... Shree Richard - PraNAms. Shree Sastriji answered your question beautifully. I will provide here a simple analogy. If I need a live guide to guide me to...
Ananda-ji wrote: In traditional times, before the recent rise of modern physics, classical systems of education were centred on the learning of a classic...
Dear Harshaji, Richard ClarkeJi, I am a guest at Ramana Ashramam from Today till Friday this week and am desperate to do the following i) Do GiriPradakshina...
... a living guru for the realizing of moksha? Dear Richard: The question is phrased in a very peculiar way. Nisargadatta Maharaj needed Siddharameshwar...
Namaste Micheal-ji, The traditional mark of scholarship in Sanskrit per se is the ability to compose poetry in it. The historical evolution of Sanskrit was of...
Dear members, Adding on to my reply on this topic in reference to the example given by Shri Mouna on Sri Adi Sankara: well, Acharya Sankara was already ...
Dear Richard, my I add something to Mounas and others posts: Yes, readiness is all that is required. Still readiness does not fall from heaven all of a sudden,...
... Hari OM! May be we need to understand what "living guru" means. Guru, literally means one who dispels darkness of ignorance. Any teacher who removes...
Dear Richard, In many shastras/scriptures and writings by teachers the necessity of a Guru for moksha is declared and it is implied that a disciple will visit...
Conlusion is that presence of living-guru is most suitable for attaining moksha but not necessary praNAms Hare krishna pardon me, I have not been following...
na bahiHprajnam—not conscious of the external world—By this the waking state is eliminated. praNAms Sri Sastri prabhuji Hare Krishna May I request your...
Namaste: IMO - The reason why most of the enlightened folks had a "living guru" because they were enlightened in the fist place and did not wish to have a...
... Hari OM! Pranam. This is not to differ or disagree, but to clarify my own thinking, by seeing if there are any holes in it. If one is already enlightened,...
I have not read Sanskrit scriptures. But all through the life I have a feeling that some higher power has been guiding my destiny though apparently I have been...
I apologized mentally to Sri Adi Shankaracharya for ever having attached gender to any monk and if I do so again. Sri is really not based on gender, however he...
namaste sastri gAru thanks for the explanation, yes you were right, soon after that I realized that the website which i was referring to was ISKCON one.... why...
Namaskar, someone said: ""If we start our own studies with the printed study material without the help of the guru, there is every possibility that we may fail...
Dear All, Just returning from a 4 days stay at the foot hills of Arunachala I am left pondering why Adi Sankaracharya who mentioned and praised all famous...
From : H.N.Sreenivasa Murthy Pranams to all. ... Dear Sri Akshay Chawala, Listener and reader are exposed to the same knowledge. But, there is the difference :...
... Hi Mouna, Maybe that's because I am a very peculiar person. Actually it wasn't phrased too well but I was trying to convey the already-ness of moksha which...
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