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18 November 2023

  • 12:2412:24, 18 November 2023 diff hist +48,348 N Khandana Bhava Bandhana Lecture 03 on 05 May 2019Created page with "We  are discussing the Avatara sthotram, kandana Bava bandana. We have come to  MoChana aga Dushana. Mochana means one who frees; frees from what? Freedom  is always from bondage. Aga Dhushana. Different  types of sins are there. Some sins are, what we call very small sins white lie, for example, Somebody had stolen small food, small amount of food. These are maybe what we call small sins, but killing somebody especially, in the olden times, three types of killings..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 12:2312:23, 18 November 2023 diff hist +42,035 N Khandana Bhava Bandhana Lecture 02 on 28 April 2019Created page with "We are meditating, Upon the, kandana Bava Bandana, which is also called avatara Stotra. This whole avatara Stotra contains only two matters. An indication, what are the characteristics of the Nirguna Brahma, Highest reality. Highest reality cannot be described. That’s why we sing        ”Namo Namo Prabhu Vaakya Mana Aditha”. Even this address, salutations, salutations To You O’ Lord is not meant for Nirguna Brahmam. Because, you can’t salute. Why can't..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 12:2212:22, 18 November 2023 diff hist +31 N Category:Khandana Bhava BandhanaCreated page with "Category:Swami Dayatmananda" current Tag: Visual edit
  • 12:2112:21, 18 November 2023 diff hist +44,605 N Khandana Bhava Bandhana Lecture 01 on 21 April 2019Created page with "From today, we are going to discuss about the meaning of "Kandana Bhava Bandhana" (कंदन भव बंधन ). We will start with this, that,  why it started? How it started? And, how it became complete, later on.    First, when the direct disciples, of Sri Ramkrishna, was wandering in North India, they used to invariably stay in some place where monasteries were there. Every “monasterie” in North India, in the evening, they have Araitrikam. And monast..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:5211:52, 18 November 2023 diff hist +34,555 N Devi Suktam Lecture 05 on 16 November 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We are studying the Devi suktam. We are still in the first mantra only. The first mantra is uttered as the expression of the experience of the daughter of a great Rishi called Ambruna and she is called Vaak. Because she is the daughter of Ambruna Rishi, she is called Vaak Ambruni. The female equivalent of Rishi is Rishika. So this Rishika, she performed Tapasya and she attained oneness with Brahman and she felt I am Brahman. I am bot..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:5011:50, 18 November 2023 diff hist +33,592 N Mandukya Karika Lecture 129 on 15-November-2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We have entered into a very interesting debate. Godopadacharya wants to prove his theory, which is a Dwaitic theory, that there is no creation at all. And it is absolutely true. But it is just contrary to our experience. We are born, we are growing up, and we think we are going to die within this samsara. And we call it the world. How can anybody in his right mind say that it is all Mithya? Mithya means, since we are experiencing, it..." Tag: Visual edit

