Atmananda Krishna MenonIn the two preceding parts of I is a door1 attention was paid to the remarkable phenomenon that the word I, may be referring to a limited and bound entity, as well as to That which is infinite Light, sheer Freedom. In the preceding articles both Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj spoke about this phenomenon. Now we will discuss the third one of the Great Three, the three truly great Advaita teachers of the twentieth century, Sri Atmananda, or Sri Krishna Menon. P. Krishna Menon was born in 1. Peringara, near Tiruvalla in the state of Travancore now a part of todays Kerala. T1I-olPS2sk/UJ_UiwN4FnI/AAAAAAAAKYM/ClfnruTZAu8/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/My+Devotional+Collections_Vani+Jayaram.jpg' alt='Krishna Menon' title='Krishna Menon' />All books on HolyBooks. Public Domain texts and free to download as pdffiles. Atma Darshan Krishna Menon Pdf ms access 2007 advanced tutorial pdf love. Atma Darshan Krishna Menon Pdf Creator. 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They met during the course of one night only. Krishna Menon was particularly touched by the utmost humility of this teacher. He later stated, This paralyzed my ego. Because of this encounter, he started a sadhana, which contained both bhakti and raja yoga as well as pure jnana. See the section on the teaching of Atmananda Krishna Menon. Atmananda, AtmaDarshan and AtmaNirvriti. These books. downloadsnotespdf. Atma Darshan YogashramLater on having become a teacher himself, he would pass on to others only the jnana aspect, and even criticise both the bhakti and raja yoga aspects. In 1. 92. 3 he came to realise his true Nature. He assumed the name Sri Atmananda and began teaching. He continued to work in the Police Department up to 1. Later on, he once said that a profession within the police or the military offers an ideal foundation for a spiritual sadhana, because such a profession offers in particular the maximum obstacles and temptations. In 1. 95. 9 Atmananda died at Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala. One of the ways by which Atmanandas approach became known in the West was through the book The Nature of Man According to the Vedanta by John Levy. He was an English pupil of Atmananda who had stayed regularly with him. Levy rephrased Atmanandas typical approach in a somewhat more Western style though he did retain Atmanandas particular and unique way of dealing with logic. I got to know of Atmananda while a pupil of the late Alexander Smit, a Dutchman who had been a pupil of Atmanandas pupil Wolter Keers. Alexander gave me a copy of two small books by Atmananda, Atma Darshan and Atma Nirvriti. These books are Atmanandas brief summary of his teachings they have been written in his mother tongue Malayalam and translated into English by himself. For two years Alexander Smit thoroughly dealt with these books. I am grateful having had the privilege to attend to these meetings owing to this opportunity I became familiar with Atmanandas specific approach. What is specific to his approach It is his own special linguistic usage, his particular logic or subjective logic, see note 5, his way of reducing all things to their ultimate nature, and in particular his entire emphasis on what he called the I Principle. To him this I Principle was a synonym of Ultimate Reality, the Absolute there is nothing which precedes it it is what is truly meant with the word I. He said for instance Pure consciousness and deep peace are your real nature. Having understood this in the right manner, you can well give up the use of the words Consciousness and Happiness and invariably use I to denote the Reality. Dont be satisfied with only reducing objects into Consciousness. Dont stop there. Reduce them further into the I Principle. So also reduce all feelings into pure Happiness and then reduce them into the I Principle. Although Atmananda loved to use words like Consciousness and Happiness in order to refer to the Ultimate, a quote like this shows that ultimately he preferred the term I Principle he once even said that compared to the I Principle the word Consciousness can be called theory He did so because he considered that the word I has the least chance of being misunderstood. Everything that can be perceived can be subject to misunderstanding, however that which can be called yourself, that which cannot be perceived, I, cannot cause misunderstanding. He considered the I Principle to be everybodys true goal, because it is in fact contained in each endeavour. The use of the word Principle by Atmananda should not be considered a mental or philosophical attempt to understand or frame the I. It is his way of using a word for what I is in itself, I as such. What I as such really is, precisely, is prior to each mental movement or framing. With expressions like in itself and as such language stops short. Here language arrives at its limits. Something is referring to itself. Something as such does not change the next moment into something else. Robert Buettner Epub Format. It is the constant factor in the ever changing, it is its own true nature. Vmware Workstation 7 For Windows Xp 32 Bit there. It does not rely on anything else. Atmananda frequently used the Sanskrit word svarupa, true nature, which referred to this constant factor. He used it together with a number of words that he considered its synonym, such as background, content, substrate, pure state and natural state. Atmananda used these various words as indications for one and the same thing. The trouble with language is that each attempt to refer to the essential nature of something can, as quick as a flash, be misunderstood. For instance a term like the essence can suggest the presence of a tiny being or core within a more coarse form. As if you might discover somethings essence by enlarging it more and more using a microscope, continuously looking to what is inside the core. Something of this suggestion repeatedly arises in popular commentaries on the famous You Are That passage in the Chandogya Upanishad, in which Uddalaka teaches his son by splitting a fruit further and further. Atmananda was a master in emphasising the mistake that can possibly lies lie in this short sightedness. For this kind of enquiry will always get trapped in what he called the objective. Atmananda used the terms objective and subjective in a way that is uncommon in the West. To him objective was not an indication for the impartial, but for everything that can be observed, everything that is an object to the senses and thoughts. The same goes with subjective here he did not mean a view or opinion coloured by a person, but that which is merely Subject, that which can not be observed by definition, and which by Itself constantly illumines whatever is the object. This means that the enquiry into something inside as a findable essence or core is incommensurate with any insight in the Ultimate. Hence, one cannot say that the modern research of physics and true self enquiry are one and the same thing, as is suggested nowadays in some advaitic circles. Physics will always remain the field of the objective. This is likewise the case when the concept all encompassing is used to express notions such as Cosmos, Space or the Infinite. Atmananda once gave us a useful indication or insight Space Akasha, though not perceptible to the senses, is certainly conceivable by the mind. So it is really objective in nature. If we take out of Space this last taint of objectivity, it ceases to be dead and inert, becomes self luminous and it immediately shines as its background, the Reality. Everything in Atmanandas teaching is about the Subject. It refers exclusively to That which knows.