7. Kena Upanishad | Mantras 1.6 - 1.9 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
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🗓️ 5 January 2025
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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, Apiayanthum Amhāni, |
| 0:12.0 | Vak, Shushro, Mathubalam Indriyanich, Sarvani, |
| 0:18.0 | Sarram Brahmhaupanishadam, Maham Brahmhhhadam Maham Brahmha nirakurya |
| 0:23.6 | Ma Ma Brahmha nirakarod |
| 0:27.6 | Anirakarana must |
| 0:29.6 | Anirakarana Mese Thadha'athmany |
| 0:33.6 | Niratea Upanishatsu |
| 0:35.6 | Dharmas Temae S, Tema, santo, |
| 0:38.3 | Temae santo, Om shantay, shanty, shanty. |
| 0:45.3 | May my limbs, speech, vital force, eyes, ears, as also strength, and all the organs become well developed. |
| 0:57.0 | Everything is the Brahman revealed in the Upanishads. |
| 1:01.0 | May I not deny Brahman, may not Brahman deny me. |
| 1:05.0 | Let there be no spurning of me by Brahman, let there be no rejection of Brahman by me. May all the |
| 1:12.9 | virtues that are spoken of in the Upanishads repose in me who am engaged in the pursuit |
| 1:19.5 | of the self. May they repose in me. Ome, peace, peace, peace. We are studying the Keno Upanishad and we are in the we are in sort of the |
| 1:35.0 | middle of the first chapter we're doing the fifth mantra now from the fifth |
| 1:43.6 | mantra till the end of the first chapter, which is the ninth mantra, |
| 1:49.0 | they all have the same pattern. So I'm going to read all of them and translate all of them from the fifth to the ninth and we'll discuss them as a group. |
| 1:59.0 | Because they're all telling us the same thing. |
| 2:02.6 | Fifth mantra. We did this last time. |
| 2:05.6 | But I'm going to chant this anyway and translate it. |
| 2:09.6 | And along with the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth mantras. |
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