14 November 2023

  • 04:3804:38, 14 November 2023 diff hist +36,880 N Kaivalya Upanishad Lecture 07 on 05 November 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We are studying the Kaivalya Upanishad. There was a great sadhaka called Ashvalayana. He approached the original Guru, Brahma himself, and asked him, Please help me in realizing my real nature, which is Brahman. And I also understand this is the ultimate goal not only of myself but of everybody. And in reply, Bhagwan Parameshwari said, There is a way. Those who are pure in mind, striving through the path of renunciation, come to asce..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 04:3204:32, 14 November 2023 diff hist +34,545 N Kaivalya Upanishad Lecture 08 on 11 November 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We have been studying a Kaivalya Upanishad in our last class. We have been contemplating on the sixth mantra. There was a great sadhaka called Ashvalayana. He approached directly Bhagavan Brahma himself, the Saguna Brahma, and took refuge in him and then served him and pleased him and asked him, teach me or help me how I can know my own nature, Atma Jnanam. And as a result, Parameshti has been teaching. First he said, if you do not h..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 04:2904:29, 14 November 2023 diff hist +35,823 N Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna Lecture 099 on 07-November-2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == In our last class, we have been dealing with a very important concept in human life. Especially or probably it will make a better sense if we look at the things that are going on all around us. What is the solution? Is there any solution really, universally? No. Hindu scriptures crystal clearly tell us that good and evil are part and parcel of creation itself, life itself. Very interestingly, Srishti, Stithi and Laya. You take the im..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 04:2604:26, 14 November 2023 diff hist +35,219 N Devi Suktam Lecture 04 on 09 November 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We are studying the Devi Sukta. This forms in the 10th Mandala. Vigveda, let us remember, has been divided into 10 sections. This particular Sukta called Vaak Sukta, Devi Sukta, Ambruni Vaak Sukta comes in the 10th Mandala, 125th Sukta. And this Rishi or Rishika, female Rishi, is the daughter of Ambruna, a great Rishi himself. And this lady, she did a lot of Tapasya like Manu, like Bhrigu, like Sri Ramakrishna. And then she realized..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 04:2204:22, 14 November 2023 diff hist +33,290 N Mandukya Karika Lecture 128 on 08-November-2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We have been studying the fourth and last chapter of the Mandukya Karikas. This fourth chapter is named as Alatha Shanti. And what is the main Gaudapada's argument? And Gaudapada's argument is nothing but Advaitic argument. When Shankaracharya condensed the entire Advaitic teaching into three parts. Brahma Satyam, God alone is real. Jagat Mithya, which means really there is no world at all. What we call the world is nothing but Brahm..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 01:5501:55, 14 November 2023 diff hist +32,622 N Kaivalya Upanishad Lecture 06 on 04 November 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We are studying the Kaivalya Upanishad. We have covered four mantras. The story starts with a very fit disciple, Adhikari Sadhaka called Ashvalayana, son of Ashvala. And he approached Brahma himself directly with the request, Please help me realize my true nature. Aham Brahmasmi. Help me to know that Aham Brahma. And this is the most secret knowledge, sacred knowledge and very deeply hidden. And only a few people come to know about i..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 01:5301:53, 14 November 2023 diff hist +32,870 N Kaivalya Upanishad Lecture 05 on 29 October 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == In our last class of this Kaivalya Upanishad, we have completed the second mantra and also discussing the third mantra. The third mantra is the answer of Brahma to Ashvalayana, who asked him, Help me realize that I am Brahman. And to him, the Parameshti, means Pitamaha, Grandfather, Grandson. Shraddha, Bhakti, Dhyana, Yoga, Avaihi. You can definitely realize, but certain spiritual qualifications you must acquire. You must have Shradd..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 01:5201:52, 14 November 2023 diff hist +34,469 N Kaivalya Upanishad Lecture 04 on 28 October 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We have been studying this beautiful Upanishad called Kaivalya Upanishad. As the very name indicates, Kaivalya or Moksha or complete freedom from the Samsara Sagara is what is meant by the word Kaivalya. Only that one Brahman was there. What about now? That one Brahman alone is there. It alone will be there because it is Kalatita, Deshatita. It is beyond all limitations of time, space and causation. So if that is the truth, that's ou..." current Tag: Visual edit

