Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  -------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, October 29, 2020. 07:26. AM. Chapter 3: Ishvara and Jiva - 7. ---------------------------------------------------------- But the human individuality also is found inadequate to the purpose because of the fact that it is conditioned by the five sense organs and the mind, which works in terms of the activities of the senses. The restless activities of the senses for contact with objects throughout the day, in all the walks of life, are for the appeasement of the hunger of the soul. Whatever work we do in this world, whatever status we are occupying is for the satisfaction of the appetite of this soul which is asking for a union with that which it has lost. But we fail miserably in this attempt because our activities in life are not a remedy for the trouble in which we are at present. We seem to be satisfied only because we have not understood what our problems are. We are totally ignorant of our actual situation. --...

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, October 27, 2020. 12:56.. PM. Mandukya Upanishad : Chpter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary : Upanishad Mantra-s - 8 to 11. Karika Slokam-s 19 to 23. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Karika Slokam - 22 : "Trisu  dhamasu  yat-tulyam  samanyam  vetti  niscitah, sah  pujyah  sarva-bhutanam  vandyas-caiva  mahamunih." -------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : Trisu  dhamasu   =  three states; yat  =  which; tulyam  =  similarities; samanyam  =  the  common; vetti  =  knows; nischitah  =  for certain; sah  =  that (person); pujyah  =  respectable; sarva  bhutanam  =  all  beings; vandyaha  =  adorable; ca  eva  =...

  -------------------------------------------------------- Monday, October 19, 2020. 07:26. AM. Chapter 3: Ishvara and Jiva - 6. ---------------------------------------------------------- We are not asking for any kind of contact, really speaking. We are thoroughly mistaken, and that mistake itself is lost sight of completely. This complete oblivion of the very reason behind this hunger is called avidya. These terms do not occur in the Upanishad. I am explaining from the terminologies of the later philosophies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ignorance precedes every kind of action in the direction of the possession of the requirements of the senses. We run after things on account of an ignorance, which covers our consciousness, of the reason behind the very existence of this hunger. There is only one need that we have, and not more than one—the need to become one with That from which we have been separated, and out of whic...

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, October 18, 2020. 10:52.. AM. Mandukya Upanishad : Chpter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary : Upanishad Mantra-s - 8 to 11. Karika Slokam-s 19 to 23. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Karika Slokam - 21 : "Makara-bhave prajnasya  manasa-manyam-utkatam, matra-samprati-pattau  tu  laya-samanyam-eva  ca." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : makara  bhave  =  becomes 'M'; prajnasya  =  of prajna; mana  samanyam  = similarly of being  a  measur; utkatam  =  become  evident; matra  =  letters; samprati pattau  =  relating  to; tu  =  but, while; laya  samanyam  = similarly  of  being  the  ground  of  dissolution; eva  ...

  -------------------------------------------------------- Monday, October 12, 2020. 12:08. PM. Chapter 3: Ishvara and Jiva - 5. ---------------------------------------------------------- 1. When this individual experience takes place in the body of the human personality on account of the entry of these divinities in the manner mentioned, something else also happens. There is immediately a grabbing attitude of the individual in respect of the food that is necessary for the satisfaction of the appetite. The food also was created in the form of this objective universe, and it has to be grasped by the senses. 2. The particular function in the human individual especially by which food is grasped and assimilated is the apana. The food that we throw into the alimentary canal is digested and absorbed by the apana vayu in our system; the organs cannot have this kind of experience. For example, by speaking about food we cannot be satisfied; by seeing food we will not be satisfied; by hearin...

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, October 11, 2020. 08:33.. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Karika Slokam - 20 : "Taijasa-syotva  vijnana  utkarso  drsyate  sphutam, matra-samprati-pattau  syadu-bhayatvam  tatha-vidham." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : taijasasya  =  of taijasa; utva  vijnane  =  identified with 'U'; utkarsah  =  (their)  superiority; drsyate  =  is  seen; sphutam  =  clearly; matra  =  letters; samprati-pattau  =  relating  to; syat  =  is; ubhayatvam  =  (thair) middleness; tatha  vidham  =  so  also. ----------...

  -------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, October 03, 2020. 9:57. AM. Chapter 3: Ishvara and Jiva - 4. ---------------------------------------------------------- 1. Here is the peculiar characteristic of the individual explained in contradistinction with the original status of the divinities in the body of the Cosmic Being. The Upanishad mentions that when the divinities were originally projected from the body of the Cosmic Being, there was first the location of the function, for instance, the mouth; then there was the urge of the expression of that location in the form of speech; and then the divinity Agni, the presiding deity over speech, manifested itself—and so on with every other function. 2. Thus, the god or the divinity came afterwards; the function came first, so that the controlling principle of even the divinities was co-extensive with the existence of the Universal Being Himself. The gods were not independent, but were dependent on the Total fr...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, September 17, 2020. 9:30.. 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karika Mantram -19. "Visvasya-tva-vivakasayam-adisamanya-mutkatam, matra samprati-pattau syadapti -samanya-meva ca." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation :  Visvasya = of visva; atva vivaksayam  =  identified with 'A'  adi = of primacy; samanyam = the similarity; utkatam = evident; matra = letters; samprati-pattau  =  relating to; syat  =  becomes; apti samanyam  =  similarity of pervasiveness; eva ca  =  also and. ----------------------------------------------------------------...