Chandogya Upanishad: ( 30/03/2013. )

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, June 25, 2021. 10:09. AM. Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self-12. SECTION 12: THE INDWELLING SPIRIT  - 2. 1.ILLUSTRATION OF THE BANYAN TREE AND ITS SEED-2.  POST-2. Mantram-2.&3.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2."Tam hovacha yam vai, saumya, etam animanam na nibhalayase, etasya vai, saumya, esho'nimna evam mahan nyagrodhas-tishthati srddhatsva, saumya iti." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The father now explains:  Do you know, my dear boy, what is inside the seed?  It is a great wonder. You say that you cannot see anything there. It is practically invisible and non-existent, as it were, from your point of view. Thin, apparently non-existent something, the very little, subtle essence there inside that

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, June 14, 2021. 9:37. AM. Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self-11. SECTION 12: THE INDWELLING SPIRIT  - 1. 1.ILLUSTRATION OF THE BANYAN TREE AND ITS SEED-1.  POST-1. Mantram-1.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1."Nyagrodha-phalam ata aharet; idam, bhagavah, iti; bhinddhiti; bhinnam, bhagavah, iti; kim atra pasyasiti; anvya ivema dhanah, bhagavah, iti; asam angaikam bhinddhiti; bhinna, bhagavah, iti; kim atra pasyasiti; na kim-chana, bhagavah, iti." There was a banyan tree in front of the kutir. All know that the banyan tree is very large but the fruit is so small and the seed is atomic. "Bring one fruit," says the father to the son. The boy runs and brings a small fruit of that huge expanse of the tree called banyan, and says, "Idam bhagavah-here is the fruit, my father." "Bhin

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, June 2, 2021. 6:22. PM. Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self-11. SECTION 11: THE INDWELLING SPIRIT (CONTINUED)— ILLUSTRATION OF A TREE- 2.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Asya yad-ekam sakham jivo jahati, atha sa sushyati, dvitiyam jahati, atha sa sushyati, trtiyam jahati, atha sa sushyati, sarvam jahati sarvah sushyati, evam eva khalu saumya, viddhi iti hovacha." : That particular branch which is divested or deprived of the life principle becomes dry. It is lifeless. Another branch dries up, a third branch dries up, finally the trunk dries up; the whole tree can dry up. If the life principle in the tree leaves the body of the tree, the whole tree dries up. So what is it that is in the tree which you call life? That is the Essence. "Jivapetam vava k