The Record of Shankaracharya Audiences – Index T

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Word	Year	Page	Description
Talents	1978	862	Talent depends on Samskar. Example of individual electric meter which can only accept certain load.
Tamas	1962	49-50  D	Keertan can take people from Tamas, via Rajas, to Sattva.
Tamas	1964	193  D	Those in Tamas are lazy. They sleep too much and destroy themselves.
Tamas	1965	229-230  D	Negative emotion caused by Tamas mixed with Rajas. Observe the situation, knowing that everything changes and there will be a turn for the better.
Tamas	1965	231  D	When you go to sleep you go into Tamas and come out fresh in the morning.
Tamas	1965	239  D	Activities of Rajas and Tamas collect impurities. Meditation cleans them out.
Tamas	1965	248  D	Buddhi cannot be still and pure where there is Tamas.
Tamas	1972	575  D	D.S. If you sacrifice a thing, then it is not Tamas. Example of walking 30 miles and feeling unable to move further, but moving is possible if a snake appears.
Tamas	1974	643  D	When Ahankar is Tamasic, a man acts in a cruel and rigid way.
Tamas	1979	876	Ego predominates in Tamasic people. They don't remember the meeting with Param-Atman.
Tamas	1979	882	Predominance of Tamas makes decisions difficult.
Tamas	1979	890-891	In Tamasic rest, little is gained apart from physical energy.
Tamas	1988	1019	Predominance of Tamas in meditation leads to heaviness, mechanical movements, and sleep.
Tamas	1991	1056-1057	Mind of Tamasic individual is crude, confused and dull, called Moodha.
Tamas			See also: Gunas
Tat Tvam Asi	1965	218  D	R. asks re becoming the 'object of his search' for longer periods.
Teacher	1962	43  D	Example of watching a man learning to swim - the teacher must watch the disciple to help him on the Way.
Teacher	1964	117  D	Need for a teacher in early steps of the ladder, up to level 5.
Teacher	1964	118  D	What books cannot give you a teacher can, except for realisation which you must experience yourself.
Teacher	1964	136  D	The guide will never leave him unless he sees the disciple reach his goal of Self-realisation. Even death would not break the relationship.
Teacher	1967	318  D	Making contact with a teacher is process of cause and effect. Subsequently, remembering from the heart in difficult situations draws help from teacher.
Teacher	1967	319  D	Relationship with teacher through words independent of physical separation.
Teacher	1967	321  D	Some people under H.H. thought they were ready to start teaching others. When they left the Ashram they learned that the force was not available.
Teacher	1967	325  D	Knows disciple's difficulties and helps without being asked.
Teacher	1967	328  D	Remembering teacher essential. Teacher plays major role in liberation.
Teacher	1967	330  D	Relationship with disciple starts with name and form. When disciple is living far away, relationship is established through cosmic subtle body.
Teacher	1967	331  D	How disciple can truly pass on help from teacher. See story of Disciple who was a householder on page 331  D.
Teacher	1968	360  D	A teacher gives people a systematic order to follow to grow and realise themselves.
Teacher	1970	397  D	Teacher is 'advocate' with Absolute.
Teacher	1970	448  D	Advice about following one teacher.
Teacher	1971	496-497  D	Teaching by example. See story of Mahatma Gandhi and guests' spiced food on pages 496-497  D.
Teacher	1971	498  D	Two types of leader - from Yogic system with miraculous powers, or wise man who works through knowledge and helps to remove impediments.
Teacher	1971	499  D	Teacher represents grace and knowledge, disciple represents faith and service. They must come together to become One.
Teacher	1972	570  D	D.S. It is intensity of desire for a teacher that will bring a teacher to you.
Teacher	1974	651  D	Difference in relationship between those on way of knowledge and devotion.
Teacher	1974	652  D	Teacher like electricity meter connecting individual to power supply.
Teacher	1974	688  D	Relationship with a teacher. N.G.H.'s relationship with Dr Roles. H.H. is not Dr Roles's Guru - only a helper.
Teacher	1976	762-763	Role of the teacher is to emanate knowledge which the learner catches. It is like using an oil lamp to light other lamps.
Teacher	1979	906	Golden (Sattvic) cover hiding the Self can only be removed by teacher.
