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The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: Chapter - 6-3: Swami Krishnananda.

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  ==================================================================================================== Thursday 15, January 2026, 06:00. Books Upanishad The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 6-3. Chapter 6: Light on the Analogy of a Painted Picture-3. 3.Different Views of the Self: ================================================================= 3.Different Views of the Self: The varieties of non-perception of Truth have resulted in various doctrines of the nature of the Self. The Lokayatas or Charvakas, the Indian materialists, consider the visible as real. Inasmuch as the objects and the body alone are visible, nothing above these is regarded by them as real. They hold on mainly to perception as the main proof of knowledge, and consider the real to be that which is perceived by the senses. The object which is made up of five elements is held by them to be the true self, and they cannot envisage any other state of liberation than the death of the body. The famous Virochana of the Chh...
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ISAVASYA UPANISHAD: “The All-Pervading Reality”: 9 - Swami Gurubhaktananda.

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================================================================================================== Tuesday 12, January 2026, 20:40. ISAVASYA UPANISHAD: MEDITATIONS on the Self 18 Mantras on: “The All-Pervading Reality”  Wave 2: Mantras 4-8 (5 No.) on the 12 Lectures delivered: Swami Tejomayananda:  to the 15th Batch Vedanta Course:   at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai July 11th – July 16th, 2012 Reflections: Swami Gurubhaktananda  Post-9. ==================================================================================================== Mantram - 8: How the Lord Governs:  1.  Sah paryagaat shukram = He (the Atman) is all-pervading, bright,   akaayam avranam = bodiless and immaculate (scatheless);  2.  asnaaviragm shuddham = He is without muscles, pure,  apaapa-viddham; = and unpierced by evils.  3.  kavih maneeshee paribhooh, = He is wise, omniscient, transcendent,  swayambhooh yaathaa-tathyatah = and self...
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Commentary on the Panchadasi: 22. Swami Krishnananda.

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======================================================================================================== Saturday 10, December 2025, 19:30. BOOKS UPANISHAD  Commentary on the Panchadasi: 22.  Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality. Mantras 44-55 Mantras - 47,48,49,50. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA Post-22. ======================================================================================================= Mantram - 47. "So'ya mityā divākyeṣu virodhāt tadi danta yoḥ, tyāgena bhāgayo reka āśrayo lakṣyate yathā." (47) means that Devadatta of Bombay is this Devadatta in Rishikesh. We have avoided the association of Bombay and Rishikesh, and identified the person as one single individual. In a similar manner, the identity of Brahman in the individuality of the jiva should be affirmed by the dissociation of factors which are secondary, and not essential. Mantram: 48. Māyā'vidye vihā yaivam upādhī para jīvayoḥ, akhaṇḍaṁ saccidā nandaṁ para brahmaiva lakṣyate (48).  As...
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Lessons on the Upanishads: 20 - Swami Krishnananda.

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======================================================================================================= Thursday 08, January 2025, 19:00. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 3.6. Chapter 3: Preparation for Upanishadic Study -6. Post-20. ======================================================================================================= I have briefly told you something about the nature of karma yoga, or unselfish action—performance of duty for duty's sake as a standard method laid down before us by the ancient masters for cleansing the mind of the dross of extraneous desires for sense objects—and upasana is the love of God that you evince in your own self by daily worship performed in whatever way you would like to do it. In the beginning when you conceive of the Supreme Being, you have a spatio-temporal imagination of that Being. God is very big, very large, very far away, very great, adorable; you offer your prostrations to that Almighty as something lovable. Even the ...
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KAIVALYA UPANISHAD: “The Homogeneity of Brahman” - 5. Swami Gurubhaktananda.

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================================================================================================= Tuesday 06, December 2025, 18:45.            KAIVALYA UPANISHAD: “The Homogeneity of Brahman”  from the Atharva Veda: 26 Mantras:  Reflections:  Swami Gurubhaktananda:  #on the Series of 8 Lectures:  Swami Advaitananda. of the 15th Batch Sandeepany Vedanta Course held at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai: From 23rd November – 30th November 2012. Mantram 4b: Goal 2: The Road to Brahmaloka  Post: 5. ==================================================================================================== Mantram 4b: Goal 2: The Road to Brahmaloka:  4.  yatayah shuddha sattwaah: Goal 2: Those strivers who are pure in mind  5.   te brahmalokeshu paraanta-kaale: they, in the end, gain the world of Brahma,  6.  para-amrtaat- = From there they gain the highest Immortality,  parimuchyanti sarve. = libe...
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AITAREYA UPANISHAD - “By a Peasant for the Peasant”: 6. Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya.

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SWAMI ADVAYANANDA ================================================================================================ Sunday 04, January 2025, 19:50. AITAREYA UPANISHAD: “By a Peasant for the Peasant” :   Composed by Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya Series of 10 Lectures - by SWAMI ADVAYANANDAJI Acharyaji, 15th Batch Vedanta Course AT SANDEEPANY SADHANALAYA, POWAI, MUMBAI February 15th – February 23rd, 2013. Reflections by SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA PART 1:   Chapter 2 - 5 Mantras:  ABODES for the Devatas Post-6. ==================================================================================================== Here begins the Chapter 2 of Part 1.  THE CREATION OF THE organs, their objects and their Devatas in the previous mantram is at the unlimited, subtle, macrocosmic (Samashti) level.  In this chapter, we move to the limited, gross, microcosmic (Vyashti) level. The one, subtle, macrocosmic entity, named Hiranyagarbha, when it becomes gross, is called Virat, and h...
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KENA UPANISHAD: “Know That Alone as Brahman”: 6. SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA.

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================================================================================================ Friday 02, January 2025, 17: 41. KENA UPANISHAD: “Know That Alone as Brahman”:  on the Series of 14 Lectures by Swami Tejomayanandaji: Guruji, then Spiritual Head, Chinmaya Mission: at Chinmaya Tapovan, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand from April 8th – April 13th, 2013. VIDEO:  Swami Gurubhaktananda Message of Hope Reflections: SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA From: A. Krishna Yajur Veda & B. Sama Veda THE DISCIPLE QUESTIONS THE GURU: Chapters - 4 Mantras:  34. Mantram - 1.3b: Beyond the Known and Unknown:  Post-6. ================================================================================================== Mantram - 1.3b: Beyond the Known and Unknown:  5.  anyad eva tad vijitaat = That is surely distinct from the known.  6.  atho aviditaat adhi; = And again, from the unknown, It is above.  7.  iti shushruma poorveshaam, = Thus have we heard from the Pr...
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