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Aham Brahmasmi

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🧵#Jagadguru #Shankaracharya #SriSri Abhinava Vidyatirtha Mahaswamiji: People have a natural capacity to love. Affection requires an object & when that object is God, it gets labelled #bhakti or devotion. Nārada defines bhakti as the extreme love of God. He who attains such

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devotion no longer longs for anything and is ever fully satiated and happy. While attachment to wife, wealth, etc., causes bondage, attachment to God liberates. A sense object sometimes gives joy and sometimes sorrow. It is not always available and has several faults. On the

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other hand, God is ever-captivating, constantly available and totally free from blemishes. Further, what or who can be as loveable as God who is the repository of all good qualities? So bewitching are His glories that even sages who have realized the Truth and have

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵4 Commands by #Jagadguru #Shankaracharya #SriSri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamiji: People are habituated to satisfy their Svartha(self-interests)."I shall act upon something only if I get something out of it."This Svartha is present in everyone.We say that everyone is selfish but
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#AdiShankara #Bhagavatpada says that it is good to have Svartha – provided you know what Svartha actually is. That which is beneficial to you is Svartha. Acquiring wealth, name and fame do not actually constitute Svartha. For all of these are transitory. Exert yourself to

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attain that which is permanent. Then you can be truly said to have Svartha. He who does not realize this having attained the rare human birth is indeed pitiable.

इतः को न्वस्ति मूढात्मा यस्तु स्वार्थे प्रमाद्यति ।
दुर्लभं मानुषं देहं प्राप्य तत्रापि पौरुषम् ॥

Everyone

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵#NamamiJagadgurum 008 on the #Jayanthi of Sri Sacchidananda Shivabhinava #Narasimha Bharathi #Mahaswamiji-33rd #Sringeri #Jagadguru

It may be fairly said without fear of contradiction that Sri Jagadguru had gone through every branch of #Sanskrit #Literature and retained

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most of it in his memory. The most knotty points HH would unravel in a marvellously easy way to the intense admiration of his audience. The Sastras were Jagadguru’s playground & would revel in them as often and as much as he could. Besides, the Sastras HH was adept in Kavyas

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and dramas also. It was a very favourite pastime with HH to repeat what are known as Antadi Slokas. More than a dozen Pandits may range together against the Jagadguru and still he would be a match to them all. HH would repeat from memory Slokas by thousands and all his

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵Just as in the world, some thief might lead a person with his eyes covered from a village(called Gandhara), and might leave him, with eyes covered and hands bound, in a forest where there are no human beings; and this person not being able to find his way calls out for

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help and just as some sympathetic person may hear his cry, then removed his blindfold & handcuffs and tells him- "Gandhara is to the north from here, go in this direction." Then having his bondage removed by the sympathetic person, goes along asking his way from village to

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village, and having been rightly advised, he reaches Gandhara. Here, two expressions are to be taken note of: The man in question would have first to secure information from some source, or other as to the path he has to follow, and secondly he must have the desire and the

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Aham Brahmasmi

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🧵#Jagadguru #Shankaracharya #SriSri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamiji: While engaging in noble deeds, one must not cause intense strain to one’s own physical body such as engaging in unduly long periods of fast. The physical body being the instrument to engaging in #Dharma must

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also be taken care of. Likewise, one need not attempt to do what is much beyond one’s capacity. Not all can desire to perform the Atirudra Mahayuga. Instead, a Ekadasha Rudra performed with sincere devotion and faith will bring about one’s welfare.

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The intention to engage in noble deeds is important & good but we must be principled even in such matters.Noble deeds must be engaged in without causing inconvenience or harm to others & without getting any kind of support from unrighteous persons.

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#SanatanaDharma #Sringeri

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵#NamamiJagadgurum Series 007

The 12th Sringeri Jagadguru #SriSri Vidyaranya Mahaswamigal was a great sage, prolific writer, statesman, spiritual leader of a throne that lasted for more than two centuries, and preceptor of that Vijayanagara empire’s first three sovereigns.