Teacher	1979	909	The person who the disciple has accepted as teacher has ultimate spiritual responsibility for disciple - not the disciple himself.
Teacher	1979	950	Importance of remaining connected to Guru. Analogy of railway engine.
Teacher	1988	1016	In the flow of spiritual bliss, neither the giver nor the taker, teacher or disciple, ever feels the need to stop. Everything else is propelled by ego which is limited.
Teacher	1988	1018	All that has been given by Dr Roles, Mr Ouspensky or H.H. is alive and helpful, ever-ready for assimilation.
Teacher	1993	1081	Relationship with disciples is that the teacher is always there and unity between them is there. It is the responsibility of Realised Man to see that the way is free of trouble.
Teacher	1993	1083	Relationship with teacher is developed through questions and practice. All the ways require the support of knowledge by which the teacher helps the disciple to make progress.
Teacher	1993	1084	Relationship with Teacher is Vyashti with Samashti. The work is to transform Vyashti into Samashti through knowledge and meditation.
Teacher			See also: Guru
Teacher			See also: Realised Man
Teaching	1964	162  D	Never give knowledge obtained from H.H. to others indiscriminately. See story of Gardener and sandalwood trees on pages 162-163  D.
Teaching	1964	189  D	Tell only what you know and have experience of.
Teaching	1967	322  D	Must not use teaching as propaganda or for expansion.
Teaching	1970	448  D	Danger of losing one's way by following more than one teaching.
Teaching	1970	461  D	Need to understand and practise what you teach. See story of Addiction to sweets on page 461  D.
Teaching	1971	514  D	Teaching a thing without knowing it fully does more harm than good. Improve one's behaviour first and make oneself clean internally and externally. See also page 517  D.
Teaching	1973	611  D	R. asks what are the most important points out of everything H.H. has told him.
Teaching	1975	735  D	Whatever we have acquired and cherished in our active life should be shared with others - either by explaining or by living according to those principles.
Teaching	1976	764-765	How to help meditators. We say we are giving something when we are giving nothing. When a doctor prescribes rest he is not giving the patient anything.
Teaching	1979	889	Need to follow only one teaching.
Teaching	1979	922	Different ways of teaching, e.g. Vyasa.
Technology	1979	914	Technology and quality of life. Need to give opportunities to practise attention.
Telephone	1972	560  D	Asking for something from the heart is like asking for a line from the exchange.
Tension	1962	52  D	Fighting nature adds tension after tension. Relief of tension by repeating mantra and by devotional music.
Tension	1962	72  D	Seek help from teacher to relieve tension caused by 'looking in the wrong place' for bliss.
Tension	1964	126-127  D	Tension (Vikshepa) one of the hindrances to meditation.
Tension	1964	128  D	Children have little of the three hindrances. Child's mind has very little dirt, even less cloud and little tension.
Tension	1964	132  D	If due to great tension you can't meditate, drop it and try again later.
Tension	1989	1033	Q. on physical relaxation. If tension is caused by physical tiredness then sleep is needed. If the tiredness is mental then help is needed to resolves the problems in the mind.
Tension			See also: Relaxation
Test	1962	61-62  D	Putting R. in third class at Ram Nagar was like Milarepa and Marpa.
Test	1974	688-689  D	H.H. failed Dr Roles in a test a spiritual knowledge because of Dr Roles's pride for his own wisdom. See story of Learned man who is not proud on page 688  D.
Test	1989	1048	People are told as a ploy that so much knowledge has been given, why not settle down. They have to realise for themselves that Satsang with Realised Man is always necessary.
Thinkers	1973	615  D	'Thinkers want nothing, not even God', because they recognise that everything is inseparably related to Param-Atman. See Mela talk, page 603  D.
Thinking	1974	694  D	To know is merely knowledge, but to acknowledge is to love. But even that is not enough - we need to think.
Thinking	1979	899	Buddhi - reason, logic, thinking is the field in which the brain is activated, but it is not an independent function and is just one aspect of the thought process.
Thorn	1964	195-196  D	Discipline is only like a thorn to remove another thorn. Once you realise your Real Self, no discipline is needed.
Thoughts	1961	11  D	Dealing with negative thoughts arising during meditation.
