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Ramachandran and Lalitha Ramachandran - who underwent three year and Course from 2010 to 2013 are @;a te AiÉihta sa’œOye #dainm! buiÏyaege öunu,Yogam presently conducting classes at Coimbatore. is there sankyam is also there. Both are same They came along with their students to (in terms of final result). Each one will do Pujya Swamiji to get his blessings. each job. Whatever in meant for yoga is also same for sankya.Sankya means sanyasa and Swamiji talked to them on karma-yoga and sanyasa means pursuit of knowledge. Doing answered couple of questions which are karma with proper attitude is karma-yoga. transcribed and reproduced in this article.

Arsha Newsletter - October 2014 19 Karmayoga is for so also sankya.@km! Question: What is the role of logic or tarka sa’œKym! c yaegm! c y> pZyit s pZyit in Vedanta?

One cannot remain without karma. But the Answer by Pujya Swamiji: Logic means same karma can be converted in to yoga inference. Inference depends upon purely by attitude. Karma done in keeping perception. Without perception there is no with coupled with proper attitude inference. Whatever the data one collect, towards the karma-palam is yoga. In dharma based upon which inference or anumana sva-karma-roleplaying- is included. For each works. role there is script - for mother, for father, for son, for daughter etc. The role-playing What we are talking about is not what we script is ‘to be done’. To be done means see. It is about ourselves and not a subject Ishwara. Even if it is kamyakarma the result matter of perception or inference. It is ME. is to be taken as prasada. Thus the And ME happens to be jagat karanam, which kamyakarma also will be converted in to is not available for inference. Once Sastra yoga. Thus all done irrespective of tells, afterwards we can assimilate. Later by kamyakarma, sva-asharamakarma or inference/logic we can eliminate our loukikakarma will get converted in to yogam. doubts.

Doubts are created by the mind by certain #ó-Ainó-%ppiÄ;u inTym! smictTvm! - towards desired and undesired results the tarka/logic. We have to find out sruti/sastra is yogam. In our culture this is supported (sammata) tarka to negate all the ingrained in our day-to-day life. Even in the doubts. Vedanta will not work if pramana- food one gets the attitude of accepting it buddhi is not there in it. zaôSy guévaKySy although it is not desired by one. The sTybuiÏ>Satya-buddhi is nothing but pramana- samatva-buddhi starts from here, even buddhi … what is understood through though it may not be in full measure. Still pramana only is satyam. It is true that it has it is part of life. It is part of our culture. been obtained thro pramana. What is there in Sastra is what is in culture. Question: Is consciousness self-evident? Sastra is the basis. Sastra’s ideas have Modern people talk about mystic advaitam become an integrated ingredients in culture. where they claim a mystical experience, With a better understanding of Ishwara the where-as Vedanta considers experience samatva-buddhi improves. As an individual within the field of dvaitam. I only have choice is doingkarma. But with Answer from Pujya Swamiji: For regard to the karma-pala I do not have full consciousness there is no need for science control. Karmapala being part ma kmR)lhetuÉUR>, or Vedanta. Consciousness is YOU. of the ‘order of Ishwara’ one does not have Consciousness is and everything else is any choice over the results - it comes..This object of consciousness. If it is you, no need is one more layer in the process of samtvam/ to search outside, no need for Science. That yogam. I am a conscious entity needs no proof from

20 Arsha Vidya Newsletter - October 2014 outside. Sastra additionally says that the We are not trying to objectify atma. We are consciousness is the jagat karanam Brhama / only negating what is not atma. What is Ishwara and it is eternal. It is not an not-atma is also conjured-up by the mind epiphenomenon (a mental state regarded as alone. It is to be removed/negated by mind a by-product of brain activity). alone. Mentally created problem is mentally solved – bythe vision of Sastra. Otherwise Everything is given - space is given, time mentally created problem cannot be solved is given and whatever that is there within by mind alone. Mental problem or notions time and space is given. If so where is the are based upon some facts. Notions are not epiphenomenon? Neurology is study of just ‘rope-snake’. They are born of certain brain - it is given. The knowledge to study facts created by the mind as facts. We neurology is given. That way everything is require a different vision of the same thing given. which means one need to look at it differently with the Sastra-budhi. All the Consciousness is also given. Between notions can thus be dismissed by this Sastra- consciousness and the object of budhi alone. consciousness the relation is amazing -it is one of and mitya. Really speaking All these ( vastus- jagat, body-mind what is object is also nothing but complex, buddhi etc) are not atma, but atma consciousness. Really speaking there is no is THIS (). For this vritti-jnanam, object - just a word and meaning. Every negating idam vastu, mind is required. After object is just word and meaning. negating all what remains is the NEGATOR whose svaroopa is atma or consciousness Word and meaning means it is knowledge which is self-evident. What is self-evident - knowledge which is Iswara himself. And does not required to be objectified and knowledge is consciousness. Phenomenon hence no need for the mind. For removing or epiphenomenon it is consciousness all the so called avidya vritti of idam vastu alone the way. Consciousness does not require the mind is required. any other thing to reveal - it is self-evident. I am a self-consciousness-being is self- Atma is limitless, suddha- evident. caitanyam,nityaha,muktaha etc are all created only when one considers wrongly oneself Question : Moksha is a cognitive to be limited, jatam anityam, bound etc. ‘I understanding. But it can be known by AM’ is correct. It is self-evident mind alone. But it is also said it is beyond consciousness. Any further addition to ‘I mind. Does this not contradictory? am’ is the description of anatma. Answer by Pujya Swamiji: ‘ mnsa @v AnugNdVym! , nEv mnsa mnute, Both statements are there in Sastra.

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