Mundakopanishad : ( 12/12/2012. )

---------------------------- Saturday, December 05, 2020. 06 : 01. PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 2, Mantram- 1. Brahmam and the Universe are one,  Knowing Brahmam destroysthe knots of Ignorance. Post - 17. --------------------------- Chapter-2, Section -2. Mantram-1. (Pointers to the nature of Brahmam and advice how to know it. Avih sannihitam guhacaram nama, mahat padam - atraitat samarpitam,  ejat pranan - mnimisac-  ca yad etat- janatha sad - asad  varenyam param vijñanad yad - variishtam prajanam (2.2.1).  ------------------- Manifest outside is this very thing that is the deepest source of our aspirations. Verily, in front of our eyes is manifest that very thing which is otherwise inconceivable. The deepest within is also there as the perceivable form before the senses. It is deepest in the heart, no doubt, but it is also capable of appearing before our very eyes as the thing that we see. This Brahman is the great manifested support of all beings. ...

----------------------------------------------- Monday, November 16, 2020. 02 : 12. PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram- 10. Brahmam and the Universe are one,  Knowing Brahmam destroysthe knots of Ignorance. Post - 16 . ------------------------------------------------ Mantram-10 : "Puruṣa evedaṁ visvam karma  tapo brahma paramrparatam,  etad yo veda nihitaṁ guhayaṁ  so’vidya-granthim vikiratīha, saumya"  ---------------------------------------- The whole cosmos is this Purusha only. We are seeing nothing but that in front of us. Karma tapo brahma parāmṛtam: Our actions, our austerities, our studies, and the fruits of our actions are all included in this vast manifestation. Puruṣa evedaṁ sarvam (P.S. 2). It is the Purusha Sukta speaking through the Upanishad, as it were. --------------------------- Etad yo veda nihitaṁ guhayam so’vidya-granthim vikiratīha, saumya :  The Guru speaks, “My dear disciple, listen! Whoever knows this secret that I ha...

  ------------------------------------------------ Saturday, November 07, 2020. 11: 17. AM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram- 9. Mountains, rivers, plants, etc. are also born of Brahmam. Post - 15. ------------------------------------------------- Mantram - 9 : "Atas samudra girayas ca sarve asmat  syandante sindhavas sarva-rupah, atas ca sarva osadhayo rasas ca  yenaisa bhutais - tisthate hy - antar-atma."  ----------------------------------------------- This inner Atman, appearing as Brahman outside and the kutastha tattva inside us, is the cause of even the mighty oceans and the towering Himalayan mountains. The rivers flow in a particular direction only, and not in another direction. The Sun rises only in one direction, and not elsewhere. The stars scintillate and maintain their positions not in any other manner, only because of terror of the operation of the system of law and order of Brahman tapas. All the trees and plants grow only because of the ...

  ------------------------------------------------ Saturday, October 17, 2020. 12:00.PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-8.Objects, Organs and their presiding deities are also creation of Brahmam.  Post-14 ------------------------------------------------- Mantram-8. Discourse is continued ... Life is a prayer. The sense organs, in their greed for their objects, are actually praying for relief from the agony, or the involvement, in this grizzly action of their longings for things. There is a deity operating inside the ear as a point of consciousness at the back of the nervous system and the eardrum, etc., that appear to be the causes of the sounds that we hear. So is the case with all the other sense organs. If we ignore the presence of these consciousness points called divinities, we would be paying disrespect to them, and the agnihotra sacrifice would not then be performed. Those who eat without offering to the gods first as a sacrament are actually thieves, say...

------------------------------------------------ Saturday, October 17, 2020. 12:00.PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-8.Objects, Organs and their presiding deities are also creation of Brahmam.  Post-13 ------------------------------------------------- From Him, from that great plenum of felicity, these seven senses manifest themselves.  Mantram- 8 : "Sapta-pranah prabhavanti tasmat  saptarcisah samidhah sapta-homaḥ,  sapta ime loka yesu caranti prana  guhasaya nihitah sapta sapta." (2.1.8).  -------------------------------------------------- Translation :  Sapta-pranah  =  Seven prana or organs of senes; prabhavanti   =  are born; tasmat        =  from him; sapta arcisah =  seven flames of fire (viz, Kali karati etc)which are powers of recognition; samidhah      =  (seven fold sense objects) fuel; saptah        =   seven fold; homaḥ...

