6. Kena Upanishad | Mantra 1.5 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
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🗓️ 5 January 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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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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| 0:00.0 | Ome, Apayyantum Mangani, |
| 0:10.0 | Vak Prana, Chakshyoshra, |
| 0:14.0 | Athobalam Indriyanicha Sarvani, |
| 0:18.0 | Sarmhāhmhāhā, |
| 0:20.0 | Maham Brahmha nirakurya, |
| 0:23.6 | Ma Ma Brahmha nirakarod, |
| 0:26.6 | Anirakarana, Asth, Anirakarnam |
| 0:30.6 | Mhā, Thadatmani nirateya Upanishats, |
| 0:34.6 | Therhmai Santu, Teh Sudharmas, Temay Santu, Temay Santu. |
| 0:38.3 | Oum, shantay, shanty, shanty, shanty. |
| 0:45.3 | May my limbs, speech, vital force, eyes, ears as also strength, and all the organs become well developed. Everything is the Brahman revealed in the Upanishads. |
| 0:58.2 | May I not deny Brahman, may not Brahman deny me. Let there be no spurning of me by Brahman, let there be |
| 1:05.9 | no rejection of Brahman by me. May all the virtues that are spoken of in the Upanishads repose in me, |
| 1:13.4 | who am engaged in the pursuit of the self. May they repose in me. Ome, peace, peace, peace. |
| 1:26.1 | All right. So we are studying the Kainopanishad and we have started the first chapter of the Kain |
| 1:32.9 | Openition. The student asked, by what light, by what luminous being, do I have the experience |
| 1:41.0 | of thinking, seeing, hearing, and all the sensory and cognitive experiences. |
| 1:46.0 | And the teacher gave that remarkable answer by the year of the year, mind of the mind, speech of the speech and so on. |
| 1:54.0 | Basically indicating that the pure consciousness, and that pure consciousness is Brahman, the ultimate reality of this universe. |
| 2:01.6 | And of course the student wanted to know |
| 2:04.6 | how can I realize this, please teach it to me |
| 2:08.6 | because the teacher had also mentioned the result of knowing this. |
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