http://vedantabheri.com Exploring the teachings of Vedanta!! Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:10:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Source: Vaishvanara, The Universal Self - Chandogya Upanishad Ignorance is the cause of suffering because it breeds erroneous action towards motives which are wrongly directed. This is the cause for the transmigratory cycle of the soul, which can be put an end to only by proper meditation on the inward structure ... http://vedantabheri.com/upanishads/vaishvanara-the-universal-self-chandogya-upanishad/ Source:  The Course of the Soul After Death - Chandogya Upanishad In this connection, the Upanishad commences with a story. There was a student named Svetaketu who was the son of sage Uddalaka. This student was well-read and finely educated. He was so confident about his knowledge that he used to ... http://vedantabheri.com/upanishads/the-course-of-the-soul-after-death-chandogya-upanishad/ Source:  The Panchagni-Vidya from Chadogya Upanishad The sections of the Chandogya Upanishad, which we are going to study, are a gradational ascent of knowledge for the purpose of meditations which lift us above the phenomena of ordinary experience, such as birth and death and bondage of every kind, and point to ... http://vedantabheri.com/upanishads/the-panchagni-vidya-from-chadogya-upanishad/ Source:  Significance of Chandogya Upanishad Among the ten major Upanishads, the Chandogya and the Brihadaranyaka stand above others in their grand stature and majesty, these two texts being viewed by scholars as representing the cosmic and the acosmic aspect of Reality. In the Brihadaranyaka there is a preponderating emphasis on the ... http://vedantabheri.com/upanishads/significance-of-chandogya-upanishad/ Source:  Atman as the Pranava - Mandukya Upanishad The Atman is the content of the meaning of Omkara, with which the Upanishad commenced. This Om, which is All, the all-comprehensive. Name designates this All, which is the Atman. The Atman is the designated; Om, Pranava, is the designator. As there are three ... http://vedantabheri.com/upanishads/atman-as-the-pranava-mandukya-upanishad/ Source:  The Transcendent Presence - Mandukya Upanishad We have made an analysis of the three relativistic phases of the Atman, both in its individual and cosmic aspects. But, Reality, as such, is neither individual nor cosmic. To say that it is cosmic is also to limit it to a certain extent, ... http://vedantabheri.com/upanishads/the-transcendent-presence-mandukya-upanishad/ The third quarter of the Atman, called Prajna, is identified with the third quarter of the Universal Consciousness called Isvara. Isvara is omnipotent and, therefore, He is regarded as the source and the end of all creation. This Prajna is the causal ... http://vedantabheri.com/upanishads/who-is-ishvara-the-god-of-the-universe-mandukya-upanishad/ Source:  Consciousness and Sleep - Mandukya Upanishad The waking world and the dream world, from the point of view of the Jiva, are two aspects of the function of the mind. The mind projects itself in perception, both in waking and dream. The mind is active, and it gets tired of ... http://vedantabheri.com/upanishads/consciousness-and-sleep-mandukya-upanishad/ Source: Mystery of Dream and Sleep - Mandukya Upanishad The first phase of the Atman, as the waking consciousness, has been explained. Internal to the waking consciousness, and pervading the waking consciousness, there is a subtler function of this very same consciousness, which is subjectively known as the dream-consciousness, or Taijasa, ... http://vedantabheri.com/upanishads/mystery-of-dream-and-sleep-mandukya-upanishad/ Source:  The Universal Vaisvanara - Mandukya Upanishad This Atman, which is Brahman, is fourfold, and can be approached and attained by a fourfold process of self-transcendence. We now propose to take up these stages, one by one, by way of analysis and synthesis. The first stage of approach, naturally, is that ... http://vedantabheri.com/upanishads/the-universal-vaisvanara-mandukya-upanishad/