Chandogya Upanishad: ( 30/03/2013. )

======================================================================================== Saturday  03, October 2026, 18:29. Section 8: The Bodily Self Section 9: Indra Feels the Inadequacy of the Physical Theory: ========================================================================================== Section 8: The Bodily Self: Mantram-1. Uda-sarava atmanam aveksya yad-atmano na vijanithah, tan me prabrutam iti, tau hoda-sarave'veksamcakrate, tau ha prajapatir-uvaca kim pasyatha iti; tau hocatuh, sarvan evedam avam, bhagavah, atmanam pasyava, a lomabhya a nakhebhyah pratirupam iti. Now Brahma said, "Please go and look at yourselves in a pan of water and see what is there; if you cannot understand anything about the Atman, then let me know." They went and saw themselves in a pan of water. Then Brahma asked them, "What do you see?" They immediately gave the answer: "Up to the hair and the nails, everything that we are, we see exactly reflected in this water...

================================================================================================== Saturday 19, September 2026, 16:00.  Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Nature of the Self  Section 6: Course After Death: Mantras 3&4. Section 7: Prajapati's Instruction to Indra Concerning the Real Self =================================================================================================== Section 6: Course After Death: Mantras 3&4. Mantram-3. Tad-yatraitat suptah samastah samprasannah svapnam na vijnati asu tada nadisu srpto bhavati tam na kascana papma sprsati, tejasa hi tada sampanno bhavati. It is these nerve currents that are responsible for the withdrawal of the mind into itself in deep sleep. What we call deep sleep, the composure of the mind, the withdrawal of the mind from all sense activity and the retiring from all dream experience also, where one knows nothing—that experience is brought about by the travel of the various rays of the mind through these...

=================================================================================================== Wednesday 26, Aug 2026, 21:00.  Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Nature of the Self  Section 5: Importance of Brahmacharya: Mantram-4. Section 6: Course After Death: Mantras 1&2. ============================================================================================== Mantram-4 Tad-ya evaitavaram ca nyam carnavau brahma-loke brahma-caryenanuvindanti, tesam evaisa brahma-lokah tesam sarvesu lokesu kamacaro bhavati. Freedom untrammelled is our reward if we could practise this technique of meditation. We would be the possessors of all these treasures, the nectars and the trees exuding ambrosia, and the oceans of nectar, etc., referred to here. All these would be our possessions and we would be rejoicing in these experiences and be one with them provided that—a great condition is here—we are able to withdraw our senses and mind and centre our consciousness in that which we cal...

=============================================================================================================================================  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 ...