Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas": ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -1. : ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1. Discussion : 14.  "Whose  is  the  wealth?...  who...

Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas": ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -1. : ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1. Discussion : 14.  "Whose  is  the  wealth?...  who...

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1. Discussion : 14.  "Whose  is  the  wealth?...  who  is  to  covet  and  what?" .... Swami  Sri  Adi  Sankaracharya  goes  a  step  further  and  interprets  the  last  quarter  of  the  Mantram  to  mean,  as  an  exclamation  from  the  Rish-s :  "Whose  is  the  wealth?" By  this  question  he  implies   that  there  is  no  wealth  which  belongs  to  anybody  and  that  there  is  nothing  in  the  universe  which  can  permanently  remain  with  us;  we  ourselves  are  passing;  the  world  of  objects  i...

Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas": ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -1. : ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1. Discussion - 13. "Do  not  covet  the  wealth...

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1. Discussion - 13. "Do  not  covet  the  wealth  of  another." ..... The  very  first  mantram,  there  is  therefore,  not  only  a  statement  of  Truth  and  its  amplifications,  but  a  definiten  method  of  realisation  is  also  pointed  out. Even  this  much  would  have  been  sufficient  to  raise  the  Mantram  to  the  pinnacles  of   a  literary  perfection  and  philosophical  beauty  unparalled  in  any  language;  but  this  is  not  at  all. To  crown  the  entire  effort,  as  it  were,  here  within ...

Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas": ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -1. : ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1. Discussion- 12. "dhana" ..... ( c...

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1. Discussion- 12. "dhana" ..... ( charity ) The 'Puranic'  ideal  of  charity  (  dhanam )  also  can  be  read  into  this  phrase   "tyaktena   bhunjithah." Giving  is  the  true  enjoyment  of  wealth. Make  wealth  as  much  as  you  can  by  right  means,  and  hold  on  to  it   as  a  trustee. Give  it  away   intelligently    to  patronise   right  causes....   ....... thus   enjoy. Covet  not  wealth,  nor  hoard  it  to  lie  idle. For,  whose  is  the  wealth? It  belongs  to  the  community,  and  it  must ...

Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas": ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -1. : ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1. Discussion - 11.  "bhunjithah" ...( second  lin...

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1. Discussion - 11.  "bhunjithah" ...( second  line  of  the  Mantram ) ... Enjoy  (   bhunjithah ) ----  The  root  'Bhuj' means  'to enjoy' and  also  'to  save'. Sri Swami   Adi  Sankaracharya    Bhagavatpada  takes  the  latter  meaning  and  interprets  it  to  mean   'saving  one's  Self'. According  to  Swamiji,  therefore,  the  meaning  would  be  the  way  to  protect  one's  Self  and  enjoy  Its  glory  lies  in  the  renunciation  of  attachments  for  the  not-Self  ( Anatma ). The  'Seer'  of  the  'Upanishad',  however,  by  avoiding ...

Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas": ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -1. : ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1. Discussion -10. "Where  is  the  wealth" ( k...

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1. Discussion -10. "Where  is  the  wealth" ( kasya  svit  dhanam ) ... All  wealth  belongs  to  Him   ( Lord )  alone   ---   the  Infinite  alone  is  the  Reality. It  is  the  core  in  all  forms;  it  pervades  everything  within. And  it  envelopes   everything. The  world  is  like  an  iceberg  floating  on  water. Water,  frozen  and  floating  on  water  ---  it  is  nothing  but  water. Since  everything  is  His  (  Lord's ),  whatever  that  is  permitted  by  Him,  take  it  as  His,  and  live  in  this ...

Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas": ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -1. : ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1.  Discussion-9. "That  renounced"  (  tena  ty...

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1.  Discussion-9. "That  renounced"  (  tena  tyaktena  --   first  two  words  in  the  beginning  of  second  line  of  the  Mantram)   ....." envelops  all  this " ( Isa vasyam  idagm  sarvam  ---  in  the  beginning  of  the  Mantram  ... "That  renounced" (  tena   tyaktena )   :- -  This  is  the  effective  part,  the  technique  to  experience  the  Lord  that  "envelops  all  this" ( Isa   vasyam   idagm  sarvam). Identified  with  the  beauty  of  sculpture,  many  a  time,  we  fail  to  notice  the  material  with  which ...

Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas": ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -1. : ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1. Discussion - 8. 'matter' ..  'ghost ...

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1. Discussion - 8. 'matter' ..  'ghost  vision' When  we  are  told  of  a  paramount  'Power' presiding  over  the  world  of  'matter,'   the  teacher  advocates  that  we  must  come  to  experience  this  great  joyous  perfection  through  the  renunciation  of  our  false  values  and  attachments  which  we  have  cultivated  in  ourselves  in   the  jungles  of  our  own  perceptions. The  'ghost-vision'  frightens  the  deluded  one,  and  his  mind  gets  into  a  serious  state  of  perplexity  and  confusion. The  only ...

Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas": ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -1. : ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1.  Discussion-7. 'principle  of  existence&...

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : or   VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD  Mantram -1.  Discussion-7. 'principle  of  existence' ..... "There is a form,  there  is  a  taste,  there  is  a  sound,  there  is  a  smell,  and  there  is  a  touch  for  the  tree" ---  thus  we  noticed. Devoid  of  all  qualities  as  interpreted  by  the  sense-organs,  there  is  yet  in  that  tree  the   "Principle  of  Existence" as  expressed  by  us  unconsciously  in  our  assertion  of  the  Is-ness. This  factor,  the  "Divine  Principle  of  existence  but  for  which  none  of  these  impressions  are  imposs...