Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

  ============================================================================================ Sunday 16, Aug 2026. 18:30. Books Vedanta & Upanishads The Essence of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: 2.1. Next: Chapter 2: The Supreme Goal of Life-1. Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================== Chapter 2: The Supreme Goal of Life:1. The Second Chapter begins with the famous conversation between Balaki, the learned sage, and the king Ajatasatru, the dialogue actually hinging upon the subject of the conditioned Brahman and the unconditioned Brahman, the formed or the manifested aspect of Reality and the formless or the absolute nature of It; the learned accoster insisting upon the forms of manifestation as objects of meditation and the king who was more educated in this line emphasising, on the other hand, that no form, no particular manifestation can be regarded as complete in itself unless its universal background ...

  ================================================================================================================ Wednesday 12, Aug 2026. 05:30. Books Vedanta & Upanishads The Essence of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad : 1.4. Chapter 1: The Absolute and the Universe-4.. Swami Krishnananda. ========================================================================================== All the groups of individuals have to work together from the point of view of their own species at least, for the purpose of their ultimate good. The four 'Varnas' mentioned are the four capacities of individuals—the spiritual, the political or the administrative, the economic, and the working groups. The social groups are really not connected one with the other; they are individuals, of course. How can anyone bring individuals into a harmony or a united formation? How can you ask many people to think singly? This is not possible, obviously. So, the Upanishad tells us that God created what is called ...

================================================================================================ Wednesday 05, Aug 2026. 05:30. Books Vedanta & Upanishads The Essence of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad : 1.3  Chapter 1: The Absolute and the Universe-3. Swami Krishnananda. =============================================================================================== There is, therefore, a split of the One into two and the two becomes a multitude with the same creative urge continuing in every part of the manifested individualities; that means to say, there is a tendency to go down and down into greater and greater forms of objectivity. From the causal condition there is a descent into the subtle state and from the subtle there is a descent further into the grosser condition, which we call the five elements—earth, water, fire, air and ether, and everything that is constituted of these five elements. Thus, we have a cosmic integration with an implied multiplicity or, the other way r...