Chandogya Upanishad: ( 30/03/2013. )

========================================================================= Friday, April 14,  2023. 06:49. CHAPTER 4: AN ANALYSIS OF THE NATURE OF THE SELF Section : 1.The Universal Self within the Heart and in the World-1 ========================================================================= Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Nature of the Self SECTION 1: THE UNIVERSAL SELF WITHIN THE HEART AND IN THE WORLD 1. Harih om. atha yad-idam asmin brahma-pure daharam pundarikam vesma, daharo'smin antarakasah, tasmin yad-antah, tad-anvestavyam, tad-vava vijijnasitavyam. We now commence the eighth and the last chapter of the Chhandogya Upanishad. In our own self, in the deepest recess of our own heart, there is a great secret. This is the subject of this chapter. We carry within our own self a great mystery. No one can be a greater mystery than our own Self. Everything else is capable of definition and understanding, but one's own Self is the greatest enigma in the whole world. Everything ...

======================================================================= Monday, March 27,  2023. 08:15. Chapter Three: Sanatkumara's Instructions on Bhuma-Vidya - 26. SECTION 26: THE PRIMACY OF THE SELF ========================================================================= Mantram-1. To such a blessed one everything comes, rises from his own Self. He need not go hither and thither in search of things, because he has this knowledge. He does not have to go to things, but things go to him. The ocean does not go to the river, the river goes to the ocean. Whoever is endowed with this great experience, this knowledge, the possession of this wisdom, for such a person everything that has been mentioned in the gradation of the categories earlier, right from 'name' onwards up to the point we are discussing now, arises automatically from his own Self, because the supreme cause contains within itself everything else mentioned as its own effects. All these worlds, space, time and the...

Leena Sunil Kumar 🙌🙌 Chinmaya Mission  : Several spiritual activities were conducted in Bangalore recently. On 5th February 2023, Sadhana Day was celebrated with 250 study group members discussing Bhagavad Geeta Chapter – 9 in the presence of Pujya Swami Brahmananda. The discussion focused on Jiva, Jagat, and Ishwara, and Pujya Swamiji emphasized the need to quieten the mind and focus on the changeless substratum. He urged attendees to analyze their dream state to understand how the world is projected. Pujya Swami Gahanananda conducted a Geeta Jnana Yajna on Bhagavad Geeta Chapter 17 from 6th Feb to 12th Feb in Chinmaya Mission, Malleswaram. The Yajna discussed the importance of leading a life with control, balanced intellect, and a calm mind, and the three types of faith, food, and sacrifice based on the three inherent Gunas. The program was well attended. Mahashivaratri was celebrated in Sripaadakshetra, J P Nagar on 18th February, 2023 with Mahanyaasa Poorvaka Ekadasha Rudrabh...

Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) : CIF campus is always abuzz with activity and yet at its heart it is the serene silence of divinity that rings true for those who tune in. This last weekend CIF was hosting two camps – the first was the Narada Bhakti Sutra Camp, facilitated by Br. Anand Chaitanya for participants from the upcoming centre at Chinmaya Mission Vellore and members of CM Chennai.  Participants reveled in the sessions as well as learnt more about the history of Adi Sankara Nilayam and visited various temples in Ernakulam.   Also on campus was the enthusiastic Youth Alliance team, from Uttaranchal, who made the best use of the various spaces on campus to conduct a fun orientation workshop for young participants from the Southern zone.  ========================================================================= Wednesday, March 01,  2023. 07:00. Chapter Three: Sanatkumara's Instructions on Bhuma-Vidya - 24. =========================================...

========================================================================= Tuesday, February 14,  2023. 07:30. Chapter - 3 : Sanatkumara's Instructions on Bhuma-Vidya :22&23. ========================================================================= SECTION 22: HAPPINESS : Continued So Sanatkumara says, "My dear Narada, happiness is not anywhere and yet it is everywhere; it is in a completeness of Being that you can find happiness." It is not in any kind of accumulation of particulars that happiness can be found. It is not in any aggregate of finitudes that happiness can be discovered. The finitude of a particular situation does not get obviated merely because of the aggregate of finitudes. Even millions and millions of finite objects put together do not cease to be finite in the end. The finitude which is the character of things persists even in an aggregate of finitudes. Even the whole world put together is finite. It cannot be regarded as infinite, because it is limi...

========================================================================= Monday, January 30,  2023. 07:30. Chapter - 3 : Sanatkumara's Instructions on Bhuma-Vidya : SECTION 22: HAPPINESS : ========================================================================= "Yada vai sukham labhate'tha karoti,  nasukham labdhva karoli,  sukham eva labdhva karoti,  sukham tveva vijijnasitavyam, iti,  sukham, bhagavah, vijijnasa iti." "Well, O Narada, I tell you, nothing can be done unless it is propelled by happiness. Everywhere you will find happiness is the object of every kind of aspiration, activity, desire or enterprise. You will find, prior to everything conceivable, there is the presence of happiness. Everyone, irrespective of the character of one's individuality, tries to be, to act and to conduct oneself in different ways, because of this happiness. You must know what happiness is. It is this that is the propelling force behind everything in creation," says...