Isavasya Upanishad : ( 26/12/2012. )

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= 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

 ========================================================================= ======================================================================== 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

 ========================================================================= ======================================================================= 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

========================================================================= ======================================================================== 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

 ========================================================================= ======================================================================== 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

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Saturday, August 13, 2022. 07:00.  Part-2. Post -15. ======================================================================= This is a theoretical foundation behind the practical suggestions given to us in greater detail in the Bhagavadgita, which gives a large scripture, as it were, on the method of working in the world. It is something like a vast commentary on the Isavasya Upanishad. We are likely to go to extremes in our thoughts. We either think of God independent of creation, or of creation independent of God. This will be mentioned in the context of our study of those verses which say that vidya and avidya should be combined. Vidya and avidya should not be considered as two different factors. Knowledge and action are supposed to be contradictory to each other. This is a mistake in thinking. They have to be blended. It is necessary tha

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Saturday, July 23, 2022. 20:00.  Part-2. Post -14. ======================================================================== The cause that is at the back of any kind of action is multifold in its nature. That is, when we think we have done the work, or we shall be doing the work, we may be under the impression that only we are responsible for the kind of work we are contemplating to do. We are not the only ones responsible for the work. The motivation comes from various other sources, also. Not knowing this fact is the reason for the bondage of the soul. If we impute everything to ourselves, naturally we have to become bound by the very fact of that imputation that we have ignorantly done. If we have done the work, we reap the fruit thereof. But actually we have not done the work. It has been forced upon us by certain circumstances which condi

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================= Thursday, June 16, 2022. 06:30. AM. Part-2. Post -13. ========================================================================= Our thoughts, our desires, our feelings, and our actions are different forms of the manifestation of this inward anguish that arises due to our separation from God. Hence, there is no such thing as mere work in a secular sense of the term. Work is a spiritual longing that originates in the deepest recesses of being, even in the form of an unhappy service. As long as this finite existence continues due to the prarabdha karma (causative propulsion) behind it, the impulsion to act also will persist. The body moves in a given direction, and we call it work. The mind moves in a given direction, and we call it thought. The feelings move in a given direction, and we call it desire. But all these movements, whether of the bo

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Saturday, May 28, 2022. 21:30.  Part-2. Post -12. ======================================================================== Sattva, rajas and tamas being the constituents of the human individuality, they propel the individual to work and act in a particular direction. It is impossible for the rajas element to keep quiet without some movement; the element of rajas in our personality will compel us to act. Na hi kaścit kṣanam api jātu tiṣṭaty akarmakṛt, kāryate hy avaśaḥ karma sarvaḥ prakṛti-jair guṇiaḥ (Gita 3.5). Everyone shall move. The atom shall move, the sand particle shall move, the solar system shall move, the planets shall move, every cell of the body shall move. Why shall they move? The reason is the constitution of the universe itself. The centre of the universe is like a magnet, which pulls everything towards itself. We have estrang

 ============================================================== ============================================================== Saturday, May 07, 2022. 21:00.  Part-2. Post -11. ============================================================== In a similar manner, the whole circumstance into which one is born is conditioned by every kind of experience. All the processes of our life, all the joys and sorrows, everything that has happened, everything that is yet to happen, including the length of our life in the world, all of these have to be seen in a seed form in that particular causative factor that has been the reason behind our coming into this world. When a child is born and an old man dies, it does not mean that something suddenly has taken place. A vast sea of causes has been pushing the waves of these conditions that gradually concretised themselves into the birth of an individual and matured into the further action of the decay of that formation and the death of the individual. Sim