5 November 2023

27 October 2023

  • 12:2412:24, 27 October 2023 diff hist +181 Mandukya Karika Lecture 119 on 06-September-2023No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:4511:45, 27 October 2023 diff hist +35,688 N Kaivalya Upanishad Lecture 03 on 22 October 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == Yesterday, we had discussed the meaning of the Shanti Patha. For this particular Upanishad, the Shanti Patha is Bhadram Karne Vihi Shuniyamadevaha What is the purpose of Shanti Patha? First of all, praying for the grace of God, so that all the obstacles can be removed. Body, mind, our only instruments, either for prayers or Shreyas, be in a fit condition by acquiring all the fitness to pursue the path of Shreyas or Mukti, which is po..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:4211:42, 27 October 2023 diff hist +39,483 N Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna Lecture 098 on 24-October-2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == On this sacred day, may the Divine Mother Durga grant us all viveka, vairagya, bhakti and jnana to the brim. Sri Ramakrishna used to pray to the Divine Mother thus. He said to my Divine Mother, I prayed only for pure love. I offered flowers at Her lotus feet and prayed to Her. Mother, here is Thy virtue, here is Thy vice. Take them both and grant me only pure love for Thee. Here is Thy knowledge, here is Thy ignorance. Take them both..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:3911:39, 27 October 2023 diff hist +33,479 N Mandukya Karika Lecture 126 on 25-October-2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We have been seeing the philosophy or philosophical views of the four schools of Buddhism. Sautrantika, Vaibhashika, Yogachara and Madhyamika. And of all these, Madhyamika is also called Shunyavada. Now, to be very brief, the Sautrantikas, they say there is an external world and we understand it because we have experience of the external world or objects in the external world. There cannot be any experience if there were to be no obj..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:3811:38, 27 October 2023 diff hist +37,054 N Devi Suktam Lecture 02 on 26 October 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We are dealing with the Devi Sukta. I have been giving the introduction. This is one of the most important Suktas, especially whenever Durga Saptashruthi is chanted. A part of that chanting towards the very end is the chanting of this Devi Sukta. It is also known as Vaak Sukta because the name of the Rishini, Angirini, her name is Vaak, was Vaak. That is why the Sukta goes by the name Angirini Sukta, Vaak Sukta, Devi Sukta. Very mean..." Tag: Visual edit

22 October 2023

  • 12:1112:11, 22 October 2023 diff hist +36,962 N Kaivalya Upanishad Lecture 02 on 21 October 2023Created page with "== Summary == This lecture elaborates on the Shanti Patha or peace invocation of the Kaivalya Upanishad. Swami Dayatmanandaji explains that the Shanti Patha is a prayer seeking God's grace for the successful completion of studying the Upanishad. It prays for the removal of obstacles, fitness of body and mind, and spiritual virtues to attain self-knowledge. He analyzes each line of the invocation. "Om" indicates the all-encompassing Brahman and removes obstacles. "Bhadr..." current Tag: Visual edit

20 October 2023

  • 10:5210:52, 20 October 2023 diff hist +31 N Category:Devi SuktamCreated page with "Category:Swami Dayatmananda" current Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:5110:51, 20 October 2023 diff hist +35,085 N Devi Suktam Lecture 01 on 19 October 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == From today we have started another suptam called Devi Suptam. It is also alternatively called Vaak Suptam. And as I explained in my last class, why did I take up this particular suptam? There are many reasons. One of the most important reasons is that Durga Puja is coming. And many people chant Durga Saptashati Devi Mahatmyam, also called Chandi, consisting of a little more than 700 shlokas like the Bhagavad Gita. And at the end of t..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:4810:48, 20 October 2023 diff hist +31 N Category:Kaivalya UpanishadCreated page with "Category:Swami Dayatmananda" current Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:4810:48, 20 October 2023 diff hist +34,683 N Kaivalya Upanishad Lecture 01 on 15 October 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == As I mentioned yesterday, from today onwards, we are going to study a beautiful Upanishad called Kaivalya Upanishad. The very name of the Upanishad, Kaivalya means mukti. Kevala bhava. Kevalakta means alone, one without a second, absolutely solitary, pure advaita bhava. The very name of the Upanishad is that knowledge which leads to this state of being ourselves. That is called Kaivalya or Moksha Upanishad, if you want to put it simp..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:4310:43, 20 October 2023 diff hist +36,702 N Aitareya Upanishad Lecture 21 on 14 October 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We have been discussing the third or the last chapter of the Aitareya Upanishad. This third chapter is one of the shortest chapters. It has got only four mantras and one of the greatest Mahavakyas. Prajnanam Brahma Consciousness is Brahman. Pure Consciousness is another name for Brahman. That Mahavakya comes here. And in this third chapter, for the sake of expounding how the whole universe is nothing but pure consciousness, Prajnanam..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:4010:40, 20 October 2023 diff hist +31,808 N Mandukya Karika Lecture 125 on 18-October-2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We are studying the last chapter of the Mandukya Karika, which is called Alata Shanti, extinguishing of the firebrand. So in this we have dealt with until 23rd Karika. So from 14th to 23rd, Gaudapada wants to refute the Mimamsa views that there is no creation at all. Because creation means there must be a cause. Creation is an effect. So there must be a cause. You show us what is the cause. And Mimamsa caste cannot show the cause bec..." Tag: Visual edit

