Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  =================================================================================== Monday 23, December 2024. 13:45. Appendix 2: Samvarga-Vidya Post-73. =================================================================================== 4. Yatha krtaya vijitayadhareyah samyanti, evam enam sarvam tad-abhisameti, yat kinca prajah sadhu kurvanti, yastad-veda yat sa veda, sa mayaitad-ukta iti. In the play of dice, there are numbers marked on each face of the dice, number 1 in one face, number 2 in another, number 3 in the third, and number 4 in the fourth one. Now in this play of dice whoever casts the highest throw is called krita. He wins all the other ones. Four includes three, two and one. So he who has won the fourth throw has automatically won the other three also. He need not go on winning the other three one by one. The other three are automatically included in the fourth one which he has won. In a similar manner, all the virtues that people do anywhere in this world are incl...

  ================================================================================================================ Sunday 22, December 2024, 12:50. Taittiriya Upanishad Part-2. BRAHMANANDA VALLI PART 2: 9 No. Anuvakas (Chapters) THE BLISS THAT IS BRAHMAN Anuvaka 2.6  From Anandamaya to Atman   Mantram - 2.6.1:   Shruti Quotation on Existence of Brahman  Post - 72. ===================================================================================================== Anuvaka 2.6  From Anandamaya to Atman   The End of Negation: Brahman is the final destination which the Rishi is driving us to by negating the Koshas, one by one. The negation ends with the Anandamaya Kosha, from where we hop out of our last Upadhi, and enter the limitless realm of Brahman.    Before quoting the verse let us see its true context: As each Kosha is transcended, we go to the immediately successive one that is subtler than it. However, the Anandamaya  Kos...

============================================================================== Saturday 21, December 2024, 20:30. KENA UPANISHAD  4 Chapters, 34 Mantras  Chapter 1. The Nature of BRAHMAN - (8 mantras) ============================================================================== THE DISCIPLE QUESTIONS THE GURU:   Mantram - 1.1: The Disciple’s Questions  The Disciple Asks:  1  kena ishitam patati = By whom willed and directed     preshitam manah, = does the mind alight upon its objects?  2  kena praanah prathamah = Commanded by whom does the main vital air    praiti yuktah; = proceed to function?  3  kena ishitaam = By whose will and direction   vaacham imaam vadanti, = do men utter speech?  4   chakshuh shrotram = The eyes and the ears – (towards their objects)   kah u devah yunakti. = what intelligence directs them?  =============================================================...

=========================================================================== Friday 20, December 2024, 1015. MANDUKYA UPANISHAD  GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA Agama Prakarana – “The Scriptural Treatise” ============================================================================= GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA:  PART 4/4:    ALAATA-SHANTI PRAKARANA (100 mantras):  Quenching the Firebrand: The SANKHYANS Refuted: Karika Section 4.3:    Mantras - 14-23 (10 No.)  Mantram - 4.26: The Idealists – ii) World is Not There Post-40. ============================================================================= REALISTS vs. IDEALISTS   Karika Section 4.4: Mantras - 24-29 (6 No.)  ============================================================================ Mantram - 4.26: The Idealists – ii) World is Not There: 1  Chittam na samsprishati artham, = The mind has no contact with external objects,  2  na arthaabhaasam tathaa eva cha; = even the imagined ones ...

================================================================================= Thursday 19, December 2024, 06:15. KATHA UPANISHAD   Part 2 – Total 49 Mantras  Chapters 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3  Chapter 2.1: (15 Mantras)  INTELLECT – INDIVIDUAL INTELLIGENCE  Mantram- 2.1.6 & 7: Hiranyagarbha – Brahman in Subtle Creation   Post - 72. ============================================================================ Mantram- 2.1.6 & 7: Hiranyagarbha – Brahman in Subtle Creation:   1  Yah poorvam tapasah jaatam = He is the “first-born” of the Austerity of Brahmaji;   2  adbhyah poorvam ajaayata; = He is born prior to the five elements (waters).  3  guhaam pravishya tishthantam = He enters and takes his seat in the heart cavity,    4  yah bhootebhih vyapashyata. = in the midst of the elements – He now truly ‘Sees’.  5  Etat vai tat. = This is verily That!  ============================...

  ===================================================================================== Wednesday 18, December 2024, 11:33. The Realisation of the Absolute: 1. Chapter 1: Introduction-1. Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================== 1.Integrality and Aspiration: The Attainment of Perfection is the Conscious Integration of Being. This is the central theme of the Upanishads. The Upanishads are intuitional revelations, and intuition is integral experience. Their declarations cannot fail to include within themselves the absolute scope of the diverse methods of approach to the one Reality, for integrality excludes nothing. No two individuals think alike, for thinking, which is the objective movement of the Spiritual Force, differs in its mode and impetus in different points of stress in integral existence. But, then, in spite of this separation of beings through their modes of mentation, all individuals have to aim at the atta...

========================================================================================== Tuesday 17, December 2024, 12:04. The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 1.  Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================ Chapter 1: Discrimination of Reality'1. The world consists of objects, and every object is a content of positive or negative perception and cognition. The special feature of each object is that it is distinguished from the other by characteristics that are ingrained in it in a particular manner. This is why we see the world variegated in colours, sounds, tastes, touches, and smells. The difference is in the existence somewhere of some characteristics outside the range of others at other places. Thus, for example, we mark a difference between a cow and a tree, because we do not find in a cow the features of a tree, and those of a cow in a tree. Objects manifest a mutual exclusion of one another. It is this that ...