Learning from Vedas - Backup

Sri gurubhyo namah Mama GuruvaryaaH... Mahamahopadyaya Shastraratnakara Srimantah Krishnamurthy Sastrigal is a Vedic scholar par excellence and one among 5 living authorities in Veda bhashyam in the world today. He is the Retired Principal of Madras Sanskrit college and also Retired professor of Vedanta. Srimantah Shastrigal is in the board of Ujjain Vedic University and received numerous awards and titles from Sampoornanda Sanskrit Vishwavidyala, Rashtriya Sanskrit Samsthan, Rathtriya Samskrita Vidyapeetham. He was recently honoured by the President of India for his services to Sanskrit and Shastras. His father Sriman Rajagopala Ghanpadigal was a great Vedic scholar and his son Sriman Ramasubramanian is a Professor of Maths /Sanskrit /Indian Astronomy at IIT -Mumbai and also President award winner and member of the second national Sanskrit commission. Meeting these Scholars, studying under them and getting their blessings, I consider as one of the greatest things happended in my life....

World Peace & Removal of Terrorism There are two root causes for the entire chaos and terrorism in this world. One is the thirst for earning money and the other is the religious fanatic. Due to money, people are quarreling, hereas due to religion, countries are quarreling. Unless these two root causes are eradicated we cannot achieve world peace. The tree will not die by cutting leaves and branches. It dies only by cutting its roots. There is no use in earning the extra money. Due to excess money, quarrels, mental worries and several other problems arise. Finally, it ends in loss only and not in any profit. You have to leave all this extra money here only and quit this world alone. Your issues may lose that money given by you. Such sinful extra money brings problems not only to you but also to your children. Neither yourself nor your children will be happy and peaceful. This entire world is the property of God and take whatever is required from it. This is said in Gita, (“Yavanarth...

Why God has to come in human form at all…  God is unimaginable and hence, cannot be even imagined by even sharp intelligence. Therefore, there is no possibility of any kind of interaction with God. God knows all of us, but, we can never know God. Hence, the interaction with unimaginable God is one sided only. But, we like to have an interaction, which is in both sides. We like to know, see, talk, touch and live with God. We like to serve God because service is the practical proof of love or devotion to God. For this purpose, God comes down in the same medium in which we exist.  Hence, God comes in human form. If God comes in the form of an inert object, our service becomes impossible. For the sake of inert objects, He has to come in the inert form. But, the inert objects do not interact at all. If He comes down as a bird or animal, the birds and animals may interact and the human beings cannot interact. In such case, you cannot talk with God since you cannot talk with a bird or animal....

Individual salvation is selfishness but working for continuously for God is not Individual salvation is selfishness and therefore should not be aspired as told by Shankara [Namokshasyaakaankshaa…].  To participate in the service of God continuously without any trace of selfishness is real salvation. You have to work for the salvation of others and not for the salvation of yourself.  Once, you are involved in such divine work, you are granted the real salvation at once. Liberation from selfishness is the essence of salvation. Total surrender means total participation in the work of God and not simply sitting before God without doing any work. God is pleased only by your participation in His work. Even Shuka participated in the work of God by visiting the sages, who were householders. These sages climbed the second stage of family life from the first stage of bachelorhood. Now, they are to be inspired to climb the third stage of Sanyasa through  intermediate Vanaprastha.  They require t...

USE OF 'I' WITH RESPECT TO ORDINARY SOUL AND HUMAN FORM OF GOD A devotee asked “Please elaborate about ‘I’ and ‘you’ with respect to single reference”. Swami replied: You have to take the meanings of ‘I’ and ‘you’ with respect to the speech of either Krishna (God in human form  or any other human incarnations like Jesus, Rama etc) ) or Arjuna (a soul) only till the end. You should not mix both the speeches and enlighten the meanings of ‘I’ and ‘you’, in which case misinterpretation results.  First, you must know that the item is more important than the word. The items are linked with the words as per the selection by the humanity from the beginning. This link makes you to remember its linked item immediately through the linked word. The items existed even when the words did not exist. Even now the birds and animals recognize the item by mind even in the absence of words with reference to them. Therefore, the item is fixed by a specific word (noun) like the pot item is fixed to ...

You should know that God cannot be known Veda also says that God is un-imaginable, who is beyond words, mind, intelligence and logic and hence God alone knows God (Brahmavit Brahmaiva...). You should know that God cannot be known (Yasyaamatam…). But such God enters the world through a medium (Tadevaanu Praavishat...) and God becomes that medium while keeping His separate identity of His real form (Satchatyatcha...). Therefore, the essence of the Veda is very clear that the absolute God is un-imaginable, He enters a human being as a medium for the sake of preaching knowledge (like Krishna, Jesus etc) and He remains in His original form and at the same time gets identified with the human form also. The second authority is ‘Smruti’, which is, the text written by sages consisting of the three great epics dealing with the human incarnations like Rama and Krishna. The third authority is reasoning, which is already taken up from the beginning of this message. The logical analysis always helps...

CONCEPT OF HUMAN INCARNATION  (God in human form) AND ITS RELEVANCE O Learned and Devoted Servants of God, God is said to be the generator of space (Aakasha) by the Vedas. It means that space does not exist in God before its generation. This finally means that God is beyond spatial dimensions. Since you cannot imagine anything beyond space, God must be accepted as unimaginable. The unimaginable God enters a medium and gets identified with it to express Himself to the imaginable human beings. The human form itself is the best medium, which consists of two components as we see in any human being: 1) Visible – imaginable materialized human body for vision and 2) Invisible – imaginable energetic form called soul or awareness for preaching knowledge to the humanity. Such human form charged by the third component, which is invisible – unimaginable God, is called as human incarnation and this alone is relevant to humanity for direct service and for receiving the spiritual knowledge. The energ...