The Importance of Shutting Down the Mind

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Every child will develop this, you know, an individual ego, identification with the body. Shankara Acharya says, nysar gikho, this is natural. For breaking that dihasa, for getting out of it, that will not happen naturally. The last one, Bhitti Sarupya Mitarathra, is this reference to a dihasa? It is not, but it has to be. In Yoga Sutra's, when mind is active, we get identified with the mind. But that identification is an error. That's what Advaita Vedanta wants to say. See, where the yogis make a mistake is, they see the

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