Upanishad : Core Teachings Of  Vedanta
 
        We are living UPANISHAD, and that is the only way to understand what Upanishads are. It has to become an alive experience for you.

         Upanishads are a totally new beginning.
The very word UPANISHAD is of immense importance.
The word UPANISHAD is derived from the Sanskrit root SHAD.

       SHAD has many meanings and all are significant. The first meaning is ”to sit”. The Zen people says: Sitting silently, doing nothing. The spring comes and the grass grows by itself.  That is the meaning of SHAD: just sitting silently in deep meditation; not only sitting physically but sitting deep down psychologically too. You can sit physically in a yoga posture, but the mind godson running, chasing; then it is not true sitting. Yes, physically you look still, but psychologically you are running in all the directions.
                       
          SHAD means sitting physically and psychologically both. Because body and mind are not two things, not two separate entities. Body and mind is one reality. We should not use the phrase”body and mind”; we should make one word, ”body mind”. The body is the outer shell of the mind and the minds the inner part of the body. Unless both are in a sitting posture, not running anywhere – into the past, into the future – not running anywhere, just being in the present, now and here... that is the meaning of shad; it is the very meaning of meditation.
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            UPA-NI-SHAD is made of three words.  SHAD is to sit, to settle, to approach – to approach a Master, to sit by his side in a settled, silent state. And from the prefix UPA which means near, close, in tune with, in harmony, in communion... When you are settled, sitting silently by the side of the Master, doing nothing, running nowhere, then a harmony arises between you and the Master, a closeness, an intimacy, a nearness, a possibility of communion, the meeting of the heart with the heart, the meeting of the being with the being, This is the whole meaning of the word UPANISHAD: sitting in a settled state, unconfused, clear,
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This is UPANISHAD – what is happening right now between you and me. This sitting silently, in deep, loving, prayerful mood, reading to me not through the intellect but through the heart, drinking, not only listening – this communion is UPANISHAD! We are living UPANISHAD, and that is the only way to understand what Upanishads are. It has to become an alive experience for you.

           Are you ever hugged tree?
               Talked with its greenery
                    Think of it………………………………..

              Unfolding a world of light in which everything isnew. This experience cuts away all bondage and then comes the realization that it was never there!  God and light are always close by. It is only a matter of opening one’s eye sand then what is ours becomes ours. The distance is just that between the eyelash and the eye ,and perhaps not even that much;  the eyes are always open only we don’t know it. Into that space where everything is silent, empty. This is the way from words to emptiness. There one meets oneself.

         I am in bliss.

        Real Wealth

       It is my only wealth.

       

     The marvel of it is that the more of it you give the More it becomes.
Real wealth is like that –it grows as you give it away; and if it
Diminishes – it is not wealth at all.!!