The family gathered at Damu Anna and Nirmala Akka's wedding. Back Row, L TO R: Sarasu Aunty, Mysore Aunty,Baby Aunty,Up Aunty,Muthu Uncle, SN Uncle. Nirmala Akka and Damu Anna
Nirmala Akka and Damu Anna, Muhurtam.
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From the Chandogya Upanishad, by Swami Swahananda.
The following is an excerpt from the Chandogya Upanishad, translated by Swami Swahananda and published by the Ramakrishan Math, Chennai.
"VIII-iii-1: For whosoever of one’s people departs from here in this world one does not get him back to see. VIII-iii-2: But those of his people, whether they are alive or dead and whatever else one desires but does not get, all that one finds by going there (into the Atman, the Akasa in the heart); for here, indeed, are those true desires of his covered by the untrue. Just as, though people who do not know the field walk again and again over the treasure of gold hidden underground but do not find it, even so all these creatures here, though they go daily into the Brahman-world, yet do not find it, for they are carried away by the untrue. VIII-iii-3: This Atean verily is in the heart. Its etymological explanation is this. This (Atman) is in the heart, hence it is the heart. He who knows thus(indeed goes daily into the heavenly world. VIII-iii-4: Now that serene and happy being, rising out of this body and reaching the highest light, appears in his own true form. This is the Atman, said the teacher. This is the immortal, the fearless. This is Brahman. Verily, the name of this Brahman is the True. VIII-iii-5: These are indeed the three syllables, ‘sa’, ‘ti’, ‘yam’. What is ‘sa’, that is the immortal, and what is ‘ti’, that is the mortal, and what is ‘yam’, with it one holds the two together. Because with it one holds the two together, therefore it is ‘yam’. Verily, he who knows thus goes to the heavenly world.’"
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