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Brahmavidopadesa; the first stage is bramavidya upadesah. So a trustworthy guru has to convince me through his teaching that he is in Me; security is in Me, he has to convince; this process is called bramavidya upadesaḥ; otherwise called śravaṇam. On the part of the teacher it is upadesah; on the part of the student, it is śravaṇam.
And after receiving the teaching from the teacher, and what is the next stage, mananam; I should touch my heart and ask, am I convinced that I am free here and now; and mind will never say Yes; it will come up with so many excuses.
I should understand that atma, anatmanayoho itareshaḥ adyasaha is the problem; and thus, each knot, I have to unwind.
Then finally dhyanadhibihi; dhyanam means nidhidhyasanam; nidhidhyasanam is not thinking process; the difference between mananam and nidhidhyasanam; in mananam, logical thinking is involved; rationalization is involved; in nidhidhyasanam; there is no rationalization. No thinking is involved. Then what? It is seeing the fact or remaining in the fact for a length of time.
In other words, in the spiritual treasure hunt, the endeavor of digging is made with the pickaxe of thought and the spade of discrimination.
With these, we remove the earth - the attachments with the body, mind and intellect, which are the effects of the ignorance of the Self. Avidya creates in us various misunderstandings and it is these agitations of the mind and negative thought veilings of the intellect that conceal the Treasure Divine, the Self. These can be removed by reflection and meditation.
Faithful to his arguments, honest in his convictions and obedient to his experiences, Acarya Sankara cries out that this is the only path for complete and permanent Liberation from the chaotic confusions created by our ignorance of the underlying divinity in ourselves.
Naturally, he points out the hollowness of all other methods and the immaturity of all other techniques which are, according to him, putrefied logic, soured reason, distorted vision and false assertion compared with the perfect philosophy and detailed practicality of Vedanta.
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