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The Tatvabodha so far ..!

The Tatvabhodha started with a Statement that we are going to expound the mode of enquiry ( Tatva viveka prakaaram ) to those qualified with Sadhana chatushtayam. The mode of enquiry ( tatva viveka prakaaram) is about the means of liberation.

Then we have seen what is meant by Sadhana chatushtayam. The one endowed with Sadhana chatushtayam then becomes qualified to receive tatva viveka prakaaram , the mode of enquiry into reality.

Then explaining about tatva vivekah , we hear about Self or Atma.

In explaining Self or Atma , it is explained that the self is other than three forms of the bodies Sarira Traya namely Sthula , Sukshma and karana Sarira.

The Sarira Traya is then explained in Tatvabhodha 5 . The Self or Atma is also explained as the witness of the Avastha traya. The question about what is this Avastha Traya is explained in Tatvabhodha 6 ! The Self or Atma is also explained as something other than Pancha kosaha. Panchakosaha is then explained .Tatvabhodha 7

Then we hear the postive description of Atman as sachidananda svarupa.

Having explained Atman, Tatvabhodha 8 moves to explain the twentyfour elements and the unity of Jivatman and Paramatman.

In Tatvabodha 9 we hear an explanation of the Mahavakya Tat tvam Asi.

In Tatva bodha 10 we learn about Jivanmukta and the three types of Karma . Then Sankar declares that the the one who knows self attains supreme Bliss here itself

That ends the Tatva bodha of Sankaracharya !
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एवं च वेदांतवाक्यैः

सद्गुरूपदेशेन च सर्वेष्वपि भूतेषु

येषां ब्रह्मबुद्धिरुत्पन्ना ते

जीवन् मुक्ताः इति अर्थः ।

Thus by the words of vedanta and the teachings of a Sadguru , those in whom the vision of the truth is born , all those beings are liberated while living.

ननु जीवन्मुक्तः कः ?
यथा देहो अहं पुरुषः अहं शूद्रो अहं अस्मि इति दृढ निश्चयः
तथा नाहं ब्राह्मणः न शूद्रः न पुरुषः
किंतु असंगः सच्चिदानंद स्वरूपः प्रकाश रूपः
सर्वांतर्यामि चिदाकाशरूपो अस्मि इति
दृढनिश्चयरूपः अपरोक्षज्ञानवान् जीवन्मुक्तः ।

Then who is Jivanmukta ?

Just has one has firm belief that I am the body , I am the purusha , I am a Sudra ; Similarly based on immediate knowledge when one has a firm belief that I am not Brahmin, I am not the Purusha, I am not a Sudra but I am unattached , i am of the nature of existence - consciousness - bliss , effulgent , the indweller of all and form less Awareness , that one is Jivanmukta .

ब्रह्म एव अहं अस्मि , इति अपरोक्ष ज्ञानेन निखिलकर्मबंध विनिर्मुक्तः स्यात् ।

By the immediate knowledge that I am brahman alone , one becomes free from bondage of all karmas

कर्माणि कतिविधानि सम्ति

इति चेत् आगामी संचित

प्रारब्द भेदेन त्रिविधानि संति इति ।

If one is aked how many kinds of karmas are there , the answer is that theer are three kinds of karma namely agami , samchita, praarabda !

ज्ञानोत्पत्ति अनंतरं ज्ञानि देहकृतं

पुण्य पापरूपं कर्म यदस्ति

तत् आगामी इति अभिदीयते ।

The results of actions good or bad performed by the body of the one who is a realized soul is known as agami karma

संचित कर्म किं ?
अनंत कोटि जन्मानां

बीजभूतं सत् यत्कर्मजातं पूर्वार्जितं तिष्टति

तत् संच्जित कर्म ज्ञेयं ।

What is Samchita karma ?

The results of actions performed in all previous births which are in seed form and giving rise to further endless crores of births , that karma is called samchita karma.

