Prasnottara Ratna Malika of Sri Sri Sankara.....Continuation.
Q: What is the strength of a saintly
person?
A: Divinity.
Q: What is Divinity?
A: Good actions of a person.
Q: Whose actions are good?
A: One who is praised by good
people.
Q: Who is the best friend of a
householder?
A: Wife
Q: Who is a householder?
A: One who performs sacrifices.
Q: What is sacrifice?
A: Those actions prescribed in the Vedas
for the welfare of humanity.
Q: Whose actions bear fruit?
A: One who is of good conduct
and also educated.
Q: Who is an educated?
A: One who acknowledges the
authority of the Vedas.
Q: Who is dead even while living?
A: One who does not perform sacrifice
prescribed in Vedas.
Q: Who is fortunate?
A: One who has broken the
shackles which bind him to the samsaara.
Q: Who is honourable?
A: One who is learned and yet humble.
Q: Who deserves to be served?
A: One who gives in charity.
Q: Who is a giver?
A: One who satisfies those who solicit
from him.
Q: What is blessing for one who has
a body?
A: Good Health.
Q: Who enjoys the fruits?
A: One who puts in effort.
Q: Who has no sins?
A: One who does chanting.
Q: Who is complete?
A: One who has progeny.
Q: What is difficult for humans?
A: Keeping the mind under
control always.
Q: Who is a celibate?
A: One who has sublimated sexual
energy.
Q: Who is the highest deity?
A: Divine Mother, embodiment of
pure consciousness.
Q: Who supports these worlds?
A: Sun.
Q: What is the source of living for
all?
A: Clouds which bring rain.
Q: Who is valiant?
A: One who protects those who
are scared.
Q: Who is the protector?
A: Spiritual Guru.
Q: Who is Guru to the whole world?
A: Maharudradeva.
Q: From whom does one get true
knowledge?
A: Only from Maharudradeva (Shiva).
Q: From whom does one get liberated?
A: Only from Mukunda (Sri
Hari).
Q:
Who is Mukunda?
A: He who extricates one from
the grip of ignorance.
Q: What is ignorance?
A: Forgetting one’s real Self.
Q: Who is without sorrow?
A: One who never gets angry.
Q: What is happiness?
A: Contentment.
Q: Who is a King?
A: One who keeps his subjects
happy.
Q: What is the greatest
magic?
A: Whole of this universe
Q: What is dream-like?
A: Whatever is happening in the
waking state.
Q: What is Truth?
A: Brahman.
Q: What is illusion,
non-existent which appears as existent?
A: That which disappears when true
knowledge dawns.
Q: What is trifling?
A: Notions like hare have horns.
Q: What is indefinable?
A: Illusion.
Q: What is imagined?
A: Duality.
Q: What is the highest goal?
A: Non-duality.
Q: What is nourishment to the body?
A: Prarabhdha Karma (Resultant Fruits
to be endured which is for actions of past life)
Q: What does the food eat support?
A: Life span.
Q: Who is to be worshipped by pious?
A: Lord Shiva who is manifest
in Gaayatri, the Sun and Agni (the Fire)
Q: What is there in Gaayatri, the
Sun, the Fire and Shiva ?
A: Sivatattwa (the essence of Auspicious)
Q: Who is the manifested God?
A: Ones own Mother.
Q: Who deserves worship and is
also a Guru?
A: Ones own Father.
Q: In whom do Divine beings manifest?
A: In a pious person who has
true knowledge and who performs duty without attachment.
Q: What leads to the fall of a
dynasty?
A: Those actions which cause mental
and physical agony to the good.
Q: Whose words never fail to be
true and effective?
A: One who is truthful, who has
control over his words and whose mind is tranquil.
Q:
What is the cause of birth?
A: Attachment
to sensual pleasures
Q:
What after birth?
A: After
birth continuation of progeny.
Q:
What cannot be avoided?
A: Death.
Q:
Where should one place one’s foot?
A: Where
the eyes tell the place is clean.
Q: Who is the fit person to receive
alms?
A: One who is hungry.
Q: Who is to be worshipped?
A: The incarnations of the Lord.
Q: Who is the Lord?
A: The one Supreme in whom Sankara
and Naraayana are united.
Q: what is the fruit of devotion?
A: Attaining the abode of the Lord.
Q: What is Moksha (liberation)?
A: End of Ignorance.
Q: What is the source of all the Vedas?
A: “OM”
One who wears around his neck this
Gem Necklace of Questions and Answers (meaning one who commits this to memory)
will shine in the assembly of noble souls.
Shubhamastu.
Shubhamastu.
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