Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

------------------------------------------- Monday, September 21, 2020. 7:20.PM. 1.Introduction -15. ------------------------------------------- 1. This is to give a bare outline of how thoughts are developed in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.  We shall take up the study of the First Chapter in its proper order and consider, as the tradition goes, the meaning of the invocatory Mantram :  "Om Puurnnam-Adah Puurnnam-Idam Puurnnaat-Puurnnam-Udacyate,  Puurnnasya Puurnnam-Aadaaya Puurnnam-Eva-Avashissyate." Om Shaantih! Shaantih !! Shaantih !!! "Om Puurnnam-Adah Puurnnam-Idam Puurnnaat-Puurnnam-Udacyate, Puurnnasya Puurnnam-Aadaaya Puurnnam-Eva-Avashissyate." :   'That is Infinite, this is Infinite; from the Infinite does proceed the Infinite. On removing the Infinite from the Infinite, the Infinite alone remains.'  This is the chant of invocation which is recited at the beginning of this Upanishad. It is also chanted at the end of the study. This is the tradition

------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 29, 2020. 07:13.AM. 1.Introduction -14. ------------------------------------------- Then we have, as the Upanishad proceeds, the subsequent outcome of this principal exposition in the First Chapter, namely, the Second Chapter, where we are not told anything new. It is only an elaboration of the principle which is precisely stated in the earlier one.  As a matter of fact, the main content of the Upanishad is in the First, the Third and the Fourth Chapters. The Second is a secondary elaboration, and the Fifth and the Sixth are like an appendix and are not of much importance from the point of view of philosophical study, though they are very significant in one's practice of higher meditations. The central portion of the Upanishad is in the First, Third and the Fourth Chapters, which contain the peak of human thought, and offer an exposition of the highest philosophy the human mind has ever conceived. The discuss