Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

  ================================================================================== Friday 19, Apr 2024. 06:30. Taittiriya Upanishad Part-2. BRAHMANANDA VALLI PART 2: 9 No. Anuvakas (Chapters) THE BLISS THAT IS BRAHMAN Post - 54. ================================================================================== UPANISHAD SARA SANGRAH  Anuvaka 2.1  The Essence of the Upanishads: ================================================================================== “Satyam, Jnaanam, Anantam Brahman”  Bhashya A:  “On the Nature of BRAHMAN”  Coverage:   Mantram - 2.1.2 (3 Padas) ================================================================================== LINE 4:  yah veda nihitam guhaayaam parame vyoman  “He who knows It, hidden in the cave (of the heart),  as the transcendent Akasha . . .”  The question which this Line answers is:  Question 2: How do we realize that Brahman?  The answer given here specifically clarifies that this Brahman is realizable as non-different from one’s own in

#"Lord Rama, Ayodhya, Shri Rama, sanatan, Hindu religion, Hindu festival, Indian festival, Hindu dharma." ================================================================================== Thursday 18, Apr 2024. 06:15. 6 Chapters (64 Mantras) 4. PENETRATING BRAHMAN (Mantras - 33-43, 11 no.) triteeya mundake, prathamah khandah –  Here begins the first Section of the Third Canto. 5. THE “TWO BIRDS” METAPHOR # (Mantras - 44-53, 10 no.)*  THE SPIRITUAL ACCESSORIES Post - 50. ================================================================================== *50# - Mantram - 5.6 : The Path Ascending to Truth: 1  satyam eva jayate, na anritam, =  “Truth alone triumphs, not falsehood.”  2 satyena panthaa vitatah devayaanah; =“The path to the Divine is paved in Truth.”    3  yena aakramanti rishayah = Along it ascend the Seers,      hi aapta kaamaah,  who are done with all their desires,   4  yatra tat satyasya paramam nidhaanam. =  to That supreme Abode of Truth.  ===================

  ============================================================================== Wednesday 17, Apr 2024. 07:00. MANDUKYA UPANISHAD  GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA Agama Prakarana – “The Scriptural Treatise” ============================================================================== PART 1: Agama Prakarana (Mantras-29.) THE SYLLABLES OF “OM” Upanishad Section 3:  PRELIMINARIES:  Karika Section 4.1:    MANTRAM - 4.5: The Vedantic Approach  Post-23. =============================================================================== Mantram - 4.5: The Vedantic Approach:  1  Khyaapya-maanaam ajaatim taih, =  The theory of non-creation declared above  2  anu-modaamahe vayam; =  is what we (the Vedantins) approve of.  3 vivadaamah na taih saardham, = But we do not enter into their quarrel.    4  avivaadam nibodhata. =  Our view is free from all contradictions. Listen to it.  ============================================================================= 1-2  The two views used by the disputants in the above

==================================================================================== Tuesday 16, Apr 2024 06:30. Chapter 1. Section - 2: (25 Mantras): THE CHOICE: Mantram - 25: Simile: The Lord at His Meal  Post - 54. ===================================================================================== Mantram - 25: Simile: The Lord at His Meal  1  Yasya brahma cha kshatram cha = To the Self the Brahmana and Kshatriya classes  2  ubhe bhavatah odanah; = are both, as it were, a main dish of cooked rice;   3  mrituh yasya upasechanam kah = to Him death itself is merely a side dish – he who   4  itthaa veda yatra sah. =  knows thus (of sinful conduct), where would he be?  =================================================================================== The last  mantram of this chapter paints a rather humorous picture. The Self is depicted as being at His dinner table. The scene may be imagined as something quite awesome: It is midday and the Lord has just come home very hungry. The Ear

================================================================================== Monday 15, Apr 2024 07:10. Chapter 7: The Secret of Sadhana -1. ================================================================================== We hear in the scriptures that when creation was complete, a war took place between the Devas and the Asuras, the celestials and the demons. The Epics and the Puranas in India are replete with stories of Devasura Sangrama, the yuddha or the war continuously taking place between the gods and the demons. The gods sometimes had an upper hand, but mostly they were defeated. In the Upanishad we are told that the gods are lesser in number than the Asuras. Also in the epic of the Mahabharata, the Pandavas were lesser in number than the Kauravas. The evil forces are larger in quantum than the beneficent forces in the world. Acharya Sankara, while commenting on the Upanishad, tells us that it is quite obvious because the impulse towards evil, which is the urge towards