प्रारब्ध कर्म किं इति चेत् ।
इदं शरीरमुत्पाद्य इह लोके एव

सुखदुःखः आदि प्रदं यत्कर्म

तत् प्रारब्धं भोगेन नष्टं भवति

प्रार्ब्ध कर्मणां भोगादेव क्षय इति
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Having given birth to this body the actions which give result in this world in the form of happiness or misery , and which can be destroyed only by enjoying or suffering them is called samchita karma

संचितम् कर्म ब्रह्म एव अहं इति

निश्चयात्मकज्ञानेन

नस्यति |

Samcita karma is destroyed by the firm knowledge That " I am brahman"

अगामि कर्म अपि

ज्ञानेन नश्यति

किंच आगामि कर्माणां नलिणीदलगतजलवत्

ज्ञानिनां संबंधो नास्ति ।

The Agami karma is also destroyed by the knovledge and wiseman is not affeted by it much like the the lotus leaf not affected by the water on it .

किंच ये ज्ञानिनां

स्तुवंति भजंति अर्चयंति

तान्प्रति ज्ञानिकृतं आगामि पुण्यं गच्चति ।
येज्ञानिनां निंदंति

द्विषंति दुःखप्रदानं कुर्वंति

तान्प्रति ज्ञाननिकृतं सर्वमागामि

क्रियामाणं यदवाच्यं कर्म पापात्मकं तद् गच्चति ।
सुहृदः पुण्यकृत्यं दुर् हृदः पापकृत्यम् गृह्णंति ।

Further to those who praise serve and worship teh wiseman fo teh results of good actions. To those who critisize hate or cause pain to the wiseman go the results of all unpraiseworthy and sinful actions done by the wise .

तथा च आत्मवित् संसारं तीर्त्वा

ब्रह्मानंद इह एव प्राप्नोति ।
तरति शोकं आत्मवित् इति श्रुतेः ।
तनुं त्यजतु वा काश्यां श्वपस्य गृहे अथवा ।
ज्ञानं संप्राप्ति समये मुक्तो असौ विगताशयः ।
इति स्मृतेश्च ।

Thus the knower of the self having crossed the samsaara attains supreme bliss here itself . The Sruti affirms that teh knower of self goes beyond all sorrows . Let the wiseman cast off his body in kasi or in the dog house . At the time of gaining knowledge itself he is liberated , being free of all the results of his actions.

So assert the smrutis too

इति तत्वबोध प्रकरणं समाप्तं
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Thus the Tatvbodha prakarana ends !!

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The earlier stories

The Vedas

The Mahavakyas

Upanishads

Vedantic Enquiry

Kathopanishad 1.1

Kathopanishad1.2

Kathopanishad 1.3

Kathopanishad 2.1

Kathopanishad 2.2

Notes from Kathopanishad

- Blind leading Blind etc

- Good Vs Pleasant

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Aug 1, 2014

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This is the 214th issue of kasarabada.org.

This week we bring the 3rd chapter of Balakanda in Ramayana.

We started this venture to Balakanda in its entirety three weesk ago. These three weeks covered the first three chapters of Ramayana. These three chapters are unique in the sense that the first chapter oulined the complete Ramayana. The third chapter virtually lists all the important events of Ramayana. Together they contain the essential story of Ramayana. The first chapter has the presence of celestial sage Deavarshi Narada , the second chapter has the Brahma himself present virtually to instruct Valmiki to compose Ramayana in the sloka form. After some description of the effect of the composed poem as sung the twins Lava and Kusa in chapter 4 , the Ramayana story starts from chapter 5

Samkshipta Ramayanam being an important chapter of interest to many , we created a separate page for Sankshipta Ramayanam. This has options of only slokas or slokas with meanings too. Interested readers can visit this page .

The regular features as usual continue !!

One more thing carries on on a theme of goodness based on email received. We picked on our favourite topic - "Forgiveness" a topic of infinite happy endings !

Yes, Telugu home Page is also getting updated resolving technology issues !!.

For Telugu lovers - the Samkshipta Ramayanamu in Telugu in katha form ( gadyamu) as well as with Sanskrit slokas are made available.

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With this Ugadi we started a page in Telugu titled - "Subbalakshmigari Kalam loninchi" . There is also a technology change. We are adding language support so that Indian language text van easily be accepted . Readers may see a bit of not so well formatted texts on the Telugu pages. Hopefully this will be resolved.

The extracts of an old book( 1899) by an Oxford Scholar on the History of Sanskrit Literature , appeared earlier under "one more thing" !!

For Telugu Home page click here

om tat Sat

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What is on the kasarabada.org?