  ------------------------------------------------ Saturday, October 10, 2020. 08:53.AM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-7 : Rituals and means to perform them are also born from the imperishable Post-12 ------------------------------------ 1. Creation, therefore, is a multidirectional activity. It is not a single direction that is taken as we walk on the road, for instance. We walk only in one direction, but the will of Brahman does not act in that manner. It acts from all directions, and it is as infinite as Brahman itself is. This is why it is said that the creation of Brahman is infinite. The Infinite produces the infinite, limitlessness comes from Limitlessness, and Eternity produces eternity, as it were, we may say, in a most remarkable sense. 2. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram- 7 : "Tasmac - ca deva bahudha samprasutah  sadhya manushyah pasavo vayamsi,  prana-panau vrihi-yavau tapas ca  sraddha satyam brahma-charyam vidhis - ca" (2.1...

  ------------------------------------------------ Thursday, October 01, 2020. 5:15.AM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-6 & 7 : Rituals and means to perform them are also born from the imperishable Post-11 ------------------------------------ Mantram-6. Tasmad rcah sama yajumsi diksa  yajnas ca sarve kratavo daksinas ca,  samvat-saras-ca yajamanas ca lokah  somo yatra pavate yatra suryah. (2.1.6):  ------------------------------------------------------------- 1. From this Being, everything proceeds, it is said. The Vedic verses, mantras, are also emanations of this Being, which means the truths contained in the Veda mantras are eternally there as projections of certain aspects in the manifestation of Brahman tattva. The chants, the Yajurveda mantras and the formulae that are employed in the performance of sacrifices, the rites connected with these yajnas, the ceremonies of various types, the gifts and so on, even the time chosen for the sacrifi...

  ------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, September 15, 2020.10:16.AM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-5 : Sequence of creation from the imperishable, Continued ... Post-10 ------------------------------------ Mantram-5. "Tasmad agnih samidho yasya suryah somat parjanya osadhayah prthivyam, puman retah sincati yositayam vahvih prajah purushat samprasutah." (2.1.5). ----------------------------------------------------------- 1. Anna is the product of this concentration of the will of Brahman. All that is produced can be regarded as anna and, in this sense, the finitude itself is a product. It is anna for the concentrated will of the Atman to manifest itself as an individual. And the finitude causes another product which is its anna—namely, the reason or the intellect. The mind is the anna, or the product of the reason; the prana is the anna, or the product of the mind; the physical body is the anna, or the product of the prana. As it happens in ...

------------------------------------------------ Sunday, September 06, 2020.10:11.AM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-5 : Sequence of creation from the imperishable, Continued ... Post-9 ------------------------------------ Mantram-5. "Tasmad agnih samidho yasya suryah somat parjanya osadhayah prthivyam, puman retah sincati yositayam vahvih prajah purushat samprasutah." (2.1.5). ----------------------------------------------------------- 1. For instance, in order that the physical body may shape itself into this particular form that we see, it has first of all to be vitalised by the prana which is within. The within-ness of the prana is the reason why there appears to be life and vitality in the physical body. In a similar way, activities in this world, all the processes of human history, have a cause behind the physical realm. There is a superphysical cause for all that happens in the physical world. 2. The way in which the pran...

---------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, August 27, 2020. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-5 : Sequence of creation from the imperishable, Continued ... Post-8 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-5. "Tasmad agnih samidho yasya suryah somat parjanya osadhayah prthivyam, puman retah sincati yositayam vahvih prajah purushat samprasutah." (2.1.5). ------------------------------------------------------------ 1. This is one answer of the Guru in reply to the disciple’s question of how things have come at all. Generally, when disciples go to Gurus, this is the first question they put. Why was this world created, and who created it? They have many other questions, no doubt, but the first question that generally arises in the mind of a student is how this world has come. And here is a tentative answer, according to the understanding of the disciple for the time being. 2. ...

---------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, August 17, 2020.8:06.PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-5 : Sequence of creation from the imperishable, Continued ... Post-7 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-5. "Tasmad agnih samidho yasya suryah somat parjanya osadhayah prthivyam, puman retah sincati yositayam vahvih prajah purushat samprasutah." (2.1.5). ------------------------------------------------------------ 1. osadhayah prthivyam : When rain falls, plants grow. There is harvest in the fields, and vegetables and all edibles in the world become available to us. But how does rain fall? A great activity is taking place in the sky, over which we have no control. We cannot create rain, and we will all perish if there is no rain. These vegetables and foodstuffs are eaten by man and are finally converted into the bloodstream, and then into the essences which are responsi...

