Kathopanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

========================================================================== Sunday, January 01, 2023. 07:00 Discourse - 4.1. Post -20. ======================================================================== The grand destination, this wondrous structure of the Universe, the goal of life is not easy of approach. The Upanishad cautions us: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- uttiṣṭhata jāgrata; prāpya varān nibodhata. Do not be under the notion that you can get this blissful experience in a trice. Awake! Arise! Stop not till the goal is reached! Seek refuge with men of wisdom. Know it, then, by surrender to them. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kṣurasya dhārā niśitā duratyayā; durgam pathas tat kavayo vadanti. Subtle is this path, difficult is this way, hard it is to enter the citadel of this mysterious yoga. I

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Wednesday, December 14, 2022. 07:00. Discourse - 3.8  Post -19. ========================================================================= Avyakta is that inscrutable, indescribable precondition of the manifestation of all things, we call prakriti, maya, avyakrita, and so on, though all these terms do not convey a true meaning of what it is. The presupposition, the pre-condition, the necessity, the cause behind the expression of this Universe in its visible form is avyakta. Every effect must have a cause. If the Universe is to be regarded as an effect, logically speaking, there must be a cause thereof. This is the Seed of all things. And beyond this final Cause, is the Causeless Cause, the unmoved Mover, the Purusha. Beyond the Avyakta is the Purusha. The Purusha is Supreme. What is this Purusha? Purusha is a term we apply to what truly Is,