Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  =========================================================================================== Wednesday 30, April 2025, 11:15. Books The Mundaka Upanishad: 4,  First Mundaka First Khanda Swami Krishnananda =========================================================================================== The First Mundaka: First Khanda Mantram - No. 6: That which is imperceptible, ungraspable, without lineage, colourless, eyeless and earless, handless and footless, eternal and all-pervading, existing in the heart of all, very subtle, imperishable and the source of all beings, is beheld by men of wisdom. This indestructible being does not come within the purview of the powers and the functions of the body, the vital energy, the senses of knowledge and action, the mind, the subconscious, the intellect, and the ego, whatever be the form into which their functions are modified. The relative values and the ideas of connections or relations that are seen in the world of experience hold good...

  ============================================================================================== Tuesday 29, April 2025, 11:15. Books Upanishads The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 1.3.  Chapter 1: Discrimination of Reality-3. 1.The Evolution of the Universe Swami Krishnananda. ===================================================================================================== 1.The Evolution of the Universe: Prakriti or the matrix of the universe, animated by a reflection of Consciousness or Brahman, divides itself in the beginning into the cosmic forces called Sattva (equilibrium), Rajas (distraction) and Tamas (inertia). These three properties of Prakriti are really its very constituents, not merely qualifications or adjuncts, and stand to Prakriti in the relation of the three strands of a rope to the rope itself. Cosmic Sattva is called Maya. On account of its transparency and the absence of the property of Rajas in it, it is omnipresent and reflects in its essence Brahman ...

=================================================================================== Monday 28, April 2025. 11:20. Article Scriptures Commentary on the Isa Vasya Upanishad: 6. Part-1. Swami Krishnananda POST: 6. ==================================================================================== The poorest man is God Himself. One of the qualities of God is utter dispassion. God is known as Bhagavan, one who is qualified with bhaga, dispassion. Many qualities are mentioned. One of them is total dispassion, unconnectedness, unrelatedness to anything, non-possession. 'Bhole Baba' is Lord Siva, as people say. Bhole Baba means like a fakir, as God sometimes is portrayed. In a poetic fashion, saints and sages sometimes portray God like a beggar in order to depict this truth of total freedom from the sense of possession and utter disconnection from externality of any kind of space-time objects. Can we believe that such a Being is the happiest of all beings? And can we believe that we ...

  ============================================================================================ Sunday 27, April 2025, 11:30.  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”  Mantram - 2.8.2:  i) The ‘Joy’ of the Most Successful Man Post-84. ============================================================================================= Mantram - 2.8.1: Shruti Quotation on “Wholesome Fear” of Law:  EXPLAINED: TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD – 83. Rishi Yajnavalkya. dated- April 22, 2025 =============================================================================================== Mantram - 2.8.2:  i) The ‘Joy’ of the Most Successful Man 3.   saa eshaa aanandasya =The following concerning Happiness   meemaamsaa bhavati: =  is the Enquiry we are concerned with:  yu...

  ======================================================================================== Saturday 26, April 2025, 11:30. KENA UPANISHAD   Subtlety of “KNOWING” Brahman  Chapter 3, 12 Mantras An Illustrative STORY THE HUMILIATION OF THE GOD VAYU GOES TO MEET BRAHMAN   Mantram - 3.7: Vayu is Sent on a Mission  Post-15. ==================================================================================== VAYU GOES TO MEET BRAHMAN   Mantram - 3.7: Vayu is Sent on a Mission 1 atha vaayum abruvan, vaayo = The Gods then said to Vayu: “O Lord of the Wind!  2 etad vijaaneehi kim etad = Find out for us who this yaksham iti, tathaa iti. = adorable Spirit is.” Vayu agreed. ========================================================================================= Mantram -3.8: Vayu Meets the “Spirit”  3 tat abhyadravat; = Vayu hastened to the Spirit   tam abhyavadat, kah asi iti; = The Spirit asked him, “Who are you?”. 4 vaayuh vaa aham asm...

============================================================================================ Friday 25, April 2025, 10:00. MANDUKYA UPANISHAD  GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA Agama Prakarana – “The Scriptural Treatise” GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA:  PART 4/4:    ALAATA-SHANTI PRAKARANA (100 mantras):  Quenching the Firebrand: The Illusion of CAUSALITY   Karika Section 4.6:   Mantras - 33-41 (9 No.)  Mantram - 4.40: Causality Just Not Possible   Post-53. ======================================================================================================= Mantram - 4.40: Causality Just Not Possible   1  Na asti asad-hetukam asat, = The unreal cannot have the unreal for its cause;  2  sat asad-hetukam tathaa; = nor can the Real be produced from the unreal;  3  sat cha sad hetukam na asti, = the Real cannot be the cause of another Real;  4  sad-hetukam asat kutah. = How then can the Real be the cause of the ...

=============================================================================================== Thursday 24, April 2025, 11:00. KATHA UPANISHAD   Part 2 – Total 49 Mantras  Chapters 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3  Chapter 2.2: (15 Mantras)  THE SEARCH FOR BRAHMAN  Mantram - 2.2.6: When the Body Departs, What Remains? Post - 84. ==================================================================================== 1 Hanta te idam pravakshyaami = Well, now, I will explain to thee this  2 guhyam brahma sanaatanam; = mysterious and ancient truth about Brahman.  3 yathaa cha maranam praapya = You wished to know, when death takes place, what =  4 aatmaa bhavati Gautama. = becomes of the Soul?  O Gautama, (this I now answer):  ========================================================================================= One may be wondering why there is so much reference to death in so many of these  verses. What else can we expect from the Lord of Deat...

  ============================================================================== Wednesday 23, April 2025. 09:20. Article Scriptures Commentary on the Isa Vasya Upanishad: 5. Part-1. Swami Krishnananda POST: 5. ============================================================================== The Upanishad is very brief. It does not give us a large commentary. Know this, and grab not property, and covet not any wealth. Be happy. Anyone who has a little common sense, who has the leisure to think deeply over this important issue, will appreciate the meaning of this dictum of the Upanishad that merely by knowing this, we will be happy. Knowledge is bliss. Chit is ananda. We are not accustomed to this kind of thinking. Our thinking is commercially oriented. It is conditioned by a give-and-take policy, exploitation, and possession of property, as I mentioned. We do not know any other way of thinking except this kind of crude materially-oriented thinking. But divine thinking is free from thi...