Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

=================================================================================================== Tuesday 01, July 2025, 09:00. Books Commentary on the Panchadasi:9. Swami Krishnananda. Discourse 3 Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Mantras 14-27 Post-9. ====================================================================================================== Mantram - 14: Tasya hetuḥ samnabhi haraḥ putra dhvanisrutau,  iha nadira vidyaiva vyamo haika niban dhanam (14).  In the case of the father's indistinct hearing of the voice of his son chanting the Veda, the obstacle to a clear and distinctive hearing of it is the chorus of the voices of other students also mingling with the voice of his son. That is the obstacle in the case of the illustration cited. What is the obstacle in the case of the Atman, which is only indistinctly or partially felt in us, making us feel that we love our own selves, which is possible only if the Self is revealed or manifest in som...

======================================================================================================= Monday 30, June 2025, 05:00. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 2.1. Swami Krishnananda Chapter 2: The Problem in Understanding the Upanishads-1. Post-7. ====================================================================================================== Chapter 2: The Problem in Understanding the Upanishads We were touching upon the subject of the Upanishads. I made reference to the Veda Samhitas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and the Upanishads being the section-wise classification of the Vedic lore. There are supposed to be more than 1,000 editions or versions of the Vedas, with slight differences of words or letters in varying cases. If there are more than 1,000 such versions—we are told in this context that each version has its own Upanishad, so theoretically at least, traditionally, the information that has come to us is that there are more than 1,000 Upanishads—we do not fin...

  =================================================================================================== Sunday 29, June 2025, 08:00.  TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD   Pertaining to the SELF-CREATION of Brahman there is a Shruti Mantram… Upanishad Part-2.  ABHAYA PRATISHTHAA   BRAHMAANANDA MEEMAAMSAA  Anuvaka 2.8 A Measure of “Relative Joy”  Bhashya F:  THE MAHAVAKYA OF THIS UPANISHAD  Coverage: Mantras From 2.8.13 to 2.9.1. Post-92. ==================================================================================================== Objections & Answers Objection - 4:  Both Options Have Defects. Now What?   Poorvapakshi: Since both these options have defects, it seems to me that further  discussion would be useless ….. unless we find a third, flawless option. If not, let us just quit  this whole enquiry!  Answer: No, I don’t think we should give up so easily. Let us explore these defects  and see if we find...

  ================================================================================================= Saturday 28, June 2025, 09:15. Article Scriptures Commentary on the Isa Vasya Upanishad: 11. Part-2-2 Swami Krishnananda POST: 11. =================================================================================================== As long as we want to live in this world – it is said to be 'a hundred years', a word used in the Upanishad indicating a very long life – we have to work. Nothing can be more valuable than life. One should not cut off life. The Manu Smriti says, “You should not extol, you should not condemn, but you should get on with the conditions that prevail according to the circumstances into which you are born.” In the light of the all-pervading nature of Isvara, God, do your duty. The word 'duty' is a specialisation of the Bhagavadgita. In the Isavasya Upanishad there is just a mention of action or work. By doing alone should you wish to live in this worl...

  ==================================================================================================================== Friday 27, June 2025 10:00. Books Upanishads The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 2.7. Chapter 2: Discrimination of the Elements-7. 3.The Nature of Existence: 1. Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================================================== 3.The Nature of Existence: We have three types of difference: Svagatabheda or difference as between the limbs of one's own body, Sajatiyabheda or difference of one from another of the same species, and Vijatiyabheda or difference of one from another of a different species. The scripture asserts that Brahman is one without a second, and we cannot conceive of limbs or parts in its universal existence. Existence was prior even to the manifestation of names and forms, and therefore it should be naturally free from names and forms. We cannot conceive of parts within existence, bec...

  ================================================================================================================= Thursday 26, June 2025, 09:00.. Books The Mundaka Upanishad: 10.  The Third Mundaka:  First Khanda Mantram: 5. Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================================================== Mantram No. 5: The Atman is attained through truth, penance, correct knowledge and Brahmacharya (self-control), observed continuously without break. The Atman is beheld within in the form of light and purity by the austere ones who are freed from all kinds of sins. Truth is adherence to fact, whether absolute or relative. It is proceeding along the way of the unity of existence. Relatively, it takes the form of acting in conformity with facts that are experienced through the process of individual knowledge. Absolutely, it is living in the light of the fact that Existence is absolute and indivisible. Falsehood is the...

============================================================================================================ Wednesday 25, June 2025, 09:00. Books Commentary on the Panchadasi:8. Swami Krishnananda. Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Discourse 2 Mantras: 6-13. Post-8. ============================================================================================================= Samvi deṣa svayam prabha:  This svayam prabha, Self-consciousness, is Self-proof. It does not require any other proof. We may require a proof to establish other things, but we do not require a proof to establish Consciousness, because it is the presupposition of all other proofs. All proofs proceed from Consciousness. It is self-proved, indubitable. ===================================================================================================== Iya matma para nandaḥ para premaspadaṁ yataḥ, ma na bhuvam hi bhuya sam iti premat mani kṣyate (8).  =======================================...

  ======================================================================================================= Tuesday 24, June 2025, 08:50. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 1.6. Swami Krishnananda Chapter 1: Introduction to the Upanishads-6. Post-6. ====================================================================================================== The Upanishads come last. These are the most difficult part of the Vedas. We can have some idea of what the Veda Samhitas are, what the Brahmanas are, what the Aranyakas are, but it requires deep thinking and a chastening of our psyche before we can enter into the subject of the Upanishads. What do the Upanishads tell us? They tell us the mode, the modus operandi of directly contacting the Spirit of the universe through the Spirit that is inside us—not by word of mouth, not by speaking any word, not by performance of any ritual. There is no need of any temple, church or scripture; we want nothing except our own Self. When we rea...

  ========================================================================================== Monday 23, June 2025, 08:00.  TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD   Pertaining to the SELF-CREATION of Brahman there is a Shruti Mantram… Upanishad Part-2.  ABHAYA PRATISHTHAA   BRAHMAANANDA MEEMAAMSAA  Anuvaka 2.8 A Measure of “Relative Joy”  Bhashya F:  THE MAHAVAKYA OF THIS UPANISHAD  Coverage: Mantras From 2.8.13 to 2.9.1. Post-91. =========================================================================================== Mantram: 2.8.14: The Enlightened Knower: 15.sah yah evamvit, asmaat lokaat pretya; = Whoever knows That, on leaving this world,  16.etam annamayam aatmaanam upasamkraamati; = the self made of Food he first    17.etam praanamayam aatmaanam upasamkraamati;= attains; then of Prana ;  18.etam manomayam aatmaanam upasamkraamati; = then of Mind;  19. etam vijnanamayam aatmaanam upasamkraamati; =  then of Intell...

  ================================================================================================= Sunday 22, June 2025, 09:15. Article Scriptures Commentary on the Isa Vasya Upanishad: 10. Part-2-2 Swami Krishnananda POST: 10. ================================================================================================ “Which is better, meditation on the Universal Absolute or devotion to a personal God?” was a question raised by Arjuna at the commencement of the Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita. One would have certainly expected the Lord to say that contemplation on the Absolute is the best. He, of course, did not cease from saying that. But He added that this is a difficult type of meditation, impossible for those who are conscious of the body. Those who are immersed in the consciousness of the body cannot have, at the same time, a consciousness of Universality. The personality-consciousness with which we are infected will also compel us to visualise the Universal in the f...