Kenopanishad : ( 18/01/2013. )

 ====================================================================== ======================================================================= Sunday, September 04, 2022. 09:30. SECTION TWO MANTRAS 1 TO 3 Post -6. ======================================================================= Section-2. Mantras 1 to 3 : The realisation of Brahman does not take the form of personal experience. One cannot say or tell that one has known one’s Self well, because everything that is known becomes an object. The Self is the knower of all, and is not known by anything. To say that one has known it is to limit it, and to say that one has not known it is, again, to limit it. The knower does not know anything other than the knower, which cannot be called the knowledge of the knower. Knowledge works on a dualistic basis. But the Self is non-dual. There is no knower other than the Self. It alone appears as the one and the many, as the experiencer, and also the experienced. The question of the knower, ...

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Monday, August 15, 2022. 06:50. SECTION 1 : MANTRAS - 4 TO 8 Post -5. ======================================================================= MANTRAS 4 TO 8 : Brahman should be known to be other than what can be expressed by speech, thought of by the mind, seen by the eyes, heard by the ears, or revealed by life's functions. The nature of Truth can be known through denials alone. We cannot call Brahman sat, because it is the opposite of asat. It cannot be called asat, because it is the opposite of sat. It cannot be called sadasat, i.e., a combination of sat and asat, because this becomes self-contradictory. It cannot be said to be beyond sat and asat, because this is unintelligible.  Thus we are cornered in every way, and all definitions of Brahman become impossible. The only way of ascertaining it is, therefore, to deny everythin...

 ======================================================================== ========================================================================= Monday, July 25, 2022. 20:00. SECTION 1 : MANTRAM- 3. Post -4. ======================================================================== Neither the eye nor the speech nor the mind can reach Reality. These instruments of knowledge reveal objects, not the subject. The subject is the source from which these instruments proceed like rays. The rays are projected outwards, not inwards. Even as fire cannot burn itself, the Self cannot know itself through these instruments. The mind wills and determines with respect to what is within the province of its knowledge. But it cannot will and determine with respect to the Self, because the Self is not a substance which can have relations with anything. It is neither the known nor the unknown. It is not the known because there is no means of knowing it. All our means are phenomenal. What is perishable...

 =============================================================== ================================================================ Thursday, July 07, 2022. 07:00. SECTION 1 : MANTRAM -1. &  MANTRAM- 2. =============================================================== MANTRAM - 1. The Self is the controller and the director of the mind, prana and senses. It acts without a body and without a mind. Its action is not a movement, but the law of existence. Its very existence actuates the phenomena of the five external sheaths. These sheaths have borrowed existence and borrowed consciousness. Whatever appears to be good in them belongs to the Self, and whatever imperfection there is, that belongs to the five sheaths. The Self is the cause of external activity even as the sun or the lamp is the cause of worldly work. It is unaffected by actions. It does not do anything, but everything is done because of it. All actions are controlled by the law of Absoluteness. This accounts for the ...

========================================================================= ========================================================================= Saturday, June 18, 2022. 21:30. SECTION 1 : MANTRAM 1. ========================================================================= SECTION 1 : MANTRAM 1. The Disciple’s Questions ========================================================================= "kena ishitam patati  preshitam manah, kena pranah prathamah praiti yuktah; kena ishitaam vaacham imaam vadanti, chakshuh shrotram kah u devah yunakti." The Disciple Asks: ============================================ 1 kena ishitam patati  preshitam manah, = By whom willed and directed does the mind alight upon its objects? 2 kena pranah prathamah praiti yuktah; = Commanded by whom does the main vital air proceed to function? 3 kena ishitaam vaacham imaam vadanti, = By whose will and direction do men utter speech? 4 chakshuh shrotram kah u devah yunakti. = The eyes and the ears – (tow...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Monday, May 30.05.2022. 19:30. 1. INTRODUCTORY - 2. ========================================================================= Karma and jnana - karma is a modification of the present state into another state, directed by a necessity. Every action is based on a voluntary or involuntary desire, expressed or potential. One does not move without a purpose, and every purpose is a limitation, which shows that the actor is not complete in himself. But knowledge is not an action. Knowledge is being. If knowledge is an action it should be a means to some other end, but we do not find any end to be reached beyond knowledge. Knowledge is something like attaining to oneself, which, if it is called a process, would contradict experience. One cannot reach oneself or attain oneself or move towards oneself except by knowing oneself. A person who is asle...

 ============================================================== =============================================================== Monday, May 09.05.2022. 20:30. 1. INTRODUCTORY - 1. ============================================================== Karma and upasana act as steps leading to jnana. The immediate reality experienced by the human being is the physical body connected with the physical world. The function of the body is to act objectively in relation to external existence. It is never possible to keep one's individuality inactive, because activity is a necessity that urges the individuality to transcend itself in some other state that is superior to the preceding one. Action can be destroyed through action alone, even as iron is cut by iron. Individuality can be transcended through individuality. Upasana is a mental act, while karma may also be a physical act. Mind also is a constituent of individuality. The mind can be transcended through mind itself. The laws of the body and...