Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

 ============================================================ ============================================================== Thursday, March 24, 2022. 21:00. Post-3. =============================================================== Sometimes the mind operates like a prism which deflects rays of light in various forms and in various hues. It is up to each person to consider for one's own self what are the thoughts that generally arise in the mind from the morning to the evening. You may be doing anything, but what are you thinking in the mind? This is what is important. The thoughts which take you wholly in the direction of what you are not, and engaging your psychic attention on things which are not the Self – these things should be considered as a serious infection in the mind itself. When basically everybody is what one is, and even when you are operating in the direction of a sense-object so-called, through the perceptive activity of the senses, what is actually happening is that ...

 =============================================================== =============================================================== Thursday, March 24, 2022. 06:00. Thinking the Cosmic Totality- 4. (Spoken on April 25, 1972 during night satsang on Swamiji's 50th birthday.) ================================================================ But we know very well that the law, the rule, guides all things. And as long as we are not in a position to understand this law, things in the world look like opponents, enemies standing against us and requiring us to conquer them. We often say these days that science is conquering nature. There is no such thing as conquering anyone. We have only to make friends with everyone. If we try to conquer others, they too will try to conquer us. What prevents them from doing the same thing? If we regard others as nature and want to conquer them, well, we are also nature for them. They shall also try to conquer us. So there shall be only war in the world rather...

 ============================================================== ============================================================== Wednesday, March 23, 2022. 06:00. Thinking the Cosmic Totality- 3. (Spoken on April 25, 1972 during night satsang on Swamiji's 50th birthday.) =============================================================== Our thoughts and feelings are not in consonance with themselves. There is no system, order or method in the operation of our thoughts and feelings. They are chaotic emanations, as it were, which are not clear about their own purpose, and move at random, imagining that they follow a great principle which should lead them to success. If the conscience is clear and we are honest to our own selves, we should be happy people in the world. But the way in which we exhibit ourselves in our practical activity, psychologically as well as physically and socially, is often such that our conscience always pinches at the bottom. It is difficult for us to be true to ou...

 ============================================================== ================================================================ Adi Shankaracharya Swami Sivananda Swami Tapovanji Swami Chinmayananda SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE ============================================================== Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda : on the 18 Lectures delivered by Swami  Guruji, during the 15th Batch Vedanta Course at at the Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai : February 21st – March 2nd, 2012. ============================================================== Monday, March 21, 2022. 20:00. 6 Questions, 67 Mantras : “Questions from Disciples Answered” ============================================================== KABANDHI’S QUESTION : Query No 1: “Matter & Energy” ============================================================= WE ARE INTRODUCED to the six students.  The order may have some significance : They are presented to us in an order reverse to the...

 ============================================================== ============================================================== Sunday, March 20, 2022. 20:00. From the Atharva Veda (26 Mantras) : “The HOMOGENEITY of Brahman” ============================================================== "Reflections : by Swami Gurubhaktananda : on the Series of 8 Lectures by Swami Advaitanand Ji : Acharyaji of the 15th Batch Sandeepany Vedanta Course : held at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai : From 23rd November – 30th November, 2012." ============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya Swami Sivananda Swami Tapovanji Swami Chinmayananda SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE ============================================================== 1. THE PRELIMINARIES : (Mantras  1-3a, 3 no.) Mantram- 1: The Yearning for Divine Knowledge THIS INTRODUCTORY SECTION covers basic details we need to know when beginning the spiritual path. The pre-qualifications ...

 ============================================================== ============================================================= Reflections : by Swami Gurubhaktananda : on the Series of 14 Lectures by Swami Advayananda Ji Acharyaji for 15th Batch Vedanta Course at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai. March 1st – March 16th, 2013. =============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Sivananda, Swami Tapovanji, Swami Chinmayananda. SERIES THEME: “Piercing the Clouds; Crossing the Seas”. =============================================================== Saturday, March 19, 2022. 19:00. Chapter-1.On the Science of Pronunciation etc. Shiksha Valli or Samhiti Upanishad :  The Science of Vedic Chanting : PART 1: 12 No.Chapters ( Anuvakas ) ================================================================ Sikshana Sastram Chapter- 1.2:1 : Science of Vedic Phonetics ============================================================== Mantram - 1.2:1: Science ...