Thoughts	1962	76  D	Dealing with thoughts that disturb meditation. See story of Donkey in road on page 76  D.
Thoughts	1963	90  D	Those who suffer inferiority or guilt should meditate more to wipe them away.
Thoughts	1963	96  D	When good thoughts and emotions arise, mankind develops. When bad thoughts and emotions arise, mankind sinks low.
Thoughts	1965	225-226  D	Buddhi determines direction of thoughts and ideas.
Thoughts	1965	264-265  D	Desires and thoughts governed by level of being.
Thoughts	1965	274  D	When there is an interval in which you are not busy, just reflect the mantra, without meditating.
Thoughts	1968	348  D	All thinking is bad in meditation, but those who think purely about God are very close to the next step when they would stop thinking and dive deep.
Thoughts	1970	458  D	Advice on dealing with intruding thoughts.
Thoughts	1970	461  D	Decide what are good thoughts and stick to those. They will eventually remain in heart and colour our activities.
Thoughts	1970	470  D	Easier to divert flow of thoughts than to stop it.
Thoughts	1971	518  D	A momentary thought stealing into the mind can make its home there and cause mischief. Reels and reels of thoughts are lying printed on our minds. See story of Mahatma and servant on page 518  D.
Thoughts	1972	547  D	The incessant commentary in the mind is useless. H.H. describes two solutions. See letter on page 546  D.
Thoughts	1972	552  D	To keep mind in the present, see the same thing, Param-Atman, in everything. But in our day-to-day actions, things should be taken as they are - not all the same.
Thoughts	1972	584  D	D.S. One's degree of freedom from thought, one's peacefulness in spite of what is happening are a measure of progress towards home.
Thoughts	1972	593  D	D.S. This 'stilling' (of the mind) is an obnoxious word - wipe it out. It implies suppression. If you suppress it, it will come up again. See Dixit comment on page 602  D.
Thoughts	1973	611  D	Control thoughts by diverting to holy direction, and building a barrier against unholy thoughts. Example of dam and canal to control a river.
Thoughts	1973	624  D	Longer meditation does not mean the achievement of profound stillness. Meditators may sit for hours churning their mechanical thoughts, and end up tired.
Thoughts	1974	690  D	People who have too many thoughts in meditation advised to shut down their file of thoughts about the external world when they meditate.
Thoughts	1976	768	The misleading thoughts that come into our mind are due to Tamas and these cause conflicts in the mind. After things are seen in the light of Sattva, such conflicts don't arise.
Thoughts	1977	809	Love of the Absolute or fear of the Absolute are the only ways of escaping bad thoughts. See story of Guru and milk of lioness (1) on page 809.
Thoughts	1993	1076	If Buddhi is pure it can assess and make use of each passing thought. Root out useless thoughts and nourish spiritual ones. Example of farmer sowing seed.
Thoughts	1993	1081	New meditators are often quite naturally overpowered by thoughts and expectations and this creates Vikshepa which takes time to settle down.
Three bodies	1982	995	Three bodies arise from Law of Three, starting with Prakriti.
Three forces	1962	39  D	The Laws of Three and Seven in our System are the same as in H.H.'s System.
Three forces	1962	42  D	R. gives summary of Laws of Three and Seven in our System and H.H. confirms exactly the same in his System.
Three forces	1962	72  D	The pattern of 'three' is everywhere in the world.
Three forces	1965	227  D	Examples of 'three forces' throughout creation.
Three forces	1965	244  D	Three forces of mantra in meditation.
Three forces	1967	310  D	Whole universe is governed by Law of Three (Gunas). Look at any action and get to know the Law of Three working in it.
Three forces	1970	452  D	Example: faith, sincerity and discipline all needed to proceed along the Way.
Three forces	1976	770-771	Gunas; gross, subtle and causal; waking, dreaming, sleeping. Triads all relate to world, not to Param-Atman.
Three forces	1979	868	Creation of the three forces: Sattva, Rajas, Tamas.
Three forces	1980	970	Law of Three pervades all things and events. It is impossible to stay in Sattvic stillness all the time.
Three forces			See also: Law of Three
Three year training	1970	425  D	Three years of 'correct and precise' training to become conversant with the unchanging truth.
