Posts

Showing posts from August, 2022

Isavasya Upanishad - 11. Swami Krishnananda

Image
 ======================================================================== ========================================================================= Tuesday, August 30, 2022. 06:00.   Mantras-6 & 7. Post-11. ======================================================================== MANTRAS 6 AND 7 Who sees all beings in his own Self and the Self in all beings, - he does not shrink away from anything, i.e., does not get disgusted with anything. In whom, the knower, all beings have become the Self, - to him, who beholds unity, where is delusion, where is sorrow?  The person who has established himself in the Absolute Self sees everything situated in himself, because he is the support and the possibility of all beings. This realisation comes to him through absolute renunciation which means the transcendence of all particular forms and diving into the general substance which enters into the very fibre of the particularities.  Because of this knowledge of the oneness of all beings there is

Isavasya Upanishad - 10. Swami Krishnananda

Image
 ======================================================================== ========================================================================= Wednesday, August 10, 2022. 06:30   Mantras- 4 & 5.  Post-10. ====================================================================== Mantram-4. anejad ekaṁ manaso javīyo nainad devā āpnuvan pūrvamarṣat, tad dhāvato'nyān-atyeti tiṣṭhat tasminn apo mātariśvā dadhāti (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-5. tad ejati tan naijati tad dūre tad vad antike, tad antarasya sarvasya tad u sarvasyāsya bāhyataḥ (5) ======================================================================== These two mantras explain to whom we are to dedicate our actions. It is to tat, i.e., īśvara. Where is He? What does He do?  Īśvara has no motion, no activity, and no vibration. He is just Existence which has no action. Sattā sāmānya, parama sattā are Its nomenclatures.