============================================================== ================================================================ Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda on the 90 Lectures delivered by Swami Advayananda ji Acharyaji, 15th Batch Vedanta Course at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai July 17th – September 29th, 2012. ============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Sivananda, Swami Tapovanji, Swami Chinmayananda. SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE =============================================================== Friday, March 18, 2022, 20:00 (Parts 1 & 2) :  Part 1 – Total 71 Verses Chapters 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3. Chapter 1.1: (29 verses) :    (“A Leap Into the Beyond”) :  Bhashyam by Sri Swami Adi Shankaracharya ji. ============================================================== THE STORY OF NACHIKETAS. THIS IS THE AMAZING story of a little boy, barely ten years old, who is sent in anger by his father t...

 =============================================================== ============================================================== Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda on the Series of 54 Lectures by Swami Advayananda ji  of the 15th Batch Sandeepany Vedanta Course held at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai. From 16th December, 2012 – 13th February, 2013 ============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya Swami Sivananda Swami Tapovanji Swami Chinmayananda SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE =============================================================== Thursday, March 17, 2022. 18:30. MUNDAKA UPANISHAD : 6 Chapters (64 Mantras) =================================== Chapter-1. Section-1. 2. Mantram 1.2. Guru Parampara : Lineage of Teacher (contd.) : =============================================================  Mantram 1.2 1 atharvane yam pravadeta brahma atharva,  2 tam purovacha angire  brahma-vidyam; 3 sa bharadvajay...

 ============================================================ =========================================================== 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,  No. Mantras. - 34. ============================================================== Thursday, March 16, 2022. 19:00.  Chapter 1.  Mantras -8. : The Nature of BRAHMAN ============================================================== THE DISCIPLE QUESTIONS THE GURU : Mantram 1.1: The Disciple’s Questions 1 kena ishitam patati  ...

 ============================================================= ============================================================ Series of 10 Lectures : by SWAMI ADVAYANANDAJI Acharyaji, 15th Batch Vedanta Course AT SANDEEPANY  SADHANALAYA, POWAI, MUMBAI February 15th – February 23rd, 2013 ============================================================ Tuesday, March15, 2022. 20:00. AITAREYA UPANISHAD : 3 Parts, 6 Chapters, 33 No. Mantras : “By a Peasant for the Peasant” by Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya ============================================================ Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Sivananda, Swami Tapovanji, Swami Chinmayananda. SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE ============================================================= Introduction : PART - 1 : Chapter One : THE THEORY OF CREATION 1.3 -The Style of Aitareya Upanishad ==============================================================   Here begins the Chapter 1 of Part 1 Mantram 1.1: Before Creation Began… 1 Om ...

 ============================================================== ============================================================ Sunday, February 06, 2022. 19:00. “The All-Pervading Reality” -3. 2. THE PATH OF KARMA YOGA : Mantram- 2 : Dedicated Loving Service : ============================================================== 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 ================================================================ Mantram-2. "Kurvan eva iha karmaani, jijeevishet shatagm samaah; evam tvayi na anyathaa itah asti,  na karma lipyate nare." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

 ============================================================= ============================================================== Saturday, March 05, 2022. 20:00. Post-2. ============================================================== This is something that will follow from a proper analysis of the nature of what is called the Atman, the great, grand, magnificent subject of the Upanishads. Inasmuch as this is something which you have never heard in your life, something which nobody else taught you anywhere in any educational institutions, something that cannot be included in the curriculum of any kind of science, arts, or humanities in the ordinary sense of the term, this is an astounding thing that you are hearing. That is the reason why the Upanishads are insisting that it is a secret knowledge; it is not a subject for public oration. It is secret because it cannot be understood by any amount of scratching your head. The reason is, you are studying yourself as a basic principle, this ...

 =============================================================== =============================================================== Friday, March 04, 2022. 19:00. Thinking the Cosmic Totality- 2. (Spoken on April 25, 1972 during night satsang on Swamiji's 50th birthday.) ============================================================== This is also to be good in oneself. To be honest is, at the same time, to be good because goodness is only an outer temporal expression of, once again, the law of this divinity within us. When we are honest to ourselves, we are, therefore, honest to everyone automatically. But when we regard the kshetrajna in us as different from the kshetrajna in other persons and things, we begin to trade with other people, carry on a commercial activity with other forms of life, and try to make profit out of them. We want to amass capital out of other persons and other things in the world. This is impossible. Life is such, the world is constituted in such a manner, crea...