Category: Upanishads
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Discovering the context of Imperishable for all the major decisions of your life is Living Enlightenment

I will expand on Isavasya Upanishad. Usually when I come to Varanasi I speak on Kathopanishad. This time I decided I will continue on Isavasya Upanishad because last time we couldn’t spend much time on Kathopanishad. I was expanding on 14th verse of Isavasya Upanishad. sambḥutiṁ ca vināśaṁ ca.. Actually I am uttering only one…
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Discovering the context of imperishable for your job, all your major decisions of life is what I call living enlightenment

sambḥutiṁ ca vināśaṁ ca yastad vedobhayaṁ saha | vināśena mṛtyuṁ tīrtvā sambhūtyāmṛtam aśnute || 14 || Somebody asked Buddha, “Buddha, how you see your Sangha growing in the future?” He says very beautifully, “if my Sannyasis are able to inspire the truth of imperishable on the Grihastas, what I want will happen. The other way,…
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What you think as your goal, as the essence of your life, towards which you are moving in your life, you are worshiping that!

sambḥutiṁ ca vināśaṁ ca yastad vedobhayaṁ saha | vināśena mṛtyuṁ tīrtvā sambhūtyāmṛtam aśnute || 14 || Just recite. It’s the 14th verse of Isavasya Upanishad. I will give you the translation. One who cognizes the pure essence of these both—the imperishable consciousness, the cause of manifestation and the destructible, the perishable, manifested entities, simultaneously—such…
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The spirit of seeking is much more than Enlightenment itself!

I will expand on the next verse of Isavasya Upanishad. 15th verse of Isavasya Upanishad. hiraṇmayena pātreṇa satyasyāpihitaṁ mukhaṁ | tat tvaṁ pūṣann-apāvṛṇu satya-dharmāya dṛṣṭaye || 15 || The Truthful, Effulgent, Eternal Being is the ultimate sustainer, nourisher and protector of all that exists. You are the embodiment of the imperishable Truth and Reality. Your…
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Life is independent intelligence. It will start expressing when you drop all the inauthentic cognitions.

sambḥutiṁ ca vināśaṁ ca yastad vedobhayaṁ saha | vināśena mṛtyuṁ tīrtvā sambhūtyāmṛtam aśnute || 14 || Listen. I will read out the translation. One who cognizes the pure essence of these both—the imperishable Consciousness, the cause of manifestation [sambhavāt] and the destructible [vināśam], the perishable, manifested entities, simultaneously—such a person completes with the fear…
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Cognizing yourself as Imperishable and strategizing yourself on Imperishable is the only way to exist and become Imperishable.

Anything which makes you get into this agitational gratification is the mental set-up based on perishable; means you are worshipping perishable. When you are worshipping perishable, you are bound to be perished. You are planning to be perished. Then don’t try to cry, when the perishing happens to you, because you planned for it, you…
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If you think your life span is much more, then the idea of your pleasures will become different.

14th verse of the Isavasya Upanishad. sambḥutiṁ ca vināśaṁ ca yastad vedobhayaṁ saha | vināśena mṛtyuṁ tīrtvā sambhūtyāmṛtam aśnute || 14 || Listen. Understand. Cognize your existence, cognize the existence of the life, universe, God, everything with the larger vision. Listen, why you do what you do? Why you think the way you think? –…
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More and more you complete all the incompletions, the more and more your perception will expand

I will enter into Isavasya Upanishad, thirteenth (13th) verse. Please chant along with me. anyad-evāhuḥ sambhavād anyad-āhur-asambhavāt | iti śuśruma dhīrāṇāṁ ye nastad vicacakṣire || 13 || Translation goes: It is said that from the worship of the imperishable Consciousness, the cause of manifestation [sambhavāt] certainly a different result is attained. And it is…
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When you have a problem do not suspect just your actions, suspect the very cognition you carry about you

Ishavasya Upanishad is the first and foremost Upanishad on which I was commenting for some time ago and for various reasons morning satsang got postponed, now it starts again to continue. I’ll expand on the 11th verse of Isavaysa Upanishad. So please repeat along with me the 11th verse: vidyāṁ cāvidyāṁ ca yas tad vedobhayaṁ…
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Nachiketa, what a character!

Today I will try to introduce Naciketa, the hero of Kathopanishad. It is so strange, king, educated, knows everything, has people, wealth everything under his control ends up being stupid. And a kid, his own kid, not even finishing his schooling, less than 7 years old kid, supposed to be nobody, neither having money…
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Always establish yourself by contribution, not by throwing tantrum

Anything in my hand let me play with it. That is the only way I will prove my existence. Your existence is proved by your contribution not by your ability to throw tantrum. Please understand the people who are not able to contribute, try to prove their existence by throwing tantrum. I am not talking…
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Free fall from your Authentic Identity

I will enter into Kathopanishad. I have something very important to share with you all in Kathopanishad today. I was explaining the way the Vajashravas mind was getting degraded and the space he was going through. Please understand, when I explain the degradation happening to Vajashravas, the meaning of the explanation is – please don’t…
