01:840:368 Final: comprehensive FINAL review sheet
Document Summary
Names and meanings are given to temporary thing. At moment of death self-realization is the only thing that will stay. 4 stages of life: brahmacarya- one who walks is brahman. Ages 1-25: grihastha- one who is situated in house. Ages 50- 75: sannyasi- renunciation of world. Reincarnation- body doesn"t reincarnate, the soul does. Desire leads resolve, resolve leads to action, action leads to reaction (samsara) Cannot see anything but creates a big thing: i. e cannot see the salt in the ocean, but when you taste the water, it is salty. Katha the self-existent one- atman (eternal doesn"t depend on anything) World is suffering because anyting in the world is temporary: desire causes rebirth, ghost- people who kill them selves and ones that die with desire. Naciketus 3rd wish: to find out what happens after death. Death does not want to respond: answer: some after death take another body"s form.