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HH’s works constituted the greatest treatises in post-Shankara Advaitic literature. HH’s marvellous interpretative skills reconciled many apparent differences in philosophic texts.

The South provided a stronghold for Vedic dharma, which had suffered under Muslim rule in the

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North. The resurgence of Vedic practices was evident in all areas, including politics and socio-religious activities.Sri Vidyaranya played a significant role in the formation of a Hindu empire, and HH also helped to restore worship in several temples that had been suspended.

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Aham Brahmasmi

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#Sringeri #Jagadguru #SriSri Chandrashekhara Bharati Mahaswamiji explains the importance of #Karma in simple terms & how it acts as a cleansing agent :

Sri Jagadguru, when asked about the necessity of karma explained that it is needed for the cleansing of mind. Though

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the real happiness lies in us, we are not aware of it because of ignorance. This ignorance does not allow us to escape the attractions of worldly pleasures. We deweed, put manure, water and then sow the seeds in the field. We also continuously watch the growth

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of the plants to get good harvests. So we should de-weed our minds of the #adharma or wrong behavior, manure it with #dharma or righteousness, and observe our behavior continuously and carefully to cleanse the mind. Then the mind becomes worthy and potent to realise the

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵#NamamiJagadgurum 006

Sri Sacchidananda Shivabhinava #Narasimha Bharathi #Mahaswamiji the 33rd #Sringeri #Jagadguru

"There was no branch of knowledge which Sri Jagadguru did not know and that too Sastraically."

HH was grand in simplicity.People would give anything and

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everything to get HH’s blessings. All comforts that love or money could secure were at HH’s beck and call. Still HH was perfectly indifferent to them. HH never cared for them. Not only did HH not care for them, but HH actually did not know the value of them as it is

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understood by us. HH did not know the difference between one Rupee and one lakh of Rupees. HH considered both as valuable as the mud HH was treading on. HH would very often lie down on the bare ground and as often wander in lonely forests and derive therefrom

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵#NamamiJagadgurum Series 005

(From 1981 When Sri Sri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamiji was Sannidhanam): The past history of the Sringeri Math proves that its Pontiffs are chosen by the will of the Divine Mother and that this pre-ordainment is no accident. Otherwise, why

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should a boy in his teens go all the way and all alone, from Andhra Pradesh to Ujjain and stay with His Holiness from then on, without a day's break as student and disciple, for twelve years with no thought other than to study the sastras?

At a meeting in Calcutta he said

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with characteristic humility "when I joined His Holiness, I had no thought in mind except to learn the sastras according to ancient Hindu tradition and leave the future to itself. But by the Grace of the Goddess I have been entrusted with great responsibility". And how

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵A #MustRead : #Jagadguru #Shankaracharya #SriSri #Chandrashekara Bharathi Mahaswamigal on the "Conquest of Desire":

"Do not depend on outside things to make yourself happy.."

To call a man healthy, it is quite unnecessary to postulate of him that he had some disease..

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before and that he is now cured of it. Freedom from sickness is a condition of health and certainly not an antecedent sickness and a recovery from it. Similarly, happiness can only mean freedom from unhappiness. And it cannot be a necessary condition of happiness that it

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should have been preceded by a state of unhappiness. The health which is not preceded by sickness is more natural, true and permanent than the one obtained on the cessation of a sickness. Similarly, happiness which is not preceded by a mental disturbance is sure to be more

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

Vid Dr M L Narasimha Murthy, a great Scholar of Vedanta attained Sadgati. He was a patron of this medium. It is an irreparable loss to the academic and Sanskrit world and a huge void will be felt for a long time to the #Vedanta-seeking community. He was a regular invitee to

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all the prestigious Vakyartha Sabhas including at Sringeri. #Jagadguru #Shankaracharya Sri Sri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamiji had honoured him with a Golden ring. Post-retirement he had gotten busier with advanced students of Sanskrit & Vedanta constantly seeking his help

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& Peethadhipatis from across the country used to entrust him with important work as he was a Scholar of the highest order. He was also in the process of writing more books. Apart from these commitments he believed in spreading far & wide the True purport of our Shastras &

