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The Mundakoupanishad : Post-54. - Swami Krishnananda

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============================================================================== Monday 18, mar 2024. 06:55. Chapter 3: Section 2. Mantram- 7. POST-54. =================================================================================== Mantram-7. "Gatah kalah pancadasa pratidevatha devas ca sarve prati- devatasu,  karmani vijnanamayas ca atma pare'vyaye sarve eki- bhavanti." (3.2.7):  ================================================================================== All the faculties get dissolved. There are various faculties in us. There are five senses of knowledge, five senses of action, five pranas, and there is manas, buddhi, ahankara, chitta. These are the kalas, or the faculties. They suddenly melt like snow before the heat of the Sun. Gatah kalah pancadasa pratidevatha: Here fifteen faculties are mentioned, which are actually the five pranas, the five senses of knowledge, and the five senses of action. With the mind included, it becomes sixteen. But here fifteen are

Lessons on the Upanishads -1.3: Swami Krishnananda.

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===================================================================================== Sunday 17, Mar 2024. 06:45. Upanishads Chapter 1: Introduction to the Upanishads-3. Post-3. ==================================================================================== The whole universe of perception, the entire creation, may be said to be involved basically, at the root, in something which cannot be said to change. This is an adorable and most praiseworthy conclusion, and anything that is adorable is a worshipful something. These masters of the Vedas Samhitas, therefore, recognised a divinity in all things. There is a god behind every phenomenon, which is another way of saying there is an imperishable background behind every perishable phenomenon. The sun rises in the east, the sun sets in the west; clouds gather, pour rain and then go; seasons change; something comes, something goes; we are born, we become old and we also go. Everything is changing, everywhere, even in the vast universe of

The Secret of the Katha Upanishad: 6 - Swami Krishnananda

================================================================================== Saturday 16, Mar 2024 07:00. Discourse No. 2.1 Post - 6. ================================================================================== Discourse No. 2-1 We observed yesterday that our present experiences seem to be involved in a misconception. With this point of view, the instruction of the Katha Upanishad begins. When Nachiketas, the seeker, rejects the grand presents offered by Yama and insists on a practical answer being given to the question of the nature of the soul on its dissolution, the teacher recognises in Nachiketas a fit disciple to receive this supreme knowledge, and immediately goes to the very heart of the question. There are two sides of experience, which pull a person in two different directions: "Sreyas ca preyas ca manusyam etas tau samparitya vivinakti dhirah. Sreyo hi dhiro'bhipreyaso vrnite, preyo mando yoga-ksemad vrnite." This is the first precept of the great t

Commentary on the Isavasya Upanishad - 24. Swami Krishnananda.

google blogger image insertion not functioning. no action till day ======================================================================================= Friday 15, Mar 2024 07:30. SCRIPTURES UPANISHADS ISAVASYA UPANISHAD Post-24. ====================================================================================== Mantras 12 to 14 Into dense darkness they enter, who worship the Unmanifest; into greater darkness, as it were, they enter, who worship the Manifest. The results of these two Upasanas are different from each other. When the knowledge of the Manifest and of the Unmanifest are combined, one crosses over death through the Unmanifest and becomes immortal through the Manifest. The Unmanifest is the original condition of equilibrium of gunas, viz., sattva, rajas and tamas. This condition is the primordial matter that is the substance of the universe in its causal condition. This is the same as maya or prakriti. It is also called avyakrita or the undifferentiated. One who worship

The Chhandogya Upanishad - 52 : Swami Krishnananda

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  Chinmaya Mission:  In honour of the Second Seva Project by Chinmaya Mission Guwahati, the members of the Devi and Yoga groups, paid a visit to Amar Ghar at Patharquarry, a residence for the elderly, where they generously distributed groceries and fruits among the residents.  The event commenced with a serene Ganesh bhajan, followed by an enlightening speech about Chinmaya Mission by Seemarekha ji.  This was accompanied by Assamese Prarthana, a melodious Shiv bhajan, and the chanting of Geeta from chapter 12 by the Devigroup.  Brahmacharini Ananya Chaitanya ji shed light on the importance of chanting the Lord's name and shared the profound wisdom it carries.  She also delighted the audience with her captivating stories delivered in her unique style.  The session left a lasting impression on the attendees, who expressed their gratitude and requested more such sessions in the future. =========================================================================== Thursday 14, Mar 2024. 0

The Essence of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: 15. Swami Krishnananda.

🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 =============================================================================== Wednesday 13, Mar 2024. 08:00. Scriptures Upanishads The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad  Chapter 3: The Supreme Goal of Life - 2. Post-15. ================================================================================== The more you forget yourself, the more are you happy; and this tendency to forget oneself is the pressure of the Universal to manifest itself in the particular. When it is consciously experienced, it becomes Yoga practice; when it is unconsciously experienced, it becomes a rapture of the senses and a desire of the mind, which is binding in its nature. So, Yajnavalkya tells Maitreyi that all affections, all loves, all attractions, all pleasures, all happiness, anything that we like in this world, is ultimately our tendency to like the Absolute, and it is the Absolute casting its shadow on the various objects of sense which we mistakenly see in

PRASHNA UPANISHAD - 49 : Rishi Pippala.

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============================================================================= #6 Questions, 67 Mantras: “Questions from Disciples Answered.” ============================================================================== GAARGYA’S QUESTION Query No 4: =============================================================================== Tuesday 12, Mar 2024. 07:20. Q.4E – Attribute less & All-Knowing  Post-49. ============================================================================= Mantram - 4.10: Q.4E – Attribute less & All-Knowing  1.  Param eva aksharam pratipadyate  =  He attains the supreme Immutable itself,  sah yah ha vai :  = who realizes he is:  2.  tad acchhaayam, ashareeram,  =  that shadowless, bodiless,  alohitam, shubhram, aksharam.  =  colourless, pure, indestructible Being.  3.  Vedayate yastu, Somya, =O amiable one, he again who realizes this,  sah sarvajnah sarvah bhavati.  = becomes all-knowing, and all.  4.  Tad eshah shlokah:  = On this there is a Sruti Mantra