Panchadasi : ( 01/04/2021. )

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discourse -1. Chapter - 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Slokam : 1 to 5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, June 30, 2021. 7:21. AM. Slokam-3 : Sabda sparsa dayo vedya vaici tryāj jagare pṛthak, tato vibhakta tat saṁvit aika rupyanna bhidyate (3). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sabda sparsa :  There are five objects of cognition or perception: sound, touch, form or colour, taste and smell. The eyes cannot hear and the ears cannot see, but there is someone who sees and hears at the same time. We can sometimes see, hear, touch, smell and taste at the same time, though the five functions differ from one another. One sense organ cannot perform the function of another sense organ. The ear cannot even know that there is such a thing c...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discourse -1. Chapter - 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Slokam : 1 to 5. ------------------------------------------------------- The first two slokams of the First Chapter of the Panchadasi constitute a prayer to Swami Vidyaranya’s Guru. In all ancient texts, the Guru is offered a prayer first. This is a tradition which has been followed always, and the Panchadasi author also follows this respected tradition. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-2. Tat pādāmbu ruha dvaṅdva sevā nimarla cetasām, sukha bodhāya tattvasya vivedo’yaṁ vidhīyate (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now the author says he is engaging himself, in the first five chapters, in the description of an important subject called viveka, or di...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discourse -1. Chapter - 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Slokam : 1to 5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first two slokams of the First Chapter of the Panchadasi constitute a prayer to Swami Vidyaranya’s Guru. In all ancient texts, the Guru is offered a prayer first. This is a tradition which has been followed always, and the Panchadasi author also follows this respected tradition. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-1. "Namaḥ sri sankarananda guru padambu janmane, savilasa maha moha graha grasaika karmane " Sankarananda was a great sannyasin under whom Vidyaranya appears to have studied. Sankarananda wrote, to our knowledge, two great works, one which is called Atma Purana, an epic type of description of the contents of the Upani...