For the new visitors we thought of adding a few lines on navigation , so that they may know what is available on Kasarabada.org !

We now have 89 chapters of Dasama Skandha of Bhagavatam. All these chapters (stories on Krishna) are listed by name and are available on a link on the Bhagavatam page.

We have now all 68 chapters of Sundarakanda and also complete bouquet of articles on Ramayana. These articles include "Role models from Ramayana" namely Srirama , Sita , Hanuman , Jataayu , Sabari , Bharata , Lakshmana. Apart from these there were some special articles namely The Message of Ramayana , Going to the Forests and about Hanuman in "In the thick of the Battle " . Along the same lines are the earlier articles in praise of Hunuman 1 , Hanuman 2 and Valmiki Sundarakanda . Added to this bouquet is the Sundarakanda as a Telugu poem by Pandit Vijayraghavrao. We have also added some downloads specifically for the Samkshipta Sundarakanda ( with Sanskrit slokas) reproduced in different language scripts namely Sanskrit , Telugu , Kannada and Malayalam . There is also a Telugu Sundarakanda Katha for those interested in reading the same as a prose story !!,.

One more thing is a page where we get articles which could be on anything , informative and educative handled with a light heart and a touch of contemporary realities. The page lists all the earlier stories on its page

Athato Brahma Jignyasaa . This page is focused on Indian Philosophy /Darsanas. This has been started some time ago and all its earlier issues are listed on its page

In effect to have a look at what is available from the earlier issues you only need to visit the four pages of Ramayanam , Bhagavatam , one more thing. and Athato Brahma Jignyasaa. Each page of these banner pages carry the list of all earlier articles .

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Witty Wisdom

- contributed by Kamaraju Turaga

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One More Thing

What is goodness !!!

Recently I received a mail highlighting what is goodness according to Vedas and it listed a few attributes .

- Steadfastness
- Forgiveness
- Good conduct
-Non-appropriation and avoidance of theft
- Control of the senses
- Wisdom
- Learning
- Truthfulness
- Absence of anger

Although mail listed them as ‘according to Vedas’ , they are in any case attributes of basic goodness which ever religion philosophy you choose !!

But the list set a ball rolling .

Steadfast literally means fixed in place, but is chiefly used figuratively to indicate undeviating constancy or resolution: steadfast in one's faith.

The dictionary meaning includes sure, dependable, reliable, constant, unwavering. Steadfast, staunch, steady imply a sureness and continuousness that may be depended upon.

But to be part of goodness the steadfastness has to be about good things. One can be steadfast in his beliefs without applying logic . So steadfastness about good things is the real thing.

Then comes forgiveness.

Every moment , every day events keep happening , words are exchanged .

Anger is generated.

Anger is suppressed.

It happens in the office .

It happens at home.

It happens among friends .

Events are stored and friends and enemies are re classified.

We continuously increase the baggage !!

We need a tool to reduce that irrelevant baggage !

Forgiveness is that forthright tool.

Forgiveness in business parlance is like “cutting losses and moving on”

Forgiveness.

Unlike steadfastness this is a stand alone attribute.

It stands on its own pedestal.

Independent of everything this attribute gives enormous scope for generating a peace . An internal peace which is simple relief which can only experienced and not described.

It part of experiencing the so called Brahman.

When one cannot forgive , one has to carry the entire baggage of the event and the details , - to continuously justify to oneself why he need not forgive.

But once forgiven the slate is clean you do not have to carry the baggage.

For the sake of argument one can always say no I do not carry the baggage and but I do not forgive !!

That is only a statement – because the person who committed the so called offense remains part of the “others” whose contact is abhorred , or avoided. At every mention of that person there is instant hatred.

So the unforgiving person unconsciously carries the burden of carrying on his mental battle against that invisible person.

Imagine the other side.

But once forgiven , you carry less baggage ; Effectively the your burden is gone and it is shifted to the one forgiven .

It is a different story that many a time the one so “forgiven” may not even know his offense or that he is forgiven etc . And one may tend to feel what is the use of forgiving such a person.

But in reality when one forgives one is free of all that burden

Is it that simple ?

Of course there are complications.

Complications arise incases where the one to be forgiven is oneself.

If one has not done his duty as required , then starts finding scapegoats for what is should have been done by himself then one is on a path of spreading his guilt on others.

