Swami Sadananda

Vedanta-Saara.

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Long ago, Swami Sadanand wrote this very famous and scholarly text of Vedanta.

But for the layman the subject of Vedanta is so complicated that even the most erudite feel distraught about it. 

However, one could see this all in quite an another perspective. 

That is, the four foundational pillars of ego that let not one become free of ignorance / confusion.

They are :

Sense of doer-ship,

Sense of enjoying / suffering,

Sense of ownership,

And the last is -

Sense of knowing.

In any and whatever deed (karma) that one comes across, one inadvertently falls prey to the notion 

I do, I will not do, I did, I didn't, I should or shouldn't do this or that, or I am the one, who is free or not free to do anything. 

This sense of being an independent and free doer, is the very first idea that comes into the imagination, and without suspecting its role, one is lead into believing that one has to follow and obey the same.

This sense / illusion of associating oneself with the idea of being the doer is the first wrong that happens to man.

Based upon and supported upon this idea is the next :

I enjoy, suffer the consequences of all and every of my deeds.

Yet another and next one is :

I'm the owner, the one who possesses.

The fourth and the last is the clandestine one that I'm the one who knows.

This last is the only and also the very cause of all impending trouble.

Swami Sadanand might have written a very perfect treatise upon the wisdom of Vedanta, but only one, who deserves, has a keen urge, is the earnest, and has enough patience may profit from this great scholarly text. 

The alternative is to find out :

Exactly 

Who is the one that performs a deed, the one, 

Who experiences the fruits of such a deed or action, 

Who owns what is believed, are one possesses, and finally, 

Who knows or takes oneself as the possessor / owner of knowledge!  

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