11. Kena Upanishad | Mantras 2.2 - 2.3 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Kena Upanishad in this series.
The Kena Upanishad (Sanskrit: केनोपनिषद्) (also alternatively known as Talavakara Upanishad) is a Vedic Sanskrit text classified as one of the primary or Mukhya Upanishads that is embedded inside the last section of the Talavakara Brahmana of the Samaveda. It is listed as number 2 in the Muktikā, the canon of the 108 Upanishads of Hinduism.
Kena Upanishad has three parts: 13 verses in the first part, 15 paragraphs in the second part, and 6 paragraphs in the epilogue. These are distributed in four khaṇḍas (खण्ड, sections or volumes). The first Khanda has 8 verses, the second has 5 verses. The third Khanda has 12 paragraphs, while the fourth khanda has the remaining 9 (3 paragraphs of main text and 6 paragraphs of the epilogue).

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[torussaga]

Every talk / teaching you ever give is great. Many thanks.

[drjibankumarsarkar]

" Acharyavan purusha veda" ( a man having a teacher acquires knowledge ) ...

Pronams revered Swamiji, my spiritual teacher, bless me. 🙏🙏🙏

[Cloninginvesting]

❤ thank you Guruji ….
Let your blessings on us Guruji 🙏

[bhuvaneswarinatarajan]

Pranam Swamiji, thank you very much 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[KrishnaParamatma-gr]

Namaskarams🙏🙏🙏 Swami ji
So happy to watch, listen to you🙏
Grace🙏 flowing through you🙏

Love and Respect 🙏🙏🙏

[ranadas]

Ramakrishna said: A wife doesn’t speak when her husband is pointed out among others. Her silence shows she recognizes him without needing words. Similarly, realizing Brahman brings a deep, wordless understanding.

Thank you, Swami Ji, for giving us the confidence to connect with and share the transforming power of spirituality.

Thanks, Swami Ji!

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[carlosavila.]

Grateful one is ...
Thank you,
from the place beyond the body and mind ...
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[shivananda]

यस्यामतं तस्य मतं मतं यस्य न वेद सः ।
अविज्ञातं विजानतां विज्ञातमविजानताम् ॥ २.३ ॥

yasyāmataṃ tasya mataṃ mataṃ yasya na veda saḥ |
avijñātaṃ vijānatāṃ vijñātamavijānatām || 2.3 ||

[Nr]

This is hardest part to explain people who has no idea about upanishads. They will think you are stupid or smth

[Kk]

that’s exactly where I am, Although I know but I don’t really know 😂😂😂😂😂

[giridharpavan]

part 11 m 2.2 and 2.3 : 13/01/25
- probably the most important part in the upanishad where student reveals his brahma gyana in a fitting way, concludes his test. swami explains 3 ways in which the brahma gyana is established 1) the grace and effort of lineage of greatest teachers 2) logic and reasoning 3) personal experience.

[jaibharat]

Navratna सभा में सब कवि नही थे, only two of them.
कालीदास and kshapannag,
Others are mathematicians, astrologers, philosopher etc

[jyothipandit]

Namaste Swamiji, there is a word Atma Saakshatkaara..could you kindly clarify in your talks what is this that is saakshi? Means through sight..does it mean the atman is sakshi to the creation? Or does the silenced mind/ ego in a flash " sees" the atman/ brahman, and then it returns to life with the realisation that what it has witnessed in high samadhi is here too..rather it is life itself, in other words the looking at the world as an object goes off...( the maya goes off) when we achieve this state, then are we enlightened, i mean no longer there is a feeling that i am enlightened, i already am by default? As you say so very often in your talks, Swamiji, we already are, the maya that we are not has to go ?

[shivananda]

नाहं मन्ये सुवेदेति नो न वेदेति वेद च ।
यो नस्तद्वेद तद्वेद नो न वेदेति वेद च ॥ २.२॥

nāhaṃ manye suvedeti no na vedeti veda ca |
yo nastadveda tadveda no na vedeti veda ca || 2.2 ||

[jasasyiken]

The nature of Brahman itself is doubtful. How can an Unknown be absolute? Yet, we know it is because we have faith (belief) that it is. This coincide with the 5th klesah (Abhinivesah) for every student to overcome in his spiritual quest for moksha as stated in Patanjali Yoga Sutra.

Firstly Brahman is incomprehensible ie Unknown because Brahman is not within the faculty of the mind.

A way to understand is for example when we sleep. We lose your awareness but Brahman is there. We know it’s there because when we woke up, although the day has changed, darkness has transformed to light, even the weather has changed - but we remain the same. This constant is the assurance, sort of a glimpse to truth. Yet, for sake of understanding, we have to objectify this assumption as “truth” for mind to comprehend but the fact that we are objectifying truth also means, it is untrue, again putting Brahman back to its nature in and of itself the UNKNOWN. In other words, we know Brahman to a certain extent and the difference between one student and the other is just a matter of ability to stand firm upon his own doubts hence to admit knowledge yet not knowning the absolute truth about Brahman making both true for the aspirant. In summary, Brahman is the absolute truth. My take about Brahman is my truth. Both is acceptable as one truth to me. And if another student has another version of his truth, that too is fine as we all have our own perception of the incomprehensible. It always comes to the ego in the end. Whether the aspirant can hold the rein of his horses and steadily direct his chariot as the master charioteer regardless of the conditions along the path as depicted in the Gita.

This is how I articulate this topic. Namaste 🙏