Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

================================================================================================ Saturday 13, December2025. 19:20. KENA UPANISHAD: “Know That Alone as Brahman”:  on the Series of 14 Lectures by Swami Tejomayanandaji: Guruji, then Spiritual Head, Chinmaya Mission: at Chinmaya Tapovan, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand from April 8th – April 13th, 2013. Reflections: SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA From: A. Krishna Yajur Veda & B. Sama Veda THE DISCIPLE QUESTIONS THE GURU: Chapters - 4 Mantras:  34. Mantram - 1.3a : Beyond the Senses and Mind  Post-5. =========================================================== Mantram - 1.3a : Beyond the Senses and Mind: 1.  na tatra chakshuh gacchhati, =  The eye does not go there;  2.  na vaag gacchhati na manah; = Nor speech; nor the mind;  3.  na vidyah = We have no overall knowledge (of That),  na vijaaneemah, = nor know It in all its details;  4.  yathaa etad anushishyaat. = How can we give ...

  =========================================================================================== Turesday 09, December 2025, 19:40. KATHA UPANISHAD: “A Leap into the Beyond”:Parts 1 & 2  with Bhashya by Sri Adi Shankaracharyaji. on the 90 Lectures delivered by Swami Advayanandaji  KATHA UPANISHAD:  Part 1 – Total 71 Mantras Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda  Chapters 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3  Chapter 1.1: (29) Mantras Mantram -1.1.6: The Glory of Upholding Tradition  Post-5.  ============================================================================================== Mantram -1.1.6: The Glory of Upholding Tradition  Nachiketas to his Father:  1. Anupashya yathaa poorve = “Consider how your forefathers behaved.  2.  prati-pashya tathaa apare; = And consider how others behave (now).”  3.  sasyam iva martyah pachyate =  To himself: “Like corn does Man decay and die;  4 . sasyam iva aajaayate punah. =  like...

=================================================================================================== Sunday 07, December 2025, 06:25. TAITTAREYA UPANISHAD –  1: Sheeksha Valli:   Science of Vedic Chanting” -  MAHA-SAMHITAA UPASANAS Anuvaka 1.4  The “Great Word-Junctions Rishi Yajnavalkya  on the Series of 14 Lectures by  Swami Advayananda.  Reflections:  SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA. Post-5. ================================================================================================= Introduction to Upasanas: Each of the five Upasanas above is an exercise to be practised by the student. In an Upasana a symbol is used upon which the mind is focussed in order to be exercised. The symbol could be an object or an event. Through the present Upasanas, parrot-style repetition gives way naturally to a recitation with full awareness of meaning there develops an understanding of the sequence. In addition in which actions have to occur in order to obtain th...

==================================================================================================== Friday 05, December 2025, 05:00. Books Upanishads The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 6. Chapter 6: Light on the Analogy of a Painted Picture 1.Universal Superimposition: ===================================================================================================== Chapter 6: Light on the Analogy of a Painted Picture: 1.Universal Superimposition: The process of the manifestation of the universe is fourfold, as there is a fourfold process in the painting of a picture. There is, first, a piece of cloth, pure in its original state. It is then coated with starch, to stiffen it into a canvas suitable for painting. The artist draws on the canvas an outline of the picture that is in his mind. Finally, the outline is filled with the necessary colour, giving it the appearance of the contemplated picture. The universe is a vast picture painted, as it were, on the basis of Brahman. Pure Consc...

  ================================================================================================== Wednesday 03, December 2025, 06:15.           ISAVASYA UPANISHAD:   18 Mantras on: “The All-Pervading Reality”  Reflections: Swami Gurubhaktananda  on the 12 Lectures delivered: Swami Tejomayananda:  to the 15th Batch Vedanta Course:   at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai July 11th – July 16th, 2012 Post-7. =================================================================================================== ISHAVASYA UPANISHAD:  MEDITATIONS on the Self: Wave 2: Mantras 4-8 (5 No.) ====================================================================================================== Mantram - 6: The Jnani – Seer of the Self: 1  Yah tu sarvaani bhootaani, = He who sees all beings and forms,  2  aatmani eva anupashyati; =  in the Self, he alone really sees;  3  sarva bhooteshu cha...

================================================================================================= Sunday 30, November 2025, 19:30. BOOKS UPANISHAD  Discourse - 5. Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality. Mantras 44-55 Mantram - 44. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA Post-20. ======================================================================================================= Mantram-44. "Jagato yadu pādānaṁ māyā mādāya tāmasīm, nimittaṁ śuddha sasattvāṁ tāmucyate brahma tadgirā." (44). This is the introduction to a system of analysis known as jahad ajaha lakshana. When we make statements, sometimes they are involved in certain associations which are not part of the conclusion that we have to arrive at. In Sanskrit, this method of elimination of unnecessary factors in a sentence and only taking the essentials is called jahad ajaha lakshana. Lakshana is a definition of a sentence, or a proposition that is made. Where the literal connotation is abandoned for the spirit of the se...

  Swami Chinmayananda: Arjuna is Me (individuality/ego) in the body. And who is the charioteer? Krishna, the intelligence, the pure intelligence and he has pulled the reins that there are the four horses. They can only jump about, but they cannot move an inch forward. With one han, Shri Krishna pulls it and thuds back and talks to the confused individuality in the world. Your intellect also through self-control, your higher intellect can guide you inside. Geeta is to be heard from within. Not outside. So, the horses are sense organs. The reins are the mind. Driver is intellect. The chariot is body, and you are the master.  For example: I am living in a Himalayan peak, African jungle, and you are offering me birthday present, a car. What am I to do with the car? I will have to carry it in my head, to my ashram and there put it up on a pedestal. That is all that I can do because there are no roads. A vehicle can go only when there are roads on which the horses can trot, the whee...