Just started the course this week. The course looks interesting.

Hari Om. In the opening Chapter 1 discourse of MGML, Swamiji beautifully explains Moksha as freedom from the agitations of the mind. Can someone provide some light on how is this related / unrelated to the interpretation of Moksha as liberation from the cycle of life and death?

It was said that Knowledge is direct cause for Liberation? Can someone explain how this is possible?

Namaskaram , can someone let me know the clear difference or how to distinguish between a Mantra, Stotram, Slokam and Sutra?
In other words, suppose I see a couple of lines of text, is there a way to know if I am learning/reading a mantra/stotra/sloka/sutra assuming it is one of the four?
Thank you!

Sir, is there a continuation of video 6 - Consonants with vowels?
I got to see only the first 4 vowel combination...Thanks

I am looking for an online source for the word by word meaning of verses from Bhagavadgita. Text book has words both in Sanskrit and English with meaning.
for example:
धर्मक्षेत्रे dharmakṣetre = on the holy plane (field); कुरुक्षेत्रे kurukṣetre = at Kurukṣetra;
Is there any online source that provides similar format?

Q.14 -
Which of the following statements is true with respect to worldly knowledge and Self-knowledge?

My answer 'Self-knowledge grants us the Self' has been marked incorrect.

Please let me know why this is incorrect.

Hari Om,

Could you suggest a version of "Manusmriti" (in English) that I could buy? Could you share the author's name etc?
I would really appreciate a response

Regards
Anand

सङ्कल्पविकल्पात्मकं मनः ।
निश्चयात्मिका बुद्धिः ।
अहंकर्ता अहंकारः ।
चिन्तनकर्तृ चित्तम् ।

Which of these does imagination? Is it Chitta?
Which does analysis? Is it Buddhi?

Hari Om!

Is Mahabharata real or myth?

There is controversy about this. Personally, the teaching from it and B. Gita is real for me.

Someone who is not familiar with Indian tradition, how would you answer that? Where had it happened? etc.

Sincerely,
Jigna

Hari Om,

Could you suggest the suggested version of "Manusmriti" (in English) that I could buy? Could you share the author's name etc?
I would really appreciate a response

Regards
Anand

Namaskaram/Hari Om,

Is there an alternate way to pronounce the alphabet "la"?

For example, my native language is Malayalam. In Malayalam, written as മലയാളം we have ല and ള (The same sound in Tamil in the word "Vellai" with additional stress on la though). However, in Sanskrit, I have seen that there is only ल

I chant Kanakadhara stotram daily and there are words like

"Pulaka" - I pronounce it as ള instead of ല
"Mukula" - I pronounce it as ള instead of ല
"Mangala" - I pronounce it as ള instead of ല
"Kalambudali" - I pronounce it as ള instead of ല
"Lalitha" - First La pronounced as ल (ല) and li as ളി

My question is - Should it always be pronounced as ल (ല). Is there ള sound in Sanskrit

I hope, my question is straightforward. Sorry to have had to add the Malayalam alphabet. That was the only way I could express the sound here.

Thanks again
Anand

Hari Om.

I want to know user friendly software application for computers to type answers in Sanskrit for the questionnaire section. Please suggest and help me.

Dhanyavadh:

Ramesh

Hari Om,

Could someone please advise if there is any variation to the sound ल in the way it is pronounced?

Regards
Anand

Hari Om,

In the first lesson, 2nd topic the teacher uses a term in Sanskrit or Hindi which I could not hear correctly . It refers to « how you look at things ».

It sounded like Yata drishti???????

please tell me the word.

thank you
Namaste

Swamiji,

What happens to Jeevathma after a persons death?.How does Re birth happens?

I am unable to see the correct answer for my wrong answer in the answer sheet .
Usha Srinivasan

Swamiji was explaining Paramatma+Maya = Easwaran and Paramatma+Avidya=Jeevan. What is Easwaran here ? Is it deities we pray in temples like Swami Ayyapa or Guruvayoorapa ? What is Avidya ? Is it Ignorance or Ajnanam ?

Namaskaram,

I started this course last week. I just wanted to thank the foundation and the Swamiji who is in the video for simplifying the course and for making it interesting at the same time. I look forward to the future sessions

Regards
Anand

can saying the gayatri mantra during sandhyavandhanam be considered as japa??

Hello,

I am new to the course , but not new to Advita Vedanta. Both Shankara + Ramana Maharshi (with whose material I am familiar) specify that ATMAN is identical to Brahma.

Question 1:

• Can I use ATMAN as my idol, such as for example by printing the word ATMAN in sanskrit?

Question 2

• Can a saint be considered an idol such as Ramana Maharshi?

Question 3

• Can devotion to idol include burning incense before the image? This helps generate in me a sence of the sacred and devotion.

These are my questions.

Thank you for your answers

Namaste

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Is this Forum the right place to post a Question on understanding some lines from the Holy SriMadh Bhagwatam which I am studying further to the initiation done by Our Pujya Swamiji Abhedanandaji at Sidbari Camp?Can any of our Respected Acharayaji clarify a verse or two as it is a Sanskrit Shloka. If Yes then I will post it after some response. Hari Om

is there another place where you can send questions about vedanta?

my question doesnt seem to be getting a response.

is my question inappropriate?

i appologise for my jivas ignorance if so.

hari aum

ben

It seems to my jiva that from the perspective of "pots" things can be right and wrong , good and bad (this is the everyday world of the jiva, the samsari)

But

Just below the surface (in fact zero distance away from the pot is the the clay!) is the realm of the clay (ishvara) and in that place that perspective of pot is gone.

In that place every "thing" (any thought, feeling or perception) ignorance included is exactly where its meant to be until its not mean to be there (say when a jiva discovers the vedas).

This would make a Jiva's ignorance completely blameless (though it would not protect it from the results of bad actions)

does that sound right?

Ben

Hari om,
I am having doubt in lesson 1 sloka 2

There is a nagging question in the mind of sadhakas. The question is "What should we do when there is so much terrorism happening in the world. Should we remain focused on our Inner transformation, being calm and peaceful (passive) or is there any other thing which we need to do? Probably, when such acts affect us or our families, then we should remain calm is what Vedanta teaches us. What is the art of right contact with the world in such cases?