Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

 ============================================================== ============================================================== Sunday, February 13, 2022. 19:00. Discourse-1. Chapter- I  FIFTH BRAHMANA  : PRAJAPATI'S PRODUCTION OF THE WORLD AS FOOD FOR HIMSELF " Spoken on 8 February 1977. ============================================================== "What is this sevenfold food that you mention, and how is it connected with the consumers or eaters of food question? ============================================================== Mantram-2 : "'yat saptānnāni medhayā tapasā janayat pitā' iti medhayā hi tapasājanayat pitā. 'ekam asya sādhāraṇam' iti. idam evāsya tat sādhāraṇam annam, yad idam adyate.  sa ya etad upāste na sa pāpmano vyāvartate, miśraṁ hy etat. 'dve devān abhājayat' iti, hutaṁ ca prahutaṁ ca; tasmād devebhyo juhvati ca pra ca juhvati, atho āhuh, darśapūrṇamāsāv iti; tasmān neṣṭi-yājukaḥ syāt. 'paśubhya ekam prāyacchat' iti. ...

 ============================================================== #Glimpses of First Anniversary Celebration of 18th Vedanta Course First Anniversary Celebration of 18th Vedanta Course was celebrated on 5 February 2022 on the occasion of Vasant Panchami, in the holy presence of Pujya Swami Tejomayananda and Pujya Swami Swaroopananda at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai. ============================================================= Tuesday, February 08, 2022. 20:00. Discourse-1. Chapter- I  FIFTH BRAHMANA  :  PRAJAPATI'S PRODUCTION OF THE WORLD AS FOOD FOR HIMSELF Spoken on 8 February 1977. ============================================================= Now, this object of desire, in the language of the Upaniṣhad, is generally called 'food'. It is a peculiar term used in the Upaniṣhads only. 'Anna' is the word that is used in the Upaniṣhad. Anna means food, or a diet of the senses. So, the diet of the sense is the object of desire. All objects of desire are the food ...

============================================================== ================================================================ 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 yoursel...

=============================================================== ============================================================ 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 con...

========================================================================== ==================================================================== 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 caus...

 =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 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 Purush...

========================================================================= 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. ------------------------------------...