Isavasya Upanishad : ( 26/12/2012. )

 ========================================================================= ======================================================================== 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 | t...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== 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 nece...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= 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 wh...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================= 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 th...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== 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 hav...

 ============================================================== ============================================================== 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 indivi...

 ============================================================== =============================================================== Monday, March 28, 2022. 20:30.  Part-2. Post -10 ============================================================== Events do not suddenly arise like upstarts. We sometimes say that an unexpected event has taken place, an accident has occurred. Actually, unexpected events are really to be expected events. That they are not contents of our awareness at the present moment, cannot make them unexpected. The fructification of a particular cause brings about an effect, which we call an event that takes place in the world. But, as in the analogy of the ripening of the fruit, we see only the ripened colour of the fruit at a particular moment of the day, not being cognizant of the processes that preceded the vision of this ripened fruit. The occurrence of a particular event is a sudden occurrence for all practical purposes from the point of view of our vision. But...