Upanishad Ganga | Ep 49 |The yoga of knowledge | Multi Languages #ChinmayaMission

🌸Story of Sadashiva Brahmendra 🌸

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*Key Insights:*

1. **Renunciation and Knowledge Seeking**: The episode focuses on renunciation as a path to seek ultimate knowledge. The protagonist, Shivaram Krishnan, gives up worldly attachments, including family, to pursue a higher spiritual purpose.

2. *Role of Upanishadic Knowledge**: The dialogue highlights how studying the Upanishads can lead to supreme knowledge and liberation from worldly suffering. This is the core principle of *Jnana Yoga (the yoga of knowledge), emphasizing self-inquiry and wisdom as the means to attain the truth.

3. **Tests of Life**: Shivaram Krishnan undergoes various trials, including hunger and impatience, reflecting how physical desires can obstruct spiritual progress. His spiritual growth is mirrored in his ability to overcome these base impulses through patience and understanding.

4. **Teacher-Disciple Relationship**: The role of the guru (teacher) is prominent, guiding the seeker on their journey toward self-realization. The guru emphasizes the importance of study, reflection (manan), and meditation to transcend the limitations of the mind.

5. **Control over Mind and Ego**: A key teaching is the need to control the mind's chatter. Even after observing silence (maun), Shivaram realizes that true silence comes when the mind is free of thoughts, signifying a deeper level of self-discipline and control.

6. **Challenges of Meditation**: The protagonist learns that meditation is difficult because the mind is restless and scattered. However, through practice and dispassion, control over the mind can be achieved.

7. **Overcoming Desire and Ego**: The narrative touches upon how desires, whether physical or intellectual, cloud one’s spiritual vision. True knowledge comes when one goes beyond ego-driven debates and worldly desires.

8. **Wisdom Beyond Words**: Shivaram Krishnan eventually enters a state of silence, where he experiences the bliss of being beyond the mind and intellect. This state is described as being "beyond the body" and aligned with the ultimate reality, Brahman.

9. **Detachment from the World**: As Shivaram progresses spiritually, he becomes detached from physical needs and the material world. His journey is seen as one towards becoming a sage or Avadhuta, someone who is beyond worldly attachments.

10. **Acceptance of His State**: Towards the end, the guru acknowledges Shivaram’s state as one of supreme wisdom. Despite seeming madness to others, the guru recognizes it as a yogic state of oneness with the universe.

*Moral/Teachings:*
True knowledge (*Jnana Yoga*) involves detachment from worldly desires and ego, leading to liberation and inner peace.
The mind is the biggest obstacle in realizing the self, and controlling it requires patience, practice, and dispassion.
The journey of self-realization is personal and cannot always be understood or aided by others; it is a path that transcends conventional logic and reason.
Silence is not just the absence of speech but the quieting of the mind and ego, allowing one to experience the oneness with the ultimate truth.

00:00 - Introductory Music
01:05 - Story of Sadashiva Brahmendra.
02:55 - Sankar Math and Paramshivendra
05:30 - Shivaram Krishnan completes his studies and returns home
10:25 - Shivaram Krishnan visits Shankar Math again
11:26 - Understanding Brahman
17:40 - The Ultimate State of Bliss
20:19 - Closing Credits

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