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  ================================================================================================== Saturday 24, October 2026. 18:00 Article Scriptures Meditation According to the Upanishads: 2. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on January 14th, 1973) ====================================================================================================== Thus, entering into a study of the states of consciousness, the Mandukya Upanishad gives us a beautiful exposition of at least three of the strata of consciousness, which we generally call the waking, the dream and the sleep states of consciousness, the condition through which our essential being passes in respect of its object. There are really no states for consciousness; it is eternal, yet it appears to have states when it sets itself in opposition to an object. The three states mentioned here are really three states of the conflict of consciousness with its object. If consciousness were not set in opposition to its object, there would ...

  ========================================================================================================= Friday 04, Sep 2026. 04:30. Article Scriptures Meditation According to the Upanishads:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on January 14th, 1973) =============================================================================================================== Today we shall take an excursion into the Upanishadic method of meditation, which is the predominant note of all Vedantic texts. The Upanishadic approach to Truth is out-and-out philosophical and mystical. The Upanishads take a comprehensive view from three angles of vision: the external, the internal, and another feature which transcends them both. The Mandukya, the Taittiriya and the Aitareya Upanishads may be taken as examples of this type of approach, which also receives elaborate treatment and profound consideration in the Chhandogya and Brihadaranyaka Upanishads. The Upanishadic method is something not unknown to studen...

  ====================================================================================================== Friday 17, July 2026. 18:50. Books Yoga & Meditation True Spiritual Living Chapter 5: Freeing Ourselves from Entanglements -1. Post-21. ======================================================================================================= Chapter 5: Freeing Ourselves from Entanglements -1. When we are walking in a thick jungle, it is possible that our clothes may get caught in a thorny bush, and many thorns may be pulling us from different directions. What do we do then? We stop and very slowly try to remove the thorns, one by one. We do not pull our clothes by force, lest they should tear. Perhaps we will remove the smaller thorns first because their prick is milder; and we will try to remove the bigger thorns that have gone deep later on, gradually, stage by stage. This is exactly what to do in the practice of yoga. Our entanglements are manifold. Our consciousness that h...

  ================================================================================================================== Sunday 21, June 2026. 07:50. Books Yoga & Meditation True Spiritual Living Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Objects of Sense - 3. Post-20. ======================================================================================================= I have already given the definition of the universal. The universal does not necessarily mean the Supreme or the Absolute Universal. Even a tendency towards it can be regarded as a universal, just as a student studying in the third standard is called a student undergoing education, and an Oxford post-graduate is also undergoing education. Whatever be the class in which we are reading, we are regarded as undergoing education. Likewise, we are moving towards the universal even if we have taken only half a step, or even less than that. Badrinath is 160 miles from here, but even if we take one step in that direction, it is a movement...

  ======================================================================================================= Tuesday 26, May 2026. 20:30. Books Yoga & Meditation True Spiritual Living Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Objects of Sense - 2. Post-19. ======================================================================================================= We can only say, in the language of the Upanishads, that this fall ended in a sort of makeshift between the condition into which the consciousness fell and the longing which it cherished in its own self. It is like the League of Nations. Internally we are at war with one another, but we sit at a single table and talk on world peace. The League of Nations failed. It never worked well, and it does not exist any more. Likewise, consciousness had no other alternative than to reconcile itself with the fall, at the same time not forgetting that it is impossible for it to continue in that fallen condition. We are in a prison, and we cannot escape ...

  ======================================================================================================= Saturday 02, May 2026. 06:25. Books Yoga & Meditation True Spiritual Living Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Objects of Sense - 1. Post-18. ======================================================================================================== Spiritual life is the intensive and systematic disentanglement of oneself from the clutches of unspiritual forces, all which arise from what we call the consciousness of externality. This is what is called Vritra, to whom I made reference yesterday from the Mahabharata. The consciousness of externality is the consciousness of space, time and objectivity. It is this that is harassing us every day—night and day, from birth to death. This is also called the trouble arising from sense perception, due to which we say the senses have to be controlled, and so on. The senses, their activity, the outward projection of the mind, the consciousness o...