The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad -1.5 Swami Krishnananda
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Monday, May 18, 2020.
1.Introduction -5.
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#The seers of the Upanishads were bent upon entering into the kernel of Reality by casting off all vestures which limit human life, and attaining a kind of attunement with it, if necessity arose, and the unconditioned was plumbed and experienced.
#So, in a way, we may say that the Upanishad texts are records of experiences and explanations of Masters who set themselves in tune with ultimate Truth.
##Such are the Upanishads.
##It is a very strange word, 'Upanishad', which is supposed to mean a secret knowledge, not to be imparted to the uninitiated or to the common public who are wedded to the exoteric approach only, who are totally conditioned in their life, and who cannot rise above the bias of sense life and social regulations.
###Hence the Upanishad wisdom was kept very secret. It was never imparted to anyone except the near disciples who went to the Masters for training and underwent discipline for a protracted number of years, and made themselves fit to receive this knowledge which is unconditional. That was the greatness of it, and that was also the danger of it, because it is unconditioned.
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#The Upanishads, therefore, are mystical revelations, secret wisdom; and, as the word itself denotes, they are supposed to be listened to, heard about, or learnt from a Master by one's being seated in front of him, beside him, near him U pa,ni,shad.
#When the word splits, it is split into its components, and it is supposed to be the meaning of a knowledge that is secretly obtained from a Master by being seated near him in holy reverence and obedience. 'Sit near' – that is the literal meaning of the term, Upanishad.
##Sit near the Guru, the Master, and receive the wisdom by attunement, at-one-ment of being. This is the peculiarity of Upanishad knowledge.
##It is not like science or art or any other exoteric learning that we can have in a College or a University. It is nsot a lecture that is delivered, but a wisdom that is communicated to the soul by the soul.
###That is the speciality of the Upanishad wisdom. It is a conversation between soul and soul, and not merely a discourse given by a professor to the students in a College. That is the speciality of the Upanishad wisdom. It is a light that is to mingle with another light. Hence, the Upanishads were kept as greatly guarded secrets.
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Monday, May 18, 2020.
1.Introduction -5.
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1.
#The seers of the Upanishads were bent upon entering into the kernel of Reality by casting off all vestures which limit human life, and attaining a kind of attunement with it, if necessity arose, and the unconditioned was plumbed and experienced.
#So, in a way, we may say that the Upanishad texts are records of experiences and explanations of Masters who set themselves in tune with ultimate Truth.
##Such are the Upanishads.
##It is a very strange word, 'Upanishad', which is supposed to mean a secret knowledge, not to be imparted to the uninitiated or to the common public who are wedded to the exoteric approach only, who are totally conditioned in their life, and who cannot rise above the bias of sense life and social regulations.
###Hence the Upanishad wisdom was kept very secret. It was never imparted to anyone except the near disciples who went to the Masters for training and underwent discipline for a protracted number of years, and made themselves fit to receive this knowledge which is unconditional. That was the greatness of it, and that was also the danger of it, because it is unconditioned.
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2.
#The Upanishads, therefore, are mystical revelations, secret wisdom; and, as the word itself denotes, they are supposed to be listened to, heard about, or learnt from a Master by one's being seated in front of him, beside him, near him U pa,ni,shad.
#When the word splits, it is split into its components, and it is supposed to be the meaning of a knowledge that is secretly obtained from a Master by being seated near him in holy reverence and obedience. 'Sit near' – that is the literal meaning of the term, Upanishad.
##Sit near the Guru, the Master, and receive the wisdom by attunement, at-one-ment of being. This is the peculiarity of Upanishad knowledge.
##It is not like science or art or any other exoteric learning that we can have in a College or a University. It is nsot a lecture that is delivered, but a wisdom that is communicated to the soul by the soul.
###That is the speciality of the Upanishad wisdom. It is a conversation between soul and soul, and not merely a discourse given by a professor to the students in a College. That is the speciality of the Upanishad wisdom. It is a light that is to mingle with another light. Hence, the Upanishads were kept as greatly guarded secrets.
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