The Impressed Meaning of Gonga Yam Hosha

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The first way of getting an implied meaning is called jadlakshana. Jahalakshana means you give up the original meaning. The other method is called ajahat lakshana, ajahad lukian. Ajahad lukhena means, instead of giving up the meaning, keep the primary meaning. Whattat, add something to it, then the sentence will make sense. They use in vedantas are shonar tara havati or Shona havati which means running one more time. So we know that the vedantins were not boring and people went to them when they got bored. We had a

Sage Uddalaka asks his son Svetaketu: What is that knowledge by which we hear the unhearable, perceive what cannot be perceived and know what cannot be known? Inspired from this story from the Chandogya Upanishad, Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the great saying (mahavakya) - Tat Tvam Asi (That Thou Art). This discourse is also inspired from a verse from the Brihadharanyaka Upanishad (Mantra 4.4.12) as taught in the book, Pancadasi by Vidyaranya: "If a man knows the Self as ‘I am this,’ then desiring what and for whose sake will he suffer in the wake of the body?" Mantra 4.4.12: आत्मानं चेद्विजानीयादयमस्मीति पूरुषः । किमिच्छन्कस्य कामाय शरीरमनुसंज्वरेत् ॥ १२