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The Secret of the Katha Upanishad: 6.2. - Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================================================== Monday 10, Aug 2026, 07:25. The Secret of the Katha Upanishad: 6.2. Discourse No. 6 Swami Krishnananda. Post -31. =========================================================================================== There is something more than Universality. What could it be? If the mind is to contemplate it, the heart would give way, the brain would cease to function. Every cell of the body will melt, and it is this condition, indescribable, inscrutable, that made saints and sages dance in ecstasy. You must have heard of Mira dancing, Tukaram dancing—all these saints danced. And why did they? They were not crazy people. It was the bursting experience of a supernatural delight that entered them. They could not explain it. They could not express it in words. They could not even contain it within themselves. It could be expressed only in an ecstasy of a supernormal behaviour. The individual i...
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The Secret of the Katha Upanishad: 6.1. - Swami Krishnananda.

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  ============================================================================================= Thursday 30, July 2023, 17:15. The Secret of the Katha Upanishad: 6.1. Discourse No. 6 Swami Krishnananda. Post -30. ============================================================================================== The most consequent and difficult part of yoga commences when we try to rise beyond the vijnana-atman or the intellectual personality. That stage whereby the human individual struggles to attune itself to the Universal is the hardest one in yoga. There are difficulties of various kinds in one's attempt on the path of Spirit, but these difficulties can be classified into two groups—the natural and the supernatural. The natural difficulties are, to some extent, conceivable by the human mind, and these are those which we have to confront until we reach that level of concentration and meditation wherein the intellect reaches its limits. When the limit of the intellect is reached, we ...
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The Secret of the Katha Upanishad: 5.4. - Swami Krishnananda.

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====================================================================================================== Monday 20, July 2023, 18:30.  The Secret of the Katha Upanishad: 5.4.  Swami Krishnananda. Discourse No. 5-4 Post -29. ======================================================================================================= yadā pañcāvatiṣṭhante jñānāni manasā saha, buddhiś ca na viceṣṭati, tām āhuḥ paramāṃ gatim. The intelligent one, the discriminative seeker, should introvert the senses in such a way that they stand in unison with the substance of the mind. The mind and the senses, though they work in collaboration with each other, are not identical in their function. The difference in their activities lies in the fact that while the mind can contemplate spatial and temporal objects independently of the functions of the senses, the senses require space and time and externality for their activity. Also, they cannot work unless the mind is actively associated with them. There ...
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The Secret of the Katha Upanishad: 5.3. - Swami Krishnananda.

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  ========================================================================================================= Monday 08, June 2023, 18:30.  The Secret of the Katha Upanishad: 5.3.  Swami Krishnananda. Discourse No. 5-3. Post -28. ============================================================================================== Discourse No. 5 The path of the soul to its supreme destination is explained in the Katha Upanishad through a description of the chariot of the body. How does this chariot move? What is the methodology involved in the progress of the individual to its goal? This inner process of the movement of the individual to the Absolute is what we know as the practice of sadhana, or yoga. While there are elaborate textbooks on this subject, the Upanishad touches upon the point in a single mantra, as follows: 1.yacched vāṅ manasī prājñas tad yacchej, etc. The way of yoga is a process of gradual ascent and illumination. It is also a systematised process of achieving fr...
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The Secret of the Katha Upanishad : 5.2 Swami Krishnananda.

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Chinmaya Mission : Chinmaya Mission Durban began the month of April with a celestial celebration and a heartfelt offering to the Divine in the form of Samarpanam 2023! The dazzling night was filled with a bonanza of bhajans that ushered the minds of the attendees into pure bliss. Samarpanam 2023 pulled over 250 devotees to our Ashram on the 1st of April 2023! Melodious bhajans by celebrated artists from India, Anuja Sahai, and Dhananjay Bhatt, accompanied by our very own local instrumentalists of the Swarang Group, truly set everyone grooving to the glories of God! This year's Samarpanam was even more special as Pujya Swami Abhedananda launched the Crowdfunding Initiative for Chinmaya Mission South Africa's noble endeavor - Nourish to Flourish! ========================================================================= Wednesday, April 12, 2023. 07:40 Discourse No. 5-2. Post -27. ======================================================================== The first step, according to...
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The Secret of the Katha Upanishad : 5.2 Swami Krishnananda.

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======================================================================== Tuesday, March 28, 2023. 08:00 Discourse No. 5-2. Post -26 ========================================================================= Bondage is not only dependence on the non-Atman but also forgetfulness of the nature of the Atman, at the same time. The consciousness of the object necessitates a forgetfulness of the subject in some proportion. As a matter of fact, the awareness of the existence of anything outside is due to a transference of a part of our consciousness to the object outside. All perception is an extroverted operation of consciousness. The awareness of an object, the knowledge that we have of things outside, is a form of the operation of our consciousness within in terms of what is outside. We are aware of the existence of a world on account of our being in a state of motion towards the conditions of externality. This is why human life is to be regarded as a state of becoming, rather than being. Li...
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