"This universe has not been created by any extra-cosmic God, nor is it the work of any outside genius. It is self-creating, self-dissolving, self-manifesting. One Infinite Existence, the Brahman. 'Tattvamasi Shvetaketo - That thou art, O Shvetaketu!' - Swami Vivekananda.
"We have seen then that this Brahman, this Reality is unknown and unknowable, not in the sense of the agnostic, but because to know Him would be a blasphemy, because you are He already. We have also seen that this Brahman is not this table and yet is this table. Take off the name and form and whatever is reality is He. He is the reality in everything." Swami Vivekananda.
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multisubj yb said...
I greatly appreciate your work experience and the practical side of your life. I am worried that you might not have read the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. You may be surprised to know that he liked cool Centres like Ooty, Almora, Kashmir and preferred to big hotels. I made a painstaking study and was shocked to know that he called India jellty fish! I wrote 70 blogs on the subject with evidence from his Complete Works, particularly his letters. He calls a table/chair/pot brahmam. But he could not see brahmam in turtles, shad fish which he relished. He did not hesitate to permit goat sacrifices in his Belur Math ignoring that goats are also brahmams. In Vivekananda Vedanta Centre South California, even now there seems to be a custom of serving goat curry as prasaad. http://www.vivekanandayb.blogspot.com/
August 25, 2007 8:13 AM
multisubj yb said...
I greatly appreciate your work experience and the practical side of your life. I am worried that you might not have read the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. You may be surprised to know that he liked cool Centres like Ooty, Almora, Kashmir and preferred to big hotels. I made a painstaking study and was shocked to know that he called India jellty fish! I wrote 70 blogs on the subject with evidence from his Complete Works, particularly his letters. He calls a table/chair/pot brahmam. But he could not see brahmam in turtles, shad fish which he relished. He did not hesitate to permit goat sacrifices in his Belur Math ignoring that goats are also brahmams. In Vivekananda Vedanta Centre South California, even now there seems to be a custom of serving goat curry as prasaad. http://www.vivekanandayb.blogspot.com/
August 25, 2007 8:13 AM
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Venu said...
I see you have created an enormous output of writing through your blogs. Your critique of Vivekananda is objective, though I feel that ofttimes you go by his words and not the spirit of what he represented. It ought to be remembered that many of his sayings are taken from his corresponence and it would be worth remembering that he would have been keeping in mind his correspondent when he sought to comment on this or that. While he certainly had no reason to speak the untruth and would not have done so, he could not have always spoken on pure advaitic lines if he was to make sense to the correspondent. He had often to present matters from a layman's point of view. As a teacher, he would have sought to take his audience towards the higher knowledge by starting with common parlance. Anyway, going by your writings (of which I have not made any deep study yet) and the sharpness of your observations, you are no less a person than a Vivekananda. You are also speaking the truth and you prove that often it can seem that truth contradicts itself to arrive at greater truths. Our expressions of truth are ever dynamic and many faceted and expressive. They are dead words only if we miss the spirit for the letter.
Venu said...
I see you have created an enormous output of writing through your blogs. Your critique of Vivekananda is objective, though I feel that ofttimes you go by his words and not the spirit of what he represented. It ought to be remembered that many of his sayings are taken from his corresponence and it would be worth remembering that he would have been keeping in mind his correspondent when he sought to comment on this or that. While he certainly had no reason to speak the untruth and would not have done so, he could not have always spoken on pure advaitic lines if he was to make sense to the correspondent. He had often to present matters from a layman's point of view. As a teacher, he would have sought to take his audience towards the higher knowledge by starting with common parlance. Anyway, going by your writings (of which I have not made any deep study yet) and the sharpness of your observations, you are no less a person than a Vivekananda. You are also speaking the truth and you prove that often it can seem that truth contradicts itself to arrive at greater truths. Our expressions of truth are ever dynamic and many faceted and expressive. They are dead words only if we miss the spirit for the letter.
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I greatly appreciate your work experience and the practical side of your life. I am worried that you might not have read the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. You may be surprised to know that he liked cool Centres like Ooty, Almora, Kashmir and preferred to big hotels. I made a painstaking study and was shocked to know that he called India jellty fish! I wrote 70 blogs on the subject with evidence from his Complete Works, particularly his letters. He calls a table/chair/pot brahmam. But he could not see brahmam in turtles, shad fish which he relished. He did not hesitate to permit goat sacrifices in his Belur Math ignoring that goats are also brahmams. In Vivekananda Vedanta Centre South California, even now there seems to be a custom of serving goat curry as prasaad. www.VivekanandaYb.Blogspot.Com
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