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31/10/2018 Mundaka Upanishad : Chapter 1: Section 1 :  Discussion-11. (Mundakopanishad : Chapter-1 : Section-1 :Mantram-7) 1. Then there is prana, the vibration. The painter’s mind vibrates in the form of the outline of the picture that he is intending to draw. But we do not bring the question of the painter in the case of Brahman, because Brahman itself is the painter here; Brahman itself visualises, in the form of the vibratory process of its will, the outline of the creation that is to take place. After the outline is drawn, it is filled with ink. Then the creation is complete. Likewise, there is, first of all, a will or an idea wherein the painter—or Brahman, in the case of this mantram—has the idea of what it has to become, and then it stiffens itself into the will by tapas, concentration, as a painter would concentrate on the painting that has to be done, and then there is a vibratory force of prana.  Here the word ‘prana’ indicates the cosmic prana,...

13/10/2018 Mundaka Upanishad : Chapter 1: Section 1 :  Discussion-10. (Mundakopanishad : Chapter-1 : Section-1 :Mantram-7) Tapasa ciyate brahma tato’nnam abhijayate, annat pra?o mana? satya? loka? karmasu cam?tam (1.1.8). In one verse, the whole of creation is described. Brahman, the Supreme Absolute, distends, swells—becomes large, as it were—by tapas. Tapas means concentration. Brahman’s concentration is the will to create. It becomes extended in the form of the contemplated shape of creation, as it were. When we think something, the mind takes the form of that thing which we think. Now, the Supreme Absolute thinks, wills, concentrates itself on the shape which creation has to take, and that is the swelling, or the extending, or the becoming large of Brahman in tapas. The swelling, or the extension of being in tapas, also means the increase in the potentiality of the one that concentrates. In the case of Brahman, it would mean the contemplation of the form of the world...