Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  ========================================================================== Tuesday 22, April 2025, 08:50.  TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD   Pertaining to the SELF-CREATION of Brahman there is a Shruti mantram… Upanishad Part-2.  ABHAYA PRATISHTHAA   Anuvaka 2.7 Established in “Fearlessness”   Post-83 . ================================================ Mantram 2.7.4 7-8: Being in contact with Him, we become Fearless;  when we separate ourselves from Him, we are filled with terror. Mantram - 2.7.5: Announcing the Shruti Quotation on Wholesome Fear ========================================================================== Mantram - 2.7.5: Announcing the Shruti Quotation on Wholesome Fear 11 tat api eshah shlokah bhavati =  To the same effect, there is the mantram… ========================================================================== 11 To express this idea there is the following Shruti quotation: (next Anuvaka) BRAHMAANANDA MEEMAAMSAA...

Chinmaya Mission: A historic moment unfolded in Durban, South Africa, on Friday, 4th April 2025—the seventh day of Chaitra Navratri—as the Bhoomi Poojan ceremony took place at Chinmaya Annapoorna, marking the beginning of the Annapoorna Devi Temple’s construction. Chinmaya Annapoorna is the sixth and newest manifestation of Pujya Gurudev’s vision in South Africa. It houses the ‘Nourish to Flourish’ initiative, which prepares and delivers thousands of nutritious meals daily to schools, orphanages, old age homes, and shelters in Durban. Having surpassed 75,000 meals in just six months, Swami Abhedananda (In-charge, CM South Africa) announced the next step: to build a temple for Mother Annapoorna at this sacred site. Devotees of all ages offered into the earth, while Swamiji led the rituals with detailed explanations, joined by priests, trustees, Brahmacharins, and committee members in placing sacred bricks and ploughing the ground. With the blessings of Pujya Gurudev, Mother Annapoorna, ...

  ========================================================================== Monday 20, April 2025, 11:00. MANDUKYA UPANISHAD  GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA Agama Prakarana – “The Scriptural Treatise” GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA:  PART 4/4:    ALAATA-SHANTI PRAKARANA (100 mantras):  Quenching the Firebrand: The Illusion of CAUSALITY   Karika Section 4.6:   Mantras - 33-41 (9 No.)  Mantram - 4.39: The Evidence of Emotional Reaction Post-52. =============================================================================== Mantram - 4.39: The Evidence of Emotional Reaction 1  Asat jaagarite drishtvaa, = By seeing an unreal object in the waking state, and  2  swapne pashyati tanmayah; = then in dream, one is emotionally affected in both  3  asat swapne api drishtvaa cha, = But seeing an unreal in both. object in dream, (and being so  4  pratibuddhah na pashyati. = affected), one does not see it upon waking.  =====...

Chinmaya Mission: 19-04-2025 Marking a significant milestone in its journey of service, Chinmaya Mission Hospital inaugurated its new Super Specialty Outpatient Department (OPD), a dedicated facility designed to elevate patient care with greater focus, comfort, and efficiency. The day commenced with a traditional puja, setting a sacred and serene tone. This was followed by the official inauguration, led by Swami Brahmananda and Swami Adityananda, who performed the ribbon-cutting ceremony and lit the ceremonial lamp, blessing the occasion with their presence and goodwill. The newly launched OPD houses 10 state-of-the-art consultation chambers, thoughtfully designed to support specialised medical services in a patient-friendly and efficient environment. This expansion reflects the hospital’s continued commitment to delivering compassionate, high-quality healthcare to the community. The ceremony concluded with a heartfelt vote of thanks delivered by Dr. Sudhir U, Managing Director, who ex...

  ================================================================================= Friday 18, April 2025, 18:25. Article Scriptures The Mandukya Upanishad: 5.  Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================= We have passed through various lives; we have taken many births. This is one link in the long chain in the births that we have undergone, maybe thousands in number. In every birth we think something, feel something and do something; and every thought, every feeling and every action creates an impression in the psyche. The psyche is nothing but the individualised center of consciousness. This impression is nothing but a remnant of a desire remaining after a particular experience. If we see something, we would like to see it again. If we like something, we want to continue that liking again and again, as much as possible. The like and dislike, so-called, which is the basic operation of the mind of the individual, creates...

============================================================================== Thursday 17, April 2025, 10:45. Article Scriptures Commentary on the Isa Vasya Upanishad: 4. Swami Krishnananda Part: 4. ================================================================================ International organisation, whatever it be, gives a satisfaction. It gives a satisfaction not because of the heaps of bodies that form that organisation, but because an unknown element operates in and through the media of these individuals which appear to form the members of this organisation. An organisation is not a bundle of members, just as our life is not a heap of these physical parts. Many people sitting together do not make a society, just as a heap of legs, hands, noses and eyes do not make a man; and so is the case with international organisations and world systems. The physical part is the secondary aspect thereof. There is an unknown element pervading everything. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam: a ruling pri...

================================================================================================ Wednesday 16, April 2025, 11:00. Books Upanishads The Realisation of the Absolute:  Chapter 1: Introduction - 3. Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================================= Truth and Its Quest: The Upanishads do not declare that Truth is a state of dynamic change and action, all which marks limitation and imperfection, but one of perennial calm, limitless joy and permanent satisfaction. Change is othering, altering, movement, which is activity, an effort exercised to achieve an unachieved end, which is the characteristic of an unsatisfied imperfect being. This cannot be the Nature of Truth, for Truth is ever-enduring and has no necessity to change itself. Change is the quality of untruth and the Upanishads assert that Reality is Self-satisfied, Self-existent, Non-dual, Tranquil and utterly Perfect. An appeal to the inwardness of ...