Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

============================================================================================================= Wednesday 19, February 2025, 08:00. KENA UPANISHAD  4 Chapters, 34 Mantras  Chapter 2 - 5 Mantras:   Subtlety of “KNOWING” Brahman  Chapter 2 - 5 Mantras:   Mantram - 2.2: Did the Student Understand?  Post-9. ============================================================================================= Mantram - 2.2: The Student Proclaims the Truth  0. The Disciple continues:  1.na aham manye suveda iti, = I do not think that I know it well enough.  2 nah na veda iti veda cha; = not that I do not know; I know, and I do not know.  3 yah nah tat veda tad veda, = He amongst us who knows It, knows It only as such:  4 nah na veda iti veda cha. = Not that I do not know; I know, and I do not know.  ================================================================================================= Guruji’s opinion of thi...

=========================================================================================== Monday 17, February 2025, 10:25. MANDUKYA UPANISHAD  GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA Agama Prakarana – “The Scriptural Treatise” GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA:  PART 4/4:    ALAATA-SHANTI PRAKARANA (100 mantras):  Quenching the Firebrand: BONDAGE vs. LIBERATION   Karika Section 4.5: mantras 30-32   (3 No.)  Mantram - 4.32: Utility is no Test for Reality  Post-47. ========================================================================================== Mantram - 4.32: Utility is no Test for Reality : 1.  Saprayojanataa teshaam, = The utility of these (Samsara and Liberation)  2.  swapne viprati-padyate; =  is contradicted  3.  tasmaat aadi antah vat tvena, =  in dream. Therefore, since they have a beginning and end  4.  mithyaa eva te khalu smritaah. =  they are rightly held to be unreal.  ======================...

================================================================================= Sunday 16, February 2025, 12:35. KATHA UPANISHAD   Part 2 – Total 49 Mantras  Chapters 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3  Chapter 2.1: (15 Mantras)  BRAHMAN – ABSOLUTE INTELLIGENCE  Mantram - 2.1.14:  Dispersion Into Plurality Post - 78. ======== ======================================== Mantram - 2.1.14:  Dispersion Into Plurality: 1 Yathaa udakam durge vrishtam = Justst as water rained on inaccessible height,  2 parvateshu vi-dhaavati; =  gets dispersed as it runs to lower regions;  3 evam dharmaan prithak pashyan =  so also one who perceives the selves differently  4 taan eva anu-vi-dhaavati. =  cannot avoid running after them endlessly.  ================================================================================ Mantram -2.1.15:  Adherence to Non-Duality:  5 Yathaa udakam shuddhe shuddham = Just as pure water when into pure water...

================================================================================== Saturday 15, February 2025, 07:50. Vedanta: Upanishads The Realisation of the Absolute: 2. Chapter 2: The Nature of the World-4. The Critique of Duality: Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================ The Critique of Duality: Continued A faithfulness to diversity must necessarily end in a failure in the practical walk of life. The discord of the material universe is kept up by the belief in actual separateness in life, which has deluded the consciousness of the whole race of beings. Truth is the undivided Absolute. Truth cannot be twofold. It is a perversion of the natural intelligence that is the cause of the devotion of individuals to a truth of diversity. The Absolute and the relative are not two different entities standing like father and son. The two are the presentation by the human intellect of what is in fact Non-Dual. The Absolute does necessaril...

Chinmaya Mission:  On February 7, 2025, Swami Swaroopananda, Global Head of Chinmaya Mission, was invited to speak at the Space Applications Centre (SAC/ISRO) in Ahmedabad. Welcomed by Sri Nilesh Desai, Director of SAC/ISRO, Swamiji addressed an audience of 400 scientists and engineers at the Yashpal Auditorium, with a parallel online session connecting other SAC centers. In his talk on Spirituality and Well-being, Swamiji highlighted the deep connection between human well-being and spiritual wisdom, drawing insights from ancient scriptures like the Upanishads, Ramayana, Srimad Bhagavatam, and Mahabharata. The interactive session sparked curiosity, leading to an engaging Q&A where scientists explored the role of spirituality in scientific thought. Swamiji also visited ISRO’s advanced laboratories and experienced the PLASIV (Planetary Simulation Immersive Visualization), gaining first hand insights into images captured by Indian satellites. This inspiring exchange bridged the wo...

  ========================================================================================================= Thursay 13, January 2025, 08:40 Article Scriptures The Path of Devotion in the Epics and Puranas: 7. Swami Krishnananda. Post-7. =============================================================================== The point is that these miraculous occurrences, the subtle working of God, above the ken of the human mind, physically portrayed in the Epics and Puranas, bring out that God is conscious always of what our needs are, and He takes incarnations, not merely as a four-armed Krishna or a Rama or a Narasimha or some such person, but in all necessary forms and manifestations as the occasion may demand.  He works the miracles that are needed, and if you truly come to know of it, every incident of our life is a miracle. Nothing can be regarded as natural, if the truth about it is investigated. That we are breathing is a miracle. That we are alive in this world is a miracle. ...