Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  -------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, September 19, 2020. 8:10. PM. Chapter 3: Ishvara and Jiva - 3. ---------------------------------------------------------- 1. Now the metaphor continues. The Great Being projected a bull before them and said, “Here is the abode for you. This is the body for you. You enter this body and satisfy your hunger and your thirst.” The divinities looked at the bull and said, “This is not suitable. This is not a proper abode for us.” Then He projected a horse. They looked at the body of the horse and concluded that the horse, too, was not a proper body for real satisfaction. Then He projected a human body. “This is correct,” they said. “We want this body only,” and they entered it. 2. The Aitareya Upanishad is very precise. It does not go into long details of the evolutionary process of the individual body. But certain other Upanishads, such as the Maitrayani for instance, give us hints of there having been a gradual ascent, or

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, September 17, 2020. 9:30.. AM. Mandukya Upanishad : Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary : Upanishad Mantra-s - 8 to 11. Karika Slokam-s 19 to 23. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upanishad Mantram - 11. "Susupta-sthanah prajno makaras-tritiya matra miter-apiter-va minoti ha va idam sarvam apitis-ca  bhavati ya evam veda." ------------------------------------------------------------------ Translation : Susupta-sthanah             =   deep state of sleep experience;  prajnah                          =    prajna makaras-tritiya matra     =   'M' Iis the third letter; miter                               =   being a measurement of; va apiteh                         =    or the state of dissolution; minoti ha va                   =   he knows this identity inde

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moniday, September 07, 2020. 02:33. PM. Mandukya Upanishad : Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary : Upanishad Mantra-s - 8 to 11. Karika Slokam-s 19 to 23.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upanishad Mantram-10. "Svapnan -  sthanas - taijasa ukaro dvitiya matrot -  karsad - ubhayatvad - votkarsati ha vai jnana - santatim samanas - ca bhavati nasya - brahmavit kule bhavati ya evam veda." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : Svapnan -  sthanas        =  having sphere of activityin the dram-state; taijasah                         =   taijasa; ukarah  dvitiya matra   =  'U' is the second letter; ukarsat                         =   due to superiority; ubhayatvat                   =   or on a