Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, August 28, 2020. 7:17 AM. Mandukya Upanishad : Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary : Upanishad Mantra-s - 8 to 11. Karika Slokam-s 19 to 23.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upanishad  Mantram - 9. "Jgrito - sthano vaisvanaro - 'karah prathama matra - "pteradi - matt - vad - va -"pnoti ha vaisarvan - kaman - adis - ca bavati ya evam veda." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : Jagarita sthanah      =  having sphere ( of activity )is waking state field ,                 ; vaisavanarah           =  vaisavanara ( virat ); akarah                  ...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, August 20, 2020.3:50.AM. Mandukya Upanishad : Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary : Upanishad Mantram-8. Karika Slokam-s 19 to 23.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upanishad Mantram-8. "So'yam - atma - dhyaksaram - onkaro  adhimatram pada matra matras - ca pada  akara ukaro makara iti" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : Sah ayam atma = The same Self; adhyaksaram = from the stand - point of the total syllables; omkarah = it is the syllable Aum; adhimatram = from thje stand - point of individual letters; padah = the quarters are; matrah = the letters; ca matrah = and the letters; padah = the quarters; akarah = A; ukarah = U; makarah =(and)  M; iti = that. -...

-------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, August 19, 2020. 4:52. AM. Chapter 3: Ishvara and Jiva - 2. ---------------------------------------------------------- 1. To give an illustration, it is perhaps exactly as one would experience in dream. There is a split of consciousness into the knowing subject and the world of experience; but the split has not taken place. If it had really taken place, we would not wake up into the integrity of our mind. But nevertheless, there is an experience of such a transformation, change and division having taken place. 2. The first consequence of this division is, as the Upanishad puts it, an intense hunger and thirst. Well, this is a very beautiful word, implying much more than what our usual hunger and thirst would connote. The hunger and thirst of the divinities who wrenched themselves, as it were, from the total of the Universal can be called, in the language of our modern philosophers, the constitutional...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, August 09, 2020.3:32.PM. Mandukya Upanishad : Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary : Upanishad Mantram-7. Karika Slokam-s 10 to 18. Karika Slokam-18. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-18. "Vikalpo vini-varteta kalpito yadi kenacit, upadesa-dayam vado jnate dvaitam na vidyate." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam Translation : Vikalpah      =  diversity; vini-varteta  =  would go away, disapear; kalpitah      =  imagined; yadi          =  if ( it has been ); kenacit       =  by anyone; upadesat      =  ayamfor the sake of teaching; ayam    ...

-------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 08, 2020. 1:18. AM. Chapter 3: Ishvara and Jiva - 1. ---------------------------------------------------------- 1. The great cause of all causes, the Supreme Being, projected this universe, and Itself arose out of the universe, as it were, in a character of immanence, not losing the transcendence of its own essential being. And all the functions that we see in our own selves, jivas or individuals that we are, were present there in their original form. But the seeds of the manifestation of diversity were also sown in the body of this Cosmic Being. There is a great difference between the original and the reflected parts that we are. 2. Thus it is mentioned in the Upanishad that the causative factors of all the functions were projected first. These are what are usually known as the adhidaivas or the superintending divinities, the gods of religion, the various Devatas, the supreme celestials. They began to twinkle fo...