Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

========================================================================= Wednesday, 01 Nov 2023. 06:15. Upanishads KENOPANISHAD Mantram 3. Post-5. ========================================================================= Mantram - 3. Neither the eye nor the speech nor the mind can reach Reality. These instruments of knowledge reveal objects, not the subject. The subject is the source from which these instruments proceed like rays. The rays are projected outwards, not inwards. Even as fire cannot burn itself, the Self cannot know itself through these instruments. The mind wills and determines with respect to what is within the province of its knowledge. But it cannot will and determine with respect to the Self, because the Self is not a substance which can have relations with anything. It is neither the known nor the unknown. It is not the known because there is no means of knowing it. All our means are phenomenal. What is perishable cannot reach the Imperishable. The means of the know...

Chinmaya Mission:  Chinmaya Vrindavan Bala Vihar took part in a special Seva activity during the weekend of September 29th to October 1st. In this event, the children engaged in wrapping cutlery. They followed a simple instructional video to neatly wrap a spoon and a fork in a napkin, roll and secure the napkin with a napkin band, and affix a 'handmade with love' sticker on it. Subsequently, more than 1,500 vibrantly wrapped cutlery sets were delivered to Elijah's Promise, a Soup Kitchen in New Brunswick that provides 35,000 meals every month. ========================================================================= Tuesday, 31 Oct 2023. 06:50. Article Scriptures The Kathopanishad: A Wondrous Epic of the Spirit (Spoken on June 19, 1972) Post-7. ======================================================================== Nachiketas had to pass through all these stages of severe test, which is all given only in a few verses in the Kathopanishad. It does not mean that the experien...

======================================================================== Monday, 30 Oct 2023 07:40. Post-13. ======================================================================= The Isavasya Upanishad announced at its very commencement what we may call the doctrine of being, the philosophy of God. Now it has something to say about the doctrine of work, or the philosophy of action. Normally, from the point of view of human thinking, the characteristics of God do not seem to be compatible with the impulsion to action. Precisely to remove this misconception, the Upanishad immediately takes up the question of the necessity to work – necessity arisen merely because of the existence of a God, of the type described earlier. One may wonder what is the logic behind the assumption that the impulsion to work automatically follows from the nature of the Supreme Being. On a cursory glance at the super-abundance of the might of the omnipresent God, it may appear that any kind of all value that is...