Universal Vedanta, A Neo Non-Dualism School

  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