Hari Om!
Swami Aparajitananda draws attention to Jñāna-paramparā indicated by the mention that: What Parīkshita asks Shuka Brahmarshi is the same question asked by Nāradajī to Brahmājī.
Description of Nāradajī approaching Brahmājī is a message/hint for seekers to cultivate those divine virtues which force Guru's blessings to pour out effortlessly.
Question 1: O First Born, give me Self Knowledge.
Question 2: Are you the Supreme Lord?
Question 3: On whom do you meditate?
The answer is the expression of joy at the chance to glorify the Supreme Lord who alone exists and expression of gratitude to Him, by Whose grace and command and given abilities, method, resources, Brahmājī creates.
To understand the answer properly, Swamiji compassionately discusses the Fundamentals of Vedānta in detail.
• Identification Theory
• Consciousness and matter
• Pointers to nature of Consciousness
• Nature of Consciousness as Ātmā
• Mistake of psychological identification and solution by dis-identification
• Ignorance creates delusion. So only Knowledge can end it.
• Purusha, who is reduced to jīva due to delusion, creates the world.
• Consequences of Vidyā and Avidyā
• In Creation, 5 things are supported by Bhagavān, viz. dravya, karma, kāla, svabhāva, jīva.
• Karma is beautifully defined in great detail.
• Purpose of Creation is to take Jīva to Īshvara and make him realise Mahāvākya.
• 4 stages of process of learning and how past lessons become samskāras, are discussed beautifully.
• Journey of individual evolution from Tamas to Sattva and Beyond is also discussed wonderfully by example of pole vaulter.
• For Jñānī, mind stops creating, vibrating and shows Truth as It is.
• World is distorted Truth; only Consciousness exists.
• God guides by Satsanga and higher joys.
(Shrīmad Bhāgavatam - Talk 24 - Canto 2)
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