Atmabodham

========================================================================== Thursday 14, Jan 2024 05:30. (68 Slogas in 9 Chapters) Chapter 8. Slogas - 54-67 (14 no.) “Reveling in FREEDOM” The BLISS of Realisation B. ATTRIBUTES OF BRAHMAN: (56-62) Slogam- 59: As Butter Permeates Milk   ============================================================================= Slogam- 59: As Butter Permeates Milk: 1  Tadyuktam akhilam vastu  =  All objects are pervaded by Brahman.  2  vyavahaarah chid-anvitah;  =  All actions are possible because of the All-permeating.  3  tasmaat sarvagatam brahma   = Therefore, Brahman alone permeates everything,  4  ksheere sarpih iva akhile.  = even as butter permeates milk. ================================================================================ 1-2  We have been made aware in the last two verses of the all-pervading nature of  the Self, as well as of the immense bliss...

  ================================================================ Sunday 11,  Jan 2024 05:30. (68 Slogas in 9 Chapters) Chapter 8. Slogas - 54-67 (14 no.) “Revelling in FREEDOM” The BLISS of Realisation B. ATTRIBUTES OF BRAHMAN: (56-62) Slogam - 58: A Particle of Bliss Only Enjoyed by Deities ================================================================ Slogam - 58: A Particle of Bliss Only Enjoyed by Deities "Akhand-aananda roopasya  tasya aananda lav-aashritaah;  brahmaadyaah taaratamyena  bhavanti aanandinah akhilaah."  ================================================================ Translation: 1.  Akhand-aananda roopasya   =  The Lord’s nature is unbroken (infinite) Bliss.  2.  tasya aananda lav-aashritaah;   =  Depending on just a small particle of that Bliss,  3. brahmaadyaah taaratamyena   =   do the Creator and other Deities proportionately  4.  bhavanti aanandinah...

================================================================ Thursday, 04 Jan 2024 05:30. (68 Slogas in 9 Chapters) Chapter 8 Slogas - 54-67 (14 no.) “Revelling in FREEDOM” The BLISS of Realisation B. ATTRIBUTES OF BRAHMAN: (56-62) Slogam - 57: Method of Negation and Assertion ================================================================ Slogam - 57: Method of Negation and Assertion 1 Atad-vyaa-vritti roopena   =  By the process of negating what it is not;  2 vedaantaih lakshyate avyayam;   =  indicated in Vedanta as the Indestructible  Substratum; 3 akhand-aanandam ekam yat   =  which is Indivisible, Blissful and One – 4 tat brahma iti ava-dhaarayet.   =  realize That to be Brahman. ================================================================ Again the oneness, the indivisibility, is stressed – this time with the inclusion of Bliss,  the essential nature of the Self, and the process of negation by whi...