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Articles: Devotion | The Two Ways
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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THE TWO WAYS
1. The seers of the Upanishads emphatically declare the real man is the all-pervading immortal soul which is the substratum for this body, mind and world, which is behind the five sheaths viz, the food sheath, the vital sheath, the mental sheath, the intellectual sheath, and the blissful sheath
2.The goal of life is the direct cognition or realization of the self-luminous Self, which is hidden in this body like fire in wood, butter in milk. This Atma is the inner Ruler or Antaryami . He is the unseen Governor or hidden proprietor of this house- body.
3.Real religion is the attainment of this transcendental supreme, undying, un decaying Tattva or principle through constant and profound medication. Real life is life in the eternal Atma or soul. True life is identification with this supreme soul which exists in the past, present and future, which has neither beginning, middle nor end, which has neither parts nor limbs, which is neither subtle nor gross.
4.The Rishis of yore attained this mysterious and marvelous Atma through the eye of intuition or the divine inner third eye ( Gyana Chakshu ) and then explained things of this world in the light of their knowledge of the self. This is the direct method of realization.
5.You can ascend the summit of the hill of knowledge of the Self through science, art, nature, music, etc. This is the indirect method. From the effect you go to the cause and ultimately reach the causeless Cue or Para-Brahman or the ultimate, transcendental Truth. Our Western Scientists will be groping in utter darkness if their purpose is only to invent some things for our physical comforts or convenient living. The goal of Science is to find out one ultimate Truth which is the substratum for the atoms, molecules, electrons, energy, motion and all mental phenomena and all laws of nature through enquiry, observation, analysis, investigation and study of the laws of Nature. Re4alScientist is a Vedantin only. His mode of approach to the Truth only is different. The scientist who was telling previously: ”There is nothing beyond this world,” proclaims now “The more I know of the phenomena, the more I am puzzled. Intellect is finite and cold. Behind these changing phenomena there is the unchanging noumenon. Behind the rotating dynamic electrons there is the static, motionless something. Something beyond the intellect and the world”- the Brahman of the Upanishads, is the Atman of the Vedantins, who is the Lord of these laws of Nature. ”My method of approach is posterior method from the effect to the cause. The “Vedantins” method is apriori method, from the cause to the effect. The goal is the same.”
- Prof. Venkata Ramanamurty Mallajosyula
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