Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  ============================================================================= Monday 29, Apr 2024. 06:30. The First Mundaka: First Khanda Mantras:1,2,3. POST-57. ============================================================================= The First Mundaka: First Khanda: The Glory of Knowledge: Knowledge is attained not so much by the effort of the individual as through the Sages who hand down this Knowledge. The characteristics of the ancient disciples were very marked. The aspiration, the sincere perseverance and the devotion they had to the ideal of Knowledge was exceptional. They attained the Knowledge with much difficulty, undergoing many hardships in the forms of austerity, service of the preceptor and practice of meditation. Knowledge is the ripe fruit of the fine flower of virtue. Righteousness practised without exceptions, to the very law, gives rise to the state of introversion and contemplation of consciousness. It is absolutely necessary that the aspirant or the disciple

============================================================================= Sunday 28, Apr 2024. 06:50. Article Scriptures Post-1. ============================================================================= We have been going through various important themes of the teachings of the Upanishads, and many subjects have been covered. There was a great sage called Yajnavalkya. His name occurs in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. He was a master of spiritual wisdom. One day, when he had become aged, he told his wife Maitreyi, and another wife known as Katyayani, that he was retiring; and he said: “Whatever property I have, I shall divide between both of you. I shall take to sannyasa and go for meditation, and you take my property.” The younger wife, Katyayani was very happy. “Good riddance, now the old man goes,” she perhaps thought; but the other wife, Maitreyi, was very mature. She said, “Sire, you want to offer me all your wealth? May I ask you one question: Can I become immortal through

  #Chinmaya Mission Ahmedabad: Glimpses of Shri Hanuman Jayanti celebrations at ParamDham two days ago. Jay Bajrangbali! Jay Shri Ram!! ============================================================================= Saturday 27, Apr 2024. 06:35. Upanishads Chapter 1: Introduction to the Upanishads-6. Post-6. ============================================================================= The Manu Smriti tells us: namutra hi sahayartham pita mata ca tisthatah. na putradarah na jnatih dharmas tisthati kevalah. “When you depart from this world, your father will not come with you, your mother will not come with you, your brother will not come, your sister will not come, your husband will not come, your wife will not come, your children will not come, your money will not come, and even your body will not come.” What will come? What you have thought and felt and done, that will come. Be cautious, therefore. Every day check your personality and your behaviour. “What have I thought, what have I fel

  ============================================================================== Friday 26, Apr 2024 06:24. Article Scriptures Post-2. ============================================================================== To repeat once again what I told you a few minutes before, this tendency is present in everything and everyone. Therefore the study of the Atman is not study of something somewhere – it is the study of everything. I hope you catch what I'm saying. The study of the Atman is the study of the essence of everything anywhere because of the fact everything everywhere has this Atman. There is an Atman in all things in the sense that they maintain an identity-consciousness of themselves. So the Atman has a peculiar characteristic of being just what it is; that it to say, it cannot be an object of anyone. The self-identity aspect of consciousness, which is the Atman, cannot become Anatman, to put it in the Sanskrit language. The Atman cannot become Anatman. The Self cannot become

================================================================================== Wednesday 24, Apr 2024 06:50. Discourse No. 2 - 4. Post - 9. ================================================================================== Every event is a universal event. There is no such thing as a local event taking place in a corner or a corridor of the world. You cannot say that a particular event has taken place only in a mohalla or a lane of a particular town. No such thing is the truth. Every experience, every event, every action, is a universal event. It takes place, in a conditioned form, everywhere in the world. Every illness is a total illness of the body. It is not an illness only of the nose or the eyes or the feet. The whole personality is sick even when there is only a sneeze that has come out from your nose. Likewise, every experience is a universal conditioning event, of which we have no knowledge because of our mind being tethered to a bodily locality and the mind's mistaking

  Chinmaya Mission Mumbai: Greetings for Shri Hanuman Jayanti! Shri Hanuman is the star devotee, always at the feet of His Lord.  Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda’s message highlights His strength, wisdom, love, and above all His single pointed dedication to His Master, Shri Rama. On Hanuman Jayanti, may Shri Rama’s most ardent Bhakta bless each one with His inimitable brand of devotion. Pavanasuta Hanuman ki Jai! ============================================================================== Wedneday 10, Apr 2024 07:20. 1.Introductory-2. Post-2. ============================================================================== Karma and jnana – karma is a modification of the present state into another state, directed by a necessity. Every action is based on a voluntary or involuntary desire, expressed or potential. One does not move without a purpose, and every purpose is a limitation, which shows that the actor is not complete in himself. But knowledge is not an action. Knowledge is bein

=========================================================================== Monday 22, Apr 2024. 06:50. Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Nature of the Self Section 12: The Self as Spirit Mantram-2 Post-55. ============================================================================== Section 12: The Self as Spirit (Continued) Mantram - 2. Asariro vayuh, abhram, vidyut,  stanayitnur-asariranyetani.  tad-yathaitany-amusmad-akasat  samatthaya param jyotir- upasampadya svena  rupenabhinispadyante. ============================================================================== But these difficulties do not arise when the body vanishes and when one experiences a bodiless existence. It is impossible to conceive what bodiless existence is. It is beyond the conception of the mind because of the fact that the mind is only a handmaid of bodily experiences. It simply accepts what the body wants, what the body clamours for and what the senses speak. Whatever the mind thinks is only in terms of the body