Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

========================================================================================== Friday 14, November 2025, 19:25.           ISAVASYA UPANISHAD:   18 Mantras on: “The All-Pervading Reality”  Reflections: Swami Gurubhaktananda  on the 12 Lectures delivered: Swami Tejomayananda:  to the 15th Batch Vedanta Course:   at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai  July 11th – July 16th, 2012 Post-6. =========================================================================================== ISHAVASYA UPANISHAD  MEDITATIONS on the Self Wave 2: Mantras 4-8 (5 No.)  ============================================================================================ Gajendra Moksha, the power of Surrender! Mantram - 5: Finding the Correct Means: 1  Tat ejati tat na ejati, = That (the Atman) moves and yet It moves not; 2  tat doore tat u antike; = It is far away and yet It is near;   3  tat antah a...

  ================================================================================================= Tuesday 11, November 2025, 20:30. BOOKS UPANISHAD  Discourse - 4 Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality. Mantras 28-43 Mantras 37- 40. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA Post-19. ========================================================================================================= Mantram-41. Suṣuptya bhāne bhānantu samādhā vātmāno'nvayaḥ, vyatirekas tvātma bhāne suṣuptya nava bhāsanam (41).  In the state of samadhi, consciousness exists, but the causal body does not exist. Now we have gotten rid of even the causal body. Consciousness is there in samadhi, but the causal body is not there. This is anvaya. The abolition of the causal body, the negation of the causal body while consciousness persists in samadhi, is vyatireka. What has happened now? We have proven that consciousness, which is our real nature, can exist independently of the physical body, independently of the subtl...

======================================================================================================= Sunday 09, November 2025, 19:00. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 3.3. Chapter 3: Preparation for Upanishadic Study -3. Post-17. ======================================================================================================== Sometimes the mind operates like a prism which deflects rays of light in various forms and in various hues. It is up to each person to consider for one's own self what are the thoughts that generally arise in the mind from morning to evening. You may be doing anything, but what are you thinking in the mind? This is what is important. The thoughts which take you wholly in the direction of what you are not and engage your psychic  attention on things which are not the Self—these thoughts should be considered as a serious infection in the mind itself. Since basically everybody is what one is, and even when one is operating in the direction of...

================================================================================================ Monday 20, October 2025, 19;39.            KAIVALYA UPANISHAD: “The Homogeneity of Brahman”  from the Atharva Veda:  26 Mantras:  Reflections:  Swami Gurubhaktananda:  Swami Advaitananda on the Series of 8 Lectures:  . of the 15th Batch Sandeepany Vedanta Course held at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai: From 23rd November – 30th November 2012. ================================================================================================= Mantram - 2:  Equipment For the Journey:  7.  tasmai sa hovaacha pitaamahashcha = To him the Grandsire, Brahma, said: 8. shraddhaa-bhakti-dhyaana = Faith, devotion and meditation, yogaad avaihi. = by a combination of these you may know (the goal). 7.  Pitaa-Mahaa: Brahmaji is called “Grandfather” due to the following reason: Welive in a world of subtle and gross objects. O...

Chinmaya Mission: Ik Onkar (Extended Version)  · A.R. Rahman, Harshdeep Kaur. Celebrate Guru Nanak Jayanti by living the truth of Oneness, Ik Onkar. Encourages readers to live the message, not just read it. ====================================================================================== Wednesday 05, October 2025, 19:50. AITAREYA UPANISHAD: “By a Peasant for the Peasant” :   Composed by Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya Series of 10 Lectures - by SWAMI ADVAYANANDAJI Acharyaji, 15th Batch Vedanta Course AT SANDEEPANY SADHANALAYA, POWAI, MUMBAI February 15th – February 23rd, 2013. Reflections by SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA ==================================================================================== PART 1: Chapter - 1:  4 mantras:  The Theory of CREATION: =================================================================================== Mantram - 1.2: The Creation of the Worlds:  4.  sa imaan lokaan asrijata: ambhah = He created all these Worlds (14...

==================================================================================== Monday 03, November 2025, 18:50 KENA UPANISHAD: “Know That Alone as Brahman”:  on the Series of 14 Lectures by Swami Tejomayanandaji: Guruji, then Spiritual Head, Chinmaya Mission: at Chinmaya Tapovan, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand from  April 8th – April 13th, 2013  Reflections:  SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA Chapters - 4 Mantras:  34. Post-3.  ====================================================================================== From: A. Krishna Yajur Veda & B. Sama Veda ======================================================================================= Chapter 1- 8 Mantras: The Nature of BRAHMAN: THE DISCIPLE QUESTIONS THE GURU: Mantram:  1.1: The Disciple’s Questions  1  The Disciple Asks:  kena ishitam patati =  By whom willed and directed  preshitam manah, =  does the mind alight upon its objects?    2  kena praanah prathama...