Path here too is straight forward.

One cannot always undo the past.

Stop looking for scapegoats. Recognize one own inability to perform as required as the real cause. Recommit oneself not to repeat that past mistake . Then forgive oneself and move on !!

Everybody has some thing or some one to forgive – Forgive feel the lightness and move on

As I said forgiveness stands on its own pedestal !

Om tat sat

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Balakanda of SrimadRamayan

History of Sanskrit Literature

Vurdhva mula madhassaakham ... more .. notes from

Kathopanishad -

Self as the master of the Chariot -notes from kathopanishad

Good Vs Pleasant from kathopanishad

Blind leading Blind - from Katha

Upanishad

The story of Ganesh Chaturthi

Manisha Panchakam Sloka 1

Manisha Panchakam

Who are you ??

Leader and the Led

Bhakthi and Self surrender

Why say so many words Part 2

Why say so many words Part 1

Gurus and lessons

Such a Simple message !!

Sundarakanda and the related Beliefs

Remembering Sribhashyam

Appalacharyulu garu

The methods of Elucidation

( Lakshana)

The story of the Jar/Kunda

The story of Devadatta

"Hitam Manohari cha" - revisited

Dasama Nyaya

On the Fortune - a demolition of its traits !!

on the Success

The story of Sabari

Charvaka School of Philosophy

On Vedas from the West

Jayamantram

The story of a Bear ( from Ramayana)

Ramudu-Sugunaabhiraamudu

Sahasavidadhita na kriyam..

... 'no not in a hurry'!

Aham nasyaami .. I destroy !! contributed by Tuaraga Rajendraparasad.

"It is not that the holy waters are not altogether Holy - Krishna

An intelligent man should follow those actions that are consistent and within his realm of action ..( more)

.. I am enquiring , that should be clearly explained! …." Thus spoke Krishna.(more.).

" Peace does not drop from the sky" says Dalai Lama.

Passing away of a stalwart:

Prof Bhavaraju Sarveswara Rao

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Unison of thought speech and action

Jewel of jewels'

Who is Poor ?

Green message from Bhagava...

Music in our Epics

what is kasara ?

