Mundakopanishad : Chapter-1. Section-2. Mantram-9. - Swami Krishnananda

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30/11/2019.
Mantram-s  - 8 to 10 : Description of the sad state of knowledge-less ( devoid of Upasana ) ritualists-
Mantram-9.
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Mantram - (1.2.9):

"Avidyayam bahudha vartamana vayam krtartha ity abhi-manyanti balah,
yat karmiṇo na pravedayanti rāgāt tenāturāḥ kṣīṇalokāś cyavante."

Translation :

"Engrossed in the many ways of the ignorant, these people childishly think that they have gained the ends ( goal ) of life. But being subject to passions and attachment. they never attain Knowledge, and, therefore, they fall down wretched, when the fruits of their good deeds are exhausted." 
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Discussion :

Children with no understanding imagine that they have achieved everything that they can achieve.

“I am a king. I have performed so many Rajasuyas and Ashvamedhas. There is no opposition before me. I have conquered the whole world. I have annexed my kingdom.”

So are the vainglorious words and imaginations of a potentate. Tomorrow he shall not be there.

“Sceptre and Crown must tumble down, and in the dust be equal made.”

Sceptre and crown will tumble down, and the beggar and the king will be on the same bed. Such state of affairs will be ready to receive those people who imagine that they are greater than the law because they have got a lot of land and money and they are well received by the public. Public acclamation is no criterion of the greatness of a person.

Yat karmino na pravedayanti ragat tenaturaḥ kshinalokas cyavante :

Engrossed in the ways of the ignorant, these people childishly think that they have gained the aims of life. Being subject to desires and attachments, they never attain to true knowledge. They sink down immeasurably when the fruits of their good deeds get exhausted. Anything that has a beginning must also have an end. Inasmuch as your virtues did have a beginning, they should end one day. You cannot have endlessness of a thing that once began.

So do not be under the impression that you can be permanently in the heaven of Indra, inasmuch as that which is permanent was not the origin of the actions that you performed. Impermanence was the beginning, and impermanence shall also be the end.

Therefore, impermanent shall be the joys that are apparently there, hung before your nose as a carrot before a donkey. You will not get it.

Next- Mantram-10.

To be continued ...


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