Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

=================================================================================== Thursday 01, Aug 2024. 06:20. Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Nature of the Self Section 12: The Self as Spirit Mantras-5&6 continued Post-62. =================================================================================== So, Prajapati's instruction is a universal instruction that the Atman is present in every state. Even in the so-called unconscious state, it is there. The unconsciousness is not of the Atman. It is of the mind. It is a kind of stifling taking place in the finitude of individuality. The finitising principle we call the mind, and that gets suffocated, as it were. It closes its eyes in sleep, in coma, and even in death in a state of unconsciousness which cannot be attributed to the Atman. So, this is the difficulty with us. Now the transcendent state which the great master Prajapati speaks of as bodiless, free from embodiment, is capable of being attained by means of certain di...

=================================================================================== Wednesday 31, July 2024, 07:20. Article Scriptures Upanishads The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad  Post-2. =================================================================================== 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 wealt...

================================================================================== #6 Questions, 67 Mantras: “Questions from Disciples Answered.” ================================================================================== SUKESHAA’S QUESTION:  Query No 6: The Source of Power Tuesday 30, Jul 2024. 08:30 Post-59. ================================================================================== WE ARE TRYING TO understand the Reality via the intellect. There is nothing wrong  in this method, and it can even be said that it is the only way available to man in bondage. A  great boost to that enquiry is provided by the equal development of our devotion to the  Lord through the forms of Upasana taught in the previous chapters of this Upanishad.  Philosophy & Upasanas – A “Vedic Sandwich” Pujya Gurudev says, “The student is made to practise Upasana hand in hand with  regular doses of philosophical contemplations.”  At Sandeepany in Mumbai, Gurudev ...

================================================================================= Monday 29. Jul 2024, 07:00. Taittiriya Upanishad Part-2. BRAHMANANDA VALLI PART 2: 9 No. Anuvakas (Chapters) THE BLISS THAT IS BRAHMAN Post - 61. ================================================================================= UPANISHAD SARA SANGRAH  Anuvaka 2.2  From Annamaya to Pranamaya  The Essence of the Upanishads: ================================================================================== “Satyam, Jnaanam, Anantam, Brahman”  Bhashya A:  “On the Nature of BRAHMAN”  Coverage ============================================================================== “PANCHA KOSHA VIVARANAM”  Bhashya B:  “The Differentiation of the Five Sheaths”  Coverage:  From 2.1.4 – 2.6.2 (crosses 5 Anuvakas)  Mantram - 2.2.4: Human Form Characteristics of Pranamaya Kosha ==================================================================================== Mantram - 2...

====================================================================================== Sunday 28, Jul 2024. 07:00. 6 Chapters (64 Mantras) Here begins the second Section of the Third Canto.  6. QUALITIES SEEN IN A SAGE  (Mantras -54-64, 11 no.)  Mantram-56: 6.3:  Aspiration Brings Revelation  Post - 57. ====================================================================================== 56 - Mantram 6.3:  Aspiration Brings Revelation:  1.na ayam aatmaa pravachanena labhyah, = This Self cannot be attained through hearing discourses;  2. na medhayaa, na bahunaa shrutena; = nor through memorizing scriptural texts, nor through much learning.  3. yam eva eshah vrinute tena labhyah, = Only he who Aspires for it with his whole heart, by him is this Self attained.  4. tasya eshah aatmaa vivrinute  tanum svaam. = To such a one, this Self Reveals Its true nature of its own accord.  ======================================================...

=================================================================================== Saturday 27, Jul 2024, 06:45. 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.)  Post-30. =================================================================================== The MEEMAMSAKAS Refuted : Karika Section 4.3:    THIS SECTION IS DEVOTED to a particular argument which concerns the viewpoint of  the Meemamsakas. [For those who have followed the earlier Texts of Sandeepany, the  whole of Upadesh Sara, Text 7, was an answer to this view.]   The Meemamsakas assert that by the performance of actions one obtains the results  he wants with no obstruction f...

=================================================================================== Friday 26, Jul 2024 06:30. Chapter 1.3:    17 Mantras:  THE JOURNEY AHEAD THE ROUTE OF THE JOURNEY 1.3.12:  Self Seen Only by Subtle Intellect  Post - 61 ==================================================================================== Mantram:1.3.12:  Self Seen Only by Subtle Intellect: 1 Eshah sarveshu bhooteshu = This (Atman) is in all living beings,  2 goodhah aatmaa na prakaashate; = It is hidden there, and not visible (to the eye).  3 drishyate tu agryayaa buddhyaa = It can indeed be ‘seen’ by the sharp intellect,  4 sookshmayaa sookshma darshibhih. = with the subtle vision of the seers of the subtle.  ====================================================================================== LINK: Explanation on “GOING” & “MOVING” : The Link passage between 3.11/3.12 gives in detail the view that “Knowing is  Going.” The going is not physica...

================================================================ =========================== Thursday 25 , Jul 2024 06:55. Article Scriptures Rishi Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: 1. Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================ "Idam brahma, idam kshatram, ime lokah, ime devah,  imani bhutani, idam sarvam yad ayam atma.": "This Source of knowledge; this source of power; all these worlds; all these gods; all these beings – All this is just the Self." ========================================================================================= This proclamation is like a Brahma Astra that Sage Yajnavalkya is discharging against every kind of attachment one can conceive in this world. It is somewhat easy to accept that God is everywhere. It becomes easy because we always externalise the location of God, however much we may try to universalise Him. The idea of location in space does not leave...