Taittiriya Upanishad

Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) : Happy Ram Navami. Greetings on the auspicious Ramanavami day! May Lord Shri Ramchandra bestow His grace and blessings on all of us. ========================================================================= Thursday, March 30,  2023. 07:30. Chapter 2: The Atman -4. Chapter 3: Ishvara and Jiva-1 ========================================================================= Chapter 2: The Atman -4. The universe was an effect of the Atman. It does not stand in the position of a cause, outside us, stimulating our senses to activity, as it happens to us today. The presence of an object stimulates our senses and the mind, and then we become conscious of the object. Then we establish a relationship with the world outside. The world is first, and we come afterwards here in this individual, empirical state. But there, it was not like that. The world was subsequent; and here, we become the consequents. Now, this is a very crucial point where we have to ver...

======================================================================== Friday, March 17,  2023. 07:00. Chapter 2: The Atman -3. ========================================================================= There was a very dramatic action of God, as it were—a real drama He enacted before Himself, because there was no audience before Him. He was the director, He was the dramatis personae, and He was the audience. It is very strange! He immediately visualised Himself as the all: “Aham idam sarvam asmi”—I am this all. This universe of manifested effects is myself—naturally, because the whole effect is constituted of the substance of this ultimate cause. “I am this all.” It is as if the clay is telling, “I am all the pots”; the wood is telling, “I am all the tables, I am all the chairs, I am all the furniture.” Quite true, and it is very interesting indeed! Every effect that has come out of a single cause is that cause only. So the cause is affirming itself in every effect: “I am this al...

========================================================================= Saturday, March 04,  2023. 06:30. Chapter 2: The Atman -2. ====================================================================== The Atman alone was. “Atma va idam eka evagra asit, nanyat kin cana misat,” says the Aitareya Upanishad at the very commencement. The Atman existed as the unparalleled Being, and it became the cause of the manifested elements. We have the great division of the elements as ether, air, fire, water and earth, in all their densities or levels of expression. There is a causal condition, a subtle condition and a gross condition. This was manifested. But the Absolute is never disconnected from them at any time; it always maintains a lien over everything that it has created. It enters the great objects of a cosmical nature, and this is what we call the immanence of God. The Creator does not stand as an extra-cosmic substance unrelated to its creation. The Upanishad rules out totally any co...