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maha vAkya vichAram continues..! TB-60|

तस्मात्कारणान्न जीवेश्वरयोर्भेदबिद्धिः स्वीकार्या |TB-60|

tasmAt kAraNAt na jeeva eeshvarayo: bhEda buddhi: sveekAryA |TB-60|

tasmAt kAraNAt = due that reason.. na sveekAryA = may you not accept.. bhEda buddhi: = an attitude or a conviction of "difference" jeeva eeshvarayo: = between jeeva and eeshvara..



The guru starts.."due to this reason alone"..what reason? the reason given eaalier..

Jeeva has an adjunct.. avidyA or ignorance.. this is the starting capital with which we came into this world.. and we continue to transact business in this world.. all the while being convinced that how "smart" we are.. are we really that smart?

Then god has an adjunct also.. mAyA.. mAyA has three guNas satvam, rajas, and tamas... with the purest of the purestof all guNas.. satvam... god becomes all knowing.. no taint of ignorance whatosever.

but still.. an adjunct is an adjunct.. so god is god and I am me.. that sounds almost right.. but our guru makes that statement and says "due this difference in upadhi alone, we have a god and we have a jeeva.

BUT LET THIS DIFFERENCE NOT BECOME A STUMBLING BLOCK IN OUR BUDDHI WHEN IT NEEDS TO ASSIMILATE THE ONENESS BETWEEN JEEVA AND GOD..

I know what I am.. and I know what god is.. at least my religion.. my daddy and my family or my friends have told me what god is.

I have already formed an opinion.. and when I am almost convinced that god is god and I am me, guru warns me lovingly.. that "hey you.. you have two different adjuncts.. so may you understand that both of you are one and the same"

Now I am convinced (at least within myself ) that this guru is NO good and does NOT know what he is talking about.

A whole series of questions pop in m head.. and I am ready to show my guru how little he knows.. I also know how to phrase the question so that he will be floored wiht the astuteness of my question.

But the guru is still smiling

Friends, this is where a serious study of vEdAnta begins fueled by a desire to understand it all

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