Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  ================================================================================================================ Tuesday 31, December 2024, 12:55. KENA UPANISHAD  4 Chapters, 34 Mantras  Chapter 1. The Nature of BRAHMAN - (8 mantras) Mantram - 1.2: The Guru Introduces the Idea of Self  =========================================================================================== Mantram - 1.2: The Guru Introduces the Idea of Self  The Guru answers:  1  shrotasya shrotram, = It is the Ear of the ear,   manasah manah yad, = the Mind of the Mind.  2  vaachah ha vaacham, = It is the Tongue of the tongue,   sa u praanasya praanah, = and also the Life of life.  3  chakshushah chakshuh; = It is the Eye of the eye.   atimuchya dheeraah,= The brave and wise, having transcended “I-ness”,  4  pretya asmaat lokaat = rise above the world of sensual life amritaah bhavanti. = and become Immortal.  ======...

======================================================================================================= Monday 30, December 2024, 14:15. 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 - 4.27: The Idealists – iii) Experiences  Post-42. ===================================================================================== REALISTS vs. IDEALISTS   Karika Section 4.4: Mantras - 24-29 (6 No.)   ======================================================================================== Mantram - 4.27: The Idealists – iii) Experiences  1  Nimittam na sadaa chittam, = Between mind and objects there is never a contact or  2  s...

  =================================================================================================== Sunday 29, December 2024, 11:55. KATHA UPANISHAD   Part 2 – Total 49 Mantras  Chapters 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3  Chapter 2.1: (15 Mantras)  INTELLECT – INDIVIDUAL INTELLIGENCE  Mantram - 2.1.8: Hiranyagarbha’s Worship in Virat Post - 73. ================================================================================== Mantram - 2.1.8: Hiranyagarbha’s Worship in Virat: 1  Aranyoh nihitah = Lodged between two pieces of wood (known as the Arani),    jaata-vedaah = is the Fire of Knowledge that signifies omniscience.  2  garbhah iva subhritah = It is like a foetus that is well-protected  (nourished),   garbhineebhih; = there in the womb of pregnant women.   3a    dive dive eedyah = Day by day, it is carefully tended and adored (worshipped)  3b jaagrivadbhih = i) by the sleepless one (the awak...

===================================================================================== Saturday 28, December 2024, 12:33. The Realisation of the Absolute: 2. Chapter 1: Introduction-2. Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================== The Method of Conscious Expansion: (Continued) This Integration of Being can be achieved even in this very life. It is not necessary to take some more rounds of births and deaths for the purpose, provided the integration is effected before the shaking off of the physical sheath, through persistent meditation on Reality and negation of separative consciousness. The quickness of the process of Attainment depends upon the intensity of the power of such meditation, both in its negative and assertive aspects. A dehypnotisation of the consciousness of physicality and individuality is the essential purpose of all methods of spiritual meditation. The Transcendent Being: The teachings of the Upanishads are ex...

=========================================================================================== Friday 27, December 2024, 14:40. The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 2.  Swami Krishnananda. Chapter 1: Discrimination of Reality-2. ============================================================================================ Chapter 1: Discrimination of Reality-1. (continued) One cannot conceive of the cessation of consciousness, since it is impossible to conceive of one's own destruction. There is the persistence of consciousness even when one imagines that there is total annihilation. Consciousness precedes thought, volition and feeling. There is an immediacy in consciousness and it never becomes an object. The knower, knowledge and the known are one and the same and inseparable. There is not in it the opposition of subject and object, as in the case of the various things of the world. It is not known by itself, nor known by another; the former case is impossible, and the latter leads to in...

  =========================================================================================== Thursday 26, December 2024, 11:25 Article Scriptures The Path of Devotion in the Epics and Puranas: 2. Swami Krishnananda. Post-2. ============================================================================================ God is not concerned only with law but also justice. There was an Englishman, a Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court. It is said that one of the advocates stood up and said: “Your Lordship is, after all, bound to do justice”. The Chief Justice remarked: “Far from it; I am here to dispense law”. This shows the way in which man's mind works, and the way Dharma works in the world. Dharma is not law merely; it is also justice. If there are five hundred witnesses against an innocent man, he can be hanged, though he has committed no crime. This is law working, but it is not justice. And this happened actually. This is not merely an illustration. A poor man was hanged once...