Chandogya Upanishad: ( 30/03/2013. )

=============================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, June 01, 2020. Chapter One: Vaishvanara-Vidya-12-2 12. THE NEED FOR KNOWLEDGE IS STRESSED : 2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. But if one performs any sacrifice, such as the agnihotra mentioned, with this knowledge, then, whatever one does is a universal action. It is for the good of everyone. And everyone's action becomes that person's action, just as the movement of any wave anywhere in the ocean is the ocean itself working. It is not somebody else working somewhere, hundreds of miles away. Anyone's action becomes my action; anyone's experience is my experience; and anyone's benefit is my benefit, if I am commensurate in inward being with the being of other people.  This is the ultimate consequence of meditation on the Vaishvanara. That person, who thus medi

========================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, May 22, 2020. *Chapter One: Vaishvanara-Vidya --------------------------------------------------------- Last part - Thus, the Upanishad point of view is that a rightly conducted human activity, such as the one in the form of the intake of food, with a meditation on the universal implication of one's existence, will touch the corners of creation. And, the satisfaction of the individual, the performer of meditation of this kind, the performer of the Vaishvanara-Agnihotra-Vidya, shall be for the blessedness of all mankind, nay, the whole creation. That is why there is the tradition that the satisfaction that we bring to a person endowed with such knowledge is inclusive of the other lower satisfactions. This is the tradition behind the feeding of learned people, spiritual adepts, etc.; because they are not regarded

========================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, May 09, 2020. *Chapter One: Vaishvanara-Vidya *The Five Pranas - 1. *1. Prana *The Five Pranas - 2,3,4,5. *2.Vyana. *3. Apana *4. Samana *5. Udana -------------------------------------------------------------------------- .*2.Vyana. #So is the case with every other morsel that we eat. The second morsel that we take in should be for the satisfaction of vyana, the other aspect of energy: Vyanaya svaha, "May vyana, the all-pervading force within me be satisfied," vyana which is responsible for the movement of the blood-stream in the canals, etc. Thus, should one meditate with the next morsel of food. There are internal connections mentioned here, again, mystically. ##The ears are satisfied when the vyana is satisfied. If the ears are satisfied, everything that is around us in the form of the directions