Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

================================================================================================= Saturday 11, May 2024 07:15. Article Scriptures Post-3. ================================================================================================= The other defect of the mind is known as Vikshepa, that is fickleness, inability to concentrate on anything for a long time, instability is the basic nature of the mind. It will think twenty things in one minute and will not be able to fix its attention on one thing even for a few seconds. These are the superficial aspects of the defects of the mind. But there is a deeper defect known as Avarana. It is like a thick veil over the mind, a black curtain, as it were, which prohibits the entry of the rays of light into itself totally. The Atman being pure subjectivity, the impulsion of the mind to move outward in the direction of sense objects, is an anti-Atman activity taking place in the mind, a movement towards the not-Self. Any psychic ope

  ================================================================================== Wednesday 10, May 2024 07:20. Discourse No. 2 - 4. Post - 10. ================================================================================== The first stage is the exoteric approach of the human mind to the values of the world—the mistaking of the external for the ultimate, which is represented by the sacrifice of Vajasravasa Gautama. The world is a real presentation as it is in its crass form, and the after-death experiences are supposed to be merely a copy of the present life experiences, only in a more rarefied form, so that the popular conception of heaven after death is of a magnified form of the pleasures of sense that we have in this earthly world. If you get kheer only occasionally here, you will get kheer every day there! This is the type of joy that we seem to aspire for in the sensory world of the gods. We have no concept of God or the Creator, or the hereafter, except in terms of what w

================================================================================= Thursday 09, Apr 2024 07:00. Section - 1 Mantram - 1 Post-3. ================================================================================= Section - 1 Mantram - 1 he Self is the controller and the director of the mind, prana and senses. It acts without a body and without a mind. Its action is not a movement, but the law of existence. Its very existence actuates the phenomena of the five external sheaths. These sheaths have borrowed existence and borrowed consciousness. Whatever appears to be good in them belongs to the Self, and whatever imperfection there is, that belongs to the five sheaths. The Self is the cause of external activity even as the sun or the lamp is the cause of worldly work. It is unaffected by actions. It does not do anything, but everything is done because of it. All actions are controlled by the law of Absoluteness. This accounts for the systematic working of Nature. Existence is

============================================================================================= Wednesday 08, May 2024. 07:20. Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Nature of the Self Section 12: The Self as Spirit Mantram-3. Por-56. ============================================================================================= Mantram-3: Evam evaisa samprasado'smac-charirat  samutthaya param jyotir-upasampadya  svena rupenabhinispadyate,  sa uttamah purusah, sa tatra paryeti,  jaksat kridan ramamanah stribhir- va yanair-va jnatibhir-va nopajanam  smarannidam sariram, sa yatha  prayogya acarane yuktah, evam evayam asmin sarire prano yuktah. ================================================================================================ Just as finite objects appear to get lost in the impersonal causes from where they have come, even so this being, having risen from its bodily existence, attains to the immortal state, shining in nature, as the pure consciousness which it originally was. This is

==================================================================================== Tueday 07, May 2024. 07:10. Scriptures Upanishads The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad  Chapter 5: The Inner Reality-1. Post-19. ====================================================================================   The Fourth Chapter is a direct conversation between Yajnavalkya and King Janaka, which goes deep into the subjects: How the practice of meditation can be faultless, how it could be integral, how the various instructions Janaka received from some teachers were partial, they were aspects of reality, and they were not definitions of the Total Reality; what happens to one in waking, dream, sleep and Moksha, or final liberation. Whenever Janaka told Yajnavalkya that he was initiated by such and such a person into such and such a method of meditation, the sage immediately retorted it was only one-fourth of the Reality, and so not complete. What was it that was lacking in it? The three-fourths were wantin

================================================================================== #6 Questions, 67 Mantras: “Questions from Disciples Answered.” ================================================================================== SATYAKAMA’S QUESTION  Query No 5: “The Development of Power”  ================================================================================== Monday 06, Apr 2024. 07:10. Mantram  5.3 - One Letter – Gift of Human Birth on Earth  Post-53. ================================================================================== Mantram  5.3 - One Letter – Gift of Human Birth on Earth:  5.3.1 i) The Upasana on Letter “A”  1  Sah yadi ekamaatram = If on just the first letter (A) of “Om”,   abhidhyaayeeta = he devoutly meditates,   sah tena eva samveditah. = by that alone, he becomes enlightened. (How?)  ==================================================================================== 5.3.2 ii) The Phala – The Rare Human Birth  2  toornam eva = (Here is how:) For very

  ================================================================================== Sunday 05, Apr 2024. 06:50. Taittiriya Upanishad Part-2. BRAHMANANDA VALLI PART 2: 9 No. Anuvakas (Chapters) THE BLISS THAT IS BRAHMAN Post - 55. ================================================================================== UPANISHAD SARA SANGRAH  Anuvaka 2.1  The Essence of the Upanishads: ================================================================================== “Satyam, Jnaanam, Anantam, Brahman”  Bhashya A:  “On the Nature of BRAHMAN”  Coverage:   Mantram - 2.1.2 (3 Padas) ================================================================================== LINE 5:  sah ashnute sarvaan kaamaan, saha brahmanaa vipashchitaa  “He enjoys all desires, along with the omniscient Brahman.”  ==================================================================================== The question that arises from this line is:   Question 3: What is the nature of such a realization of Brahman? What does it