The Importance of Accepting Punarjana

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If you accept Punarjana, like as any Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, you have to accept PunarJana. If you accept it, then you accept that you are not the body. All of this must be Adhyasa, superimposition. You clearly see people identify themselves with the body. And this identification must be false. It must be a superimposition because you hold that none of us are the body. We are because we are born and we die. Body is born and dying, but we go from lifetime to lifetime. The subtle body goes on from lifetime to life getting newer and newer bodies. That also we accept. But what's

Adhyasa Bhashya is Adi Shankara’s introduction to the Brahma Sutras. Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a brief overview of this commentary, over three sessions. Reference material for this series: - Adhyasa Bhashya in Sanskrit: https://arshavidyacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/Swamini-Svatmavidya/collateral/Adhyasa-Bhashya.pdf - Swami Gambhirananda's translation: preamble in chapter 1, section 1 of https://a.co/d/hEj8iQr - Translation of the lectures of Dr. Mani Dravid Sastri: https://sanskritdocuments.org/sites/snsastri/adhyasabhashya.pdf ► To support the Vedanta Society of New York: www.vedantany.org/donate