1991-08-08 - Kodai Discourses Notes QA

Summary of Discourses given by Swami to students from Kodaikanal, Apr-May 1991, delivered at the school assembly by Sri Sai Surendranath.

06-08-1991 - QA

1. Life x Infinity = Divinity
2. Mind x Infinity = Hiranyagarbha
3. Body x Infinity = Virataswaroopa
4. Two types of Dharma = Guna (Para) Dharma and Swa (Eswara) Dharma 
5. Four defects in talking = complaining, lies, excess, criticizing
6. Two Dharmas explained in Gita = Para and Swa Dharma
7. Sumitra means good friend.
8. Three defects in the Body = Vata, Pitta, Shleshma - responsible for diseases.
9. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa belonged to Dharma Samaj, Vivekananda to Brahma Samaj.
10. What is Sthirasti - Permanent, Aadhaaram
    Chirasthi - Impermanent, Aadheyam
11. Difference between Yogi and Bhogi - Antar drishti versus Bahir drishti.
12. Matam - that which comes from mind - Manas + tam - also comes from Abhimatam, wish.
13. Four yagnas to be performed by all - Pitr, Guru, Atithi and Rishi Yagnas.
14. Para and Apara Vidya in Upanishads.
15. Para Vidya - how to attain Liberation, Moksha
16. Apara Vidya - teaches Dharma, Artha, Kama
17. Hota = knows meaning, chants perfect, called so.
18. Upanishads are Vedanta, end of Vedas.
19. Vedas explain principle of I - Dwaitam
    Upanishads explain end of I - Advaitam
20. Essence of Rig Veda - Explains that in every being, God exists in the form of Chaitanya, divine principle, energy. Only human beings with human qualities or human values can see and experience this Chaitanya.
21. (07-08-1991) Yajur Veda - Krishna (South India) and Shukla (North India)
22. Root word for Yajur - Yajus = mantras
23. Yagnavalkya divided Yajur Veda into two parts.
24. Shukla Yajur Veda is chanted with Abhinaya.
25. Puram = body. Purohit = one who, by chanting Vedas, knowing the meaning, pours Chaitanya from head to toe.
26. Which Veda highlights Aham and Atma link? Yajur Veda.
27. Name the four births of Human Beings - Sudra when born, Becomes Dwija (twice born) by Chanting Gayatri. ( https://saispeaks.sathyasai.org/discourse/tag/gayathri has the other two - becomes a Vipra when finishes spiritual disciplines and becomes wise, and becomes a Brahmana when visualizes the Brahma immanent in all.)
28. Two parts of Rudram - Namakam and Chamakam.
    Namakam - Devoid of desire and attachment, offering all to God
    Chamakam - asking for things.
29. Contents of Atharvana Veda - Medicine, weapons, health, war, politics, governing, etc
30. First surgeon - Bharadwaja.
31. Jamadagni - means Eka netram - unified vision.
32. Parikshit survived Brahmastra.
33.  Only in India - Vedic minds with learned scholars - therefore God takes birth here.
34. At Kubera in Russia, Atharvana Veda still exists.
35. Tongs compared to Maya.
36. Four Varnashrama dharmas - Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, Sanyasa

Not sure whether the following are from talks by Sri G V Subba Rao or from Discourse Summaries. Probably the latter. 

Just noticed that this is dated 8th August. I believe this was the day on which I had gone to Mandir to celebrate my birthday with a tray as described in my earlier post, but had vomited right in the first row just before You came out, so I had to be escorted back to hostel, or something like that. Due to radish curry for lunch, perhaps. And I think I didn't try again in 1991 for some reason? Not sure. "Dil and Sainath", who were doing interview room door duty* at that time, cleaned up hastily by putting sitting mats on top, and proper clean-up was done after You went inside for interviews, I think.

*Door duty = the students or former students who were entrusted with keeping Your interview room and living quarters clean and tidy, were given many errands by You, and also were supposed to open and close the interview room doors - the "door duty boys" would come out just before You came out to give darshan in those days. 

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