Back to Romania Today
After a 16 day sojourn here in Sofia, we head out early this morning to Timisoara, Romania. It is a great adventure, traveling and spreading the ultimate self-realization science all over the world. Wherever we go we are able, by the mercy of our spiritual master, to dovetail the individual consciousness with the Supreme Source of all Consciousness, Lord Sri Krishna.
If we travel the world for our enjoyment, eventually such travel become hackneyed and dry because by nature we are not meant to be independent enjoyers. Since the part is always meant to serve the whole, and because we are constitutionally parts of the Complete Whole, we are therefore meant to be servants. But if we travel the world for the topmost service of connecting ourselves and all others with the Supreme through the ultimate self-realization technique known as bhakti or devotion, we are reconnecting with our eternal enlightened natures, and thus we can enjoy unlimited, ever-increasing bliss by such travel. We will never get tired of it.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Your eternal servant,
Narada Muni Das
1. aroha pantha, the path of ascending knowledge, and
2. avaroha pantha, the path of descending knowledge.
The contemporary society is following the way of ascending knowledge, aroha pantha, and the Vedic culture follows the way of descending knowledge, avaroha pantha. So what is the difference between theses two paths?
Through aroha pantha we rely exclusively on what we perceive with our senses and the mental speculations based upon such perceptions. The difficulty is that our senses including the mind are imperfect. Even if we extend their reach with microscopes, telescopes, and other such instruments, we are still perceiving through our imperfect senses and we can thus never gain conclusive knowledge. This is why the scientific text books are constantly being updated and why the contemporary society still remains chaotic in spite of so-much so-called scientific advancement.
The avaroha pantha is quite different. On this pathway one purifies one consciousness and senses through the yoga system, especially the bhakti yoga system. Since each of us originate from the source of all existence, each one of us has our own innate personal connection with God, the source of all existence. By purifying the senses through the bhakti yoga system, and thus developing pure love for God, one gradually attains direct perception of the source of all existence, the Supreme Person. By thus knowing Him one then gains perfect scientific knowledge of everything. This is confirmed by Lord Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita:
jñānena tu tad ajñānaḿ
yeṣāḿ nāśitam ātmanaḥ
teṣām āditya-vaj jñānaḿ
prakāśayati tat param
"When, however, one is enlightened with the knowledge by which nescience is destroyed, then his knowledge reveals everything, as the sun lights up everything in the daytime."
--Bhagavad-gita 5.16
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
If we travel the world for our enjoyment, eventually such travel become hackneyed and dry because by nature we are not meant to be independent enjoyers. Since the part is always meant to serve the whole, and because we are constitutionally parts of the Complete Whole, we are therefore meant to be servants. But if we travel the world for the topmost service of connecting ourselves and all others with the Supreme through the ultimate self-realization technique known as bhakti or devotion, we are reconnecting with our eternal enlightened natures, and thus we can enjoy unlimited, ever-increasing bliss by such travel. We will never get tired of it.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Answers According to the Vedic Version:
Question: Modern and Vedic Culture
What are the differences and similarities between Vedic culture and contemporary culture?Your eternal servant,
Narada Muni Das
Answer: Different Approach to Science
The modern day culture and the Vedic culture are similar because both of them are scientifically oriented. Both of these cultures are trying to solve all the problems of life through the advancement of knowledge. The difference is in how each of them goes about trying to realize the knowledge. In Sanskrit language there are described two approaches to knowledge:1. aroha pantha, the path of ascending knowledge, and
2. avaroha pantha, the path of descending knowledge.
The contemporary society is following the way of ascending knowledge, aroha pantha, and the Vedic culture follows the way of descending knowledge, avaroha pantha. So what is the difference between theses two paths?
Through aroha pantha we rely exclusively on what we perceive with our senses and the mental speculations based upon such perceptions. The difficulty is that our senses including the mind are imperfect. Even if we extend their reach with microscopes, telescopes, and other such instruments, we are still perceiving through our imperfect senses and we can thus never gain conclusive knowledge. This is why the scientific text books are constantly being updated and why the contemporary society still remains chaotic in spite of so-much so-called scientific advancement.
The avaroha pantha is quite different. On this pathway one purifies one consciousness and senses through the yoga system, especially the bhakti yoga system. Since each of us originate from the source of all existence, each one of us has our own innate personal connection with God, the source of all existence. By purifying the senses through the bhakti yoga system, and thus developing pure love for God, one gradually attains direct perception of the source of all existence, the Supreme Person. By thus knowing Him one then gains perfect scientific knowledge of everything. This is confirmed by Lord Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita:
jñānena tu tad ajñānaḿ
yeṣāḿ nāśitam ātmanaḥ
teṣām āditya-vaj jñānaḿ
prakāśayati tat param
"When, however, one is enlightened with the knowledge by which nescience is destroyed, then his knowledge reveals everything, as the sun lights up everything in the daytime."
--Bhagavad-gita 5.16
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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