Nirvana Satakam

Nirvana Shatakam by Adi Shankaracharya

Me, My Guru

We had come to share about ‘Il Dolce far Niente!’ experiences but that seems to be delayed by other experiences and explanations. Was there a reason for that or was it just a coincidence? But then our Guru always said “There’s nothing as coincidences in life. Everything is as per Divine plan and is as per Plan, we may not see or understand it is a different fact altogether”. These questions bothered me a bit. I always seem to be caught between questions – one way or other. One question answered never meant one issue was resolved – it only gave rise to umpteen other questions. This was like that demon who’s every drop of blood that touched the ground became ‘the rakshasha’ again! Now, this demon – is it my questions or my mind? See it’s happened again! I need to ask her if it is good or bad and as to what I should do about that. But this question can wait. What I was dying to know was why she talks about mundane routine i.e, about emotions like anger, greed, discipleship etc so many times. Why doesn’t she address issues like death, after death and such subject? When I was googling through on this subject, I hit upon ‘Nirvana Satakam’. I was intrigued. Why doesn’t she mention about or talk about these scriptures? Honestly I had my doubts with regarding to ‘her knowing’ these scriptures. If she had known, she would’ve mentioned sometime, but she never did. How much does she know? Especially about these books and their content!

Like on many issues I had mixed feeling for ‘her’ regarding ‘her knowledge’. Sometimes, her talk or some statement hits me like Tsunami and I end up being in a dizzy for quite sometime with just ‘wow’ out of my mouth. Oh yes! I didn’t know how to express my feelings when I felt so. But there were equally opposite feelings of doubt too in me. that confused me and may be that’s why she wasn’t to me what shat she was for ‘Rahul, Aziz, Nimmy’ and others. I liked her a lot. There was no doubt in that but to have that reverence, well, she must earn it I felt. Though I didn’t have guts to express that to others vocally!

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Listen to the simple Sanskrit bhajan by Shri Adi Shakaracharya beautifully rendered by music legend Smt. M.S.Subbalakshmi to understand the content of Vedanta Philosophy in a nutshell...must have heard it 1000s of times but this time listen and understand the meaning too as english translation is also given for your understanding....