Aitareya Upanishad

  ======================================================================================================= Saturday 10, October 2026, 06:45. Books Vedanta&Upanishads The Essence of the Aitare - 1.ya and Taittiriya Upanishads:2.2. Chapter 2: The Atman-2. Swami Krishnananda. ======================================================================================================= Chapter 2: The Atman-2. Now, this is a very grand concept the Upanishads are placing before us in connection with the process of the creation of the universe, and we are very happy to hear all these truths. But, we are also unhappy today; this, also, we cannot forget. Why has this sudden unhappiness come out of this great happiness of God's creation? When we hear all these great statements of cosmic manifestation, we feel elated; but we have little sorrows in our homes, and when we get out of the hall, we have to scratch our heads with our own problems. What has happened to us? How has this grief come into o...

  ======================================================================================================= Saturday 26 September 2026, 06:15. Books Vedanta&Upanishads The Essence of the Aitare - 1.ya and Taittiriya Upanishads: 1.3 Chapter 2: The Atman Swami Krishnananda. ======================================================================================================= Chapter 2: The Atman This final substance is constituted of the essence of everything, and it is our very Self. It is called the Atman. It is the Atman because it is the root substance of all things which are in the position of an effect. The Atman is the substance of everyone and everything. It is the Total Substance of all created beings, and so it is called Brahman. The Total Substance is Brahman, and the same thing conceived as the essence of particular beings is known as the Atman. Even as there cannot be a cause behind the final cause, there cannot be an Atman behind the Atman, for the very basic substan...

======================================================================================================= Wednesday 02,Aug 2026, 07:25. Books Vedanta&Upanishads The Essence of the Aitareya and Taittiriya Upanishads: 1.3 Chapter 1: Introduction -3. Swami Krishnananda. ======================================================================================================= Now, we gradually move to a philosophical realm from the ordinary social and empirical level of thought on which we have been traversing up to this time. Philosophy is a study of causes, rather ultimate causes, and an explanation of everything in terms of these causes. Sometimes they call it metaphysical thinking. Whatever be the name we give to it, it is the study of ultimate causes and an explanation of everything through these. The ultimate causes should be such that there should not be causes behind these causes; else they would not be the ultimate causes. The meaning of an ultimate cause is that it stands by its o...

  ==================================================================================== Sunday 23. Aug 2026, 08:25. Books Vedanta&Upanishads The Essence of the Aitareya and Taittiriya Upanishads: 2. Chapter 1: Introduction -2. Swami Krishnananda. ===================================================================================== If the aim seems to be an organisational unity—a thing that automatically comes out as a consequence of our ways of thinking—our duties also cannot be of a dissimilar character. If there is a purposive collaboration of the aims of life among mankind tending towards an organic perfection in itself, there cannot be different sets of ideals or duties before mankind, because duties or functions are nothing but activities directed towards the achievement of the purpose of humanity. The duties are as much related one to the other as the segments of the different aspirations of individuals are in respect of the total purpose of mankind. As there cannot be an ...

============================================================================================== Monday 31. July 2026, 20:50. Books Upanishads The Essence of the Aitareya and Taittiriya Upanishads: 1. Chapter 1: Introduction -1. Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================= The great issues of life, whether personal or social, hinge upon the concept of duty—what one ought to do in life. We know very well that the whole enterprise of mankind is a struggle of duty towards a particular end, and it makes no difference what position a person occupies in life insofar as the broad question of duty is concerned. The division of duty may vary from person to person, or from condition to condition; but that there is a duty of some sort cannot be denied, because duty is another name for the function that one is expected to perform in a given location of one's life. But what one ought to do cannot be decided easily unless another...