(1) A foster mother (2) One who holds in the womb (3) One who feeds (4) The wife of the preceptor (5) The consorts of one's chosen deity (6) Wife of the father (7) A virgin
(8)) A real sister (9) The wife of the master (10) Mother-in-law
(11) Maternal grandmother (12) Grandmother (13) The wife of the brother (14) The sister of the mother (15) The sister of the father (16) The wife of the maternal uncle
स्तनदात्री गर्भधात्री भक्षदात्री गुरुप्रिया।अभीष्टदेवपत्नी च पितुः पत्नी च कन्यका॥सगर्भजा या भगिनी
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पुत्त्रपत्नी प्रियाप्रसूः । मातुर्माता पितुर्माता सोदरस्य प्रिया तथा ॥ मातुः पितुश्च भगिनी मातुलानी तथैव च । जनानां वेदविहिता मातरः षोडश स्मृताः ॥” इति ब्रह्मवैवर्त्ते गणपतिखण्डे कार्त्तिकेय-संवादे १५ अध्यायः ॥ #internationalwomensday#womensday2023#Dharma#hinduism#WomensDay
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"There was no branch of knowledge which Sri Jagadguru did not know and that too Sastraically."
HH was grand in simplicity.People would give anything and
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everything to get HH’s blessings. All comforts that love or money could secure were at HH’s beck and call. Still HH was perfectly indifferent to them. HH never cared for them. Not only did HH not care for them, but HH actually did not know the value of them as it is
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understood by us. HH did not know the difference between one Rupee and one lakh of Rupees. HH considered both as valuable as the mud HH was treading on. HH would very often lie down on the bare ground and as often wander in lonely forests and derive therefrom
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🧵How to Handle Sorrow ? - Life-transforming Vedantic concepts presented with such simplicity by #Swami#Paramarthananda
सुखं मे सर्वदा भूयात् दुखं मा भूत् कदाचन |
इति ईच्छा सर्व-सामान्या ज्ञानादेव तत् सिद्ध्यते ||
May I be happy all the time, may I never have unhappiness.
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These two desires are basic and universal. How to fulfill these desires? - those two desires are fulfilled through Gnyānam or knowledge.
We will be surprised because we never think that knowledge is the one which will fulfill these two desires but this verse says they
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can be fulfilled ONLY through Gnyānam. How is it possible? What is that knowledge? A wanted experience is happiness. Sorrow is going through any experience which we don’t want to go through. We will think that all pleasant experiences are happiness because we would like
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(From 1981 When Sri Sri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamiji was Sannidhanam): The past history of the Sringeri Math proves that its Pontiffs are chosen by the will of the Divine Mother and that this pre-ordainment is no accident. Otherwise, why
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should a boy in his teens go all the way and all alone, from Andhra Pradesh to Ujjain and stay with His Holiness from then on, without a day's break as student and disciple, for twelve years with no thought other than to study the sastras?
At a meeting in Calcutta he said
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with characteristic humility "when I joined His Holiness, I had no thought in mind except to learn the sastras according to ancient Hindu tradition and leave the future to itself. But by the Grace of the Goddess I have been entrusted with great responsibility". And how
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"Do not depend on outside things to make yourself happy.."
To call a man healthy, it is quite unnecessary to postulate of him that he had some disease..
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before and that he is now cured of it. Freedom from sickness is a condition of health and certainly not an antecedent sickness and a recovery from it. Similarly, happiness can only mean freedom from unhappiness. And it cannot be a necessary condition of happiness that it
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should have been preceded by a state of unhappiness. The health which is not preceded by sickness is more natural, true and permanent than the one obtained on the cessation of a sickness. Similarly, happiness which is not preceded by a mental disturbance is sure to be more
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Vid Dr M L Narasimha Murthy, a great Scholar of Vedanta attained Sadgati. He was a patron of this medium. It is an irreparable loss to the academic and Sanskrit world and a huge void will be felt for a long time to the #Vedanta-seeking community. He was a regular invitee to
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all the prestigious Vakyartha Sabhas including at Sringeri. #Jagadguru#Shankaracharya Sri Sri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamiji had honoured him with a Golden ring. Post-retirement he had gotten busier with advanced students of Sanskrit & Vedanta constantly seeking his help
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& Peethadhipatis from across the country used to entrust him with important work as he was a Scholar of the highest order. He was also in the process of writing more books. Apart from these commitments he believed in spreading far & wide the True purport of our Shastras &
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🧵Mysore Maharaja on the role of 'Guru' in one's life & their Guru Bhakti towards Sringeri Guru Parampara.
(Heartening to read that our ErstwhileRulers set aside their time for #AtmaVidya inspite of having umpteen things to do,while we mere mortals forever appear to be busy!) 1/n
H. H. Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar Bahadur
(The below was written when HH was the Governor Of Madras)
I remember that while I was yet a novice in spiritual learning, I read #Sureswaracharya's "Manasollasa", the commentary on the #Dakshinamurti Stotra, and what impressed me was
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a quotation found in it, which is contained in the Swetaswatara Upanishad :
यस्य देवे परा भक्तिः यथा..
This sloka has had a salutary effect on me so much that it has remained ever fresh in my mind. Its significance is that they who have as much reverence for the Guru as
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