Posts

Featured Post

The Secret of the Katha Upanishad -35. Swami Krishnananda.

-
Image
  =========================================================================================================================================== Friday 04, April 2025, 11:30. Upanishads: The Secret of the Katha Upanishad:  Discourse No. 7-1. Swami Krishnananda. Post - 35. =========================================================================================================================================== Death becomes the teacher when we get awakened to the fact of this procession of the transitoriness of everything. The question of Nachiketas was not concerning the quest of the personality of the human being. He was not so ignorant as to put the simple question: what happens to the individual soul after the shedding of the physical body. We have already made reference to the fact that the death which Nachiketas referred to in his question was of a different kind altogether. Empirically speaking, death and life have no ultimate dissimilarity between themselves. There is a co...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Chhandogya Upanishad - 82: Swami Krishnananda.

-
Image
  ==================================================================== Thursday 03, March 2025. 13:40. The Chhandogya Upanishad - 82:  Swami Krishnananda. Appendix 2: Samvarga-Vidya Section-3 Continued Mantram-7 Continued Post-82. ================================================================================================================ Saunaka approached the brahmacharin and replied: "You are saying that food has been refused to the great deity, the all-pervading one. Listen to what I have to say on this. You are speaking like this because you are under the impression that you are a meditator on the Samvarga and that we know nothing about it. You made a remark that we are ignorant of the presence of this great god to whom all the food belongs. Then what is it that we are meditating on? I will tell you. There is a great Soul, the Self of all beings, the source and essence of all the gods, the creator, the progenitor of all things. He is the one who eats through the mout...
Post a Comment
Read more

TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD – 81. Rishi Yajnavalkya.

-
Image
================================================================================================================================================== Wednesday 02, April 2025, 10:40.  TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD   Pertaining to the SELF-CREATION of Brahman there is a Shruti verse… panishad Part-2.  ABHAYA PRATISHTHAA   Anuvaka 2.7 Established in “Fearlessness”   Post-81.  ================================================================================================================================= THE SIXTH PROOF    6. Kaarya-Kaarana Sanghaat     Mantram - 2.7.3.   5-6:    Due to His Presence, inert things are made to work sensibly; He is the sentient, unifying Presence behind effective activities.    Mantram - 2.7.3:  The Sentient Presence of Brahman. ============================================================================================ Mantram - 2.7.3:  The Sentient Pr...
Post a Comment
Read more

KENA UPANISHAD “Know That Alone as Brahman”: 12. Swami Tejomayananda.

-
Image
================================================================================================================================================ Monday 31, March 2025, 11:00. KENA UPANISHAD  4 Chapters, 34 Mantras  Chapter 2 - 5 Mantras:   Subtlety of “KNOWING” Brahman  Chapter 2 - 5 Mantras:   Mantram - 2.5: The Truth is Glorified  Post-12. =================================================================================================================================================== Mantram - 2.5: The Truth is Glorified  1.  iha ched avedeet = If one knows That here, in this world,     atha satyam asti, = then the true purpose of life is gained 2. na chet iha avedeet = If one does not know (That) here,   mahatee vinashtih; = then very great is the destruction. 3. bhooteshu bhooteshu = The one Atman in all beings –  vichitya dheeraah, = seeing That, the wise ones  4. pretya asmaat lokaat = rise above...
Post a Comment
Read more

MANDUKYA UPANISHAD with GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA: 50. Swami Advayananda.

-
Image
========================================================================================================================================================= Sunday 30, March 2025, 12:30. 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 Illusion of CAUSALITY   Karika Section 4.6:   Mantras - 33-41 (9 No.)  Mantram-4.37: Common View: Waking Causes Dream  Post-50. =========================================================================================================================================================== Mantram-4.37: Common View: Waking Causes Dream  1 Grahanaat jaagarita vat, = nce it is experienced like the waking state, 2 tad hetuh swapnah ishyate; =he dream state is regarded as being caused by it.  3 tad hetutvaat = Since dream has the waking state as its cause  u sya iva...
Post a Comment
Read more

KATHOUPANISHAD - 81. Swami Advayananda.

-
Image
========================================================================================================================================== Saturday 29, March 2025, 16:15. KATHA UPANISHAD   Part 2 – Total 49 Mantras  Chapters 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3  Chapter 2.2: (15 Mantras)  THE SEARCH FOR BRAHMAN  Mantram - 2.2.3: Brahman – Director of Pranas & Deities Post - 81. =========================================================================================================================================== Mantram - 2.2.3: Brahman – Director of Pranas & Deities: 1 Oordhvam praanam unnayati = He (Brahman) sends Prana upwards. 2 apaanam pratyak asyati; = He throws the Apana downwards. 3 madhye vaamanam aaseenam = that Adorable One seated in the centre  4 vishwe devaah upaasate. = is He that is worshipped by all the Gods ===================================================================================================================================== Fro...
Post a Comment
Read more