Three year training	1970	449  D	Must be done with sincerity and love; three years to bring individual to point where discipline and method become part of life.
Time	1962	39  D	Example of Law of Three: three times: past, present and future.
Time	1962	64  D	Time is an illusion. In the Atman there is no time or space. See story of Lakshman's dive (1) on page 64  D.
Time	1962	65  D	Time different at different levels of creation.
Time	1964	136  D	There is no time limit for Self-realisation. It could happen as quick as minutes or take as long as one could take. Time factor depends on the level of Being.
Time	1964	157  D	Time and space are no barrier in imparting knowledge.
Time	1965	239  D	Time factor is part of material world. Where there is space there is time. But in the spiritual world time and space have no validity.
Time	1965	267  D	How to make best use of it.
Time	1969	382-383  D	Time on different levels - physical and subtle. See story of Lakshman's dive (2) on pages 382-383  D.
Time	1970	394  D	Subtle body not bound by time.
Time	1970	395  D	Decisions taken under Sattva transcend all time.
Time	1970	397-398  D	Krishna: ' this body of mine is the symbol of Time. In time all things are happening. Everything is being done by the Absolute himself.' See story of Krishna and Arjuna on pages 397-398  D.
Time	1970	415  D	Effects of meditation are related to past, present and future times.
Time	1970	435  D	Truth transcends all three times.
Time	1972	529  D	Forget the past, do not fear the future, devote the present to the Bhakti of Param-Atman.
Time	1977	806-807	Present moment is immanent Absolute and is always lit.
Time	1978	833-834	Best time for meditation is in the morning - just before sunrise. (Brahma Murhurt)
Time	1979	903	Time of day - confluence of light and dark - conducive to Sattva.
Time	1979	904	Expansion of time due to Sattva.
Time	1980	971	Time in relation to natural cycle - things are generated, grow and mature. Obstacles arising from the Gunas.
Toys	1971	519  D	Treat worldly objects like toys; treating them as real leads to disappointment and trouble. See story of Toy coins on page 519  D.
Tradition	1961	6  D	Origin of the Shankaracharya tradition.
Tradition	1961	11  D	H.H. describes writings of original Shankara. Summarised as 'Brahma is reality, rest is illusion'. See Q. page 9  D.
Tradition	1965	238  D	The Shankaracharya tradition encompasses both knowledge of Atman from great writings and experience from meditation.
Tradition	1965	244-245  D	Differences in religions are in their rituals, not their aims.
Tradition	1965	275-276  D	Acharya tradition and Guru Deva.
Tradition	1970	416-417  D	Description of how the Holy Tradition is passed on through the Initiation ceremony.
Tradition	1972	561  D	Tradition of spiritual life in India whereby people devoted their lives to the search is virtually lost.
Tradition	1972	596  D	Everything H.H. says is not his, but belongs to the Shankaracharya tradition which was started by Narayana.
Tradition	1977	819	H.H. says his tradition and our System (Ouspensky's) are same. There is nothing outside his tradition because it is the tradition of the Absolute.
Tradition	1979	897	Tradition gives potency to mantra. Two traditions, Vedic and Puranic, with different mantras for different purposes.
Tradition	1979	907-908	Tradition and terminology. Necessity to be careful in translation. Special instructions to us to get all English equivalents checked by someone competent to check.
Tradition	1988	1016	Tradition of teacher and disciple must be held with respect.
Tradition	1988	1017	H.H.'s successor takes over his responsibilities and relationships.
Train	1965	236  D	Disciples on the way of love - likened to train and wagons: being connected.
Transcend­ence	1979	911	Causal body is transcendent, and can only be experienced after the event - deep sleep or deep meditation.
Transcend­ence	1979	922	Transcending the Gunas.
Transform­ation	1970	395  D	Key to transformation is the intensity of desire for purity and simplicity. Example of bottle of pure and coloured water.
Transform­ation	1970	423  D	New forms appear out of the will of the Absolute, and return to five elements. Example making table from wood.
Transform­ation	1971	486  D	It is only the human form that has the possibility of transformation.
Transform­ation	1974	693  D	We need to transform our nature, but we cannot do it by our own efforts alone. The grace of Param-Atman is needed.
