Kathopanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

 ========================================================================= CHINMAYA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION- (CIF) Hari Om. It is always a joy to share the achievements of all who connect with CIF through our Home Study Courses.  Twenty two students from the Chinmaya Sagar zone, Mumbai, completed CIF’s Advanced Vedanta Course facilitated by Sevak Smt. Jasmine Asher, under the guidance of Swami Swatmananda (Chinmaya Shivam).  On 30th October, Swami Swatmanandaji graced the graduation ceremony and handed out the Course Completion Certificates to the students.  Chinmaya International Foundation congratulates the 22 Sadhakas and Smt. Jasmine Asher! ========================================================================= Friday, November 25, 2022. 07:00. Discourse -3.7  Post -18. ========================================================================= Here we come to a halt, as it were, because of exhaustion of all our available resources. Beyond the intellect you know nothing. The intel

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Monday, November 07, 2022. 07:00. Discourse -3.  Post -17. ========================================================================= Having guarded ourselves adequately with a knowledge of the difficulty of acquiring this mystery of mysteries in our experience, we try to understand what the Lord Yama, the great teacher of the Katha Upanishad, must have spoken as the final word to Nachiketas. Even when Yama comes to the main point in question, he does not hit it directly. He tries to approach it gradually. This is the technique of the teaching of any science or art. When you speak on any subject or teach a particular branch of learning, you should not forthwith go to the subject at the very beginning itself. That would be difficult for the student to comprehend. You must follow what they call the Socratic method of teaching.  You speak as if