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Lessons on the Upanishads:16- Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================================================== Wednesday 22, October 2025, 19:05. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 3.2. Chapter 3: Preparation for Upanishadic Study -2. Post-16. ====================================================================================== The Atman is not merely a force that causes this impulse of self-identity in things, it is also a consciousness of there being such a self-identity. You are what you are, but not only that; you are also aware that you are what we are. So it exists, and it is also conscious that it exists. Therefore, the Atman is existence, and it is also consciousness. Now, what sort of existence? It is the existence of the fact that it cannot be identified with anything other than itself. This is the characteristic of pure subjectivity. You cannot become somebody else. Rama cannot become Krishna, Krishna cannot become Jesus, Jesus cannot become Thomas, and so on. A partic...
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KAIVALYA UPANISHAD: “The Homogeneity of Brahman” -2. Reflections: Swami Gurubhaktananda:

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================================================================================================ Monday 20, October 2025, 19;39.            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. ==================================================== INVOCATION:  As this text is from the Atharvana Veda, the appropriate invocation is the following: Post: 2 =================================================================================== 2.INVOCATION:  As this text is from the Atharvana Veda, the appropriate invocation is the following: 1  om bhadram karnebhih - What is auspicious, with our ears   shrunuyaama devaah; = may we hear always O ye Gods....
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AITAREYA UPANISHAD - “By a Peasant for the Peasant” : 2. Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya

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================================================================================================= Saturday 18, October 2025, 19:52. AITAREYA UPANISHAD: “By a Peasant for the Peasant” :   Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya  Series of 10 Lectures: Acharyaji, 15th Batch Vedanta Course: February 15th – February 23rd,  2013  SWAMI ADVAYANANDAJI:   Reflections: SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA. AITAREYA UPANISHAD: 3 Parts, 6 Chapters, 33 No. Mantras: “By a Peasant for the Peasant”: Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya  ================================================================================= PART 1: Chapter - 1:  4 mantras:  The Theory of CREATION: Mantram - 1.1:  Before Creation Began… ===================================================================================== 1  Om aatmaa vaa idam eka eva = Om. Verily, this one Atman alone    agra aaseet; = was existing in the beginning.   2 na anyat kinchina mishat. =  Nothing else ...
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KENA UPANISHAD: “Know That Alone as Brahman”: 2. SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA.

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====================================================================================== Thursday 16, October 2025, 18:10. KENA UPANISHAD: “Know That Alone as Brahman”:  SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA 4 Chapters, Mantras:  34. Post-2.  ====================================================================================== From: A. Krishna Yajur Veda & B. Sama Veda INVOCATION PRAYERS ======================================================================================= A. GENERAL INVOCATION: from Krishna Yajur Veda. 1  om. saha nau avatu; = May He protect us both together.  2  saha nau bhunaktu; = May He protect us both.  3                                                saha veeryam karavaavahai;  = may we attain vigour together.  4  tejaswi nau adheetam  astu; =  Let what we study be invigorating. 5  maa vidvish...
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KATHA UPANISHAD: 2. Swami Gurubhaktananda.

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===================================================================================== Tuesday 14, October 2025, 19:07. KATHA UPANISHAD: “A Leap into the Beyond”:Parts 1 & 2 with Bhashya by Sri Adi Shankaracharyaji.  Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda on the 90 Lectures delivered by Swami Advayanandaji  ===================================================== KATHA UPANISHAD:  Part 1 – Total 71 Mantras Chapters 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3  ==================================================================================== Chapter 1.1: (29 s) Mantras ===================================================================================== Post-2.   THE STORY OF NACHIKETAS:  THIS IS THE AMAZING story of a little boy, barely ten years old, who is sent in anger by his father to the world of Lord Yama. There the boy meets Death face to face, spurns all his tempting offers of pleasures and temporal power, and extracts from him the boon of knowledge of the Self. Young ...
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TAITTAREYA UPANISHAD – 1: Sheeksha Valli: Science of Vedic Chanting” Post-2. - Rishi Yajnavalkya

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==================================================================================== Sunday 12, October 2025, 18:30. TAITTAREYA UPANISHAD – 1: Sheeksha Valli:  Science of Vedic Chanting” - Rishi Yajnavalkya  on the Series of 14 Lectures  by  Swami Advayanandaji.  Reflections:  SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA. ==================================================================================== SHEEKSHAA VALLI  PART 1: 12 Nos - Anuvakas (Chapters)  THE SCIENCE OF VEDIC CHANTING  Post-2. ===================================================================================== SHEEKSHAA SHAASTRA:  Anuvaka 1. 2.Science of Vedic Phonetics  Mantram: 1.2.1. 1. om sheekshaam = Om. the Science of Phonetics, vyaakhyaasyaamah; = shall now be explained by us. (It has 6 constituents ) 2. 2 varnah swarah; = 1Accent or quality of sound, the 2pitch or level of sound; maatraa balam; = 3 Measure, and the 4effort put into articulation; saama santaanah; Uniformity ...
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The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 3-4 & Chapter 4: Discrimination of Duality-3. Swami Krishnananda.

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====================================================================================== Monday 22, Sep 2025, 05:30. 18:09. Books Upanishads The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 3.4. Chapter 4: Discrimination of Duality-1.3. 1.Creation by Isvara and Jiva:  3. Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================== It is the operation of the Jiva's mental functions that is the cause of the same person being designated as father, brother, husband, nephew, friend, enemy, and the like. These appellations have their counterparts in the minds of the Jivas. As a molten metal cast in the mould assumes the form of the mould, or as the light of the sun covers the objects it illumines, the mind which envelops forms assumes their respective shapes. There is first the rise of a mental modification in the subject, then the movement of this modification towards the object, and then the transformation of the modification into the shape of the object. T...
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