Vedanta Upanishad: January 2011

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Friday, January 14, 2011

Thirty Minor Upanishads Selections / Link

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http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/tmu/index.htm

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Upanishads also known as Brahmavidya

http://www.hindujagruti.org/hinduism/knowledge/article/why-are-upanishads-also-known-as-brahmavidya.html

1. Look around you, and see God's glory in all that lives and moves.
2. Enjoy the glory of God by wanting nothing for yourself.
3. Regard nothing as belonging to you; and envy nothing that belongs to others.
4. When you know in your heart that all things belong to God, then all things will bring you pleasure.
5. If you possess nothing, then you will become an instrument of God. Your work will be his work. And as an instrument of God, you will be perfectly free.
6. God himself never moves; yet he is swifter than thought.
7. God is stationary; yet the senses can never perceive him.
8. God is beyond the mind and the senses.
9. God stands still; yet he overtakes even the fastest athlete.
10. God is like a calm lake, and also like a stream flowing down a mountain.
11. God travels, and yet he does not travel.
12. He is far away, and yet he is near.
13. He is within all beings, and yet he is outside all beings.
14. Those who find God within themselves, and find God in others, lose all fear.
15. Those who are at one with all beings, and discern the unity of all beings, lose all sorrow.
16. God is light, and all comes from him.
17. God has no body(Spiritual Body), and so cannot be hurt.
18. He is pure, and so cannot be tainted by evil.
19. He is both immanent and transcendent;
20. he is below and above; he is everywhere.

Isa Upanishad

The process of dying

A heavily laden cart creaks as it moves along the road; in the same way the body groans under the burden of life as death approaches. When the body grows weak through old age or illness, the soul loosens itself from the body, as a mango or a fig loosens itself from its stalk; and thus it prepares to begin another life.
The soul gathers the powers of life to itself, and descends with them into the heart.
As life leaves the
1. Eye, and returns to its source within the soul, the eye no longer sees.
2. Nose, and returns to its source within the soul, the nose no longer smells.
3. Tongue, and returns to its source within the soul, the tongue no longer tastes.
4. Mouth, and returns to its source within the soul, the mouth no longer speaks.
5. Ear, and returns to its source within the soul, the ear no longer hears.
6. Mind, and returns to its source within the soul, the mind no longer thinks.
7. Skin, and returns to its source within the soul, the sense of touch is lost.
By the light of the heart the soul leaves the body; and as the soul leaves, the powers of life follow.Since the soul is consciousness, the body loses consciousness as the soul departs; and the soul carries the spiritual effects of all that the person has done, experienced and known.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4;3.35-36; 4.1-2

One of Famous Verses from Upanishads

http://www.ttoshi.net/meditation/Upanishads.html

Saturday, January 1, 2011

A Quote with Translation

It is in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad that a typically value-based story appears: 'What the Thunder Says'. Prajapati, the All-Father, having created the three races of gods, men and demons, appointed each to their own realm - heaven, earth and the netherworld. All three begged him for advice to live by. So, to each race, Prajapati gave counsel.

To the gods (sura), he said "Damyata". Be restrained. To mankind (nara), he said "Datta". Give. To the demons (asura), he said "Dayadhvam". Be merciful. And so, forever more, when the thunder peals DA-DA-DA, his children know that it is the voice of Prajapati, the All-Father, reminding them of the key to their true selves.