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Commentary on the Isavasya Upanishad : 22.( End of Upanishad) - Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= Tuesday, January 31, 2023. 07:00.  Part-3. Post -22. ========================================================================= What is the relationship between God and the world? The teaching of this mantra is that we have to blend the concept of God and the world. Here in this context, the Purusha Sukta of the Veda is a great admonition to us that the Supreme Being became the cosmos. He envelopes the whole Cosmos, and is immanent in every little particle of sand. Every atom in creation is indwelt by God. That is the immanent aspect of God. If that is the case, and that is the only thing that we know – we know nothing more about God except that He is indwelling, that He is enveloping the cosmos – then it would mean that He has exhausted Himself in this world. He does not exist anymore as an independent reality. Just as milk has become curd, God has become the world. If God has become the world as milk has become
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Commentary on the Isavasya Upanishad : 21. Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= Sunday, January 15, 2023. 07:30.  Part-3. Post -21. ========================================================================= What is reality? Whatever we accept as reality is reality for us, whether or not it is the Ultimate Reality. The acceptance of the reality of this body and the world is a temporal concession given to the working of prarabdha karma. This vehement action of prarabdha on this body and the world cannot be avoided as long as it is working in the direction of its own self-exhaustion. Fire will burn as long as there is fuel. When the fuel is not there, the fire subsides. This fire of longing for this body and the world will subside only when the fuel of prarabdha subsides. As long as the prarabdha karma continues, the body will not die even if we starve it. It will live somehow or the other. And when the prarabdha is exhausted, we will certainly die, even if we are eating the best food. We do not
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Commentary on the Isavasya Upanishad : 20. Swami Krishnananda.

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 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Saturday, December 31, 2022. 07:30.  Part-3. Post -20. ========================================================================= What is the solution? The solution is also mentioned in the Upanishad. We have to work with knowledge, and not simply work without knowledge. We should not only have knowledge, minus work. Both should be known together as a blend. Here, in these mantras of the Isavasya Upanishad, we seem to have a seed of the gospel of the Bhagavadgita, where Sri Krishna hammers into the mind of the student Arjuna that karma should be based on buddhi, or sankhya. Yoga is an expression of sankhya. Yoga is action, sankhya is knowledge. Arjuna knew what action was, but he did not know what knowledge was. He was considering the pros and cons of activity. The gains and losses, the loves and the hatreds involved in action, were before
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Commentary on the Isavasya Upanishad : 19. Swami Krishnananda.

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 ========================================================================= ======================================================================== Tuesday, December 13, 2022. 07:30.  Part-3. Post -19. ========================================================================= We owe a debt to this world, and we owe a debt to this body. It is the debt that we owe to this body and the world that compels us to live in this body and to work in this world. Sometimes this debt is designated as prarabdha karma – a kind of nemesis, a reaction produced by certain actions that we did in the past, accumulated for the purpose of experience in this world, forcing us to reap the fruit of those actions, whether pleasurable or miserable, whatever the case may be. This is that impulse to act. It is this impulse that keeps us alive in this body. As long as the reaction of those actions, called prarabdha, continues, as long as the momentum of those actions continues, as long as we have not exhausted by ex
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Commentary on the Isavasya Upanishad : 18. Swami Krishnananda.

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 ========================================================================= ======================================================================= Sunday, November 06, 2022. 06:30.  Part-3. Post -18. ======================================================================== The effect of this kind of involvement in physical activity and bodily comfort is one thing. That is unadulterated bondage, as can be very well imagined by everyone. We will be born into the same condition in which we lived because of such attachment to the physical body and the actions of the body in relation to the physical world. There is no Atman, no God, no spirituality; no such idea occurs to the minds of people who are totally physical, material, economic, bound to human society, family, money, name, fame and power. All these come under worldly comforts, connected with human activity of various kinds. There is no talk of Atman, Self, Light, etc. To darkness they go, because of the sheer ignorance in which they
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Commentary on the Isavasya Upanishad : 17. Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= ======================================================================== Tuesday, October 04, 2022. 05:30.  Part-3. Post -17. ========================================================================= Our concept of activity involves a result that has to follow from what we do. We become habituated to this vehement impulsion. It becomes part and parcel of our very life itself, and then we never feel that we are impelled to work. We begin to feel that ‘we'  work. ‘I' do the work. No one says, “I am forced to work. I am compelled.” Though originally it is a sort of compulsion consequent upon the empirical relationship between ourselves and the world of externality, our habituation to this continuous activity, day in and day out throughout our life, creates a peculiar psychological circumstance which makes us wrongly feel that we do the work, even though we are forced to work. And inasmuch as ‘we' do the
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Commentary on the Isavasya Upanishad : 16. Swami Krishnananda.

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 ========================================================================= ======================================================================== Friday, September 02, 2022. 08:00.  Part-3. Post -16. ========================================================================= Part 3 Mantras : andhaṁ tamaḥ praviśanti yo'vidyām upasate | tato bhūya iva te tamo ya u vidyāyāṁ ratāḥ ||9|| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- anyad evāhur vidyayā anyad āhur avidyayā | iti śuśruma dhīrāṇām ye nas tad vicacakṣire ||10|| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- vidyāṁ cāvidyāṁ ca yas tad vedobhayam saha | avidyayā mṛtyuṁ tīrtvā vidyayāmṛtam aśnute ||11|| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- andhaṁ tamaḥ praviśanti ye'sambhūtim upāsate | ta
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