Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

=========================================================================================== Thursday 01, November 2025, 19:40. KATHA UPANISHAD: “A Leap into the Beyond”:Parts 1 & 2  with Bhashya by Sri Adi Shankaracharyaji.  Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda  on the 90 Lectures delivered by Swami Advayanandaji  =========================================================================================== KATHA UPANISHAD:  Part 1 – Total 71 Mantras Chapters 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3  ============================================================================================ Chapter 1.1: (29) Mantras Post-3.  ============================================================================================ Mantram: 1.1.4: Father’s Curse on Nachiketas  1  Sa ha uvaacha pitaram taata = He said unto his father:   2  “Kasmai maam daasyasi?” iti; = “To whom wilt thou give me?”  3  dviteeyam triteeyam = (He repeated this) a second an...

========================================================================================== Tuesday 18, November 2025, 18:35. TAITTAREYA UPANISHAD – 1: Sheeksha Valli:  Science of Vedic Chanting” - Rishi Yajnavalkya  on the Series of 14 Lectures by  Swami Advayananda.  Reflections:  SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA. Post-4. =========================================================================================== FIVE UPASANAS ON SANDHEES: Mantram: 1.3:2- Upasana 1-  About the “Worlds”  6. atha adhi-lokam; =  Now the teaching concerning the “Worlds” is this:  7. prithivee poorva roopam; =  EARTH- is the first letter;  dyauh uttara roopam; =  HEAVEN- is the last letter;  aakaashah sandhih; = SKY- is the meeting place;  vaayuh sandhaanam; = AIR- is the link;  8  iti adhi-lokam (dhyaayat). = This is the meditation with regard to the “Worlds”. ================================================================================...

==================================================================================================== Sunday 16, October 2025, 20:10. Books Upanishads The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 4.5. Chapter 5: Discrimination of the Mahavakyas: 1. 1.'Consciousness is Brahman':Swami Krishnananda. ===================================================================================================== Chapter 5: Discrimination of the Mahavakyas:'Consciousness is Brahman': There are four Mahavakyas, or great statements in the Upanishads, which have a profound significance as pointers to Reality. They are: (1) Prajnanam Brahma – Consciousness is Brahman; (2) Aham Brahmasmi – I am Brahman: (3) Tat Tvam Asi – That Thou Art; (4) Ayam Atma Brahma – This Self is Brahman. These Mahavakyas convey the essential teaching of the Upanishads, namely, Reality is one, and the individual is essentially identical with it. In the sentence, ' Prajnanam Brahma' or Consciousness is Brahman, a definit...

========================================================================================== Friday 14, November 2025, 19:25.           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-6. =========================================================================================== ISHAVASYA UPANISHAD  MEDITATIONS on the Self Wave 2: Mantras 4-8 (5 No.)  ============================================================================================ Gajendra Moksha, the power of Surrender! Mantram - 5: Finding the Correct Means: 1  Tat ejati tat na ejati, = That (the Atman) moves and yet It moves not; 2  tat doore tat u antike; = It is far away and yet It is near;   3  tat antah a...

  ================================================================================================= Tuesday 11, November 2025, 20:30. BOOKS UPANISHAD  Discourse - 4 Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality. Mantras 28-43 Mantras 37- 40. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA Post-19. ========================================================================================================= Mantram-41. Suṣuptya bhāne bhānantu samādhā vātmāno'nvayaḥ, vyatirekas tvātma bhāne suṣuptya nava bhāsanam (41).  In the state of samadhi, consciousness exists, but the causal body does not exist. Now we have gotten rid of even the causal body. Consciousness is there in samadhi, but the causal body is not there. This is anvaya. The abolition of the causal body, the negation of the causal body while consciousness persists in samadhi, is vyatireka. What has happened now? We have proven that consciousness, which is our real nature, can exist independently of the physical body, independently of the subtl...

======================================================================================================= Sunday 09, November 2025, 19:00. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 3.3. Chapter 3: Preparation for Upanishadic Study -3. Post-17. ======================================================================================================== Sometimes the mind operates like a prism which deflects rays of light in various forms and in various hues. It is up to each person to consider for one's own self what are the thoughts that generally arise in the mind from morning to evening. You may be doing anything, but what are you thinking in the mind? This is what is important. The thoughts which take you wholly in the direction of what you are not and engage your psychic  attention on things which are not the Self—these thoughts should be considered as a serious infection in the mind itself. Since basically everybody is what one is, and even when one is operating in the direction of...

================================================================================================ Monday 20, October 2025, 19;39.            KAIVALYA UPANISHAD: “The Homogeneity of Brahman”  from the Atharva Veda:  26 Mantras:  Reflections:  Swami Gurubhaktananda:  Swami Advaitananda on the Series of 8 Lectures:  . of the 15th Batch Sandeepany Vedanta Course held at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai: From 23rd November – 30th November 2012. ================================================================================================= Mantram - 2:  Equipment For the Journey:  7.  tasmai sa hovaacha pitaamahashcha = To him the Grandsire, Brahma, said: 8. shraddhaa-bhakti-dhyaana = Faith, devotion and meditation, yogaad avaihi. = by a combination of these you may know (the goal). 7.  Pitaa-Mahaa: Brahmaji is called “Grandfather” due to the following reason: Welive in a world of subtle and gross objects. O...