Transform­ation	1991	1058	The Self needs no transformation. All that is needed is to express it truly. Deception is possible by by-passing the Self and taking to secret ways - ignoring the Self.
Transform­ation	1992	1072	Nature assists those who seek transformation and punishes those attached to rigidity who don't want to change.
Transform­ation	1993	1077	The light of Atman falling on Buddhi can be used either for transformation or for reinforcing one's own attachments.
Translation	1964	194  D	Meaning more important than words. Even if Sanskrit translation impossible, language is no barrier in the field of experience.
Translation	1979	907-908	Tradition and terminology. Necessity to be careful in translation. Special instructions to us to get all English equivalents checked by someone competent to check.
Transmission	1972	591-592  D	D.S. People think that to be a recluse means to be inactive. But when a man has become absolutely silent and in bliss he is transmitting bliss to all creatures.
Treasure	1965	271  D	R.'s Q. about 'laying up for yourselves treasure in heaven'. Two types of treasure.
Triad			See: Law of Three
Triad			See also: Three forces
Trinity	1975	711  D	Atman, Param-Atman and Guru are trinity of same unity. No difference between them.
Trinity			See also: Three forces
Trinity			See also: Triad
Troubles	1972	539  D	How to benefit from them on the path of devotion.
Troubles	1979	884	Creator has created the world for play. Jiva has turned his back on God, so God is coming after him to make him agreeable.
True Knowledge			See: Truth
Truth	1961	4  D	Every spiritual truth, however simple, is at once distorted when it reaches an unrealised person.
Truth	1962	57  D	Love the truth and leave the untruth to make our Buddhi pure.
Truth	1964	113  D	Time and space no barrier to imparting True Knowledge.
Truth	1964	163-164  D	The Absolute is complete peace, bliss, consciousness and Truth.
Truth	1964	170  D	When Buddhi saturated with Sattva and heart is responding, truth flashed by intuition.
Truth	1964	189  D	Do not have ambition to spread the truth or resort to subjective glorification of truth. Organisations that do so, crumble down in time.
Truth	1964	195  D	The Truth is that one really is Atman and the Absolute, but one doesn't know this secret because of ignorance.
Truth	1964	196  D	Ignorance is illusory. In Self it is all Bliss, Consciousness and Truth.
Truth	1964	201  D	Intelligence of pure knowledge must work to bring about love of truth for emotion to work.
Truth	1965	242  D	Truth is only experienced when emotional and intellectual centres join.
Truth	1965	250  D	Love of truth and knowledge of truth are two different ways.
Truth	1965	251  D	Sat-Chit-Anand: to know the truth (Sat), judge by other two factors - bliss and consciousness.
Truth	1965	253  D	Simple truth has always been there, but it has been ignored because of the rush of worldly activities.
Truth	1965	273-274  D	Realisation of Truth on waking from deep sleep.
Truth	1970	389  D	Emotional centre close to seat of Truth.
Truth	1970	395  D	Simile of glass bottle. Water can only be cleared by Sattva, Viveka and study of truth.
Truth	1970	405  D	To gain abundance of Sattva, love to speak the truth.
Truth	1970	409  D	Nothing happens when true knowledge dawns. All the happenings, happen beforehand.
Truth	1970	411  D	Never any separation if feeling of true Ahankar established.
Truth	1970	412  D	All religious books speak of same Truth: difficulty is in interpretation.
Truth	1970	416-417  D	Filling mind with random reading unhelpful. But some help needed from books as guidance to knowledge.
Truth	1970	434-436  D	Truth is the substance of all creation. It never changes. It is the Absolute from which creation has emerged. Example of making things from clay.
Truth	1971	494  D	How to remove deep roots of Prakriti: love the truth and stand by it.
Truth	1974	631  D	When held in pure unadulterated form it purifies the mind and takes it to a deeper level.
Truth	1974	633  D	How to act in world is regulated by true knowledge - whether to waste energy in fruitless activities or use it to good purpose.
Truth	1974	634  D	We only need to see one thing - how thoughts arise and what they lead to as this is a prototype for everything else. See story of Rama and Sita on page 634  D.
