Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  Chinmaya Mission:  Swamini Supriyananda's workshop, 'Cultivating Resilience,' held at Kings College London's Chinmaya Mission Yuva Kendra, garnered significant interest and participation. Aimed at youth aged 18 to 35, the workshop offered profound insights into overcoming adversities.  Attendees were immersed in a day-long exploration of techniques and strategies to advance despite challenges.  Through interactive sessions and discussions, they learned to cultivate resilience, enabling them to face life's hurdles with strength and determination.  The event's success underscored the importance of resilience-building in empowering young individuals to thrive amidst adversity, marking a significant step in their personal and professional development. =================================================================================== Wednesday  01, May 2024 06:40. Chapter 1.3:   17 Mantras:  THE JOURNEY AHEAD Mantram - 1: The Two Drinkers ...

============================================================================= Tuesday 30, Apr 2024 07:20. Chapter 7: The Secret of Sadhana -2. ============================================================================= The angels told the other sense organs, one by one, to chant the mantra, and all had the same fate. They were all overcome. The Upanishad tells us that every sense organ has, therefore, a double activity. It can do good and it can do bad; it can receive what is good and it can receive what is bad. We can hear nice things and we can hear bad things also. The mind also was defeated. The mind was inflicted with the evil by the Asuras when it chanted the mantra. So it can think right and it can think wrong. Thus, there was no way out. The gods were defeated repeatedly. They were utterly helpless. When they were all thus defeated, they joined together and considered as to what could be done under the circumstances. They thought that they had made a mistake in choosing their...

  ============================================================================= Monday 29, Apr 2024. 06:30. The First Mundaka: First Khanda Mantras:1,2,3. POST-57. ============================================================================= The First Mundaka: First Khanda: The Glory of Knowledge: Knowledge is attained not so much by the effort of the individual as through the Sages who hand down this Knowledge. The characteristics of the ancient disciples were very marked. The aspiration, the sincere perseverance and the devotion they had to the ideal of Knowledge was exceptional. They attained the Knowledge with much difficulty, undergoing many hardships in the forms of austerity, service of the preceptor and practice of meditation. Knowledge is the ripe fruit of the fine flower of virtue. Righteousness practised without exceptions, to the very law, gives rise to the state of introversion and contemplation of consciousness. It is absolutely necessary that the aspirant or the disc...

============================================================================= Sunday 28, Apr 2024. 06:50. Article Scriptures Post-1. ============================================================================= We have been going through various important themes of the teachings of the Upanishads, and many subjects have been covered. There was a great sage called Yajnavalkya. His name occurs in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. He was a master of spiritual wisdom. One day, when he had become aged, he told his wife Maitreyi, and another wife known as Katyayani, that he was retiring; and he said: “Whatever property I have, I shall divide between both of you. I shall take to sannyasa and go for meditation, and you take my property.” The younger wife, Katyayani was very happy. “Good riddance, now the old man goes,” she perhaps thought; but the other wife, Maitreyi, was very mature. She said, “Sire, you want to offer me all your wealth? May I ask you one question: Can I become immortal through ...

  #Chinmaya Mission Ahmedabad: Glimpses of Shri Hanuman Jayanti celebrations at ParamDham two days ago. Jay Bajrangbali! Jay Shri Ram!! ============================================================================= Saturday 27, Apr 2024. 06:35. Upanishads Chapter 1: Introduction to the Upanishads-6. Post-6. ============================================================================= The Manu Smriti tells us: namutra hi sahayartham pita mata ca tisthatah. na putradarah na jnatih dharmas tisthati kevalah. “When you depart from this world, your father will not come with you, your mother will not come with you, your brother will not come, your sister will not come, your husband will not come, your wife will not come, your children will not come, your money will not come, and even your body will not come.” What will come? What you have thought and felt and done, that will come. Be cautious, therefore. Every day check your personality and your behaviour. “What have I thought, what have I...

  ============================================================================== Friday 26, Apr 2024 06:24. Article Scriptures Post-2. ============================================================================== To repeat once again what I told you a few minutes before, this tendency is present in everything and everyone. Therefore the study of the Atman is not study of something somewhere – it is the study of everything. I hope you catch what I'm saying. The study of the Atman is the study of the essence of everything anywhere because of the fact everything everywhere has this Atman. There is an Atman in all things in the sense that they maintain an identity-consciousness of themselves. So the Atman has a peculiar characteristic of being just what it is; that it to say, it cannot be an object of anyone. The self-identity aspect of consciousness, which is the Atman, cannot become Anatman, to put it in the Sanskrit language. The Atman cannot become Anatman. The Self cannot become ...

================================================================================== Wednesday 24, Apr 2024 06:50. Discourse No. 2 - 4. Post - 9. ================================================================================== Every event is a universal event. There is no such thing as a local event taking place in a corner or a corridor of the world. You cannot say that a particular event has taken place only in a mohalla or a lane of a particular town. No such thing is the truth. Every experience, every event, every action, is a universal event. It takes place, in a conditioned form, everywhere in the world. Every illness is a total illness of the body. It is not an illness only of the nose or the eyes or the feet. The whole personality is sick even when there is only a sneeze that has come out from your nose. Likewise, every experience is a universal conditioning event, of which we have no knowledge because of our mind being tethered to a bodily locality and the mind's mistaking...