Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

 =============================================================== ============================================================== Reflections : Swami Gurubhaktananda : on the Series of 14 Lectures : Swami Tejomayanandaji, Guruji, then Spiritual Head, Chinmaya Mission, at Chinmaya Tapovan, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand from April 8th – April 13th, 2013 ============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Sivananda, Swami Tapovanji, Swami Chinmayananda. SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE ================================================================ KENA UPANISHAD : ( Know That Alone as Brahman ) 4 Chapters, 34 No. Mantras. ============================================================== INTRODUCTION TO KENA UPANISHAD : KENA UPANISHAD IS the 9th Chapter of the Talavakara Branch in the Sama Veda. The first eight chapters are concerned with the Karma and Upasana which fall under Apara Vidya. They belong to the Mantra Samhitas and the Brahmanas...

 ============================================================== =============================================================== Series of 10 Lectures : by SWAMI ADVAYANANDAJI Acharyaji, 15th Batch Vedanta Course AT SANDEEPANY SADHANALAYA, POWAI, MUMBAI February 15th – February 23rd, 2013 ============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Sivananda, Swami Tapovanji, Swami Chinmayananda. SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE ============================================================= Introduction  PART 1 Chapter One: THE THEORY OF CREATION ============================================================== Sunday, January 30, 2022. 20:00. AITAREYA UPANISHAD 3 Parts, 6 Chapters, 33 No. Verses “By a Peasant for the Peasant” by Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya ============================================================ Note:  The Peace Invocation ( Santhi Mantram ) which is usually chanted at the start of a text has been placed at the en...

 ================================================================ =============================================================== Sunday, January 30, 2022. 06:30. Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda on the 12 Lectures delivered by Guruji, Swami Tejomayanandaji  to the 15th Batch Vedanta Course at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai :  July 11th – July 16th, 2012. =============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Sivananda, Swami Tapovanji, Swami Chinmayananda. SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE ============================================================== ISHAVASYA UPANISHAD : 18 Mantras on : “The All-Pervading Reality” =============================================================== INTRODUCTION TO THE UPANISHAD =============================================================== THIS UPANISHAD IS IN the Shukla Yajur Veda. It is part of the Samhitas. It takes its name from the first word of the first Mantra which means...

 ============================================================= ============================================================ Thursday, January 27, 2022. 20:00. (Spoken on April 25, 1972 during night satsang on Swamiji's 50th birthday.) Post - 1.  =============================================================== Our heartfelt gratitude goes to the Supreme Father of the universe, whose incomparable compassion keeps us alive and breathing, makes our existence possible, and Who as the great Director of the drama of creation operates every activity, every effort, and every thought and feeling in all this mighty cosmos. May our silent obeisance be at His feet which are everywhere as the highest purifiers and the only solace of the restless souls in this world. May God's grace be upon us all. Our efforts in life assume a meaning only when they are based on honesty of purpose. And what is honesty? It is a simple obedience to the law of our own being. To be respectful to the rule that gov...

============================================================== ============================================================= Wednesday, January 26, 2022. 19:12.  Post-11. (Spoken on June 19, 1972). ================================================================ Judgment is a logical process of dovetailing a predicate with a subject. Whenever we make a statement, give an opinion or pass a judgment, what happens is we connect the subject to the predicate. There is always a separation of two units, and then an artificial bringing together of these two units. We assume a difference between the subject and the predicate, and then try to bring the two together in logical judgment. So this is a defect of the process of ratiocination. Hence, the intellect is not supposed to be independently a source of wisdom of the spirit.   Naiṣā tarkeṇa matir āpaneyā  (Katha 1.2.9), says the Kathopanishad itself.  By logical argumentation, this Spirit is not to be gained because log...

 ============================================================= ============================================================== Monday, January 17, 2022. 19:00. Post - 6.   =============================================================== In the Atharva Veda there is a Sukta called Varuna Sukta. It is available in English translation. If you have any longing, it will melt down in the fire of this inclusiveness of God-being. All these statements of the Upanishads in different places amount to one thing: that by externalizing consciousness we will achieve nothing. It is not enough if you merely internalise it also. You should neither be an extrovert nor an introvert but, if you can coin a word, an omnivert. Everywhere you perceive everything. That 'I' is not the physical 'I' with which you see the world – it is the soul observing itself in things which look like non-Self. The non-Self does not exist; but even in that so-called non-Self the Self is peeping through Its own eye....

 ================================== =================================================== Sunday, January 16, 2021. 6:00. PM. Post-10 (Spoken on June 19, 1972). ================================================= What is yoga?  Tām yogam iti manyante sthiram indriya-dharanam: The fixing of the powers of the senses is called yoga, according to Yama.  Yoga is the focusing of the attention of the mind through a discipline of the senses, a conservation of the energy of the senses, and the mustering in of the powers of the senses so that they are fixed on one spot: tām yogam iti manyante.  Sthiram indriya-dharanam: The indriyas, or the powers of the senses, as I mentioned, are not the organs of perception. The indriyas meant here are not the eyes or the ears, etc., but the powers behind the action or function of seeing, hearing, etc. These energies have to be concentrated – pratyahara, as we usually call it in yoga. This has to be practised.  This is called yoga: sthiram...