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Written by Randall Krause
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Friday, 22 January 2010 16:06 |
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False knowledge without a basis in the nature or form of the respective object is the vrtti called perversive cognition, viparyaya.
Explanation: Viparyaya is a misconception, misapprehension, delusion and is the general name for all forms of false knowledge based on misapprehending an object. There are five forms of false cognition which the yogis consider the roots of unhappiness, based on the kleshas: Nescience/ignorance, asmitaa or egoism, attachment, hate, and fear of death. Viparyaya is destroyed by Pramaana, valid proof, as set forth in the previous sutra. A common example of viparyaya is seeing a rope and perceiving a snake. If the rope is carefully examined, correct knowledge will be obtained, and the false conception will be destroyed.
Note: This document also found on www.hymla.com and on Facebook.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 23 January 2010 10:27 |
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Written by Randall Krause
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:36 |
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Read Swami Veda Bharati's message on the disaster in Haiti HERE
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Written by Swami Veda Bharati
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 13:15 |
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Nature dismantles what She has created as an invitation to us to re-create, reconstruct. In Haiti She has dismantled so that we may take Her invitation and go and rebuild.
If anyone has lost even a wink of sleep imagining a hungry baby on the breast of a mother dead in the earthquake, let him/her regain that wink of sleep by offering even one milk bottle. Drop by drop the buckets fill; bucket by bucket we make reservoirs.
I only have hope and not despair. I believe and envision that this dismantling has occurred so that Haiti may rise as a phoenix and I believe that now Haiti will rise as a prosperous democracy of a people who are happy and in comfort. Imagine what that nation will be like even by 2020 with all the efforts now already going into rebuilding and giving hope to those who for now seem to have lost all hope.
To all the members of the AHYMSIN family, may I request that in your next personal meditation sitting and in the next group meditation, do offer a prayer to Divine Mother that the people of Haiti will regenerate themselves with the power of these offerings.
Also do not forget (if it took you one minute to read this) the TEN children who just DIED of HUNGER in all parts of the world while you were reading this message.
May Mother Nature inspire our wisdom and compassion.
Swami Veda Bharati
Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama, Rishikesh
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Written by Randall Krause
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Saturday, 16 January 2010 13:47 |
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"Direct perception, inference and revealed authority are the three categories of the vritti called valid proof, pramaana." Swami Veda Bharati
Explanation: The vrittis called pramaana, valid proof, concern correct knowledge of a thing that exists in reality, and include cognition derived from direct perception, pratyaksha where the mind contacts an external object by way of the senses which it had not encountered previously, inference, anumaana, where cognition is derived from a logical thought process, and testimony, aagamaah, where cognition is derived from hearing the words of a reliable person.
Note: This document also found on www.hymla.com and on Facebook.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 23 January 2010 10:27 |
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Written by Randall Krause
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 09:53 |
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"The vrttis are fivefold and of two kinds: afflicted, painful and impure, imbued with kleshas (klishta); and not afflicted, not painful, pure, not imbued with kleshas, (a-klishta)." Swami Veda Bharati
Explanation: There are five types of thought waves, and these five types of thought waves are of two kinds: Those that lead to sorrow, klishta, and those that lead out of sorrow, a-klishta. Latent subtle impressions are left in the mind by all mental processes. These latent impressions are called samskaras. As boulders in the bed of a stream affect the surface of the water that flows over them. so the sanskaras affect the flow of the mind. The samskaras again give rise to mental processes like those that created the samskaras. So, samskaras created by mental processes that lead to sorrow, will give rise to new mental processes that lead to sorrow.
This document is also found in www.hymla.com and on Facebook.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 23 January 2010 10:19 |
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