Universal Vedanta, A Neo Non-Dualism School

# Watch  https://youtu.be/HA3XQpu3IyU Dear  readers ,  Welcome back to our blog. We have reached the end of our journey of understanding the Self, but the actual journey is endless. Time to draw a conclusion however there can’t be any conclusion for something which will never be concluded. Hence, I have decided to recall the wisdom we received from Isha Upanishad. Before we begin, I recommend you to read previous Shloka to understand meaning of Karma and journey beyond death and other shlokas if you missed them. Links to those  blogs are given at the bottom of this page.  We chanted a profound mantra in the beginning which stated, Brahman is complete, and I (the Self or Aatman) am also complete because I am manifestation of Brahman. Knowing this truth and realizing the completeness of the Brahman, I become complete.   Then Isha Upanishad started by declaring that all living beings are covered by Isha or Lord. As the world is an illusion, live life with detachment. Leave all lust and d

  Dear  readers ,  Welcome back to our blog. Today we will discuss fourteenth shloka of Isha Upanishad.   Let's recite the shloka.  सम्भूतिञ्च विनाशञ्च यस्तद्वेदोभयं सह ।   विनाशेन मृत्युं तीर्त्वा सम्भूत्याऽमृतमश्नुते ॥   In English “sambhūtiñca vināśañca yastadvedobhayaṁ saha |  vināśena mṛtyuṁ tīrtvā sambhūtyā'mṛtamaśnute ||”  Translation in English:   The person who knows the unmanifested and destruction both attains immortality through unmanifested by crossing death through destruction.  Let me try to explain the Shloka using the life of Swami Vivekananda. Those days Swamiji was known by his given name Narendranath, a young boy curious to know the truth of this universe.  Narendranath joined a well spreaded movement named Brahma Samaj. He learnt the worship of Brahman (the formless absolute) from this society before receiving Shri Ramakrishna as his Guru. He had a void in his heart though he was practicing meditation of the formless supreme reality. That void was fil