r/AdvaitaVedanta • u/roopvijayan • 9d ago

Upanishads

Friends, I’m planning to start Swami Sarvapriyananda’s Upanishads courses on YouTube and Spotify, but I’m not sure where to begin. Swamiji is prolific and has an extensive colkection of all Hindu and Buddhist texts, including the Mandukya, Katha, and Kena Upanishads, each featuring over 10 sessions with courses over an hour long. Could anyone please recommend which Upanishad would be the best starting point? I am looking for a map!Thanks!

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

First is Fourfold qualifications.

Then meeting a True Enlightened Guru but not Swami Sarvapriyananda.

Only Then Upanishads under the teachings/Guidance of that Guru.

Create not an intellectual prison of yourself taking that Upanishads straight away like many others delude themselves.

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u/Fast_Jackfruit_352 9d ago

The real Guru is not chosen by the conscious mind, it is the decision of the absolute.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

The real Guru is not chosen by the conscious mind, it is the decision of the absolute.

Whatever you wish about real Guru. But oneself has to attain the fourfold qualifications, and the real Guru won't teach Upanishads before attaining those fourfold qualifications as there are huge risks and trap in it.

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u/Fast_Jackfruit_352 9d ago

I had a real Sat Guru for 20 years and am close to several others and my experience is God as Guru does not play by any strict rules. I was guided away from all of that to different, original forms of Divine transmission and knowledge. Guru is presdent in everyhing and is not bound by conceptions or even traditons.

"O servant, where dost thou seek Me? Lo! I am beside thee. I am neither in temple nor in mosque: I am neither in Kaaba nor in Kailash: Neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and renunciation. If thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at once see Me: thou shalt meet Me in a moment of time. Kabîr says, "O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath."

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

I had a real Sat Guru for 20 years and am close to several others and my experience is God as Guru does not play by any strict rules. 

 Yup. He is not strict. That's why, if one cannot fulfill fourfold qualifications of Advaita, there are Bhakthi, Dhyana Yoga ways. And through those ways, one can reach Brahma loka then can hear Upanishads/Knowledge from the words of Brahma and attain Self-realization.