Mundakopanishad : Chapter-1. Section-2. Mantram-12. Post -1. Swami Krishnananda
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02/03/2020.
Mundakopanishad
Chapter-1.
Section-2.
Mantram 12 : "A seeker seeing meaningless-ness, of the worldly and heavenly pleasures advised to approach a teacher and seek Supreme Knowledge."
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Mantram-12.
"Parikshya lokan karma-citan brahmano
nirvedam-dyan-nasty-akrtah krtena,
tad-vijnan-artham sa guru-mevabhi-gacchet
samit-panih srotriyam brahma-nishtham." (1.2.12).
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Post-1.
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#Having given us an idea of the prospects of the performer of yajnas, or sacrifices, and having told us that karmas, actions, sacrifices are unreliable boats in one’s effort to cross the ocean of life, and hinting that only those who are austere and who live in seclusion, living a simple life and having a lofty goal before them as their final destination, reach Brahmaloka, the abode of blessedness, through the rays of the Sun, now the Upanishad tells us that the way to Brahman, the path of spirituality, the sadhana marga, is through a Guru or a spiritual preceptor.
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##Having seen this world properly, having investigated the futility of expressing permanent happiness through works which are perishable in nature because every work has a beginning and an end—that which has an origin will also have a cessation one day or the other—therefore, it us understood that works which are essentially of an impermanent nature will not be an adequate means to carry the soul to that which is absolutely permanent.
1. Parikshya lokan:
Properly investigating into the transient character of all things in the world which are attained by the performance of yajnas, sacrifices, etc., a Brahmana, a learned one, should become fed up with this world. Having enjoyed everything in the world, he will finally not like to have anything from this world. The end of this world enjoyment is retirement from any kind of contact with it. Satiety of desires is unknown. The more we pamper our longings, the more do they become vaigorous and the more will they go on asking for things endlessly, which the world cannot grant.
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#One should finally feel satiated with all things that the world can give. As when we have had a full meal and cannot eat anything further, so should be the satiety we feel in this world.
##Renunciation of the world is possible only by such a person who has seen the world thoroughly, through and through, who has not left any part of the world uninvestigated, and who has everything that this world can give.
*Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj used to say that only those who were kings in the previous birth can become Sannyasins. If you are really dispassionate, a true Sannyasin wanting nothing in this world, you must have been an emperor in the previous birth, because one who has not tasted the world cannot reject the world.
###Hence, everything has to be seen properly, and going deep into the structure of the possibilities of pleasures that the world can give—or whatever the world can give, pleasures or otherwise—one should finally detach oneself from all things that the world appears to promise.
*Why?
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To be continued ....
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02/03/2020.
Mundakopanishad
Chapter-1.
Section-2.
Mantram 12 : "A seeker seeing meaningless-ness, of the worldly and heavenly pleasures advised to approach a teacher and seek Supreme Knowledge."
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Mantram-12.
"Parikshya lokan karma-citan brahmano
nirvedam-dyan-nasty-akrtah krtena,
tad-vijnan-artham sa guru-mevabhi-gacchet
samit-panih srotriyam brahma-nishtham." (1.2.12).
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Post-1.
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1.
#Having given us an idea of the prospects of the performer of yajnas, or sacrifices, and having told us that karmas, actions, sacrifices are unreliable boats in one’s effort to cross the ocean of life, and hinting that only those who are austere and who live in seclusion, living a simple life and having a lofty goal before them as their final destination, reach Brahmaloka, the abode of blessedness, through the rays of the Sun, now the Upanishad tells us that the way to Brahman, the path of spirituality, the sadhana marga, is through a Guru or a spiritual preceptor.
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2.
##Having seen this world properly, having investigated the futility of expressing permanent happiness through works which are perishable in nature because every work has a beginning and an end—that which has an origin will also have a cessation one day or the other—therefore, it us understood that works which are essentially of an impermanent nature will not be an adequate means to carry the soul to that which is absolutely permanent.
1. Parikshya lokan:
Properly investigating into the transient character of all things in the world which are attained by the performance of yajnas, sacrifices, etc., a Brahmana, a learned one, should become fed up with this world. Having enjoyed everything in the world, he will finally not like to have anything from this world. The end of this world enjoyment is retirement from any kind of contact with it. Satiety of desires is unknown. The more we pamper our longings, the more do they become vaigorous and the more will they go on asking for things endlessly, which the world cannot grant.
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3.
#One should finally feel satiated with all things that the world can give. As when we have had a full meal and cannot eat anything further, so should be the satiety we feel in this world.
##Renunciation of the world is possible only by such a person who has seen the world thoroughly, through and through, who has not left any part of the world uninvestigated, and who has everything that this world can give.
*Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj used to say that only those who were kings in the previous birth can become Sannyasins. If you are really dispassionate, a true Sannyasin wanting nothing in this world, you must have been an emperor in the previous birth, because one who has not tasted the world cannot reject the world.
###Hence, everything has to be seen properly, and going deep into the structure of the possibilities of pleasures that the world can give—or whatever the world can give, pleasures or otherwise—one should finally detach oneself from all things that the world appears to promise.
*Why?
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To be continued ....
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