Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

=================================================================================== Friday 22, November 2024, 06:10. Upanishads: The Secret of the Katha Upanishad:  Swami Krishnananda. Discourse No. 4 (continued) Post - 24. =================================================================================== Extreme of any kind is opposed to yoga. Yoga is the course via media, the madhyama-marga in every type of engagement, physically, verbally as well as mentally. In our behaviour we must be moderate. We should not be excessive in our behaviour with others or with our own selves. When we talk, we should not talk the head off a person, as if the lid is open—go on talking until the man is tired and wants to get away. This is a weakness. Speak what is necessary. Speak in proper terms. Speak in the proper mood, and speak at the proper time, in a proper manner. Then you will succeed in your aims. You should not tell the wrong thing, at a wrong time, in a wrong manner. Nor should you be i...

=================================================================================== Thursday 21, November 2024, 06:30. Article:  Scriptures: The Kathopanishad:  Swami Krishnananda Post-4. =================================================================================== A vague answer comes forth in the Kathopanishad to this great question. A complete, satisfying answer can be found in certain other Upanishads, such as the Chhandogya and the Brihadaranyaka Upanishads. Tentatively Yama tells Nachiketas that when the body is shed, one takes rebirth. One can become anything according to the thoughts and the feelings entertained by the person during the tenure of this life. Our thoughts and feelings will congeal into a solid substance, as it were, of the personality which we will assume in the next incarnation. The process of incarnation is actually the process of the evolution of things. As I mentioned sometime earlier, the evolutionary process is the process of the cessation of...

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=================================================================================== Tuesday 19, November 2024, 06:50. Article Scriptures Upanishads The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad  Post-10. =================================================================================== The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is the vehicle of the teachings of this great master. Many questions were put to Yajnavalkya. One of the questions raised by a person in the audience was, “What is it that is inside and outside? What is its nature?” “Yes, I know that” said Yajnavalkya. “What is the good of saying 'I know that'?” said the person asking the question. “Tell me what it is. Everybody can say 'I know that, I know that'. Let me hear what it is.” Then Yajnavalkya gives a description of antaryami brahmana, as it is called. Much of the Vaishnava theology of Ramanuja Sampradaya is based on this doctrine of the interconnecting consciousness, or antaryami consciousness delineated by Yajnavalkya in one of ...

================================================================================== #6 Questions, 67 Mantras: “Questions from Disciples Answered.” ================================================================================== SUKESHAA’S QUESTION:  Query No 6: The Source of Power ================================================================================= Monday 18, November 2024, 06:10. Mantram-6.8: The Students Offer Filial Salutations!   Post-67. ================================================================================== Mantram-6.8: The Students Offer Filial Salutations!   1  Te tam archayantah: = While worshipping him, they said:   tvam hi nah pitaa, = “You indeed are our real Father*;   2  yah asmaakam avidyaayaah = Our ocean-like Ignorance – you have   param paaram taarayasi,” iti. = taken us beyond it to the other shore.”  3  namah parama rishibhyah! = Salutations be to the great seers!...

==================================================================================== Sunday 17, November 2024, 06:45. Taittiriya Upanishad Part-2. BRAHMANANDA VALLI PART 2: 9 No. Anuvakas (Chapters) THE BLISS THAT IS BRAHMAN Anuvaka 2.5  From Vijnanamaya to Anandamaya  Mantram- 2.5,2: Vijnanamaya Kosha as “Inner Self” of Manomaya Kosha  Post - 69. ===================================================================================== Mantram- 2.5,2: Vijnanamaya Kosha as “Inner Self” of Manomaya Kosha  5  tasya eshah eva shaareera aatmaa; = This Vijnanamaya  indeed is the embodied self,  yah poorvasya = of the preceding self, the Manomaya.  ================================================================================== 5  The Vijnanamaya Kosha is the inner Self that controls the Manomaya Kosha,  provided it is pure enough. Otherwise, the mind has its own ways and disobeys the intellect.  Whilst the mind is considered to be a bundle ...

============================================================================== Saturday 16, November 2024, 06:10. 6 Chapters (64 Mantras) Here begins the second Section of the Third Canto.  6. QUALITIES SEEN IN A SAGE  (Mantras -54-64, 11 no.)  64. Mantram - 6.11: Conclusion  Post - 65. ============================================================================== 64. Mantram - 6.11: Conclusion  tad etat satyam – That is the Truth (the conclusion).  ============================================================================= 1  rishih angiraah puraa uvaacha, = Thus did Rishi Angiraa in ancient times speak:   2    na etad acheerna = “No one who has not observed   vratah adheete; = any vow (renunciation), is fit to study this.  3   namah parama rishibhyah, = Our salutations to the great Rishis!  4 namah parama rishibhyah. = Our prostrations to the great Seers!  ======================================...