Some relief for youse all!

[Guest guest]

Thanks to Sri Benjamin and Sri Stig for writing

about Sri Sadaji's lectures on Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi's text Upadesa saara

- 8 tapes covering the entire text. Sri Sadaji is known well to those of

us on the Advaitin list as a profound scholar of advaita and a great spiritual

personality filled with warmth and friendship and generosity.

Benjaminji and Stigji, it takes great merit to be in the presence of a person

such as Sadaji and so we are certainly all blessed with this.

I will pass this on to so the information on ordering Sri

Sadaji's tapes from the Chinmaya mission is readily available to the members.

"There are 8 tapes all together and Shree Balan,

Secretary of the Chinmaya Mission Washington Regional Center, informs me

that the quality of the tapes is excellent. The total costs of the

tapes is $20/- and shipping costs are $5/- within US. Those who want to

order the tapes can send an email to "S. Balan" sbalan (AT) cox (DOT) net and mail

the check to (Attn: S. Balan) Chinmaya Mission, 46 Norwood Road, Silver

Spring, MD 20905. The checks are payable to Chinmaya Mission."

I am giving below the comments by Sri Benjaminji (of America) and Sri

Stigji (of Sweden) on Sri Sadaji lectures on Upadesa Saram during

this memorial day weekend (in Washington) and his lectures in Sweden

on the logic of spirituality last year.

Again, thank you for sharing these.

Love to all

Harsha

>From Benjamin:

I might add this. I recently attended most of Sadanandaji's two

lectures on the Upadesa Saram. I made a most fascinating discovery.

Sri Sadanadaji is a SUPERB public lecturer. I may not always be able

to follow everything on his posts, due to language shortcomings, but

for some strange (perhaps mystical!) reason I could easily absorb the

meaning of his words in public. It's quite rare that I can listen to

someone for several hours and not notice the time passing! Much to my

surprise, my understanding of Advaita was actually deepened.

When I came in yesterday, I was bursting with enthusiasm to write a

long account of whatever I could remember from the lectures.

....

But it doesn't

matter, because any verbal account is a poor substitute for the actual

experience of listening to a talented public speaker.

Om!

Benjamin

>From Stig:

Yes indeed, Sadanandaji is an excellent lecturer! A year ago he visited

my hometown Stockholm, Sweden, and we met every evening for ten days or

so. I also invited him to the Ganesha temple (the temple of the Tamil

community here in Stockholm) where he delivered a truly excellent

lecture on the logic of spiritually. He surely made an impression on the

audience, and one of my friends (a mosleem sufi interested in Vedanta)

still talks about this event everytime I meet him. Therefore, I would

strongly recommend the members of this list (at least if you live in the

Washington area) to attend Sadanandaji´s lectures.

Warm regards

Stig Lundgren