Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  ====================================================================================== Wednesday 18, June 2025, 09:20. Books Commentary on the Panchadasi:7. Swami Krishnananda. Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Discourse 2 Mantras: 6-13. Post-7. ====================================================================================== Mantras:s 6-13. Consciousness is the subject of analysis, and is being studied further in the coming mantras. Sa bodho visayad bhinno na bodhat svapna bodha vat, evam sthana traye'pyeka samvid tatvad dinan tare (6).  Masabda yuga kalpesu gata gamye svane kadha, nodeti nasta metyaka samvi desa svayam prabha (7).  This consciousness is Self-conscious, svayam prabha. Objects in the world require consciousness in order that they may be known, but consciousness does not require another consciousness that it may be known. That is the meaning of Self-consciousness. Objects cannot know themselves. They are known by another, which is...

  ========================================================================================== Tuesday 17, June 2025, 08:50. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 1.5 -  Swami Krishnananda Chapter 1: Introduction to the Upanishads-5. Post-5. ========================================================================================== This world is not in a position to satisfy the desires of even one person, finally. If the whole world is given to you with all its gold and silver, rice and paddy, wheat and whatever it is, you will not find it satisfying. “The whole world is with me.” All right. Are you perfectly satisfied? You will be unhappy even then, for two reasons. One of them is: “After all, there is something above this world. Why not have that also?” A person who has a village wants another village also. If you have all the villages, you would like the entire state. If the state is under you, you want the entire country. If the country is under you, you would like the ...

  ==================================================================================== Monday 13, June 2025, 09:20.  TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD   Pertaining to the SELF-CREATION of Brahman there is a Shruti Mantram… Upanishad Part-2.  ABHAYA PRATISHTHAA   BRAHMAANANDA MEEMAAMSAA  Anuvaka 2.8 A Measure of “Relative Joy”  Bhashya F:  THE MAHAVAKYA OF THIS UPANISHAD  Coverage: Mantras From 2.8.13 to 2.9.1. Post-90. ======================================================================================= The Mahavakya of Taittireeya Upanishad:   Mantram: 2.8.13. Initial Objections: At the very outset of the discussion, three objections, Obj 1, Obj 2 and Obj 3, are answered to clear the way for deeper discussion: Objection 1: Where is the Soul? Poorvapakshi: The embodied soul, Jeeva, should not be referred to in a general way as “in the human person”. Why can you not specify where it is, for example, “in the right eye” as quoted in the...

  ================================================================================= Sunday 15, June 2025, 07:45. Article Scriptures Commentary on the Isa Vasya Upanishad: 9 Part-2-2 Swami Krishnananda POST: 9. =================================================================================== Similar is the case with every kind of action, every work, every event, every occurrence. The omnipresence of the Ultimate Reality, about which the first verse of the Upanishad told us so much, and on which we dilated a little bit earlier, implies that everything has to move towards it. We noticed that every part that belongs to a whole is not only conditioned by the nature of the whole to which the parts belong, but the whole also determines the very function and the manner of the working of the parts. I mentioned last time the analogy of the working of the physiological organs. The characteristic of our physical body as a whole will decide how each limb of the body will work. The parts of th...

  ================================================================================================== Sunday 08, June 2025 19:00. Books Upanishads The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 1.6.  Chapter 1: Discrimination of Reality-6. The Evolution of the Universe Enquiry into the Atman: Meditation and Spiritual Experience: Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================================== The painful Vrittis are Avidya, Asmita, Raga, Dvesha and Abhinivesa. Avidya is ignorance on account of which one goes wrong in the assessment of values and deeds and then comes to grief. Asmita is self-consciousness or egoism by which a person appropriates undeserving attributes to himself. Raga is attachment and Dvesha is aversion for desirable and undesirable things, respectively. Abhinivesa is clinging to one's body due to which there is love of life and fear of death. All these Vrittis are obstructive in their nature, from the point of view of Y...

================================================================================ Friday 13, June 2025, 06:10. Books The Mundaka Upanishad: 8.  The Third Mundaka:  First Khanda Mantras -1&2 Swami Krishnananda ================================================================================ Mantram - No. 1: "Two birds living together, each the friend of the other, perch upon the same tree. Of these two, one eats the sweet fruit of the tree, but the other simply looks on without eating." The two birds are the Jiva and Isvara, both existing in an individual compared to a tree. They exist together as the reflection and the original. They both manifest themselves in different ways in every individual. From the characteristics of the Jiva, it is possible to infer the nature of Isvara, and from the nature of Isvara it is possible to determine the potentialities of the Jiva. Both the Jiva and Isvara have a common substratum which is Brahman, and which is the reality of both. The bo...

  ================================================================================== Thursday 12, June 2025, 09:00. Books Commentary on the Panchadasi:3. Swami Krishnananda. Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Mantras: 1-5, Post-6. ================================================================================== Chinmaya Mission: A two-day Bala Vihar camp was organized under the auspices of Chinmaya Mission Amritsar on June 1 and 2, 2025, at Chinmaya Amrit Ashram. More than 150 children from approximately 11 schools in Amritsar participated in this special camp. The camp was designed for students from nursery to grade five, engaging them in various activities centered around Indian culture and values. On the first day, activities included storytelling sessions, bhajans, dance, yoga, and various games to introduce the children to the richness of Indian culture. These sessions were conducted in the esteemed presence of Shri Avinash Mahendru, President of Chinmaya Mi...