Introduction To Vedanta Part 3 1 What do the Scientists say about Human Beings The most advanced species in the evolution cycle among 84 million species The most integrated personality with analytical reasoning amp critical thinking ability ID: 756149
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Vedanta Society of Iowa April 26, 2014
Introduction ToVedanta (Part – 3)
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What do the Scientists say about Human Beings ?
The most advanced species in the evolution cycle among 8.4 million speciesThe most integrated personality with analytical reasoning & critical thinking ability What do the Sages say about Human Beings ?Human birth is one of the 3 rarest of events
We come from God, we live in God and we go back to God
What are the 4-Main Values of Human Life ?
Dharma, Artha, Kama & MokshaWhat is the problem with Human Beings from spiritual point of view?We’ve forgotten our True/Divine natureWe look upon everything around us as Matter and not SpiritWhat is the Ideal attitude of Human Beings?To know, It’s God who has become all the living and non-living beingsTo know, we are all children of God To serve others, with the idea of serving God To know, every experience in life is meant to be a lesson for usTo know, nothing is isolated, every thing/event is interconnectedTo feel the presence of God in and through every actTo see God in everything
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Anubandha
Chatustaya – setting purpose/resolutionIs liberation from the endless suffering your goal of life?Do you know what qualifications are necessary for the Spiritual Practice?
Sadhana
Chatustaya – sense-restraint & mental purification Have you been able to: discern Real (God) from the Unreal (Objective World)?develop dispassion for objective world?practice restraint of senses & mind?practice patience and forbearance?develop faith in the Scriptures & the Guru?develop one-pointed focus?develop intense longing for liberation?Sravana, Manana & Nididhyasana – main sadhana Have you :been hearing the Truth from the Guru?
been repeatedly reflecting on & reasoning the Truth to remove doubts?
been able to assimilate the Truth completely with single minded focus?
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Sankaracharya’s
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Sadhana
Chatustaya sense-restraint & mental purificationdiscern Real (God) from the Unreal (Objective World)?
develop dispassion for objective world?practice restraint of senses & mind?
practice patience and forbearance?
develop faith in Scriptures & Guru?develop one-pointed focus?develop intense longing for liberation?4Sankaracharya’s TeachingSlide5
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