Shirdi sai – What is you’re prescribed Philosophy? IV

Early morning as one of my morning activity I played the CD on Vishnu sahasra Naama

“Adhi sankara wrote a number of vedantic hymns and one among them is the famous bhajagovindam...” I heard the great Raja Gopalacharias beginning speech while playing the CD on Bhajagovindam & Vishnu sahasra naamam sung by M.S.Subbulakshmi....

Ooh then adi sankaracharya has himself written several devotional poems to different forms of god...He did not reject the material world or ordinary life, but asked his devotees to transcend the material world. The doctrine of maya on which sankara wrote volumes, does not state that the world is unreal but that our perception of the world is wrong...Our perception of world is relative, subject to time space and caution.A man experience in his dream a lion chasing him,In his dream he tries to get awy from the lion without even moving an inch in his bed.He feels that he has run miles and miles away from the thorny forests, but when he suddenly gets up or awaken he says to himself ”It was only a dream”. The agonizing experience he had in his dream suddenly becomes a mere stupidity when he wakes up.So we do feel the same way about this materialistic world when we wake up from this materialistic dream...At the same time all of us has to fight in this world of duality as long as we see the world dualistic in nature. Both are in the game....

After hearing the sahasra naama I wanted to have my breakfast and get ready for morning aarti ....I got some idlies (rice cakes) and chutney... to eat...The iddlies were half baked not fully cooked and I had two minds whether to serve such idlies to my sai

Aum sairam

Shirdi sai – What is you’re prescribed Philosophy? I

In the advaita philosophy the difference between man and god is a matter of degree. Ultimately they are one and the same being. That which is within the man is atman and that which embraces the universe is known a bhraman. They are one and the same like a space inside a cup and space outside the cup are one and the same. Just like Tao of Taoism, the Alah of islam and the Ayin of jewish mysticism, Bhraman has no qualities, no parts and no consciousness and it is timeless. Writings of lao tse on Tao sounds similar. The world we see is constantly changing sitting in a car, a mile away the water we saw on the road was momentarily real but when we came close what was seen became a mirage. The dream burglars who are attacking you are real in the dream. You put up a dream fight with him. But when you wake up, you will say to yourself,”It was only a dream” Hence man will speak about the world the moment he realizes the true knowledge.

In the dvaita Philosophy the world is real and there is difference between man and God. Reality is of two kinds, independent and dependent. God is the only independent reality. Matter and self are dependent on and controlled by god. Self is active and is responsible for its release from countless reincarnations by devotion to god.

The middle path between these two philosophies also exists. God is not an unqualified principle, as per advaita but believed in the principle of jeevatman (individual soul) in paramatman (absolute soul) and the merging of Jeevatman in Pramatman for attaining salvation. Both the advaita and Dvaita Philosophies prevail in India with equal importance even today.

Dear sai tell me ....which is your Philosophy that I have to follow?