Kathopanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

  ============================================================================================= 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 ...

====================================================================================================== 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 ...

  ========================================================================================================= 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...