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We have published Adi Shankara’s Prasnottara malika in the past three month calendars. This book is in Q and A format. We will look at the concluding part of the book this month.
January 1- New Year Day; 3-Arudra Darshan; 7-Thyagabrahma Aradhana at Tiruvaiyaru in Tamil Nadu; 14- Bhogi; 15- Makara Sankranti/ Pongal; 16- Kanu Pongal; 18- Thai Amavasai; 25-Ratha Saptami; 26-Republic Day/ Bhishma Ashtami; 30-Mahatma Gandhi Death Anniversary.
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January 1 Thursday
Q: Who is a dhanya ? (One who has attained the highest goal of life)?
A: Sanyaasee (One who has broken the shackles which bind him to the samsaara)
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January 2 Friday
Q: Who is a maanya? (One who commands respect)?
A: One who is learned and at the same time of a saintly character.
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January 3 Saturday
Q: Who is sevya (one who deserves to be served)?
A: One who gives in charity
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January 4 Sunday
Q: Who is a dhatha (giver) ?
A: One who satisfies those who beg from him.
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January 5 Mondy
Q: What is blessing for one who has a body?
A: Health (absence of disease)
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January 6 Tuesday
Q: Who enjoys the fruits?
A: One who tills the soil (puts in effort)
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January 7 Wednesday
Q: Who has no sins?
A: One who does japa
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January 8 Thursday
Q: Who is whole (full)?
A: One who has children
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January 9 Friday
Q: What is difficult to do for humans?
A: Keeping the mind under control always
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January 10 Saturday
Q: Who is a brahmachaari?
A: One who has sublimated one’s sex energy
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January 11 Sunday
Q: Who is paradevata ?
A: The Divine mother, embodiment of pure consciousness
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January 12 Mondy
Q: Who supports these worlds?
A: The Sun
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January 13 Tuesday
Q: What is the source of living for all?
A: clouds which give rain.
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January 14 Wednesday
Q: Who is valiant?
A: One who protects the frightened.
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January 15 Thursday
Q: Who is the protector?
A: Spiritual teacher
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January 16 Friday
Q: Who is the teacher for the whole world?
A: Lord Shiva
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January 17 Saturday
Q: From whom is true knowledge?
A: Only from Lord Shiva
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January 18 Sunday
Q: From who one gets liberation?
A: From Mukunda
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January 19 Mondy
Q: What is avidyaa?
A: Forgetting one’s real Self
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January 20 Tuesday
Q: Who is without sorrow?
A: One who never gets angry
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January 21 Wednesday
Q: What is happiness?
A: Contentment
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January 22 Thursday
Q: Who is king?
A: One who keeps his subjects happy.
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January 23 Friday
Q: Who is a dog?
A: One who serves a mean person.
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January 24 Saturday
Q: Who is the master of maayaa ?
A: The Lord of all
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January 25 Sunday
Q: What is indrajaala (the great magic)?
A: The whole of this universe
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January 26 Mondy
Q: What is dream-like?
A: Whatever is happening in the waking state.
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January 27 Tuesday
Q: What is Truth?
A: Brahman
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January 28 Wednesday
Q: What is mithyaa (illusion, non-existent which appears as existent)?
A: That which disappears when true knowledge dawns.
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January 29 Thursday
Q: What is indefinable?
A: Maayaa
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January 30 Friday
Q: What is imagined?
A: Duality
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January 31 Saturday
Q: What is the highest goal?
A: Adwaitam (non-duality)
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BONUS QUOTES
Q: From whence ignorance?
A: Without beginning
Q: Who is the manifest devataa (God)?
A: Mother
Q: Who deserves worship and is also guru?
A: Father
Q: In whom is manifest all the gods?
A: Brahmana in whom there is true knowledge and who performs vedic karmas, without attachment, as an offering to God.
Q: Whose words never fail to be true and effective?
A: One who is truthful, who keeps silence ( has control over his speech)
and whose mind is tranquil.
Q: What is the cause of birth?
A: Attachment to sensual pleasures
Q: What cannot be avoided?
A: Death.
Q: Where should one place one’s foot?
A: Where one’s eyes tell that the place is clean.
Q: Who is the fit person to receive alms?
A: One who is hungry.
Q: Who is to be worshipped?
A: The incarnations of the Lord (God, Bhagavaan)
Q: Who is Bhagavaan?
A: The one Supreme Lord in whom Shankara and Naraayana are united.
Q: what is the fruit of devotion to God?
A: Attaining the abode of the Lord
Q: What is moksha (liberation)?
A: Liberation from ignorance (the end of avidya)
Q: What is the source of all the Vedas
A: The syllable ‘OM’
–Subham—
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