Truth	1974	635  D	Vritti/Shruti is marriage of individual and True Knowledge. The Ramayana combines True Knowledge of the Vedas, Upanishads and Puranas.
Truth	1974	637-638  D	A. asks re experiencing true knowledge: 'Go through it again and again'.
Truth	1974	649  D	True knowledge is the sound through which one recognises the true self manifesting in all the different forms.
Truth	1976	742	Respect for Truth. Param-Atman is truth and truth is Param-Atman.
Truth	1979	906	Golden covering hiding truth. Disciple prays to master to remove it. (Isa Upanishad)
Truth	1979	922	Can only be experienced, not taught.
Truth	1991	1057	Truth has been proclaimed, but has not been put into practice properly. If the mind is exposed truthfully it doesn't matter what is there, for others can take true positions.
Truth	1991	1058	When untruth is seen, ordinary men who seek neither profit nor power will seek honest men to lead them.
Truth	1992	1073	Those who are so proud, arrogant and hypocritical that they will not turn towards truth, will keep on returning, life after life, because they are attached to their possessions.
Tulsi Das	1975	726  D	Author of Ramayana in vernacular Hindi. 'Heaven, hell and liberation' are just the same for him because he sees Rama everywhere.
Tulsi Das	1979	897	Tradition gives potency to mantra. See story of Tulsi Das, boy crossing river and mantra on page 897.
Turiya	1962	40  D	Explanation is different in Vedanta system from that in Sankhya and Nyaya systems.
Turiya	1962	43  D	In Sankhya system, when you come out into the world you lose bliss of Turiya. In Vedanta you can be in the world and still experience Turiya.
Turiya	1962	45  D	The Fourth state of Consciousness when the Self becomes one with the Atman.
Turiya	1962	47  D	The Fourth state of consciousness when the Self becomes one with the Atman.
Turiya	1964	121  D	If one doesn't reach Turiya before death, accumulated subtle influences pass on to next life as a starting point.
Turiya	1964	167-168  D	Essence is affected as far as 'Abundance'. At Turiya, although body still exists, nothing happens to Atman.
Turiya	1964	171  D	21 days of continuous Turiya would stop material function of body; Atman would merge into Absolute. Turiya is rare state of experience.
Turiya	1965	250  D	A fourth state of consciousness, equilibrium.
Turiya	1965	277  D	Experienced in flashes by ordinary men. Seventh step is state of Turiya all the time - beyond Self-realisation and not necessary for householders.
Turiya	1974	644  D	Difference between Turiya and Samadhi.
Turiya	1975	729  D	Beyond five states of being. Acquired when Sattva is predominant.
Turiya	1976	761	Viewer of Turiya is the Atman.
Turiya	1980	975	Last stage of ladder - unity of the Self with the Absolute.
Twice-born	1962	77  D	Those who are devoted to learning some system of spiritual discipline.
Types	1964	108-109  D	Two types of people - those who take things on faith and those who want proof of everything.
Types	1964	114-115  D	There are the men of heart and the men of mind.
Types	1964	115  D	Interchange between men of heart and men of mind is possible at the top where both are one.
Types	1964	124  D	One type arms himself completely before starting. The other just gets on with it.
Types	1964	129  D	Four ages of world and types of people corresponding to each age.
Types	1964	140  D	Helping others. There are two types of people: those who want knowledge only, and those prepared for discipline.
Types	1965	221  D	Two types of disciple. Servant type who follows rules. Other type does everything of his own accord because of faith, respect, reverence and devotion.
Types	1970	450-451  D	Description of two types of people - head predominant, heart predominant. See story of Pumpkin and mango tree (1) on page 451  D.
Types	1970	457  D	Different help needed for emotional and intellectual types. How to determine which type someone is.
Types	1970	458  D	Confusion between intellection and emotional types. See story of Intellectual man with emotional disorder on page 458  D.
Types	1978	841	How to recognise intellectual or emotional types.
Types	1979	928	There are only three types of person - Sattvic, Rajasic and Ramasic. But they are not mutually exclusive.
Types	1989	1030-1031	People can be divided into two types - emotional and intellectual. They need to be helped in different ways. Duty of the School is to provide for both without any preferences.
Types			See also: Way(s)

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