Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

Thursday, June 25, 2020. 9:14.AM. Chapter 2: The Atman-4. 1. There was a very dramatic action of God, as it were—a real drama He enacted before Himself, because there was no audience before Him. He was the director, He was the dramatis personae, and He was the audience. It is very strange! He immediately visualised Himself as the all: “Aham idam sarvam asmi”—I am this all. This universe of manifested effects is myself—naturally, because the whole effect is constituted of the substance of this ultimate cause. “I am this all.” It is as if the clay is telling, “I am all the pots”; the wood is telling, “I am all the tables, I am all the chairs, I am all the furniture.” Quite true, and it is very interesting indeed! Every effect that has come out of a single cause is that cause only. So the cause is affirming itself in every effect: “I am this all.” 2. But we are to enter the vale of tears after some time due to a catastrophic effect that seems to have followed from this dramatic manifestat...

Friday, June 19, 2020. Chapter 2: The Atman-3. 1. The Creator is not outside the cosmos. He is not fashioning the world as a potter makes a pot or a carpenter makes a table. It is not like that. He is one with the substance of things in immanence, as clay is present in the pot out of which the pot is manufactured, or as wood is present in the table out of which it is made. So we cannot be isolated from the substance of the cause. 2. Thus, there was an entry of the cosmic substance into this cosmic effect. This is the first act of God—the entry of the Absolute into the relative in its universal fashion. He became the cosmic man, to speak in ordinary terms—the Maha Purusha or Purushottama. The Absolute, unrelated to the created universe, became the cosmic determining factor of the universe. This is the Great Being spoken of in the Purusha Sukta and the Satarudriya of the Veda, and the various scriptures which speak of the all-pervading or omnipresent character of God. We always speak of ...

============================================================== Wednesday, June 17, 2020. Mandukya Upanishad : Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary : Upanishad Mantram-7. Karika Slokam-s 10 to 18. Karika Slokam-16. ================================================================= Slokam-16. Anadi-mayaya supto yada  jivah prabudhyate, ajam-anidram-asvapnam advaitam budhyate tada. --------------------------------------------------- Slokam Translation : anadi mayaya = due t beginingless maya; suptah = asleep; ada = when; jivah = the individual soul (Atma); prabudhyate = is awakened; ajam = (which is) birthlss, beginngless; anidram = sleepless; asvapnam = deamless; advaitam = the non-dual ( Self ); budhyate = 9he) realises; tada = then. -------------------------------------------- Tattvam ( Essence ) : When the individual soul sleaping under the influence of the beginningless Mayais awakened, then it realises in itself the birthless, sleepless,...

Tuesday, June 09, 2020. Chapter 2: The Atman-2. 1. While the effect has come from the cause, it is not disconnected from the cause. This is one principle laid down at the very beginning itself. The universe seems to have descended in such a way that it has not isolated itself from the Absolute vitally.  There is no vital disconnection between the effect and the cause.  There is some sort of a relation always.  There is an inscrutable relationship, ‘anirvachaniya sambandha’, between the effect and the cause. There is not an absolute identity, because there is a manifestation.  It is not an absolute manifestation, because we can see our relationship with the cause.  This relationship between God and man, the Creator and the universe, the Absolute and the relative, is unintelligible.  This relationship is the beginning of all cosmological questions, the theories of creation and doctrines of every kind. Once creation is admitted as a fact of empirical experienc...

=============================================================== ========================================================= Sunday, June 07, 2020. Mandukya Upanishad : Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary : Upanishad Mantram-7. Karika Mantram-s 10 to 18. Karika Mantram-15. ============================================================= SRI GAUDAPADA Sri Gaudapada - (c. 8th century CE) (also referred as Shri Gaudapadacharya) was a very early guru in the tradition of Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. He is traditionally said to have been the grand-guru of the great teacher Adi Shankara, one of the most important figures in Hindu philosophy and also believed to be the founder of Shri Gaudapadacharya Math. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Karika Slokam : 15. Anyathah grhnatah svapno nidra tattvam-ajanatah, viprayase tayo ksine turiyam padam-asnute." --------------...