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AITAREYA UPANISHAD - “By a Peasant for the Peasant”: 8. Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya.

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=================================================================================================== Friday 13, February 2026, 05:20. 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-8. ==================================================================================================== Mantram - 2.3: MAN – The Perfect Abode!   6  taabhyah purusham aanayat; taah = When He brought MAN to them; They cried:    abruvan sukritam bat iti;= “Oh! Well done, what a masterpiece 7  purushah vaava sukritam; taah abruveet = Verily, man is a thing well made!” He said to  yathaa aayatanam pravishat iti. ! = them: “Enter into your respective abode...

KENA UPANISHAD: “Know That Alone as Brahman”: 8. SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA.

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===================================================================================================== 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. Reflections: SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA 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 -2.1: Did the Student Understand?  Post-8. ======================================================================================================= ============================================================================================== Wednesday 11, February 2026, 05:30. Chapter 2,   5 Mantras Subtlety of “KNOWING” Brahman  Mantram -2.1: Did the Student Understand?  =========================================...

KATHA UPANISHAD: 8 - Swami Gurubhaktananda.

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on the 90 Lectures delivered by Swami Advayanandaji =================================================================================================== Saturday 07, February 2025, 06:15. KATHA UPANISHAD: “A Leap into the Beyond”:Parts 1 & 2  with Bhashya by Sri Adi Shankaracharyaji. 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-1.1.9: Lord Yama Offers Justice Post-8. ====================================================================================================== Mantram-1.1.9: Lord Yama Offers Justice: Yama, now addressing Nachiketas:  1  Tisrah raatrih yat avaatseeh grihe me = “As you have dwelt three nights in my house  2  anashnan Brahman atithih namasyah; =  without food, O venerable Brahmana guest,  3  namah te astu Brahman svasti me astu =    I beg of y...

TAITTAREYA UPANISHAD: Post-8. - Rishi Yajnavalkya.

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===================================================================================================== Thursday 05, February 2026, 05:50. TAITTAREYA UPANISHAD  1: Sheeksha Valli:   Science of Vedic Chanting” -  MEGHA & SHREE UPASANA:   Anuvaka 1.4: Retentive Memory & Wealth: The “Great Word-Junctions Rishi Yajnavalkya  on the Series of 14 Lectures by Swami Advayananda. Reflections:  SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA. Post-8. ======================================================================================================= Mantram -1.4:2: More Bright Students. 10.  aavahanti vitanvaanaa; = Bring in continuously, in multiplying proportions,   kurvaanaa acheeram aatmanah; = good fortune without delay, and for all time.  11.  vaasaagmsi mama gaavah cha; = Bring in cloth and cattlefor me;  12.  anna-paane cha sarvadaa; =  Bring in  food and drink of all varieties;  13.  tatah me shriyam aavah; = O ...

The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: Chapter - 6-4: Swami Krishnananda.

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  ==================================================================================================== Tuesday 03, February 2026, 05:40. Books Upanishad The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 6-4. Chapter 6: Light on the Analogy of a Painted Picture-4. 4.Isvara or the Universal God: 1. ===================================================================================================== 4.Isvara or the Universal God: 1. The Yoga doctrine feels the necessity for an Isvara, inasmuch as Purusha and Prakriti, alone, cannot, by mutual contact and non-contact, explain the law and justice operating in the world, for there would be none to dispense the deserts of the Purusha if they are let free to themselves. There should be, therefore, an over-all, regulating law, above Purusha and Prakriti. This is the Isvara of the Yoga school. The Sruti (Antaryami-Brahmana) is in support of the Yoga in advancing the doctrine of Isvara, but we have different schools of thought defining Isvara in various ways...

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD: “The All-Pervading Reality”: 10 - Swami Gurubhaktananda.

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================================================================================================== Sunday 01, February 2026, 06:40. 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  Post-10. ======================================================================================================= Wave 3: Mantras 9-14 (6 No.) -  The Integration of KNOWLEDGE. IN THIS SECTION of 6 mantras, we have two sets of 3 verses, each set following the same pattern. These are mystical verses and require the help and guidance of a Teacher to explain them. They have many interpretations, according to the orientation of the various  schools of thought. They address the eternal problem fa...

Commentary on the Panchadasi: 23. Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================================================= Thursday 29, January 2026, 20:10. BOOKS UPANISHAD  Commentary on the Panchadasi: 23.  Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality. Mantras 44-55 Mantras - 51- 55  SWAMI KRISHNANANDA Post-23. =================================================================================================== Mantram-51. "Idaṁ guṇakriyā jāti dravya sambandha vastuṣu, samaṁ tena svarūpasya sarva meta ditīṣyatām."   These problems that we raised just now of vikalpatva or nirvikalpatva, that is, finitude or infinitude as associated with Brahman, may also be considered as futile arguments in the case of quality, action, species, genus, objectivity, relation, and anything whatsoever. Guna is quality, kriya is action, jati is species, dravya is object, sambandha is relation, vastu is anything whatsoever. Hence, in any one of these categories that we find in this world, the same ...