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ISAVASYA UPANISHAD: “The All-Pervading Reality”: 16 - Swami Gurubhaktananda.

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  ===================================================================================================== Wednesday 29, July 2026, 06:30. ISAVASYA UPANISHAD: MEDITATIONS on the Self 18 Mantras on: “The All-Pervading Reality”  Wave 4: Mantras 15-17 (3 No.) - “The VISION of TRUTH” 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 - 16: The Vision of Truth: Post-16. ======================================================================================================= Wave 4: Mantras 15-17 (3 No.) - “The VISION of TRUTH” Mantram - 16: The Vision of Truth: 1.  Pooshan ekarshe yama = O Soorya, the son of Prajapati!  soorya praajaapatya = O Sun the Nourisher, O sole Seer, O controller of all, 2.  vyooha rashmeen = Disperse thy rays amooha tejah; = and gather up thy fiery L...

Commentary on the Panchadasi: 29. Swami Krishnananda.

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  ==================================================================================================== Sunday 12, July 2026, 04:30. BOOKS UPANISHAD  Commentary on the Panchadasi: 29.  Discourse 8 Chapter 2: Pancha Mahabhuta Viveka – Discrimination of the Elements Mantras 19-34 SWAMI KRISHNANANDA Post-29. ======================================================================================================= Mantram-22. Sato nāva yavāś śaṅkyās tadaṁśasyā nirūpaṇāt, nāmarūpe na tasyāṁśau tayo radyā pyanud bhavāt (22).  We should not even dream that there can be limbs inside Existence because then limbs must exist, and there cannot be a differentiation in Existence itself, as if there are parts of Existence. Tadaṁśasyā nirūpaṇāt: We cannot think that perhaps there are varieties or differentiations within Pure Existence because we cannot conceive fraction, divisibility, part, segmentation, in indivisibility. Nāmarūpe na tasyāṁśau: Names and forms, the variety of creation,...

KAIVALYA UPANISHAD: “The Homogeneity of Brahman” - 12. Swami Gurubhaktananda.

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==================================================================================================== Monday 20, July 2026, 21:30.            KAIVALYA UPANISHAD: “The Homogeneity of Brahman”  from the Atharva Veda: 26 Mantras:  Reflections:  Swami Gurubhaktananda:  Mantram - 16: The Efficient Cause of All.  Post: 12. ========================================================= Mantram - 16: The Efficient Cause of All.  5. yat param brahma sarvaatmaa, = That supreme Brahman is also the Self in all,  6. vishwasyaa yatanam mahat; = the ample support of the universe,  7. sookshmaat sookshmataram nityam,=  subtler than the subtle, and eternal –  8. tat twam eva twam eva tat. = “That alone thou art; thou alone art That!”  Commentary: The last mantram gives us a little hint as to what our real spiritual roots are. We learnt that God is immanent in the gross creation. That immanence is shown to be not just ‘synthet...