Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

======================================================================================================= Monday 30, June 2025, 05:00. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 2.1. Swami Krishnananda Chapter 2: The Problem in Understanding the Upanishads-1. Post-7. ====================================================================================================== Chapter 2: The Problem in Understanding the Upanishads We were touching upon the subject of the Upanishads. I made reference to the Veda Samhitas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and the Upanishads being the section-wise classification of the Vedic lore. There are supposed to be more than 1,000 editions or versions of the Vedas, with slight differences of words or letters in varying cases. If there are more than 1,000 such versions—we are told in this context that each version has its own Upanishad, so theoretically at least, traditionally, the information that has come to us is that there are more than 1,000 Upanishads—we do not fin...

  =================================================================================================== Sunday 29, June 2025, 08:00.  TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD   Pertaining to the SELF-CREATION of Brahman there is a Shruti Mantram… Upanishad Part-2.  ABHAYA PRATISHTHAA   BRAHMAANANDA MEEMAAMSAA  Anuvaka 2.8 A Measure of “Relative Joy”  Bhashya F:  THE MAHAVAKYA OF THIS UPANISHAD  Coverage: Mantras From 2.8.13 to 2.9.1. Post-92. ==================================================================================================== Objections & Answers Objection - 4:  Both Options Have Defects. Now What?   Poorvapakshi: Since both these options have defects, it seems to me that further  discussion would be useless ….. unless we find a third, flawless option. If not, let us just quit  this whole enquiry!  Answer: No, I don’t think we should give up so easily. Let us explore these defects  and see if we find...

  ================================================================================================= Saturday 28, June 2025, 09:15. Article Scriptures Commentary on the Isa Vasya Upanishad: 11. Part-2-2 Swami Krishnananda POST: 11. =================================================================================================== As long as we want to live in this world – it is said to be 'a hundred years', a word used in the Upanishad indicating a very long life – we have to work. Nothing can be more valuable than life. One should not cut off life. The Manu Smriti says, “You should not extol, you should not condemn, but you should get on with the conditions that prevail according to the circumstances into which you are born.” In the light of the all-pervading nature of Isvara, God, do your duty. The word 'duty' is a specialisation of the Bhagavadgita. In the Isavasya Upanishad there is just a mention of action or work. By doing alone should you wish to live in this worl...

  ==================================================================================================================== Friday 27, June 2025 10:00. Books Upanishads The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 2.7. Chapter 2: Discrimination of the Elements-7. 3.The Nature of Existence: 1. Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================================================== 3.The Nature of Existence: We have three types of difference: Svagatabheda or difference as between the limbs of one's own body, Sajatiyabheda or difference of one from another of the same species, and Vijatiyabheda or difference of one from another of a different species. The scripture asserts that Brahman is one without a second, and we cannot conceive of limbs or parts in its universal existence. Existence was prior even to the manifestation of names and forms, and therefore it should be naturally free from names and forms. We cannot conceive of parts within existence, bec...

  ================================================================================================================= Thursday 26, June 2025, 09:00.. Books The Mundaka Upanishad: 10.  The Third Mundaka:  First Khanda Mantram: 5. Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================================================== Mantram No. 5: The Atman is attained through truth, penance, correct knowledge and Brahmacharya (self-control), observed continuously without break. The Atman is beheld within in the form of light and purity by the austere ones who are freed from all kinds of sins. Truth is adherence to fact, whether absolute or relative. It is proceeding along the way of the unity of existence. Relatively, it takes the form of acting in conformity with facts that are experienced through the process of individual knowledge. Absolutely, it is living in the light of the fact that Existence is absolute and indivisible. Falsehood is the...

============================================================================================================ Wednesday 25, June 2025, 09:00. Books Commentary on the Panchadasi:8. Swami Krishnananda. Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Discourse 2 Mantras: 6-13. Post-8. ============================================================================================================= Samvi deṣa svayam prabha:  This svayam prabha, Self-consciousness, is Self-proof. It does not require any other proof. We may require a proof to establish other things, but we do not require a proof to establish Consciousness, because it is the presupposition of all other proofs. All proofs proceed from Consciousness. It is self-proved, indubitable. ===================================================================================================== Iya matma para nandaḥ para premaspadaṁ yataḥ, ma na bhuvam hi bhuya sam iti premat mani kṣyate (8).  =======================================...