14 October 2023

  • 09:4109:41, 14 October 2023 diff hist +34,722 N Purusha Suktam Lecture 21 on 12-October-2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We are studying the Purusha Suktam. In our last classes, we have been discussing about the 21st or 3rd Rig from the Uttara Narayana point of view. What is it? PRAJAPATISHCHARATI GANBHEYANTAHA AJAYA MANO BAHUDA VIJAYATE TASYADHIRAH PARIJANANTIHUNIM BARICHI NAMPADAM ICHCHANTI VEDASAHA The Lord of Beings, that is what we call Ishwara, pervades all things. He is not subject to birth. And yet, He is born in several forms. The wise well kn..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 09:4009:40, 14 October 2023 diff hist +31,380 N Mandukya Karika Lecture 124 on 11-October-2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == So in our last class, we have spent the entire class summarizing the Karikas in this fourth chapter called Alatha Shanti Prakaranam, 14th to 23. Earlier also we have seen, earlier Gaudapada, he had refuted first Nyaya-Vaisheshika theory about what is called creation of the world. Second, which is known as Asatkaryavada. Then he had refuted the philosophical school called Sankhya and Yoga, whose theory is called Satkaryavada. That is,..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 09:2209:22, 14 October 2023 diff hist +36,937 N Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna Lecture 097 on 10-October-2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == In our last class we have been studying very useful teachings of Sri Ramakrishna. What is the benefit of Holy Company? Sunday, April 9, 1882 Sri Ramakrishna was seated with his devotees in the drawing room of Pranakrishna Mukherjee's house in Calcutta. It was between 1 and 2 o'clock in the afternoon. And there is another benefit from Holy Company. Many benefits are there. One benefit is by associating with holy people, we ourselves b..." Tag: Visual edit

9 October 2023

  • 16:0416:04, 9 October 2023 diff hist +34,220 N Mandukya Karika Lecture 123 on 04-October-2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We have come to the last chapter. LAATHA SHANTI PRAKARANAM We have discussed up to the 13th karika of this 4th chapter. This 4th chapter has got 100 karikas or shlokas. Mainly, in this last chapter, Gaudapada is trying to refute all the other schools of philosophy which accept creation in this world. We have seen in our last class, in 5 karikas, how Gaudapada had refuted Satkaryavada, Asatkaryavada. Now we come to this Mimamsavada. Y..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 15:5015:50, 9 October 2023 diff hist +37,339 N Purusha Suktam Lecture 20 on 05-October-2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == In our last class, we were discussing the third, if we count from the Uttara Narayana. If we count it as part of the whole series, then 21st mantra. Otherwise, it is the third mantra. But nowadays, this Uttara Narayana has been accepted as part of the Purusha Suptam. So, this is only an academic information. But in practice, everybody chants. All these 24 mantras are there. So, we are discussing a Rig 21. What does it mean? That why..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 15:4815:48, 9 October 2023 diff hist +33,190 N Aitareya Upanishad Lecture 20 on 08 October 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We are studying the third chapter of the Aitareya Upanishad. In our last class we have seen that there is something called Hridayam and there is something called Manas. These two in fact are not two separate things. That which is Hridayam or heart is the mind. That which is the mind is the heart. Mind means that which modifies itself into various thoughts called Vrittis. And some of those thoughts, only some of them have been mention..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 15:4615:46, 9 October 2023 diff hist +36,546 N Aitareya Upanishad Lecture 19 on 07 October 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We are in the third chapter of the Aitareya Upanishad. It has only four mantras. And in this chapter only we get the Mahavakya. So just to remind ourselves what we discussed in our earlier classes. There were some Brahmins. There were Adhikaris. Brahmana means one who is desirous of obtaining Mukti or realizing Brahman. Those who are longing with intense yearning to realize Brahman is called a Brahmana. And the discussion started in..." Tag: Visual edit

