8. Kena Upanishad | Mantras 1.6 - 1.9 Continued | 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, Apiayantum Mangani, |
| 0:09.0 | Vak Pranachshu Shrothramathubalam Indriyani |
| 0:14.0 | Sarrvani, |
| 0:16.0 | Sarram Brahmho, |
| 0:18.0 | Maham Brahmha Nara Kooya Mama Brahmhan iranishadam maham brahmh nirakuryaam ma ma brahmh |
| 0:24.4 | nirakarod anirakarana mastw |
| 0:27.9 | anirakarana mesta |
| 0:30.5 | kathmani niratea upanishatsu dharmas |
| 0:34.3 | themai santo teemai santo. Oam, shanty, shanty, shanty, he. |
| 0:43.3 | May my limbs, speech, vital force, eyes, ears, as also strength, |
| 0:50.3 | and all the organs become well developed. Everything is the Brahman revealed in the Upanishads. |
| 0:58.0 | May I not deny Brahman, may not be Brahman deny me. |
| 1:02.0 | Let there be no spurning of me by Brahman, let there be no rejection of Brahman by me. |
| 1:08.0 | May all the virtues that are spoken of in the Upanishads |
| 1:12.2 | repose in me who am engaged in the pursuit of the self. May they repose in me. Ome, peace, peace, |
| 1:21.3 | peace. So we are studying the Kenopanishad. And at end of the first chapter we have this set of five mantras which we did last time which we have started doing it and this class also we will dwell on those that set of five mantras. Let me chant those five mantras, starting from 1.5 onwards. |
| 1:49.0 | I'll chant them, give the English translation, as I did last time, but we will go further in our discussion. |
| 1:57.0 | Yad Vyodhya'avhuditham Yenavagabhudyata, Tadeva Brahmha discussion. Hathvvvvih nedaidam, yadidam upasate. Yad chakshushan pashy, yehachshushy pashy, |
| 2:21.3 | Thadeva Brahmhattvvvithi nidhyaedam yadidhāhrae. |
| 2:25.3 | Yat Shrothrana nashrothi, yehrahtram idam, They are Brahmhattvvvhavhavhavhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh very similar, that's why we are discussing them together. The translations are, that which is not uttered by speech, that by which speech is revealed, |
| 2:56.6 | know that alone to be Brahman and not what people worship as an object. |
| 3:02.6 | That which man does not comprehend with the mind, |
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