Let's think : By Dr.King, Swami Satyapriya

[Quick links] [Pause]        After the overwhelming response to my audiobook “Part 1 of the Ultimate book on Yoga : Let us know Yoga better”, I have now released a sequel to that book titled “Part 2 of the Ultimate book on Yoga : Brain science behind Yoga”.

[Quick links] [Pause]        I have been discussing lot of things for the past some years. Most of my talks were around Yoga, Meditation, Indian philosophy and so on.  I have always encouraged people to ask questions before accepting anything. Many of my readers have asked me questions both through by blog as well as through other channels.

[Quick links] [Pause]    Idol worship has been in vogue since time immemorial in all races and communities. Hindus are no exceptions. But Abrahamic religions forbid idol worship at least as a principle. There is an interesting story regarding this.

[Quick links] [Pause]            For people who love to listen to audio books, here is some good news.

[Quick links] [Pause]    Since our entire discussion revolves around God or Brahma, probably we should first define what this God is. Many people who claim to be believers have tough time defining God.  They may describe God as some person in the heaven, or some deity in a temple, and so on. But they probably cannot ‘define’ God.

[Quick links] [Pause]      All of us love our mother. So, there is nothing wrong if one declares that his or her mother is beautiful even if she is horrible looking

[Quick links] [Pause]    Have you ever seen a rotten corpse? Just the thought of it may be repulsing to you. The nauseating stench, decomposed flesh, wriggling maggots, the hungry vultures tearing apart the rotten stuff… Can you picturize that? Horrible isn’t it?

[Quick links] [Pause]   I am sorry to use such harsh words. But they are not my words, nor they are addressed to you. That is how the Brahma supporters admonish their Jain opponents.  Let us continue our debate between the Brahma supporters and the Jain philosophers that we started in the previous episode.  The Jain philosophers have a totally non violent approach even when they debate. They use their AnEkaantha Vaada to accept even the opponent’s view as one of the possible views. They don’t disagree with anyone. That is nice. But the Brahma supporters have problem even with that approach. This is how they refute the Jain views.

[Quick links] [Pause]       Many of us often make the mistake of jumping to conclude identity, based on similarity between two things. If two things are similar, that does not mean that they are identical. A cow has 4 legs and so also a dog. That does not make cow and dog same!  The Vijnyaana Vadi Buddhists see the similarity between the dream world and our wakeful world and jump to the conclusion that since dream world is nonexistent, our wakeful world also does not exist! The brahma supporters reject this reasoning. Let us see how.

[Quick links] [Pause]             There was another sect of Buddhists who denied the existence of the material world. They said that “all that exists is only the minds. What we think as something existing outside is actually inside our mind!”