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

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Tuesday, October 18, 2022. 06:00.   Mantram - 8. Post-12. ======================================================================== MANTRAM-8 : The Atman is everywhere, pure, bodiless, scatheless, muscleless, taintless, untouched by sin, omniscient, wise, omnipotent, transcendent and Self-existent. It is this Atman that is the basis of the division of actions among the divinities presiding over time. These characteristics of the Atman deny the possibility of its having either the physical, the subtle or the causal body. It is described as being free from bodily parts like muscles, the substance of the subtle body and the impurity of the causal body. For the same reason, it is untainted by actions, whether virtuous or vicious. On the basis of the Self does the cosmic creator, Hiranyagarbha, allot the different functions to the ...

 ======================================================================== ========================================================================= 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 onenes...

 ======================================================================== ========================================================================= 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 ar...

 ============================================================== =============================================================== Tuesday, July 05, 2022. 05:30   Mantram-3.  Post-9. ================================================================ Devilish are the worlds covered over by dense darkness, which are reached by those who have killed their Self. The regions experienced by the destroyers of the Self, i.e., those who are ignorant of the Self, are devilish or godless because they are destitute of purity and light, devoid of sattva-guna, cut off from the knowledge of Truth. They are devilish because experiences there are extremely painful and antagonistic to the Divine Presence. People who reject the Divine Self and love the undivine matter, which is subjectively called the body and objectively the world, have such experiences as are characterised by extreme repentance for having committed the evil of not knowing the Self. The asuras or the devils are those who h...

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