Mandukya Upanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

 ================================================================ ================================================================ Friday, July 08, 2022. 08:00 POST-3. ================================================================ There are four functions of the psychic organ. The internal psyche, which is generally called manas—or mind, in ordinary language—has four functions. In Sanskrit these four functions are designated as manas, buddhi, ahamkara and chitta. Manas is ordinary, indeterminate thinking—just being aware that something is there. That is the work of the mind; that is manas. Buddhi determines, decides and logically comes to the conclusion that something is such and such a thing. That is another aspect of the operation of the psyche —buddhi, or intellect. The third form of the mind is ego, ahamkara, affirmation, assertion. “I know that there is some object in front of me and I also know that I know. I know that I am existing as this so-and-so.” This kind of affirmat...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= 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 ...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= 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 Īs...

 ============================================================= ============================================================= Tuesday, May 10, 2022. 20:00. Discourse - 6. ============================================================== So the transcendental being that we really are in the state of deep sleep is almost a negation of our existence, because of the heavy weight that is sitting upon us. Suppose I give you a very good lunch, very tasty, and five quintals of heavy weight I keep on your head at the same time – will you enjoy the food? Very tasty thing, but the five quintals on the head – unless that is removed, this eating has no meaning. So our own experience of transcendental awareness in deep sleep does not have any signification for us on account of the heavy weight of Karma potentials which compel us to think only in one way, in a stereotyped fashion – like blinkers, as it were – and we cannot think in any other way. Any number of lives we may take, births and births we ...

 ============================================================== =============================================================== Monday, April 18, 2022. 20:00. Discourse - 5. ================================================================ 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 impression in the m...

 =============================================================== ================================================================ Friday, April 01, 2022. 20:00. Discourse -4. ============================================================== There is a third state, called sleep, where not only are we not aware of the body, but even the psychological functions are not there. The mind does not think, the intellect does not decide, and we do not even know that we exist. Our existence itself is abolished, as it were; a nothing. It is a nothing of which we are not even aware that it is a nothing. To be aware that it is a nothing is something, but even to be not aware that it is a nothing – that is pure nothing, unadulterated. But, what is happening there? Are we dead? No; very much alive. Who told us that we are alive in sleep when we call it nothing and our awareness is totally obliterated by something? We are totally oblivious of all things happening there. When we did not even know that ...

 ============================================================ ============================================================== Sunday, March 13, 2022. 20:00. Discourse -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 language of the Upanishads. Individual...