Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  BHARATHAM CARE HER CITIZENS, SUSTAIN THEM PROVIDING FOOD AND WELFARES TO ALL, THIS MEANS ALL ONLY, IT IS OUR DUTY TO SERVE BHARATHAM, THOUGHTS OF RELIGION AND OTHERS DO NOT MATTER IN THIS. ========================================================================================================= Friday 31, January 2025, 09:00 Article Scriptures The Path of Devotion in the Epics and Puranas: 6. Swami Krishnananda. Post-6. =============================================================================== The Pandavas had been exiled to spend twelve years in the forests as the result of the game of dice that they had lost. When in the forests Krishna came to enquire after their welfare, Draupadi shed burning tears, relating to Him the humiliation she had been submitted to at the Kauravas' court and how neither her husbands nor the elders present there stood up to avenge the wrong. Krishna wiped her tears and it was He who took, then, the vow to destroy the herd of the Kauravas and avenge...

  ================================================================================ Thursday 30, January 2025, 08:30. Upanishads: The Secret of the Katha Upanishad:  Discourse No. 6: Swami Krishnananda. Post - 30. ================================================================================ The most consequent and difficult part of yoga commences when we try to rise beyond the vijnana-atman or the intellectual personality. That stage whereby the human individual struggles to attune itself to the Universal is the hardest one in yoga. There are difficulties of various kinds in one's attempt on the path of Spirit, but these difficulties can be classified into two groups—the natural and the supernatural. The natural difficulties are, to some extent, conceivable by the human mind, and these are those which we have to confront until we reach that level of concentration and meditation wherein the intellect reaches its limits. When the limit of the intellect is reached, we also reac...

  ======================================================================================= Wednesday 29, January 2025. 10:00. The Chhandogya Upanishad - 77:  Swami Krishnananda. Appendix 2: Samvarga-Vidya Post-77. ====================================================================================== Section-3 (Continued). 2. Yadapa ucchusyanti, vayum-evapiyanti,  vayur-hyevaitan sarvan samvrnkte,  ity-adhidaivatam. When the water dries up, it goes there. It is this Being which absorbs the water into itself and makes water vanish into nothing, as it were. From the objective universal side, this is how the great deity, the cosmic air which blows everything into itself, is described. Now from the internal microcosmic side also, it is being described. 3. Athadhyatam prano vava samvargah,  sa yada svapiti pranam eva vag-apyeti,  pranam caksuh pranam srotram pranam  manah prano hyevaitan sarvan samvrnkte iti. Just as in the universal it is called air which ab...

================================================================================================= Tuesday 28, January 2025, 09:30. Taittiriya Upanishad Part-2. BRAHMANANDA VALLI PART 2: 9 No. Anuvakas (Chapters) THE BLISS THAT IS BRAHMAN Anuvaka 2.6  From Anandamaya to Atman   THE ANUPRASHNAS: (Vital Questions by the Disciple)  ======================================================= Coverage:  Anuvaka 2.6.4 onwards upto 2.8.1 THE FIRST PROOF  1. Jagat Kaaranatvat  Mantram - 2.6.4 6-7 Brahman is the very Cause of this Creation;  Mantram - 2.6.4: Brahman the “Cause” of Creation  Post - 76. ======================================================================================= T HE FIRST PROOF  1. Jagat Kaaranatvat  Mantram - 2.6.4 6-7 Brahman is the very Cause of this Creation; Mantram - 2.6.4: Brahman the “Cause” of Creation  ========================================================================================== Mantram - 2.6...

  ================================================================================================ Monday 27, January 2025, 09:30. KENA UPANISHAD  4 Chapters, 34 Mantras  Chapter 1. The Nature of BRAHMAN - (8 mantras) Mantram - 1.4: Brahman – Illuminator of Speech  Post-7. ================================================================================ Mantram - 1.4: Brahman – Illuminator of Speech: 1 yad vaachaa anabhyuditam, = What speech cannot reveal,  2 yena vaak abhudyate; = But what reveals speech.  3 tad eva brahma twam viddhi, = Know That alone as Brahman,  4 na idam yat idam upaasate. = And not this which people worship here. ================================================================================ Mantram - 1.5: Brahman – Illuminator of Mind:  5 yat manasaa na manute, = What one cannot feel with the mind.  6 yena aahuh manah matam; = But because of which they say the mind feels.  7 tad eva brahma twam viddhi, = Know Tha...

============================================================================================ Sunday 26, January 2025, 10:30. MANDUKYA UPANISHAD  GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA Agama Prakarana – “The Scriptural Treatise” GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA:  PART 4/4:    ALAATA-SHANTI PRAKARANA (100 mantras):  Quenching the Firebrand: BONDAGE vs. LIBERATION   Karika Section 4.5: mantras 30-32   (3 No.)  Mantram: 4.30: Samsara & Liberation are Initial Concepts   Post-45. ============================================================================================= BONDAGE vs. LIBERATION:   Karika Section 4.5:   Mantras 30-32 (3 No.)  HIS SECTION DEALS WITH the concepts of Bondage and Liberation. From the relative standpoint, these concepts have been very useful to us to point the way to the Reality, Brahman. The present section takes a standpoint from Reality on the same concepts. Not surprisingly, the result is quite startling....

============================================================================== Thursday 16, January 2025, 10:15. KATHA UPANISHAD   Part 2 – Total 49 Mantras  Chapters 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3  Chapter 2.1: (15 Mantras)  BRAHMAN – ABSOLUTE INTELLIGENCE  Mantram - 2.1.11: Mind – Centre-Stage for Sadhana Post - 76. ================================================================================ Mantram - 2.1.11: Mind – Centre-Stage for Sadhana: 1  Manasaa eva idam aaptavyam = This is to be attained through the mind alone.  2  na iha naanaa asti kinchana; = There is no diversity here whatsoever.  3  mrityoh sah mrityum gacchhati = He goes from death to death,  4  yah iha naanaa iva pashyati. = who sees any difference between ‘there’ and ‘here’,  ================================================================================== There are statements in the Srutis which may appear to contradict the assertion made here that the who...