Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  ================================================ =============================================== #6 Questions, 67 Mantras : “Questions from Disciples Answered” ##KABANDHI’S QUESTION : Query No 1: “Matter & Energy” ================================================= Sunday, August 28, 2022. 06:30.  UPASANAS ON PRAJAPATI (TIME) ================================================= Mantram - 1.9 The Southern Path of “Return” Samvatsarah vai prajaapatih tasya aayane dakshinam cha uttaram cha. Tadye ha vai tad ishtaa-poorte kritam iti upaasate;  Te chaandram asam eva lokam abhi-jayante ta eva punah aavartante, tasmaad ete rishayah prajaakaamaa dakshinam pratipadyante; Esha ha vai rayiryah pitruyaanah. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : 1 Samvatsarah vai prajaapatih = The YEAR is indeed Prajapati; 2 tasya aayane dakshinam cha uttaram cha. = and there are two paths – the southern a...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Saturday, August 27, 2022. 06:30.  From the Atharva Veda (26 Mantras) : “The HOMOGENEITY of Brahman” Post - 11. ================================================================  3. SARVATMA BHAVA (Mantras : 8-11, 4 nos.) ======================================================================= Mantram -11: Churning the Ego with “Om” Upasana "Aatmaanam-aranim kritvaa, pranavam chottara aranim; jnaana nirmathana abhyaasaat, paasham dahati panditah." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : 13 aatmaanam-aranim kritvaa, = The Ego is made the “lower Arani”, 14 pranavam chottara aranim; = and Om is the “upper Arani”. 15 jnaana nirmathana abhyaasaat, = When Self-knowledge is repeatedly churned through constant practice, 16 paasham dahati pandi...

===================================================================== ====================================================================== PART 1:  Chapters : 12. Chapter-1.On the Science of Pronunciation etc. ====================================================================== FIVE UPASANAS ON SANDHEES : Chapter-1.On the Science of Pronunciation etc. Section -3:  Upasana 4 – About “Progeny ======================================================================== Friday, August 26, 2022. 06:00. Introduction to Upasanas: Post-11. ========================================================================= Mantram-1.3:7: The Fruits of these Upasanas "Iti imaa mahaa-samhitaah  ya evam etaa mahaa-samhitaa vyaakhyaataa veda; prajayaa pashubhih, brahma-varchasena,  annaadyena,  suvargyena lokena." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : 21 iti imaa mahaa-samhitaah = These a...

 ========================================================================= ======================================================================== 3 Parts, 6 Chapters, 33 No. Mantras : “By a Peasant for the Peasant” PART - 1 :  Chapter -2 :  Mantras Nos-5. POST-11. ======================================================================== Thursday, August 25, 2022. 07:00 Mantram 2.4: The Gods Take Up Their Super-Abode ======================================================================= Mantram-4 : 8 Agnih vaak bhootvaa, mukham praavishat; 9 Vaayuh praanah bhootvaa, naasike praavishat; 10 Aadityah chakshuh bhootvaa, akshinee praavishat;  11 Dishah shrotram bhootvaa, karnau praavishan  12 Oshadhi vanaspatayah lomaani bhootvaa, tvacham praavishan; 13 Chandramaah manah bhootvaa, hridayam praavishat;  14 Mrityuh apaanah bhootvaa, naabhim praavishat; 15 Aapah retah bhootvaa, shishnam praavishan. ------------------------------------------------------------------...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================== 6 Chapters (64 Mantras) Chapter-1. Section-2. 2. A CLOSE LOOK AT RITUALS : (Mantras 10-22, 13 no. ========================================================================= Wednesday, August 24, 2022. 06:00  Mantram- 10 : A look at the rituals : ========================================================================= Introduction :Section -2. prathama mundake, dviteeyah khandah – : Here begins the second Section of the first Canto. ___________________________________________________________________________ THE VEDAS CLEARLY SPEAK of two distinct fields of knowledge, the Lower and the  Higher. The broad classification of these has been given in the first Chapter. Now we take a  closer look at some details of these two types knowledge. The Lower knowledge is detailed  in this Chapter, and the Higher in the next.  Sp...

 ======================================================================= ========================================================================= Tuesday, August 23, 2022.07:00.  An inquiry into what is Real And Unreal  AGAMA PRAKARANA  Post-7 ======================================================================== DEEP SLEEP STATE : MANTRAM – 5. "yatra supto na kanchana kamam kamayate na kanchana svapnam  pashyati tat.h sushuptam.h . sushupta sthana ekibhutah prajnanaghana  evananda mayo hy ananda bhuk.h cheto mukhah prajnas tritiyah padah." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That is the state of deep sleep wherein the sleeper does not desire any objects nor  does he see any dream. The third quarter (Pada) is the Prajna whose sphere is deep  sleep, in whom all experiences become unified or undifferentiated, who is verily, a  mass of consciousness entire, wh...

 ====================================================================== Chinmaya Mission As India marked 75 years of Independence this past week, Chinmaya Mission celebrated Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav grandly across several states of India and online on YouTube. Chinmaya Yuva Kendra organized a special residential camp of youth to mark the occasion at Sri Lalitha Panchayatana Temple in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh from 13 - 15 August 2022. Over 400 participants came from all across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and several distinguished spiritual mentors of Chinmaya Mission were there to guide the youth including Swami Mitrananda, Swami Chidrupananda, Swami Anukoolananda, Swami Suveerananda, Swami Turiyananda, Swami Raghuveerananda, Br. Anand Chaitanya, Brni. Usha Chaitanya, Br. Narayana Chaitanya, Br. Srivatsa Chaitanya. Other Special guests who graced the event were Smt. KGV Saritha, ASP, AP CID, Sri N. S. Rao, Retd. Major General. One of the special features of the celebration was a grand...

 ========================================================================= ======================================================================= Sunday, August 21, 2022. 07:00. Chapter 2 -Subtlety of “KNOWING” Brahman (5 Mantras) Mantram 2 : The Student Proclaims the Truth Post -10. ========================================================================= Mantram 2 : The Disciple continues: "Na aham manye suveda iti, nah na veda iti veda cha; yah nah tat veda tad veda, nah na veda iti veda cha." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : The Disciple continues: 1 na aham manye suveda iti,  = I do not think that I know It well enough; 2 nah na veda iti veda cha;  = Not that I do not know; I know, and I do not know. 3 yah nah tat veda tad veda, = He amongst us who knows It, knows It only as such: 4 nah na veda iti veda cha.  = Not that I do not know; I know, and I do not kno...