TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD – 47. Rishi Yajnavalkya.

1.Kerala is a place of mentally disturbed ( Mad ) people: Said by Swami Vivekananda, TRUE EVEN NOW!!!

2. People here more conscious in UDF & LDF (THE TWO DESTOYING FORCES OF KERALA ANCIENT CULTURE) than our Nation Upanishadic Culture.

3. People identify themselves in political parties name than Kerala ancient culture.

4. Here Santana Dharma exists only in temple, people visit temples to fulfill personal demands

5. KERALA AS TAMIL NADU IS MOST CORRUPTED AND FOOLISH STATE, NEVER AWAKE AND RISE!!!

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Friday, 19 Jan 2024. 06:30.

Taittiriya Upanishad

Part-2.

BRAHMANANDA VALLI

PART 2: 9 No. Anuvakas (Chapters)

THE BLISS THAT IS BRAHMAN

Post - 47.

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INTRODUCTION:

 MILITARY FORCES ARE required only to protect or preserve something which is of 

value in civilisation. Without the valuable asset that needs preservation, military efforts in 

themselves have no value. At best, they then only serve to prop up those who are in power 

for the sake of power. In our study of Taittireeya Upanishad, we are at a point where we are 

faced with making a similar assessment: 

With Part 2, we are entering the philosophical end  having passed through what may be

 termed the tutelary end of the Taittireeya Upanishad, in Part 1. The word ‘tutelary’ 

has the same sense as ‘military’ in the above example. It denotes that by which the whole 

text is protected and guarded for posterity. This was the overall purpose of Sheeksha Valli. 

The Brahmananda Valli has a completely different content to it. It aims to convey a spiritual 

philosophy. This philosophy is a precious treasure, which needs the armoury of Part 1 to 

protect and guard it.  

This background brings to mind how this Upanishad came to be named “Taittireeya”. 

Swami Chinmayanandaji recounts the story beautifully. The precious teaching was given out 

by the Guru Vaisampayana to a number of disciples, among them Yajnavalkya, who himself 

became a great Rishi as a result. The Guru asked Yajnavalkya one day to repeat all that he 

had learnt. The great disciple not only ‘vomited’ the teaching verbatim, but added to it “an 

independent charm” of his own understanding. This so impressed the Guru, that he asked 

the other disciples to take special note of Yajnavalkya’s version. 

The incident resembled the well-known, normal habit of the taittireeya bird, the 

partridge, which routinely consumes the droppings of other creatures, picking out from it 

that which is nourishing and leaving the rest untouched, a task that requires it to be ‘smart 

and vigilant’. It is this smartness and vigilance that is required of students of this precious 

philosophy when they return to their worldly abodes after their studies are completed.  

Worldly life is like the ‘droppings’. In the midst of it, there are places where precious 

teachings are taught that nourish the spirit. These are to be picked. This is how the name 

Taittireeya came to be associated with the teachings of this Upanishad!

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Next

MANGALAACHARAN

Invocatory Chant 

The Peace Invocation from Krishna Yajur Veda

To be continued

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