[Advaita-l] Sringeri Days

[V Subrahmanian]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 9:35 PM Aditya Kumar via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>  He might be a real person but it's hard to believe he is a 'siddha
> purusha'. If he is a recluse, he'd be living in the woods or be a wandering
> monk. When he is s living in a city, there is no compelling reason to hide.
> If you like to have a quiet life, you don't go around telling ppl that you
> are a siddha. It makes us think that he is hiding because he is not a
> siddha or even prodigious. He is hiding because it's all a lie, a
> propaganda.
>

The Upanishads do not approve of anyone dictating to a Jnani how he should
be, behave, live, etc.

In the Brhadāraṇyaka-upaniṣad, the jīvanmukta is eulogised thus:

sa brāhmaṇaḥ kena syādyena syāttenedṛśa eva ।47 (III.5.1)

// How does that knower of Brahman behave? Howsoever he may
behave, he is just such.//

Thus, the Upanishads have a better understanding of a Jnani than what you
may have.

regards
subbu





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