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	Athato Brahma..... Tatva Bhodha Tatvabodha 10 The *Tatvabodha* so far ..! The Tatvabhodha started with a Statement that we are going to expound the mode of enquiry ( Tatva viveka prakaaram ) to those qualified with Sadhana chatushtayam. The mode of enquiry ( tatva viveka prakaaram) is about the means of liberation. Then we have seen what is meant by Sadhana chatushtayam. The one endowed with Sadhana chatushtayam then becomes qualified to receive tatva viveka prakaaram , the mode of enquiry into reality. Then explaining about tatva vivekah , we hear about Self or Atma. In explaining Self or Atma , it is explained that the self is other than three forms of the bodies Sarira Traya namely Sthula , Sukshma and karana Sarira. The Sarira Traya is then explained in Tatvabhodha 5 . The Self or Atma is also explained as the witness of the Avastha traya. The question about what is this Avastha Traya is explained in Tatvabhodha 6 ! The Self or Atma is also explained as something other than Pancha kosaha. Panchakosaha is then explained .Tatvabhodha 7 Then we hear the postive description of Atman as sachidananda svarupa. Having explained Atman, Tatvabhodha 8 moves to explain the twentyfour elements and the unity of Jivatman and Paramatman. In Tatvabodha 9 we hear an explanation of the Mahavakya Tat tvam Asi. In Tatva bodha 10 we learn about Jivanmukta and the three types of Karma . Then Sankar declares that the the one who knows self attains supreme Bliss here itself That ends the Tatva bodha of Sankaracharya ! _______________________ एवं च वेदांतवाक्यैः सद्गुरूपदेशेन च सर्वेष्वपि भूतेषु येषां ब्रह्मबुद्धिरुत्पन्ना ते जीवन् मुक्ताः इति अर्थः । Thus by the words of vedanta and the teachings of a Sadguru , those in whom the vision of the truth is born , all those beings are liberated while living. ननु जीवन्मुक्तः कः ? यथा देहो अहं पुरुषः अहं शूद्रो अहं अस्मि इति दृढ निश्चयः तथा नाहं ब्राह्मणः न शूद्रः न पुरुषः किंतु असंगः सच्चिदानंद स्वरूपः प्रकाश रूपः सर्वांतर्यामि चिदाकाशरूपो अस्मि इति दृढनिश्चयरूपः अपरोक्षज्ञानवान् जीवन्मुक्तः । Then who is Jivanmukta ? Just has one has firm belief that I am the body , I am the purusha , I am a Sudra ; Similarly based on immediate knowledge when one has a firm belief that I am not Brahmin, I am not the Purusha, I am not a Sudra but I am unattached , i am of the nature of existence - consciousness - bliss , effulgent , the indweller of all and form less Awareness , that one is Jivanmukta . ब्रह्म एव अहं अस्मि , इति अपरोक्ष ज्ञानेन निखिलकर्मबंध विनिर्मुक्तः स्यात् । By the immediate knowledge that I am brahman alone , one becomes free from bondage of all karmas कर्माणि कतिविधानि सम्ति इति चेत् आगामी संचित प्रारब्द भेदेन त्रिविधानि संति इति । If one is aked how many kinds of karmas are there , the answer is that theer are three kinds of karma namely agami , samchita, praarabda ! ज्ञानोत्पत्ति अनंतरं ज्ञानि देहकृतं पुण्य पापरूपं कर्म यदस्ति तत् आगामी इति अभिदीयते । The results of actions good or bad performed by the body of the one who is a realized soul is known as agami karma संचित कर्म किं ? अनंत कोटि जन्मानां बीजभूतं सत् यत्कर्मजातं पूर्वार्जितं तिष्टति तत् संच्जित कर्म ज्ञेयं । What is Samchita karma ? The results of actions performed in all previous births which are in seed form and giving rise to further endless crores of births , that karma is called samchita karma. प्रारब्ध कर्म किं इति चेत् । इदं शरीरमुत्पाद्य इह लोके एव सुखदुःखः आदि प्रदं यत्कर्म तत् प्रारब्धं भोगेन नष्टं भवति प्रार्ब्ध कर्मणां भोगादेव क्षय इति \| Having given birth to this body the actions which give result in this world in the form of happiness or misery , and which can be destroyed only by enjoying or suffering them is called samchita karma संचितम् कर्म ब्रह्म एव अहं इति निश्चयात्मकज्ञानेन नस्यति \| Samcita karma is destroyed by the firm knowledge That " I am brahman" अगामि कर्म अपि ज्ञानेन नश्यति किंच आगामि कर्माणां नलिणीदलगतजलवत् ज्ञानिनां संबंधो नास्ति । The Agami karma is also destroyed by the knovledge and wiseman is not affeted by it much like the the lotus leaf not affected by the water on it . किंच ये ज्ञानिनां स्तुवंति भजंति अर्चयंति तान्प्रति ज्ञानिकृतं आगामि पुण्यं गच्चति । येज्ञानिनां निंदंति द्विषंति दुःखप्रदानं कुर्वंति तान्प्रति ज्ञाननिकृतं सर्वमागामि क्रियामाणं यदवाच्यं कर्म पापात्मकं तद् गच्चति । सुहृदः पुण्यकृत्यं दुर् हृदः पापकृत्यम् गृह्णंति । Further to those who praise serve and worship teh wiseman fo teh results of good actions. To those who critisize hate or cause pain to the wiseman go the results of all unpraiseworthy and sinful actions done by the wise . तथा च आत्मवित् संसारं तीर्त्वा ब्रह्मानंद इह एव प्राप्नोति । तरति शोकं आत्मवित् इति श्रुतेः । तनुं त्यजतु वा काश्यां श्वपस्य गृहे अथवा । ज्ञानं संप्राप्ति समये मुक्तो असौ विगताशयः । इति स्मृतेश्च । Thus the knower of the self having crossed the samsaara attains supreme bliss here itself . The Sruti affirms that teh knower of self goes beyond all sorrows . Let the wiseman cast off his body in kasi or in the dog house . At the time of gaining knowledge itself he is liberated , being free of all the results of his actions. So assert the smrutis too इति तत्वबोध प्रकरणं समाप्तं \| Thus the Tatvbodha prakarana ends !! om tat sa*t !! to continue reading click here Om tat sat !!!