Chandogya Upanishad: ( 30/03/2013. )

Sunday, June 28, 2020. 8:38. AM. Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self SECTION 1: PRELIMINARY Mantram-1. Aum, svetaketur ha’runeya asa, tam ha pitovaca : "Svetaketo, vasa brahmacaryam, na vai, saumya, asmat-kulino’ nanucya brahma-bandhuriva bhavatiti." There was a great sage called Uddalaka, the son of Aruni. He had only one boy, his son by name Svetaketu. For some reason or the other the father was not in a position to school him, teach him personally or give him instruction. The boy was loitering, running about here and there with children of the neighbourhood, and never knew what study was; what learning was; what education was.  The father, one day, called the boy and said :  "My dear son, in our family nobody is a Brahmin merely by name. He has to be worth his name, which means to say that he has to be filled with the real knowledge of the Brahmin, and we should not call ourselves so, merely by name in the social sense. You are here

Thursday, June 11, 2020. Chapter One: Vaishvanara-Vidya-12-3.2 12. THE NEED FOR KNOWLEDGE IS STRESSED : 3.2 CONCLUSION-2. 1. The vidya has its origin, actually, in the Rig-Veda, in a famous sukta, or hymn, called the Purusha-Sukta. The Purusha-Sukta of the Rig-Veda commences by saying that all the heads, all the eyes, and all the feet that we see in this world are the heads, eyes, and feet of the Virat-Purusha, or the Cosmic Being. With one head, the Virat nods in silence; with another face He smiles; with a third one He frowns; in one form, He sits; in another form, He moves; in one form, He is near; in another form, He is distant. So, all the forms, whatever they be, and all the movements and actions, processes and relations, become parts of the Cosmic Body, with which the Consciousness should be identified simultaneously. When you think, you think all things at the same time, in all the ten directions, nay, in every way. 2. The Chandogya Upanishad concludes this vidya by saying that

Thursday, June 11, 2020. Chapter One: Vaishvanara-Vidya-12-3.1 12. THE NEED FOR KNOWLEDGE IS STRESSED : 3.1 CONCLUSION-1. 1. This is the secret of the knowledge of the Universal Being, designated as Vaishvanara.  Its simple form of understanding is a transference of human attributes to the Divine Existence, and vice versa. In this meditation, one contemplates the Cosmos as one's body.  Just as, for example, when one contemplates one's individual body, one simultaneously becomes conscious of the right eye, the left eye, the right hand, the left hand, the right leg, the left leg, the head, the heart, the stomach, and all the limbs of the body at one and the same time, and one does not regard the different limbs of the body as distinguished from one another in any manner, all limbs being only apparently different, but really connected to a single personality.  So, in this meditation, the consciousness is to be transferred to the Universal Being. Instead of one contemplating onesel