Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

================================================================================================================================================ 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...

========================================================================================================================================================= Sunday 30, March 2025, 12:30. MANDUKYA UPANISHAD  GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA Agama Prakarana – “The Scriptural Treatise” GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA:  PART 4/4:    ALAATA-SHANTI PRAKARANA (100 mantras):  Quenching the Firebrand: The Illusion of CAUSALITY   Karika Section 4.6:   Mantras - 33-41 (9 No.)  Mantram-4.37: Common View: Waking Causes Dream  Post-50. =========================================================================================================================================================== Mantram-4.37: Common View: Waking Causes Dream  1 Grahanaat jaagarita vat, = nce it is experienced like the waking state, 2 tad hetuh swapnah ishyate; =he dream state is regarded as being caused by it.  3 tad hetutvaat = Since dream has the waking state as its cause  u sya iva...

========================================================================================================================================== Saturday 29, March 2025, 16:15. KATHA UPANISHAD   Part 2 – Total 49 Mantras  Chapters 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3  Chapter 2.2: (15 Mantras)  THE SEARCH FOR BRAHMAN  Mantram - 2.2.3: Brahman – Director of Pranas & Deities Post - 81. =========================================================================================================================================== Mantram - 2.2.3: Brahman – Director of Pranas & Deities: 1 Oordhvam praanam unnayati = He (Brahman) sends Prana upwards. 2 apaanam pratyak asyati; = He throws the Apana downwards. 3 madhye vaamanam aaseenam = that Adorable One seated in the centre  4 vishwe devaah upaasate. = is He that is worshipped by all the Gods ===================================================================================================================================== Fro...

=================================================================================================== Friday 28, March 2025, 11:15. Books The Mundaka Upanishad: 3.  First Mundaka First Khanda Swami Krishnananda ================================================================================================== Mantram - No. 5: Of these the lower one consists of the Rig Veda, the Yajur Veda, the Sama Veda, the Atharva Veda, phonetics, rituals, grammar, etymology, prosody and astronomy. But the higher one is that through which the Imperishable is attained. Angiras tries to explain the lower Vidya in the beginning, though the question of Saunaka is regarding the higher Vidya. There may be a general doubt in the mind of the aspirant as to whether the lower Vidya has got any value or not. Angiras anticipates such doubts likely to be experienced by the disciple and says that the lower one is an insufficient means to the realisation of Brahman. The lower Vidya pertains to the divinities, thei...

================================================================================================== Thursday 13, March 2025, 11:15. Books Upanishads The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 1.2.  Chapter 1: Discrimination of Reality-2. Swami Krishnananda ==================================================================================================== One cannot conceive of the cessation of consciousness, since it is impossible to conceive of one's own destruction. There is the persistence of consciousness even when one imagines that there is total annihilation. Consciousness precedes thought, volition and feeling. There is an immediacy in consciousness, and it never becomes an object. The knower, knowledge and the known are one and the same and inseparable. There is not in it the opposition of subject and object, as in the case of the various things of the world. It is not known by itself, nor known by another; the former case is impossible, and the latter leads to infinite regress in a...

======================================================================================================= Wednesday 26, March 2025, 12:10. Article Sciptures Brahma Sutra:3 The Stages of the Integrated Life According to the Brahma Sutra:3.  Swami Krishnananda. ======================================================================================================= Brahmacharya is the initial stage consisting of conservation of energy. In ancient days, it was believed that a person would live for a hundred years. Therefore, the calculation is that for twenty-five years one must live like a Brahmachari, with energy arising out of self-control and the study of holy scriptures, and the service of Guru. After that one enters married life and he fulfils the duties of a householder. The duties of a householder are interesting to note. It is not attachment to family; that would be far away from the truth. In Indian culture, attachment is never allowed. Duty is emphasised as the very purpose of ...

================================================================================================ Tuesday 25, March 2025, 11:15. Books Upanishads The Realisation of the Absolute:  Chapter 1: Introduction - 2. Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================================= The Method of Conscious Expansion: The Upanishads are thoroughly spiritual and, hence, advocate the most catholic doctrine of the Yoga of Truth-realisation. Their teachings are not the product of an intellectual wonder or curiosity, but the effect of an intense and irresistible pressure of a practical need arising from the evil of attachment to individual existence. The task of the Seers was to remedy this defect in life, which, they realised, was due to the consciousness of separateness of being and the desire to acquire and become what one is not. The remedy lies in acquiring and becoming everything, expressed all too imperfectly by the words "Infinity,"...