Chandogya Upanishad: ( 30/03/2013. )

 ========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, July 27, 2021. 7:33. PM. Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self-14 SECTION 14: THE INDWELLING SPIRIT (CONTINUED)—THE NEED FOR A GURU - 2. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Mantram "Yatha, saumya, purusham gandharebhyo'bhinaddhak-sham aniya tam tato'tijane visrjet, sa yatha tatra prangva udangva atharangva pratyangva pradhmayita'bhinaddhaksha anito'bhinaddhaksho virsrshtah." 2. Mantram "Tasya yathabhinahanam pramuchya prabruyat, etam disam gandharah, etam disam vrajeti, sa gramad-gramam prcchan pandito medhavi gandharan evopasampadyeta evam evehacharyavan purusho veda, tasya tavadeva chiram yavan na vimokshye, atha sampatsya iti." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, July 20, 2021. 9:08. PM. Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self-14 SECTION 14: THE INDWELLING SPIRIT (CONTINUED)—THE NEED FOR A GURU - 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1."Yatha, saumya, purusham gandharebhyo'bhinaddhak-sham aniya tam tato'tijane visrjet, sa yatha tatra prangva udangva atharangva pratyangva pradhmayita'bhinaddhaksha anito'bhinaddhaksho virsrshtah." 2."Tasya yathabhinahanam pramuchya prabruyat, etam disam gandharah, etam disam vrajeti, sa gramad-gramam prcchan pandito medhavi gandharan evopasampadyeta evam evehacharyavan purusho veda, tasya tavadeva chiram yavan na vimokshye, atha sampatsya iti." Someone was living in a country called Gandhara, and was attacked by robbers on the way. He was tied up. His...

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, July 12, 2021. 6:51. PM. Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self-12. SECTION 13: THE INDWELLING SPIRIT (CONTINUED)—ILLUSTRATION OF SALT AND WATER -2.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. "What is this other way? Please instruct me about this," asks the boy.  How is it possible for us to get an insight into this Reality present in all particular forms?  Neither one's own intellect nor the senses will be of any use here. The senses are used to a kind of contact with externals, and whatever is not an external cannot become an object of their perception. Whatever is outside, that alone the senses can perceive, and this Being we are speaking of is not outside and, therefore, It cannot be an ...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, July 03, 2021. 9:34. PM. Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self-12. SECTION 13: THE INDWELLING SPIRIT (CONTINUED)—ILLUSTRATION OF SALT AND WATER -1.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Lavanam etad udake'vadhaya, atha ma pratar-upasidatha iti; sa ha tatha chakara; tam hovacha; yad-dosha lavanam udake'vadhah, anga tad-ahareti, taddhavamrsya na viveda; yatha vilinam evam." "Bring a little salt and put it in a cup of water," said Uddalaka. The boy brought a cup of water and put some salt into it. "See me tomorrow morning," says the father. Sa ha tatha chakara-the boy does like that. Next morning the boy comes and greets the father and the father says, "Yesterday you put salt into the water; bring that salt." He goes there and sees that the salt is not t...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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...