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵Mysore Maharaja on the role of 'Guru' in one's life & their Guru Bhakti towards Sringeri Guru Parampara.
(Heartening to read that our ErstwhileRulers set aside their time for #AtmaVidya inspite of having umpteen things to do,while we mere mortals forever appear to be busy!)
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H. H. Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar Bahadur
(The below was written when HH was the Governor Of Madras)
I remember that while I was yet a novice in spiritual learning, I read #Sureswaracharya's "Manasollasa", the commentary on the #Dakshinamurti Stotra, and what impressed me was

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a quotation found in it, which is contained in the Swetaswatara Upanishad :
यस्य देवे परा भक्तिः यथा..
This sloka has had a salutary effect on me so much that it has remained ever fresh in my mind. Its significance is that they who have as much reverence for the Guru as

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵Words of #Sringeri #Jagadguru #Shankaracharya #SriSri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamiji on his Parama Guru (Sri Sri Sri Chandrashekhara Bharati Mahaswamiji):

"As said in his Astottara, a lump of earth, a stone & gold were the same to him, & he did not value one above the other"

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Brahmasri Sri Virupaksha Sastrigal was appointed to complete the study of the Sastras (for the new Guru). Sri Virupaksha Sastrigal, who was famous in those days for his erudition in Nyaya and Vedanta, was astonished at the intellectual power of the Sri Guru. The study which

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took others three years to complete was finished by the guru in one year. Greatly surprised, Sri Sastrigal used to share his gratification with those around him.

The extent of scholarship acquired by the guru could be measured by the commentary which he wrote on

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵Invaluable gem from the pen of #Jagadguru #SriSri Sacchidananda Shivabhinava NrisimhaBharati:

In the Siva-gita of the Padma Purana,it is said that Rama asked Siva: "How does immaculate knowledge about You, the Lord,arise in a man? O Hara,if you are gracious to Me, tell me

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the means to it." On being asked thus, the Lord replied:
"Having become detached towards everything inclusive of the state of Brahma & disinclined towards everybody inclusive of one's sons and friends, possessed of faith in the scriptures dealing with liberation and desirous
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of the knowledge revealed by the Upanishad-s, one should, with an offering in one's hand, approach a Guru who has realised Brahman."

"Being attentive, one should please one's Guru through services rendered for long. One should then listen with intense concentration to the
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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

#Jagadguru #Shankaracharya #SriSri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamiji: We have to take care to spend our lives every day purposefully. That is why it is said –
प्रत्यहं प्रत्यवेक्षेत नरश्चरितम् आत्मनः।
किं नु मे पशुभिस्तुल्यं...
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his day went. He has to examine himself thus, “Did I live like a noble person or did I spend it like an animal?”. We must always remember that we can never shut our own conscience to errors we committed. A thief may deny that he committed a theft despite being roughed by cops.2/5

However despite his denial, his own conscience knows that he committed the theft.
Sri #AdiShankara states – नलिनीदलगतजलमतितरलंतद्वज्जीवितमतिशयचपलम् (The life of a person is as fragile as water drops trembling on a lotus leaf). Hence when we are blessed with this human birth,3/5

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

#Jagadguru #SriSri Vidhushekhara Bharati Mahaswamiji on Three important qualities for a #Spiritual #aspirant:

The first is Astikyam- firm faith in the Vedic tenets. The Kathopanishad states that one devoid of Astikyam would attach more importance to materialistic possessions,1/5

would believe not in the existence of other worlds, would remain unaware of साम्परायः – the means to spiritual welfare – and end up remaining in the cycle of Samsara–
न साम्परायः प्रतिभाति बालं प्रमाद्यन्तं वित्तमोहेन मूढम्
अयं लोको नास्ति पर इति मानी पुनः पुनर्वशमापद्यते मे॥2/5

The second quality that is essential for anyone in the spiritual path is Vairagya or dispassion. Someone once asked “I seek Moksha for myself and my family.” – this very statement indicates the absence of Vairagya that is essential for those in the path of liberation.Vairagya 3/5

