Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  =================================================================================================== Friday 23, January 2025, 05:10. 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 2 - 5 Mantras:  ABODES for the Devatas Post-7. ==================================================================================================== Mantram - 2.2: Cows and Horses – The Trial Abodes:  4 taabhyah ashwam aanayat; taah abruvan  = He brought a cow for them. They said:  na vai nah ayam alam iti. = “Indeed, this too is not sufficient  5  taabhyah ashwam aanayat; taah = He brought a horse to them. They said:  abruvan na vai nah ayam alam iti. = “Indeed, this too is not sufficient for ...

  ===================================================================================================== Wednesday 21, January 2025, 06:50. 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 - 1.4: 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....

=============================================== Monday 19, January 2025, 06:15. 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 - 1.1.7: Lord Yama Instructs on Hospitality Post-7. =============================================================================================== Mantram-1.1.8: Consequences of Inadvertence  1  Aashaa prateekshe, = “Hopes and expectations and merits gained     sangatam soonritaam = in good company & their friendly discourses.  2  cha ishtaa-poorte, = the beneficial results of sacrifices & pious gifts  putra-pashoon cha sarvaan; = such as having sons and many cattle – all   3  etad vringkte = these are destroyed, nullified,...

  ===================================================================================================== Saturday 17, January 2026, 17:25. 05::00. TAITTAREYA UPANISHAD  1: Sheeksha Valli:   Science of Vedic Chanting” -  MEGHA & SHREE UPASANA:   Anuvaka 1.4: Retentive Memory & Wealth: The “Great Word-Junctions Rishi Yajnavalkya  on the Series of 14 Lectures by Swami Advayananda. Reflections:  SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA. Post-7. ======================================================================================================= MEGHA & SHREE UPASANA:  Anuvaka 1.4: Retentive Memory & Wealth: WHILE THE PREVIOUS SECTION built up the student’s understanding of actions, that alone is insufficient in performing them. Other supporting help is needed. We now focus on three primary ingredients in action that make them succeed in producing results.  The Upasanas prescribed take the form of three Mantras by repeating which the stude...

  ==================================================================================================== Thursday 15, January 2026, 06:00. Books Upanishad The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 6-3. Chapter 6: Light on the Analogy of a Painted Picture-3. 3.Different Views of the Self: ================================================================= 3.Different Views of the Self: The varieties of non-perception of Truth have resulted in various doctrines of the nature of the Self. The Lokayatas or Charvakas, the Indian materialists, consider the visible as real. Inasmuch as the objects and the body alone are visible, nothing above these is regarded by them as real. They hold on mainly to perception as the main proof of knowledge, and consider the real to be that which is perceived by the senses. The object which is made up of five elements is held by them to be the true self, and they cannot envisage any other state of liberation than the death of the body. The famous Virochana of the Chh...

================================================================================================== Tuesday 12, January 2026, 20:40. ISAVASYA UPANISHAD: MEDITATIONS on the Self 18 Mantras on: “The All-Pervading Reality”  Wave 2: Mantras 4-8 (5 No.) on the 12 Lectures delivered: Swami Tejomayananda:  to the 15th Batch Vedanta Course:   at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai July 11th – July 16th, 2012 Reflections: Swami Gurubhaktananda  Post-9. ==================================================================================================== Mantram - 8: How the Lord Governs:  1.  Sah paryagaat shukram = He (the Atman) is all-pervading, bright,   akaayam avranam = bodiless and immaculate (scatheless);  2.  asnaaviragm shuddham = He is without muscles, pure,  apaapa-viddham; = and unpierced by evils.  3.  kavih maneeshee paribhooh, = He is wise, omniscient, transcendent,  swayambhooh yaathaa-tathyatah = and self...

======================================================================================================== Saturday 10, December 2025, 19:30. BOOKS UPANISHAD  Commentary on the Panchadasi: 22.  Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality. Mantras 44-55 Mantras - 47,48,49,50. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA Post-22. ======================================================================================================= Mantram - 47. "So'ya mityā divākyeṣu virodhāt tadi danta yoḥ, tyāgena bhāgayo reka āśrayo lakṣyate yathā." (47) means that Devadatta of Bombay is this Devadatta in Rishikesh. We have avoided the association of Bombay and Rishikesh, and identified the person as one single individual. In a similar manner, the identity of Brahman in the individuality of the jiva should be affirmed by the dissociation of factors which are secondary, and not essential. Mantram: 48. Māyā'vidye vihā yaivam upādhī para jīvayoḥ, akhaṇḍaṁ saccidā nandaṁ para brahmaiva lakṣyate (48).  As...

======================================================================================================= Thursday 08, January 2025, 19:00. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 3.6. Chapter 3: Preparation for Upanishadic Study -6. Post-20. ======================================================================================================= I have briefly told you something about the nature of karma yoga, or unselfish action—performance of duty for duty's sake as a standard method laid down before us by the ancient masters for cleansing the mind of the dross of extraneous desires for sense objects—and upasana is the love of God that you evince in your own self by daily worship performed in whatever way you would like to do it. In the beginning when you conceive of the Supreme Being, you have a spatio-temporal imagination of that Being. God is very big, very large, very far away, very great, adorable; you offer your prostrations to that Almighty as something lovable. Even the ...