SWAMI RAMA TIRTHA’S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Post No.4953)

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Date: 27 April 2018

 

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Post No. 4953

 

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Swami Rama Tirtha’s Answers

 

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QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Question 1 : What is the greatest riddle?

Answer : Life, for we all have to give it up.

 

Q 2 : Safest Banks, fast stock – most profitable share?

A    : The farmer’s earth banks, live stock and ploughshares.

 

Q 3 : How can you always have what you please?

A    : If you will be pleased with what you have.

 

Q 4 : What is matter?

A    : Never Mind

What is Mind?

No matter.

 

Q 5 : What man is born with three hands?

A    :  The man who gets a right hand, a left hand and a little behind hand.

 

Q 6 : I tremble at each breadth of air and yet can heaviest burden bear?

A    :  Water

 

Q 7 : What does the worthy man think is more blessed to give than to receive?

A    : Kicks, pills and advice

 

Q 8 : What common thing is very uncommon?

A    : Common sense

 

Q 9 : Why are people very generous when they hear a sermon?

A    :  They give it all away.

 

Q 10 : Which is the largest room in the world?

A      : Room for improvement

Q 11 : What is that a king can do and God cannot?

A      :  A king can banish or deport man of his subjects from his kingdom, God cannot.

 

Q 12 : What does a man see everyday and God never see?

A      : His equal

 

Q 13 : What is better than an idea?

A      : You dear!

 

Q 14 : Why does a preacher have an easier time than a Doctor or Lawyer?

A      : Easier to preach than practice.

 

Q 15 : What low-born ill-bred fellow had noble blood in him?

A      : A flea when it bites lords and ladies.

 

Q 16 : An Englishman to Abraham Lincoln : What was your family coat of arms?

A      : Shirt sleeves.

 

Q 17 : This side of the river is “the other side”?

A      : That is one side, therefore this is the other side.

 

Q 18 : When is the new birth reliable?

A      : When the second birth precedes the first one.

 

Q  19 : What did Adam first plant in the garden of Eden?

A       : His foot.

 

Q 20 : Why are potatoes and corn like the Pharisees ?

A      :  They have eyes and see not, and ears and hear not.

Q 21 : Zeno said, “Motions is impossible.”  A body cannot move in the place where it is, for the place is no larger than the body, and it cannot move in another place, because it is not there.

A      : But it can move out of one place into another.

 

Q 22 : A cat has nine tails?

A      : One cat  (1)   one tail

No cat  (8)   eight tails

————-    ————-

therefore one cat      nine tails

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Q 23 : Palindromes ?

A      : According to Sidney Smith, How did Adam introduce himself to Eve.

Madam I’m Adam

Napoleon speaks of himself :

“Able was I ere saw Elba”

Q 24 : Squraing the circle?

A      :

C I R C L E

I C A R U S

R A R E S T

C R E A T E

L U S T R E

E S T E E M

 

( To Be Continued)

 

 

Treat this article as second part of the Tamil/English article -Part 1 posted day before yesterday

 

 

ஸ்வாமி ராமதீர்த்தரின் குறிப்பேடுகள் சிலவற்றின் தொகுப்பு – 2

 

–SUBHAM–

 

Baffling Questions and Beautiful Answers in Spirituality –Part II

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Written by Santhanam Nagarajan

Post  No.1802; Dated 16th April 2015

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Baffling Questions and Beautiful Answers in Spirituality Part II

Here is a new Question – Answer series for the benefit of all.

From time to time we have baffling questions.  But there is nobody to answer them.

But here is an effort to compile the answers from the great scholars, sages and saints of India. This is in continuation of the earlier article.

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03) Are there various forms of Matter?

Maharishi Aurobindo answers:

There are various forms of Matter.  What we know is the grossest form but there are other subtler ranges of Matter, and each form has its own properties.  There are seven earths mentioned in Indian mythology; also according to the Veda, there are three earths.  Kartavirya, the king, is reported to have conquered fourteen earths!

Source: Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Sri Aurobindo, compiled by M.P.Pandit

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04) What is the true meaning of the statement that the Vedas are beginning less and eternal? 

 

Does it refer to the Vedic utterances or the statements contained in the Vedas?  If it refers to the truth involved in such statements, are not the sciences, such as Logic, Geometry, Chemistry, etc equally beginning less and eternal, for they contain an everlasting truth?

This question is reported in The Hindu, Madras, February, 1897 under the Heading, ‘An hour with the Swami Vivekananda at Madura.’

Swami Vivekananda answers:

There was a time when the Vedas themselves were considered eternal in the sense in which the divine truths contained therein were changeless and permanent, and were only revealed to man.  At a subsequent time, it appears that the utterance of the Vedic hymns with the knowledge of its meaning was important, and it was held that the hymns themselves must have had a divine origin.  At a still later period the meaning of the hymns showed that many of them could not be divine origin, because they inculcated upon mankind performance of various unholy acts, such as torturing animals, and we can also many ridiculous stories in the Vedas.  The correct meaning of the statement ‘The Vedas are beginning less and eternal’ is that the law or truth revealed by them to man is permanent and changeless.  Logic, Geometry, Chemistry, etc., reveal also a law or truth which is permanent and changeless, and in that sense they are also beginning less and eternal.  But no truth or law is absent from the Vedas, and I ask any one of you to point out to me any truth which is not treated of in them.

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Volume V Page 135

Summary

03) Are there various forms of Matter? Amharic Aurobindo answers.  04) What is the true meaning of the statement that the Vedas are beginning less and eternal?  Swami Vivekananda answers.

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