Let us THINK : By Dr.King show

Let us THINK : By Dr.King

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 (B21)- How does one realize God? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]         After having defined what God is, and why idol worship is not something forbidden, Badarayana goes on to give some finer suggestions on God realization.

 (B20)- Are Hindus idolaters? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]    Idol worship has been in vogue since time immemorial in all races and communities. Hindus are no exceptions. But Abrahamic religions forbid idol worship at least as a principle. There is an interesting story regarding this.

 NewAudioBook: The Ultimate Book on Yoga | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]            For people who love to listen to audio books, here is some good news.

 (B19)- Inert things can not produce intelligence | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]    In the previous episode we saw how Badarayana defines God. Most religions should have no problems accepting that definition.  That definition does not talk about a person or an entity, but a cause. It is more of a way of explaining the origination of the world.

 (B18)- Definition of God | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]    Since our entire discussion revolves around God or Brahma, probably we should first define what this God is. Many people who claim to be believers have tough time defining God.  They may describe God as some person in the heaven, or some deity in a temple, and so on. But they probably cannot ‘define’ God.

 (B16)- Be like a mother! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]    If you ever were a mother – well, no gender bias, it could as well apply to a father - you probably would better appreciate whatever I am going to discuss now. As a child grows, it goes through stages of gradual building up of its vocabulary. Most of what it says initially is gibberish and makes no sense at all. But does a mother ever complain? On the contrary she takes that with pride – her kid is at least attempting to say something. She finds meaning in those unintelligible words!

 (B15)- Be an observer and not a Judge! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]    Have you ever seen a rotten corpse? Just the thought of it may be repulsing to you. The nauseating stench, decomposed flesh, wriggling maggots, the hungry vultures tearing apart the rotten stuff… Can you picturize that? Horrible isn’t it?

 (B14)- You speak like a drunkard! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]   I am sorry to use such harsh words. But they are not my words, nor they are addressed to you. That is how the Brahma supporters admonish their Jain opponents.  Let us continue our debate between the Brahma supporters and the Jain philosophers that we started in the previous episode.  The Jain philosophers have a totally non violent approach even when they debate. They use their AnEkaantha Vaada to accept even the opponent’s view as one of the possible views. They don’t disagree with anyone. That is nice. But the Brahma supporters have problem even with that approach. This is how they refute the Jain views.

 (B13)- You are right as well as wrong! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]   How do you like it when someone says that to you? Is it meant to be a compliment or criticism? Many a times, even very nice ideas fall apart when it comes to practical application.  Jainism, one of the very ancient Indian schools of philosophy, has many such puzzling things. With all high respect for the great masters of this school, I often see many contradictions in their way of thinking, however much they were well intended.

 (B12)- Similarity does not mean identity! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]       Many of us often make the mistake of jumping to conclude identity, based on similarity between two things. If two things are similar, that does not mean that they are identical. A cow has 4 legs and so also a dog. That does not make cow and dog same!  The Vijnyaana Vadi Buddhists see the similarity between the dream world and our wakeful world and jump to the conclusion that since dream world is nonexistent, our wakeful world also does not exist! The brahma supporters reject this reasoning. Let us see how.

 (B11)- It is all in the Mind! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]             There was another sect of Buddhists who denied the existence of the material world. They said that “all that exists is only the minds. What we think as something existing outside is actually inside our mind!”

 (B10)- Liberation or Nirvana for whom? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]   The Buddhists have a fantastic theory of existence which neither needs the concept of soul nor the God. They say that there is no one who experiences anything. But still they say that you need to toil all your life to free yourself from all the suffering! That is the focal point of Buddhism. The Brahma supporters ridicule this theory of Buddhists not only as illogical but something that contradicts our day-to-day experience. This is how they pull down the Buddhist theory –

 (B09)- Nothing is permanent! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]    In the previous episode we noted that the Buddhists rejected the concept of soul as well as God. These two were central to the philosophy of the Brahma supporters. Definitely there is a serious difference. Before we sort out the differences, let us first listen to what the Buddhists have to say.

 NewBook: Krishna’s 4 paths to Ultimate happiness | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]    I am happy to announce the release of my 23rd book namely “Krishna's 4 paths to ultimate happiness”. Though not exactly a book on Yoga in the conventional sense, the subtitle of this book reads as “Complete Yogic science of the Bhagavad Geetha”.  Like the Bhagavad Geetha, specifically in this book, I use the word Yoga in a wide connotation – to mean a path to ultimate realization or happiness. This path also includes conventional Yoga as a form of meditative practice, in addition to other paths such as Jnyaana Yoga, Karma Yoga and Bhakti Yoga.

 (B08)- There is neither soul nor any God! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[Quick links] [Pause]   As we discussed in the previous episodes, the supporters of Brahma or God somehow managed to silence their opponents in the Vedic camp. Prominent among these opponents were the Samkhya and the Vaisheshika.  These opponents, though they accepted the authority of the Vedas, were not willing to accept the concept of God. Not at least as a source of the created world. They had their own reasons which the Brahma supporters vehemently refuted.

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