Mundaka Upanishad : Chapter 1: Section 1 : 13.

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23/11/2018
Mundaka Upanishad : Chapter 1: Section 1 :  Discussion-13.
(Mundakopanishad : Chapter-1 : Section-1 :Mantram-9)

But God does not just dissipate Himself in the knowledge of particulars. There is a general control over the whole of creation, and there He has a cosmic generality of knowledge. The great cosmic order is in His mind.

This is the sarvajñah, or the generality of the knowledge of God. But the particularity is every little detail, even to counting the number of hairs of a person or the breaths that he breathes.

That also is known to Him.

Can we imagine what kind of knowledge God must have?

 How many creatures are there in this creation: gods, demons, human beings, subhuman creatures, insects, and so on?

How many leaves on the tree?

He will count them. Unimaginable power of comprehension! So God knows everything in general as well as in particular. That is the meaning of being sarvajñah and sarva-vid.

Yasya jñanamayam tapah.

We are told that God concentrated Himself. He was doing tapas.

What kind of tapas did He do?

Did He perform austerity by starving?

God’s knowledge is His tapas.

His wisdom, His knowledge, His consciousness, His intention, His purpose, His awareness—that is tapas. The knowledge of God is also the action of God. The awareness of God is also the concentration of God.

The existence of God is the same as His work. So God’s tapas is knowledge. The greatest tapas is the concentration of knowledge, and every other tapas is secondary—yasya jñanamayam tapah.

To be continued ...


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