What is Karma? Karma is that action alone which is performed by the organs and ascribed to Āṭmā as "I do". What is Akarma? Akarma is the performance, without any desire for the fruits, of the daily and occasional rites, sacrifices, vows, austerities, gifts and other actions that are associated with the egoism of the actor and the enjoyer, and that are productive of bondage, rebirth, etc.
What are the Annamaya, Prāṇamaya, Manomaya, Vijñānamaya and Ānanḍamaya Kośas?
Annamaya sheath is the aggregate of the materials formed by food. When the ten Vāyus, flow through the Annamaya sheath, then it is called the Prāṇamaya sheath. When Āṭmā connected with the above two sheaths performs the functions of hearing, etc., through the 14 organs of Man as and others, then it is called Manomaya sheath.
There is only one true emancipation. O Kapi, even a person addicted to evil practices attains the salvation of Salokya through the uttering of My name, but not of other worlds. Should one die in Brahmanala in Kasi, he attains My Taraka.
ALL this, whatsoever moves on earth, is to be hidden in the Lord (the Self). When thou hast surrendered all this, then thou mayest enjoy. Do not covet the wealth of any man!
Svetasvatara Upanishad
The Brahma-students say: Is Brahman the cause? Whence are we born? Whereby do we live, and whither do we go ...
Savitri (the sun), having first collected his mind and expanded his thoughts, brought Agni (fire), when ...
The snarer who rules alone by his powers, who rules all the worlds by his powers, who is one and the same ...
He, the sun, without any colour, who with set purpose by means of his power (sakti) produces endless colours ...
In the imperishable and infinite Highest Brahman, wherein the two, knowledge and ignorance, are hidden ...
Some wise men, deluded, speak of Nature, and others of Time (as the cause of everything); but it is the greatness of God ...
Kena (Talavakara) Upanishad
She replied: 'It is Brahman. It is through the victory of Brahman that you have thus become great.' After that he knew that...
Brahman obtained the victory for the Devas. The Devas became elated by the victory of Brahman, and they thought, this victory is ours only, this greatness is ours...
The Teacher says: 'If thou thinkest I know it well, then thou knowest surely but little, what is that form of Brahman known, it may...
The Pupil asks: 'At whose wish does the mind sent forth proceed on its errand? At whose command does the first breath go forth? At whose wish do we utter this speech? What god directs the eye, or...
Adoration to the Highest Self! Harih, Om! Sukesas Bharadvaga, and Saivya Satyakama, and Sauryayanin Gargya, and Kausalya Asvalayana, and Bhargava ...
Then Bhargava Vaidarbhi asked him: 'Sir, How many gods keep what has thus been created, how many manifest this, and who is the best of them?'...
Then Kausalya Asvaiayana asked: 'Sir, whence is that Prana (spirit) born? How does it come into this body? And how does it abide, after it has divided itself? How does it go out? How ...
Then Sauryayanin Gargya asked: 'Sir, What are they that sleep in this man, and what are they that are awake in him? What power (deva) is it that sees dreams? Whose is the happiness? On what do all these depend?'
Then Saivya Satyakama asked him: 'Sir, if some one among men should meditate here until death on the syllable Om ...
Then Sukesas Bharadvaga asked him, saying: 'Sir, Hiranyanabha, the prince of Kosala, came to me and asked ...
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Khandogya Upanishad
Let a man meditate on the syllable Om, called the udgitha; for the udgitha (a portion of the Sama-veda) is sung, beginning with...
Meditation on the whole of the Saman is good, and people, when anything is good, say it is Saman ...
The sun is indeed the honey of the Devas. The heaven is the cross-beam (from which) the sky...
There lived once upon a time Ganasruti Pautrayana (the great-grandson of Ganasruta), who was a pious giver ...
He who knows the oldest and the best becomes himself the oldest and the...
Harih, Om. There lived once Svetaketu Aruneya (the grandson of Aruna) ...
Narada approached Sanatkumara and said, 'Teach me, Sir!' Sanatkumara said ...
Harih, Om. There is this city of Brahman (the body), and in it the palace, the small lotus ...
Maitrayana Brahmana Upanishad
Next follows Kutsayana's hymn of praise:
'Thou art Brahma, and thou art Vishnu, thou art Rudra, thou Pragapati ...
Agni, the Gayatra (metre), the Trivrit (hymn), the Rathantara (song), the spring, the upward breath (prana) ...
He (the Self) bears the Self in two ways, as he who is Prana (breath), and as he who is Aditya (the sun) ...
The Valakhilyas, whose passions were subdued, approached him full of amazement and said ...
The Valakhilyas said to Pragapati Kratu: O Saint, if thou thus showest the greatness of that Self ...
