Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

 =========================================================================== =========================================================================== Monday, December 27, 2021. 8:00.PM. The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad : Discourse-8 (8 Febrauary 1977)  Chapter- I  Fourth Brahmana : Creation from the Universal Self : 1. ========================================================================== Fourth Brahmana CREATION FROM THE UNIVERSAL SELF  Passing on to the fourth Brahmana, we actually go to a different subject  altogether. As a matter of fact, this fourth section is the most important portion in the first chapter. It is a grand description of the story of creation, right from the beginning up to the lowest level. And incidentally, a mention is made of the strata of Reality through which the descent takes place and also the degrees of Reality through which the ascent has to take place, reversely. So, in this sense, the fourth section, which is called the Purushavidha-Brahmana, is a qu

========================================================================= Swami Tapovanam ( Gurudev to Swami Chinmayananda ) ======================================================================== Sunday, December 26, 2021. 7:00. PM. The Essence of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad- Introduction - 4. ====================================================================== The Upanishad promises us a freedom which is above the turmoil of all earthly existence. It can make us happy perennially under every condition, even after death—not merely in this life.  In fact, the Upanishad assures us that death is not a bar, and not a fear.  There is no such thing as death as we think of it. It is another kind of process which is intended for the chastening of the soul in its march towards a greater perfection; and perfection is what we ask for, not pleasure.  This is what the Upanishads tell us, on which the Brihadaranyaka contemplates in vast detail. --------------------------------------------------

 ========================================================================= ======================================================================== Tuesday, December 07, 2021. 8:00.PM. The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad : Discourse-8 (8 Febrauary 1977)  Chapter- I  Third Brahmana 1.The Superiority of the Vital force among all functions -18. ======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ”Mrtyor mamrtam gamaya: Lead me from death to that which is immortal.”The world is of mortality, and the prayer is to take us to the world of the Immortal. The world is mortal because everything is dying here; everything is perishable. It is seen now, and tomorrow it is not; like a bubble does it burst.  We do not know what is now and what is the next moment. Such is the condition of things here. And how can we say that anything is real? Can anything be regarded as

 ==================================================================== =================================================================== Thursday, December 16, 2021. 8:00. PM. The Essence of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad- Introduction -3. ================================================================= The texts, known as the Upanishads, are spread out throughout the range of Vedic literature, and each section of the Veda has its own Upanishad or Upanishads. The Brihadaranyaka is the most important of them; it is very rarely studied by people and rarely discussed about. The ‘Brihadaranyaka Upanishad' means the great forest of knowledge'. It is really a forest of every aspect of spiritual knowledge. One can find everything there, as one finds in a forest.  And this Upanishad, particularly, is never studied by students, nor is it taught by tutors, because of its complicated structure, difficult to grasp, and not safe also to communicate if its meaning is not properly rendered. I

 ========================================================================================= ====================================================================================== Tuesday, December 07, 2021. 8:00.PM. THE BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD  : DISCOURSE-8 (8 FEBRUARY 1977)  CHAPTER I  Third Brahmana 1.THE SUPERIORITY OF THE VITAL FORCE AMONG ALL FUNCTIONS -18 ===================================================================================== We always expect something better. We never imagine that the world will be worse. It will be better than today, we think. This positivity present in our life, and the confidence we have that we shall live tomorrow, though there is no certainty about it, is the reflection of reality in us. Who tells you that you will live tomorrow? But you have a confidence that you will be alive. This is due to the presence of an eternity, masquerading in our own personalities, invisible, and yet present. But yet, there is insecurity. We have a suspicion that

========================================================================== =========================================================================== MONDAY, DECEMBER 06, 2021. 7:00. PM. THE ESSENCE OF THE BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD  : INTRODUCTION-2. =========================================================================== ======================================================================== We have, in India particularly, a series of records available of such discussions of ancient masters, which are given to us today in the form of what we call the Veda-Rasi or the lore of sacred wisdom, usually known as the Vedas. It is a book of wisdom, or we may call it a group of books of wisdom, records of such discussions, findings, realisations and experiences of various experts who have tried to dive into the depths of ‘being' and brought out the pearls from the ocean of existence, and proclaimed the value of it all, and the meaning of it, to everyone. The Veda-Shastras are classifie