Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

13/04/2017 MANDUKYA UPANISHAD Chapter-1. "AGAMA PRAKARANA" ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Mantram-3 ***************************** Jagarita-sthano  bahih  prajnah  saptanga ekona-vimsati-mukhah  sthula-bhuk vaisvanarah  prathamah  padah. ***************************** Jagarita-sthano  :  one whose field is waking state; bahih  prajnah   :  who is conscious of the external; sapta  angah  :  has seven limbs; ekona  vimsati  mukhah  :  has nineteen mouths; sthula-bhuk  :  experiencer of  gross objects; vaisvanarah   :  (is)  vaisvanara; prathamah  :  first; padah  ;  quarter. ******************************************** * The first quarter (pada)  is Vaisvanara whose sphere of activity is the waking state, who is conscious of the external world of objects, who has seven limbs and ninteen mouths, and who enj...

04/04/2017 MANDUKYA UPANISHAD Chapter-1. "AGAMA PRAKARANA" ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Mantram-2 "Sarvam  hyetad  Brahma,  ayam-atma Brahma, so' yam-atma  catuspat." sarvam - all; hi - indded; etat -this; brahma - this (is)  BRAHMAM; ayam atma brahma - this Self ( ATMA IN US ) is BRAHMAM; sah - That ( BRAHMAM ); ayam atma - ( which is ) this Self ( ATMA IN US ); catuspat - ( is ) covered with four quarters ( PARTS ). "All this is verily BRAHMAM. This is BRAHMAM. This JIVATMA ( ATMA WITHIN US ) has four quarters ( parts )." Discussion-14. Similarly, on analysing  the subjective life of man, we find that there are three planes of Consciousness in which we ravel daily, the waking, the dream, and the deep-sleep; and yet, when to these we add the fourth Turiyam plane of Consciousness, transcending the previous three, the entire merges into one, to become the Whole. In that Atma, there is neither the waker, nor the d...