Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

 =============================================================== ============================================================== Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda on the 90 Lectures delivered by Swami Advayananda ji Acharyaji, 15th Batch Vedanta Course at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai July 17th – September 29th, 2012. ============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Sivananda, Swami Tapovanji, Swami Chinmayananda. SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE =============================================================== Monday, February 28, 2022. 19:00 (Parts 1 & 2) :  Part 1 – Total 71 Verses Chapters 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3. ABOUT THE BHASHYAM: ============================================================== ABOUT THE BHASHYAM: The following Mantram contains all that constitutes a perfect Bhashyam: " Sutrartho varnyate yata, padaih sutraru saribhih; swapadani cha varnyante, bhashyam bhashyavido vidhuh." Meaning: i) “The o

 ============================================================== ============================================================== Sunday, February 27, 2022, 20:00. 1.Introduction- =============================================================== The theme of the Mandukya Upanishad is an exposition of the Mystic Syllable, Om, with a view to training the mind in meditation, for the purpose of achieving freedom, gradually, so that the individual soul is attuned to the Ultimate Reality. The basis of this meditation is explained in the Vidya (meditation), known as the Vaisvanara Vidya. This is the secret of the knowledge of the Universal Being, designated as Vaisvanara. Its simple form of understanding is a transference of human attributes to the Divine Existence, and vice versa. In this meditation, one contemplates the Cosmos as one's Body. Just as, for example, when one contemplates one's individual body, one simultaneously becomes conscious of the right eye, the left eye, the right ha

 =============================================================== =========================================================== Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda on the Series of 54 Lectures by Swami Advayananda ji Acharya mji of the 15th Batch Sandeepany Vedanta Course held at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai. From 16th December, 2012 – 13th February, 2013 ============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya Swami Sivananda Swami Tapovanji Swami Chinmayananda SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE =============================================================== Saturday, February 26, 2022. 19:00. MUNDAKA UPANISHAD : 6 Chapters (64 Mantras) ============================================================= Chapter-1. Section-1. Mantram - 1. Guru Parampara : Lineage of Teacher : =============================================================== Mantram - 1.1. 1 Om, brahma devanam prathamah sambabhuva, 2 vishvasya karta  bhuvanasya gopta; 3 sa brahma-v

 =============================================================== ============================================================== Reflections : Swami Gurubhaktananda : on the Series of 14 Lectures : Swami Tejomayanandaji, Guruji, then Spiritual Head, Chinmaya Mission, at Chinmaya Tapovan, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand from April 8th – April 13th, 2013 ============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Sivananda, Swami Tapovanji, Swami Chinmayananda. SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE =============================================================== KENA UPANISHAD : ( Know That Alone as Brahman ) 4 Chapters,  No. Mantras. - 34 ============================================================== Friday, February 25, 2022. 20:00. INVOCATION PRAYERS ( Santhi Mantras ) From: A. Krishna Yajur Veda & B. Sama Veda. ============================================================== Santhi Mantram : 1. om. aapyaayantu mama angaani,  vaak praanah chakshuh shro

 ============================================================ ============================================================ Series of 10 Lectures : by SWAMI ADVAYANANDAJI Acharyaji, 15th Batch Vedanta Course AT SANDEEPANY  SADHANALAYA, POWAI, MUMBAI February 15th – February 23rd, 2013 ============================================================ Thursday, February 24, 2022. 19:00. AITAREYA UPANISHAD : 3 Parts, 6 Chapters, 33 No. Mantras : “By a Peasant for the Peasant” by Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya ============================================================ Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Sivananda, Swami Tapovanji, Swami Chinmayananda. SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE ============================================================= Introduction : PART - 1 : Chapter One : THE THEORY OF CREATION 1.3 -The Style of Aitareya Upanishad ============================================================== A word has to be said about the unique style of this Upanishad when compared to the other

 ============================================================== =============================================================== Wednesday, February 23, 2022. 19:00. Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda on the 12 Lectures delivered by Guruji, Swami Tejomayanandaji, to the 15th Batch Vedanta Course at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai : July 11th – July 16th, 2012. =============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Sivananda, Swami Tapovanji, Swami Chinmayananda. SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE ============================================================== ISHAVASYA UPANISHAD : 18 Mantras on : “The All-Pervading Reality” =============================================================== PEACE INVOCATION (Shanti Mantram) "Om Purnamadah Purnamidam Poornaat Poornamudachyate; Poornasya Poorna-maadaaya Poorna-mevaa-vasishyate." Om Shaantih! Shaantih! Shaantih!! -----------------------------------------------------------------

