Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

=================================================================================== Sunday 01, December 2024. 09:50. Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Nature of the Self Appendix 1: Sandilya-Vidya Mantram-4(Continued) Post-71. =================================================================================== The meaning of this vidya, meditation, is very profound. The more we think about it, the greater and deeper are the meanings that we will discover in it. And these meanings will be discovered as we go deeper and deeper into meditation. So here, we have got in the Sandilya-Vidya the whole subject of the Upanishad clinched, as it were, kept inside our fist for the purpose of daily habituation of the mind to spirituality and God-awareness. This vidya contains the art of adjusting the mind inwardly as well as outwardly in the beginning by alternate processes, and then finally grasping the comprehensiveness of Brahman, the Reality in its simultaneously dual aspect of universality and indiv...

==================================================================================== Saturday 30, November 2024, 07:35. 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 - 2.5.4:  Human Form Characteristics of Anandamaya Kosha  Post - 70. =================================================================================== Mantram - 2.5.4:  Human Form Characteristics of Anandamaya Kosha:  9  tasya priyam eva sheerah; = Of this Bliss form, Priyam is verily the head.  modah dakshinah pakshah; = Modais the right side.  pramodah uttara pakshah; = Pramoda is the left side.  aananda aatmaa; = Bliss (objectless pleasure) is the trunk.  brahma pucchham pratishthaa. = the Supreme Brahman is the tail that stabilizes.  10  tat api eshah shlokah bhavati. = Pertaining to this also is the following mantram: =======================...

============================================================================= Thursday 28, November 2024, 06:30. KENA UPANISHAD  4 Chapters, 34 Mantras  INTRODUCTION TO KENA UPANISHAD ============================================================================== KENA UPANISHAD IS the 9th Chapter of the Talavakara Branch in the Sama Veda. The first eight chapters are concerned with the Karma and Upasana which fall under Apara Vidya. They belong to the Mantra Samhitas and the Brahmanasof the Vedas.  Then follows the Brahma Jnana or Para Vidya portion which forms the subject of this Upanishad. Due to its subject matter, the Kena Upanishad is classified as an Aranyaka.  Guruji began the discussion with an introduction on the goals that people generally set for themselves. Among them, food, clothing and shelter are the most basic needs. Then  come concerns of fear of losing them, so security becomes a need. Whatever has been acquired of the above three items has to b...

============================================================================================== Wednesday 27, November 2024, 06:15. 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 - 4.23: Cause & Effect are Birthless   Post-39. ============================================================================================== REALISTS vs. IDEALISTS   Karika Section 4.4: Mantras - 24-29 (6 No.)  =============================================================================================== WE NOW ENTER A new topic of debate. There is a serious conflict of opinion between adherents of the following two schools of thought: ...

================================================================================== Tuesday 26, November 2024, 06:15. KATHA UPANISHAD   Part 2 – Total 49 Mantras  Chapters 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3  Chapter 2.1: (15 Mantras)  INTELLECT – INDIVIDUAL INTELLIGENCE  Mantram-2.1.4:  Witness of the Three States  Post - 70. ================================================================================== Mantram-2.1.4:  Witness of the Three States: 1 Svapna antam jaagarita aantam = The objects of dream and those of waking state,  2 cha ubhau yena anu-pashyati; = are both perceived by That   3 mahaantam vibhum aatmaanam = great, omnipresent Aatman or Self .  4 matvaa dheerah na shochati. = Having realized this; the wise man grieves not.  ===================================================================================   The Bhashya Link explains that the subtlety of the Self is explained from different standpoints in these th...

=================================================================================== Monday 25, November 2024, 06:20. Article Scriptures The Doctrine of the Upanishads:4.  Swami Krishnananda =================================================================================== The conception of God in the Upanishads is of special significance. The God of the Upanishads is the Antaryamin, the Indwelling Presence in the Universe. This God is different from the God of the Nyaya and the Vaiseshika philosophies, who is entirely cut off from the universe of manifestation; the God of the Yoga philosophy, who has no intelligible relation to the principles of Purusha and Prakriti, and is not the ultimate goal of the aspirations of individuals; or the God of certain theistic schools, who is different from the manifested universe and the Jivas, though he is considered to be omnipresent and the existence of everything. The God or the Ishvara of the Upanishads is the Absolute-Individual, the only P...

=================================================================================== Sunday 24, November 2024. 06:20. Upanishads Chapter 3: Preparation for Upanishadic Study - 5. Post-21. =================================================================================== Work becomes purely a spiritual form of worship only when the character of selfhood is introduced into the area of this performance of work and into the location of the direction towards which your work is motivated. You are serving your own self when you serve humanity. People sometimes glibly say, “Worship of man is worship of God.” It is just a manner of speaking, without understanding what they mean. How does man become God? You know very well that no man can be equal to God. So how do you say that service of man is equal to service of God? Therefore, merely talking in a social sense does not bring much meaning. It has a significance that is deeper than the social cloak that it bears—namely, the essential being of e...

================================================================================== Saturday 23, November 2024, 06:20. Article Scriptures Meditation According to the Upanishads -7.  Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on January 14th, 1973) Post-8. =================================================================================== The Om that is referred to in the Mandukya Upanishad is not merely a linguistic chant. It is not a sound that we make through the vocal cords. It is a vibration that is set up. The Upanishad wants to tell us that the universe is nothing but a bundle of vibrations. It is not made up of things, objects, substances, etc. Today people are slowly realising how vibrations are ultimately the essential constituents of even solid things. Light can be converted into matter; matter can be converted into light. We do not say that light is an object like a stone, but that which we call a stone, or a heavy material, is only a concretisation of vibrations of force. Energy contin...