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

#Jagadguru #Shankaracharya #SriSri Vidhushekhara Bharati Mahaswamiji: In this world, man endears himself to various objects and pursuits. When man thinks that something can give him happiness, he desires it. The desire for happiness itself is independent of any other desire. 1/4

That is why Sukha or happiness is defined as the object of desire that is independent of all other desires – इतरेच्छानधीन-इच्छाविषयत्वम्. While everyone desires objects to be happy,the desire for happiness itself is never questioned. No one asks “Why do you want to be happy?”.2/4

This desire for happiness for one’s own self arises because one’s own self is the most beloved. This leads us to the question, “What is the Self?”
Self:The Most Beloved. We can,by a #knowledge of clay, be aware of all objects made of clay. Likewise,by knowing gold, we can be 3/4

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

#Jagadguru #SriSri Vidhushekhara Bharati Mahaswamiji: The #Mahatmas are ever-calm and compassionate and bring about the welfare of all, like the fresh season of spring – शान्ता महान्तो निवसन्ति सन्तः वसन्तवल्लोकहितं चरन्तः
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superior, with each one putting forth its importance.
Thumb: Without me, none of the other fingers can function properly.
Index finger: I command all people.
Middle finger: I am at the centre and am the tallest.
Ring finger: I am the most wealthy! All rings reach me first.
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Finally the little finger said, “I have no such unique utility or greatness as the other four. However, whenever someone puts up their hand in the Anjali Mudra🙏 in reverence to God or Mahatmas, it is me who is fortunate to have their Darshan first.”
The moral here is that 3/5

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Lakshminarayan G

@narayanagl

#Thread
Once there was a Formal Debate of Sringeri #Jagadguru Versus a #Missionary!
Following is an interesting debate that took place between the Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Shringeri Sharada piitam, Shrii Shrii Abhinava Vidyathiirtha Mahaswamigal (1931–1989) and a Christian

Missionary, sometime in the year 1973.
The missionary had come to Shringeri to debate with Acharya & establish the "superemacy" of Christianity over the #Hindu dharma. After exchanging a few words of formality,
Jagadguru: What is the purpose of your visit ?

Missionary: Swamiji, I intend to open a Christian church and an ashram just near you mutt.
Jagadguru: What's the objective or motivation for doing so?
Missionary: I want to preach Christianity and help distressed people seek peace and salvation

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KiloVolt

@KiloVolt18

Today is Jagadguru Sri Chandrashekhara Bharathi Mahaswamigal's Jayanti. Acharyal reigned as the 34th Jagadguru of Sri Sharada Peetham, Sringeri between 1912 & 1954. His avatara occurred on Ashvina Krsna Ekadashi in the year Nandana. 1/n #sringeri #jagadguru

Born to the pious couple Sri Gopala Shastri & Smt Lakshmamma, Acharyal shone in tapas, devotion to Ishvara & Sri Sharada and establishment in the Supreme Brahman gracing devotees beyond the confines of space & time. 2/n #sringeri #jagadguru

Acharyal's divine avatara had an equally divine beginning. His purvashrama parents bore 11 children only to lose all of them. The austere couple continued their worship of Ishvara & the Guru with forbearance, fortitude & faith. 3/n #sringeri #jagadguru

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Chowkidar Lakshminarayan G

@narayanagl

#Thread #DidYouKnow
A Formal Debate of #Shringeri #Jagadguru Versus a #Missionary!
Following is an interesting debate that took place between the Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Shringeri Sharada piitam, Shrii Shrii Abhinava Vidyathiirtha Mahaswamigal (1931–1989) and a Christian

Missionary, sometime in the year 1973.
The missionary had come to Shringeri to debate with the Acharya and establish the "superemacy" of Christianity over the #Hindu #dharma. After exchanging a few words of formality,

Jagadguru: What is the purpose of your visit ?
Missionary: Swamiji, I intend to open a Christian church and an ashram just near you mutt.
Jagadguru: What's the objective or motivation for doing so?

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