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His Life
Swami Dayanand Saraswati Natarajan was born in Manjakudi - Thiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu on August 15, 1930. He became interested in Vedanta after listening to the public talks of Swami Chinmayananda. He became involved with the Chinmaya Mission in various roles. He became a Sanyasi in 1962.
In 1986, Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, a Gurukula that has branches in India and the United States. Arsha Vidya Gurukulam is an institute for the traditional study of Advaita Vedanta, Yoga, Ayurveda, Jyotish, Sanskrit and other classical Hindu studies. The word Arsha means that which is from the Rishis - the great seers of ancient India. The word Vidya means knowledge. Thus, Arsha Vidya means the knowledge flowing from the Rishis. The word Gurukulam, means "family of the teacher", referring to a residential center for learning with the Teacher. Arsha Vidya Gurukulam offers Indians and non-Indians, Hindus and non-Hindus alike an opportunity to study the profound spiritual knowledge of the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Brahma sutras, and other classical Vedanta texts.
His Teachings
Suppose you are in a place which is beautiful. There is a luxury of nature. There is the mountain and the greenery all round you. The place is clean and people around you are also good. Everything is beautiful and you find yourself happy. Do you know why? Because you don't want the mountain to be different; you don't want the colour of the sky to be different; you don't want the river to be different; you don't want the stones around to be different; you don't want your body to be different; you don't want your senses to be different; you don't want your memory to be different. In fact, you just are. Aren't you? You accept yourself totally because you find yourself acceptable. The "I" is but awareness. It is already full, limitless. You experience it whenever you are happy. Whether it is visaynanda, joy coming from sense objects, or vidyananda, joy coming from knowledge, or brahmananda, joy that is Brahman, it is yourself alone that you experience, the you that is fullness. You are limitless because Awareness is limitless, ananta, which is same as ananda.
It is the limitlessness, ananda, the fullness that I am, that I experience in different degrees. Now the important thing is that I should know I am ananda, limitlessness. I am limitless time wise and so I am not mortal. I am limitless space wise and so I am not incomplete. I am the Awareness that illumines both knowledge and ignorance and so I am neither knowledgeable nor ignorant to be limited by them. Thus I am the very three things - free from death, incompleteness and ignorance - that I want to be. Therefore I am the very solution. And this is you. If you are the problem you are the solution.
Last update : 27-12-2009 18:22
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