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21/09/2018 Mundaka Upanishad : Chapter 1: Section 1 :  Discussion-9 (Mundakopanishad : Chapter-1 : Section-1 :Mantram-7) "Yathorna-nabhih srjate grhnate ca, yatha prthivayam-osadhayah sambhavanti, yatha satah purushat kesalomani tatha-ksharat sambhavatiha visvam." From this Eternal Being this world, this universe, has emanated. How does the world come from God? We have seen a spider spitting threads from its own body. Threads come out, and it weaves a web around itself. We have seen trees spontaneously growing from under the earth, and we have seen hair growing on the head. In some such way is the manner of the creation of this world. "Tatha-ksharat sambhavatiha visvam." These analogies have some significance of their own. The spider does not create the web from external material. The upadana is the same as the nimitha, as they say. The instrumental cause is the same as the material cause in the case of the spider weaving a web. In the case of the ...

02/09/2018 Mundaka Upanishad : Chapter 1: Section 1 :  Discussion-8 Mantram -5. We cannot go to the Veda directly and understand anything out of it unless we are proficient in these six auxiliary shastras, or scriptures, called "siksha kalpo vyakaranam niruktam chando jyotisham." All these, says the great Master, together with the original Vedas—the Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda—should be considered as lower knowledge. They purify our minds and enlighten us into the mysteries of the whole of creation. They purify our minds because of the power that is embedded in the mantras and the emotional or religious awareness that is stimulated within us on account of the meaning that we see in the mantras, the blessing that we receive from the sages who composed the mantras, and also the special power that is generated by the metre. All these put together create a religious atmosphere in the person who takes to the study of the Veda. It is great and grand, wor...