Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

=================================================================================== Thursday 07, November 2024, 06:10. Article Scriptures Upanishads The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad  Post-9. =================================================================================== This Rishi, Yajnavalkya, is very famous in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Very powerful person was he. I can tell you a little story as an example of how powerful he was. Yajnavalkya was one of the disciples of a sage called Vaisampayana, and Vaisampayana was the promulgator of the Yajurveda Samhita. There are four Vedas – Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda. Yajurveda was the prerogative of this particular sage called Vaishampayana. They say there was a conference of sages on a mountain, and they stipulated a condition – all the invitees should come. If any invitee did not come, he would incur the sin of killing a Brahmin. This Vaisampayana somehow or other could not attend that conference. He had some other oc

================================================================================== #6 Questions, 67 Mantras: “Questions from Disciples Answered.” ================================================================================== SUKESHAA’S QUESTION:  Query No 6: The Source of Power ================================================================================= Wednesday 06, November 2024, 06:20. Mantram - 6.7: The Rishi Concludes in Humility  Post-66. ================================================================================== Mantram - 6.7: The Rishi Concludes in Humility:  1  Taan ha uvaacha: = To them (the six students), he (Pippalada) said:   etaavat eva aham etat =“Thus far only do I   param brahma veda; =   this Supreme Brahman.  2  Na atah param asti,” iti. = Beyond this there is nothing (that I know).”  ===================================================================================== The above quotation ends the present text. We are left with a most touching scene: 

=============================================================================== Tuesday 05, November 2024, 06:15. Taittiriya Upanishad Part-2. BRAHMANANDA VALLI PART 2: 9 No. Anuvakas (Chapters) THE BLISS THAT IS BRAHMAN Anuvaka 2.5  From Vijnanamaya to Anandamaya  Mantram -  2.5.1:   Shruti Quotation on Vijnana   Post - 68. ================================================================================= Anuvaka 2.5  From Vijnanamaya to Anandamaya  Mantram - 2.5.1:   Shruti Quotation on Vijnana   1  “vijnaanam  yajnam tanute; = “Knowledge actualizes a sacrifice;  karmaani tanute api cha. = and it makes one do his duties well.  2  vijnaanam devaah sarve; = Conditioned by knowledge, all the Gods  brahma jyeshtham upaasate. =   on Ishwara, the “first-born”.  3  vijnaanam brahma chet veda; = If a man knows knowledge as Ishwara,  tasmaat chet na pramaadyati; = if he never deviates from it,  4  shareere paapmanah hitvaa; = and if he abandons all sins in the body –  sarvaan kaamaan samashnut

=================================================================================== Monday 04, November 2024, 06:30. 6 Chapters (64 Mantras) Here begins the second Section of the Third Canto.  6. QUALITIES SEEN IN A SAGE  (Mantras -54-64, 11 no.)  63. Mantram - 6.10: Transfer of the Supreme Wisdom  Post - 64. =================================================================================== 63. Mantram - 6.10: Transfer of the Supreme Wisdom:  0  tad etad richaa-abhyuktam = The Rig Veda explains the rules to teach this text:  1  kriyaavantah, =i) To those who perform rituals ;  shrotriyaa, = ii) who read and study the Vedas ;   brahma-nishthaah, =   iii) who aim to establish themselves in Brahman  2  swayam juhvata ekarshim = iv) who offer oblations themselves to the Ekarshi fire;  shraddhayantah; = v) who possess faith; and  4  shirovratam vidhivad = vi) the vow of Shirovrata –  yaih tu cheernam. = to those who have strictly observed it –  3  teshaam eva etaam  = To these people alone

=================================================================================== Sunday 03, November 2024, 06:10. 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.)  Mantram - 4.22: The Summary Statement  Post-37. =================================================================================== Mantram - 4.22: The Summary Statement  1.  Svatah vaa paratah vaa api, = Either from itself or from another or from both,  2.   na kinchit vastu jaayate; = nothing at all is ever born.  3. sat asat sat asat vaa api, = Whether it be being or non-being or both,  4.  na kinchit vastu jaayate. = nothing at all is ever born. =================================================================================   Six logica

================================================================================== Saturday 02, November 2024, 06:05. KATHA UPANISHAD   Part 2 – Total 49 Mantras  Chapters 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3  Chapter 2.1: (15 Mantras)  Mantram - 2.1.2: Second Obstacle: The Mind’s Thirst for Pleasure  Post - 68. ================================================================================== Mantram - 2.1.2: Second Obstacle: The Mind’s Thirst for Pleasure:   1  Paraachah kaamaan = External pleasures are  anuyanti baalaah = pursued by “children” (immature ones);  2  te mrityoh yanti = they fall into death’s    vitatasya paasham; = widespread snares.  3  atha dheeraah = But the brave and mature ones,     amritatvam viditvaa = have the knowledge of Immortality,  4  dhruvam adhruveshu iha = i.e. what is Eternal amidst the non-Eternal.   na praartha-yante. = They do not desire anything of this world.  ===============================================================================   The second obstacle is b