POST-6. ======================================================================== ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Kalidasa, in his Raghuvamsa and Kumarasambhava, points out that God is the Supreme Being, is prior to the forms of Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, who are three aspects or phases of God, and that Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, being three forms of one and the same Reality, are equal to one another in every respect, without inferiority or superiority among them. Bhartrihari prays to that Infinite Consciousness, which is Peaceful Effulgence, which is undifferentiated by the interference of space, time and causal relation, etc., and whose essence is Self-Experience alone. Madhusudana Sarasvati blend