Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, September 21, 2021. 9:00. AM. Chapter - I : THIRD BRAHMANA :  Chapter-1.THE SUPERIORITY OF THE VITAL FORCE AMONG ALL FUNCTIONS - 4.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Devas and the Asuras are two tendencies, and not substances. The tendency to unification is the divine principle, and the urge to diversification is the demoniacal principle. The sense-organs are incapable; they were defeated by the Asuras, which means to say, that the sense-organs cannot work up this unifying activity which is intended for regaining the original position of the deities of the senses. As mentioned earlier, the mistake that happened during the process of individual creation is a reversal of the subject and the object, placing them in wrong positions.  In the Aitareya Upaniṣhad, we h

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, September 19, 2021. 9:00. AM. Chapter - I : THIRD BRAHMANA :  Chapter-1.THE SUPERIORITY OF THE VITAL FORCE AMONG ALL FUNCTIONS - 3.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The gods, then, thought and decided: "Somebody else has to chant; the speech is defeated; it is not chanting properly; it is uttering wrong things; it blabbers; it flounders." Then they asked the other organs to chant, one by one. The eye was asked to chant. The speech is not able to do what is required. So the eye, the principle of seeing, was requested by the gods: "You will chant the Sāman for us." The eye rose up into action and t

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, September 15, 2021. 9:00.APM. Chapter - I : Ch-1. THIRD BRAHMANA : Chapter-1.THE SUPERIORITY OF THE VITAL FORCE AMONG ALL FUNCTIONS - 2.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The gods wanted to overcome the demons. The great exponent Ach?rya ?ankara tells us that the gods are always less in number, the demons are more in number, by which he means that people who follow their natural inclinations are more in number than those who are able to subdue the natural impulses. These urges of nature are designated as divine and undivine, from the way in which they work, and the purpose for which they work. And, the battle between the two forces was waged with the intention on either side for victory. The gods did not depend entirely on the strength of their arms, but wante

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, September 11, 2021. 9:30. PM. Chapter - I : Ch-1. THIRD BRAHMANA : Chapter-1.THE SUPERIORITY OF THE VITAL FORCE AMONG ALL FUNCTIONS - 1.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After having gone through the whole process of creation and given some idea of what are the constituents of this creation; how things in creation are related to one another; in short, what is the internal connection between the world and the individuals in their relationship with the Creator; now, some important conclusion is drawn on the basis of this doctrine of the creation of the universe, namely, the way in which forces work in the world. We have heard it said that there are divine forces and undivine forces, or, to put in a more intelligible phrase, the integrating forces and the disintegratin

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, September 08, 2021. 9:45. PM. Chapter - I : SECOND BRAHMANA :  13. THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE-7. Mantram-7.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "So׳kāmayata, medhyam ma idaṁ syāt, ātmanvy anena syām iti; tato׳śvaḥ samabhavat, yad aśvat, tan medhyam abhūd iti tad evāśva-medhasyāśva-medhatvam; eṣa ha vā aśva-medhaṁ veda, ya enam evaṁ veda. tam anavarudhyaivāmanyata; taṁ saṁvatsarasya parastād ātmana ālabhata: paśūn devatābhyaḥ pratyauhat. tasmāt sarva-devatyaṁ prokṣitam prājāpatyam ālabhante; eṣa ha vā aśva-medho ya eṣa tapati: tasya saṁvatsara ātmā, ayam agnir arkaḥ, tasyeme lokā ātmānaḥ; tāv etāv arkāśvamedhau. so punar ekaiva devatā bhavati, mṛtyur eva; apa punar-mṛtyuṁ jayati, nainam mṛtyurm āpnoti, mṛtyur asyātmā bhavati, etāsāṁ devatānām eko bhavati." T

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, September 05, 2021. 9:45. PM. Chapter - I : SECOND BRAHMANA :  13. THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE-6. Mantram-6.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-6. "so׳kāmayata, bhūyasā yajñena bhūyo yajeyeti; so׳śrāmyat, sa tapo׳tapyata: tasya śrāntasya taptasya yaśo vīryam udakrāmat. prāṇā vai yaśo vīryam; tat prāṇeṣūtkrānteṣu śarīraṁ śvayitum adhriyata, tasya śarīra eva mana āsīt." This passage simply repeats what has been told earlier, in a different way. He Willed: "May I sacrifice myself in more and more multifarious forms. May I become the many. Let me sacrifice myself in every form." The sacrifice of Consciousness in form is the creation of the universe. "May I do this act more and more, in greater intensity, in further diversity?" By that Wil

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, September 01, 2021. 8:10. PM. Chapter - I : SECOND BRAHMANA :  13. THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE-5. Mantram-5. continued .. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Vedas became threefold and fourfold – Rik, Yajur, Sāman, ātharvaṇ. Yajñān prajāḥ paśūn: The sacrificial processes, human beings, animals, etc. – everything became manifest. Sa yad yad evāsṛjata, tad tad attum adhriyata: Whatever was created was conceived by the consciousness, and there was an urge to grasp every object. The more one goes down in the level of creation, the greater is the desire for the object. The higher one goes, the less is the desire. The violence of desire becomes intense as consciousness goes down and down, until there is an intense feeling of separation of the subject from the object. The inte