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Upanishads help you to be organised Baldeo Sahai
INNER WISDOM: Baldeo Sahai in New Delhi
If you look deeply, it becomes clear that the promises held out by scientific advances and the free market do not heal the heart, order the mind or restore in us that compassion and nobility of purpose which befits our species and our destiny. However, this is where the perennial wisdom of the Upanishads comes in.
Says Baldeo Sahai, founder of the Upanishads Society in Gulmohar Park, New Delhi, "Now more than ever, these ancient texts offer invaluable education in what is our true evolutionary priority - the development of the unused cosmic potential that resides in each of us." He terms "this latent spiritual intelligence" as our birthright, waiting to be uncovered.
"It is one tool that is indispensable if we are to solve our manifold problems. The fruit of this intelligence is the realisation that we are one self. Unless we begin to live on this reality, our future is bleak," he states.
Sahai, through this Society, hopes "to popularise the message of the Upanishads and apply its teachings to seek solutions to modern-day issues like pollution, corruption, illiteracy and inequality by emphasising on spiritual and universal values."
On the Internet
Elaborating on the objects of the Society, he adds, "We are trying to popularise the teachings of the Upanishads through all modern means of communication like the Internet, etc."
Explaining the Upanishads in seven parts, Sahai says, "I regret that our present generation doesn't know the real meaning of the Upanishads. It is the essence of the Vedas. The Vedas have four portions: the collection of hymns is called Samhita, the rituals prescribed for worship are contained in the Brahmanas, their deeper significance is given in the Aranyakas, the last portion explaining the nature of ultimate reality is propounded in the Upanishads. Since it occurs at the end of Vedic literature, their philosophy is also called Vedanta - literally, the end of the Vedas."
Having written a book "Antar Jagat", Sahai recalls, "Fifty years ago when I wrote the book, it made funny reading. You know why? Because it was not organised at all. It was even worse than one's kitchen! To get organised, a person needs to have the knowledge of the Upanishads and only then he can be successful in life."
Sahai has written a number of articles in English, Hindi and Urdu on subjects like art, culture, archaeology and economy.
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