Aitareya Upanishad

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, May 01, 2021. 08:19. PM. The Aitareya Upanishad -5. Chapter 3. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. "Who is he whom we all worship as the self ?" He by whom one sees, one hears, one smells the various odors, one is able to speak, one is able to distinguish the tasty from the tasteless. 2. That which is the heart, the mind, it is consciousness, perception, discrimination, intelligence, mental brilliance, vision, determination, thought power, thoughtfulness, impulse, memory, decision, goal, life, desire, control. All these are the different names of intelligence only. 3. He is Brahma, he is Indra, he is Prajapati. He is all these gods. He is the five elements, namely the earth, air, ether, water and light, a combination of which forms into seeds of different kinds, the ones born out of eggs, the ones born out of wombs, the ones born from ...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, April 23, 2021. 11:57. AM. The Aitareya Upanishad -4. Section 2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Indeed in a person this one first becomes an embryo. That which is called retas is a culmination of the vigor coming from the limbs of the body. In the self only one bears the self. By shedding it into a female, he gives birth to it. This is the first birth. 2. It enters into the self of the female, as if it is a limb of her. Therefore it does not cause her any harm. She nourishes this self of his that has come into her. 3. She is the one who nourishes, so should she be nourished. She bears him in her womb. Before the birth he nourishes the child, so does he after his birth. He thus nourishes his own self, for the continuation of the worlds. The worlds are sustained in this manner only. This is the second birth. 4. He who is thus born of his own s...

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, April 17, 2021. 01:45. AM. The Aitareya Upanishad -3. Section 2.continued&Section-3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Section 2 Hunger and thirst symbolically stand for desire, which is the main motive power behind the functioning of the sense organs. According to this verse, the creator did not create a specific region for hunger and thirst, while he did it for the rest of the divinities. Instead he assinged the entire body to them so that every part in the body would experience and hunger and thirst and seek food and water for their survival in return for the services they render. In other words, hunger and thirst compel the whole body and its parts to work properly and secure food. Imagine if hunger and thirst were limited to only a particular part in the body. People would have solved th...

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Aitareya Upanishad -2.  Section 2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, April 11, 2021. 09:57. AM. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The divinities so created fell into the great ocean (of life). The Self subjected them to hunger and thirst. And they asked Him, "Find out an abode for us where we can sit and eat food." 2. He brought for them a cow. They said, "No, this is not enough for us" He gave them a horse. They said, "No this is not enough for us." 3. He brought for them a person. They said this was an appropriate creation. A person is indeed an appropriate creation. He said to them, "Enter your respective parts." All beings in creation are subjected to desires, which at the most basic level manifest as hunger and thirst. Without the two the physiological n...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, March 21, 2021. 07:19. AM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Aitareya Upanishad : It is divided into three chapters. The first chapter is further divided into 3 sections. The Upanishad deals with the nature of Self and creation and how world, food (materiality) and beings manifested in the beginning. The Upanishad also contains the famous expression (mahavakya) "Prajnanam Brahma" meaning Brahman is pure intelligence. The chapterwise summary of the Aitareya Upanishad is available here. Invocation : My speech is harmonized with my mind and my mind is harmonized with my speech. He who is manifested, may He manifest himself before me. Acting as a nail, may He makes the knowledge of the Vedas stay with me. Do not let go what I have learned. With the help of what I have studied day and night, I speak that which is harmonious, I speak Truth. M...

============================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, May 29, 2020. Post-10. ------------------------------------------ 1. #Over and above what it has already told us about creation and the way in which we find ourselves in this world, the Upanishad goes into further detail of the reason why we are in this condition. Birth and death become a necessary result that follows from involvement in externality. ##What we call evolution in modern scientific language is the effort of the external to become the Universal. Every atom, everything living and non-living, is attempting to regain its universality. The whole world of externality is attempting to regain its universality. The world is craving for God, and every little atom of creation is crying for that which it has lost. ###The restlessness that we feel in this world, the kinds of agony of various types in which...

============================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, May 19, 2020. Post-9. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The Aitareya Upanishad tells us the Atman, the Universal Being which alone was, became the cause of the manifestation of this universe in this fashion: through the manifestation of the external space-time first, through multiplicity and through inverted compulsion of perception in respect of individuals. We cannot conceive of a greater tragedy. Even a concentration camp is better than this. The worst has befallen us. But we think we are still in heaven. ##Everything seems to be nice: the world is beautiful, society is good, friends are plenty, wealth is there. What is wrong with the world? The misconception has gone so deep into the very veins of our existence that we have started imagining that we are actua...