Kenopanishad Classes - March 2011

This lecture on Kenopanishad—from Sama Veda, at Chinmaya Mission, Madurai, from March 4 to 9, 2011, was not an intellectual analysis. It is an inquiry into ‘Self’. Tuned already for such an adventurous journey, the devotees of Gurudev assembled to listen attentively.

Acharya Swami Sivayogananda, with simple & lucid examples, pictures, ’THAT’ to the best of his abilities, in a trackless path, and left the seekers to travel in and alone.

Points to ponder:

· Mind is an internal instrument endowed with knowledge.

· Who activates the mind/or by which the mind is activated?

· Prana sakthi stirs the sense organs as expressions of the mind.

· By which ‘prana’ is locked up, to stir the sense organs?

· Thus the sense organs & prana are the tools of the mind.

· The mind is insecure as it always revels on perishable objects.

· So the frequency of the mind should be increased towards ‘Reality’.

· IT transcends both the ‘known’ and ’unknown’.

· THAT that remains as the base and illumines the speech, sight, taste, touch and hearing is inactive and unaffected.

· This experience cannot be expressed.

· Thus' IT ' is the cause for all... But the effect is unaware of the cause.

• All we have to do is to sit & meditate on IT.