It is indeed a very nice post. The pictures, the shlokas/meanings and the audio links enhance the appeal of the article greatly. At the end you have said:

//Here is a picture of Adi Shankara Bhagvadapada , The Author Of Nirguna Manasa Puja//

But above this you have given Shiva manasa puja shloka Actually the Nirguna ….stotram is totally vedantic. If possible do a post on that.

I will certainly send the link to the present article to my friends.

Regards,
subbu

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Namaste

oh Lord Radha Krishna samarpayami.

sb

sb

Itt gives me great pleasure to share the following comments from readers who read vthe article on Sadarsanam which came into my private email . iI cannot thank them individually , so i am thanking them all in one post . iN tamizh , there is a saying ‘poovodu serndu naarum manakkum’ meaning if you are in the company of learned people , you will also shine ( fragrant) like the fThread which holds the flowers in the garland! When you are sitting with Truth , that is satsangati ! sadaji, thank you!

here is the first one from Subbuji , a very learned ‘advaitin’

From: “V Subrahmanian” A
to: adi_shakthi16@yahoo.com

Namaste Madam,

The report of the Talk is a crisp summary of the Work itself. You have quoted the verse 32 to convey the gist of the entire forty.

For Tamil-knowing aspirants who might want to take forward their understanding of the Forty Verses, you can recommend Brahma Sri Nochur Venkataraman’s lectures of Ulladu Naarpadu. He is a very sincere sadhaka himself and lectures on this with genuine inspiration. Some CDs of his talks on this Work are available. You may contact Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai, for the details.

Warm regards,
subbu

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from my longime friend and well wisher Maniji of advaitin list

From: “R.S.MANI” Add sender to ContactsTo: adi_shakthi16@yahoo.comMessage contains attachments104-gopalakhapahimam.mp3 (3337KB)Namaste, Vinataji,

I went through your report on Sri Sadanandaji’s public talk on Saddarshanam. A person of his in-depth knowledge in Advaita, cannot but handle the subject matter in a superb manner with humorous anecdotes, parables and real life experiences.

What I liked in your report is your referring to Ullam, a tamil word and a little elaboration of its meanings depending on contexts.

“Ullathu narpathu” as you know, can mean “What is there, i.e. ullathu” and again “Ul Athu” i.e. “That is Inside” and in forty verses That or “Athu” is unfolded.

You are blessed as you now and then get the privilege of attending such absorbing sadsanghas, which I was also till end of 2006, when I had left Calcutta, (where we had regular classes and satsanghs at Chinmaya Mission, Ramakrishna mission and also with the disciple of Swami Dayanandaji, apart from public lectures by Swami Parthasarathi, Swami Chinmayanandaji, prior to his Samadhi, Swami Dayanandaji, Swami Tejomayanandaji, etc.) to settle down with my son and his family in Jamshedpur. Here my one and only satsangha is with advaitin group, and whatever books I have on the subject..

When you say “The ‘ego’ is the cloud that is covering the ever shining Self, the Sun!” is it not that that Cloud itself is shining because of the Sun only. Remmebr Hastmalaka’s answer to Bhagavan Shankara “Ganachanna megham” etc. Yes, everything is shining after the ever shining consciousness, “sarvam anubhati eva”.

A really nice reporting by you and it shows your deep interest in the subject.

Incidentally, I may mention, only recently I heard a series of lectures by Nochur Sri Venkataraman on saddarshanam in English, through e.media only. I found his approach to the subject and entire talk most absorbing.

With kind regards,

P.S.

I wonder whether you have heard the attached song by Yesu Das. I hope you will enjoy it.

R.. S. Mani

************************************************************************************************************************Carlos Grasso” Add sender to ContactsTo: “adi” Pranams Vinathaji,

The review came from the Heart, is beautiful.
The Heart is where differences dissapear, there we are one with everything and ourselves.
Sadaji is a great teacher and human being, I also met him in Chennai once.
The more we connect with the Heart, the less problems, that’s what all forms of Bhagavan (Krishna, Shankara, Ramana) kept telling us.

All the best Vinathaji,
Mouna
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namaste!