Mundaka Upanishad : Chapter 1: Section 2.7 : Swami Krishnananda
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01/09/2019
Mundaka Upanishad :
Chapter 1: Section 2.7
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7.1
A book that has fifteen chapters is called Panchadasi. Similarly, Indian mystics such as the Alvars, who wrote the Nalayira Divya Prabandham. They are all astounding proclamations of the rapture of the soul in an experience which should be considered as entry into Brahmaloka itself. They were all masters of language who used words in order to break through the words and find the very soul in the essence of language itself. Mystical literature is actually the voice of the soul expressed in human tongue. Such is called Brahmaloka. It will simply shake your soul even to imagine what that experience could be. Anyway, the solar rays tell the yajamana, the performer of the sacrifice, “Come. We shall take you to the glorious realm of Indra, and to Brahmaloka itself.”
7.2
But the Upanishad now turns the table around, like a clever advocate. They argue on behalf of somebody, and suddenly change the whole argument against that person on whose behalf he was appearing to be arguing. It appeared as if up to this time the Upanishad was arguing on behalf of the Mimamsa ritualists, or the performers of the sacrifice, glorifying the end and the result of the sacrifices as Brahmaloka, Indraloka, etc. Now, suddenly, a bolt from the blue comes.
7.3
(Mundakopanishad: Chapter-1.Section-2.Mantram-7.)
"Plava hy ete adrdha yajna-rupa
ashtadasoktam- avaram yesu karma
etac - chreyo ye’bhinandanti mudhah
jarā-mṛtyuṁ te punar evapiyanti."
Unreliable boats are these on which you try to cross the ocean of samsara in the form of yajna, or sacrifice. These boats in the form of yajnas, or sacrifices, are like bubbles. They will burst one day, and you cannot entirely rely on them forever because these forces, called apurva in the language of the Mimamsa Shastra, which are responsible for lifting you up to the region of Indra, or to even higher regions, lose their potency one day. It is like sitting in a rocket going up by using fuel, and the fuel will be exhausted in the middle, and you know what will happen. Such is the case with these performers of yajna who rely on the force generated by the performance of yajnas. They are reliable up to the extent of the momentum they carry, and are reliable indeed for some distance; but in the middle they will leave you in the lurch, and you will fall. All those who go to Indraloka rejoice, but then they will fall headlong, as many fell.
To be continued ..
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01/09/2019
Mundaka Upanishad :
Chapter 1: Section 2.7
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7.1
A book that has fifteen chapters is called Panchadasi. Similarly, Indian mystics such as the Alvars, who wrote the Nalayira Divya Prabandham. They are all astounding proclamations of the rapture of the soul in an experience which should be considered as entry into Brahmaloka itself. They were all masters of language who used words in order to break through the words and find the very soul in the essence of language itself. Mystical literature is actually the voice of the soul expressed in human tongue. Such is called Brahmaloka. It will simply shake your soul even to imagine what that experience could be. Anyway, the solar rays tell the yajamana, the performer of the sacrifice, “Come. We shall take you to the glorious realm of Indra, and to Brahmaloka itself.”
7.2
But the Upanishad now turns the table around, like a clever advocate. They argue on behalf of somebody, and suddenly change the whole argument against that person on whose behalf he was appearing to be arguing. It appeared as if up to this time the Upanishad was arguing on behalf of the Mimamsa ritualists, or the performers of the sacrifice, glorifying the end and the result of the sacrifices as Brahmaloka, Indraloka, etc. Now, suddenly, a bolt from the blue comes.
7.3
(Mundakopanishad: Chapter-1.Section-2.Mantram-7.)
"Plava hy ete adrdha yajna-rupa
ashtadasoktam- avaram yesu karma
etac - chreyo ye’bhinandanti mudhah
jarā-mṛtyuṁ te punar evapiyanti."
Unreliable boats are these on which you try to cross the ocean of samsara in the form of yajna, or sacrifice. These boats in the form of yajnas, or sacrifices, are like bubbles. They will burst one day, and you cannot entirely rely on them forever because these forces, called apurva in the language of the Mimamsa Shastra, which are responsible for lifting you up to the region of Indra, or to even higher regions, lose their potency one day. It is like sitting in a rocket going up by using fuel, and the fuel will be exhausted in the middle, and you know what will happen. Such is the case with these performers of yajna who rely on the force generated by the performance of yajnas. They are reliable up to the extent of the momentum they carry, and are reliable indeed for some distance; but in the middle they will leave you in the lurch, and you will fall. All those who go to Indraloka rejoice, but then they will fall headlong, as many fell.
To be continued ..
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