Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

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=================================================================================== Monday 30, September 2024. 06:40. Upanishads Chapter 3: Preparation for Upanishadic Study - 1. Post-17. =================================================================================== I made a brief reference to the natural difficulty that one may feel in understanding the subject of the Upanishads, that difficulty being the nature of the Upanishadic discussion itself. It is the subject of the Atman, but it is more easily heard than clearly understood. All our educational technology these days, as education is generally understood, concerns itself with objects of perception and intellectual understanding. The Atman is not a subject which can be perceived through the sense organs, nor can it be understood intellectually by any kind of logical acumen. The reason is that the Atman is yourself; it is not somebody else. In all courses of knowledge and procedures of study, you place yourselves in the posi...

=================================================================================== Sunday 29,  September  2024, 04:30. Article Scriptures Meditation According to the Upanishads -4.  Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on January 14th, 1973) Post-4. =================================================================================== When the mind is tired of this effort at striking a balance between itself and the world outside, it withdraws itself due to sheer fatigue and the inability of the bodily condition to maintain this period of tension for a long time. Then we fall back into an internal struggle similar to our struggle with the external world. This is called dream. The condition of dream is that in which consciousness is in a state of tension similar to the tension in waking, except that the objects in dream are psychic while in waking they are physical. In dream the struggle continues, but with imagined objects. There is very little difference between the waking and the ...

=================================================================================== Saturday  28, September 2024, 06:30. Upanishads: The Secret of the Katha Upanishad:  Swami Krishnananda. Discourse No. 3 Post - 20. =================================================================================== Now, what is knowledge? Why is it regarded as so subtle? The subtlety of it really lies in the fact that it is not an object of knowledge. Anything that is an object of our understanding or mind can be regarded as a gross presentation definable in character—spatial and temporal in its location, and causal in its connection. The whole world is a network of space, time and cause. Everything is somewhere in space. Everything is sometime in the passage of the temporal process of events, and everything is connected with something else in a causal chain. Everything is a cause, and everything is an effect. This is the way we try to understand things. But this supreme mystery about which Na...

= ================================================================ ================== Friday 27, September 2024, 06:10. Article Scriptures Kenopanishad Commentary on Section 1 Mantras -  6,7,8, and 9. (Continued)   Post-13. ================================================================================== In the Katha Upanishad also, we learn a similar thesis, where it is said that it is not because of the prana and the apana that we are alive, but because of something else, upon which even the prana and the apana depend. We live by something else, a third element upon which are dependent even the prana and the apana, and all their subsidiaries. What are these forces on which we seem to be depending for our existence? Seeing, hearing, breathing, digesting and so on—what are these functions? Does life as pure existence depend on these operations? Naturally, existence cannot depend upon any kind of operation, function or activity, because activity of any type proceeds from ...

==================================================================================== Thursday 26, September 2024. 06:40. Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Nature of the Self Section 15: Parting Advice to the Pupil: Mantram-1. (Continued) Post-66. ===================================================================================== The great vow of the sannyasin is ahimsa, that he would never harm anyone. He is the embodiment of the great fearlessness that he extends to all living beings. No one will be afraid of seeing a sannyasin, for he will not do any harm or anything bad, as his heart has expanded beyond the limits of his own body and his family. The term anyatra tirthebhyah here used with reference to ahimsa means that it would be difficult to extend this obligation of non-injury in an unconditional manner on account of the fact that we live in a world. Various interpretations have been offered for this particular phrase. The usual meaning would be the sacrificial injunctions of the B...

=================================================================================== Wednesday 25, September 2024, 06:20. Article Scriptures Upanishads The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad  Post-6. =================================================================================== You may ask me what 'meaningful' is. Meaning is that character in the object by which we can consider that object to be of some utility to us. If it is totally non-utilitarian, if it is a meaningless hotchpotch, then our mind cannot be attracted. Thus, symmetry of contour, perfection of presentation, precision and orderliness, together with the meaning that we see in it, pulls the subject towards the object. However, considering any aspect of the matter, it does not mean that we love the object for its own sake. There is some subjectivity involved in it. Unless a meaning is seen in the object, we will not be pulled towards that object. We want to put that object into some utility. If there is no meaning at all...