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, cre...

 ======================================================================== ===================================================================== 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  If I can exist minus something, then that thing from which I am withdrawn is not me, really speaking.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 sa...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================== 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 sugges...

 ====================================================================== ===================================================================== Tuesday, November 30, 2021. 7:00.PM The Mandukya Upanishad -3. ===================================================================== We have heard that Sri Krishna manifested the Viratsvarupa before Arjuna. In the Purusha Sukta we also have some sort of description of the Cosmic Being conceived as animating the whole physical cosmos. By 'physical cosmos' we have to understand here not merely this physical earth, but all the layers of externality which are computerised, as it were, into fourteen categories known in Sanskrit as Bhurloka, Bhuvarloka, Svarloka, Janaloka, Maharloka, Tapoloka and Satyaloka.  The whole cosmos, in all the levels of its manifestation, is at once an object of the awareness of this Cosmic Being. Such an awakened, waking state, as it were, of the cosmic consciousness is Virat, also known as Vaishvanara in the langua...

  ====================================================================== Swami Swaroopananda November 22 at 9:06 PM  ·  Chinmaya Tapovan Ashram is located in the idyllic valley of Sidhbari, where this great institution was founded by Pujya Gurudev, to impart in-depth learning of the Gita and the Vedantic scriptures. Seekers can find themselves within the heart of nature, surrounded by majestic Himalayan peaks, imbibing knowledge at the various camps and discourses conducted at the Sandeepan HIM. The entire campus has a positive, vibrating energy drawn from Gurudev’s samadhi alongside the Shri Rama and Shri Hanumana temples. ======================================================================= Wednesday, November 24, 2021. 7:00.PM The Mandukya Upanishad -2.  ====================================================================== Then there are the five pranas – the prana, or the vital energy in us, operates in five ways. When we breathe out, expel breath, the prana i...

 ================================================================= ================================================================= Thursday, November 18, 2021. 9:00.PM The Mandukya Upanishad -1. Swami Krishnananda   ===================================================================== Yesterday 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 ...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, March 09, 2021. 10:44. AM. Section 8: The Atman as the Pranavam-4. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Om, in its fourth or transcendent state, is Atman itself. There is a soundless state of Pranava that is Existence itself. All sounds and vibrations merge into Existence, and Existence is One. We may call it Pranava in its Amatra state or as Atman in its indescribable state of Being. Pure Existence is the merging together of Pranava and the Atman. Amatrascaturthah avyavaharyah: The fourth state of Pranava is that with which we cannot have any dealings, as with objects, words or sounds, such as in connection with usages in language. Prapancopasamah: All the world of sound ceases here in this soundless state of Pranava. Sivo'dvaitah: It is most auspicious, blessed and non-dual like the Atman, because it is The Atman. Omkara atmaiva: This Omk...