* The earlier stories The Vedas The Mahavakyas Upanishads Vedantic Enquiry Kathopanishad 1.1 Kathopanishad1.2 Kathopanishad 1.3 Kathopanishad 2.1 Kathopanishad 2.2 Notes from Kathopanishad - Blind leading Blind etc - Good Vs Pleasant	Welcome to Kasarabada.org Aug 1, 2014 Kasarabada.org welcomes all ! This is the 214th issue of kasarabada.org. This week we bring the 3rd chapter of Balakanda in Ramayana. We started this venture to Balakanda in its entirety three weesk ago. These three weeks covered the first three chapters of Ramayana. These three chapters are unique in the sense that the first chapter oulined the complete Ramayana. The third chapter virtually lists all the important events of Ramayana. Together they contain the essential story of Ramayana. The first chapter has the presence of celestial sage Deavarshi Narada , the second chapter has the Brahma himself present virtually to instruct Valmiki to compose Ramayana in the sloka form. After some description of the effect of the composed poem as sung the twins Lava and Kusa in chapter 4 , the Ramayana story starts from chapter 5 *Samkshipta Ramayanam* being an important chapter of interest to many , we created a separate page for *Sankshipta Ramayanam. This has options of only slokas or slokas with meanings too. Interested readers can visit this page . The regular features as usual continue !! One more thing carries on on a theme of goodness based on email received. We picked on our favourite topic - "Forgiveness" a topic of infinite happy endings ! Yes, Telugu home Page is also getting updated resolving technology issues !!. For Telugu lovers* - the Samkshipta Ramayanamu in Telugu in katha form ( gadyamu) as well as with Sanskrit slokas are made available. Welcome to Kasarabada.org: ARCHIVES With this Ugadi we started a page in Telugu titled - "Subbalakshmigari Kalam loninchi" . There is also a technology change. We are adding language support so that Indian language text van easily be accepted . Readers may see a bit of not so well formatted texts on the Telugu pages. Hopefully this will be resolved. The extracts of an old book( 1899) by an Oxford Scholar on the History of Sanskrit Literature , appeared earlier under "one more thing" !! For Telugu Home page click here om tat Sat _________________________________________________ What is on the kasarabada.org? For the new visitors we thought of adding a few lines on navigation , so that they may know what is available on Kasarabada.org ! We now have 89 chapters of Dasama Skandha of Bhagavatam. All these chapters (stories on Krishna) are listed by name and are available on a link on the Bhagavatam page. We have now all 68 chapters of Sundarakanda and also complete bouquet of articles on Ramayana. These articles include "Role models from Ramayana" namely Srirama , Sita , Hanuman , Jataayu , Sabari , Bharata , Lakshmana. Apart from these there were some special articles namely The Message of Ramayana , Going to the Forests and about Hanuman in "In the thick of the Battle " . Along the same lines are the earlier articles in praise of Hunuman 1 , Hanuman 2 and Valmiki Sundarakanda . Added to this bouquet is the Sundarakanda as a Telugu poem by Pandit Vijayraghavrao. We have also added some downloads specifically for the Samkshipta Sundarakanda ( with Sanskrit slokas) reproduced in different language scripts namely Sanskrit , Telugu , Kannada and Malayalam . There is also a Telugu Sundarakanda Katha for those interested in reading the same as a prose story !!,. One more thing is a page where we get articles which could be on anything , informative and educative handled with a light heart and a touch of contemporary realities. The page lists all the earlier stories on its page Athato Brahma Jignyasaa . This page is focused on Indian Philosophy /Darsanas. This has been started some time ago and all its earlier issues are listed on its page In effect to have a look at what is available from the earlier issues you only need to visit the four pages of Ramayanam , Bhagavatam , one more thing. and Athato Brahma Jignyasaa. Each page of these banner pages carry the list of all earlier articles . Om Tat Sat ( info@kasarabada.org) Witty Wisdom - contributed by Kamaraju Turaga __________________________________________________ Welcome to Kasarabada.org: ARCHIVES	One More Thing What is goodness !!! Recently I received a mail highlighting what is goodness according to Vedas and it listed a few attributes . - Steadfastness - Forgiveness - Good conduct -Non-appropriation and avoidance of theft - Control of the senses - Wisdom - Learning - Truthfulness - Absence of anger Although