Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  Chinmaya Mission: Favorites. August 22 at 5:02 PM Chinmaya Mission Guyana, in collaboration with the High Commission of India and the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre in Georgetown, Guyana, successfully conducted the National Bhagavad Gita Chanting Competition across Guyana between February and June. The initiative culminated in a special Award Ceremony held this past Sunday. More than 70 children, youth, and adults dedicated themselves to learning to chant an entire chapter of the Bhagavad Gita during this period. Of these, 42 participants entered the final competition, and 35 were awarded medals of excellence in recognition of their outstanding chanting. The Award Ceremony was graced by the presence of His Excellency Dr. Amit Telang and Madam Dr. Deepali Telang, whose support added great encouragement to the event. Heartfelt congratulations were extended to all participants, with deep appreciation also expressed to their families for their encouragement and support throughout ...

===================================================================================== Friday 22, Aug 2025, 20:00. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 2.6. Chapter 2: The Problem in Understanding the Upanishads-6. Swami Krishnananda Post-12. ====================================================================================== Then the Upanishad goes into the great initiation which the master imparted to the boy Nachiketas, which is a subject by itself. Now, is any one of us prepared to face this kind of encounter? If the whole earth becomes yours, you will jump just now. You will leave the hall and run. All of you will run from this hall because the whole earth is coming to you. That temptation becomes inevitable in the case of most of us because we do not understand the significance of the answer to this question. We think there are so many questions and this is also one question; and there so many answers and this is also one answer. What do we gain by knowing the answer to t...

 . =================================================================================== WEDNESDAY 20, AUG 2025, 06:30.  TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD   Pertaining to the SELF-CREATION of Brahman there is a Shruti Mantram… Upanishad Part-3.  ABHAYA PRATISHTHAA   ANANDAM BRAHMANAH VIDVAAN  Anuvaka 2.9  The Knower of Brahmic Bliss  THE DISCUSSION CONCLUDES Mantram 2.9.2: Beyond Paapa & Punya (Virtue & Sin)  Post-97. ================================================================================== THE DISCUSSION CONCLUDES Mantram 2.9.2: Beyond Paapa & Punya (Virtue & Sin)  3.  etam ha vaava na tapati = These thoughts certainly do not distress the sage:  4.  kind aham saadhu na akaravam = “Why have I not done what is good ?”  kim aham paapam akaravam iti = “Why have I committed a sin?” or  5.  sah yah evam vidvaan  =  He who is enlightened   ete aatmaanam sprinute = regards bo...

Chinmaya Mission: Favorites. In Sanatana Dharma, caring for one’s parents is a sacred duty. Whether you serve them with your hands or support them from afar, let love lead. You Ask, He Answers offers spiritual insights for a life in harmony with dharma and relationships. ====================================================================================== Monday 18, Aug 2025, 05:16. Article Scriptures Commentary on the Isa Vasya Upanishad: 16. Part-3. Swami Krishnananda POST: 16. ====================================================================================== The effect of this kind of involvement in physical activity and bodily comfort is one thing. That is unadulterated bondage, as can be very well imagined by everyone. We will be born into the same condition in which we lived because of such attachment to the physical body and the actions of the body in relation to the physical world. There is no Atman, no God, no spirituality; no such idea occurs to the minds of people who a...

  ================================================================================== Saturday 16, Aug 2025, 06:10. Books Upanishads The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 3.3. Chapter 3: Discrimination of the Five Sheaths 3. 2.The Atman Swami Krishnananda. ===================================================================================== 2.The Atman There is nothing that one can know, other than the sheaths, and the sheaths are not the reality. But the fact of there being an experiencer of the states of sheaths, which are all relative, cannot be denied. This is the Atman. The self-luminous Atman, being the knower of all things, cannot be known by anything else. The Upanishad says: 'Who can know Him by whom everything else is known? Who can know the knower?' The mind, which is the means of knowing, is not to make the Atman its object, because in the Atman the opposition between the seer and the seen is abolished. The mind can know only what is knowable as an external object, but i...

  ================================================================================================ Thursday 14 Aug 2025, 05:40. Books The Mundaka Upanishad: 14  The Third Mundaka:  Second Khanda Mantras No. 9: to 11: Swami Krishnananda. Post-15. ================================================================================================= Mantra No. 9: He who knows the Supreme Brahman becomes Brahman Itself. In his family none devoid of the Knowledge of Brahman is born. He crosses over sorrow, he crosses over sin. Freed from the knots of the heart he becomes Immortal. It may be thought that the knower of Brahman may be obstructed by Devas, etc., from attaining perfection. But, this is not possible in the case of a knower of Brahman or even an aspirant after the knowledge of Brahman. Obstacles are possible only in the case of those whose effort is put forth for the attainment of something which is particularised. Whenever one struggles to obtain something which is not u...

  ===================================================================================== Tuesday 12, July 2025, 06:10. Books: Upanishads. Commentary on the Panchadasi:13.  Swami Krishnananda. Discourse 3 Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Mantras 14-27 Mantras - 23 to27. Post-13. ====================================================================================== Mantram-23: "Buddhi karmendriyaprāṇa pañcakair manasā dhiyā, śarīraṁ sapta daśabhiḥ sūkṣmaṁ talliṅga mucyate (23)". The subtle body, also called the astral body, is within the body, and it consists of the five senses of knowledge, the five senses of action, the five pranas, together with mind and intellect—totalling seventeen. These seventeen constituents are the substance of the sukshma sarira, that is, the subtle body. Seventeen components go to form the subtle body within the physical body. Mantram-24: Prājña statrā bhimānena taijasatvaṁ prapadyate, hiraṇya garbhatā mīśas tayor vyaṣṭi samaṣṭitā ...

  ===================================================================================== Saturday 09, Aug 2025, 20:00. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 2.5. Chapter 2: The Problem in Understanding the Upanishads-5. Swami Krishnananda Post-11. ====================================================================================== There is a philosophical meaning behind this request of Nachiketas, to which we shall refer after some time. Now I am telling only the story behind it. The great master said, “Granted, this boon! When you go back to the world you shall be treated with friendliness, affectionately and endearingly, by everyone. Ask for the second boon.” The second boon is something more difficult to understand, and many of you will not be able to make much sense of what it is. “I have heard, great Master,” said the little boy, “there is something called Vaishvanara Agni, the all-pervading fire of the cosmos, by knowing which one knows all things. May I be initiated i...