Wisdom & Its Significance
Kathopanishad: Conversation between Lord Yamma and Nachiketa This whole universe has emerged from the Brahman and moves in prana. The Brahman is a great terror, like an uplifted thunderbolt. Those who know this become immortal. This mantra says ‘the whole universe has emerged from Brahman’. The world is scientifically and systematically operating in an orderly…
Kathopanishad: Conversation between Lord Yama and Nachiketa This is the ancient Asvattha tree whose roots are above and branches below. That is verily the Pure, that is Brahman, and that is also called immortal. In that rest all the worlds, and none can transcend It. Verily, this is That. In Bhagavad Gita, Chapter. 15 –…
Kathopanishad: Conversation between Lord Yama and They perceive that indescribable highest bliss as “This is That”. How shall I know that? Does it shine by itself or does it shine by another (light)? When one goes through the process of contemplation, a journey of culminating in meditation, that is when you reach a point where…
Kathopanishad: Conversation between Lord Yama and Nachiketa The One, controller of all beings, transforms One form into manifold. The wise men who perceive Him dwelling in their own selves, they enjoy eternal happiness, and not the others. The diagram shows that when white light passes through the prism, you get the rainbow colours. Self is…
The Spiritual Ladder KATHOPANISHAD: CONVERSATION BETWEEN LORD YAMA AND NACHIKETA The One, controller of all beings, transforms One form into manifold. The wise men who perceive Him dwelling in their own selves, they enjoy eternal happiness, and not the others. The One, controller of all beings, transforms One form into manifold. The wise men who…
Just as the Sun — the eye of the entire world is not tainted by the perceptual and external impurities, so worldly sorrows do not taint the Atman in all beings; it transcends. As per Advaita philosophy, whenever we hear the word Atman, we should attribute it to ourselves. As a student of the Advaita school of…
Just as the One fire, having entered the world of forms, assumes each form, so does the One Atman in all beings assume different forms, and it is also beyond. Atman is just like fire. Fire takes the shape in whichever shape we put it. The Lord compares Atman to fire. Fire has no shape…
In the context of the theory of reincarnation, there are references in the Bhagavad Gita – Chapter 2 – verse 13 देहिनोஉस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा । तथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर्धीरस्तत्र न मुह्यति ॥ 2.13 ॥ Just as the embodied in this body (passes through) childhood, youth, and old age, so does it pass into another body,…
When this Atman, which dwells in the body, gets detached and is freed from the body, what remains here (in this body). This is verily that. There is a direct reference to death, and it says that Atman leaves the body. We must understand that it is the conditioned consciousness, the jiva, which leaves the…
Lord describes the Supreme being with reference to the microcosm as the in-dweller is dwelling in the city of eleven gates. It is not born; there is no birth or death to Atman. It is even-minded because the Brahman within us is mentally renouncing all actions. Having meditated on this Self, one grieves not. Grief…
