Practical Vedanta - Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- “Shankara left this Advaita philosophy in the hills and forests, while I have come to bring it out of those places and scatter it broadcast before the workaday world and society. The lion-roar of Advaita must resound in every hearth and home, in meadows and groves, over hills and plains” proclaims Swami Vivekananda. Swamiji’s new approach of presenting Vedanta for the modern age is unique in the history of humanity; never before had anyone tried so boldly to teach Advaita to everybody irrespective of caste, creed, race, religion, ashrama of life (student, house-holder, recluse, monk), and adhikara-bheda (level of competency to grasp spiritual truths). He exhorts:
Conceptions of the Vedanta must come out, must remain not only in the forest, not only in the cave, but they must come out to work at the bar and the bench, in the pulpit, and in the cottage of the poor man, with the fishermen that are catching fish, and with the students that are studying.
This bold approach is in sharp contrast with traditional Vedantic monasticism which generally stresses the distinction of Paramarthika (transcendental or absolute) and Vyavaharika (relative) aspects of Reality and the importance of Adhikarawada (the argument that spiritual truths are to be told only to those with subtle and pure minds). Advaita Vedanta was regarded in India as an esoteric philosophy meant for only a few all-renouncing monks, never to be practiced by the majority in day-to-day life. Swamiji’s advent changed that scenario. We shall try here to understand how Swamiji’s new approach affects all of us in every-day life.
India’s collective lack of implementation of Vedanta in life for many centuries resulted in social decadence and loss of political freedom. Swami Ranganathananda points out this mistake:
We failed to stress this whole gamut of social virtues and graces, and to impart the relevant secular education which is the source of them. Instead we stressed an other-worldly excellence with its passive virtues, with inaction as its watchword; we failed to understand that social welfare comes from an activist ethics in the context of interaction with other members in society. The result was that we failed to achieve the more attainable ideals of character, work-efficiency, public spirit, and general well-being, while equally failing to achieve the high ideal of mukti and the virtues and graces associated with so great an ideal. The high spiritual inaction of the mukti path and ideal became deformed into laziness, inertia, and human unconcern, along with a type of worldliness, or “a piety-fringed worldliness” as I prefer to call it, more harmful than the worldliness of the modern Western type, which has at least character-efficiency and human concern to enrich it.
In the Bhagavad-Gita we find Sri Krishna explaining the practical implementation of the spiritual ideal and also manifesting in Himself the teaching. This Holy Scripture has been the backbone of Indian religious life for centuries, but we Indians failed to make it practical, to make it work in our every activity. Sri Krishna had assured us that, ‘svalpamapyasya dharmasya trayate mahato bhayat’ - ‘practicing even a little bit of this dharma saves us from great danger’ ; and had further given the principle of practicing ‘mayi sarvamidam protam sutre maniganiva’ - ‘God is the divine thread that unites all of us like the pearls in a garland’. Unfortunately for India, successive political subjugation added to her failure in practicing this great teaching regarding all spheres of life.
This lacuna of Indian culture is being rectified today with Swamiji’s Practical Vedanta, which proclaims the ideal to everyone and encourages everyone to move towards it, from whatever level one finds oneself. It encompasses the whole gamut of life into this process and thus helps one move not ‘from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth.’ No step is looked down upon or condemned; no activity of life is out of reach for practicing spirituality. This is famously put by Sister Nivedita:
If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realisation. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.
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Pranams to Mata 🙏 she teaches such profound messages with such simplicity and great amount of Clarity. Blessed to Listen to you.
pravrajika mataji really opening our eyes and ways of life too..both in physical and spiritual aspects..pranam
jai Ramakrishna, am blessed to watch this video jai maatha ji
Jay Swamiji Maa,Daily n at each moments I do practice the very incredible knowledge delivered by you. I love this as it lifts me vertically always in daily routine.Pranam Maa🌹🌈
Mata ji is a divine personality
I can absorb this knowledge
Day in day out
Outstanding
Brilliant yet so simply put
Pranaam mataji🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Pranamam to her holiness Maa ji your messages are very nice,clear and knowledgeable.we are fortunate enough.
Maa you are beautiful inside and out Thanks for your teachings
Beautiful Mata ji what wonderful way of teaching mind🌷🤚
Maa....Great teaching. I am lucky enough to hear the great teachings.
Indeed
Thanks Gurumatha
Pranam Mataji ... Epitome of knowledge 🙏
Mind blowing 🙏🕉🙏
Pronam ma marvelous teaching it must help us to control our mind
Very true 👍👍🙏🙏
Excellent ❤️👍
Namasthe ji... 🌹
Very fruitful mataji.thanx;durga durga;
U r an inspiration
Pranamams.
hearty thank you!
Excellent
Training the mind is the most difficult work. Divine mother has already discussed in one of her lectures to follow the instructions as given in Bhagwad Geeta.
Chapter 4 probably verse 33 and 34.
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Maa thank you is a small for the wisdom you are giving.. how to be your disciple.. where could I join Vedanta leaving materialism 🌸🙏🏻😇
very good
Mataji, could you please write a small book compiling wisdom from the Upanishads for curent day today life in simple language as a ready reference.
Where is mind situated? Is it a misnomer!
There Is Ray Of Swamiji,Suster Nibedita, Mother Merry,Mother Teresa....
Man -Manas,Chitta,Ahankar,Buddhi.
My college 😀😀😀
There is a separate discipline called ‘anushtana Vedanta ‘ that deals only with this subject. It tells you how you can be a ‘Vedanti and a ‘karmi at the same time. I think people who follow this route are called ‘nishkamya karmi. Ramakrishna Mutt is in the forefront of teaching this.
মা আপনার মাতৃভাষা বাংলা,তাই না?🙂😊🙏
Excellent🎉🎉