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The Sanskrit word Upanishad consists of three words—“Upa” means “near,” “ni” means “down” and “shad” means “be seated.” So Upanishad means to sit down near the Guru (Master) to receive Knowledge. The Guru is the personification of wisdom and the Shishya (Student) represents a spiritual seeker eager to come closer to wisdom. The Upanishads are knowledge in the form of dialogues between the Guru and Shishya from ages ago which denotes the Parampara (Lineage). This Guru-Shishya Parampara gives the picture of the finite getting close to the infinite as well as the known reaching out to the unknown.
Knowledge has to flow from one to another just like a river, if not it gets vanished or will be stagnant and is of no use. Knowledge dispels ignorance. Ignorance and darkness has not got any permanent place. There is no person whom we can brand as one who is and will always remain ignorant and there is no place in the whole of universe which we can call a dark place. One spark of knowledge and beam of light respectively can change them. Hence knowledge is likened to a lamp (Deepam).
To light a lamp, we need a container filled with oil and a wick placed in it. A flame source is needed to light the wick. Only when we have all four accessories namely lamp cup, oil, wick and flame we can light the lamp. Once the wick is lit by the flame the external darkness is dispelled. Similarly, to dispel the darkness of ignorance, we need to have Vairagya, the dispassion as the Diya, the lamp cup; Daya, compassion acts as oil; Dharana the one pointed concentration becomes the wick; and Jnana, spiritual wisdom being the flame source.
It is customary to light a lamp ahead of an auspicious event and once it so happened that in such event, an ultra modern young person who was seated in the gathering asked the distinguished guest who was to light the lamp, “Hello Sir, why are you using the same old out dated way of starting the function by lighting a lamp using this messy oil lamps? Why not change according to the time? Why not switch “ON” a LED light or a C.F.L Lamp by just tapping on the switch? Will it not dispel darkness as your lamp does????.”
The distinguished guest replied, “Son, you are right the time as changed a lot and every thing has advanced by advent of science and technology, but the way in which knowledge is transferred from an individual to another has remained the same, just like the flame is brought near the wick of the lamp that has to be lit. I don’t think it possible for a LED or C.F.L lamp which is glowing to light up another LED or C.F.L by just bringing it near? This lighting of lamp is to commemorate sharing of knowledge which unfortunately cannot be done by tapping a switch.....Do you agree??.” The young man had no reply just had to nod his head.
My lamp of knowledge is lit by many light sources here ...... I’m fortunate to spend a lot of my good time in this Classic Satsang....!!!!!!
The Sanskrit word Upanishad consists of three words—“Upa” means “near,” “ni” means “down” and “shad” means “be seated.” So Upanishad means to sit down near the Guru (Master) to receive Knowledge. The Guru is the personification of wisdom and the Shishya (Student) represents a spiritual seeker eager to come closer to wisdom. The Upanishads are knowledge in the form of dialogues between the Guru and Shishya from ages ago which denotes the Parampara (Lineage). This Guru-Shishya Parampara gives the picture of the finite getting close to the infinite as well as the known reaching out to the unknown.
Knowledge has to flow from one to another just like a river, if not it gets vanished or will be stagnant and is of no use. Knowledge dispels ignorance. Ignorance and darkness has not got any permanent place. There is no person whom we can brand as one who is and will always remain ignorant and there is no place in the whole of universe which we can call a dark place. One spark of knowledge and beam of light respectively can change them. Hence knowledge is likened to a lamp (Deepam).
To light a lamp, we need a container filled with oil and a wick placed in it. A flame source is needed to light the wick. Only when we have all four accessories namely lamp cup, oil, wick and flame we can light the lamp. Once the wick is lit by the flame the external darkness is dispelled. Similarly, to dispel the darkness of ignorance, we need to have Vairagya, the dispassion as the Diya, the lamp cup; Daya, compassion acts as oil; Dharana the one pointed concentration becomes the wick; and Jnana, spiritual wisdom being the flame source.
It is customary to light a lamp ahead of an auspicious event and once it so happened that in such event, an ultra modern young person who was seated in the gathering asked the distinguished guest who was to light the lamp, “Hello Sir, why are you using the same old out dated way of starting the function by lighting a lamp using this messy oil lamps? Why not change according to the time? Why not switch “ON” a LED light or a C.F.L Lamp by just tapping on the switch? Will it not dispel darkness as your lamp does????.”
The distinguished guest replied, “Son, you are right the time as changed a lot and every thing has advanced by advent of science and technology, but the way in which knowledge is transferred from an individual to another has remained the same, just like the flame is brought near the wick of the lamp that has to be lit. I don’t think it possible for a LED or C.F.L lamp which is glowing to light up another LED or C.F.L by just bringing it near? This lighting of lamp is to commemorate sharing of knowledge which unfortunately cannot be done by tapping a switch.....Do you agree??.” The young man had no reply just had to nod his head.
My lamp of knowledge is lit by many light sources here ...... I’m fortunate to spend a lot of my good time in this Classic Satsang....!!!!!!
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