2 October 2023

  • 06:1006:10, 2 October 2023 diff hist +36,935 N Purusha Suktam Lecture 19 on 28-September-2023Created page with "We are enjoying the Purusha Suktam. In our last classes, we have seen the second rick if we count it after 18th or 20th rick if we count it as separate appendix. This is called Uttara Narayana. Purusha Suktam really ends with the 18th rick. But six more were added to it, giving a sort of summary and which is not bad because the more we study, the better we understand and every scripture has got tremendous power. This is called Satsangatya, Scriptural Sangatya, Shastra Sa..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 06:0606:06, 2 October 2023 diff hist +34,309 N Aitareya Upanishad Lecture 18 on 01 October 2023Created page with "We have just completed the second chapter of the Aitareya Upanishad. In yesterday's class, we have completed the first mantra of the third and final chapter. Now, we have been wondering why so much of description of this creation, maintenance, etc. Now, it becomes clear. Vamadeva had said this creation is meant only for one purpose. To realize God. This is what Sri Ramakrishna and Swamiji and Holy Mother and Shankaracharya and every other spiritual saint always emphasize..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 06:0506:05, 2 October 2023 diff hist +35,603 N Aitareya Upanishad Lecture 17 on 30 September 2023Created page with "In our last class, we have been doing the last mantra, rik of the Aitreya Upanishad, second chapter, wherein anybody who attains Atma Jnanam, Self-Knowledge, what happens to him is graphically described. Now, this is not a simple process. It will take many, many, many lives. That was what in the fifth mantra, Rishi Amadeva was telling. The description of this Rishi Amadeva was very beautiful. Even while he was lying in the womb of the mother, he attained to that Brahma J..." Tag: Visual edit

28 September 2023

  • 14:2514:25, 28 September 2023 diff hist +32,204 N Mandukya Karika Lecture 122 on 27-September-2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == So, we have entered into the fourth chapter of the Mandukya Karika. The Upanishad itself was over in the first chapter itself, called Agama Prakarana. Now the fourth chapter is called Alatha Shanti Prakarana. And Gaudapada is creating endless amount of Ashanti by trying to argue with everybody else. But definitely what happens? Do we really require all these arguments for God realization or spiritual progress? Not directly, but indir..." Tag: Visual edit

26 September 2023

25 September 2023

  • 15:5415:54, 25 September 2023 diff hist +36,493 N Aitareya Upanishad Lecture 16 on 24 September 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == In our last class yesterday, we have been talking about a great Rishi and this Rishi was called Vamadeva and even while still he was in the womb of his mother before coming out of the mother's womb he had declared I have become a realized one. I know the truth. I have become an Amrita Putra. I have realized that I was, I am and I will be an Amrita Putra. So this was the statement and then this is the response of a realized soul and t..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 15:5315:53, 25 September 2023 diff hist +36,706 N Aitareya Upanishad Lecture 15 on 23 September 2023Created page with "== Full Transcript (Not Corrected) == We are studying the Aitareya Upanishad. So far we have been covering the subject. First chapter is over. Second chapter we are in. In the first chapter the truth that there is only one reality and that is called Atman, Brahman, Paramatma, Ishwara by whatever name we like to call. And why did this creation come? Because He wanted to continue His Leela both in the formless aspect and aspect with form. Saguna Brahma is called Leela Brah..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 15:5215:52, 25 September 2023 diff hist −363 Purusha Suktam Lecture 18 on 21-September-2023No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
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