Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

======================================================================== #6 Questions, 67 Mantras : “Questions from Disciples Answered” ##BHARGAVA’S QUESTION :  Query No 2: “The Supremacy of Power” ========================================================================= Saturday, January 28,  2023. 07:30.  Mantram - 2.3  : Each Deva (God) Claims Leadership ========================================================================= Mantram - 2.3 : Each Deva (God) Claims Leadership 1 Tasmai sa ha uvaacha :   =  To him the Master now replied: 2 aakaashah ha vaa eshah devah,   =  Indeed Space is the foremost Deva; 3 vaayu agnih aapah prithivee,  =  then come Air, Fire, Water and Earth; 4 Vaang manas, chakshuh, shrotram cha;  =  then come Speech, Mind, Eye and Ear, too. (the others are implied as included) 5 Te prakaashya abhivadanti,  =  to show their glory, they quarrelled among themselves: 6 vayam etat baanam avashtabhya  vidhaarayaamah.  =  “We hold this body together, and give it the su

========================================================================= Friday, Janury 27, 2023. 07:00. 6. THE EXPERIENCE OF IDENTITY (Mantras : 20-24, 5 no.) “Advaita Anubhava Prakasha” Mantram - 20 : Brahman Am I Post-20. ========================================================================= “Advaita Anubhava Prakasha” IN THE LIGHT OF WHAT we have just learnt, we will certainly have the necessary  inspiration to take the next few verses very seriously. They help us to absorb the initial ‘jolt’ we may have felt upon suddenly encountering Non-Duality as the fundamental Truth of  Existence. It takes time for this mind-blowing Truth to be fully comprehended, even just  intellectually, let alone it being actually experienced. Thus, in the verses to come, we try not to apply our analytical mind to them but  allow the full thought to pass through us and see what it does to our inner Being. As Acharyaji expressed it, “We consider our mind to be like soft butter and allow  these verses t

========================================================================= PART 1:  Chapters : 12. Chapter - "pramaa aayantu brahmachaarinah swaahaa;"-1.On the Science of Pronunciation etc. Section-5.The mystic expression'Mahah'        ========================================================================= Thursday, January 26, 2023. 07:00. Mantram - 1.5:6: Conclusion on Vyaahritis Post-20. ====================================================================== Mantram -6: Conclusion on Vyaahritis With Translation : 13 taah vai etaah chatasrah chaturdha;   =  The four Upasanas are fourfold in themselves; 14 chatasrah chatasrah vyaahritayah;   =  Four by four are the Vyaahritis; 15 taah yah veda; sah veda brahma;  =   He who knows these; He knows Brahman; 16 sarve asmai devaah balim aavahanti   =  All the Devas carry offerings unto such a one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bhas

======================================================================== Wednesday, January 26, 2023. 07:00. PART 1: Chapter 3B, 4 Mantras : The Lord’s Regal ENTRY ======================================================================= Mantram 3.14: From Idandra to Indra – Knowledge to Ignorance! POST-19. ========================================================================= Mantram 3.14 :  With Translation : 12 Tasmaad idandrah naama; Idandrah ha vai naama;  =  Therefore He is called Idandra (“seeing It”); Idandra, verily, is His name. 13 Tam idandram santam indrah iti aachakshate parokshena;  =  This Idandra has since been called as Indra; this is His indirect or “nick-name”. 14 Parokshapriyaa iva hi devaah; Parokshapriyaa iva hi devaah.  =  The Devas are fond of indirect names; Indeed, they are fond of their indirect names. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bhashyam (Vyakyanam) : A deep sadn

========================================================================= 6 Chapters (64 Mantras) Chapter-1. Section-2 : A CLOSE LOOK AT RITUALS : (Mantras 10-22, 13 no.) ========================================================================= Tuesday, January 24, 2023. 07:30. Post - 19. ========================================================================= Mantram - 2.10 : D. Rituals – When Merits Get Exhausted : 1 ishtaapoortam manyamaanaah varishtham,  =  Regarding such desire-motivated actions as being the most important, 2 na anyat shreyah vedayante pramoodhaah;  =  these extremely ignorant ones do not know any other way to attain happiness. 3 naakasya prishthe te sukrite anubhootvaa-,  =  From the highest of sensual pleasures to which their merits take them, 4 imam lokam heenataram vaa vishanti.  =  they enter again this earthly world of men or even to a state inferior to it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

========================================================================= MANDUKYA UPANISHAD  on the Series of 19 Lectures by Swami Advayananda ji MANTRAS-12. “It HOPS Like a FROG” ========================================================================= Monday, January 23, 2023. 07:30. MANDUKYA UPANISHAD  With Part -1/4 of Goudapada's Karika Agama Prakarana - "The Scriptural Treatise" ========================================================================= THE MEANING OF “OM” Upanishad Section 1:  Mantram - 4: The Second Pada – Dream State Consciousness ========================================================================= Mantram-4 : With Translation : 1 swapnah sthaanah, antah prajnah;  = The sphere of activity in the dream state is the internal, conscious world of impressions; 2 sapta-angah,  ekona vimshati mukhah; = i) It has seven limbs; ii) and nineteen mouths; and 3  pravivikta bhukh;  = iii) it enjoys the subtle objects of the mental world – 4  taijasah dvite

========================================================================= Sunday, January 22,  2023, 07:30. Chapter 1.Section-1: (29 Mantras) : The story of Nachiketas in the House of Death (“A Leap Into the Beyond”) :  Bhashyam by Sri Swami Adi Sankaracharya ji. ========================================================================= Chapter-1, Section-1. THE THIRD BOON : Mantram - 1.1.19 : Yama Invites the Third Boon Post-18. ========================================================================= THE THIRD BOON : The moment is most appropriate for Nachiketas to ask his third boon. Nachiketas has  been waiting for this – the moment that promises to usher in the Knowledge that he seeks.  There is palpable feeling of expectancy in his heart. He knows he is standing on the  threshold of an immense change in his life. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram - 1.1.19 : Yama Invites the Third Boo

========================================================================= Saturday, January 21, 2023. 07:30. Chapter 4, 9 Mantras.The Story Interpreted An Illustrative STORY The Inner Essence Post -19. ========================================================================= Mantram - 4.3 : Source of Indra’s Power : With Translation : 6  tasmaad vaa indrah, = And therefore, indeed, Indra  iva anyaan devaan; =  excels the other Gods; 7  sah hi enat nedishtham pasparsha, = For he approached nearest to the Spirit, sah hi enat prathamah vidaan-  =   and he was the first to realise that,  chakaara brahma iti. = “This adorable Spirit is Brahman! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bhashyam (Vyakyanam) : Indra, the Lord of the Heavenly worlds, is here specially marked out as the most  outstanding among the Gods, as it was he that was granted the Divine Vision of the Mother.  The others came to know of it t