Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

==================================================================================================== Thursday 14, May 2026, 18:30. Books Upanishad The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 6-6. Chapter 6: Light on the Analogy of a Painted Picture-6. 4.Isvara or the Universal God: 3. ===================================================================================================== People are not wanting in this world, who feel that they know what is right, but cannot do it, and know what is wrong, but cannot desist from it. There is a force above the Jivas, over which they have no control. This does not mean that there is no such thing as free-will in the case of the Jivas, because Isvara Himself appears as free-will, the only difference being that the Jivas do not know that it is Isvara alone who is working from within. Thus free-will does not detract from Isvara's omnipotence. And by this knowledge the supremacy of Isvara and the unattached nature of the Atman in the Jiva are establish...

  ========================================================================================================= Tuesday 12, May 2026, 19:00. BOOKS UPANISHAD  Commentary on the Panchadasi: 26.  Discourse 6 Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Mantras - 61&62. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA Post-26. ======================================================================================================= Mantras - 61&62. Amunā vāsanā jale niśśeṣaṁ pravi lāpite, samūlon mūlite puṇya pāpākhye karma sañcaye (61):  Vākya maprati baddham sat prāk parokṣā vabhāsite, karā malaka vad bodham aparokṣaṁ prasūyate (62): ========================================================================================= In the earlier stages of knowledge, it is indirect. Now you know something about what has been talked about. You are hearing it, and have made a study of it. This knowledge is indirect knowledge because the knowledge that you are gaining just now is not identical with the...

======================================================================================================== Sunday 10, May 2026, 20:10.            KAIVALYA UPANISHAD: “The Homogeneity of Brahman”  from the Atharva Veda: 26 Mantras:  Reflections:  Swami Gurubhaktananda:  Mantram -14: Why Do the States Change?  Post: 10. ======================================================================================================= Mantram -14: Why Do the States Change?  9.  punah cha janma antara = Again, following from endless previous births,    karma-yogaat = due to the Karmic reactions gathered in them, 10.  sa eva jeevah = that very same Jiva goes (back and forth)    swapiti prabuddhah; = between the dream and the waking states.  11.  pura-traye kreedati = In these three cities (states), merrily sports    yah cha Jeeva = the same (helpless) individual soul. 12.  tatastu jaatam = Th...

====================================================================================================== Friday 08, May 2026, 20:50. ISAVASYA UPANISHAD: MEDITATIONS on the Self 18 Mantras on: “The All-Pervading Reality”  Wave 4: Mantras 15-17 (3 No.) - “The VISION of TRUTH” 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 -15: The Face of Truth  Post-13. ========================================================================================================= Wave 4: Mantras 15-17 (3 No.) - “The VISION of TRUTH” =================================================================================== Mantram -15: The Face of Truth: 1.  Hiranmayena paatrena, = By a golden vessel or lid   2.  satyasya apihitam mukham; = is the face of Truth covered;   3. ...

=================================================================================================== Wednesday 06, May 2026, 07:50. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 4.3. Chapter 4: The Isavasya Upanishad -4. Post-25. =================================================================================================== For obvious reasons, a thing that is outside, totally, cannot become yours. How can you possess a thing that is not yours? But you somehow convince yourself that it is yours. You have a way of operating your mind and of convincing yourself: “This tree is mine from tomorrow because I have purchased it from someone.” Neither that person who got money from you really had it, nor have you really got this tree as you imagined. But the mental operation is so very important and so very tricky that it can make you happy or unhappy. If somebody has taken away something and kept it somewhere else, you consider it lost and you grieve that it has gone. It has not gone anywhere...