sruti

when vyasa decided to compose his epic mahabharata the history of origin to its end in heaven, he needed a publisher who could write faultless nonstop. he did not wish to lose his train of thoughts. no human being could do this so he called upon ganesha the erudite after all ganesha is divinity committed to do good for humanity. ganesha too had a condition; that he could not waste his time waiting for vyasa not ready with next verse. vyasa then counter imposed to ganesha that ganesha should write only when he assimilated the meaning of the present one.

mahabharata is thus a sruti that is only heard in order to be understood its purpose or meaning. of course there is one other epic, ramayana,  that merits the same name - sruti. the third one is upanishads.

upanishads were never written down but learnt and kept in memory. strangely sruti remains in memory forever and ever until understood by the listener, once heard; till they are truly assimilated. no escape from digesting.

anyone from the subcontinent is haunted by sruti throughout their life. no escape.

upanishads greatest riddle is: what is brahman? as a sanskrit word it means ~ broadest possible mind! that certainly exist otherwise illusion cannot be observed!!

we all know the formalization of set theory that started with russell's paradox. set of all sets. does it not contain itself? yes by definition. what about the  set of all sets that does not contain itself? it has at least one set, empty set. we have a paradox ~ it contains itself if so it does not contain itself by definition.

visualize broadest mind ~ union until union

nati nati nati ~ not that not that not that  that has no definition; one cannot learn from listening others, reading books or from words or experience one already knows ~ know unknown truly




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silence alone is peace

ॐ शांति