Mandukya Upanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Sunday, June 19, 2022. 21:30. POST-2. ====================================================================== we observed that the human individual is a microcosmic specimen of the entire creative process of the cosmos. The layers or degrees of reality which constitute the composition of the universe of creation are also to be found in the human individual in the form of the kosas or the sheaths, as they are called – physical, vital, mental, intellectual and causal-known in the Sanskrit language as annamaya kosa, pranomaya kosa, manomaya kosa, vijnanamaya kosa and anandamaya kosa. These are the five layers of objectivity which, in a gradational form, externalise consciousness. The grosser the sheath, the greater is the force of externality, so that when consciousness enters the physical body we are totally material in our outlook, physical in o

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Wednesday, June 01, 2022. 19:00. PREFACE  1.INTRODUCTION : POST-1. ====================================================================== PREFACE : The First Section of the discourses expounds the meaning  of the great mystical symbol, Om, or Praṇava, as a  connotation as well as denotation of the Absolute.  The Second Section explains the nature of the Universal  Being, Vaiśvānara, or Virāt, as delineated in the Upanishad.  The Third Section propounds the mystery of Dream and  Sleep, as also the cosmic counterpart of this state, namely,  Hiraṇyagarbha, the Divine Immanent Being.  The Fourth Section is an exposition of the profound  significance of Sleep in the interpretation of the nature of the Spirit in man.  The Fifth Section is centred round the great theme, the  nature of Īsvara, the Supreme God of the Universe.  The Sixth Section concer