Mandukya Upanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

 ======================================================================= Chinmaya Mission Chinmaya Mission Peoria Ilinois, USA, joyously celebrated the long-awaited Moorti Sthapana - A Grand Loving Welcome to Maa Saraswati in August 2022. The sthapana was most special and memorable as it was graced by Pujya Swami Swaroopananda ji, Pujya Swami Shantananda ji and Pujya Swami Sharananada ji!! The preparatory ceremony started from August 11th with  Ankurarpanam, Kalasha Prathistha of 11 kalashas and Yantra Japa and lasted till 20th August. On August 20 pre-sthapana rituals with Ganesha puja and moola mantra homam in the presence of Pujya Swami Sharananandaji were performed. Swami Sharananandaji gave a benedictory speech blessing us on this occasion, followed by a cultural offering to Devi Saraswati. On August 21, Sthapana was performed in the presence of Mukhya Swami Swaroopananda ji, Pujya Swami Shantananda ji, and Pujya Swami Sharanananda ji. Swamijis placed the Saraswati yantra...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================= Tuesday, August 16, 2022. 06:00. POST-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 If I can exist minus something, then that thing from which I am withdrawn is not me, really speaking.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, that something is redundant. So body is a redundant thing; mind, intellect also are not us. We ...

========================================================================= ======================================================================== Tuesday, July 26, 2022. 19:45. POST-4. ======================================================================== Through nineteen mouths we experience objects of the world in this waking condition. We can conceive for our own intellectual satisfaction that the universe operates also in this manner, and God-consciousness, imagined to be operating through this waking condition everywhere, is an expanded form of our individualised consciousness. While we in our waking state know only certain things, God as the universal consciousness knows all things at the same time. This is briefly a description of consciousness involved in the waking state; a total physical perception in which the consciousness is involved is the objective world of waking state of consciousness. In the dream state something else happens. The actual physical world which is see...

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