Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  ====================================================================================== Saturday 12, July 2025, 06:35. Article Scriptures Commentary on the Isa Vasya Upanishad: 13. Part-2-3. Swami Krishnananda POST: 13. ====================================================================================== If God is the only agent of action, all work automatically becomes the nature of a worship. There is no need of any commentary on this point. If there is only one agent in the whole world, only one action takes place; there are not many activities taking place. We say that many things are taking place. History is a chronology of many activities. But they are not many activities; they are many ramifications of a single thing that is taking place. There is only one work performed by one person in the world. If this is so, work cannot bind. Who will bind? The individual agent has gone off. He has evaporated into the Supreme Agent. All these declarations suggest and indicate that ina...

======================================================================================= Thursday 10, July 2025, 06:00. Books Upanishads The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 2.8. Chapter 2: Discrimination of the Elements-8. On the Unsubstantiality of the Elements Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================== Chapter 2: Discrimination of the Elements: 4.On the Unsubstantiality of the Elements The first of these changes is the manifestation of Akasa or ether. Akasa has the property of spatiality in addition to existence. We feel that space is, and it has also the quality of distinguishing things by a peculiar feature in it, which we call emptiness. Minus the quality of spatiality and reverberation of sound, space is nothing but existence, which is the same as Brahman. The Sakti which makes the manifestation of Akasa possible brings about also perversion in one's understanding of the relation between existence and Akasa. Instead...

  ====================================================================================== Tuesday 08, July 2025, 19:15.. Books The Mundaka Upanishad: 12.  The Third Mundaka:  First Khanda Mantram: 6-10 Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================== Mantram - No. 6: Truth alone triumphs; not falsehood. Through truth the divine path is spread out by which the sages whose desires have been completely fulfilled, reach to where is that supreme treasure of Truth. Truth is more than truth-speaking. Truth is the symbol of perfection, a representation of the Divine Being. Adherence to truth means embracing the universal nature of the Reality. Therefore, truth wins victory everywhere. Truth is the essence of the Universal movement consisting of evolution and involution. Untruth is negative, whereas truth is positive. Through Truth the consciousness blossoms into more expanded experience, but untruth attempts to stifle consc...

  ==================================================================================== Monday 07, July 2025, 20:20. Books: Upanishads. Commentary on the Panchadasi:9.  Swami Krishnananda. Discourse 3 Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Mantras 14-27 Post-10. ====================================================================================== Mantram - 16: Satva suddhya visuddhi bhyam maya'vidye ca te mate,  maya bimbo vasi kṛtya taṁ syāstaavajna isvaraḥ (16). Omniscience is the nature of God, or Ishvara, because Ishvara is a universally spread-out reflection of the Absolute Brahman in the all-pervading, equilibrated condition of the sattva guna of prakriti. As sattva is universally manifest, it has no divisions such as rajas and tamas. Therefore, the reflection through it of Brahman Consciousness, known as Ishvara, is omniscient, knowing all things at one stroke. For the same reason, it is also omnipresent and omnipotent. So God is all power, all knowle...

  ================================================================================================= Sunday 06, July 2025, 20:10. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 2.2. Chapter 2: The Problem in Understanding the Upanishads-2. Swami Krishnananda Post-8. ====================================================================================== The Isavasya Upanishad is the only one which occurs in the Samhita portion of the Veda. All the others come as appendices or follow-ups of the Brahmanas or the Aranyakas, which I mentioned in the previous session. Therefore, there is a special intonation required in the recitation of the Isavasya Upanishad, as is the case with the Samhitas of the Vedas. We cannot read the verses casually, as we read a book. There is a special modulation and intonation of voice—swara, as it is called. This swara aspect of recitation is not emphasised as much in the other Upanishads as is the case with the Isavasya Upanishad. Now, to repeat what I told you ...

  =================================================================================== Saturday 05, July 2025, 20:50.  TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD   Pertaining to the SELF-CREATION of Brahman there is a Shruti Mantram… Upanishad Part-3.  ABHAYA PRATISHTHAA   BRAHMAANANDA MEEMAAMSAA  Anuvaka 2.8 A Measure of “Relative Joy”  Bhashya F:  THE MAHAVAKYA OF THIS UPANISHAD  Coverage: Mantras From 2.8.13 to 2.9.1. Post-93. ====================================================================================== Duality – the Symptom of Ignorance:  At this point in the debate, the focus shifts to the perception or non-perception of  Duality. The Poorvapakshi is very interested in knowing more about non-Duality and Duality.  There is a vigorous discussion on this point, beginning with a doubt about the actual  experience of non-Duality. [At this point Obj 11 arises.]  The Experience of Fear Can Only Be in Duality:  K/ (Main...

  ================================================================================================= Friday 04, July 2025, 20:15. Article Scriptures Commentary on the Isa Vasya Upanishad: 12. Part-2-2 Swami Krishnananda POST: 12. =================================================================================================== The cause that is at the back of any kind of action is multifold in its nature. That is, when we think we have done the work, or we shall be doing the work, we may be under the impression that only we are responsible for the kind of work we are contemplating to do. We are not the only ones responsible for the work. The motivation comes from various other sources, also. Not knowing this fact is the reason for the bondage of the soul. If we impute everything to ourselves, naturally we have to become bound by the very fact of that imputation that we have ignorantly done. If we have done the work, we reap the fruit thereof. But actually we have not done the work....