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A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 9. - Swami Krishnananda.

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================================================================================================= Thursday 06, Aug 2026, 06:00. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India - 9. Chapter 3: The Itihasas and Puranas 1.The Rise of the Epics and Puranas Swami Krishnananda Post-9. ==================================================================================================== Chapter 3: The Itihasas and Puranas-1. 1.The Rise of the Epics and Puranas: The Brahman of the Upanishads, which stirred the awe and reverence of the sages, could be realised only by the cream of mankind, and those who are fit to pursue the path chalked out in the Upanishads are small in number. But religion has to extend beyond realisation and cater to the emotional needs of the lesser category of humanity. No historian of philosophy, to our knowledge, has been able to get over the prejudice that all religious thought subsequent to the Vedas and Upanishads, and ap...
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Sat Sangam with Swami Krishnananda: Post-9.

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  ==================================================================================================== Wednesday 05, Aug 2026, 5:00. Books Philosophy Metaphysical Philosophy Daily Sat Sangam with Swami Krishnananda. March (from The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad) Post-9.11. Physical Division Does Not Exist =================================================================================================== 11. Physical Division Does Not Exist: I shall give you a small example of how physical division does not exist. It is only imaginary. The bodies of people are constituted of the five elements—earth, water, fire, air and ether. Your body, my body and everybody's body are constituted of only these things, nothing else—earth, water, fire, air, ether. If the body of one individual, 'A', is substantially the same as the body of another individual, 'B', because of its being formed of the same five elements, what is the reason for the distinction or the difference that we make b...
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Daily Invocations: 7. - Swami Krishnananda.

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  ==================================================================================================== Sunday 02, Aug 2026, 18:30.        Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita Daily Invocations:  7.The Significance of the Sri Sukta Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================================== 7.The Significance of the Sri Sukta: The Sri Sukta of the Veda is recited with benefit especially on Fridays, together with formal worship of the Goddess, for peace, plenty, and all-round prosperity. Lakshmi, who is usually identified as the Spouse of Vishnu, or Narayana, represents the glory and magnificence of God. Narayana and Lakshmi, actually, stand for Being and Becoming. The Creator in all His glory manifests Himself in the variety in creation. Generally, spiritual seekers make the mistake of imagining that God is outside the world and the world has to be rejected in spiritual pursuits. This is an inadequate view, b...
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Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 2. Swami Krishnananda.

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==================================================================================================== Monday 31, July 2026, 19:50. Books Scriptures Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 2. Swami Krishnananda ==================================================================================================== Brahma-vidya is an intricate subject. It is not just repeating some words of the Upanishads or the Brahma Sutras or even the Gita. It is the entry of the consciousness into the very import of the teaching, which is suggested in many of the verses of the Bhagavadgita itself. Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti (7.7); aham ātmā guḍākeśa sarvabhūtāśayasthitaḥ (10.20); paśya me pārtha rūpāṇi śataśo'tha sahastraśaḥ (11.5); divyaṁ dadāmi te cakṣuḥ paśya me yogam aiśvaram (11.8); jñeyaṁ yat tat pravakṣyāmi yaj jñātvāmṛtam aśnute, anādimat paraṁ brahma na sat tan nāsad ucyate (13.12); sarvataḥ- pāṇipādaṁ tat sarvato'kṣiśiromukham, sarvataḥśrutimal loke sarvam āvṛtya tiṣṭhati (13.13): The T...
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The Philosophy of the Karma Yoga of the Bhagavadgita: 2. Swami Krishnananda.

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   =================================================================================================== Thursday 30, July 2026, 17:00. Article Scriptures  The Philosophy of the Karma Yoga of the Bhagavadgita: 2. Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on July 15, 1979) Post - 2. ==================================================================================================== Karma yoga is a system of internal training, an educational career into which we get introduced, and it is much more this than the art of solidarity that we are trying to bring about in the world. The world cannot be changed. It is just as it is. It has not changed for centuries and it is not going to change, but the understanding of it changes. The knowledge that we have about the world increases as the training continues further and further, and we are able to handle situations better. For this purpose it is that we are asked to perform our duty. Our getting fed up with the work in which we are engaged is, ag...
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A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 8. - Swami Krishnananda.

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  ================================================================================================= Tuesday 28, July 2026, 08:20. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India -7. Chapter 2: The Upanishads:4. Swami Krishnananda Post-8. ==================================================================================================== Eschatology: Continued  The soul with desire of some kind or the other departs through the various nerve-passages of the subtle body, while the spiritually illumined soul passes through the Sushumna nerve-current and reaches Brahmaloka, via the shining region of the Sun. The Chhandogya Upanishad describes the stages of the passage of the soul on its way to Brahmaloka. The statements on this subject scattered over through the Upanishads, when grouped in an order, amount to the following description of the path, called Devayana or the path of the gods. The soul reaches the deity of flame (fire or li...
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