A Discussion on Isavasya Upanishad : ( 07/02/2013. )

 ============================================================== =============================================================== Wednesday, May 25, 2022. 19:00   Mantram-2.  Post-8. ============================================================== Mantram- 2. "Kurvan-neveha karmani jijiviceh-chatagm samah, evam tvayi nanya-theto 'sti na karma lipyate nare."   Mantram explains what our duty is. What is our duty? It is to act for isvara as His agent and not to act for your own self as an individual, a personality. If we should dwell on, meditate upon, and run towards Him and towards Him alone, we must do our duty also as an offering to Him; this has already been concluded earlier. We must understand that the world is but isvara's pratibimba, a reflection of Him. Thus we should have the feeling, ‘I am nothing, I have no standing, I am entirely dependent on Him alone'. With this feeling we should do our duty. All these elaborations are given in the form of at apho­...

 ============================================================== ============================================================== Saturday, April 16, 2022. 20:00   Mantram-1. (Continued) =============================================================== Kasya svid dhanam?  For this phrase also there are two meanings:  One from the relative and the other from the absolute point of view. What has been given to you, of that you are the owner. What you have earned with the sweat of your brow, that you enjoy. But what is earned by other people's sweat of the brow, do not even look at that. Do not let your mind go towards that. It is unlawful to do so. It is against moral and ethical laws. You have no right even to look at what you have not earned yourself. If you look at it, would that not lead you to desire it?  Therefore ma gṛdhaḥ—do not be greedy.  1.This is from the worldly point of view. -----------------------------------------------------------------------...

 ============================================================= ============================================================= Saturday, March 26, 2022. 19:30. Mantram-1. (Continued) ============================================================== 1. "Om Isavasyam idaṁ sarvam yat kiṁ ca jagatyam jagat, tena tyaktena bhunjitha, ma gṛdhah kasyasvid dhanam."  tena tyaktena bhunjitha : There are different interpreta­tions for this phrase from different viewpoints. For tena, one meaning is “through”; “therefore” is another. Madhvacarya's view is—from or through Him. So, Madhvacarya's interpretation is, giving up that which has been given through Him. Sankara says: From whom? Him from which all creation has come. And, for this reason, ‘therefore', tyaktena, is that which has been sacrificed or that which has been given up through vairāgya (and not shedding of unwanted or extra things). This first mantra is an aphorism and so does not give the meaning in detail but gives it ...

 =============================================================== =============================================================== Tuesday, March 08, 2022. 20:00. Mantram-1. ============================================================== "Om Isavasyam idaṁ sarvam yat kiṁ ca jagatyam jagat, tena tyaktena bhunjitha, ma gṛdhah kasyasvid dhanam."  The Upaniṣad begins with the word Isavasyam, and so goes by the name of Isavasyopaniṣad. There are other such examples of this tradition. Kenopaniṣad, for instance, is so named because the very first word of it is kena. Iśāvāsyam: Īśvara is 1st person singular. So, īśāvāsyam means īśvara resides. Sankaracarya says that the root is it (eit) meaning īṭ; and īṭ means God. So īśāvāsyam can also mean through īṭ. Or, the compound word is split thus: Isa+ avasyam –avasyam means, that alone which is fit to bear or cover, that is (it is), Isvara's temple, the fit place for Him. Another mean­ing is that which is fit to be enveloped by Isvara. Ma...

 ============================================================ =========================================================== Monday, February 14, 2022. 22:00. Santhi Mantram : ============================================================ That is full; this is full. From the full the full proceeds. Taking the full from the full, the full alone remains. That Absolute is full. This created being is also full. Brahman is infinitude and is therefore full. That which proceeds from the full or the infinite must be either real or unreal. If it is real, it must also be full, because a part cannot be ever-enduring, and that which is not always enduring is not real. If it is unreal, nothing proceeds at all. This means to say that either infinity is the product of infinity or nothing proceeds from infinity. Infinity cannot proceed from infinity, because, thereby, there would be two infinities. Hence, the proceeding of infinity from infinity does not change infinity, because infinity alone remains ...

 =============================================================== =================================================================== Friday, January 07, 2022. 08:20.PM. Post-3. =================================================================== There was a Rishi, it is told, who was sitting on the shore of the ocean and contemplating this great subject as to how God could have created this world, and in what manner. The story goes that while the saint was contemplating on this subject and wanting to get an answer, suddenly a boy appeared nearby—a divine being, who came to instruct this saint. The boy held a mud pot that had several holes at the bottom, and he was using it to scoop up water from the sea and throw it on the bank. He was doing it continuously—a hundred and twenty times he went on scooping and pouring. The saint asked, “Hey, little boy, what are you doing?” “I am emptying the ocean,” replied the boy. “Have you any sense?” asked the saint. “Firstly, the ocean cannot be ...

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, January 09, 2021. 07:31. AM. Post-2. -------------------------- The first doctrine is called Arambhavada. A creation out of something and producing something totally new is the doctrine of Arambhavada, which involves multiplicity and duality in creation. As I mentioned, the assumption of a duality between God and the material of creation would limit God to a finite existence and He would be mortal like anybody else. He would no more be immortal. This is the reason why the Parinama doctrine, which is the second one, the transformation theory, was conceived by certain philosophers. God has become this universe, as milk has become curd. ------------------------- However, there was a third set of philosophers who thought that this is also not a very reasonable way of arguing the case. How can God modify Himself? That would mean He transforms Himself into something else. Milk can never become milk again, aft...