Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

====================================================================================================== Thursday 23, April 2026, 07:30. 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-9. ==================================================================================================== Mantram - 2.5: What About Hunger and Thirst?   16  tam ashanaayaa-pipaase abrutaam: = Hunger and Thirst said to Him:   aavaabhyaam abhiprajaaneehi, iti; = “For both of us also find out an abode 17  te abraveet, etaasu eva vaam = He told them: “To both of you along.”  devataasu aabhajaami; = with these Gods, do I assign a place,  etaasu bhaagi...

===================================================================================================== Monday 20, April 2026, 21:25. 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. From: A. Krishna Yajur Veda & B. Sama Veda THE DISCIPLE QUESTIONS THE GURU: Chapters - 4 Mantras:  34. Chapter 2,   5 Mantras Subtlety of “KNOWING” Brahman  Mantram - 2.2: The Student Proclaims the Truth Post-9. ======================================================================================================= Mantram - 2.2: The Student Proclaims the Truth: The Disciple continues:  1. na aham manye suveda iti, =  I do not think that I know It 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, kno...

=================================================================================================== Saturday 18, April 2026, 20:30. KATHA UPANISHAD: “A Leap into the Beyond": Parts 1 & 2  with Bhashya by Sri Adi Shankaracharya. on the 90 Lectures delivered by Swami Advayanandaji  KATHA UPANISHAD:  Part 1 – Total 71 Mantras Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda  Chapters 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3  Chapter 1.1: (29) Mantras Mantram - 1.1.10: Boon 1: “Forgive my father”  Post-8. ====================================================================================================== THE FIRST BOON: And so, Nachiketas asks his boons one by one. Lord Yama has given young Nachiketas three blank cheques. What does the boy do with them? He thinks of his family first – the suffering of his father, the anguish in his mind of having had to lose his son in a fit of rage. Then he thinks of the welfare of others, his community, through gaining merit for them to go to higher wor...

=================================================================================================== Thursday 16, April 2026, 19:50. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 4.3. Chapter 4: The Isavasya Upanishad -3. Post-24. ===================================================================================================== Isavasyam idam sarvam:  “This creation is enveloped by the Almighty Supreme Being.” From the conclusion that we can draw out of our considerations on the very first session, it would follow that there is something which cannot be divided into parts, which is infinite in its nature, which is existing everywhere to such an extent that it may appear that it is the only thing existing. That only-existing 'Something' is the Ishvara that the Isavasya Upanishad speaks of. You have to somehow or other accommodate your mental operations to get tuned up to this interesting situation of there being Something which Alone Is—at all times, and outside which nothing ca...

  ======================================================================================================== Tuesday 14, April 2026, 18:40. ISAVASYA UPANISHAD: MEDITATIONS on the Self 18 Mantras on: “The All-Pervading Reality”  Wave 3: Mantras 9-15 (6 No.) The Integration of KNOWLEDGE: 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  B. SAMBHOOTI & ASAMBHOOTI Mantram - 12: Worship of Unmanifest & Manifest  Post-12. ========================================================================================================= B. SAMBHOOTI & ASAMBHOOTI: Mantram - 12: Worship of Unmanifest & Manifest  1. Andham tamah pravishanti = They enter into blinding darkness who   2. ye asambhootim-upaasate; = aim to conquer the Unmanifest cause of creation;  3  tato bhooya iva te tamo = but ...