Chandogya Upanishad: ( 30/03/2013. )

=============================================================================================================================================  Friday 14, Aug 2026, 09:00.  Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Nature of the Self  Section 5: Importance of Brahmacharya  Mantram-3.  Sa va esa atma hrdi, tasyaitad-eva niruktam hrdy-ayam iti, tasmad-hrdayam, ahar ahar va evam-vit svargam lokam eti.  Post-3. ============================================================================================== Section 5: Importance of Brahmacharya:  Now, the means to the realisation of this great Truth is emphasised in the present section. The word used for this means is brahmacharya. The character of Brahman is brahmacharya. The conduct of Brahman is what we call brahmacharya. Charya is conduct. The meaning of the word Brahman, of course, we know very well. The conduct of Brahman is brahmacharya. To live as Brahman would be brahmacharya. How Brahman is, in that way one shou...

======================================================================================== Friday 24, July 2026, 05:00. Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Nature of the Self Section 3: The Space Within the Heart Mantram-3. Sa va esa atma hrdi, tasyaitad-eva niruktam hrdy-ayam iti, tasmad-hrdayam, ahar ahar va evam-vit svargam lokam eti. Post-32. ========================================================================================== Mantram-3. Sa va esa atma hrdi, tasyaitad-eva niruktam hrdy-ayam iti, tasmad-hrdayam, ahar ahar va evam-vit svargam lokam eti. There is a peculiar etymological derivation of the meaning of the word hridaya, which usually means heart. The Upanishads are very fond of these kinds of etymological extractions of meanings for certain words giving the significance of the words. As I said, hridaya means heart. It is a Sanskrit word and the Upanishad now explains why the heart is called hridaya. "Here inside is He." This means to say, Truth is inside you; it is...

======================================================================================== Wednesday 15, July 2026, 19:00. Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Nature of the Self Section 3: The Space Within the Heart Post-31. ========================================================================================== Section 3: The Space Within the Heart: The capacity to fulfil a desire is actually the power of the vision to find out where the object of desire is and what connection the object has with one's own self. The lack of this vision in respect of the object of desire is the impediment which acts as an obstacle to the fulfilment of the desire. Desires are really the visions of consciousness which act in different ways, in different levels of experience. When, due to the locking up of consciousness in a particular level of experience, it cannot visualise what is outside it or beyond it, then it becomes difficult for it to come in contact with the objects of its desires. Mantram-1. Ta i...

=========================================================================================================== Saturday 06, June 2026, 19:40. CHAPTER 4: AN ANALYSIS OF THE NATURE OF THE SELF Section: 1.The Universal Self within the Heart and in the World-2 Post-30. ===================================================================================================== Section: 1. The Universal Self within the Heart and in the World-2. The objects of desire appear to be outside us, which is the reason why we take time to realise our objectives. There is a distance in space and in time between ourselves as centres of volition and the objects outside. Therefore, naturally there is delay in time. The time taken by us in the realisation of our objectives is due to the existence of space which looks very vast outside and which looks very puny inside. The other reason is that we have no control over the objects of our desires. Our desires are not truth-filled, not satyakamas. They are artificially ...

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========================================================================= Sunday, May 07,  2023. 06:25. CHAPTER 4: AN ANALYSIS OF THE NATURE OF THE SELF Section : 1.The Universal Self within the Heart and in the World-2 Post-28. ========================================================================= Mantram-4 : "Tam ced-bruyuh, asmimsced-idam brahma-pure sarvam, samahitam sarvani ca bhutani sarve ca kamah yadaitaj-jara vapnoti pradhvamsate va, kim tato'tisisyata iti." The teacher tells that inside the heart is all the mystery of things. Every object of one's desire is inside one's heart. It is not outside. Whatever one longs for is contained within oneself. A question is raised here from the point of view of a student: "When the body gets old and is finally overcome by death, what happens to this heart that you are speaking of? Does it also disappear with death? How can that which is capable of destruction by death contain the mysteries of creation?" T...