Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

============================================================== ================================================================ Friday, January 28, 2022. 6:00.PM. Chapter- I  Fourth Brahmana : Creation from the Universal Self : 1. Spoken on 8 February 1977. Discourse-10. ==============================================================  Because it asserted itself as the ‘Aham’, we call it ‘I-AM’. It has no other name. That was the name of God, and that is the name of God. There is no other name, because God is Pure Self-Consciousness. This is the reason why, says the Upanishad, that even today people refer to themselves as ‘I’.  Who are you?  It is ‘I’.  This is the answer one gives. If you knock at the door of someone’s house and call out, “Who is there,” the answer comes, “I,” Afterwards one may say, ‘my name is such-and-such’, but in the beginning ‘it is me’.  What is this ‘me’?  Nobody knows what it is, but that is the ‘you’, and so you assert yourself as the ‘me’ or the ‘I’. This fea

=============================================================== ============================================================ Tuesday, January 18, 2022. 6:00.PM. Chapter- I  Fourth Brahmana : Creation from the Universal Self : 1. Discourse-9  8 February 1977. ============================================================== Inasmuch as the Atman is the Absolute, and we cannot conceive of a relation of the Atman to space, time and cause, the Upanishad uses the word, Purushavidha, i.e., we have to regard this condition of ultimate causality, the ultimate cause as something equivalent to a Person. We regard God as the Supreme Person, because there is no alternative for us. The reason why we regard God as the Supreme Person is that we cannot conceive of a category of life which is superior to humanity.  There are stages and degrees of life beyond the human level, of course, but they are only possibilities for us, and not actualities. The conception of a cause should have some connection with t

========================================================================== ==================================================================== Thursday, January 06, 2022. 8:00.PM. Discourse-8 (8 Febrauary 1977)  Chapter- I  Fourth Brahmana : Creation from the Universal Self : 2. ===================================================================== Inasmuch as the Atman is the Absolute, and we cannot conceive of a relation of the Atman to space, time and cause, the Upanishad uses the word, Purushavidha, i.e., we have to regard this condition of ultimate causality, the ultimate cause as something equivalent to a Person. We regard God as theSupreme Person, because there is no alternative for us. The reason why we regard God as the Supreme Person is that we cannot conceive of a category of life which is superior to humanity. There are stages and degrees of life beyond the human level, of course, but they are only possibilities for us, and not actualities. The conception of a cause should