Then the Saint Sakayanya, well pleased, said to the King: 'Great King Brihadratha, thou banner of the race of Ikshvaku ...
The laying of the formerly-described sacrificial fires is indeed the sacrifice of Brahman ...
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Mundaka Upanishad
Brahma was the first of the Devas, the maker of the universe, the preserver of the world ...
This is the truth. As from a blazing fire sparks, being like unto fire, fly forth a thousandfold, thus are various beings brought forth from the Imperishable ...
Two birds, inseparable friends, cling to the same tree. One of them cats the sweet fruit ...
Vagasravasa, desirous (of heavenly rewards), surrendered (at a sacrifice) all that he possessed. He had a son of the name of Nakiketas.
Death said: 'The good is one thing, the pleasant another; these two, having different objects ...
'There are the two, drinking their reward in the world of their own works, entered into the cave ...
Death said: 'The Self-existent pierced the openings (of the senses) so that they turn forward: therefore man looks forward ...
'There is a town with eleven gates belonging to the Unborn (Brahman), whose thoughts are never crooked ...
'There is that ancient tree, whose roots grow upward and whose branches grow downward;-that indeed is called ...
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Harih, Om. He who knows the first and the best, becomes himself the first and the best among his people ...
That (the invisible Brahman) is full, this (the visible Brahman) is full. This full (visible Brahman) proceeds ...
When Ganaka Vaideha was sitting (to give audience), Yagnavalkya approached, and Ganaka Vaideha said ...
Ganaka Vaideha (the king of the Videhas) sacrificed with a sacrifice at which many presents ...
There I was formerly the proud Gargya Balaki, a man of great reading. He said to Agatasatru of Kasi ...
Verily the dawn is the head of the horse which is fit for sacrifice, the sun its eye, the wind its breath ...
Taittiriyaka Upanishad
HARIH, OM! May Mitra be propitious to us, and Varuna, Aryaman also, Indra, Brihaspati, and the wide-striding Vishnu ...
Harih, Om! May it (the Brahman) protect us both (teacher and pupil)! May it enjoy us both! ...
Harih, Om! May it (the Brahman) protect us both! May it enjoy us both! May we acquire strength together! ...
KITRA Gangyayani, forsooth, wishing to perform a sacrifice, chose Aruni (Uddalaka, to be his chief priest) ...
Prana (breath) is Brahman, thus says Kashitaki. Of this prana, which is Brahman, the mind (manas) is the messenger, speech the housekeeper, the eye the guard, the ear the informant. He who knows mind as the messenger of prana, which is Brahman, becomes possessed of the messenger. He who knows speech as the housekeeper, becomes possessed of the housekeeper. He who knows the eye as the guard, becomes possessed of the guard. He who knows the ear as the informant, becomes possessed of the informant.
Pratardana, forsooth, the son of Divodasa (king of Kasi), came by means of fighting and strength to ...
There was formerly Gargya Balaki, famous as a man of great reading; for it was said of him that he lived among the Usinaras ...
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Aitareya Aranyaka
Of that self the breathing is like the sibilants, the bones like the mutes, the marrow like the vowels, and the fourth part, flesh, blood, and the rest, like the semivowels, - so said Hrasva Mandukeya.
The former half is the earth, the latter half the heaven, their union the air, thus says Mandukeya; their union is the ether, thus did Makshavya, teach it.
My speech rests in the mind, my mind rests in speech .
Who is he whom we meditate on as the Self? Which is the Self?
Verily, from the beginning he (the self) is in man as a germ, which is called seed.
Verily, in the beginning all this was Self, one only; there was nothing else blinking whatsoever.
He who knows himself as the fivefold hymn (uktha), the emblem of Prana (breath), from whence all this springs, he is clever. These five are the earth, air, ether, water, and fire (gyotis).
He (the sun), who shines, honoured this world (the body of the worshipper, by entering into it), in the form of man (the worshipper who meditates on breath).
This is the path: this sacrifice, and this Brahman. This is the true.
He recites the Vasa hymn, wishing, May everything be in my power.
Next comes the Sudadohas verse. Sudadohas is breath, and thereby he joins all joints with breath.
Verily, the sound Him is Brahman, that day also is Brahman. He who knows this, obtains Brahman even by Brahman.
Both, as belonging to the one-day ceremonial, are perfect in form. On that day much is done now and then which has to be hidden, and has to be atoned for. Atonement is rest, the one-day sacrifice.
Now follows the Mahavrata ceremony. After having killed Vritra, Indra became great. When he became great, then there was the Mahavrata (the great work). This is why the Mahaivrata ceremony is called...
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English Edition. March 18, 2010