Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, August 31, 9:00. PM. Chapter-7. The Secret of Sadhana - 6. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Asura spoken of is not a human being or something like a human being, but it is a power. Finally, everything in this universe, in all this creation, is a force moving in this direction or that direction. The Deva, the angel, the god, the celestial, the power divine is the impulse towards cosmic integration, divine experience. The Asura, the demon, the Rakshasa, the evil that is spoken of is the counter-energy that rushes towards the periphery of creation, away from the centre, to the farthest gross form of objects of sense; it recognises a drop of honey there and licks it, like a dog licking a broken bone. The spiritual practice of yoga is the union of the powers of the s...

 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, August 27, 2021. 7:45. PM. Chapter-7. The Secret of Sadhana - 5. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is something in us that is different from, superior to, and transcending the sensory diversifications. We cannot see God with the eyes, cannot hear Him with the ears, touch Him with the fingers, taste Him with the tongue, or smell Him with the nose. That which is transcendent is not an object of these senses. That means to say that the recourse to spiritual practice is not a sensory activity. It is not anything that is done by the eyes or the ears, the fingers, the nose or the tongue. So the chanting of the holy text, the Udgitha, which is an invocation of the glory of God, cannot be undertaken except by that which is divine in us. And the senses are the undiv...

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, August 23, 2021. 8:58. PM. Chapter-7. The Secret of Sadhana - 4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Upanishads have many things to tell us in regard about this interesting feature in the process of creation. An explanation of the significance behind this anecdote can be found in the Aitareya Upanishad, wherein the description of the descent is characteristically described. When the angel, the celestial or the god becomes the mortal, the subject becomes the object and the object becomes the subject. This is what has happened. In the beginning of the creation process, the universe remains as an inseparable body of the Almighty. Since God revealed Himself as this creation, all things in creation are inseparable from God’s Being; and since God cannot be regarded as an obj...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chinmaya Mission : Gita Jnana Yajnas are an integral part of Chinmaya mission that inspire the masses for Vedantic scriptural studies and contemplation. Here is a throwback to Gita Jnana Yajna conducted by Pujya Swami Brahmananda in Kannada from 2nd to 11th November, 2019 at Sri Kailas Ashram, Rajarajeshwarinagar on Bhagavad Gita  Chapter 6.  The Yajna was inaugurated and graced by Parama Pujya Acharya Mahamandaleshwara Jagadguru Sri Jayendra Puri Swamiji of Sri Kailas Ashram, with over 1000 sadhaks attending every day. #Chinmaya105 #ChinmayaMission #SwamiChinmayananda #jnana #jnanayajna #jnanayoga #spirituality #spiritual #Gita #Geeta #Bhagavadgita #BhagavadGeeta #BhagvadGita #BhagvadGeeta #Gitagyan #Gitawisdom #spiritualjourney #spiritualgrowth #spiritualawakening #spiritualguidance #innerjourney #contemplation #consciousness #innertransformation 8.19.2021. -----------------------------------------...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sri Matsya Narayana Temple is uniquely located near the ocean and offers comfort and peace in Uthandi, Chennai. Chinmaya Tarangini was inaugurated by Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayananda on 24th May, 2015 during the Birth Centenary year of Swami Chinmayananda. 8.17.2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, August 18, 2021. 7:59. PM. GOD, THE UNIVERSE AND THE INDIVIDUAL - 13. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 9. SELF-TRANSCENDENCE :Last part In this pure spiritual experience all distinctions are abolished. The knower, the knowledge and the known are all spiritual in nature. There is a vast ocean, a sea of consciousness; nothing else. The Adhyatmika, Adhibhautika, and Adhidaivika principles, all unite together and form one Absolute Whole. The Upanishads do not say that the Adhyatmika alone is real, or that the Adhibhautika alo...

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, August 13, 2021. 7:23. PM. Chapter-7. The Secret of Sadhana -2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Then the gods told the deity of the nose, “You chant the mantra; speech is defeated.” So the deity of the nose started chanting the holy mantra, and the Asuras understood this. They came with a force and attacked this deity of the nose. That is why it is said that we can also smell bad odour, and not only fragrance. So sometimes we close our nose when certain odours enter our nostrils. The nose was defeated. The angels told the other sense organs, one by one, to chant the mantra, and all had the same fate. They were all overcome. The Upanishad tells us that every sense organ has, therefore, a double activity. It can do good and it can do bad; it can receive what i...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, August 12, 2021. 7:59. PM. GOD, THE UNIVERSE AND THE INDIVIDUAL - 12. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. SELF-TRANSCENDENCE : Having known this Truth, what do the sages? What have they to do with these things here, when their Atman is the universe? They are above these three desires which have a sway over the universe: Desire for progeny; desire for wealth; desire for world. They have no desire for name, fame, power or anything else that is relative. The Atman is the universe; the entire universe from which one derives satisfaction is the Self. There is no need for trying to obtain satisfaction from external things. Here comes the need for Vairagya, dispassion. Since everything is the Self, nothing is to be desired. Vairagya should be the outcome of Viveka, prope...

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, August 8, 2021. 7:23. PM. Chapter-7. The Secret of Sadhana -1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We hear in the scriptures that when creation was complete, a war took place between the Devas and the Asuras, the celestials and the demons. The Epics and the Puranas in India are replete with stories of Devasura Sangrama, the yuddha or the war continuously taking place between the gods and the demons. The gods sometimes had an upper hand, but mostly they were defeated. In the Upanishad we are told that the gods are lesser in number than the Asuras. Also in the epic of the Ma...

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 7, 2021. 9:08. PM. GOD, THE UNIVERSE AND THE INDIVIDUAL - 11. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. THE DECLARATION OF REALITY : The philosophy of the Upanishads is not a philosophy in the ordinary sense of the term. It is an expression in words of the consummation of experience which the ancient sages had through direct meditation and realisation. They dived deep into Truth; they became one with Truth. They proclaimed the Truth: “Ekameva Advitiyam Brahma; Ekana Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti”. “The Absolute is One alone without a second; the One Being the sages diversely speak of”. This is what the Veda and the Upanishads declare. “Sarvam Khalvidim Brahma”—All this that we perceive is in es...

 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, August 01,  2021. 8:07. PM. Chapter 6: Some Light on Yoga Practice - 5. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is not enough if we merely practise the preliminaries of external detachment, which are important enough, no doubt. But they are preliminaries only, and not yoga proper. Yoga proper is an internal psychological technique. It is the most difficult of things to conceive because the mind thinks of an object even in the act of rejecting the object. This is the difficulty. Even when we try to remove the idea of an object from our mind, we have some object in our mind. The objectness does not leave us, just as when we love a person or thing, we think of that person; and when we hate that person also we think of him....