Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  =================================================================================================== Friday 03, April 2026, 06:30. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 4.2. Chapter 4: The Isavasya Upanishad -2. Post-23. ===================================================================================================== What is the meaning of saying that God pervades the whole cosmos? When we dip a piece of cloth into a bucket full of water, we may see the water pervading the entire cloth. Water inundates every fibre of that fabric. Is this the way in which God pervades things? No, it cannot be. Here again, a distinction is created between the pervading principle and that which is pervaded. The original difficulty once again creeps in. Cloth can never become water even if it appears that water has gone into every fibre of the cloth, because it can be dried till there is no water left. Therefore, one must understand the pervasion theory carefully. Actually, it is believed th...

  ===================================================================================================== Wednesday 25, February 2026, 05:30.            KAIVALYA UPANISHAD: “The Homogeneity of Brahman”  from the Atharva Veda: 26 Mantras:  Reflections:  Swami Gurubhaktananda:  #on the Series of 8 Lectures:  Swami Advaitananda. of the 15th Batch Sandeepany Vedanta Course held at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai: From 23rd November – 30th November 2012. Mantram: 5 - The Seat of Meditation  Post: 8. ======================================================================================================= 4.   SUBSTRATUM OF THE STATES  (Mantras 12-14,  3 no.)    THE EXPERIENCES OF THE Jiva in the three states of consciousness are now examined. The analysis, done below from the waking state through to the deep sleep state, aims to help us to detect the Presence of the Self within us. The Self is fou...

  ==================================================================================================== Monday 23, February 2026, 05:40. Books Upanishad The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 6-5. Chapter 6: Light on the Analogy of a Painted Picture-5. 4.Isvara or the Universal God: 2. ===================================================================================================== The nature of Maya, taken independently, is inscrutable. In the Tapaniya Upanishad it is described as Jada (inert) and Mohatmaka (delusive). Its existence is proved by the personal experience, in everyone, of having a sufficient knowledge in regard to it. The inertness of Maya is that which we see in things like an earthen pot; delusion is that wherein the intellect gets stultified and cannot understand anything. For the ordinary people of the world, Maya is a reality, because it projects this world which is clearly seen by them as a fact; but to the logical mind, or the philosophical intellect, it is a my...

  ================================================================================================== Saturday 21, 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-11. ======================================================================================================= Mantram - 9: Worship of Avidya & Vidya  1  Andham tamah pravishanti = They enter into blinding darkness  2  ye avidyaam upaasate; = who are worshippers of Avidya alone;  3  tatah bhooyah iva te tamah = but they enter even greater darkness  4  ye u vidyaayaam rataah. = who verily are worshippers of Vidya alone.  ====================...

  ========================================================================================================= Thursday 19, February 2026, 05:15. BOOKS UPANISHAD  Commentary on the Panchadasi: 24.  Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality. Mantras 44-55 Mantras - 51- 55  SWAMI KRISHNANANDA Post-24. ========================================================================================================= Discourse 6 Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Mantras - 54-65 54. Tābhyāṁ nirvicikitse'rthe cetasaḥ sthāpi tasya yat, eka tānatva metaddhi nidi dhyāsana mucyate (54).  When the ideas that we have gathered through hearing and studying from a preceptor are made to enter our feelings by deep reflection on the same, and when these ideas that have become practically part of our nature by way of deep investigation—when concentration and reflection become inseparable from us—we become absorbed in them to such an extent that we think only these ide...

============================================================================================== Tuesday 17, February 2026, 05:30. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 4.1. Chapter 4: The Isavasya Upanishad -1. Post-22. =============================================================================================== Of the many Upanishads, I mentioned the names of ten that are very important. Among these ten, one is known as the Isavasya Upanishad. Inasmuch as it occurs in the mantra portion, or the Samhita part of the Vedas, it is also called the Mantra Upanishad. Though it is very short, it is a very important Upanishad. In a sense, this Isavasya Upanishad gives us four important instructions. Four types of knowledge are imparted to us by this Upanishad. Firstly, the Creator pervades the whole of creation. Secondly, everyone is to do one's duty. Thirdly, knowledge and action have to be combined and not be considered as opposites. Fourthly, we should view God and the world as b...