The Essence of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad : 1.2. Swami Krishnananda.
==================================================================================== Tuesday 14, July 2026. 07:00. Books Vedanta & Upanishads The Essence of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad : 1.2 Chapter 1: The Absolute and the Universe-2. Swami Krishnananda. ==================================================================================== The gods could not attempt this contemplation, they were not successful, because the Asuras attacked them in this way, from every side, but they succeeded when they employed not the senses or the ordinary mind for the purpose of this contemplation but the internal Prana which was in tune with the Cosmic Prana, which means to say that we become successful only insofar as we are in harmony with the Cosmic and we are defeated insofar as we are away from it. When speech, as the Upanishad tells us in this connection, was rid of the Asuric element in it, it ceased to be speech and became Agni or Fire, the Deity itself. Likewise, every sense-...