Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  ================================================================================================================ Thursday 09, January 2025, 13:30. KENA UPANISHAD  4 Chapters, 34 Mantras  Chapter 1. The Nature of BRAHMAN - (8 mantras) Mantram- 1.3a: Beyond the Senses and Mind  Post-5. =========================================================================================== Mantram- 1.3a: Beyond the Senses and Mind:  1  na tatra chakshuh gacchhati, = The eye does not go there.  2  na vaag gacchhati na manah; = Nor speech; nor the mind.  3  na Vidhya na vijaaneemah,= We have no overall knowledge (of That), nor know It in all its details.  4  yathaa etad anushishyaat.=  How can we give instructions about it?  ============================================================================================== Brahman Cannot Be Known Through the Senses:  1-2.  These Padas distinguish Brahman from the realm of the se...

======================================================================================================= Wednesday 08, January 2025, 12:05. 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 - 4.28: Vedanta’s Response – “Nothing is Born”  Post-43. ===================================================================================== REALISTS vs. IDEALISTS   Karika Section 4.4: Mantras - 24-29 (6 No.)  ======================================================================================== Mantram - 4.28: Vedanta’s Response – “Nothing is Born”    1. Tasmaat na jaayate chittam, = There is never born a thing called mind,  2. ch...

  ======================================================================================================= T uesday 07, January 2025, 15:30. KATHA UPANISHAD   Part 2 – Total 49 Mantras  Chapters 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3  Chapter 2.1: (15 Mantras)  BRAHMAN – ABSOLUTE INTELLIGENCE   Mantram - 2.1.9:  Brahman – the Ultimate Support   Post - 74. ================================================================================== BRAHMAN – ABSOLUTE INTELLIGENCE    Mantram - 2.1.9:  Brahman – the Ultimate Support   1 Yatah cha udeti sooryah = That from which the Sun (Hiranyagarbha) arises,  2 astam gacchhati yatra cha; = and into which it merges or sets –  3 tam devaah sarve arpitaah That upon which depend (are fixed) all the Deities.  4 tat u na atyeti kashchana. = None ever transcends That, (the Supreme Brahman).  5 Etat vai tat. = This is verily That!  ===========================================...

  ================================================================================================== Monday 06, January 2025, 10:25. The Realisation of the Absolute: 3. Chapter 1: Introduction-3. Degrees in Empirical Reality Swami Krishnananda. ======================================================================================== Degrees in Empirical Reality: The capability for such an expansion differs by degrees in different beings, according to the extent of the Reality manifested through them. Beings are higher or lower according to the degree of Intelligence that lights up their nature. Entities in the universe are differentiated through their modes of mentation, which are controlled by the intensity of the Truth presented by them. Nature appears to be Spirit distorted in multitudinous ways and expressed in different degrees of revelation. Individuals marked off within themselves, limited by space and time, bear a variegating relation among one another, in proportion to the ...

=========================================================================================== Sunday 05, January 2025, 11:20. The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 3.  Swami Krishnananda. Chapter 1: Discrimination of Reality-3. ========================================================================== ================== 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 in a universal manner. The cosmic reflection of Brahman in the Sattva ...

=================================================================================================== Saturday 04, January 2025, 11:25 Article Scriptures The Path of Devotion in the Epics and Puranas: 3. Swami Krishnananda. Post-3. ======================================================================================== The stories of the Puranas and the Epics illustrate this important point of the divine relationship that eternally subsists between God and man. No one can read this literature without a stir in one's nerves and rapture in one's mind. No one can read this wondrous literature without a tear in one's eyes, because here it is that you know how to touch God through your soul, through your feelings, through your affection. When do you shed a tear? When your feelings are stirred; not even the best scientific argument can make you shed a single drop of tear. The heart should be shaken from its very roots, and then even the philosopher kneels down on the floor.  This i...