Aitareya Upanishad

  ====================================================================================== Saturday 17, October 2026, 06:15. Books Vedanta&Upanishads The Essence of the Aitareya and Taittiriya Upanishads:3-1. Chapter 3: Ishvara and Jiva-1. Swami Krishnananda. ======================================================================================= Chapter 3: Ishvara and Jiva-1. The great cause of all causes, the Supreme Being, projected this universe, and Itself arose out of the universe, as it were, in a character of immanence, not losing the transcendence of its own essential being. And all the functions that we see in our own selves, jivas or individuals that we are, were present there in their original form. But the seeds of the manifestation of diversity were also sown in the body of this Cosmic Being. There is a great difference between the original and the reflected parts that we are. Thus it is mentioned in the Upanishad that the causative factors of all the functions were ...

  ======================================================================================================= 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...