Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

=================================================================================================== Saturday 18, April 2026, 20:30. KATHA UPANISHAD: “A Leap into the Beyond": Parts 1 & 2  with Bhashya by Sri Adi Shankaracharya. 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 - 1.1.10: Boon 1: “Forgive my father”  Post-8. ====================================================================================================== THE FIRST BOON: And so, Nachiketas asks his boons one by one. Lord Yama has given young Nachiketas three blank cheques. What does the boy do with them? He thinks of his family first – the suffering of his father, the anguish in his mind of having had to lose his son in a fit of rage. Then he thinks of the welfare of others, his community, through gaining merit for them to go to higher wor...

=================================================================================================== Thursday 16, April 2026, 19:50. Books Upanishads Lessons on the Upanishads: 4.3. Chapter 4: The Isavasya Upanishad -3. Post-24. ===================================================================================================== Isavasyam idam sarvam:  “This creation is enveloped by the Almighty Supreme Being.” From the conclusion that we can draw out of our considerations on the very first session, it would follow that there is something which cannot be divided into parts, which is infinite in its nature, which is existing everywhere to such an extent that it may appear that it is the only thing existing. That only-existing 'Something' is the Ishvara that the Isavasya Upanishad speaks of. You have to somehow or other accommodate your mental operations to get tuned up to this interesting situation of there being Something which Alone Is—at all times, and outside which nothing ca...

  ======================================================================================================== Tuesday 14, April 2026, 18:40. ISAVASYA UPANISHAD: MEDITATIONS on the Self 18 Mantras on: “The All-Pervading Reality”  Wave 3: Mantras 9-15 (6 No.) The Integration of KNOWLEDGE: 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  B. SAMBHOOTI & ASAMBHOOTI Mantram - 12: Worship of Unmanifest & Manifest  Post-12. ========================================================================================================= B. SAMBHOOTI & ASAMBHOOTI: Mantram - 12: Worship of Unmanifest & Manifest  1. Andham tamah pravishanti = They enter into blinding darkness who   2. ye asambhootim-upaasate; = aim to conquer the Unmanifest cause of creation;  3  tato bhooya iva te tamo = but ...

===================================================================================================== Sunday 12, April 2026, 06:30.            KAIVALYA UPANISHAD: “The Homogeneity of Brahman”  from the Atharva Veda: 26 Mantras:  Reflections:  Swami Gurubhaktananda:  Mantram: 13 - The Dream and Deep Sleep Consciousness  Post: 9. ======================================================================================================= Mantram: 13 - The Dream and Deep Sleep Consciousness  5.  swapne sa jeevah, = In the dream state, the Jiva   sukha-duhkha-bhoktaa = experiences both pleasure and pain. 6.  swa-maayayaa = Maya creates by its own illusory power  kalpita-jeevaloke; = a world of imagination for the Jiva (to enjoy).  7.  sushupti-kaale, = In the state of profound deep sleep,   sakale vileene = everything merges into its cause, 8.  tamas abhibhootah = The Jiva is overpowered ...

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  ==================================================================================================== Thursday 09, April 2026, 18:45. Books Upanishad The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 6-4. Chapter 6: Light on the Analogy of a Painted Picture-5. 4.Isvara or the Universal God: 2. ===================================================================================================== The nature of Maya, taken independently, is inscrutable. In the Tapaniya Upanishad it is described as Jada (inert) and Mohatmaka (delusive). Its existence is proved by the personal experience, in everyone, of having a sufficient knowledge in regard to it. The inertness of Maya is that which we see in things like an earthen pot; delusion is that wherein the intellect gets stultified and cannot understand anything. For the ordinary people of the world, Maya is a reality, because it projects this world which is clearly seen by them as a fact; but to the logical mind, or the philosophical intellect, it is a mys...