I have been thinking recently about our state of temples. They have changed their forms from being cultural and binding factors to just business centres. mostly people who are visiting the temples are doing mechanical things. how can we revive the temples as discussion forums for arts, culture, social responsibilities from being just "transactional" in nature. there are satsangas being organized in the temples, but they just follow the bhakthi movement. how can we revive usage of sanskrit, learning of vedas, and then to create a more responsible generation than ours? ideas are welcome...
RtaM pibantau sukRtasya loke
ReplyDeleteguhAM praviStau parame parArdhe
chAyAtapau brahmavido vadanti
paJcAgnayo ye ca tri-NAciketAH (kathopnishad adhyay-1)
"O Naciketa, the expansions of Lord Visnu as the tiny living being (jiva) and the Supersoul both stay within the cave of the heart of this body. In that cavity the living being, resting on the main prana, enjoys the results of activities, and the Supersoul, acting as witness enables him to enjoy them. Those who are well-versed in knowledge of Brahman and those householders who carefully follow the Vedic regulations say that the difference between the two is like the difference between a shadow and the sun."
he atomic soul can be perceived by perfect intelligence as floating in the five kinds of life airs (prana, apana, vyana, samana and udana). When the consciousness (that pervades from the soul through the entire body) is purified from the contamination of the five kinds of material airs, its spiritual influence is exhibited."
Ten pranas ("life airs") - Prana, Apana, Samana, Udana, Vyana, Naga, Krkara, Kurma, Devadatta, Dhananjaya (for definitions see below the commentary to SB 3.6.9) and their actions are mentioned by spiritual masters (acaryas) in their commentaries to Bhagavad-gita 4.27. The life airs circulate in the 72.000 nadis and meridians of the human body.
Prana is one but acts in different ways. Lower pranas control the senses and are under the control of main prana controlled by the Paramatma according to desire and karma of the jiva. Vedanta-sutra, Bhagavata Purana 4.25-28 (serpent analogy), Prasna Upanisad and other scriptures contain elaborate descriptions of prana. Various Eastern healing methods and martial arts work with prana.
10 types of intelligence is same as 10 pranas?
ReplyDeleteVasudevan Tirumurti which book are you reading?
Vasudevan Tirumurti
ReplyDeleteIt could be dasa maha vidyas, if i am not wrong.
The Sanskrit words धीः /बुद्धिः /ज्ञानम् / प्रतीतिः / प्रज्ञा / विद्या etc. are referred to as intelligence (wrongly) by English authors -because they themselves don't read or quote the originals - they refer to translations of translations of translations (first to German /French and then to English and based on that further loose translations). We can't take them seriously nor ignore them !.
ReplyDeleteThe exact Sanskrit word is required to pin-point or the name of the upanishad.
We consider 14 as important shastras (must know for those formally accepting Sanyaasa) as propounded by Kanchi Paramacharya in "Daivathin kural" [I don't remember clearly what are those 14. Based on my limited memory I think they are Veda 1 (sva shaakha) Angas 4 (vyakarana, shikshaa, chandas, nirukta) Dharmashastra 1, Itihaasa 2, Darshanas 6 (Saankhya, Yoga, Mimamsa, Nyaya, Vaisheshika and Brahmasutra) Total 14...]
Anantha Narayanan
ReplyDeleteemotional intelligence by daniel goleman
Mallinath Tamshetti
ReplyDeletei am not able to sail along with your thinking, sorry.
Ashvin Ji
ReplyDeleteyes, that could be his confusion! most likely. thanks!
Krishnamurthi CG sir, let us take बुद्धिः and can you let me know the references? what is discussed in the book is more akin to this meaning.
ReplyDeletethanks for referring to deivaththin kural; i can recall what is mentioned in that.
Vasudevan Tirumurti Have you seen this already ?
ReplyDeletehttp://ifeil.org/pdfs/eibook/Chapter02.pdf
It seems like Viveka Choodamani will have your answers...Its just a guess though.
ReplyDeleteAnantha Narayanan
ReplyDeletethe IFEIL pdf does not throw much light on the subject. :-))
hm...
ReplyDeleteAny updates on this?
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