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The Secret of the Katha Upanishad -35. Swami Krishnananda.

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  =========================================================================================================================================== Friday 04, April 2025, 11:30. Upanishads: The Secret of the Katha Upanishad:  Discourse No. 7-1. Swami Krishnananda. Post - 35. =========================================================================================================================================== Death becomes the teacher when we get awakened to the fact of this procession of the transitoriness of everything. The question of Nachiketas was not concerning the quest of the personality of the human being. He was not so ignorant as to put the simple question: what happens to the individual soul after the shedding of the physical body. We have already made reference to the fact that the death which Nachiketas referred to in his question was of a different kind altogether. Empirically speaking, death and life have no ultimate dissimilarity between themselves. There is a co...

The Chhandogya Upanishad - 82: Swami Krishnananda.

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  ==================================================================== Thursday 03, March 2025. 13:40. The Chhandogya Upanishad - 82:  Swami Krishnananda. Appendix 2: Samvarga-Vidya Section-3 Continued Mantram-7 Continued Post-82. ================================================================================================================ Saunaka approached the brahmacharin and replied: "You are saying that food has been refused to the great deity, the all-pervading one. Listen to what I have to say on this. You are speaking like this because you are under the impression that you are a meditator on the Samvarga and that we know nothing about it. You made a remark that we are ignorant of the presence of this great god to whom all the food belongs. Then what is it that we are meditating on? I will tell you. There is a great Soul, the Self of all beings, the source and essence of all the gods, the creator, the progenitor of all things. He is the one who eats through the mout...

TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD – 81. Rishi Yajnavalkya.

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================================================================================================================================================== Wednesday 02, April 2025, 10:40.  TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD   Pertaining to the SELF-CREATION of Brahman there is a Shruti verse… panishad Part-2.  ABHAYA PRATISHTHAA   Anuvaka 2.7 Established in “Fearlessness”   Post-81.  ================================================================================================================================= THE SIXTH PROOF    6. Kaarya-Kaarana Sanghaat     Mantram - 2.7.3.   5-6:    Due to His Presence, inert things are made to work sensibly; He is the sentient, unifying Presence behind effective activities.    Mantram - 2.7.3:  The Sentient Presence of Brahman. ============================================================================================ Mantram - 2.7.3:  The Sentient Pr...