Isavasya Upanishad : ( 26/12/2012. )

======================================================================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10/03/2020. 1.3 THE PATH OF SORROW Mantram-3 : The Sunless Worlds ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram- " Asuryaah naama te lokaah,  andhena tamasaa aavritaah;  taagm te pretya abhi-gacchhanti, e ke cha aatma hanah janaah." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Asuryaah naama te lokaah, = Sunless (demoniac) are those worlds, 2 andhena tamasaa aavritaah; = and enveloped in blinding gloom, 3 taagm te pretya abhi-gacchhanti, = to which go, after death, those 4 e ke cha aatma hanah janaah. =  people who are slayers of their own souls. -------------------------------------------------------------...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 26/02/2020. Mantram-2. 1. INTRODUCTION-3. Post-3. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. *You are dragged towards karma, why? #Because you are a part of the universe. Every cell in your body works in accor­dance with a certain set law. *What is the necessity for the cells to work according to this set law? ##The reason is that the cells are a part of the body. The system of the body is such that it takes work from every cell of it. So they work unceasingly night and day, inseparable from existence and continuously, inescapably, set into action. Isvara is virat svarup. Even as every cell in the human body works continuously and unceasingly without in anyway interfering with the working of oth...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10/02/2020. MANTRAM-2. 1. INTRODUCTION-2. POST-2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Now there is another question arising out of this state­ment. Man’s individual intellect is but a poor one in compari­son to what has to be understood. He is after all human, an individual personality filled with desire, anger, jealousy, etc. How are we to conduct ourselves in life so that we may do all our duties as God’s agent? Once you concede that isvara is the Supreme Existence you have to offer all duties unto Him as the Supreme Doer. On this statement again arise a number of questions. Life is not easy. It is a very difficult problem. It is not a joke. Jiva’s predominant characteristic is action. ...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== 09/01/2020. MANTRAM-2. 1.Introduction : 1. Post-1. ======================================================================= Next, Mantram - No. 2 explains what our duty is. #What is our duty? ##It is to act for Isvara as His agent and not to act for your own self as an individual, a personality. ###If we should dwell on, meditate upon, and run towards Him and towards Him alone, we must do our duty also as an offering to Him; this has already been concluded earlier. #####We must understand that the world is but Isvara’s pratibimba, a reflection of Him. *Thus we should have the feeling, ‘I am nothing, I have no standing, I am entirely dependent on Him alone’. # **With this feeling we should do our duty.## --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== 23/12/2019. Mantram-1. 6. ======================================================================= Mantram-1. "Om isavasyam idagm sarvam yat-kinca jagatyam jagat, tena tyaktena bhunjitha ma gradhah kasya svid dhanam." ======================================================================= 6.1 Through tyaga, tena tyaktena, by giving up the objects of the world, be happy with what has been earned by the sweat of your brow. Do your duty as an offering to God. Let your mind dwell upon God and God alone. Let your thoughts run ever and always towards God. Realising isvara you can obtain ananda, also the whole world, the universe itself. Why then run meaninglessly after petty objects saying “Oh! here is joy, there is joy, this object can bring me happiness, that other can”, and so on and so forth? Isvara is parama sa...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26/11/2019. Mantram-1. 5. ======================================================================== Mantram-1. "Om isavasyam idagm sarvam yat-kinca jagatyam jagat, tena tyaktena bhunjitha ma gradhah kasya svid dhanam." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kasya svid dhanam? For this phrase also there are two meanings: One from the relative and the other from the absolute point of view. What has been given to you, of that you are the owner. What you have earned with the sweat of your brow, that you enjoy. But what is earned by other people’s sweat of the brow, do not even look at that. Do not let your mind go towards that. It is unlawful to do so. It is against moral and ethical laws....

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21/10/2019. Mantram-1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ "Om Isavasyamidam sarvam yatkinca jagatyam jagat, tena tyaktena bhunjitha ma grdhaḥ kasyasviddhanam." The second meaning is this : 'tena tyaktena bhunjithah'. For the reason that isvara is everything, enjoy what is God-given through sacrificing everything. What does this mean? This statement is a great siddhanta and is worth pondering over. As much as you give up the desires of the world, gross or subtle, so much is your happiness; the greater your sacrifice the greater increase in the ananda or Bliss that you attain. This has a secret within it. It is a very subtle statement. The converse of the above statement a...