The Chandogya Upanishad : 11. Swami Krishnananda

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24/02/2020.
Chapter One: Vaishvanara-Vidya

The Self as the Universal Whole (Continued)

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#"There is no need to pour water and put manure on every leaf of the tree if you want to tend a tree. You have to water the root, that is sufficient. 

*If you want to take care of a huge tree, what do you do? 

*Do you go to the top of the tree and count every leaf and sprinkle manure over it, one by one, water every leaf, every flower, every fruit? 

##No. You concern yourself with the root of the tree, and then you see there is an efflorescence of every part of the tree, automatically Whatever you have obtained through these discrete forms of meditation, you can obtain at one stroke by a total meditation, which is the meditation on the Vaishvanara-Atman. 

*The root of the Reality is missed by your consciousness. 

#Whoever can conceive in his mind the true Vaishvanara as that which extends from the earth to the heavens, from the heavens to the earth, from the topmost level of manifestation down to the lowest level, missing no link whatsoever, visualises the Whole. 

##If you can see through your mind this extensiveness of manifestation from the highest to the lowest, at once, without missing any part, which means to say, if you can be comprehensive in a universal way in your envisagement of the form of Reality, and if it can be the Atman, the Self at the same time, then what is it that you lack? 

*This is the Vaishvanara-Atman, the All-Self. 

#Whoever can meditate in this manner becomes the Self of every being all at once. 

##One becomes the Self of all the worlds; he becomes the Self of anything that can be anywhere, and he becomes the possessor of the glory of anything that exists anywhere, in any realm, in any form, under any circumstance. 

###This is the secret I let out to you, if you can contemplate in this manner. This is a herculean feat, because the mind cannot think like this. If you slip from the grasp of your mind when you think like this, you will find that the mind falls back upon its old groove of thinking in terms of particulars and externalisation of objects. 

*Who can contemplate the object as non-externalised? 

#Not any human being. But this is what you are supposed to do. All these parts which you have mentioned are various limbs of the Cosmic Body. You have to bring them together and conceive the Whole, at once, in your consciousness. 

##Do not say, 'This is the sun, this is space, this is water,' and all that. Do not think like this. 

###Let all these be thought together, immediately, in their comprehensiveness, without missing any one whatsoever, by feeling oneness with Earth, Water, Sun, Air, Space, Heaven, and everything."

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To be continued ....

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OPINION : SEMITIC RELIGIONS : 

1.  The term Semitic religions most commonly refers to the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

2. THEY ARE MAN MADE, THEY CALL A PROPHET, THEIR TEXTS ARE MOSTLY UN TRUE, AND OPPOSE REALTY.

3. THEY ADVOCATE THAT THEY ARE SEPARATE FROM THE UNIVERSE, THEY ALONE REAL OTHERS NOT;

4. THEY BORN WITH VIOLENCE, CONTINUED TO PROPAGATE BY SWORD AND OTHERS BLOOD;

5. BHARATIYA SANATANA DHARMAM DIFFERS FROM THOSE PRIMITIVE UNDIVINE RELIGIONS EXPLAINED IN OUR SCRIPTURES;

6. DEAR READERS YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH, TRUTH IS UNFOLDING STEP BY STEP IN A BRILLIANT MANNER;

7. THIS IS THE GREATNESS OF BHARATHAM, THIS IS WHY WE ARE ABOVE AND STAND ALONE ON TOP OF THE WORLD, AS SANATANA DHARMAM ONLY REMAIN OTHERS DISAPPEAR, THIS IS THE TRUTH AND REALTY. WE BHARATIYA LIVE IN SANATANA DHARMAM, THAT IS WHY CALL OUR NATION, SRESHTA BHARATHAM.WE BHARATIYA , FROM ANCIENT DAYS SAY THAT WE ARE A PART OF UNIVERSE AND OTHERS TOO, 
###The Self as the Universal Whole. 

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