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The Kathopanishad: 4 - Swami Krishnananda.

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=================================================================================== Thursday 21, November 2024, 06:30. Article:  Scriptures: The Kathopanishad:  Swami Krishnananda Post-4. =================================================================================== A vague answer comes forth in the Kathopanishad to this great question. A complete, satisfying answer can be found in certain other Upanishads, such as the Chhandogya and the Brihadaranyaka Upanishads. Tentatively Yama tells Nachiketas that when the body is shed, one takes rebirth. One can become anything according to the thoughts and the feelings entertained by the person during the tenure of this life. Our thoughts and feelings will congeal into a solid substance, as it were, of the personality which we will assume in the next incarnation. The process of incarnation is actually the process of the evolution of things. As I mentioned sometime earlier, the evolutionary process is the process of the cessation of one cond
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The Chhandogya Upanishad - 70: Swami Krishnananda.

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Chinmaya Mission: "Words steer the mind and heart, revealing the truth that uplifts and transforms," said Swami Swaroopananda, Global Head of Chinmaya Mission, as he inaugurated the Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman 2024 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.  His remarks set the tone for an evening celebrating literature's profound role in illuminating truth and shaping society.   Honouring the legacy of Ramnath Goenka, the visionary founder of The New Indian Express, the event highlighted the responsibility of writers and journalists as truth-bearers.  Awards recognized excellence in fiction, non-fiction, and lifetime achievement, celebrating storytelling's transformative power.   Ruskin Bond received the Lifetime Achievement Award, with his granddaughter accepting on his behalf.  The Non-fiction award went to journalist Neerja Chowdhury for How Prime Ministers Decide, praised for its depth and insight by jury chair Pavan Varma. Debut author Aishwarya Jha won the Fiction award
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The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: (ENDS)10 - Swami Krishnananda.

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=================================================================================== Tuesday 19, November 2024, 06:50. Article Scriptures Upanishads The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad  Post-10. =================================================================================== The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is the vehicle of the teachings of this great master. Many questions were put to Yajnavalkya. One of the questions raised by a person in the audience was, “What is it that is inside and outside? What is its nature?” “Yes, I know that” said Yajnavalkya. “What is the good of saying 'I know that'?” said the person asking the question. “Tell me what it is. Everybody can say 'I know that, I know that'. Let me hear what it is.” Then Yajnavalkya gives a description of antaryami brahmana, as it is called. Much of the Vaishnava theology of Ramanuja Sampradaya is based on this doctrine of the interconnecting consciousness, or antaryami consciousness delineated by Yajnavalkya in one of
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PRASHNA UPANISHAD (ENDS) -67: Rishi Pippala.

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================================================================================== #6 Questions, 67 Mantras: “Questions from Disciples Answered.” ================================================================================== SUKESHAA’S QUESTION:  Query No 6: The Source of Power ================================================================================= Monday 18, November 2024, 06:10. Mantram-6.8: The Students Offer Filial Salutations!   Post-67. ================================================================================== Mantram-6.8: The Students Offer Filial Salutations!   1  Te tam archayantah: = While worshipping him, they said:   tvam hi nah pitaa, = “You indeed are our real Father*;   2  yah asmaakam avidyaayaah = Our ocean-like Ignorance – you have   param paaram taarayasi,” iti. = taken us beyond it to the other shore.”  3  namah parama rishibhyah! = Salutations be to the great seers!  namah parama rishibhyah! =   Salutations be to the great seers!  ------------
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TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD – 69. Rishi Yajnavalkya.

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==================================================================================== Sunday 17, November 2024, 06:45. Taittiriya Upanishad Part-2. BRAHMANANDA VALLI PART 2: 9 No. Anuvakas (Chapters) THE BLISS THAT IS BRAHMAN Anuvaka 2.5  From Vijnanamaya to Anandamaya  Mantram- 2.5,2: Vijnanamaya Kosha as “Inner Self” of Manomaya Kosha  Post - 69. ===================================================================================== Mantram- 2.5,2: Vijnanamaya Kosha as “Inner Self” of Manomaya Kosha  5  tasya eshah eva shaareera aatmaa; = This Vijnanamaya  indeed is the embodied self,  yah poorvasya = of the preceding self, the Manomaya.  ================================================================================== 5  The Vijnanamaya Kosha is the inner Self that controls the Manomaya Kosha,  provided it is pure enough. Otherwise, the mind has its own ways and disobeys the intellect.  Whilst the mind is considered to be a bundle of thoughts that are unprocessed and,  therefore, is i
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MUNDAKOUPANISHAD - 65. Swami Advayananda.

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============================================================================== Saturday 16, November 2024, 06:10. 6 Chapters (64 Mantras) Here begins the second Section of the Third Canto.  6. QUALITIES SEEN IN A SAGE  (Mantras -54-64, 11 no.)  64. Mantram - 6.11: Conclusion  Post - 65. ============================================================================== 64. Mantram - 6.11: Conclusion  tad etat satyam – That is the Truth (the conclusion).  ============================================================================= 1  rishih angiraah puraa uvaacha, = Thus did Rishi Angiraa in ancient times speak:   2    na etad acheerna = “No one who has not observed   vratah adheete; = any vow (renunciation), is fit to study this.  3   namah parama rishibhyah, = Our salutations to the great Rishis!  4 namah parama rishibhyah. = Our prostrations to the great Seers!  ============================================================================   Tad Etat Satyam: For the 4th time in this book,
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MANDUKYA UPANISHAD with GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA: 38 - Swami Advayananda.

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Swami Chinmayananda: Parents advise their children to be good! But how to be good? Has someone told them? Swipe to read and share this with your children! ============================================================================================== Friday 015, November 2024, 06:45. 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 SANKHYANS Refuted: Karika Section 4.3:    Mantras - 14-23 (10 No.)  Mantram - 4.23: Cause & Effect are Birthless   Post-38. ================================================================================================ Mantram - 4.23: Cause & Effect are Birthless   1  Hetuh na jaayate anaadeh, =  A cause is not born out of a beginningless effect;  2  phalam cha api swabhaavatah; =  nor can an effect be born out of itself
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