-------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, August 06, 2020.2:51.AM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-5 : Sequence of creation from the imperishable Post-6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-5. "Tasmad agnih samidho yasya suryah somat parjanya osadhayah prthivyam,  puman retah sincati yositayam  vahvih prajah purushat samprasutah." (2.1.5).  The creation process is described here in terms of the Panchagni Vidya, which is described in more detail in the Chhandogya Upanishad. This is a very interesting concept that we have in the Upanishads—the Panchagni Vidya, the fivefold descent through which any event in the world can be imagined to take place. Events do not take place merely on Earth; they take place in heaven first. A vibration takes place in the highest heaven, and here this heavenly vibration is called Agni, or the supreme fire of the original cosmic activity. The Sun may be r...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, July 08, 2020.10:46.AM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-4 : Cosmic form of Brahmam - the Indweller of all living beings. Post-5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-4. "Agnir-murdha chakshusi chandra-suryau disah srotre vag vivrtasca vedah, vayuh prano hrdayam visva- masya padbhyam prthivi hyesa sarva- bhutani-ratma."   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Cosmic Being is described here as something like the Vishvarupa Darshana of the Eleventh Chapter of the Bhagavadgita. Agnir murdha: Agni here represents heaven. The radiant heavens are the head of the Supreme Being. Chakshusi chandra-suryau: The Sun and the Moon are the eyes of that Supreme Being.  Disah srotre: The entire quarters of space are the ears, as it were, of that Being.  Vag v...

Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-3 : Brahmam - The Supreme Cause of All.  Post-4 "Etasmaj jayate prano manah sarvendriyani ca,  kham vayur - jyotir - apah prthivi visvasya dharini." (2.1.3):  From this great Purusha, everything comes. The Cosmic Prana, Hiranyagarbha, emanates from this Supreme Brahman. The Virat, which is called here the manas, also emanates from that Brahman.  All the indriyas, or the sense organs, also emanate from That. They are actually the feeders, the tentacles of Consciousness.  Kham vayur jyotir apah prthivi visvasya dharini:  The five elements—earth, water, fire, air and ether—the very Earth that sustains us, the basis of all, emanate from That.  The whole Brahmanda, the fourteen worlds, seven above and seven below, which are the permutations and combinations, modifications of gross forms or subtle forms, or the real forms of the five elements, all these come from one breath, as it were, of...

======================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, June 06, 2020. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-2. The Absolute nature of Brahamam. Post- 3. ------------------------------------------------ Mantram-2. "Divyo hy amurtah purushah sabahyabhyantaro hy ajah aprano hyamanah subhro hy-aksharat paratah parah."      ---------------------------------------------- Translation : divyah = self-resplendent; hi = verily amurtah = formless; purushah = Purusha ( Brahmam); sabahya-bhyantaro = (that all- pervading Being) is both within and without; hi = verily; ajah = unoriginated; apranah = (anterior to) without life; hi = verly; amanah = without mind; sah = he; subrah = pure; hi = veril; aksharat = from the indestructible; paratah parah = He transcends even the transcendent. ----------------------------------------------------- The Essence : "Self-resplendent, formless, unoriginated and pure, tha...

========================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-2. The Absolute nature of Brahamam. Post-3 -------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-2. "Divyo hy amurtah purushah sa bahyabhyantaro hy ajah aprano hyamanah subhro hy-aksharat paratah parah."      ----------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : divyah = self-resplendent; hi = verily amurtah = formless; purushah = Purusha ( Brahmam); sa bahya-bhyantaro = (that all- pervading Being) is both within and without; hi = verily; ajah = unoriginated; apranah = (anterior to) without life; hi = verly; amanah = without mind; sah = he; subrah = pure; hi = veril; aksharat = from the indestructible; paratah parah = He transcends even the transcendent. ------------------------...

============================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, May 14, 2020. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-1. Birth of all beings from Brahmam, like sparks from fire. Post-2 ------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-1. continued from Post-1. The illustration of the fire and sparks is to indicate for the student’s comprehension that there is some quality in us which will enable us to reach God. If the effect is totally disconnected from the cause—if there is nothing in the effect which can be called similar to the essence of the cause—there will be no relationship between them. This is to indicate that in spite of our separation from God, our fall from Brahman, as it were, we are still endowed with that potential for returning to Brahman, because the feet of Brahman are planted in our own heart. The Atman that we are is an indicat...

 =================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-1. Birth of all beings from Brahmam, like sparks from fire. Post-1 -------------------------------------------------- Mantram-1. Tad-etat satyam yatha sudiptat pavakad visphulingah sahastrasah prabhvante sarupah, tatha-ksharad vividhah saumya bhavah prajayante tatra caivapi-yanti.  ------------------------------------- 1. “O Master, how has this world come?” The disciple raises the question. There are various ways of answering this question of how this world has come. In the beginning the answer will depend on the ability of the mind of the student to understand, because the student imagines that the world has come from something. Even without seeing the world coming from something, we put questions such as: “Who created this world?” Why should the world be created...