Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

 ============================================================= ============================================================ Sunday, May 01, 2022. 19:00. Post-4. =============================================================== Everybody says duty must be done, but what is duty?  Work done as duty can alone purify, no other work can purify the self. It is not any kind of labour that can be regarded as Karma yoga. Now, what is this duty that you are talking of which is going to chasten the personality of the individual, purify it? Briefly it can be called unselfish action. It is a work that you do for the benefit that may accrue to a larger dimension of reality and not merely to the localized entity called your own individual self. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When you serve people, you are to bear in mind always the reason why this service is done at all. Mostly, the reason is buried underneath. We have ...

 ============================================================= ============================================================== Saturday, April 30, 2022. 20:15. #6 Questions, 67 Mantras : “Questions from Disciples Answered ” ##KABANDHI’S QUESTION : Query No 1: “Matter & Energy” =============================================================== Mantram- 1.3 The First Question  by Kabandhi ''Atha kabandhee kaatyaayana upetya papracchha; Bhagavan, kutah ha  vaa imaah prajaah  prajaayanta iti.' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation :  1.Atha kabandhee kaatyaayana upetya papracchha; = Then Kabandhi, the son of Katyayana, approached Pippalada and asked:  2.Bhagavan, kutah ha vaa imaah prajaah  prajaayanta iti. = “O Revered, venerable Master,  whence are all these creatures  born?” ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

 ============================================================== ============================================================= Friday, April 29, 2022. 19:45. From the Atharva Veda (26 Mantras) : “The HOMOGENEITY of Brahman” 1. THE PRELIMINARIES : (Mantras  1-3a, 3 no.) ================================================================ Mantram 3a: The Importance of Renunciation "na karmana na prajaya dhanena, tyagena eke amritatwam anashuh." ================================================================ Translation : 9 na karmana na prajaya dhanena,    = Not by work, nor by progeny, nor by wealth, but 10 tyagena eke amritatwam anashuh. = by renunciation alone, Immortality is attained. ============================================================== Commentary : 9-10 The usual means by which we get things done in the world – namely, through work, through family members and through wealth – are eliminated here for the attainment spiritual goals. For both the paths that are...

 ============================================================= =============================================================== 6 Chapters (64 Mantras) Chapter-1. Section-1. 1. THE ORIGINS OF KNOWLEDGE (Mantras 1-9, 9 no.) =============================================================== Friday, April 29, 2022. 05:15. Mantram -4 : Angira’s Answer to Shaunaka =========================================================== "dve vidye veditavye,  iti ha sma yad;  brahmavidah vadanti, para cha eva apara cha." ===================================== tasmai sa hovacha – To him (Shaunaka), he (Angira) said: 1 dve vidye veditavye, = There are two kinds of knowledge to be acquired: 2  iti ha sma yad;  = About That (knowledge), it is usually 3 brahmavidah vadanti,  = said by the great seers who know Brahman, there is 4 para cha eva apara cha.  = the Higher and the Lower (Para and Apara). ============================================== 1 Both kinds of knowledge will always...

 =============================================================== ========================================================== Wednesday, April 27, 2022. 21:00. ======================================================= Mantram - 1.3: Hiranyagarbha, the Chief Devata  "Sa ekshata  ime nu lokaah;  lokapalan nu srijai iti;   Sah adbhya sam-uddritya eva  purusham amurchhayat." ========================================================= Translation :  Sa ekshata  ime nu lokaah; = He (Brahman) reflected:  “Here now are the worlds, (just created).  lokapalan nu srijai iti; = Let Me now create Protectors for these worlds.”  Sah adbhya sam-uddritya eva  purusham amurchhayat. = Then He took up a lump of the Waters  and gave it a human form (Hiranyagarbha). ======================================================== Commentary :  Lokapalan: “protectors of the worlds”. When the worlds were created,  nothing was in them. There wer...

 =============================================================== ============================================================== Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 21:00 (Parts 1 & 2) :  Part 1 – Total 71 Verses Chapters 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3. Chapter 1.1: (29 verses) : The story of Nachiketeas in the House of Death  (“A Leap Into the Beyond”) :  Bhashyam by Sri Swami Adi Shankaracharya ji. ============================================================= Mantram -1.1.3: Gifts Not Worth the Name Nachiketas to himself: 1" Pitodaka,  jagdha-truna, 2 dugdha-doha,  nir-indriyah; 3 ananda nama te lokah 4 tan sah gacchati ta dadat." =========================================================== Translation : Nachiketas to himself: 1Pitodaka,  jagdha-truna, = “(These cows) have drunk water (for the last time),  and eaten grass (for the last time), 2 dugdha-doha,  nir-indriyah; = they have yielded all their milk (cannot yield any more),  and have lost their sens...

 ============================================================== =========================================================== Monday, April 25, 2022. 20:00. PART 1: 12 No.Chapters  Chapter-1.On the Science of Pronunciation etc. ============================================================== FIVE UPASANAS ON SANDHEES :  Chapter-1.Section -3: Mantram-2 Upasana 1 – About the “Worlds” ================================================================ The “Great Word-Junctions” 1.3.1a Prayer by Teacher and Student ============================================================= Mantram : 1.3. 1a 1saha nau yashah; saha nau brahmavarchasam. ============================================================= Translation : 1saha nau yashah; saha nau brahmavarchasam. = May we both attain Fame  together. May we both obtain spiritual pre-eminence ============================================================== 1.3:1b Meditations on Word Junctions (Sandhees) =====================================...