Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  ======================================================================================= Tuesday 11, February 2025. 07:30. The Chhandogya Upanishad - 78:  Swami Krishnananda. Appendix 2: Samvarga-Vidya Post-78. ====================================================================================== S ection-3. Slogam- 4. Continued In ancient times, initiations into mysteries of this kind were not regarded as mere teachings in the ordinary sense. One would be surprised in modern times at the very easy way in which the Supreme Knowledge was communicated to people by the great masters through such simple instructions as this. Even if we hear these things one thousand times, we are not going to be benefited by it. The point is, how it is taught, who teaches, and to whom it is taught. What is taught of course we know very well. But the other factors should not be ignored. The receptive capacity of the disciple, the intellectual calibre that is behind it, the need felt for this knowl...

  =========================================================================================================== Thursday 06, January 2025, 10:30. Taittiriya Upanishad Part-2. BRAHMANANDA VALLI PART 2: 9 No. Anuvakas (Chapters) THE BLISS THAT IS BRAHMAN Anuvaka 2.6  From Anandamaya to Atman   THE ANUPRASHNAS: (Vital Questions by the Disciple)  ======================================================= Coverage:  Anuvaka 2.6.4 onwards upto 2.8.1 THE SECOND PROOF  2. Guhayaam Upalabyate  Mantram - 2.6.5. -  8   Mantram - 2.6.5:  Brahman “Enters” Into His Creation   Post - 77. ====================================================================================== T HE SECOND PROOF  2. Guhayaam Upalabyate    Mantram - 2.6.5. -  8  He has entered into the ‘cavity of our intellect’ as the doer, seer, hearer, feeler and thinker;  Mantram - 2.6.5:  Brahman “Enters” Into His Creation  =========...

  SACRED STORY OF KUMBH MELA ============================================================================================================= Wednesday 05, February 2025, 09:50. KENA UPANISHAD  4 Chapters, 34 Mantras  Chapter 2 - 5 Mantras:   Subtlety of “KNOWING” Brahman  Chapter 2 - 5 Mantras:  Subtlety of “KNOWING” Brahman  Mantram - 2.1: Did the Student Understand?  Post-8. ================================================================================ Chapter 2 - 5 Mantras:  Subtlety of “KNOWING” Brahman  Mantram - 2.1: Did the Student Understand?  0 The Preceptor says:   1  yadi manyase suveda iti, = If you think, “I know That well enough,” –    2    daharam eva api noonam twam = it is only a little expression  that you  vettha brahmanah roopam; =understand as being the form of Brahman;   3  yat asya twam, = the little expression of your body,   yat ...

  ======================================================================================================== Tuesday 04, February 2025, 07:55. MANDUKYA UPANISHAD  GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA Agama Prakarana – “The Scriptural Treatise” GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA:  PART 4/4:    ALAATA-SHANTI PRAKARANA (100 mantras):  Quenching the Firebrand: BONDAGE vs. LIBERATION   Karika Section 4.5: mantras 30-32   (3 No.)  Mantram - 4.31: The Unreal Never Exists  Post-46. ============================================================================================= Mantram - 4.31: The Unreal Never Exists  1  Aadau aante cha yat naasti, = That which does not exist in the beginning and end  2  vartamaane api tat tathaa; = is necessarily non-existent in the middle also.  3  vitathaih sadrishaah santah, = Though this is true for anything that is unreal ,  4  avitathaah iva lakshitaah. = yet in practice they are seen as thou...

============================================================================== Monday 03, February 2025, 09:35. KATHA UPANISHAD   Part 2 – Total 49 Mantras  Chapters 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3  Chapter 2.1: (15 Mantras)  BRAHMAN – ABSOLUTE INTELLIGENCE  Mantram - 2.1.12 & 13: Upasana: The “Thumb-Sized” Brahman   Post - 77. ================================================================================ Mantram - 2.1.12 & 13: Upasana: The “Thumb-Sized” Brahman   Mantram- 12. 1  Angushtha-maatrah purushah = The Purusha of the size of a thumb  2  madhye aatmani tishthati; = resides in the middle (core) of the body.  3  eeshaanah bhoota bhavyasya = He is the Lord of the past and future –  4  na tatah vijugupsate.=  knowing Him one does not fear thereafter.  5  Etat vai tat. = This is verily That!  Mantram- 13 6  Angushtha-maatrah purushah = The Purusha of the size of a thumb ...

  ================================================================================== Sunday 02, February 2025, 10:10. Vedanta: Upanishads The Realisation of the Absolute: 2. Chapter 2: The Nature of the World-3. The Critique of Duality: Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================ The Critique of Duality: It is contended by some that the world is not such an utter negation of Reality, that the world of names and forms is in the being of Reality, that plurality cannot be a nothing, that diversity which is real is indwelt by the Supreme. It is also held that the individual is not the Absolute until it realises the Absolute, that the process of change and evolution is a perfect truth and not an appearance, and that the quality of the Absolute is not attributable to the individual at any time. It is not difficult to note that indwelling is possible only when the Indweller is different from the indwelled, that is, when there is a s...

  Swami Chinmayananda: Kubera, proud of his immense wealth invited Lord Ganesha for a grand feast. What happened next will shock you! Swipe to read the whole story! Happy Ganesh Jayanti to all! May all us be blessed with Lord Ganesha’s immense compassion, grace and blessings! Ganapati Bappa Morya! ================================================================================ Saturday 01, February 2025, 10:00. The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 1-6  Swami Krishnananda. Chapter 1: Discrimination of Reality-6. ================================================================================ Meditation and Spiritual Experience: Study of Reality in this manner is called Sravana, and pondering over it for a protracted period is called Manana. When the mind is totally free from all doubts and does not stand in need of even the reasoning process and gets fixed firmly on the object of contemplation, and there is only a single Vritti or mental modification, i.e. Vritti of meditation, it...