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PRASHNA UPANISHAD -66: Rishi Pippala.

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================================================================================== #6 Questions, 67 Mantras: “Questions from Disciples Answered.” ================================================================================== SUKESHAA’S QUESTION:  Query No 6: The Source of Power ================================================================================= Wednesday 06, November 2024, 06:20. Mantram - 6.7: The Rishi Concludes in Humility  Post-66. ================================================================================== Mantram - 6.7: The Rishi Concludes in Humility:  1  Taan ha uvaacha: = To them (the six students), he (Pippalada) said:   etaavat eva aham etat =“Thus far only do I   param brahma veda; =   this Supreme Brahman.  2  Na atah param asti,” iti. = Beyond this there is nothing (that I know).”  ===================================================================================== The above quotation ends the present text. We are left with a most touching scene: 
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TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD – 68. Rishi Yajnavalkya.

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=============================================================================== Tuesday 05, November 2024, 06:15. 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 -  2.5.1:   Shruti Quotation on Vijnana   Post - 68. ================================================================================= Anuvaka 2.5  From Vijnanamaya to Anandamaya  Mantram - 2.5.1:   Shruti Quotation on Vijnana   1  “vijnaanam  yajnam tanute; = “Knowledge actualizes a sacrifice;  karmaani tanute api cha. = and it makes one do his duties well.  2  vijnaanam devaah sarve; = Conditioned by knowledge, all the Gods  brahma jyeshtham upaasate. =   on Ishwara, the “first-born”.  3  vijnaanam brahma chet veda; = If a man knows knowledge as Ishwara,  tasmaat chet na pramaadyati; = if he never deviates from it,  4  shareere paapmanah hitvaa; = and if he abandons all sins in the body –  sarvaan kaamaan samashnut
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MUNDAKOUPANISHAD - 64. Swami Advayananda.

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=================================================================================== Monday 04, November 2024, 06:30. 6 Chapters (64 Mantras) Here begins the second Section of the Third Canto.  6. QUALITIES SEEN IN A SAGE  (Mantras -54-64, 11 no.)  63. Mantram - 6.10: Transfer of the Supreme Wisdom  Post - 64. =================================================================================== 63. Mantram - 6.10: Transfer of the Supreme Wisdom:  0  tad etad richaa-abhyuktam = The Rig Veda explains the rules to teach this text:  1  kriyaavantah, =i) To those who perform rituals ;  shrotriyaa, = ii) who read and study the Vedas ;   brahma-nishthaah, =   iii) who aim to establish themselves in Brahman  2  swayam juhvata ekarshim = iv) who offer oblations themselves to the Ekarshi fire;  shraddhayantah; = v) who possess faith; and  4  shirovratam vidhivad = vi) the vow of Shirovrata –  yaih tu cheernam. = to those who have strictly observed it –  3  teshaam eva etaam  = To these people alone
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MANDUKYA UPANISHAD with GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA: 37 - Swami Advayananda.

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=================================================================================== Sunday 03, November 2024, 06:10. 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 - 4.22: The Summary Statement  Post-37. =================================================================================== Mantram - 4.22: The Summary Statement  1.  Svatah vaa paratah vaa api, = Either from itself or from another or from both,  2.   na kinchit vastu jaayate; = nothing at all is ever born.  3. sat asat sat asat vaa api, = Whether it be being or non-being or both,  4.  na kinchit vastu jaayate. = nothing at all is ever born. =================================================================================   Six logica
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KATHOUPANISHAD - 68. Swami Advayananda.

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================================================================================== Saturday 02, November 2024, 06:05. KATHA UPANISHAD   Part 2 – Total 49 Mantras  Chapters 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3  Chapter 2.1: (15 Mantras)  Mantram - 2.1.2: Second Obstacle: The Mind’s Thirst for Pleasure  Post - 68. ================================================================================== Mantram - 2.1.2: Second Obstacle: The Mind’s Thirst for Pleasure:   1  Paraachah kaamaan = External pleasures are  anuyanti baalaah = pursued by “children” (immature ones);  2  te mrityoh yanti = they fall into death’s    vitatasya paasham; = widespread snares.  3  atha dheeraah = But the brave and mature ones,     amritatvam viditvaa = have the knowledge of Immortality,  4  dhruvam adhruveshu iha = i.e. what is Eternal amidst the non-Eternal.   na praartha-yante. = They do not desire anything of this world.  ===============================================================================   The second obstacle is b
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The Doctrine of the Upanishads:2. Swami Krishnananda

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=================================================================================== Friday 01, November 2024, 06:50. Article Scriptures The Doctrine of the Upanishads:2.  Swami Krishnananda =================================================================================== Naive Realism (Continued) If mind and consciousness are products of matter, they must be inherent in matter. What is not in the cause in some form or the other cannot be produced as the effect. If the cause is matter, the effect also would be matter. If mind and consciousness are facts of experience, and if they are said to be effects, they must have a conscious cause, too. How can something arise from nothing? The attempt to merge the entire individual experiencer in a material universe is bound to end in failure. Epistemologically and metaphysically the theory of naive realism is found to be unsatisfactory on account of its inability to explain facts of consciousness and experience of matter by consciousness. What
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Sage Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: 5. ( ENDS ) Swami Krishnananda.

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=================================================================================== Thursday 31, October 2024, 06:30. Article Scriptures Sage Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: 5.  Swami Krishnananda. Post-5. =================================================================================== In the Atharva Veda there is a Sukta called Varuna Sukta. It is available in English translation. If you have any longing, it will melt down in the fire of this inclusiveness of God-being. All these statements of the Upanishads in different places amount to one thing: that by externalizing consciousness we will achieve nothing. It is not enough if you merely internalise it also. You should neither be an extrovert nor an introvert but, if you can coin a word, an omnivert. Everywhere you perceive everything. That 'I' is not the physical 'I' with which you see the world – it is the soul observing itself in things which look like non-Self. The non-Self does not exist; but even
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