Mandukya Upanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

 ================================================================= ================================================================== Thursday, December 30, 2021. 6:00.PM The Mandukya Upanishad - 6. ================================================================== 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 an i

 ======================================================================== ===================================================================== Monday, December 20, 2021. 7:00.PM The Mandukya Upanishad -5. ========================================================================= ============================================================================= Now, if consciousness must have existed in the state of deep sleep, we must have existed as consciousness only. We did not exist as a body, mind, intellect, or anything else. We did not know even that we were breathing at that time. We did exist as consciousness only.  So, do we believe that our essential nature is consciousness?  Because minus all these appurtenances of body, mind, intellect, etc., if we can exist nevertheless,  why should we imagine that we are the body, mind, intellect, etc.?  If I can exist minus something, then that thing from which I am withdrawn is not me, really speaking. If I can be safe without something, th

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Friday, December 10, 2021. 7:00.PM The Mandukya Upanishad -4. ======================================================================== So, the nineteen mouths of the waking condition are psychologically projected by the mind in the dreaming state also, and there also we have all these experiences, every blessed thing, as we have in the waking state.  The Mandukya Upanishad is a study of these states. It is said that if one properly understands the Mandukya Upanishad and its implications, one need not read any other Upanishad afterwards.  Mandukyam ekam eva alam mumukshunam vimuktaye – For the sake of the liberation of the soul, one Upanishad is sufficient, the Mandukya Upanishad, provided it is understood properly in its deep connotations.  We should not just read it only to understand of the lower meaning of it. The suggestion given by the M