Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

 ================================================================ ============================================================= Tuesday, May 24, 2022. 20:30. Chapter- II : FOURTH BRAHMANA :  THE CONVERSATION OF YAJNAVALKYA AND MAITREYI ON THE ABSOLUTE SELF : 5 continued ============================================================= So, what you love is a completeness of being which is reflected in the condition felt to exist between yourself and the object concerned. You must mark this point. What you love is only the condition that you imagine to be present in the state of the possession of the object. But that state can never be reached, for the reason already mentioned. So, nothing is dear in this world. What is dear is the condition which you intend to create, or project in your own being by an imagined contact with the object. So, not one person is dear in this world, but what is dear is that condition which is imagined to be present after the possession of that object or ...

 ================================================================ ================================================================ Wednesday, May 04, 2022. 21:45. Chapter- II : FOURTH BRAHMANA :  THE CONVERSATION OF YAJNAVALKYA AND MAITREYI ON THE ABSOLUTE SELF : 5 continued ============================================================== The desirability of the object is, again, a condition of the mind. It is a perception of the mind in the contour of the object, of certain characters which are necessitated by the mind. The mind is a pattern of consciousness. You may call it a focused form of consciousness, a shape taken by consciousness, something like the shape the waters of the ocean may take in the surge of the waves. A particular arrangement of consciousness in space and time may be said to be a mind, whether it is a human mind or otherwise. This particular arrangement of consciousness is naturally finite. Every particularised shape or form is finite, merely because of the...

 ============================================================ . ============================================================ Thursday, April 14, 2022. 19:00. Chapter- II : FOURTH BRAHMANA :  THE CONVERSATION OF YAJNAVALKYA AND MAITREYI ON THE ABSOLUTE SELF : ============================================================== Mantram : 5.  "sa hovāca: na vā are patyuḥ kāmāya patiḥ priyo bhavati, ātmanas tu kāmāya patiḥ priyo bhavati:  na vā are jāyāyai kāmāya jāyā priyā bhavati, ātmanas tu kāmāya jāyā priyā bhavati;  na vā are pūtrāṇāṁ kāmāya putrāḥ priyā bhavanti, ātmanas tu kāmāya putrāḥ priyā bhavanti;  na vā are vittasya kāmāya vittam priyam bhavati, ātmanas tu kāmāya vittam priyam bhavati;  na vā are brahmaṇaḥ kāmāya brahma priyam bhavati, ātmanas tu kāmāya brahma priyam bhavati;  na vā are kṣatrasya kāmāya kṣatram priyam bhavati ātmanas tu kāmāya kṣatram priyam bhavati;  na vā are lokānāṁ kāmāya lokāḥ priyā bhavanti, ātmanas tu kāmāya lokāḥ p...

 ============================================================== ============================================================= Friday, March 25, 2022. 19:00. Chapter- II : FOURTH BRAHMANA :  THE CONVERSATION OF YAJNAVALKYA AND MAITREYI ON THE ABSOLUTE SELF :  Mantram : 4.  (Spoken on 8 February 1977) ================================================================ Mantram : 4.  "Sa hovaca yajnavalkyah, priya bata are naa sati priyam bhasase;  ehi, assva, vyakhyasyami te; vyacaksanasya tu me nididhyasasva iti." "Sa hovaca yajnavalkyah, priya bata are naa sati priyam bhasase; ehi, assva," :  "So, now I shall speak to you the secret of all these things."  vyakhyasyami te; vyacaksanasya tu me nididhyasasva iti." :   "Listen to me with rapt attention. I shall tell you the secret of this great problem that you have posed before me; the question that you have put; the difficulty in the ascent on the part of people to become permanently happy, wh...

 ============================================================ ============================================================ Monday,March 07, 2022. 20:00. Chapter- II FOURTH BRAHMANA: THE CONVERSATION OF YAJNAVALKYA AND MAITREYI ON THE ABSOLUTE SELF Spoken on 8 February 1977. =============================================================== The present section is a narration of the conversation that appears to have taken place in ancient times between the Sage Yājñavalkya and his consort Maitreyī. 1.maitreyī, iti hovāca yājñavalkyaḥ, ud yāsyan vā are 'ham asmāt sthānād asmi; hanta hanta, te 'nayā kātyāyanyāntaṁ karavāṇīti. - Maitreyī, iti hovāca yājñavalkyaḥ : The great Master Yājñavalkya speaks to Maitreyī: ud yāsyan vā are 'ham asmāt sthānād asmi; hanta hanta, te 'nayā kātyāyanyāntaṁ karavāṇīti.  "I am going to retire from the life of a householder and enter into the fourth order of life, and therefore am now intending to arrange the division of property between you ...

 ============================================================== ============================================================== 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 ...