Thread by @AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵Invaluable gem from the pen of #Jagadguru #SriSri Sacchidananda Shivabhinava NrisimhaBharati:

In the Siva-gita of the Padma Purana,it is said that Rama asked Siva: "How does immaculate knowledge about You, the Lord,arise in a man? O Hara,if you are gracious to Me, tell me

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the means to it." On being asked thus, the Lord replied:
"Having become detached towards everything inclusive of the state of Brahma & disinclined towards everybody inclusive of one's sons and friends, possessed of faith in the scriptures dealing with liberation and desirous
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of the knowledge revealed by the Upanishad-s, one should, with an offering in one's hand, approach a Guru who has realised Brahman."

"Being attentive, one should please one's Guru through services rendered for long. One should then listen with intense concentration to the
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import of the texts of all the #Upanishad-s."

"All knowers of #Brahman deem that sravana, the hearing of the Truth, is the determination that I am the object of the fullest import of the texts of all the Upanishad-s "

"They declare that manana, reflection upon the Truth,

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is the reasoning in support of the import of the passages through analysis based on examples such as that of gold (Siva-gita XIII.22)."
(Chandogya Upanishad (VI1.5) says, "Just as, O good-looking one, by knowing a lump of gold, all products of gold become known, for all

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transformation is based on speech and is but a name and is real only as gold.")
"Remaining free from the sense of 'I' and mine, same-sighted towards all, bereft of attachment and ever endowed with calmness and such else, one beholds the intrinsic nature of the Self through

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constant recourse to #meditation, the means. Such steady apprehension of the Self is regarded as #nididhyasana, intense concentration upon the Truth ."
"In some person (who is engaged in sravana, manana and nididhyasana), direct realisation of the Self arises quickly due to

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the ending of all the sins that impede enlightenment. In the case of one with obstructive sins that are yet to cease, direct realisation of the Self occurs after a long time (Siva-gita XIII. 24)."

Therefore, the ultimate object of human life is only liberation that is

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characterised by abidance in one's intrinsic nature and is attainable solely through the direct realisation of Brahman.

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