Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  ======================================================================================================== Monday 22, December 2025, 19:30. BOOKS UPANISHAD  Commentary on the Panchadasi: 21.  Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality. Mantras 44-55 Mantras - 45&46. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA Post-21. ======================================================================================================= Mantram - 45. "Yadā malina sattvāṁ tāṁ kāma karmādi dūṣitām, ādatte tatparaṁ brahma tvaṁ padena tadocyate." (45).  Here is a description of the statement of the Upanishad: tat tvam asi. Tat is that Brahman Himself appearing as Ishvara creating the universe, both as an instrumental cause and as a material cause. The word tat in that statement of the Upanishad refers to Brahman appearing as Ishvara, causing the universe to appear as an instrument as well as material. Tvam means 'you'. It refers to an individual. The individual is constituted of the very same Brahm...

Swami Chinmayananda: Choose yourself this new year! There is a duty towards yourself. To live in self control, to eat, sleep properly, to exercise your body, to maintain a loving and peaceful attitude towards all and to educate yourself more and more in your shastra knowledge, so you can serve well the people around you. Never give up self study. This alone can add more brilliance and clarity to your discourses.  Worship the lord, meditate regularly. Be a fanatic in performing your daily prayer. Never give it up even for a day l, whether you are travelling or sick. This alone can bring sweetness into your words, and a special insistence in your speech that makes them fly directly into the head heart of your listeners. Will you choose yourself this new year? #selfloveisthebestlove #selfcaretip #newyearnewgoals #selfloveheals #selfdiscipline [new year 2026, self love, self care, self discipline, spiritual practice, prayer, worship, blessings, sadhana, spiritual journey] See less ====...

================================================================================================ Thursday 18, December 2025, 06:45.            KAIVALYA UPANISHAD: “The Homogeneity of Brahman”  from the Atharva Veda: 26 Mantras:  Reflections:  Swami Gurubhaktananda:  #on the Series of 8 Lectures:  Swami Advaitananda. of the 15th Batch Sandeepany Vedanta Course held at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai: From 23rd November – 30th November 2012. Mantram - 3a: The Importance of Renunciation: Post: 4 =================================================================================================== Mantram - 3a: The Importance of Renunciation:  9.  na karmanaa na prajayaa dhanena =  Not by work, nor by progeny, nor by wealth, but  10.  tyaagena eke amritatwam aanashuh; = by renunciation alone, Immortality is attained.  =======================================================================================...

=================================================================================================== Monday 15, December 2025, 19:10. AITAREYA UPANISHAD: “By a Peasant for the Peasant” :   Composed by Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya Series of 10 Lectures - by SWAMI ADVAYANANDAJI Acharyaji, 15th Batch Vedanta Course AT SANDEEPANY SADHANALAYA, POWAI, MUMBAI February 15th – February 23rd, 2013. Reflections by SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA PART 1: Chapter - 1:  4 mantras:  The Theory of CREATION: Post-5. ==================================================================================================== Mantram - 1.4: The Eight Chief Devatas are Created: 11.  Tam abhyatapat = He (Brahman) brooded upon this “lump” (Hiranyagarbha);   tasya abhitaptasya = as He was thus brooding upon it,  i)  The Agni Devata: 12. Mukham nir-abhi-dyata, = i) A Mouth burst forth from it as a cleft,   yathaa andam; mukhaat = just as an egg crack; from the Mouth proceeded...

================================================================================================ Saturday 13, December2025. 19:20. KENA UPANISHAD: “Know That Alone as Brahman”:  on the Series of 14 Lectures by Swami Tejomayanandaji: Guruji, then Spiritual Head, Chinmaya Mission: at Chinmaya Tapovan, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand from April 8th – April 13th, 2013. Reflections: SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA From: A. Krishna Yajur Veda & B. Sama Veda THE DISCIPLE QUESTIONS THE GURU: Chapters - 4 Mantras:  34. Mantram - 1.3a : Beyond the Senses and Mind  Post-5. =========================================================== Mantram - 1.3a : Beyond the Senses and Mind: 1.  na tatra chakshuh gacchhati, =  The eye does not go there;  2.  na vaag gacchhati na manah; = Nor speech; nor the mind;  3.  na vidyah = We have no overall knowledge (of That),  na vijaaneemah, = nor know It in all its details;  4.  yathaa etad anushishyaat. = How can we give ...

  =========================================================================================== Turesday 09, December 2025, 19:40. KATHA UPANISHAD: “A Leap into the Beyond”:Parts 1 & 2  with Bhashya by Sri Adi Shankaracharyaji. on the 90 Lectures delivered by Swami Advayanandaji  KATHA UPANISHAD:  Part 1 – Total 71 Mantras Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda  Chapters 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3  Chapter 1.1: (29) Mantras Mantram -1.1.6: The Glory of Upholding Tradition  Post-5.  ============================================================================================== Mantram -1.1.6: The Glory of Upholding Tradition  Nachiketas to his Father:  1. Anupashya yathaa poorve = “Consider how your forefathers behaved.  2.  prati-pashya tathaa apare; = And consider how others behave (now).”  3.  sasyam iva martyah pachyate =  To himself: “Like corn does Man decay and die;  4 . sasyam iva aajaayate punah. =  like...

=================================================================================================== Sunday 07, December 2025, 06:25. TAITTAREYA UPANISHAD –  1: Sheeksha Valli:   Science of Vedic Chanting” -  MAHA-SAMHITAA UPASANAS Anuvaka 1.4  The “Great Word-Junctions Rishi Yajnavalkya  on the Series of 14 Lectures by  Swami Advayananda.  Reflections:  SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA. Post-5. ================================================================================================= Introduction to Upasanas: Each of the five Upasanas above is an exercise to be practised by the student. In an Upasana a symbol is used upon which the mind is focussed in order to be exercised. The symbol could be an object or an event. Through the present Upasanas, parrot-style repetition gives way naturally to a recitation with full awareness of meaning there develops an understanding of the sequence. In addition in which actions have to occur in order to obtain th...