mail listed them as ‘according to Vedas’ , they are in any case attributes of basic goodness which ever religion philosophy you choose !! But the list set a ball rolling . Steadfast literally means fixed in place, but is chiefly used figuratively to indicate undeviating constancy or resolution: steadfast in one's faith. The dictionary meaning includes sure, dependable, reliable, constant, unwavering. Steadfast, staunch, steady imply a sureness and continuousness that may be depended upon. But to be part of goodness the steadfastness has to be about good things. One can be steadfast in his beliefs without applying logic . So steadfastness about good things is the real thing. Then comes forgiveness. Every moment , every day events keep happening , words are exchanged . Anger is generated. Anger is suppressed. It happens in the office . It happens at home. It happens among friends . Events are stored and friends and enemies are re classified. We continuously increase the baggage !! We need a tool to reduce that irrelevant baggage ! Forgiveness is that forthright tool. Forgiveness in business parlance is like “cutting losses and moving on” Forgiveness. Unlike steadfastness this is a stand alone attribute. It stands on its own pedestal. Independent of everything this attribute gives enormous scope for generating a peace . An internal peace which is simple relief which can only experienced and not described. It part of experiencing the so called Brahman. When one cannot forgive , one has to carry the entire baggage of the event and the details , - to continuously justify to oneself why he need not forgive. But once forgiven the slate is clean you do not have to carry the baggage. For the sake of argument one can always say no I do not carry the baggage and but *I do not forgive* !! That is only a statement – because the person who committed the so called offense remains part of the “others” whose contact is abhorred , or avoided. At every mention of that person there is instant hatred. So the unforgiving person unconsciously carries the burden of carrying on his mental battle against that invisible person. Imagine the other side. But once forgiven , you carry less baggage ; Effectively the your burden is gone and it is shifted to the one forgiven . It is a different story that many a time the one so “forgiven” may not even know his offense or that he is forgiven etc . And one may tend to feel what is the use of forgiving such a person. But in reality when one forgives one is free of all that burden Is it that simple ? Of course there are complications. Complications arise incases where the one to be forgiven is oneself. If one has not done his duty as required , then starts finding scapegoats for what is should have been done by himself then one is on a path of spreading his guilt on others. Path here too is straight forward. One cannot always undo the past. Stop looking for scapegoats. Recognize one own inability to perform as required as the real cause. Recommit oneself not to repeat that past mistake . Then forgive oneself and move on !! Everybody has some thing or some one to forgive – Forgive feel the lightness and move on As I said forgiveness stands on its own pedestal ! Om tat sat info@kasarabada.org *to continue move on to the page of ' one more thing " click here* The earlier stories. Balakanda of SrimadRamayan History of Sanskrit Literature Vurdhva mula madhassaakham ... more .. notes from Kathopanishad - Self as the master of the Chariot -notes from kathopanishad Good Vs Pleasant from kathopanishad Blind leading Blind - from Katha Upanishad The story of Ganesh Chaturthi Manisha Panchakam Sloka 1 Manisha Panchakam Who are you ?? Leader and the Led Bhakthi and Self surrender Why say so many words Part 2 Why say so many words Part 1 Gurus and lessons Such a Simple message !! Sundarakanda and the related Beliefs Remembering Sribhashyam Appalacharyulu garu The methods of Elucidation ( Lakshana) The story of the Jar/Kunda The story of Devadatta "Hitam Manohari cha" - revisited Dasama Nyaya On the Fortune - a demolition of its traits !! on the Success The story of Sabari Charvaka School of Philosophy On Vedas from the West Jayamantram The story of a Bear ( from Ramayana) Ramudu-Sugunaabhiraamudu Sahasavidadhita na kriyam.. ... 'no not in a hurry'! Aham nasyaami .. I destroy !! contributed by Tuaraga Rajendraparasad. "It is not that the holy waters are not altogether Holy - Krishna *An intelligent man should follow those actions that are consistent and within his realm of action* ..( more) *.. I am enquiring , that should be clearly explained! …."* Thus spoke Krishna.(more.). " Peace does not drop from the sky" says Dalai Lama. *Passing away of a stalwart:* Prof Bhavaraju Sarveswara Rao . ............ Unison of thought speech and action Jewel of jewels' Who is Poor ? Green message from Bhagava... Music in our Epics what is kasara ?
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