 ============================================================= ============================================================== Tuesday, February 22, 2022. 20:00. (Spoken on April 25, 1972 during night satsang on Swamiji's 50th birthday.) Post-1. ============================================================== Our heartfelt gratitude goes to the Supreme Father of the universe, whose incomparable compassion keeps us alive and breathing, makes our existence possible, and Who as the great Director of the drama of creation operates every activity, every effort, and every thought and feeling in all this mighty cosmos. May our silent obeisance be at His feet which are everywhere as the highest purifiers and the only solace of the restless souls in this world. May God's grace be upon us all. Our efforts in life assume a meaning only when they are based on honesty of purpose. And what is honesty? It is a simple obedience to the law of our own being. To be respectful to the rule that govern

 =============================================================== ================================================================ Saturday, February 12, 2022. 21:00. Post-1. =============================================================== I made a brief reference to the natural difficulty that one may feel in understanding the subject of the Upanishads, that difficulty being the nature of the Upanishad discussion itself. It is the subject of the Atman, as this boy mentioned just now, but it is easily said than really understood. All our educational technology these days, as education is generally understood, concerns itself with objects of perception and intellectual understanding. The Atman is not a subject which can be perceived through the sense organs, nor can it be understood intellectually by any kind of logical acumen, the reason being that the Atman is yourself; it is not somebody else. In all courses of knowledge and procedures of study, you place yourself in the position or co

 ============================================================== ============================================================= Monday, February 07, 2022. 20:00. (Spoken on April 25, 1972 during night satsang on Swamiji's 50th birthday.) Post-2. =============================================================== This is also to be good in oneself. To be honest is, at the same time, to be good because goodness is only an outer temporal expression of, once again, the law of this divinity within us. When we are honest to ourselves, we are, therefore, honest to everyone automatically. But when we regard the kshetrajna in us as different from the kshetrajna in other persons and things, we begin to trade with other people, carry on a commercial activity with other forms of life, and try to make profit out of them. We want to amass capital out of other persons and other things in the world. This is impossible. Life is such, the world is constituted in such a manner, creation is of such a charac

=============================================================== ============================================================== Sunday, February 06, 2022. 20:40. Post-12. (Spoken on June 19, 1972). ============================================================== For that, the answer is given by Yajnavalkya again in his instruction to Janaka in another context altogether. It is not that one does not see there, but one does not see as one usually sees.  Yad vai tan na pasyati, pasyan vai tan na pasyati (B.U. 4.3.23):  He sees, and yet does not see. He sees, and yet it is not an actual seeing through the senses. Why do we say that he sees, and yet does not see?  viparilopo vidyate, avinasitvat; na tu tad dvitiya masti, tato'nyad vibhaktam yat pasyet:  The seer has become one with the seen there. So what does one really see there?  We cannot say that one does not see anything there, because the object of seeing is already there. Everything that is to be seen is there; necessarily, therefo

============================================================ ============================================================= Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda on the 90 Lectures delivered by Swami Advayananda ji Acharyaji, 15th Batch Vedanta Course at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai July 17th – September 29th, 2012. ============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Sivananda, Swami Tapovanji, Swami Chinmayananda. SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE =============================================================== KATHA UPANISHAD  Part 1 – Total 71 Verses Chapters 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3 ============================================================== Saturday, February 05, 2022. 21:00 Chapter- 1.0 INVOCATION & INTRODUCTION ============================================================== Santhi Mantram : om saha navavatu; saha nau bhunaktu; saha veeryam ; tejaswi -astu; ma vidvishaavahai. om shantih, shantih, shantih! ================

 ============================================================== ============================================================= Friday, February 04, 2022. 19:30. Shiksha Valli : The Science of Vedic Chanting =============================================================== Reflections : by Swami Gurubhaktananda : on the Series of 14 Lectures by Swami Advayananda Ji Acharyaji for 15th Batch Vedanta Course at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai. March 1st – March 16th, 2013. =============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Sivananda, Swami Tapovanji, Swami Chinmayananda. SERIES THEME: “Piercing the Clouds; Crossing the Seas”. ================================================================ SHIKSHA VALLI : THE SCIENCE OF VEDIC CHANTING : PART 1: 12 No.Chapters ( Anuvakas ) ================================================================ 1.INTRODUCTION : Although the Upanishads are Artha Pradhaan, i.e. they have the predominant purpose of conveying a