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Lessons on the Upanishads: 20 - Swami Krishnananda.

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======================================================================================================= Thursday 08, January 2025, 19:00. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 3.6. Chapter 3: Preparation for Upanishadic Study -6. Post-20. ======================================================================================================= I have briefly told you something about the nature of karma yoga, or unselfish action—performance of duty for duty's sake as a standard method laid down before us by the ancient masters for cleansing the mind of the dross of extraneous desires for sense objects—and upasana is the love of God that you evince in your own self by daily worship performed in whatever way you would like to do it. In the beginning when you conceive of the Supreme Being, you have a spatio-temporal imagination of that Being. God is very big, very large, very far away, very great, adorable; you offer your prostrations to that Almighty as something lovable. Even the ...
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KAIVALYA UPANISHAD: “The Homogeneity of Brahman” - 5. Swami Gurubhaktananda.

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================================================================================================= Tuesday 06, December 2025, 18:45.            KAIVALYA UPANISHAD: “The Homogeneity of Brahman”  from the Atharva Veda: 26 Mantras:  Reflections:  Swami Gurubhaktananda:  #on the Series of 8 Lectures:  Swami Advaitananda. of the 15th Batch Sandeepany Vedanta Course held at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai: From 23rd November – 30th November 2012. Mantram 4b: Goal 2: The Road to Brahmaloka  Post: 5. ==================================================================================================== Mantram 4b: Goal 2: The Road to Brahmaloka:  4.  yatayah shuddha sattwaah: Goal 2: Those strivers who are pure in mind  5.   te brahmalokeshu paraanta-kaale: they, in the end, gain the world of Brahma,  6.  para-amrtaat- = From there they gain the highest Immortality,  parimuchyanti sarve. = libe...
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AITAREYA UPANISHAD - “By a Peasant for the Peasant”: 6. Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya.

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SWAMI ADVAYANANDA ================================================================================================ Sunday 04, January 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 2 - 5 Mantras:  ABODES for the Devatas Post-6. ==================================================================================================== Here begins the Chapter 2 of Part 1.  THE CREATION OF THE organs, their objects and their Devatas in the previous mantram is at the unlimited, subtle, macrocosmic (Samashti) level.  In this chapter, we move to the limited, gross, microcosmic (Vyashti) level. The one, subtle, macrocosmic entity, named Hiranyagarbha, when it becomes gross, is called Virat, and h...
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KENA UPANISHAD: “Know That Alone as Brahman”: 6. SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA.

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================================================================================================ Friday 02, January 2025, 17: 41. 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. VIDEO:  Swami Gurubhaktananda Message of Hope Reflections: SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA From: A. Krishna Yajur Veda & B. Sama Veda THE DISCIPLE QUESTIONS THE GURU: Chapters - 4 Mantras:  34. Mantram - 1.3b: Beyond the Known and Unknown:  Post-6. ================================================================================================== Mantram - 1.3b: Beyond the Known and Unknown:  5.  anyad eva tad vijitaat = That is surely distinct from the known.  6.  atho aviditaat adhi; = And again, from the unknown, It is above.  7.  iti shushruma poorveshaam, = Thus have we heard from the Pr...
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KATHA UPANISHAD: 6. Swami Gurubhaktananda.

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  ===================================================================================================== Tuesday 30, December 2025, 19:40. KATHA UPANISHAD: “A Leap into the Beyond”:Parts 1 & 2  with Bhashya by Sri Adi Shankaracharyaji. on the 90 Lectures delivered by Swami Advayanandaji  KATHA UPANISHAD:  Part 1 – Total 71 Mantras Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda  Chapters 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3  Chapter 1.1: (29) Mantras Mantram - 1.1.7: Lord Yama Instructs on Hospitality Post-6.  ====================================================================================================== Mantram - 1.1.7: Lord Yama Instructs on Hospitality: Lord Yama says to his family:  1.  Vaishvaanarah pravishati = “Like the entry of fire,  2.  atithih braahmanah grihaan; = a Brahmana guest has come to our house.  3.  tasya etaam shaantim kurvanti = We should pacify him, as is customary (amongst us)  4.  hara vaivasvata udakam., ...
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TAITTAREYA UPANISHAD: Post-6. - Rishi Yajnavalkya.

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  ===================================================================================================== Sunday 28, December 2025, 17:25. TAITTAREYA UPANISHAD  1: Sheeksha Valli:   Science of Vedic Chanting” -  MAHA-SAMHITAA UPASANAS Anuvaka 1.5  The “Great Word-Junctions Rishi Yajnavalkya  on the Series of 14 Lectures by Swami Advayananda.   Reflections:  SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA. Post-6. ==================================================================================================== Introduction to Upasanas:  MANTRAM -1.3:7: The Fruits of these Upasanas:  The Components of an Upasana: ==================================================================================================== Each of the five Upasanas above is an exercise to be practised by the student. In an Upasana a symbol is used upon which the mind is focussed in order to be exercised. The symbol could be an object or an event. Through the present Upasanas, parrot-sty...
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The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: Chapter - 6-2: Swami Krishnananda

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Swami Chinmayananda: Favorites. Theme of Shiva-Armonian.   What do the Hindu devotees teach us? Swipe to find out! >>>> Which quality do you relate to the most? Comment below! #hindugod #hindugods #bhaktimarga #sanatandharam #sanatandharm  [hindu devotional, devotion, bhakti, sanatana dharma, sanatan dharma, bhakti yoga, Hinduism, bhakt Prahlad, Krishna, Shabari, Mahavatar narasimha] ==================================================================================================== Friday 26, December 2025, 18:00. Books Upanishad The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 6-2. Chapter 6: Light on the Analogy of a Painted Picture-2. 2.Jiva and Kutastha: ===================================================================================================== 2.Jiva and Kutastha: The One Truth appears to have a fourfold distinction as Kutastha, Brahman, Jiva and Isvara, even as the space contained in a jar, the vast universal space, the space reflected in the water contained...
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