Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

============================================================================================================================================ Sunday 06, April 2025, 14:45. Article Scriptures The Mandukya Upanishad: 4.  Swami Krishnananda. =========================================================================================================================================== There is a third state, called sleep, where not only are we not aware of the body, but even the psychological functions are not there. The mind does not think, the intellect does not decide, and we do not even know that we exist. Our existence itself is abolished, as it were; a nothing. It is a nothing of which we are not even aware that it is a nothing. To be aware that it is a nothing is something, but even to be not aware that it is a nothing – that is pure nothing, unadulterated. But, what is happening there? Are we dead? No; very much alive. Who told us that we are alive in sleep when we call it nothing an...

==================================================================================================================================================== Saturday 05, March 2025, 10:30. Article Scriptures Commentary on the Isa Vasya Upanishad: 4. Swami Krishnananda Part: 4. ==================================================================================================================================================== International organisation, whatever it be, gives a satisfaction. It gives a satisfaction not because of the heaps of bodies that form that organisation, but because an unknown element operates in and through the media of these individuals which appear to form the members of this organisation. An organisation is not a bundle of members, just as our life is not a heap of these physical parts. Many people sitting together do not make a society, just as a heap of legs, hands, noses and eyes do not make a man; and so is the case with international organisations and world systems...

  =========================================================================================================================================== Friday 04, April 2025, 11:30. Upanishads: The Secret of the Katha Upanishad:  Discourse No. 7-1. Swami Krishnananda. Post - 35. =========================================================================================================================================== Death becomes the teacher when we get awakened to the fact of this procession of the transitoriness of everything. The question of Nachiketas was not concerning the quest of the personality of the human being. He was not so ignorant as to put the simple question: what happens to the individual soul after the shedding of the physical body. We have already made reference to the fact that the death which Nachiketas referred to in his question was of a different kind altogether. Empirically speaking, death and life have no ultimate dissimilarity between themselves. There is a co...

  ==================================================================== Thursday 03, March 2025. 13:40. The Chhandogya Upanishad - 82:  Swami Krishnananda. Appendix 2: Samvarga-Vidya Section-3 Continued Mantram-7 Continued Post-82. ================================================================================================================ Saunaka approached the brahmacharin and replied: "You are saying that food has been refused to the great deity, the all-pervading one. Listen to what I have to say on this. You are speaking like this because you are under the impression that you are a meditator on the Samvarga and that we know nothing about it. You made a remark that we are ignorant of the presence of this great god to whom all the food belongs. Then what is it that we are meditating on? I will tell you. There is a great Soul, the Self of all beings, the source and essence of all the gods, the creator, the progenitor of all things. He is the one who eats through the mout...

================================================================================================================================================== Wednesday 02, April 2025, 10:40.  TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD   Pertaining to the SELF-CREATION of Brahman there is a Shruti verse… panishad Part-2.  ABHAYA PRATISHTHAA   Anuvaka 2.7 Established in “Fearlessness”   Post-81.  ================================================================================================================================= THE SIXTH PROOF    6. Kaarya-Kaarana Sanghaat     Mantram - 2.7.3.   5-6:    Due to His Presence, inert things are made to work sensibly; He is the sentient, unifying Presence behind effective activities.    Mantram - 2.7.3:  The Sentient Presence of Brahman. ============================================================================================ Mantram - 2.7.3:  The Sentient Pr...

================================================================================================================================================ Monday 31, March 2025, 11:00. KENA UPANISHAD  4 Chapters, 34 Mantras  Chapter 2 - 5 Mantras:   Subtlety of “KNOWING” Brahman  Chapter 2 - 5 Mantras:   Mantram - 2.5: The Truth is Glorified  Post-12. =================================================================================================================================================== Mantram - 2.5: The Truth is Glorified  1.  iha ched avedeet = If one knows That here, in this world,     atha satyam asti, = then the true purpose of life is gained 2. na chet iha avedeet = If one does not know (That) here,   mahatee vinashtih; = then very great is the destruction. 3. bhooteshu bhooteshu = The one Atman in all beings –  vichitya dheeraah, = seeing That, the wise ones  4. pretya asmaat lokaat = rise above...